QuantumNoise

This week on QuantumNoise -- that's Monday July 25, 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. (eastern) -- I'm excited to have my first return guest: Mark Morgan of Sightings, as well as Key of Shame and Young Morgan. It's been a busy year for the guitarist. In addition to Our Mouth Records dropping the new Sightings full-length Future Accidents, S-S Records reissued the 2002 album Michigan Haters, one of the most ferocious slabs of noise-rock to be unleashed in the last three decades.

Morgan has also been collaborating with Pat Murano. A multi-instrumentalist, Murano is a longtime member of No-Neck Blues Band (he also makes music under the moniker Decimus and in the side projects Malkuth and K Salvatore). The recently released Key Of Shame, a sprawling double-LP on the Italian imprint Planam that documents the duo's explorations, is a vital slice of industrial scrape-n-grind: dark, jagged and profoundly abstruse.

So yeah, Morgan and I have lots to talk about. Do tune in!

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As I’ve pointed-out before, QuantumNoise’s weekly contents have shifted considerably over the last month. I’ve ditched the continuous playlist approach to deejaying in favor of a traditional program narrative, one featuring more incite from yours truly, musician interviews and other editorial content. I’m a music writer first and foremost, and it makes the most sense to incorporate my skills into the show.

With that in mind, this week’s show -- that's Monday, July 11, 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. (eastern) -- is an awesome one. I’m beyond proud to be interviewing John Fell Ryan of the fabulous Excepter. I’ve been a big fan for a long time now. In fact, Ryan himself might even say I was more of an obsessed stalker at one point in my turbulent life. Since coming together in the 2001-02 zone, the group has cut a singular path through a style of free-improv electronics that contains elements of industrial, hip-hop, psychedelia, fusion and electronica. To these ears, a huge bulk of modern underground weirdness (neo-Kosmische musik, chillwave, witch-house, hauntology, et al.) owes it existence to Excepter, as well as its fellow New Yorkers Animal Collective (Avey Tare and Panda Bear's solo projects, too), Sightings, the Black Dice extended family, Gang Gang Dance, No-Neck Blues Band, Telepathe and a few others.

In addition to chatting with Ryan via telephone, I’m spinning a stack of tracks he handpicked. These include several sneak previews of Excepter's forthcoming album Streams 02 and stuff he’s currently digging.

Tune in, if you have the free time.

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Heads up: QuantumNoise (that's me, your host Justin Farrar) will be spinning records this Sunday evening (July 10) at BoBo Gallery here in Asheville. The super-groovy Headway Collective asked me to participate in its monthly night of experimental music and sounds. Three other excellent DJs will also be lugging in crates: Christopher Ballard, man behind The Nomadic Subject music blog; Matthew Schrader, who helps hold down the fort at Harvest Records; and Ross Gentry, a dude who produces wonderful drone music under the Villages moniker (he was a special in-studio guest in November of last year).

The lot of us are hardcore record dorks, so be prepared for a night of heavy listening, from industrial grind and ambient black-metal to post-punk and out-there techno. I don't want to tip my hand, but my set will focus on modern hypnotics in minimal techno: Sandwell District, Shutter, Inward Content, Regis, Perc, Skudge, STL and more.

Sounds begin around 10 p.m. Come on down, if you have the free time.

More info here.