Saturday, February 11, 2023

Dante Augustus Scarlatti - Demises of the Dynamic Microphone (in Monodelity) (2009)


A few months back, I found a crate in my garage full of old CDs of friends' projects and random shit that I accumulated while on tour back in the day. There's a lot of mid-tier punk and metal, but there are a few gems in there, like this one, which I got in Bloomington, IN, where, in 2009, there was a surprisingly rich scene for experimental, often black metal-adjacent sounds. Demises of the Dynamic Microphone (in Monodelity) presents a series of grainy, analogue synth and/or guitar abstractions against a backdrop of tape hiss and muffled field recordings. While there, I also picked up this tape, as well as this LP by the band OS, who we played with and whose house we stayed at -- neither of which I have the capability to rip, unfortunately.

Track listing:
1. Prologue
2. Re:verses of Decay in 1939's Kodascope Mass for Arachnid
3. Transcriptions of Subterranean Meteorological Phenomena in the Galaxie Deluxe
4. Vinyl Etchings Containing Hymns of the Sacred Greek Orthodox Funeral
5. Electro-Syncing Static Keys in the City of Dead Sound
6. Recitations of the Reel Rhythm in a Stern Seasonal Stereophonic Headphone Set
7.  Epilogue


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7 comments:

  1. Bloomington had a pretty rich scene back in the early '00s, I remember. Racebannon fucking slayed.

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  2. Deserter can be found here;
    https://aurisapothecary.bandcamp.com/album/aax-010-unsung-eulogies

    OS;
    https://we.tl/t-Fhk7FWUOzS

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  3. i think bloomington had Medusa which was a Racebannon side project i think.

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    1. Lol I have a Medusa post locked and loaded, was planning on posting this weekend, just wanted to space out the Bloomington posts. That band was so fucking good.

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