Warm Gospel 27: DJ DJ TANNER - TOWNIE c42

DJ DJ TANNER - TOWNIE c42

Another one in the DJ DJ TANNER ongoing series which will, someday, total twenty-four in all, this tape follows the drunken townie, stumbling out of morning mass and into the city streets filled with storefronts, every other window covered with cardboard and FOR LEASE signs. It's a simple city, and its calmness is reflected in the source selection of the album's loops, pulling from dirty old thrift store 45s.

It’s a kind of surreal parade of used-up small-town offerings, celebrating the shortcomings of a city too small to satisfy its citizens, and just large enough to keep anyone from leaving. TOWNIE follows the movements of its people like researching the repetitious trends of an ant farm, as the experiences of each character fade into and out of the whole picture, looping endlessly, generation after generation.

Warm Gospel 24: DJ DJ TANNER - GANGSTER c32

DJ DJ TANNER - GANGSTER c32

As scratchy and dark as the album cover looks, GANGSTER lumbers forward with all of the drowsy, late-night/early-morning heaviness of the aftermath from a night spent drinking in a city that is beginning to feel unsafe.

Warm Gospel 23: Skyscraper & DJ DJ TANNER - Tan Sky c32

Skyscraper & DJ DJ TANNER (AKA Kamrar) - Tan Sky c32

"Using live cassette tape loops and effect manipulation, Kamrar repurpose thrift store tape selections into a kind of new age take on meditative world music."

-Art Beacon Des Moines

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All Iowa Noise Insurgency Issue 2

Issue 2 of the All Iowa Noise Insurgency zine is finished.

This issue includes:

-An intro by Chuck Hoffman who runs the Centipede Farm tape label
-An interview with Iowa City's Jay Schleidt and Devin Dart by Bob Bucko Jr.
-A preview of Zeitgeist II
-A review of SEEZUREFACE's MESSY SETI CASSEVETES tape on Warm Gospel
-A review of the Vales tape Boat Impressions from Centipede Farm
-A review of Curt Oren's Is Anyone tape on Personal Archives
-Vinyl Sample Shopping in Des Moines with DJ DJ TANNER

Let me know if you want one.

treyreis@gmail.com

Zeitgeist 2013

Warm Gospel 18: DJ DJ TANNER - SIREN c45

DJ DJ TANNER - SIREN c45

But you do have to go to work today and of course it’s chaotic on this particular day. Those bass beats boom out like a hammer, and the copy machine sounds like a synthesizer. But then you get off work, and it feels great because you are off work, like better than it would had you suddenly realized you had the whole day off while sitting on your couch. You listen to music really loud and drive home like it’s summer, but the sun sets quickly and it’s night before you even realize it.


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Warm Gospel at the Vaudeville Mews

The Warm Gospel label was created based on the concept of recreating the grand, layered spectrum of gospel music using the contemporary ideas and tools of electronic, noise, and ambient music. The result is something new. Over the past year, Warm Gospel has collected releases from many of Iowa's beat and noise makers, including DJ DJ TANNER, Tires, Olsen Twinns, Juxwl, and others. In combining these artists under a single label, Warm Gospel has established a foundation of rumbling noise, tidal waves of synth, and layers of clouded harmonies in a part of Iowa where, previously, experimental music was never fully realized as an important part of the state's overall music output.

On December 18th, the Vaudeville Mews will showcase nearly every artist on the Warm Gospel label, bringing an entire night of electronic sound exploration to Des Moines.

Vaudeville Mews
December 18th, 2012
8:00 pm
$5

Tires
Is Home Is (Olsen Twinns)
Juxwl
DJ DJ TANNER
Big Digital
Seezureface
Skyscraper

This show is going to be so much fun.

http://www.vaudevillemews.com/events/warm-gospel-showcase/?sId=2307

The Sounds of the Zeitgeist 2012 Music Festival

This here label sponsored the Zeitgeist music festival in Boone, Iowa this past weekend. Listen to the live sets

here.

and

here.

Zeitgeist: A Celebration of Iowa Noise Music

Warm Gospel will be sponsoring Zeitgeist: A Celebration of Iowa Noise Music at the old Elephungeon space in Boone, Iowa.

You should go, see some of the best noise bands in Iowa, and buy tapes to support the festival and its artists. There will be a Warm Gospel table there with a variety of different releases and some free stickers. Make sure you give it a look!

Warm Gospel 13: Skyscraper // DJ DJ TANNER - Halloween Split (c30)

Skyscraper // DJ DJ TANNER - Halloween Split c30

For whatever reason, Halloween and Christmas are the only 2 holidays fully represented by the kind of garbage vinyl one finds littered all over the dusty shelves of thrift stores. To us, it’s gold. Repurposing the cheesy sounds of our parent’s childhoods, through mountains of effect pedals and tape hiss, we manage to turn the silver age of baby boomers into the second round of the dark ages.

Warm Gospel 11: DJ DJ TANNER - CONSUMER (c45)

DJ DJ TANNER - CONSUMER c45

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Your phone wakes you up as that really relaxing guitar alarm pierces through your shell of sleep and fades slowly into your eardrums. And you get up, realizing you don’t have anything to eat in the house, so you throw on a long jacket and drive through the residential streets to grocery store. Everyone seems so awake. Why do you seem so asleep?

Warm Gospel 07: DJ DJ Tanner - Idol (c47)

DJ DJ Tanner - IDOL c47

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“Here we go loop-de-loop!” Part 3 in the series feels familiar: like déjà vu, but not in a comfortable way. After the reel is just another reel. What are you so worried about? Have another drink, the night is far from over, although I know you were thinking about going home anyway. But the music starts to slow down. Not in tempo, but like its stretching, sagging downward, and you hear voices right next to you.

Warm Gospel 04: DJ DJ Tanner - Comedian (c47)

DJ DJ Tanner - Comedian c47

Moving into softer samples after all of the funk earlier in the night, part 2 in this continuing tape series is like coming down and the greatness in everything is still all around you, but it is very slowly starting to fade. And you begin to worry that no matter how pretty the clouds look, they are still a signal of the calm before the inevitable storm. Things always repeat themselves, only it could be the end of the reel. This time, I think I may not know what will come next.

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Warm Gospel 01: DJ DJ Tanner - Antihero (c24)

DJ DJ Tanner - Antihero c24

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The first installment of DJ DJ TANNER’s 24-part series about “A PIECE OF SHIT HUMAN AND HIS ADVENTURES IN ONE DAY,” this collage of lo-fi bedroom recordings and a limitless scope for sampling moves like a stumbling drunk between buildings on the strip. Like Fritz Lang’s storefront windows, it’s an album of observation; a quiet viewing on the verge of an experience. We can only wait to see what will happen next.