Pwdre Ser’s 2011 Recap
December 16, 2011
Tracklist:
Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra “Initials BB”
Ladytron “White Elephant”
David Wrench “Who Will Wear Your Dress in the Next World?”
St Vincent “Cheerleader”
Mark Fry/A. Lords “Ruins of Stone”
Jonny “You Was Me”
Brian Eno “I’ll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoe)” BBC Radio 1974
July “To Be Free”
Dead Skeletons “Om Mani Peme Hung”
Cliff Martinez “Bride of Deluxe”
Hong Kong in the 60s “Disintegration (The Advisory Circle Reshape)”
Jurgen Muller “Chasing Submarines”
The New Lines “Voyager Program 1977”
Kerry Beaumont “Rubber Balls”
Congregacion “Estrecha a tu Hermano”
Sparks “Something for the Girl with Everything”
Wire “Clay”
Faine Jade “Doctor Paul Overture”
Caravan “Love to Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly)”
Motion Sickness of Time Travel “Like Dunes”
Apocrypha and Ennui Out Now
April 3, 2011
New Pwdre Ser EP Expanded Into Long Player Shock!
March 7, 2011
I’ve backed up, reloaded, and reconfigured the new EP into a full length album for March release. Details forthcoming.
These have been particularly trying times for me, attempting to keep my head above water and Pwdre Ser visible amongst the clotted and clogged arteries of the internet. Everyone and his sister is releasing music, so how does one rise above the masses to shine brightly into the eyes and ears of the public? Well, not too successfully. I have deleted the Pwdre Ser MySpace page, which saddened me, certainly. But my rage at the ill-plotted redesign of that site more than justified the deletion of what was once a key promotional site.
Do I have time to promote myself anymore? Certainly not, life is full of other pressing matters. Do I play out? Perhaps, but ‘mostly doubtful’ seems to be the answer. So it seems as though I will trudge ever forward to issue album downloads to an audience of none. As long as my desire to make music persists, however, I shall go on. In the meantime, if you’re a label or distributor looking for some hot talent, well, by all means reach out to me. 
2010 Favorites
December 18, 2010
Here’s a mix of some of the best electronic/soundtrack/hauntological music that I heard in 2010, though it’s not all actually from 2010.
EDIT: I removed the mix, as I was running out of space on Sound Cloud.
1. Francesco Clemente “Suoni Dalle Ombre Oltre” – 2004. Imaginary unreleased soundtrack from 1983, finally ‘unearthed’ in the early 00s. Giallo / John Carpenter soundtrack inspirations aplenty. (http://clone.nl/item4642.html)
2. Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services “We Have Visitors” – 2010. The greatest Ghost Box release ever, and not even released on Ghost Box. The darker elements of Belbury Poly mixed with distorted static winds and Basic Channel filter dub. (http://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/)
3. Andrew Weatherall “Privately Electrified” – 2009. From cementing Primal Scream’s status as genre innovators to blazing beats across the dancefloor, Weatherall is an unmitigated genius. And he has the coolest post-punk vocals. (http://www.rottersgolfclub.co.uk/#)
4. Mirador “Dance of the Lantern People” – 2010. Second-best discovery of the year. Culty duo from PA weave a tribal-trance-techno spell that presses all of my happy buttons. (http://mirador.bandcamp.com/)
5. Demdike Stare “Caged in Stammheim” – 2010. How (why) do I <3 this band? Let me count the ways: dark ambient, drone, dub, musique concrete, library music, and sonic experimentation with endless occult references.
(http://boomkat.com/downloads/317634-demdike-stare-liberation-through-hearing)
6. Port-Royal “I Used to be Sad” – 2009. Post-rock as I always imagined it. Massive shoegaze swells, pulsing electronica, glitchy skittering, wistful vocals, and pure pop all within one track. A thrilling ride. (http://www.port-royal.it/discography/)
7. Brian Eno “Paleosonic” – 2010. Need I say anything about the man? (http://brian-eno.net/)
8. Mordant Music “You Are a Door” – 2009. Mordant Music is a Mystery. A band and a label. A challenging multimedia extravaganza with seemingly its own language and points of reference. MM’s album Symptoms is a sepulchral (some might say hauntological) cousin to Underworld’s Dubnobasswithmyheadman.
