Acid Dropping EP

 

A keepsake of a time and a place, and of possibilities.

Acid Dropping EP is:

I. A Clangorous Din— Speck

II. Stone the Devil— Speck

III. Viaje entre las luces— Vince El Mejor

IV. Driving Home— MalreDeszik

V. Hipsters— Falki Hoz

VI. Feel (I saw) remix— Zenboy1955

Various Positions:

On the Soundclick Jazz Overall chart, A Clangorous Din reached #15, Stone the Devil #12, Viaje entre las luces #18, and Driving Home #29.

On the Soundclick Electronic Overall chart, Hipsters, a.k.a. Ode On Jazz (3, with Falki Hoz), reached #20. Feel (I saw) remix reached #8. 

Featured on Things You Heard When You Were Dead (shane p).

All tracks feature spoken word by Adam Fieled, from (respectively) Opera Bufa, This Charming Lab, When You Bit..., Ode On Jazz, and Curiosities. 

From Funtime Records. 

Produced/engineered by respective artists, Eris Temple, and the Kelly Writers House. 

Veruca Mix 1

 Veruca Mix 1: Deep tech, Minimal, Acid-Jazz, Spoken. Speck, Falki Hoz, Adam Fieled.  

Falki Hoz: Hipsters (includes the Ode On Jazz)

 

Hipsters falls under the aegis of deep tech, deep house, techno, and minimal. The version of the Ode On Jazz used is the one taped at the Live at the Writers House reading at KWH on April 5, 2004, which was broadcast on WXPN and published on PennSound.

Hipsters, as Ode On Jazz (3, with Falki Hoz), hit #20 on the Soundclick Electronic Overall chart in 2021, #4 in Techno (sub-genre).

Re-Speck

For better or whatever, these two Speck tracks started the Twenties off for me, as a series of possibilities, past the deprivations of the Teens. 

On the Soundclick Jazz Overall chart: Stone the Devil hit #12, A Clangorous Din #15. 

Sleep

 

Sleep is another standout Slowdive tune from the early 90s. When I listen, I hear Psychocandy turned into something other than Psycho, strong rooting in shoe-gazer protocols, but other things, unexpectedly, too. Like Alex Chilton: something of the madcap primitivism of Third/Sister Lovers is just, as they say, around here. And, Rachel Goswell: did I really see you, standing outside a cafe near Trafalgar Square, in 1990? 

Rachel Goswell: Slowdive

 

 

The weird, slow-burn emergence of Slowdive from the general rock morass is one of the bigger rock stories of 2021; including the magnetic appeal of Rachel Goswell, lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist, as a rock goddess or icon. In this number, Rachel shares the lead vocals. So: during their heyday in the UK in the late 80s to early-to-mid 90s, Slowdive did the useful task and performed the useful function of adding melodic richness, and solid song structures, to what was then sweeping England as "shoe-gazer." Ride and the rest didn't find a wide audience in the States (nor did the bands born from Ride and the rest, like Spiritualized), but they were dominant where they were. Rachel Goswell and Slowdive became a cult band within the movement, but got lost in the shuffle somehow, and never made it to the States. Now, they have: and the shoe-gazer with sharply written, catchy tunes approach is set to resonate with those looking for something new and exciting, or, as is the case here, something they missed.  

A helpful hint for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, from a Penn guy who lived through the 90s the right way...

 

 

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