And it looks like this year I will post this in time for the 30th anniversary of 1995. Looks of good stuff this year. There was always good stuff these years. I find it hard to find modern music this good. But I’m an old geezer now.
Continue reading Looking back on the music of 1995Category Archives: music
A thermonuclear take on Oasis
What with the current UK tour, and Oasis in the news, why not a hot take?
“Everybody” knows that Be Here Now is a bad album. Right? I certainly don’t think so. In fact, it’s my second favorite album, behind Definitely Maybe. Yes, it’s loud, messy and overblown, but that’s the great thing about it. I love every song on it. “Magic Pie” took more than a few listens for me to warm up, but even it eventually won me over. I’d say it’s a perfect album it all it’s extravagant, messy, imperfect glory.
That’s considered a hot take.
Continue reading A thermonuclear take on OasisLooking back on the music of 1994
I meant to do this last month, but you know how it goes. Two years since my last post. I keep meaning to post here more, but sometimes I can’t be arsed.
But here are some of my favorite albums of 1994. 30 years ago. Holy shit, where does the time go? I say “some of my favorites” because I’m probably forgetting more than a few. These are in no particular order, not even alphabetically.
Continue reading Looking back on the music of 1994Farewell From The Lighthouse
This is the end, my only friend, the end…
I’ve taken the Abandoned Shorelines project as far as I can, and even further with this release. It is the 14th and last release entitled Farewell From The Lighthouse. It’s kind of a concept album of sorts, but not really. And all-in-all it’s just a hair short of 5 hours. Wow… Three epics tracks to close out the project because I can.
As always, it’s free to download and redistribute so as long as you credit me and leave the tags as is. And don’t be like Russian music pirates and charge people money for fuck’s sake!
We Remix Our Broken Bones
As is typical of my recent work, I have released a remix album of the latest Abandoned Shorelines under the XR1300 moniker. We Remix Our Broken Bones was worked on between April and August of this year and turned out great.
It’s free to download and redistribute, provided you keep the tags as is and credit me.
We Mend Our Broken Bones
Today I released a new ambient album under the Abandoned Shorelines moniker entitled “We Mend Our Broken Bones” I worked off and on between June of 2018 and March of this year in small spurts. I think it turned out really well, though I do kind of miss having a super long epic track to close it out. Maybe next time…
Like all music I release, it’s free to download and you’re free to redistribute it online, provided you leave the tags the same and credit me.
Ketchup
Hoo, more than a year without posting. Are you really surprised?
In the meantime I have released two albums:
Life in a Velvet Sky by Abandoned Shorelines
And its obligatory remix album
Velvet Skies Remix by XR1300
Also, the Harem of Gamines site is pretty much dead and will be mothballed as is. For those who don’t know, tumblr went full puritan and banned “adult” content, which pretty much nuked half of my blog.
I was able to download the blog backup, but in their impotent wisdom, tumblr did not code the html files correctly, and the files point to the images on the tumblr server, not the local copies. Not to mention, there are no index files to speak of. As much as I enjoyed keeping that blog, I have nearly 4,600 posts and I don’t have the time to hand code everything so it looks perfectly like it did back in its glory days.
I put all of the blame on Apple for not allowing apps that access adult content on the Apple Store. If soldering RAM to their iMacs wasn’t bad enough, this is the final straw. When this iMac bites the dust, I will never buy another Apple product again. I am only one man, but if everybody protests Apple’s puritanism, maybe they will reconsider.
Lastly, the CEO from Tumblr looks like a villain straight out of Law & Order SVU. The one where the middle aged man hides in the bushes outside the elementary school boy’s locker room.
Dreams of a Lost City
Well, only 8 days late this time! I know I always forget to update something. Usually I forget to upload the Flac files, or the album artwork. Or I forget to update the Oscuridad75 web site. But I always forget to update this blog! Grrr.
The latest release from Abandoned Shorelines is an ambient remake of the XR1300 album Dream of a Lost City. The new version is called Dreams of a Lost City and it’s much better than the original version.
You can download it, along with the original version, for free.
Tomboy Drone
Last Sunday I released a new drone LP called Tomboy Drone.
You can download it now, along with all of my other music for free!
Hmmm…
Perhaps someday I should do a concept album about the crazy cult I grew up in. It isn’t as exciting as it sounds. Anybody who is familiar with the whole “Independent Fundamentalist Baptist” scene will know all of it by heart. Of course, it seems batshit insane to normal people.
Truth is, most of my passion, anger and bitterness about the whole thing has blown over. Most of that time seems like a barely remembered dream. Or maybe somebody else’s dream.
About once a year my dad will invite me to the yearly Christmas party. I politely decline and the night of the event he’ll say something manipulative like “I missed you at the party tonight,” but that’s about as far as it goes.
Sometimes I’ll run into one of the pastors or teachers of the school/church I was forced to go to. I try to hide, but if they see me I’ll say something. They usually sneer at me like I just put a cat turd in their hand. But at least they don’t scream and rant and rave about how I’m going to Hell anymore.
Two for the price of one!
Ho ho ho, only 13 days late! It’s the perfect number, so I’m not too upset that I forgot this long.
But I released two new releases on the 13th of June. Both reimaginings of my other project’s project.
First off, The Sheltering Sand Remixed by XR1300.
Secondly, A Season With The Brain Police Redux by Abandoned Shorelines.
A new Abandoned Shorelines release is coming soonish. Maybe next month. Maybe August.
Future Drone
Only two days late this time!
I have released a new album by Abandoned Shorelines entitled Future Drone. You may download it now for free, along with everything else I’ve ever produced.
Kaleidoscope Drone
10 days ago (!) I released the 7th Abandoned Shorelines album, called Kaleidoscope Drone.
You can download it for free, along with all the other Abandoned Shorelines releases.
