Subjective Collective

Orphanville will be released on CD, limited edition Vinyl, and on Itunes and Amazon on September 1st.

Here is a new song from the upcoming album. Download below.

Secret Message Machine - Wilson Street

secretmessagemachine.com

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.

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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

After five years of recording and playing shows blank blank will be playing it’s final one on July 9th at the Green Bean, downtown Greensboro. They will perform along with Invisible and it will be their last show as well.
At the same show, blank blank will release its fourth and final CD, new songs written over the past two years. Come hear them for the last time and get a copy of the final release.

In future release land we have a three way split between Kaleidoscope Death, Summer Camp Casanova, and Secret Message Machine coming out in August.

Casual Curious is also planning on recording their first full length album.

Secret Message Machine is working on their third full length CD.

And finally, the end of 2009 will mark five years of Subjective Collective and we will mark this occasion with a compilation of the best recordings made by the musical mafia and friends.

The new album from Secret Message Machine

Insomnia
Giants
Literary Criticism
Hungry Villains
Leatherwing
Dead Man I
Dear Firefly
Ghosts
Greensboro (Uke of Phillips)
Madmen
Black Waves

Download (39.3 MB)

September 11- the Velvet lounge- Washington DC
September 12- Paper Kingdom- Baltimore, Maryland
September 13- Nasa Sushi- Richmond, Virginia
September 14- The Second Death Star- Vienna, Virginia
September 15- Don Pedro’s- New York, New York
September 16- House- Amherst, Massachusetts
September 18- The Cave Chapel Hill- North Carolina
September 19- House- Asheville, North Carolina
September 20- 303 Mimosa Dr- Greensboro, North Carolina

The next secret message machine cd will be done by August. In the meantime, here are some songs. The tentative title is Giants, Madmen, and Ghosts. The song Hungry Villains will be on it, but the rest of these won’t.

Hungry Villains
Greensboro
Public Displays of Hatred
Sun City Exile

download (13.3MB)

think the video as a bad art school project but pay close attention to the audio:

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