nyctaper Recordings

[photo by nyctaper]

On the week that Bar None Records reissued both Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth, the Feelies played a weekend of shows in the New York area. On Friday, they played Crazy Rhythms from start to finish at All Tomorrow’s Parties (acidjack’s recording is here). Saturday’s show was a performance at the beautiful Bearsville Theatre in Woodstock. Last night, the celebratory weekend was completed with an absolutely monumental Feelies show at Southpaw. The band performed two sets that consisted of over two hours of music, but the most amazing aspect of the show was the encore set — the band returned on five separate occasions to perform a total of ten encores. Included in the show were the usual plethora of covers — the raging second set opener of Neil Young’s “Barstool Blues” and the Beatles “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide” (from Crazy Rhythms) among them — but there were also a few surprises including a teacher-mimics-student version of R.E.M.’s “Carnival of Sorts”.

The band was again well-served by the presence of long time sound pro Andy Peters, who navigated through a limited sound system to provide outstanding listening quality. We set up the four mics at the front of the railing above the floor which provided a direct line to the stacks. The resulting sound quality of this recording is quite excellent. Enjoy!

Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

The Feelies
2009-09-13
Southpaw
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Audience Recording
Recorded from Front and Center at Railing
20 Feet from the Stage

Neumann KM-150s + DPA 4021’s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2009-09-14

Setlist:
Set 1:
[Total Time 32:54]
01 When Company Comes
02 Egyptian Reggae (Jonathan Richman)
03 [new song]
04 The Undertow
05 Sunday Morning (Velvet Underground)
06 Invitation
07 Nobody Knows
08 The High Road
09 On The Roof
10 Let’s Go

Set 2:
[Total Time 1:27:47]
01 Barstool Blues (Neil Young)
02 Deep Fascination
03 Higher Ground
04 The Final Word
05 Slipping (Into Something)
06 Time is Right
07 Away
08 Original Love
09 Too Far Gone
10 Raised Eyebrows
11 Crazy Rhythms
12 [encore break]
13 Doin’ It Again
14 Carnival of Sorts (R.E.M.)
15 [second encore break]
16 Moscow Nights
17 I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms (Modern Lovers)
18 [third encore break]
19 Take It As It Comes (Doors)
20 Paint it Black (Rolling Stones)
21 [fourth encore break]
22 Fa Ce-La
23 Everybody’s Got Something To Hide (Except For Me And My Monkey) (Beatles)
24 [fifth encore break]
25 Outdoor Miner (Wire)
26 She Said She Said (Beatles)

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT The Feelies, visit their MySpace page, and purchase the new reissues of Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth directly from the Bar None website [HERE].

[photo courtesy of John Kendelhardt]

Acidjack reports:
“This show, commemorating the one-year anniversary of Le Poisson Rouge, showcased a significant portion of the membership of the newly resurgent Elephant 6 collective. The opener, Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t, features former Olivia Tremor Control keyboardist Pete Erchick and other members of Circulatory System, and even managed to sneak in an old OTC cover. The second opener, Circulatory System guitarist Nesey Gallons, performed a haunting solo set. Circulatory System, OTC founder Will Cullen Hart’s latest band, has itself risen from the ashes after Hart has battled multiple sclerosis over the past few years. Circulatory System refines the more experimental Olivia Tremor Control aesthetic, with tighter songs still heavily informed by the psychedelia and found sounds that permeated OTC’s records. This set showed off some new songs from Circulatory’s forthcoming album, Signal Morning as well as classics from their self-titled 2001 debut, including the rousing closer “Yesterday’s World.”

Since all three acts are intimately related, we are offering the complete sets of all three bands as a single download. Enjoy!”

