Reports Video and Mentions, Site Updates

The guys over at Echoplanar Films have been coming by the Pipeline! show on WMBR (I’m one of the sound engineers) and filming some of the live band sets. They were in the house when Reports played a couple weeks ago; here’s a video of one of the songs from the set. More coming soon.

Meanwhile the Hot Stof blog, out of the Netherlands, has two brief and positive mentions of Reports. The first is from earlier this month, with the second mentioning the LP release along with a link to mp3 versions here on Inman Street. Thanks!

Finally, I fixed the site so it looks fine in Internet Explorer 6. IE7, Firefox, and all other major browsers should do you right as well. Please drop me a line if you’re having difficulties.

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Welcome to Inman Street Records

It felt good to take the wraps off the site yesterday, after working on it for some time. Take a look around, and don’t hesitate to drop me a line if you feel so inclined.

There are still some lingering issues - Internet Explorer 6 users know what I’m talking about - but I’ll be taking care of those shortly!

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#003: Das Kitchen - “Golden Vault”

Songs:
1. golden underpants
2. frog incident
3. saag paneer
4. dk vs. dalek
5. eggplant pizza dance
6. lifetones
7. konami skank
8. most beautiful
9. solar flair
10. blake requiem
11. hotbox

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What is music? What is friendship? What is innocence? When the members of DAS KITCHEN stopped playing TECMO BOWL and plugged in the 4-track, little did they know that they would open the GOLDEN VAULTS of knowledge that store the answers to such questions. From their humble beginnings in a dirty ALLSTON kitchen, to their humble middle period performing in public only twice for college students and then GEESE, to the humble and somber moment when members parted ways, it was a period of rigorous experimentation. Since they shunned the stage and only joked about releasing this music, this archive is the world’s first chance to examine these inept yet singular sound baubles.

They were their own biggest fans- still are- and biggest critics to boot. Fueled by MOLSON keg cans and saag paneer, the sessions often got quite heated and malodorous. A neighbor once informed them that it was difficult to sleep while DAS KITCHEN music was performed. Other times, they marveled at the petal-unfolding beauty they discovered within and felt good when a young student in CHINA wrote them a fan letter. Years later, the dust has settled on the tapes from which these introductory tracks were culled. This isn’t even the raging, really out, die-hard stuff, more a survey of the most accessible landscapes traversed by the group. It’s not hard to make ridiculous comparisons to established artists: Casios get kosmiche in the manner of CLUSTER, sample collages touch on the ethnographic concerns of THIS HEAT, the outlandish clattering of THE SHADOW RING is audible in retrospect. Not that the group was aware of any of those groups at the time! BLUEPRINTS? More like brewprints. Anyways, what’s important is that someone got around to making us get around to make this stuff available, and here it is!

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#002: Most Bitter - “The Denatonium Benzoate EP”

Songs:
1. Sunset in Dixie
2. Past One O’Clock
3. The Wrong Flower
4. 4a.m. Wonder Room
5. Utter Alien Thought
6. It Isn’t Me
7. (Crix)

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After working in the improvising musical ensembles Meathawk and the Meathawks, Norwegian Wound, and the Concord Ballet Orchestra Players, no one was quite sure what to expect of a solo project from Jeff Breeze. Instead of exploring the freedom of being alone, Most Bitter fuses poetry and loops to create engaging song forms that exist in their own world. Whether adapting the last lyrics of Vladimir Mayakovsky, new lines from Holly Anderson, or his own words, the results are an engaging and sincere reevaluation of classic song forms.

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#001: Reports - “Mosquito Nets”

Songs:
1. Sassy Glasses
2. Yr Honor
3. Radio
4. Sewn To Your Mind
5. Outside
6. Move & Glow (pt 1)
7. Move & Glow (pt 2)
8. Showers
9. Exit Plan
10. Quarters
11. Mosquito Nets

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Reports website, and Reports on Myspace.

Mosquito Nets was mostly recorded in one day in May of 2006. It was then taken apart and slowly reassembled by Farhad and Martin over the course of the next 6 months. The tape echo came out, the reverb tank poked its head in, all sorts of toys joined in the piece by piece reworking of the initial live demos. What began as a quick day to lay out some ideas turned into leisurely tinkering until everything was just so.

Both Dream Syndicates come to mind as possible founts of inspiration for this record, but in the end, picking out soundalikes seems futile. This is a pop record, first and foremost, and one that draws from its influences rather than just quoting them.

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