Disposable Commodities

I am playing this Friday 10/11 ALL NIGHT LONG on a 4-point Danley Audio sound system in a black box dark room from 10pm to 4 am. The first in a series of events by a new promoter group in Portland with ties to Occassion Vibration.

I hope you can make it.

Scott Gusts magnum opus as The Phantom Ship is now in full release. 40 minutes of downtempo bliss.

The DIS/CO final release of 2022. Thank you everyone for your support.

The Phantom Ship (aka Minneapolis artist Scott Gusts) premieres on Disposable Commodities with his second album of neon drenched chillwave beats.

The album was inspired by long drives on secluded highways at night.

Night Drives is composed like a live set, a continuous recording with a total run time of 45 minutes. The album is split across two long playing cassette sides.

Catalog Number: DISPCO-021
Written & produced by Scott Gusts
Mastering by Kevin McHugh at Valence Studio
Artwork and Design by Scott Gusts

DIS/CO 022 Cassette release is now available for pre-order:

https://disposablecommodities.bandcamp.com/album/jesters-gaze

DIS/CO is honored to share our latest physical release, a new cassette DJ mix compilation by Exael. Exael’s previous mixes for XLR8R and FACT took our breath away with their range and scope from ambient dub to breaks and drum n’ bass. For ‘Jester’s Gaze’ Exael channels post-pandemic mania into two 45-minute mixes. The A side is a blistering high energy drum n’ bass mix that splinters apart and reconfigures in unsuspecting ways. Exael uses multiple tracks at once for a jagged collage of mesmerizing rhythms. The B side cools things down for a relaxing, mellow start but the energy builds again into uneasy atmospheres that slowly diffuse and expand into room-filling walls of sound. Exael’s original productions can be found on pioneering electronic labels West Mineral Ltd, 3XL, Soda Gong and Lillerne Tape Club.

releases October 7, 2022

credits
Compiled, mixed, mastered by Exael
Artwork and Design by Exael

Jester's Gaze, by Exael 4 track album

Carly Barton has a new graphic design artifact available for the music theory fans

https://carlybarton.bandcamp.com/merch/circle-of-fifths-music-theory-guide

Golden Donna updates - worth a read and your support

The Damage Has Been Done, by Golden Donna 5 track album

Golden Donna's 'Hurts So Bad' featured on the latest Ransom Note "Shine A Light On' mix by Graintable. The label is honored to be included in this round up of our local scene here in Portland.

https://soundcloud.com/the-ransom-note/graintable-the-shine-a-light-on-mix

Lots of great music from the Portland scene and is a recommended listen!

Graintable: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix Last month saw Graintable release a new LP via our own ransom Note Records label. The Portland Native delivered a ten track ambient album which was the result of a number of late night studio sessions

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Golden Donna has released six albums to date, and his latest, Vivid Recall, follows in a trend of offering hi-energy music riven with emotion and fury, a variety of ideas and sounds drawn together by a singular passion. It arrives on Portland’s Disposable Commodities, and jumps from noise to techno and lands somewhere in between.

A sonic wasteland, noisy scrub. That’s how Vivid Recall opens. The roar of machinery and the shock of thunder are all around. Where are we and how did we get here?

There’s no time to answer that as moments later we are plunged into a sea of bracing beats.

Mask, a collaboration with Alex Ian Smith, blends a searing and unnerving synth melody with rattling percussion and a mood thick with uncertainty.

Tracks like The Joke are bursting with fizz and crackle, minimalistic without being minimal. Elements of cold wave and electro combine in a brisk and frenetic drone-flavoured percussive meltdown.

Findings leans into classic drum machine sounds, with nine minutes percussive splutterings over yawning chasms.

The mood shifts with the relatively straightforward emotion of Hurts So Bad, a pulsating club track sure to reduce hardened dancers to tears with its melancholy melodies. Are those synths or are they vocals? The otherworldly and indecipherable tones leave these questions unanswered as we float on to the most mournful of late-night experiences.

The album’s centrepiece, if it can be termed that, comes in the one-two punch of Submission and Limit, two tracks that span 25 minutes. Submission has a strange dreamlike quality, with minutes of static crumbling before opening up to lilting ambient tones and faint theremin-esque warbles. These tones drift for what seems an eternity, albeit a welcome eternity. Limit, meanwhile, is a strange and confusing moment, with its crisp percussive snaps sitting underneath synths that whistle with frisson and a vocal sample that seems to claw at your inner organs.

The brilliantly titled Unclear Winter seems to speak to a moment that is unfolding around us while lasting forever, its unrelenting tempo at odds with the languid nature of its musical impulses. It’s imbued with a feeling of travel through mist and fog, thoughts and ideas forever just out of reach.

The album then draws to a close with the utterly unclassifiable Red Light. A riotous melange of sounds and styles that defies notions of cohesion or unity.

DISPCO-020 Golden Donna - Vivid Recall will be available Thursday 3/3 around midnight for Bandcamp Friday.

Ltd copies. Sign up on Bandcamp for the release email.

disposablecommodities.bandcamp.com