dull knife will be providing free themed mix cd-r's, usually on a monthly basis,
limited to 30 copies available at Sound Exchange.
Always FREE.

the next mix will be the first in a series of a few guest curated mixes. first up will will be a 70's/80's minimal synth mix compiled by the mysterious Blank Dogs.

 

dull knife mix 6: shit-fi

now available to Houstonians at Sound Exchange.  FREE on the front counter. only 25 copies available.

currated by stuart schrader of shit-fi.com, this mix serves as a primer on the wonderful world of shit-fi. what is shit-fi? here is an exceprt from the liners:

This mix serves as a minor introduction to the wonderful world of bad music known as shit-fi. I don’t particularly like to define this term, which I coined, because its parameters are amorphous and historically situated. Nevertheless, shit-fi encompasses music that is rigorously anticommercial, poorly played, even more poorly recorded, and generally out-of-bounds (both in geography and sound). Many of the bands either are not easily pigeonholed into a genre or else through sheer exuberance, ineptitude, crapulence, or political extremity transcend the confines of genre. A lack of traditional chops often means that bands—accidentally or intentionally—end up discovering or defining new genres that were heretofore unimaginable by those on the inside of the music business. Anyway, it would be impossible to sample even a small percentage of the music I characterize as shit-fi (and, beyond that, I love plenty of music that doesn’t fit the term), but here are 15 songs from four decades (sorry, 90s), six continents, and something like 14 subtypes of shit-fi. I’ve focused on noisy recordings, hybrid moments, and long-form melancholia.

 

dull knife mix 5

Available starting April 03 at Sound Exchange.

the new mix is not so new. it's essentially a cd-r copy of the shake>some>action podcast i did several years ago with some minor variations. under the radar 70's hard rock from around the globe. i think it has less impact now that a ton of this material has been reissued since the original mix, but it's still good.

Jason Killingher was generous enough to do the artwork for the mix. You may have seen his work on Acid Mothers Temple releases or Boris posters. he rules. 

i think this is the best looking and sounding mix yet.

 

 

dull knife mix 4: oasis of abysmic hatred

Available starting February 20 at Sound Exchange.

Dull knife mix #4 is a study in modern black metal, co-curated by Eric Springer. It runs the gamit from trad bm, to more mid-tempo riff oriented stuff, to solo/laptop stuff, to industrial bm, to the punk rock influenced, to the avant garde. i think it covers the entire spectrum of this latest wave of bm, or as best it can in 80 minutes.

 

 

 

 

Dull Knife #3: 2007 in review

January's mix is all gone.

In late February, dull knife will bring you a very special mix co-currated by Coach Lindsay Lohan. Get stoked.

 

 

 

 

 

dull knife mix 2: Autumn

Autumn has always been my favorite time of year. The weather is perfect, people start dressing nicer, and sad songs sound even sadder.

This month's mix is 21 songs to serve as the soundtrack to car rides on crisp autumn evenings, or those nights spent at home when nothing feels better than red wine and vicodin.

This mix could have easily just been dubs of "Astral Weeks' or "Chelsea Girls", but that would have been cheating.

ALL GONE

 

 

dull knife mix 1: Ohio

Post-WWII Ohio (and particularly Cleveland) has produced some of the most interesting (or crazy) music in the US due to it being simultaneously being middle-America and an industrial wasteland.

The mix showcases music made from 1957 to the present that is a direct result of the despair resulting from industrial collapse, the craziness that the boredom and malaise of living in Anytown, USA can lead to, or a love/hate relationship with Ohio. Or all of these.

ALL GONE