Our friend Sarah was interviewed for the Habiter blog. Hints at a new Auto bag…? Looking forward.
This week from Call Super at ARPOZINE: “There is a strong thread of joy and emotional depth that I think informs the best music […] produced by people who have clearly spent time crafting something that ends up with their own DNA in it and isn’t just a sample pack soup de jour.”1
Greg wrote about the incredibly tempting Guyton facsimiles. Honestly, what a steal at that price… Don’t be surprised if at some point you come over and you see just a seven foot tall Microsoft Word X in the living room.
Spencer is at Bossa next Monday. I think the flyer is really good. I wonder if this Cruisin’ heater will get some air time2.
The new Felix K album, Berlin, sounds really good. It’s about time! I was getting tired of some of that noodling.
As part of their “A Theater Near You” series, MoMA is screening two films admired by Iris Barry, the museum’s first film curator, Chess Story and The Last Command. Both will be accompanied by Makia Matsumura, whose performance during Seventh Heaven had me crying buckets. I would have attended last week’s screening with Matsumura on piano; I was at the Thomas Strønen/Nate Wooley trip instead….
Parker and I just finished Joan Copjec’s Kiarostami book, Cloud, that came out by surprise. She’s still an incredible thinker, maybe one of the best, along with Zupančič. However, this book needed some editing: the chapters were in an odd order, there were some typos, etc. A perfect book somehow, because she is that good, just still left something to be desired.
A father, picking up the phone: “Hello?” “Hi father, it’s me, Joseph.” “How are you doing Joseph?” “Well, I wanted to say Happy Father’s Day, dad, and I wanted to send you some of the furniture I've been working on.” “Oh, that’s quite alright, Joseph.3”
One of these days, I will show up to a party in head to toe Khaite, and nobody should be surprised: maybe not this season. Meanwhile Bally really wants us all to wear boat shoes. Of course, I can’t say no to any TB knit.
On Sunday, the Nic Lutz RA Podcast turns 10. Jesus… a landmark. I wonder if he is still posting about chemtrails…
Here is me on the radio last week. I’m back again on the 9th of July.
Dozzy Boiler Room
Last week, Boiler Room uploaded a five-hour recording of Donato Dozzy performing at Brancaleone in Rome. In recent years, Dozzy has finally returned to playing dollar-bin tech house, after spending several years wandering the desert—playing drum and bass, IDM-adjacent electronica, and ambient-hybrid outré nonsense. At his best, he’s either barreling through stretched-out, space-trip nautical techno tripping tools or, as in this recording, proving he’s a soldier in the dollar-bin tech house trenches.
When my parents and I saw him in Rome on Christmas Day in 2013, at Video Club, in addition to playing a significant number of records that I had never heard before, he was playing nearly all the records you and I had passed on buying that year. In typical sniper mode, I stood right next to the booth, writing down as much as I could without drawing too much attention to myself. I saw him pull out a few I know I’d said no to that year. I had a few regrets.
Here are a few highlights from the Boiler Room set, along with some of the records I wrote down in my Notes app in December 2013. tl;dr: the more Heiko Laux stuff Dozzy plays, the better he sounds.
Rome, December 2013:
– Kvadratklang - Pulsemotel
– Dars - All Is Tainted EP
– Pittsburgh Track Authority - Allegheny Acid
– Don't DJ - ˈrɪð.əm
– Hiroaki Iizuka - Haze EP
Boiler Room 2025:
– Tim Xavier - Rocket Science
– G. Pal - The New York EP (note: the files were linked in wolf chat last Feb)
– Redshape - Steam EP
– Diego & Voco Derman - Raster II
– Heiko Laux & Anthony Rother - Rings
wolf chat official top 5 sample pack .ZIPs, in no order: Untold’s lost sample pack, X-Static Goldmine 4 (famously used by Britney Spears and Silent Hill), Zero-G Datafile 3 (read the comments for where it is used), the Kniteforce sample CD (more CDs here, I tried to find the interview where Shed said basically that all of the Head High / WK7 records just use the Kniteforce sample CDs… couldn’t find it!), and the Dogs on Acid samples. Funniest .ZIPs that people made sampling from famous producers? Idk you tell me. I had the Untold samples on a previous computer…
Did anyone have any idea that the Demolition Man video game also had heaters? This is no OMF2097… still good.
Related: did nobody tell our young French friend Arthur Moulucou that naming his workshop MLK Furniture might be confusing, even though his surname’s consonants are “ML[C/K]” … hilarious. Did he take apart my toaster oven to make that stool…