{"id":1460,"date":"2014-05-08T21:37:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T21:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=1460"},"modified":"2014-05-10T18:59:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T18:59:26","slug":"quicksails-headboggle-mugen-volume-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=1460","title":{"rendered":"Quicksails \/ Headboggle – Mugen: Volume 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Volume 6 of the Mugen Series unites Headboggle (Derek Gedalecia) and Quicksails (Ben Billington), two veterans of the experimental underground and prodigal sons of Ohio, for a split tape of mind-expanding synthesis on the maximal and minimal poles of the spectrum.<\/h5>\n

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Ben Billington has sonically smashed skulls in an obscene number of projects in the Chicago avant scene, contributing his ballistic beyond-free jazz drumming to the likes of Tiger Hatchery, ADT, Circuit Des Yeux, and Ryley Walker, to name a few. As Quicksails, Billington applies his rhythmic sensibilities to kaleidoscopic solo performances – as documented on over a dozen releases for labels like NNA Tapes, Digitalis, and Spectrum Spools (2013’s\u00a0Mayville Dream\u00a0<\/em>LP). Billington’s “Mountain Suite” for the Mugen Series lives up to its title as a towering session of live synthesis that presents more ideas and disparate zones in its nineteen minute duration than many projects manage across multiple full-length releases. Squelching synth tones and live percussion missives share the spread with woozy drones and thick bursts of bass as Billington stacks his sound sources and samples into a dense collage of rhythms and textures. The session dips into hushed sequences aligned with tom patterns before decaying into a gurgling midpoint streaked with eerie filter washes. To cap it off, Billington breaks into a passage of ecstatic pinball-core blips most directly inspired by, of all people, Headboggle – illustrating the cycle of influence and inspiration that guides both artists into new permutations of their craft.<\/h5>\n

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Derek Gedalecia has commanded the attention of the avant\/noise underground as Headboggle (sometimes Head Boggle) for nearly a decade now, showcasing his unpredictable live performances and omnivorous synth mastery in DIY venues across the country – and on over 60 physical releases on labels like Baked Tapes, 905 Tapes, Spectrum Spools (2012’s self-titled LP), and his own Greedmink imprint. The Headboggle catalog speeds into the future as a continuing experiment with new equipment, compositional processes, and live performance tactics, as each release pushes the boundaries of his gear and his mind into more and more maniacal post-post-Subotnick free-for-alls. “Serge Solo,” Gedalecia’s hallucinogenic live set for the Mugen Series, was recorded at San Francisco City College when the maestro had access to the institution’s Serge modular synth. A far cry from the bonkers kitchen-sink synth-noise of some Headboggle releases, the session crawls at an imperceptible pace through a series of disembodied bleeps, processed through analog delay units and separated by lengthy swathes of silence. Untethered from considerations of rhythm, structure, or harmony, Gedalecia approaches the session as a liberating study in tone and structural drama, relishing in each of its sudden bursts of activity as much as the contrasting empty space between them.<\/h5>\n

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Available May 2014 on limited edition cassette.<\/h5>\n

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Design by: Max<\/h5>\n
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