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commented on a projectHey Charles! Though there are 48 tracks, there are actually 55 artists on the comp, including collaborations and remixes. It's unfortunate that Widowspeak didn't end up on the comp, and at the time of publishing the Kickstarter they were confirmed to submit a track. We love them and it would have been so rad to have them be a part of this. We hope that you, or any other backer feels in no way taken advantage of-- this project is a labor of love and we stand by our efforts to give everything we've promised and more to our backers.
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Ende Tymes Festival 2012 by bob bellerue
The Ende Tymes Festival is an annual celebration of noise, experimental music, and video art. Over 40 artists will perform at 2 venues
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on April 10
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Posted project update #6IT'S ALIIIIIIVE!
Post CommentThis is our favorite update ever-- can you guess why?
For launch day we've put together a mix of some of our favorite tracks from the past few months, a group piece ("Things We Hate About Music Blogging"), a new Airbird track, and an essay from Liturgy's Hunter Hunt-Hendrix on the changing face of counterculture. We've got a lot more cooking, so stay tuned.
Once again, many thanks to all who have been supportive to us in these last few months. Whether you donated to the Kickstarter, helped us out with rewards, or simply checked it out and dropped a well wish, we want you to know that your efforts have not been in vain.
We're so thrilled we can share a taste of what's to come and hope you enjoy it!
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DISTRO || Nonprofit Music Distribution Platform by Kyle Marler
DISTRO.fm is the world's first subscription-based, non-profit music distribution platform. Think of us as the co-op version of iTunes.
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Posted project update #5Rewards on the way!
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1.21 Gigawatts Magazine by Danny Krug
1.21 Gigawatts is a new Brooklyn based Music and Arts magazine put together by a group of photographers and illustrators.
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Posted project update #4Update #4: We Did It!
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WE DID IT!
And we couldn't have done it without your generosity, enthusiasm, and support. Since reaching our Kickstarter goal, we've been pushing hard to prepare Ad Hoc for launch and finalize some exciting events at SXSW, and we didn't want you to think we forgot about you.
Our success in raising money for Ad Hoc means so much more than we could reasonably describe in one thank you email. And even more than the campaign, we're excited to bring this vision to life and start writing.
Right now, we're en route to SXSW via NRMAL festival in Monterrey, Mexico, where we co-presented a pre-party last Friday featuring Gatekeeper/Thunderhorse, Pictureplane, and surprise guests Teengirl Fantasy. Still, we wanted to let you know that your rewards are safe, sound, and on their way into your hands. The items you pledged for will begin arriving in the month designated for each reward amount on our Kickstarter page, and continue arriving in staggered fashion as they become available. The digital compilation, record bundles, and flirty texts will arrive within the month of March, for example, whereas your t-shirts and compilation box sets will arrive in April, and the first issue of the zine, in May. Phone conversations, DJ nights, and commissioned think pieces will be scheduled directly with you guys, so be on the lookout for an email from us, if you haven’t received one already.
Please stay tuned over the next couple of days for an announcement regarding our SXSW activities. In the meantime, please feel free to email us at info@adhoc.fm if you have any questions.
The love you guys have shown us has been truly inspiring to behold, and we can't wait to pay tribute to it for years to come.
All our very best,
The Ad Hoc Family
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Ad Hoc by Ad Hoc
Bring music back to the community.
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112% funded $37,626 pledged
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Posted project update #3<3 A Mix for You <3
Hello friends of Ad Hoc,
Today we posted a Soundcloud mix of tracks we've been jamming hard lately. So hard, in fact, that we wanted to offer a little commentary about each one of them as well. We're hoping you haven't heard most of these gems yet-- we like to keep it surprising, as you know ;)-- and that you're as into them as we are.
