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Peaceful Protest - Various Artists [RVNG Int’l]

(3 Cassette box set)

features “The arts are the first to go” by Zach Cooper

(6/18/2017)

Buy Cassette here!

**All proceeds go to the LGBTQ Center of Durham, North Carolina www.lgbtqcenterofdurham.org 

Inspired by Moogfest’s invitation to soundtrack a meditation space during their 2017 festival in Durham, North Carolina, RVNG assembled a cast of our favorite musicians to produce palettes of peaceful sound to share there and beyond. 

Distressed by an inequality proliferating from North Carolina’s policy-makers and considering the diverse backgrounds of the composers, RVNG furthers the meditative message beyond Moogfest in the form of 'Peaceful Protest,' providing all proceeds from a limited cassette edition to the LGBTQ Center of Durham. 

'Peaceful Protest' features six long-form compositions and recordings from Baltra, Kate NV, Zach Cooper, You’re Me, C. Lavender and Raica spread across three cassettes housed in a canvas package, lovingly designed by WWFG, screen printed by Keegan Mills Cooke and stitched by Hailey Desjardins.

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kuxxan SUUM - Nike {TF20} by kuxxan SUUM

“Nike / Giving Up” by kuxxan SUUM

Name your price on bandcamp

“Nike” features vocals by misterthumbs

Premier from LAcroixx Blog

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The Sentence by Zach Cooper

The Sentence is SOLD OUT, but still available to buy direct. Visit http://zachcooper.bigcartel.com/product/the-sentence 

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“Us” by Zach Cooper

Video by Champ Ensminger

Dance by Lindsey Jones

From the album, The Sentence. Now available on Styles Upon Styles

Order the Sentence here!

Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/1WMLrMg

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/TheSentenceiTunes

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“Minds” by Zach Cooper

Video by Gregory Herman

From the album, The Sentence, available March 18, 2016 on Styles Upon Styles

Pre-order the Sentence here!

Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/1WMLrMg

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/TheSentenceiTunes

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Last Hit by Gregory Herman, 2015

Written and Directed by Gregory Herman

Original Score by Zach Cooper

Film Website

Stream and Download the Original Score

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Anti-Gravity Tea Ceremony by kuxxan SUUM

Anti-Gravity Tea Ceremony by kuxxan SUUM

Buy Digital and Cassette Tape

Anti-Gravity Tea Ceremony is brought forth by Synek’s Rano Tapes Label. Anti-Gravity Tea Ceremony not once repeats itself in style, subgenre, BPM nor mood. It hails from a small cave dwelling somewhere near the junction of the Skull Disco Realms and the Tresor Manifold.

Features a remix by Knox

Album Art by Khoma

Layout by Rano Tapes

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Split EP by Hannibal Montana

Gut-Wrenching...(kuxxan SUUM remix) by Hannibal Montana

Buy Digital!

Featured on a rare Split EP release by Hannibal Montana and Space Blood on Little L Records. Also features a remix by Raccoon Acid.

***Praise for the Split EP***

Fecking Bahamas , Birthday Cake For Breakfast , Spectral Nights

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<a href="http://stylesuponstyles.bandcamp.com/album/resolution" data-mce-href="http://stylesuponstyles.bandcamp.com/album/resolution">Resolution by kuxxan SUUM</a>

"Resolve, and thou art free!" by kuxxan SUUM

Buy Digital (name your price)

Featured on Resolution, an annual compilation by Styles Upon Styles. Resolution features brand new music from labelmates, Gut Nose, Brendon Moeller, Certain Creatures, Clay Wilson, Kloke and many more!

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Written, produced and performed by Zach Cooper. Features Victor DiMotisis (King Garbage) on Drums. Electronic percussion and synthesizers recorded at St. James Place, NYC.

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***Praise for "Resolve, and thou art free!"***

Charted (#8) on Bandcamp weekly (1/13/15), mix by Truth and Soul and Andrew Jervis.

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The Straight and Narrow from Gregory Herman on Vimeo.

The Straight and Narrow, 2014

Written and Directed by Gregory Herman

Original Score by Zach Cooper

Film Website

Stream and Download the Original Score

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"The Drip" by kuxxan SUUM and MC doodoo

Video by HighDrophonics (Ciggy Pop and Kersey Williams)

https://www.facebook.com/highdrophonics https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWsuGypE28OZYsI7b22w76Q

Music Video for kuxxan SUUM and MC Doodooo 7" single 

"The Drip / Stay Reminded"

(South Fork Sound, 2014)

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<a href="http://southforksound.bandcamp.com/album/sfsv001-the-drip-stay-reminded-the-drip-sclist-remix" data-mce-href="http://southforksound.bandcamp.com/album/sfsv001-the-drip-stay-reminded-the-drip-sclist-remix">SFSV001 - The Drip / Stay Reminded / The Drip (Sclist Remix) by kuxxan SUUM & MC Doodoo</a>

SFSV001: The Drip / Stay Reminded (Originals and Sclist Remix)

by kuxxan SUUM and MC Doodoo

(South Fork Sound, 2014)

