Mystified appeears on the new Timetheory Netlabel Compilation, “We Are Timetheory”, together with several outstanding artists. The theme is time on this one, and the compilation is free for downloading:
http://www.archive.org/details/tmth001
Drones with hope! A 56-minute overseas drone collaboration between Metek and mystified:
“Post Void Drones”, available now through Treetrunk Records:
http://www.archive.org/details/Post_Void_Drones
Recommended.
Thomas is writing this mainly to put people at ease. There is nothing wrong, mind you, with art that is provocative– or with artists who are. However, Thomas has noticed trends in the noise, drone, and dark ambient communities espousing militant, anti-Semitic, or other borderline beliefs.
To those artists who support Nazism, fascism, or other extreme or racist systems of thought– please leave mystified out of such activities. Thomas is not telling you what to think– he is, instead, pre-empting himself from artistic projects involving potentially harmful and ignorant beliefs.
Thomas is not going to go into a complete summary of his own beliefs, though he places himself in a relatively moderate spectrum, and hopes that people in the music community, both fans and artists, can generally get along, both with himself and with one another.
Read Part 1 of Dave X’s radical set of mystified reviews at his excellent blog, “Startlking Moniker”:
http://startlingmoniker.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/mystifiedpart1/
You might want to bookmark Dave X’s blog. Not only are there more mystified reviews on the way, it is generally fun to read and informative, especially for fans of radio art and experimental music.
Hi all!
A new track is up for streaming– a nice radio construction called “Bell Cloud”.
Very pretty.
Feel free to drop by and have a listen:
A cool review of the Roil Noise Records ( www.roilnoise.com ) release, Mystified Versus Rabbit Girls, is up at Wonderful Wooden Reasons webzine. Check out this and other cool reviews:
Thomas has been getting good feedback on this release, so he wanted to re-post:
Mystified - Planete Interdite - A tribute to Forbidden Planet– 5″ CDr, $6.00 includes postage
23 intentionally short tracks loosely based on the 23 original ones from the movie soundtrack. Current bedroom studio technology applied to 1950’s science fiction wackery– a mesmerizing version of the world-famous work by the Barrons.
Released on Roil Noise Records:
http://www.roilnoise.com/mystified-forbidden.htm
Some good news for mystified– a well-known German record label is planning to carry a cd by mystified by early March of 2008. The cd will be called “SubDialogue”.
More information here later.
mystified C-60 Cassette, “Uncanny”
From Heavy Nature Tapes
“Ethereal drone, ambience, and field recordings combined to form massive walls of sound. Limited to 25.”
tapes are $6 ppd each US, $7 ppd intl.
paypal to coffeeandlogic@comcast.net
Hello all!
A new song is available for streaming at the mystified page, called “Distant Fires”.
Spooky stuff:
http://www.myspace.com/mystified
Also, there is a short video / slide show featuring an original drone track and photos from mystified’s neighborhood just before a rain shower. It is called “More Neighborhood”, and is here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mystified13
Thank you!
