A couple of new tracks tonight from the (pointless) imaginary compilation, “The Good Life Most Will Never Find”. The title itself is an homage to/ripped off from Deth P. Sun, an artist whose work we feel has had some impact on this compilation, but he’ll most likely never see this so who cares. Anyway, on with the hits!
I Am Eagle! - Bark Beetle | 3:31
Previously Unreleased
Long Beach CA, 2005
I Am Eagle! - Ass, Grass, or Gas | 2:34
Previously Unreleased
Los Angeles CA, 2008
Keeping the easy-listening hits going with a couple of cuts by I Am Eagle! Taken together, these two tracks bookend the four-year-long career of this particular band (whose entire recorded output actually contains only one additional song). Featuring drumming by “Robot Steve”.
Sarisataka - Frisbee Detector | 3:02
Previously Unreleased
Los Angeles CA, 2008
A somewhat new band with a thankfully brief history, Sarisataka focus on shorter, more electronic-oriented drones produced predominantly on the critically despised Roland MC-303. This particular recording features real live crickets for added “fun”!
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth - The Good Life Most Will Never Find | 7:18
Previously Unreleased
Long Beach CA, 2006
Another sonic collage in the spirit of the first post. Consisting of processed acoustic/electric guitar and melodica, this mid-length piece from WDRtE explores the lack of focus and where that gets you eventually; evolving reality; and communication between sentient rocks. Cough! *_*
I Am Eagle!, Music, Sarisataka, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth
Thanks to the (hypothetically) overwhelming response to the now quite stale first post (sample comments: “it gave me flashbacks”, “the tracks were really long”), it is our distinct pleasure to offer up a few - thankfully - much shorter tracks.
Recorded at The Good Life in 2006 by Long Beach unknowns Softpack, these three tracks from the unreleased and previously unheard (ahem) “debut album” are less likely to induce any unwelcome fits of post-psychedelic trauma or spontaneous napping.
Softpack - Peacock Collapses, The End Ensues, Life! | 4:49
From the unreleased “Softpack” debut
Long Beach CA, 2006
According to the track notes this one has something to do with some kind of “metaphorical universal wheel”. We’re not entirely sure what Softpack had in mind with that exactly but it sure sounds like guitar music to us. No keyboards, no vocals, no problem.
Softpack - You Are Apollo 13 | 4:18
From the unreleased “Softpack” debut
Long Beach CA, 2006
Simple, straight-forward 80’s-inflected guitar music. What, no vocals on this one either? What a surprise! The lead guitar is slightly out of tune? What another surprise!
Softpack - Mouth Hole | 3:37
From the unreleased “Softpack” debut
Long Beach CA, 2006
Take your standard issue guitar/bass/drum/keyboard combo, add in a bit of minimally disguised 80’s reference, and forget about any vocals ever appearing and you’ve got this easy-listening number. Ignore if you can the seconds-long silence that opens the track: the sign of a lackluster audio engineer asleep at the switch.
Music, Softpack
Tokle - Bear Flag Revolution | 28:22
From the imaginary “Golden Bear and Other Works” EP
Los Angeles, 2007
We’re starting this blog out with the longest piece available. You read right: that’s 28 minutes and 22 seconds of pure audio content. Consider yourself warned.
Variously attributed to both When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and the eponymous site owner, this long track has been interpreted to be about subjects as diverse as the history of California, a treatise on the abuses visited upon the working immigrant during the industrial revolution, and the sleeping “potential universe” hidden inside a singularity. Whatever. With a length greater than that of your average episode of “King of Queens” all we know is that this little number has Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 written all over it!
Tokle - La Mort Heureuse | 12:46
From the imaginary “Golden Bear and Other Works” EP
Los Angeles, 2008
After the utter pretention that is the previous track we offer you to double-down on pretention: “La Mort Heureuse” (or “The Happy Death” for our Americans visitors). Named (in French) after a (French) book that we have neither read nor own by (French Existentialist) Albert Camus, this jaunty little 12+ minute long number will come as no surprise to those already sick of the first track. With long droning guitars, ultra-processed keyboard tones and a field recording from Languedoc, France (a town we have never visited) this piece is sure to please even the most demanding self-referential music snob. Take it from us: we are one!
Tokle - Het Mechanische Gebied van de Slaap | 9:00
From the imaginary “Golden Bear and Other Works” EP
Los Angeles, 2008
What is it about the Dutch that just seems to make experimental music so much more experimental? We sure as hell don’t know, but with a name like this you can bet it won’t be a long until we’re fielding offers from Mego and Touch records! Loosely translated (by Babelfish of course) as “The Mechanical Area of Sleep” we can vouch for neither the content nor the quality of this contextually “short” piece. All we know for sure is that there seems to be a bit of a whine in the high-mids, and if we cared much more about it we’d probably remix for the 32nd time - Goede Tijden!
Music, Tokle, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth