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Who got wax? South Fork Sound got wax. To inaugurate South Fork Sound Vinyl, kuxxan SUUM returns, this time with life long friend MC Doodoo, for a pair of dusty club percussion tracks. With A Side "The Drip", the Black Mountain, North Carolina based producer lays a dribbling foley rhythm that flows in and out of hypnotic shuffles. MC Doodoo's vocal finds space to support the beat without featuring above it. On the B Side, "Stay Reminded" serves as a long form club burner, where kuxxan SUUM's particular sense of rhythm provides a cavorting strut for Doodoo's fried out voicing. Label stalwart Sclist is on remix duty. The Leeds based producer provides an overcast take on "The Drip", adding surging subbass while stripping back the vocal to a scarce accent of indiscernible chants. Dark & brooding sound system music as you've come to expect. 

Mastering by Greg Heffernan

Album Art by Ben Ulis

Vinyl Pressed by URP, TN

Praise for SFSV001 via XLR8R

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South Fork Sound Presents:

Currents 005 by kuxxan SUUM and MC Doodoo

(South Fork Sound, 2014)

Acting as a prelude to SFSV001, the first vinyl release for SFS, Currents 005 finds kuxxan SUUM and lyricist MC Doodoo showcasing their talents both as a duo and as individuals. Chock full of original material and remixes, the mix touches on hip hop, techno, house, and left-field music.

SFSV001 will be available on 7" vinyl on November 17th with the digital release following on November 21st.

TRACKLIST 01. Overture 02. kuxxan SUUM - What Are You Doing After This? (Unreleased) 03. MC Doodoo & Hobbess - Back To The Spot On Lexington (Unreleased) 04. kuxxan SUUM & MC Doodoo - The Drip (Forthcoming SFS) 05. kuxxan SUUM & misterthumbs - Nike (Unreleased) 06. Infinite Third - (inside) [kuxxan SUUM's Bumper Mix] (Forthcoming Remember You Are Dreaming) 07. MC Doodoo - Can I Hit That? (Unreleased) 08. MC Doodoo - Drodrodroskunks (Unreleased) 09. Kool Keith - I Don't Believe You (Threshold) 10. &[ ]  - I Found Jadakiss 11. kuxxan SUUM - Glock Burst (Unreleased) 12. kuxxan SUUM - Don't Move An Inch (Unreleased)

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&amp;lt;a href="http://blankstairs.bandcamp.com/album/pop-awareness" data-mce-href="http://blankstairs.bandcamp.com/album/pop-awareness"&amp;gt;Pop Awareness by kuxxan SUUM&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;

BST006: Pop Awareness by kuxxan SUUM

(Blankstairs, 2014)

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BST006 comes from Asheville by way of NYC’s kuxxan SUUM. The piece consists of a dense 12 minute throbbing and leisurely paced dance track that supplies the listener with a healthy dose of kitsch. Cooper has been known to churn out hefty dance-floor tunes that serve the simple purpose of making the listener groove and jive in a way they never previously thought possible. Formerly seeing releases on the fantastic and prolific Brooklyn based Styles Upon Styles imprint, the Long Island based label, South Fork Sound as well as his own venture, End Fence; Pop Awareness stands as his introductory release for Blankstairs.

‘Pop Awareness’ is somewhat of a humorous exposé that serves as a simple experiment in medium, sampling, and context. Zach set out to achieve a reaction (of any kind) from the listener by merely placing samples from a hand full of commonly known pop songs in the midst of a completely different context. These samples, and subsequent placement, provide the listener with an alternative point of reference and challenges them to think critically and intentionally about the ideas and motifs commonly conveyed by contemporary pop music.

Artist Statement:

“I don't usually have much of a verbal explanation for my musical works, but at the risk of sounding like I take myself too seriously, which I don't (just listen, you'll see), the concept that led to this piece was important enough to me that I'd like to make my intentions clear, in words, to the listener/viewer.

The source material for this piece features vocal samples from contemporary American pop music artists. By removing these vocal samples from their original musical context and putting them in a very different musical context, their lyrical character changes, or seems to change. However, nothing has really changed. What is demonstrated by removing the original musical context of these lyrics, is the true resonance of the lyrics' meaning and their effects on mind and spirit. Hearing these lyrics in this way affords us an objective observation of the lyrics outside of the pop music realm.

Once we are alone with the lyrics and not blinded by the excitement of the musical production and the pop spectacle, we can actually hear and feel what is being said to us.  My intention in this piece is to raise awareness of the kinds of subtle, and not-so-subtle, information we acquire through engaging with pop music, and media in general, in America.

The lyrical content of this source material was chosen based upon subject matters that I find rather distasteful with regards to mass consumerism; egotism, chauvinism, extreme materialism, objectification of women, sexual violence and fixation and fear of apocalypse and physical death, among other subjects that cripple mental and physical health as well as personal, domestic and societal responsibilities in Americans.  This is not to say that artists should be avoiding these subjects as inspiration...certainly not! The artist should do whatever the artists wants to do in the creative realm. Furthermore, it is our legal right as Americans to the Freedom of Speech, and this should be exercised to the fullest extent by those who have creative skills.

