THAT HID

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Amnesia

http://amnesiathebar.com/
853 Valencia St., San Francisco
Sunday May 27th
$6 (Cheap!) 7:30 (Early!)

A very rare opportunity to witness Dymaxion (Duophonic, Trattoria) on
the best coast.
Also reformed Autobody (members of Fly Ashtray, Flaming Fire, Job’s
Daughters, etc.)
Both are playing SF for the FIRST TIME (and maybe last?)
Sandwiched betwixt some local faves, Aerosols & Franklin’s Mint.


Dymaxion was the New York-based post-rock project of Jeremy Novak and
Claudia Newell, who specialized in fusing playful sound collages with
live instrumentation. They often shared Stereolab’s retro-futurist
obsessions, sampling old sound-effects LPs, robotic voices, and an
array of vintage electronics. Most of their songs were underpinned by
funky, off-kilter drum loops, and borrowed the fragmentary songwriting
aesthetic of indie rockers like Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 and,
by extension, cartoon experimenters Carl Stalling and Raymond Scott.
In concert, a live band usually replicated the abrupt twists and turns
created on the recordings via tape splicing. To this mix, Novak and
Newell often added odd dialogue samples, twangy spy-soundtrack guitar,
and clanging post-punk (a la the Fall or Swell Maps). The results were
often comparable to electronic eccentrics like Matmos, Pram, or Stock,
Hausen & Walkman, with hints of electro-acoustic post-rockers like To
Rococo Rot.
Novak and Newell first got together as Dymaxion in 1995. Their
earliest recordings were self-released cassettes, which were followed
by a succession of EPs on various indie labels. The first, Aha, Sissy
Arsonist, was a four-song effort for the U.K.-based Hemiola label, and
appeared in 1995. It was followed a year later by another four-songer,
The Critic’s Darling, for Roomtone, which was in turn followed by the
three-song Verfremdungseffekt for Vesuvius. These releases helped
build an underground following for the band, and their next EP, Use
Once and Destroy, appeared on Stereolab’s own Duophonic imprint in
1998. Novak and Newell performed live as part of a quartet lineup with
a shifting supporting cast that eventually included the well-traveled
Jim Abramson (Autobody, Fly Ashtray, etc.) on drums. Dymaxion — in
the person of Jeremy Novak — next collaborated with Japanese pop star
Takako Minekawa on four songs for her 2000 EP Maxi On!. In 2001,
Dymaxion’s four EPs — plus two compilation tracks cut for Dark
Beloved Cloud, and a live recording — were compiled onto the group’s
first full-length release, Dymaxion x 4 + 3 = 38:33. It was issued in
the U.S. by Roomtone, in the U.K. and Europe by Duophonic, and in
Japan by Shibuya-kei star Cornelius’ Trattoria label. Following its
release, Dymaxion returned to their customary EP format with a second
effort for Roomtone, Intonarumori. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide


(disclaimer times approximate)

11:10pm: The Aerosols -
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aerosols/181951325175977

10:10: Dymaxion (NY) - http://www.last.fm/music/Dymaxion

9:10: Autobody (NY) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobody

8:45: Short Film Screening of Dymaxion’s Jeremy Novak’s “Shadow Sounds
for Jordan Belson” with live synth accompaniment by Jeremy Novak &
Benjamin Tinker.

8pm: Franklin’s Mint - (Sacto) http://www.myspace.com/franklinssmint

w/DJ That Hideous Strength

here are some links to enlighten!

http://soundcloud.com/losta-1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDFCKZVCjq0

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/12/the-aerosols-psyching-out-san-fran-2.html

http://www.myspace.com/theaerosols