Not that Students Of Decay is technically underrated, I mean they’ve got over 100 releases in 10 years and were just featured as Label Of The Month in Resident Advisor, but I still feel like Alex Cobb’s label generally hasn’t gotten enough love. But maybe that’s changing, some of the last few releases have been super successful, so perhaps SoD will be the next Important. Either way, this label is the fucking best. Here’s some of my favorite records they’ve put out, in roughly chronological order, starting way back in 2006.
AGB Radio 2015/03/30 – Label Spotlight: Students Of Decay
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Background music: Skeletons Out – In Remembrance Of Me (from In Remembrance Of Me)
00:00:00 Talk break
00:00:59 Taiga Remains – Ribbons Of Dust Part 2 (from Ribbons Of Dust)
00:10:40 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – The First Time I Saw Your Face I Thought It Was A Dying Star (from Shining Skull Breath)
00:17:32 Cloaks – Improvisation For Guitar And Piano (from Serene)
00:22:33 Natural Snow Buildings – Salt Signs (from The Snowbringer Cult)
00:30:42 Talk break
00:32:11 Caboladies – Limestone Nightlife (from Earth Canal)
00:36:19 Aquarelle – The Blue Light Was My Baby (from Sung In Broken Symmetry)
00:43:41 Bryter Layter – First Light (from Two Lenses)
00:49:38 En – Marble Steppe (from Already Gone)
00:55:50 Marielle V. Jakobsons – Shale Hollows (from Glass Canyon)
01:00:47 Talk break
01:01:54 Alex Cobb – Bewildered By Its Blue (from Passage To Morning)
01:10:51 Ekin Fil – Father (from Ekin Fil)
01:15:55 Secret Pyramid – Move Through Night (from Movements Of Night)
01:23:28 Anne Guthrie – Unlike More Slender And Graceful (from Codiaeum Variegatum)
01:28:39 Talk break
01:29:32 Maxwell August Croy & Sean McCann – Column Of Mirror (from I)
01:34:11 Kyle Bobby Dunn – Confessions Of The Mildly Miserable (from …And The Infinite Sadness)
01:39:11 Duane Pitre & Cory Allen – The Healer (excerpt) (from The Seeker & The Healer)
01:51:05 Sarah Davachi – Ruislip (from Barons Court)
01:58:32 Talk break
Been listening to the same buncha records pretty much nonstop the past few months, so I thought I’d play all that awesomeness instead of some new stuff I haven’t spent much time with yet.
AGB Radio 2015/03/23
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Background music: Daniel Bachman – Song For The Setting Sun II (from Absorb/River)
00:00:00 Talk break
00:01:16 Dan Deacon – When I Was Done Dying (from Gliss Riffer)
00:05:30 Liturgy – Follow II (from The Ark Work)
00:13:00 Lightning Bolt – Dream Genie (from Fantasy Empire)
00:19:20 Lamentations Of The Ashen – A Profane Illvmination (Convvlsionaries Of Temporal Heterodoxy) (from Libertine Cyst)
00:31:26 Talk break
00:32:36 Mount Eerie – Pumpkin (from Sauna)
00:37:41 Nathan Bowles – Sleepy Lake Bike Club (from Nansemond)
00:46:29 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love After Love (from A Year With 13 Moons)
00:51:07 Menace Ruine – Soften Our Evil Hearts (from Venus Armata)
01:02:21 Talk break
01:03:08 Makthaverskan – Antabus (from Makthaverskan II)
01:06:23 James Place – Another Mourning In America (from Living On Superstition)
01:10:47 Ô Paon – Rive-Sud (from Fleuve)
01:13:32 Benoît Pioulard – The Very Edge Of Its Flame (from Sonnet)
01:21:02 Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – Never Were The Way She Was (from Never Were The Way She Was)
01:29:07 Talk break
01:30:11 Leila Abdul-Rauf – Dark Hours Of Early Morning (from Insomnia)
01:35:29 Bow Ether Group – Bells Of Burden (from Weltmeister Pakrashi I)
01:48:24 Villages – Out Of The Mines (from Procession Acts)
01:54:15 Father Murphy – Blood Is Thicker Than Water (from Croce)
01:58:12 Talk break
like, almost 100% drone <3
AGB Radio 2015/03/09
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Background music: Jonas Munk – Fabric (from Absorb/Fabric/Cascade)
00:00:00 Talk break
00:00:46 Ryan Huber – Countenance (from Akharon)
00:12:58 Bill Seaman – Ending (Part 4) (from F (Noir))
00:23:14 Wolf Maps – Sun Ghosts (from Sun Ghosts)
00:29:06 Talk break
00:30:05 Mirko – Orbital Drag (from Mirko)
00:38:50 Jacek Sienkiewicz – Sto_rys (from Nomatter)
00:54:09 Luciana Bass – Improv V (from Improvised Guitar Pieces)
00:59:18 Talk break
01:00:29 David Tagg – Victorian Mirror (from Personal Debris)
01:13:48 Howard Stelzer – If You Insist (from How To)
01:23:03 Ruhe – Vantomani (from Chamber Loops)
01:28:01 Talk break
01:29:14 Tim Catlin & Machinefabriek – Plinth (from Whorls)
01:33:18 Midnight Tales – Mirrorball Sea (from Eternalism)
01:38:25 Invisible Path – Still Grey Apparitions Where The Precipice Meets The Sunbeams (from Hallowed Ground)
01:59:00 Talk break
all sorts of amazing sounds bookended by brand new shit from Dan Deacon and Liturgy aka the best show ever
AGB Radio 2015/03/02
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Background music: Koenraad Ecker – Nazif (from Sleepwalkers In A Cold Circus)
00:00:00 Talk break
00:00:41 Dan Deacon – When I Was Done Dying (from Gliss Riffer)
00:04:55 Sumbu Dunia – Hollow (from Sister Nature)
00:09:26 Machinefabriek – Part IV (from The Measures Taken)
00:20:07 Áine O’Dwyer – Mass Of The Rosary Ring (from Music For Church Cleaners Vol I & II)
00:28:42 Talk break
00:30:17 NHK – Ch. 6 (from Program)
00:36:46 Ô Paon – Boue/Fleuve II (from Fleuve)
00:43:34 Mountains – Parallel Two (from You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever Vol. 11)
00:47:29 Eric Chenaux – Poor Time (from Skullsplitter)
00:55:33 Les Halles – Misleading Familiarity (from Forum)
00:59:31 Talk break
01:00:40 King Woman – King Of Swords (from Doubt)
01:06:40 Elian – Harrowgate 5 (from Harrowgate)
01:21:59 Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – The Sun Roars Into View (from Never Were The Way She Was)
01:29:31 Talk break
01:30:27 Old Svrfers – Journey To The End Of Waimea Bay (from Ain’t Scared Of Shaka)
01:47:52 Liturgy – Reign Array (from The Ark Work)
01:59:18 Talk break
