Altered Zones

Altered Zones is excited to announce the set times for our unofficial CMJ extravaganza at the New Museum tomorrow. Atlas Sound recently jumped on the bill, and there also a few new names on the Nuit Blanche New York-curated roster of visual artists, which will include Alice Cohen, Liz Harris (Grouper), Luke Wyatt, Miko Revereza, Camilla Padgitt-Coles, Stephanie Wuertz, Todd Ledford, Olivia Wyatt, James Thacher, Ethan Vogt, and Brock Monroe of Joshua Light Show.

Altered Zones takes place at the New Museum, located at 235 Bowery in Downtown Manhattan. It starts at 7:30 p.m. and costs $20 for New Museum members and $25 for general admission. Buy tickets here. This event is 21+. Beer will be provided by Brooklyn Brewery.

Theatre:

08:00 pm (downstairs) Dive
09:00 pm (downstairs) Teengirl Fantasy
10:00 pm (downstairs) Light Asylum
11:00 pm  (downstairs) Eric Copeland
12:00 am (downstairs) Trash Talk
1:00 am (downstairs) Atlas Sound

Skyroom:
08:30 pm (upstairs) FORMA
09:30 pm (upstairs) Xeno & Oaklander
10:30 pm (upstairs) Prince Rama
11:30 pm  (upstairs) GRIMES
12:30 am (upstairs) AraabMUZIK

Lobby (DJs):
Awesome Tapes From Africa 8-9
Weird Magic 9-10
Todd Pendu 10-11
Main Attrakionz  11-12
Ayshay 12-1

Update: We are thrilled to announce today that Atlas Sound has joined the lineup of our event this Saturday at New Museum! More information, as well as set times, will be revealed Friday.

This Saturday, October 22nd, Altered Zones is throwing an unofficial CMJ party at the the New Museum. Inspired by the idea of setting some of our favorite artists from the DIY music world in the museum context, we've teamed with our parent site, Pitchfork, to put together a line-up of AraabMuzik, Grimes, Teengirl Fantasy, Trash Talk, Eric Copeland, Prince Rama, Light Asylum, Xeno and Oaklander, FORMA, and Dive, not to mention a killer stable of DJs, including Awesome Tapes From Africa, Weird Magic, Todd Pendu, Main Attrakionz, and Ayshay.

Visuals will be curated by Nuit Blanche New York, will feature Alice Cohen, Grouper's Liz Harris, Luke Wyatt, Miko Revereza, Camilla Padgitt-Coles, and more. The New Museum, our city's only museum devoted exclusively to contemporary art, will be donating a portion of the proceeds to the 2012 New Museum triennial, which is an international exhibition of emerging artists.

Altered Zones takes place at the New Museum, located at 235 Bowery in Downtown Manhattan. It starts at 7:30 p.m. and costs $20 for New Museum members and $25 for general admission. Buy tickets here. This event is 21+. Beer will be provided by Brooklyn Brewery.

MP3: Atlas Sound: "Te Amo"

MP3: araabMUZIK: "Streetz Tonight"

MP3: Trash Talk: "Explode"

MP3: Eric Copeland: "Krankendudel"

MP3: Grimes: "Vanessa"

MP3: Dive: "Sometime"

MP3: Ayshay: "WARN-U"

MP3: Main Attrakionz: "Perfect Skies"

MP3: Grouper: "Alien Observer"

International Tapes DJs Luke Carrell (aka Simian Gibbons), Coco Zoabi, and Mr. Intl himself set Santos on fire last week while DJing at Prince Rama. This Monday, Intl Tapes will be pressing play all night long between performances from John Maus, Gary War, and Holy Shit. In case you haven't heard, Monday's like the new Thursday, so there's no reason not to rage on this night of hypnagogic OGs.

If you haven't seen J Maus(cis) before, you simply must. I haven't seen anyone put more into a performance than this man; the dude goes crazy and practically has a breakdown on stage. Gary War have also be killing it recently too, their Police Water EP on Sacred Bones is top knotch and totally flew under the radar last year. It's the type of album that, years from now, could be looked back on as a cult classic. But don't be surprised if you see something really special from San Francisco's Holy Shit later this year, the Myspace® page alludes to being signed to True Panther (Teengirl Fantasy, Ty Segall, Outer Limits Recordings), Gloriette Records (Nite Jewel, Ariel Pink), and Japanese label Big Love (Salem, Puro Instinct, The Samps). Plus, for all of you fashion nuts out there, Holy Shit has the most amazing t-shirts.