We're very thrilled about all the love and support we've been receiving from everyone, be it through pledging, chipping in new Kickstarter rewards, or spreading the word. We're 519 backers strong and 64% percent funded, with just a week left in our campaign, and none of this would be possible without you all. Please keep pledging (if you can!!), Tweeting, posting, and talking about us! Without your grassroots support, we won't be able to meet our goal-- which means, unfortunately, that Ad Hoc gets not funding at all.
In other news, Stereogum premiered Beach Fossils' submission to the Ad Hoc compilation today-- an ultra-dreamy, tremolo-rich cover of Slowdive's "Alison." Last week, Bavarian Broadcasting ran a radio piece on us for their long-running Zündfunk program, which you can read about here. You can also hear us this Thursday on WNYU's Afternoon Show, airing online and on 89.1 FM New York at 4 p.m. EST.
Lastly, we'd like to send a very special thank you to Melbourne's wharff99 for the "Ad Hoc Kickstarter Theme" he posted to SoundCloud last week.
Keeping it more Altered than Ever,
Julia Holter: “In The Same Room”
There is not much I can say about “In The Same Room,” a track from Los Angeles composer Julia Holter’s forthcoming Ekstasis LP on RVNG Intl.. This one is built primarily from Julia’s own voice, with hits of harpsichord and lilting, pentatonic synth lines. Other than that, It’s just one of those songs that gets you from the very first spin, and I think it would be impossible to anatomize its beauty without going into some very boring specifics about why certain note combinations make us feel more alive. It’s not every day that a conservatory musician writes pop that blows everybody else out of the water, now is it? --Emilie FriedlanderBlack Dice: “Pigs”
It’s fucking new Black Dice. Are you kidding me? --Ric Leichtung
Evian Christ: “Fuck It None of Y’all Don’t Rap”
UK-based producer Joshua Leary started dropping bombs on his YouTube account back in December, and just a couple weeks ago released his first mixtape, Kings and Them, via Tri Angle Records. The Mediafire download has it’s share of bangers and shows a pretty diverse palette of influences. Samples in “Thrown Like Jacks” sound straight out of Grouper’s Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, while “Go Girl” rips from the platinum-certified Far East Movement, but “Fuck It” is definitely the track that cuts the deepest. --Ric Leichtung
Tezeo: “Friends”
Ad Hoc contributing blog Dummy Mag just released this digital single from Brooklyn-based Tezeo a couple weeks back and it’s been in heavy rotation since. Produced by Blondes’ Sam Haar, Tezeo’s debut missive shows a more straightforward approach to songwriting than contemporaries Teengirl Fantasy, Gatekeeper, and Light Asylum. --Ric Leichtung
Majical Cloudz & Grimes: “Song for Ric”
Our favorite pair of Canadians hooked us up with an original collaborative track specially made for our Kickstarter comp and we couldn’t be more flattered. Extra huge special mega thanks to Arbutus and 4AD for making this one happen. --Ric Leichtung
Tonstartssbandht: “Hymn Eola”
2011 saw a lot of great releases, but one of my personal favorites was Tonstartssbandht’s Hymn cassette. While the album got nods from a lot of the previous Altered Zones contributors like Chocolate Bobka, Friendship Bracelet, and Weekly Tape Deck, this band has managed to fly by a lot of people’s radars due to their incredibly difficult to spell name (for the record, it’s pronounced ton-starts-bandit), but know that this is one band that should not be overlooked. --Ric Leichtung
Copy City/Chill Pillars: “Jennifer”
Still swooning over the sinister, rock-n-roll-from-the-crypt vibe of this post-punk trio from Lake Worth, Florida after first hearing their very gristly Held Hostage On Planet Chill album over the loudspeakers at a DIY show in Brooklyn last year. Full of sharp angles and economical to an extreme, “Jennifer” feels strangely older than it is, and reminds me that simplicity is what makes pop music pop. Cop City/Chill Pillars’ debut is out now on record label Florida’s Dying, which, in my view, couldn’t have a more appropriate name. --Emilie Friedlander
Beach Fossils: “Alison (Slowdive Cover)”
