Feel 2: Six weeks at #1!!!

 On the brink of autumn and winter, things are still heating up here, as Feel 2 secures six weeks at #1 on the Soundclick Minimal Electronic chart. 

P.S. Between Feel 1 and Feel 2, we have a total of seventeen weeks spent in a #1 position on a Soundclick chart. Feel itself is, lookin' real good, like Natalie Wood.

Driving to a new Home

Driving Home, the MalreDeszik from Acid Dropping, had been a Jazz/Acid Jazz stalwart on Soundclick (#29, #2), but has now migrated over to Electronic/Downtempo Electronic, and sits today at #3 on the Downtempo Electronic sub-generic chart.

P.S. A month later (10-22), Driving Home has retained (intermittently) #3 in Downtempo Electronic. On 10-29, it rose to #2. 

Stone the Devil: Shining

Stone the Devil, after a hiatus, rockets up to #12 in Jazz Overall on Soundclick. A note, also, about issues attendant on the singles released from Acid Dropping and Mixter Riders. Remember Ornette Coleman? Like Coleman's early work, these singles bother to question musical boundaries which have been taken for granted for decades, and replace them with new landscapes. Specifically, as regards where and how electronic music can be (rightfully) jazz and jazz can (rightfully) be electronic. Thus, the phenomenon of singles split between jazz and electronic national charts, and successful on both. Not to mention another revolution attendant on the poetry thrown in. 

Feel (I saw) remix: Square Space

 

 

Matt Stevenson's recording of Feel, as read by me, was made at Eris Temple, at 52nd and Cedar in North-West Philadelphia, in the August aughts of 2006. I've already shown some of what the Eris Temple studio looked like. In these two shots, you can see two halves of the square space where I actually sat, reading the poem. The square space, as is evident, was also used as a DIY performance area, while the crowd usually lingered in what doubled as a control room space, a few steps below, and where Matt mixed what I had done. 

Feel (I saw) remix: Eris Temple

 

What you see in this picture: me and two cohorts sitting in front of what functioned, for Matt Stevenson, as a console/mixing board at Eris Temple, at 52nd and Cedar in North/West Philly, as of 2006. With the success online of Feel (I saw) remix, I thought seeing this might be of some interest. Up the two steps to my right, in the picture, was a large, carpeted square space, with lines running to Matt, where I sat on the day in early August 2006 when Feel in its entirety was recorded, and did my thing. To our left: another odd rectangle of grungy basement space, leading to a staircase up to the Temple's first floor. Eris Temple Studio was a walk-down model studio, even as the carpeted space had a high window, level with street level, so that claustrophobia wasn't much of an issue. Thanks again, Matt.  

Feel 2 on hearthis.at

 Let's get this party started: Feel 2 climbs up to #5 on the hearthis.at Electronica chart for the week ending September 11, 2022.

Feel 2: Living in Stereo

For the ultimate nerve-shattering experience, try listening to Feel 2 on good headphones, preferably from a hard drive. Connoisseurs will see what's of interest instantly: it was recorded in stereo. Thus, the ricochet effect of tracks back and forth, and the physiological experience they create for the listener, become an experience beyond the standard listen. CC Mixter manages to take us fifty years into the future (2072) and fifty into the past (1972) simultaneously. Kudos. 

Stone the Devil: Not Overlooked...

Notably, Stone the Devil has now pushed up to #2 in the Soundclick Acid-Jazz sub-generic chart, #23 in Jazz Overall. Cheers!