But everyone knows that no party is a party without an afterparty, which will star DJ blog duo Weird Magic, who's kept it goin' all night long with Oneohtrix Point Never, Gatekeeper, and Greatest Hits in the past. It's gonna be intense. --Ric Leichtung, International Tapes

MP3: John Maus: "Believer"

MP3: Gary War: "Sirens"

MP3: Shuggie Otis: "Strawberry Letter 23 (SIMIAN GIBBONS blueberry eyepatch)"

MP3: WEIRD MAGIC: "Fractured Light"

Get your tickets from PopGun Booking, RSVP here

Between this awe-inspiring Mane Mane video by Aaron Katsnelson and that Eleanoora Rosenbloom post from a while back, I'm beginning to think that "skinnyscreen" is the new widescreen. This isn't the first time we've been wowed by Katsnelson's work; he's also made some stunning videos for the likes of Magic Mountain and John Maus, plus some great mixes for AZ as one half of the unstoppable duo known as Weird Magic. "Twinkle Sr" is as bizarre as it is mesmerizing; don't be surprised if you become completely entranced by the kaleidoscopic sea of echoing heads, dancing to the the ebb and flow of Mane Mane's groove. Press full screen and get wet. --Ric Leichtung, International Tapes

MP3: Mane Mane: "Twinkl Sr"

Stream and buy the new Mane2Mane, mastered by this week's zoned in artist Matthewdavid, from Friendship Bracelet's UUUTAPES, also available for digital download on Boomkat. Be sure to check out other Mane Mane videos by Miki Revereza and Matt Weiner of Peace Age and Featureless Ghost

Certainly streaming through the same screensaver Pipes as Blondes or Teengirl Fantasy, Magick Mountain's foray into his own idyllic clubland is lit with fragments of anonymous dance anthems, ultra-low bass, and shuffled hi-hats, looping into a hypnotic colour downpour that blurs right into the 3-D visuals by Weird Magic's Aaron Katsnelson. (Rose Quartz co-premiere)

Look for future Magick Mountain releases on The Pop Manifesto

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Without further ado, the October installment of our monthly mix series featuring songs that have been spinning in our head of late. This one, like September's, is a mammoth server-crasher, lovingly parsed together by the good folks over at Weird Magic, who are pretty unequivocal as to its overarching theme: "altered."

ALTERED ZONES | OCTOBER 2010 | MIX SERIES V.3 by alteredzones

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At the end of August, we premiered our new Altered Zones mix series. The first volume stitched together some of our favorite tracks from the last full month of summer, and we were beyond stoked that you guys gave it enough props for it to ride high at the top of our 'Most Liked' category for the full 7-day stretch.

We did that first mix in like four hours at the mercy of Garageband, so we thought we'd step it up a bit for volume two, and put the project in the capable hands of Brooklyn's finest hi-technitions: the super-rad artist/blog duo Weird Magic. Suffice to say, if you dug the last one, September's puts in overtime. Check the tracklist and download that shit right here:

MP3: Altered Zones | September 2010 | Mix Series v2

01 Mark McGuire (of Emeralds): Brain Storm (For Erin)
02 Holy Other: YR LOVE
03 Coma Cinema: Her Sinking Sun
04 Tiago: Cloudy [via Teengirl Fantasy guest post]
05 Baby Jazz: Michael Jordan (excerpt)
06 Time Wharp: 1992
07 C V L T S: Flooded Forest
08 Marumari: Birch Beer Forest [via Keep Shelly in Athens guest post]
09 Part Time: If I Lose My Cool I'd Die
10 Algodón Egipcio: El Ingenio Humano
11 Pino Donaggio: Body Double (Lovelock Edit) [via Washed Out guest post]
12 Magick Mountain: Plains
13 Games: Shadows in Bloom
14 Manzanita Y Su Conjunto: Agua
15 Ponchos: This World Is Not My Home