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

Warm Gospel 19: SEEZUREFACE - MESSY SETI CASSEVETES c45

SEEZUREFACE - MESSY SETI CASSEVETES c45

Iowa City’s space noise purveyor, Zach Straight, releases his synthetic explorations under the moniker SEEZUREFACE. With his second album on Warm Gospel, Straight has taken on something of an alien perspective, attempting to force field samples of ordinary human media and entertainment out of any recognizable context by scattering them across cosmic rings of synthesized noise. It’s like Earth’s radio signals, degraded by light years of travel, being picked up through layers of moving white noise outside of the Milky Way galaxy.

On MESSY SETI CASSEVETES, his approach lies somewhere between the sonic walls of Tangerine Dream and the remaining puddles from 2012’s flash flood of vaporwaves. It leaves the music in a calming state of ambience, accompanied by soft drums ringing out like raindrops on your windows. The buried spoken-word samples from years of film history remind you that, despite the motion sickness from all of this interplanetary traveling, you are never really too far from home.

Breathe. There may not be oxygen here, but the air is fine.

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 17: Lockbox - Passion Beam (c47)

Lockbox - Passion Beam c47

"…like smoking a hash oil pen in a parking lot on your break, things REALLY don’t change that quickly or vastly. But I’ve come to expect that as a music listener. I want more, and I want it fresh. So, what I’m trying to describe here is the difference between creative input and critical critique. As well, the only internet “sensation” is, like, Mark ZuckerBANG or, like, the person/people who invented it. When I see someone’s tweet or Facebook status online, I care as much as I scroll over it. Just like this post here, potentially. I have no doubt most people will scroll over this here writing so they can scope new music. Word. Word. In the end, does ambition trump talent?"

-C Monster, Tiny Mix Tapes

Warm Gospel 16: KM/MC/TR/RC/BBJr // Juxwl Split - Live at Zeitgeist 2012 (c47, label collaboration with Personal Archivces)

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KM/MC/TR/RC/BBJr // Juxwl Split c47

Label collaboration split with Personal Archives.

Recorded live at Zeitgeiest 2012, a noise festival in Boone, IA, this split contains the entire Juxwl set plus 5-way noise jam session wherein aspects of 4 different local noise and drone bands were combined to achieve something larger than the sum of its parts, which included synthesizers, drums, a saxophone, and various electronics. Recording by Matt Dake.

All Iowa Noise Insurgency Zine Issue 1

Issue 1 of the All Iowa Noise Insurgency Zine is done and available for free. You may run into copies of it around Ames, Des Moines, or Dubuque. Otherwise, I have some extras laying around that I'd love to send you, so let me know if you want one.

treyreis@gmail.com

Move.

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

Warm Gospel Bandcamp Page and Issue 1 of the All Iowa Noise Insurgency Zine

This label now has a bandcamp page where you can listen to all of the tapes in full.

Also, Issue 1 of the All Iowa Noise Insurgency zine is well underway and should be available sometime in the next month.

Zeitgeist and the All Iowa Noise Insurgency

I found a great article by the Centipede Farm tape label founder, Chuck Hoffman.

It's all about the accomplishment that was the Zeitgeist music festival and the state of Iowa noise music.

Check it out.

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.

Warm Gospel 15: Olsen Twinns (now Is Home Is) - Found Things (c47)

Olsen Twinns - Found Things c47

“Unfortunately, Mickey Davis (who is Olsen Twinns) was recently asked politely by lawyer types to quit using the name Olsen Twinns, and has transmogrophied into a new moniker, Is Home Is.

Found Things is a collection of music that is largely ambient, but also wouldn't be out of place on the dance floor, especially if you cranked it up loud. And right when it may be heading towards Eno territory, it suddenly burbles up with a melody or intertwining sample and synth harmonies that show this music has foundations in songcraft.”

-Bryon Dudley, All Iowa Noise Insurgency Issue 1

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 14: Juxwl - Superconscious (c30)

Juxwl - Superconscious c30

Watching Juxwl perform is a lot like observing a scientist in a lab full of bizarre future instruments. But when you listen to the music, he's completely creating moods and soundscapes and rhythm patterns and, perhaps most importantly, a freewheeling sense of chaos. "Superconscious" churns away on industrial beats that melt into hazy clouds of soft, synthetic noise, then streaks of sound shoot back and forth, scraping against altered beeps. Juxwl makes electronic noise that is the sound of exploration.

-Bryon Dudley, All Iowa Noise Insurgency Issue 1

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Warm Gospel Tumblr Page

I finally got around to making a Tumblr page for this label.

Check it out and follow me!

warmgospel.tumblr.com

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 12: Theodore Schafer - Tunnel Vision (c45)

Theodore Schafer - Tunnel Vision c45

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Tunnel Vision is an experiment in kinetic energy, testing, over long periods of time, the amount of pressure it takes to create peaks and valleys out of an otherwise flat landscape of tape hiss and sine waves. What begins as a stone rolled from its position by a slow but consistent gust of wind, results in crater-style depressions like those comprising Earth’s entire ocean floor. But where holes are dug, water falls to fill them in and everything returns to equilibrium.

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 10: Skyscraper - Worn Gospel (c30)

Skyscraper - Worn Gospel c30
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I started Warm Gospel with the idea of recreating the oldest trends in hymnals and gospel music using current techniques in noise, drone, and electronic music. This Skyscraper release is the closest I’ve come to pinpointing that exact vision. Chapel ceilings crumble as the choir sends the vibrations from harmonies upwards into the ceiling beams. And after the entire church has fallen into rubble, a warm light seems to reflect off the once hallowed stone and woodwork.