Vuzh Music Blog

Rescued from total unavailability into mere extreme obscurity, The Implicit Order’s 1997 classic “They Live in the Sky” was originally released in a limited edition of 35, traded amongst friends and new contacts as one did in the cassette underground cassette underground before the advent of the internet.
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I did my own fair share of tape trading, and this tape was the first thing I’d heard from Anthony Washburn‘s project, and it made its way to my shelf of favorite tapes from my cassette days.
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Upon asking Anthony recently if I could re-release this tape on Vuzh Music, he mentioned that he didn’t have a copy of it himself, hadn’t even heard the material in years. This re-release of “They Live in the Sky” was taken from my own cassette copy, presented here in 320±VBR kbps mp3 for your pleasure.
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The Implicit Order
“They Live in the Sky”
Keywords: Industrial-ambient, collage-loops, alien atmospheres
Year: 1997
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Free Download and streaming at the release page on vuzhmusic.com

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I have just released my new album on Vuzh Music:
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C. Reider – Owning Extinctions
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This collection of recordings was my response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the strong feelings of despair, anger and the shame of sharing some of the blame for a country that consumes a quarter of the world’s oil. Instead of physically assaulting people who pointlessly idle their SUVs for half an hour while waiting for someone to come out of the store, I made this album.
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http://www.vuzhmusic.com/releases/extinctions.html
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Underwater Plume by vuzhmusic
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Includes sound contributions from PBK, John Ingram, John Kannenberg, Kristina Spurgin and Joe Barton

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The More Unknown C. Reider
20 Years of Strange Sounds Reworked by the Netlabel Underground
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Twenty four respected sound artists from Germany, Japan, Greece, Saint Martin, Portugal, Ireland, Canada and USA took sounds from C. Reider’s body of work and transubstantiated them into new living tissues. Amazing compilation in three hour-long parts!
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http://www.vuzhmusic.com/releases/moreunknown.html

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Some of you may be aware that I’m working on a collection of music by various composers using samples from any of my musical releases, in celebration of my 20th year of releasing music.
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The call-for-submissions post is here:
http://www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2010/11/28/20-years-of-strange-sounds/
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I have so far received contributions from nine artists, some friends and some brand new acquaintances. The process has been really fun for me so far, and I’m looking forward to releasing the compilation.
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I am going to extend the deadline for a couple of weeks at least. This is due to a delay – on my part – with the artwork. There are quite a few artists who expressed interest in contributing, but haven’t yet submitted a track, so this should give those artists some more time to complete a work.
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The new deadline, then, is February 11.
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Please get in touch with any news on your end if you’re planning on participating in this project! Leave a comment here, or hit the ‘contact’ link at Vuzh Music, or tweet me.

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Around the turn of the century, I used the project Crook’d Finger to produce some fun, grooving techno stuff – distinct from my sometimes po-faced solo work.
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Only two releases ever came out by this project (though more material is still in the vault). The debut EP split with FZZY PMPR “Aft” came out in 1999, and was re-released as a standalone EP in 2009 (free download link).
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Now, finally the second release is available, also for free download.
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Crook’d Finger vs. Harlan
Crook’d Finger vs. D.Rhythm:O
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Originally released in extremely limited quantities on cassette in 2000, this release takes on some taped sounds sent in by percussionist Harlan and runs in peculiar directions with it. A slightly darker & more atmospheric mood comes in with the remix of D.Rhythm:O, now surviving with the more well known name Dronaement. This remix is from some tapes of the various incarnations of the band from that time period.
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The Crook’d Finger stuff is, without a doubt, the most approachable music I have ever done, and I always thought it could reach a wider audience. Maybe now that it’s available in such a free and open format, it can.
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FREE DOWNLOAD LINK:
http://www.vuzhmusic.com/releases/versus.html

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C. Reider has a track on Stasisfield’s second wave of Mer-Wer, together with a few comrades & peers, and a couple of names previously unknown to me.
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The track I submitted, “Disperse”, will be remixed for my upcoming noise-ambient record about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which will be coming out in the first months of 2011.
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Meanwhile, check out the Mer-Wer tracks here:
http://www.stasisfield.com/space/mer-wer/

