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January 21st, 2010
Recaptured: L5D – Parthepacse + Neppodosia + PEACE EP + Live in Minnesota
January 13th, 2010
A while back I wrote a post about my friend L5D playing live in his parents basement. To recap, L5D is my friend Colin Swenson. I’ve known him my whole life, but even if I didn’t know him, I would still dig his music. L5D is a moniker he made music as for a long time. Now he goes as Omnii. Think broken tapes, half-functioning equipment, sun drenched home movies, Boards of Canada, and microphones hanging from trees…that kind of thing. Ever since I posted his old L5D music, we’ve been reconnecting on the music front, which has been amazing. He recently sent me three old L5D albums, and they are all fucking great.
Before we go any further though, if you are in Minnesota, he’s playing a show as Dollar Store Keyboard (a brand new project) at The Rock in Maplewood on January 22nd at 9 pm. Click here for more info.
(1) L5D – Neppodosia EP.
6 tracks, all great. These are the songs he played live that night in his parents basement. They are gloriously broken, sounding like J Dilla tracks that have been dubbed 400x on a boombox by someone’s little brother until the tape has broken down into a new world entirely. He calls this his “favorite moment in L5D history”.
(2) L5D – Partehtpacse.
Read it backwards. This first song is brilliant, I love how it builds on its own and then starts decomposing until only a shred of itself is left. Thats my favorite part actually. At the end of the track, through all the chaos and noise, you can hear snatches of the original samples. Awesome. Click here to download the entire album.
I also cut together a little “nothing” video to one of the tracks on the album. Nothing huge, but I think it works on some weird level.
(3) L5D – Peace EP.
Higher production values on this one, making it “colder” than the more analog stuff, but also thicker, more complex. According to Colin, it “goes well with percocet”. And I agree. Darker, druggier, crazier. This track comes together around the 2 minute mark. Makes me feel like running into traffic…in a good way? Seriously.
After all of these releases, he went to an island in Norway to make his next (and final) album as L5D. Stay tuned for that, and go to that show damn you.
Oceans In Space – Optronics (Part 1)
January 4th, 2010
So over the holiday break I was mostly snowed in, and it was awesome. Instead of running around trying to see every last one of my friends I mostly hung out with my dog and played xbox with my sister. I only took a few trips out…one to drink shots and Premiums at Liquor Lyle’s, one to do the same at the CC Club, one to drive to Eau Claire and drink a Berghoff at The Joynt, and one to my friend Ben’s house for our customary “music” making session. Ben used to live in LA, but he’s back now, and every time I am home I devote one night to hanging out at his crib and fucking around with all of his insane electronics.
This time, since I’ve been doing a lot of video junk lately, we shot a video in two parts called Optronics. There is absolutely no rhyme or reason here. I was either drunk/half asleep or hungover during the editing process, and I think it PERFECTLY captures the madness of the evening. Part two is on the way. For now, enjoy part one. Ben makes music as Oceans In Space. Check out Oceans in Space on myspace here. And for Gods sake, don’t take this seriously. We didn’t.