Dylan Khotin-Foote’s assignment was simple: pull together anything under the sun. And like the shining student of orbital electronic that he is, he turned in a report entitled Tears of the World At Large Bottled and Sold at Super Markets, documenting 8 choice items on a trip through atmospheric manufacturing.
Stroll the aisles of its tracklist, on your way to the checkout.
Deeply east of the Californian coast, there’s a sea named Salton, and a city named Slab, home to squatters in orbit, and travelers en route to a painted mountain. This tie dye dome—constructed with adobe and infinity coats of universal love—is the life work of Leonard Knight, a true bordertown astronaut (and one of the most inspiring individuals I’ve ever met):
Jjango Cleefworth Morriconez | Compañeros Dos
Jjango Cleefworth Morriconez | Bordertown Astronaut
Leonard’s mountain graces the cover of The Poquito Pioneer, a bootgazing concept album (which arrived by mail, wrapped in a map) about a man driving through the desert, finding refuge “among the roadside vendors and immigrant folktales on his way to the home of his youth in the Salton Sea.” That trip, along with one other, is available at bandcamp.
“Destroy the fantasy of you and me, someone (k)new.”
Pinning a word on seemingly every note of “Eighty,” our friend Will renders a dozen ways to say ‘I’m over it’, and charges them into cathartic oblivion. It’s brash, hopeless, and dizzying; it’s a Weed anthem.
The A-side goes up soon.
The particle sirens have sounded again, pulling all minds into spiral quicksand. One last glimpse of blue before the beige takeover…
Full flow approaching, early 2012.