Showing posts with label C/Site Recordings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C/Site Recordings. Show all posts

MOUNTAIN MOVERS
“Sunday Drive/No Plans”
(C/Site Recordings)




I’ll never forget the first time I listened to Dark Side of the Moon. I was in the 6th grade and I was 12 years old at the time. One of my best friends John lived in a really nice neighborhood and his parents were rich. I’d go over to his house at least once a week with my other friend Jack so we could all play guitar together. One day his dad bought a ridiculously nice brand new turntable with new speakers and a remastered version of Dark Side of the Moon on vinyl. That night, the three of us jammed until at least two in the morning. Then the three of us sat directly in front of those enormous new speakers and I experienced true psychedelic rock for the first time in my life.

I may have gotten a little carried away with telling that story, but honestly listening to this cassette brought me back to that moment for just a little while. I’m not saying that this band is Pink Floyd or that this cassette is Dark Side of the Moon. I’m just really happy that this tape ended up in my hands because it’s nice to be reminded that rock n roll is alive and well. This brought me back to the days in high school when my band would jam in my basement from when we got out of school until midnight when my mom would make everybody go home. The cassettes are all gone, and unfortunately I could only find one of the songs on soundcloud. Everybody needs a good psychedelic jam every now and then.

Mountain Movers
C/Site Recordings

-- Garrett Douglas

OIL WAVE SURFERS
"Oil Wave Surfers II" (C/Site Recordings)




This tape is weird. What initially drew me in was the fantastic artwork, with it's halfway psychedelic comic book fonts and globby collaged face. Apparently recorded 100% analog in 2006 and released in 2016, with a big old mountain of 15 unnamed songs. Side A opens with a synthy repetative medatation that evolves into a sort of shoegazey jam. It rolls along into the next song, setting the tone for the rest of the album with surfy garage frolicks, psychedelic noises and guitar feedback squiggles.

Oil wave Surfers employ some incredible sonic variations, without ever really leaving the comfort zone of fuzzed out surf lo-fi psychedelia. It leaves me guessing what the hell this band is even about; if I've got the idea right or not, and vitrually no online info helps in any way, although it makes me want to hear more from them...maybe to see what's even going on, maybe because they've made me an unwitting fan. Perfect drive-to-nowhere-forever music. Perfect sticky-summer soundtrack. A solid lo-fi hi-five.


-- Jon Carper