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Marc Weidenbaum of Disquiet, today released a compilation of “sonic activism” in protest of a dismissive ‘critique’ of Susan Philipsz work, and the fact of any sound artist winning the Turner Prize written by Richard Dorment, published in the Telegraph.
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I was happy to have a brief piece included on the compilation… I have to say all of that music by a lot of artists that I admire, all based on the sound of sighs is pretty dreamy stuff. Great concept & execution!
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I recommend reading Marc’s insightful description of the motivation for the compilation, and then downloading it, or streaming it. All of this can be done if you follow this link:
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http://disquiet.com/2010/12/20/lowlands-a-sigh-collective/
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The year 2011 will be my 20th year composing strange music and releasing it mostly for free (previously I released on cassettes, now on the internet).
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To mark this milestone, I kinda thought it’d be a fun thing to do to ask my comrades in underground music (whether you’re familiar with my music or not — whether we know each other or are not yet total BFFs) to extract sound samples from any of my releases over the last twenty years and tweak them however you like and re-assemble them into a musical work of your own invention. I’m looking less for “remixes” and more for imaginative and individual expressions made with collaged bits and chunks of my work (whether recognizable as such or not — in fact, manipulation, editing & effecting of source sounds is to be encouraged).
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Most of my downloadable releases are CC licensed allowing derivative work, so you’re only limited by what you can think up. You can find links to almost everything I’ve ever done on my netlabel’s front page: http://vuzhmusic.com. A more comprehensive discography (including links to my work with Drone Forest) can be found on my bio page.
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I guess this project is a bit like tooting my own horn, but what the hell? No one else will toot the damn thing. I may even just name the compilation “An All-Star Gala Tribute to the Enduring Genius of C. Reider” 🙂
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I haven’t yet decided if that threat is a joke or not.
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Particulars:

• Compilation will be a free-to-download release on Vuzh Music netlabel. It will be CC licensed (probably Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)
• Submissions should be in high bitrate mp3 files (DON’T FORGET ID3 TAGS)
• Send me a link to where I can download the file when you’ve got one ready. My email address can be found at the contact link at the Vuzh Music website. You could also direct message me on Twitter, you can find me there as vuzhmusic.
• Keep your track(s?) under 10 minutes in length.
• Hoping to release in early 2011. Deadline maybe February 1??? EXTENDED to February 11.
• Everything is negotiable, including this sentence.
• Leave me a comment here if you want to participate… unless you like surprises, in which case just get the track to me before the deadline!
• Guys! I’m already thinking of extending the deadline, and no one’s even asked me yet!

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ARTIST: C. Reider / Desohll
TITLE: Falling Into Disrepair
LABEL: Dark Winter
KEYWORDS: Darkambient

Celebrate Autumn, celebrate entropy with this dark ambient epic…
“Falling Into Disrepair” by C. Reider / Desohll
A free download from the Dark Winter netlabel.

http://www.darkwinter.com/dw072.html

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There are three new releases to announce!
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Just out today is a dark ambient epic, C. Reider & Desohll team up for “Falling Into Disrepair” out on the Dark Winter netlabel… very slow dark guitar drones to celebrate entropy and Autumn.
Click the link for the free release:
http://www.darkwinter.com/dw072.html
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Out this week on Earth Mantra netlabel is a new release by Fosel called “Problem of Universals (C. Reider Remixes)”. Kurt Nimmo has produced some disorienting & spacious remixes of my Electret Quintet tracks. I think they’re great.
Click the link for the free release:
http://earthmantra.com/problemofuniversals
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Finally, a compilation from Intelligent Machinery by way of the Just Not Normal netlabel, “Of Places and Moments” features 18 different compositions made using sound sources from Sighup’s site recordings. Many different takes, one unifying concept. I have a track called “Core Exit”, named after a popular oil dispersant.
Click the link for the free release:
http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/imc02-of-places-and-moments/
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Hope you enjoy these.

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