Warm Ghost has its debut release, Claws Overhead EP,  coming out on Geographic North on May 11th.  Warm Ghost explores electronic territory which is a departure of sorts for Paul.  There’s a real freshness about it.  I’m sure my listening experience is influenced by speaking to Paul quite a bit about his music since I moved to Brooklyn, but it feels like he made some very conscious decisions about breaking from previous musical routines. It’s a nice sensation. You can hear the musical calculations, but it doesn’t feel contrived.  Just the opposite in fact: genuine and inspired.
His mixes are great as well. They have a little bit of an alien sheen to them. Hard to know whether you’re in the fishbowl looking out or vice-versa.

Warm Ghost is performing at Record Release Party at Zebulon on May 16.  It’ll be cool to see how this music manifest on stage. I’m gonna DJ a little bit too.  Should be a nice night of music.

Things have been so saturated here.  It’s insane.  Every step feels new which is both exciting and debilitating.  It’s a little bit of a cliche, but it’s difficult to step back far enough to get any perspective on what’s going on around me because things seem to be rushing forward at such a rapid rate.   On one hand, I continue to meet a lot of really cool/fascinating people and consequently see a lot of cool/fascinating shit. On the other, I’m really having a pretty difficult time making ends meet financially.   I’d like to figure out a way to turn my music obsessions into some coin.  God, I chose the wrong era to try and do that.  If anybody reading this has some suggestions how to combine music/technology/cultural studies into a living wage in NYC — please fill me in.

I’m putting the finishing touches on a new Bird & Whale mix of my own, so I’ll be posting that soon as well.  Excited about it. I’m hoping to bounce it around to a bunch of bars and get some more DJ gigs out of it.

I’m really eager to go ahead and post these mixes for a variety of reasons so I think I’ll truncate this a little bit.  Hope this finds you well and you enjoy the tunes.

Warm Ghost – A Straight Path Pleasantly Arced

Jon Hyde – Osprey
Chrisma – Rush ‘79
Solid Space – Tenth Planet
Aloa – Weisser Wal
Das Ding – Reassurance Ritual
Autechre – Laughing Quarter
Carl Craig – Landcrusing
Kraftwerk – Endless Endless
Tones On Tail – Lions
2+2=5 – Slow 4
Sudeten Creche – Are Kisses Out Of Fashion?
23 Skidoo – Ethics
Jon Hyde  - 19 Heron
Autechre – Are Y Are We
Partly Cloudy – Nice Time

Warm Ghost – Glasssun

A Mouse Orchestra – A Lump In Your Throat Pt. 2
Arms of Someone New – Left to Right
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – 2nd thought
AFX – I’m Self Employed
Giorgio Moroder – Good Old Germany
One Gang Logic – The Stand
Chris Clark – A Laugh With Hills
Astrobotnia – Hallo
The Magnetic Fields – Crowd Of Drifters
AFX – Home Made Polysynth
Suicide – Dream Baby Dream
Gary Wilson – When You Walk Into My Dreams
Dam Funk – Silver
Arms of Someone New – St. Catherine
Wire – Ahead (Alternate Version)

DJing in support of Pillars & Tongues and my good friends Bear in Heaven tonight at Zebulon.  Full court press picking out the jams.  Should be a good time.  Please come by.  It’s free.

Otherwise, life in Bushwick is good… or at least getting better.  I should mention as a follow up to my last post that I’ve made it to Glendale Bagel a couple of times.  Awesome.  Very legit bagels.  Very comforting.

On a culinary side note, I brought my good friends Laura and Wes, who were in town from DC up to Flushing, Queens last weekend.  I had some of the best noodle soup I’ve ever had in my life.  Oxtail Noodle soup from one of the little food courts on Main street.  Phenomenal.  If none of this music stuff works out, I may just move to Flushing, Queens and focus on eating.

Got a pretty huge facelift for Bird & Whale in the works.  Stay Tuned.  I think you’ll really like it.

Not I Sir – Paul Duncan:

1.  The Zombies – I Must Move
2. Sandy Denny – Wretched Wilbur
3. Mayo Thompson – Dear Betty Baby.mp3
4. Karen Dalton – Something on Your Mind
5. Joe Walsh & Barnstorm – Happy Ways
6. Anonymous – Up To You
7. Sand – She
8. Moby Grape – He
9. Richard & Linda Thompson – The Calvary Cross
10. Joe Walsh – Midnight Visitor
11. Kevin Coyne – House On The Hill
12. Buffy Sainte-Marie – Helpless
13. Captain Beefheart – Kiss Me My Love
14. Judy Henske – Road To Nowhere
15. Sixto Rodriguez – Crucify Your Mind

Not much else to report around these parts. I’m getting my wisdom teeth taken out tomorrow. If I weren’t, I would go catch the Bumps DJ set at Sonotheque w/ John McEntire, Dan Bitney, and John Herndon tomorrow night. It’s part of the Stones Throw Residency there @ Sonotheque. I would give my right nut (figuratively speaking), if MF Doom would come and do a MC set there.

I recently got turned on to www.last.fm . Pretty cool way to get turned on to new music. To take advantage of most of the stuff, you need to create a profile. My profile is /bradshaw_out/ if you would like to see what I’ve been listening to. Maybe we could be friends?!

Paul Duncan – 7308 ft. Mix:

1. Slapp Happy  – The Drum
2. Amon Duul II – Archangels Thunderbird
3. Earth – Tallahassee
4. The Spencer Davis Group – With Their New Face On
5. Arthur Russell – Instrumentals 1974 – Vol. 1 – 3
6. Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings – Group Velocity
7. Exuma – Dambala
8. Stephen Stills – So Begins the Task
9. Ateleia – A Doubtful Shore
10. The Pretty Things – Death Of A Socialite
11. David Crosby – Laughing
12. Mississippi John Hurt – You Are My Sunshine
13. Icy Demons – Icy Demons
14. Man – International Kangaroo
15. Scott Walker – Stay With Me Baby
16. Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
17. Moby Grape – I Am Not Willing
18. David Maranha – Oil Crows
19. Merle Haggard – I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am