Subjective Collective

here is the latest song from secret message machine, off of the upcoming album.

Drug Store Bums

Workday/Schoolnight New Album

from experimentallmusic.blogspot.com
A year and a half ago Workday/Schoolnight stopped being just a recording project when I took it to various venues, houses and apartments around NC. This meant writing songs and organizing sounds based on the equipment I would have with me. All my other Workday/Schoolnight albums were very much a product of the recording process. This new album, “Plastic Ocean”, is a combination of songs written for performance as well as experiments utilizing home recording technology. However, the overall idea here was to record an album that would preserve the themes and songs of the live shows of the past year.

Using roughly 6 different consumer keyboards from the 1980s (casios, yamahas, kawais), a hammond rhythm machine, a bank of drum samples, and dozens of cassette tapes bought from thrift stores (as well as some other stuff), “Plastic Ocean” flows between experimental found sounds and synth-punk songs. Clocking in at over 70 minutes, “Plastic Ocean” keeps the listener tuned in by often times speaking directly to him or her. So, this may not be the best album to listen to while multitasking. The themes of alienation, working, pessimism about the state of the world, and general good ole antiestablishmentarianism found in the sung lyrics are put in an unsettling light when juxtaposed with self-help tapes, self-hypnotic tapes, daily affirmations, and vocabulary lessons.

I’m sure there is more to say about the album, but I’d rather have someone else’s point of view. So, feel free to leave comments about your listening experience.

Download for free (free for now)
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Secret Message Machine Teaser

some new sounds from the forthcoming album
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Casual Curious New Video

She Song - Casual Curious (live session) from DurtyDurham on Vimeo.

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Kaleidoscope Death Discography For Download

Chuck’s new blog will soon contain all the great Kaleidoscope Death releases.
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Happening. Oct 15th-18th. Guilford College, Lyndon St Artworks, Green Bean, Westerwood Tavern, My Favorite Things, Legitimate Business. ALL FREE.

Thursday October 15th - Guilford College- WQFS Presents
Computer Geek Salad
Yank Yer Blue Jeans
Secret Message Machine
Romancer
doors 7 pm show 8 pm

Friday October 16 @ Lyndon St Artworks *WUAG*
Workday Schoolnight
Casual Curious
Genghis Khan, Pens and Needles, Treason
L in Japanese / Tim Trouble / DJ Harley Lyles
doors 7 pm show 8 pm

Saturday October 17 @ Green Bean
Basalt
Sugar High Gang
Rough Hands
doors 7 pm show 8 pm

11pm GSOFest Afterparty @ Westerwood feat. Mutant League

Sunday October 18 @ My Favorite Things
Our Horse Jethro
JP Smith Jazz Unit
Sundrone
doors 5:00pm show 5:30pm

Here are some recent live recordings for you. Enjoy.

Summer Camp Casanova Two Faces (live on WUAG)

Casual Curious Covering Workday Schoolnight @ The Green Bean

Secret Message Machine Madmen @ Lyndon St Artworks

Kaleidoscope Death Covering the Breeders Huffer @ The Green Bean

Here is another of our online “reissues.” enjoy

Kaleidoscope Death started as an idea in 2002. Chuck Chambers and a couple of friends (Steve, Neal) wanted to form a “pseudo-pretentious art rock” band. They began recording on an old boom box, but they weren’t a band for long. Eventually Chuck re-recorded some of the songs and wrote new ones, playing all the instruments himself.

As the title suggests, this album combines the first two tapes (that’s right, tapes) that were released around 2004. 70 minutes and 26 songs. There are some powerful, heavy songs as well as sparse acoustic ones. And great hooks. Kaleidoscope Death is still around today, as a solo act and band with new members.

Download The First Two Tapes of Kaleidoscope Death (93 MB)