However, it is the relentless capital-driven media perpetuation of some of these values that is comfortably and rhythmically pummeled into Americans through our various means of consumer-media-ingestion that concerns me.

If you are health-conscious regarding diet or physical activities, etc...why not be health-conscious regarding your information-diet? You are what you eat. What's eating you?”

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Written and produced by Zach Cooper 

Packaging, Design, and Layout by Nathaniel Young 

Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete 

Cut by Angus Tarnawsky 

***Praise for "Pop Awareness" via AdHoc and Mystic Groove

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&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://stylesuponstyles.bandcamp.com/album/daniel-mcclung-in-memoriam" data-mce-href="http://stylesuponstyles.bandcamp.com/album/daniel-mcclung-in-memoriam"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Daniel McClung In Memoriam by Zach Cooper&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

FOAM001: Daniel McClung In Memoriam by Zach Cooper

(Memory Foam/Styles Upon Styles 2014)

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NOTES:

The music herein is dedicated in loving memory to my dear friend, Daniel McClung. After his untimely and tragic passing in January 2014, I was determined to turn my grief into a sonic memorial for an old friend.  The two sides of this tape compile an arrangement of recordings that Dan, myself, and our friends made in high school. Recorded in my parents garage, using some primitive audio software on Dan's old laptop, most of the old recordings are unbearably noisy and at times very funny. Everything you hear on this tape was selected carefully from hours of long-form improvisations that we recorded with bands such as (the) Mel Gibson, Small Metal Buildings and Sex &Trombones.  While combing through all the noise, however, little gems of hushed sweetness glimmered through, whispering, making the hours of screaming and distorted guitars as quiet as tape hiss.  This piece was very difficult for me to complete. While I try to remain emotionally detached from most of my work, this piece seems to pull and poke at me and my memories. I'm very emotionally attached to it, so much so that it becomes difficult for me to listen to. But I hope that you'll be able to listen to and enjoy this music. I can safely say that my heart is in it. Maybe it will bring up some old memories for you too.  Only Love  Z

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Mastered by Submerged

Cover Art by Carmen Cantu and Nico (White Visitation)

Insert photo by Drew Newman

PERSONELL: Daniel McClung: Voice, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Electric Organ, Wood Flute, Clarinet, Whistling, Percussion  Zach Cooper: Arrangement, Production, Voice, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Banjo, Mandolin, Electric Bass, Percussion, Turntable  Iain Purdy: Voice, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Electric Bass, Keyboard, Percussion, Noise  January Hunt: Voice, Keyboard, Percussion, Noise  Andy Manjuck: Voice, Guitar, Keyboard  Cristal Rose Fox: Voice, Alto Saxophone  Scott Davidson: Voice, Alto Saxophone  Veronica Stocker: Voice, Cello  Roo Karpoff: Voice

***Praise for FOAM001 from Juno Plus, Decoder Magazine, The Modern Folk Music of America and The Nooga Tape Deck. FOAM001 also featured by Cassette Store Day 2014.

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"BubbleGoose" by doodoo (produced by kuxxan SUUM)

Video by doodoo and Gregory Zukauskas

August 2014

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King Garbage Mixtape for the 405

Tracklisting:

Lazaro Ros - Oggun (KG EDIT) Thin Line Between Love & Hate - The Persuaders (KG EDIT) King Garbage - Untitled (Vic's Version) Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters - There Goes My Baby (KG EDIT) T++ vs. Jadakiss - WHITE MYTH MASHUP Lotic - Sankofa (kuxxan SUUM Remix) [Unofficial Sci-Fi & Fantasy] Blind Prophet & Hirshi - Sunset (kuxxan SUUM Remix) [Forthcoming South Fork Sound] Michael Lowenstern - Lenny (Stevie Ray Vaughn Cover) [Earspasm] King Garbage - Lost Without A Sound (August Version) King Garbage - History of Bad Men (The Melvins Cover) John Cage - Totem Ancestor (Boris Berman Version) [Naxos] Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers - Let Me Go Home (KG EDIT) Bjork - Submarine [One Little Indian] Caetano Veloso - Gua [Universal] Mr. Shopping - Jimbo Sparticus (Live 'John Wilson' Version) King Garbage - Merry-Go-Round (Vic's Version)

From the 405 (see full article here):

"Zach Cooper is the talented chap behind King Garbage - and also Kuxxan SUUM but we'll get onto that in a bit.

Recently he released the third 12" of a series titled BANGERS & ASH - from the highly inventive NYC-based label Styles Upon Styles, with BANGERS & ASH exploring the dichotomous workings and sounds by esoteric, forward-thinking electronic types. The extra twist is that Cooper released material as both King Garbage and Kuxxan SUUM in the same release, showcasing two wildly different soundscapes; the only link between the work is that they're from the same mind - it's that diverse.

For our 46th Plastic Platform mix the King Garbage side of Brooklyn-based Cooper has produced a superb mix for us, that traverses through various genres of bass, soul and even jazz flirtations. Download it below, it's a magnificent journey to wrap your ears around."