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Paisley Babylon Digital Single “Dolly Bird With a Gram of Hash”

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The second in our Turntabling Records digital single series. Paisley Babylon recorded this track, Dolly Bird With a Gram of Hash, on New Year’s Day 2011, using two turntables, a MicroKorg, and several analog delays. The track is a unique blend of hallucinatory loops, found sounds and turntablism.

The New Year’s Day recordings are something of a tradition for Paisley Babylon, who got started on the ritual after a 1999 session with Post-Mortem Telepathy that stretched over the entire New Year’s holiday. After that, a symbolic session on New Year’s felt, according to Paisley Babylon’s Joe Wallace, a bit mandatory for having good luck in the coming year.

Dolly Bird With a Gram of Hash was created to “capture the mindset of the girl and hopefully, the listener, after ingesting substances hinted at in the song title.” according to press kit materials for the Paisley Babylon album this track appears on. Could the Paisley record “Songs From the Interstallar Hash Bar Jukebox” be a concept record of sorts?

Hard to say, but if you like Perry & Kingsley, Brian Eno or Nurse With Wound, Dolly Bird With a Gram of Hash might be a worthy investment of a dollar.

Turntabling does plan to offer digital downloads direct from the site in the future, but while we’re developing this feature our digital singles are available for download from Amazon, iTunes and elsewhere.

Preview, buy and download Dolly Bird With a Gram of Hash by Paisley Babylon for one dollar at Amazon.

Paisley Babylon Dream Surgery Single

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Dream Surgery by Paisley Babylon is a quite surreal experience. Nearly six minutes of electronic bliss recorded in Keflavik, Iceland in 1999 during a blizzard, this track was definitely influenced by the weather, the constant darkness in Iceland that time of year, and the lava fields stretching endlessly across the countryside.

Paisley Babylon specializes in electronic ambient journeys, experimental soundscapes, and more traditional sounds in the Morricone soundtrack vein. There’s also more than a hint of Stereolab and Coil influence here with a dash of Throbbing Gristle thrown in for good measure.

Dream Surgery has more structure than some of the other sounds on the album this was released on, Midnight Hallucinations, but there is definitely a trippy vibe going on here. This track is probably not right for road trips–it INDUCES highway hypnosis instead of driving it away. Never mind the surgery games, this track is all about the anesthetic.

This is the first post in a series of experiments to get projects like Paisley Babylon some wider exposure among people into sounds like these…Turntabling Records plans to offer these tracks as downloads direct from the site once our digital download interface is ready–we present this track via iTunes.

Download Dream Surgery in MP3 format via iTunes. Dream Surgery is a single track available for .99 cents. You can also explore the rest of the album, Midnight Hallucinations.

Turntabling Presents Homeless Download: Chicago Indie Electronic Compilation

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A hand-crafted and hand-lettered CD case, plus a dozen tracks of curious, left-of center electronic music from Chicago is what you get when you buy Homeless Download, the new compilation project from Turntabling.

Homeless Download features 12 tracks from a variety of Chicag0-based electronica projects including Paisley Babylon, Electronic Penis Choppers, Thelema USA, Satan’s Tea Boy VS. Toilet, and a surprise appearance by Texas sound manipulators Post-Mortem Telepathy.

Homeless Download ranges from Aphex Twin-style bouncy synth to distorted, near Power Electronics type electronica and a few shades of grey inbetween. This album is definitely the soundtrack to some kind of futuristic big screen madness, we’re just not sure what.

At press time this release is ONLY available as a physical CD purchase via Etsy.com in the Turntabling shop. It is a limited edition package, hand-crafted and lettered. No more than 250 of these editions will be made. Each one is hand crafted to order and may require 2 weeks to complete and ship based on order volume.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Robes Off
— Thelema USA

2. Ever Hear Me Screaming?
— Paisley Babylon

3. I Did I Number Two for the Republican Party
— Electronic Penis Choppers

4. Do You Question the Religion?
— Paisley Babylon

5. French Kissing Jack Kervorkian
— AUDITORTURE

6. Eternal Surveillance
— We Are Delicious

7. Play Now, Honey
— Satan’s Tea Boy Vs. Toilet

8. Watching The Golden Girls On Ketamine
— The Velvet Underdog

9. The Naked Pentagram
— Thelema USA

10. Cream Fist
— Murder City Devils

11. Savior Noise (Epic Quarter Hour Version)
— Paisley Babylon

Plus one “hidden” track by Post-Mortem Telepathy.

All material is copyright 2011 Turntabling Records except Post-Mortem Telepathy which appears courtesy of the individual artists.

Vinyl Junkie Art

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I’ve been busy here at Turntabling HQ working on a series of vinyl-related art prints that are now available for sale at the Turntable shop at Etsy.com. I’ve got some of this stuff on my own walls at home now and thought it would be fun to put the images up for sale as a fundraiser for Turntabling. Vinyl collectors, this is especially for you.

Since it’s the holiday season, what could be better than a simple, easy gift idea like this for the vinyl junkies in our lives? I know of three people these prints are headed out to before the holiday season kicks off…how many collectors do you know that could use some spruced-up wall space? Check out Turntabling shop at Esty to see these prints and many others…I have to confess, making this turntable art is addictive…I might be on to a new sideline here!

By the way, one of my early experiments is with a set of images specific to certain bands like Goblin, like this print:

Right now, this is one of the most affordable prints for sale at the Turntabling shop. It comes as a print only (no frame). If you like the concept but have a request for a different artist or album, drop me a line via Etsy or here (jwallace at turntabling dot net) and let me know, I’d be happy to do a custom order in small or large sizes. I can do everything from 4 x 6, 12 x 12 and even larger poster sizes if necessary.