Drag City Music News And CD Contest

from our friends at www.dragcity.com:  

For the tenth email sent to me (rbenson30@wi.rr.com) with the words "WOO" in the subject line, I have CD copy of Woo's reissue 'It's Cosy Inside.' 

Take a look at the details of the release as well as other music news from Drag City!


Woo Reissue

WOO are Mark and Clive Ives, who in the 1980s in England made a pair of addictively appealing yet largely unknown records. Their second, IT’S COSY INSIDE, released in 1989, qualifies as some of the most uniquely organic electronic music ever made.

When WOO first began recording their relaxing and mysterious mood music in the 1970s, they used electronically treated acoustic instruments to create a sort of pop music for another universe. WOO have made music for more than 35 years now, much of it specifically designed for healing and meditation, while somehow entirely sidestepping the creative vortex of modern new age music. WOO aren’t distinctly any one thing, but we’re certain you’ll be hard pressed not to enter into a happy and somewhat mysterious meditative state upon listening to IT’S COSY INSIDE.

The album’s original publisher Independent Project Records put it best: “IT’S COSY INSIDE is as appropriate a title as could be for this collection of playfully unique instrumentals...

“Only Mark and Clive Ives, as WOO, seem to be able to effortlessly combine elements of English Folk Music, Jazz, Electronic Experimentalism, bits of playful easy listening, and now in this latest release, an occasional electronic reggae shuffle. Their music is fun, serious, adventurous, smoky, eerie, pretty, uplifting, a beehive of activity, joyful, and loving. IT’S COSY INSIDE takes you there all in one snug package.”

See the tracklist HERE

Music News from Drag City Records

Mad Music Inc. "Mad Music" LP out 11/6/12

Like something out of a pulp science fiction novel, the record known as Mad Music, Inc. appeared in the Boston area in the late 70s without track titles, credits or contact information. Beautifully packaged, the record exuded a mystery so uncanny it was entirely unclear if the creator(s) even realized how odd the whole thing was. To be clear -- this is not one of those phony discoveries that seem to show up with increasing regularity these days.

Collectors have known about Mad Music for years, but the very few who know the story aren't talking. Play the record, and everything becomes more unclear still....

What is this music, and who is it for? Is it some mutant strain of new age, jazz, a soundtrack? Would it explain anything to know that the jam at the end of side one is called Gospel Disco? Does it help if we disclose that this lushly arranged album features professionals and amateurs working together? Is it a put on? Or was there some greater purpose involved? At this rate, the world may never know. For the fine folks who actually buy records, randomly selected copies come with one-of-a-kind inserts -- authentic 35-year-old documents from the Mad Music archives -- an underwater loudspeaker catalog, a photo from the recording studio, an academic clipping entitled “Cerebral Dominance in Musicians and Nonmusicians.” But even if you buy the entire run and put it all together, this is one mystery you may never solve. We can promise you this -- you’ve never experienced anything like Mad Music, Inc.


additonally we have

Trin Tran - 'Dark Radar'

What is Trin Tran? Like a schizoid game of Pong, exploiting the tempo and the sounds – these ano/digital shards, iced with minimal/savant lyric shreds and crazed to the groove(s), could hail from Munich in ’77 or Cleveland, SF, LA, NYC or London in the late 70s. It could be from some weird dark corner of the early 80s…but fuck, it could be today too! And while today is indeed today, we're talking about Trin Tran, and these sounds were crazily made in the early aughts -- not neither here, nor not there. 'Dark Radar' was recorded in 2002 and 2003, CD-R'd, lost and found on the internet. Trin Tran's sounds have been issued from behind the mask. Other than what the sounds tell you, you're not supposed to know what's going on behind the mask. The first release on GOD? Records, the new Ty Segall imprint, Trin Tran's Dark Radar, out September 4th

order your copy today at dragcity.com