It’s not every day that a band covers one of your favorite songs, so needless to say we were beyond psyched when Beach Fossils submitted this standout from Slowdive’s Souvlaki. This one fits perfectly alongside Captured Tracks’ Shoegaze Archives re-issues project, so hopefully we’ll hear more CT artists rep the genre in the future... --Ric Leichtung
Imbogodom: “Heir Looms”
Considering how much I’ve been jamming their new And They Turned Not When They Went LP lately, I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I have absolutely no idea how to pronounce Imbogodom’s name. What I do know about the duo of New Zealand’s Daniel Beban and Britian’s Alexander Tucker is that they compose primarily with analog tape loops, culling their source material from vox and instrumental samples they record themselves. “Heir Looms” showcases the folkier, less abstract side of this latest Thrill Jockey release and it’s hard to see say what moves me more: the dreamy beauty of the songcraft here, or the tape manipulations that spirit it away. --Emilie Friedlander
Demdike Stare: “Ishmael’s Intent”
After dropping three records over the course of one year (2010), Manchester electronic duo Demdike Stare kicked off 2012 with yet another dip into the shadowy recesses of our collective musical subconscious. Elemental, out now on Modern Love, retained the sluggish beats and seamlessly arranged library music samples of the group’s inaugural Trilogy (reissued as such in 2011), but what we got was a single, monolithic statement spoken across four slabs of wax. The good news is that Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker are every bit as exacting as they are prolific, and the darkly percolating “Ishmael’s Intent,” a track from Elemental, is a case in point. Listen for that echoing pop at the end of each rhythmic phrase, or that woosh that sounds like an airplane flying overhead, and see if you can find a better word to describe them than “precise.” --Emilie Friedlander
Mark McGuire & Charles Berlitz: “MR”
There is something serendipitous about this collaboration between Emeralds guitarist Mark McGuire and Skaters member Spencer Clark (styled here as Charles Berlitz), and it’s not just that these two experimental all-stars started jamming in the first place; more, it’s the surprisingly unstoppable chemistry between Spencer’s rhythmic loop-de-loops and McGuire’s sprawling melodic lines. Named after Aussie surf legend Mark Richards, “MR” starts with some basic power chords and builds into roaring rip tide. Grip Inner Tube straight from Spencer Clark’s very own Pacific City Sound Visionsimprint, and, to quote the tagline on the cover, “witness the revery of a mind filtered through tube...” --Emilie Friedlander
Raajmahal: “Celandine”
Raajmahal is a new project made up of Pat Murano from No Neck Blues Band and Decimus, Carla Backer from Baby Yaga, and Santa Wolanczyk from Flower Orgy. Beautifully depressing ambient guitar work, creeping vocal chants, and contemplative, minimal synth make up Raajmahal’s deeply reflective aesthetic. “Celandine” is the title-track from their first full-length that just came out on Digitalis Limited, but watch out for a follow-up LP from Murano’s own Kelippah Records coming this Spring. --Ric Leichtung
How To Dress Well: “Clowne Towne”
HTDW’s Tom Krell recorded this mantric cover of Fabulous Muscles anthem “Clowne Towne” on the radio last year while touring in Australia. You won’t hear any of the strings, electronic bleeps, or industrial percussion of Xiu Xiu’s original, but Krell has a knack for making silence ring out equally loud. Jam it on our Kickstarter compilation. --Emilie Friedlander
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Posted project update #2A Modest Proposal (Ad Hoc Remix)
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A 100% independent, daily music and visual culture publication from former Altered Zones editors Ric Leichtung and Emilie Friedlander, some of our favorite music bloggers, and active imaginations from all across our global grassroots community.
May those words inspire you in the last 6 days of your project :)
I really love this mix. Thank you.
Jammin on this mix while I work on my update video :) Good mix, and I can see why it's been helping your productivity. Seems to be working, too. You guys are almost there!