(http://www.mordantmusic.com/mmusic.htm)
9. Suizen “Cartesian Space 4d Mix” – 2010. Another fog-shrouded label promising monthly releases but only having issued one so far. But it’s an electronic-dub classic. (http://dub45.com/)
10. Black Tempest “Proxima Part 1” – 2010. Contemporary re-imaginings of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra and Rubycon? Why of course. Please please me with those arpeggios. (http://blacktempest.bandcamp.com/album/proxima)
11. The Sight Below “New Dawn Fades” – 2010. A thoroughly successful cover of a Joy Division track. Ian Curtis was never this bleak. Dive in.
(http://rafaelantonirisarri.bandcamp.com/)
As Autumn Approaches
September 10, 2010
The weather has cooled for the time being, and my mind races forward a few weeks to the impending Autumn. In honor of this, I have assembled a new mix.
Autumn’s Flickering Ashes: A Collection of Tasteful Psychedelic Explorations, Glam Descends, and Pastoral Ramblings
Listen or Download!
DOWNLOAD Autumn’s Flickering Ashes (93.7 MB)
00:00-05:43 The Advisory Circle “Mind How You Go Now (2010 Version)”
05:44-11:01 Barclay James Harvest “Taking Some Time On”
11:02-14:45 Kaleidoscope “Nursey Nursey”
14:46-16:51 Brett Smiley “Pre-Columbian Love”
16:52-21:49 Backworld “The Angels of Ashes”
21:50-24:31 Legendary Pink Dots “Colour Wheel”
24:32-27:13 John Cale and Terry Riley “The Soul of Patrick Lee”
27:14-30:15 The World of Oz “With a Little Help”
27:16-36:27 Doctors of Madness “Suicide City”
36:28-41:26 Wreckless Eric “If It Makes You Happy”
41:27-45:25 Fresh Maggots “Car Song”
45:26-49:15 The Giallos Flame “Crime at Night”
49:16-51:43 Skip Bifferty “Orange Lace”
51:44-53:55 Marc Brierly “The Answer Is”
53:56-56:39 Wyrdstone “Meadowsweet”
56:40-59:11 Duncan Browne “On the Bombsite (Demo)”
59:12-65:33 The Owl Service “The Dorset Hanging Oak”
65:34-67:55 Bill Fay “Some Good Advice”
Summer Mix For Your Pleasure
June 24, 2010
Pwdre Ser Presents: “In Anticipation of Summer Lethargy”, an MP3 mix for lazy Summer evenings. Originally mixed June 2009ce.
Listen or Download!
DOWNLOAD, 93.7 MB
Tracklist:
Slow “Morning Love”
Tod Dockstader “Sundrift”
Perfume Tree “Warm Sun Fingers”
Dot Allison “Message Personnel”
Segue “July”
The Flaming Lips “Syrtis Major”
Weigl & Hoffman “The Grass is Greener” (Gate Zero remix)
The Advisory Circle “Get in the Swim”
Carter Tutti “The Sun Shone That Day”
Shibboleth “The Stone Tape”
Collothen “Warm Hospital”
The Floating World “Mirror Sea”
Cogent “Luna”
Enjoy!
Pwdre Ser on Bandcamp
May 7, 2010
PWDRE SER is now on Bandcamp. Please visit to stream songs in their entirety and to download albums.
Moving to Bandcamp
April 8, 2010
Soon all of Pwdre Ser’s releases (including a new EP) will be available for purchase and download at Bandcamp. Watch this page for updates!
Terra Forma / Pwdre Ser EP
October 1, 2009
I’ve been collaborating with LA’s Brian Wakil (Terra Forma) for just over a year, and the experience has been quite rewarding. We’ve completed ten songs total, and from those we selected five to release as a download-only EP. Please follow the link below to listen to and d/l the results. It’s a bit different from my usual work, being more loop-and-beat based, but I consider it to be some of the best work I’ve been involved with. See for yourself!
