05 Jan 2012 — Henning Lahmann
You might have heard it already:
Get Off The Coast, one of the raddest and most reliable sources of delightful interweb radness, is no more. But
don't you cry! The folks that brought you the brilliance of GOTC, Jheri Evans and Liz and Dwight Pavlovic, are off to pastures new. While leaving their wonderful cassette imprint
Crash Symbols untouched and intact, a whole new media endeavor has been brought into being: Enter
Decoder, a website still devoted to the latest hip and fresh in the online musicsphere that most excitingly furthermore comes along with the foundation of an actual printed magazine (
remember those?) that aims at nothing less than providing "an attempt to interpret a world of culture and media in which the preeminent players have been the newly liberated human and the ambitious constellation of niche communities that new resources have given us digital beings unparalleled access to".
The first edition of
Decoder Magazine, which will be published semi-annually, is scheduled for May 2012 and will feature contributions by many of our favorite folks on the world wide web, among many others including my dearest
Electronic Beats co-worker and
Gucci Goth guru Daniel Jones, former
Altered Zones and future
Ad Hoc editor Ric Leichtung, ex-
Chocolate Bobka mastermind and
The Report founder/curator Michael McGregor,
Dylan Ettinger, and well, myself.
However, to make the whole thing a reality, a little funding is in order, which is why the magazine's founders have started a
Kickstarter yesterday - so don't hesitate no longer and
head over there, check out the rest of the details including information on the stuff you can get for your money (it's all worth it, promise) and the full list of contributors. In my humble opinion (and not because I'm a tiny little part of this),
Decoder Magazines is one of the boldest and most thrilling projects in the DIY sphere of 2012, something seriously
worth supporting.
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You might have heard it already:
Get Off The Coast, one of the raddest and most reliable sources of delightful interweb radness, is no more. But
don't you cry! The folks that brought you the brilliance of GOTC, Jheri Evans and Liz and Dwight Pavlovic, are off to pastures new. While leaving their wonderful cassette imprint
Crash Symbols untouched and intact, a whole new media endeavor has been brought into being: Enter
Decoder, a website still devoted to the latest hip and fresh in the online musicsphere that most excitingly furthermore comes along with the foundation of an actual printed magazine (
remember those?) that aims at nothing less than providing "an attempt to interpret a world of culture and media in which the preeminent players have been the newly liberated human and the ambitious constellation of niche communities that new resources have given us digital beings unparalleled access to".
The first edition of
Decoder Magazine, which will be published semi-annually, is scheduled for May 2012 and will feature contributions by many of our favorite folks on the world wide web, among many others including my dearest
Electronic Beats co-worker and
Gucci Goth guru Daniel Jones, former
Altered Zones and future
Ad Hoc editor Ric Leichtung, ex-
Chocolate Bobka mastermind and
The Report founder/curator Michael McGregor,
Dylan Ettinger, and well, myself.
However, to make the whole thing a reality, a little funding is in order, which is why the magazine's founders have started a
Kickstarter yesterday - so don't hesitate no longer and
head over there, check out the rest of the details including information on the stuff you can get for your money (it's all worth it, promise) and the full list of contributors. In my humble opinion (and not because I'm a tiny little part of this),
Decoder Magazines is one of the boldest and most thrilling projects in the DIY sphere of 2012, something seriously
worth supporting.
With all those ramblings about Brooklyn and LA it nowadays feels like the music scene of America's Second City (do they still say that anyway?) is not getting the attention it would presumably deserve (barring some prominent exceptions), but on the other hand, maybe that is only my detached trans-Atlantic perception. In any case it's a delight to see someone boosting Chicago's underground fellowship, and Teen River, the recently founded tiny cassette imprint that's being operated by Solid Melts-affiliate Katrina Stonehart and some other equally mysterious dude (?) named Gordon, is the most wonderful example of raw artistic fervor that I've come across in ages. The venture is admirably low-profile yet also highly ambitious, aiming at putting out at least ten tapes each month (!) from fabulous exponents of the Chicago-based weirdo scene. I've been told that everyone involved in Teen River is "drowning in fun", and honestly I can't help but feel a growing amount of sincere happiness in light of such candid and unabashed, truly "indie" enthusiasm.
Below, take an exclusive look at the brand new video for "Reference Slides" by Earth Masters (aka George De Moura of Total Reality International), taken from his Ex-GF cassette that's part of Teen River's just released, massive 20-tape January batch (after the already pretty impressive first 12-tape batch released in December):
Also check out some other tunes, go here for even more, check the complete list of tapes here, and write/paypal directly to teenrivertapes@hotmail.com to get your hands on some of the beautiful, authentically DIY tapes (2 for $5, 5 for $10, 20 for $40, plus shipping - try to beat that).
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"I sometimes imagine that reality is a thin sheet on top of everything that is actually real. If it were to peel off or rupture at any point, we would be able to see all sorts of interesting things underneath."
I've been keeping an eye up on Calgary's electronic producer 