Download and stream the complete show [HERE].

https://archive.org/details/circsys2009-09-09.acidjack

Circulatory System and Friends
2009-09-09
Le Poisson Rouge
New York, NY USA

An ACIDJACK master recording

Equipment: DPA 4061 (Coresound HEB)>R-09HR (24/48)
Position: Center, mics mounted A-B with 1.5′ split on center pole, 10′ up
Mastering: WAV>Audacity (downsample to 16bit/44.1kHz, amplify each channel, tracking)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Recorded and produced by acidjack. Hosted at nyctaper.com

Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t
11 Tracks (setlist help needed)

Nesey Gallons
06 Tracks (setlist help needed)

Circulatory System
01 Lovely Universe
02 Round Again
03 Cloud Replace
04 Overjoyed
05 Signal Morning
06 Frozen Lake
07 I You We
08 Woodpecker
09 A Peek
10 The Pillow
11 Outside Blasts
12 This Morning
13 Particle Parades
14 [encore break]
15 Yesterday’s World

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Circulatory System and the Elephant 6 Collective, visit their MySpace page, and purchase all the official releases directly from the Elephant 6 Records site [HERE].

Last Friday night at Joe’s Pub was a coming out party of sorts for Emanuel and The Fear. The show was sold out to capacity (some were turned away at the door), there were some rock luminaries in attendance (David Byrne and members of TV On The Radio), and the band absolutely charmed the crowd with an outstanding hour long set. Emanuel and The Fear released an acclaimed debut EP this year, but we fully expect that the full-length album to be released in the coming months will propel this band to greater heights. Several of those new songs are featured on this recording. The Fear is a ten-piece “rock orchestra” of tremendous talent and musical instincts and they compliment Emanuel’s voice, guitar, piano, and stage presence to perfection.

We recorded this set from upstairs in the soundboard area, with two microphones attached to the railing and a 2-channel feed from the soundboard. The large number of instrument and voice microphones on the stage required that my board signal be split and the result is that the various sources are split between right and left channels. We suggest that listeners play this recording on speakers as its somewhat distracting to listen to this separation on headphones. With that caveat, enjoy!

Download and stream the complete show [HERE].

https://archive.org/details/EmanuelFear2009-09-04.nyctaper

Emanuel and the Fear
2009-09-04
Joe’s Pub
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2009-09-07

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:02:59]
01 [introduction]
02 Guatemala
03 The Rain Becomes the Clouds
04 Dear Friend
05 [banter]
06 Free Life
07 [“Greek song” interlude]
08 Whatever You Do
09 Comfortable Prison
10 Simple Eyes
11 Song For a Girl
12 Balcony
13 [band introductions]
14 Want to Be
15 [encore break]
16 Jimme’s Song

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Emanuel and The Fear, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their debut EP from Paper Garden Records [HERE].

[photo courtesy of Impose Magazine – many more here]

Its hard to believe that its been almost seven months since we last saw These Are Powers — in February at an art gallery for their CD release show. On Saturday night, the scene was a world away. In a venue that could be best described as coming right out of the rumble scene in West Side Story, These Are Powers played underneath the old Highline railroad, surrounded by chain link fences, graffiti, and the smell of car oil and gasoline. While fortunately no one was knifed, the crowd did move to the stabbing beats propelled by the many gadgets manipulated by tech wizard Bill Salas perfectly syncopated with the thunder bass of Bill Noecker. In the months since we last saw TAP, Anna Barie has become even more animated on stage. Saturday’s show saw Anna hurling large quantities of sugar delights into the crowd during “Candy”, and performing virtually the entire “World Class Peoples” while being held aloft vertically by the crowd.

We recorded this set with microphones set up directly in front of the soundboard/video projection area, about 30 feet from the stage. We received a mono soundboard feed (which begins 5 minutes into the recording) which was mixed with the room mics in post production. The sound quality is quite excellent and represents our best audio capture of this amazing band. Enjoy!

Download and stream the complete show [HERE].

https://archive.org/details/TheseArePowers2009-09-05.nyctaper

These Are Powers
2009-09-05
Under The Highline
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2009-09-10

Setlist:
[Total Time 44:31]
01 [introduction]
02 Double Double Yolk
03 Easy Answer
04 Adam’s Turtle
05 Untitled New Song
06 Gutter
07 Life Of Birds
08 Candy
09 World Class Peoples*
10 [encore break]
11 [Mash-Up]*
*with Ryan Sawyer on percussion

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT These Are Powers, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their official releases including their latest CD All Aboard Future from the Dead Oceans site [HERE].

[photo courtesy of Maryanne Ventrice and Prefix Mag – more here]

If there were any irrational ideas that Blood Warrior was merely a vanity project for O’Death’s Greg Jamie, those fears were dispelled within the first minute of Blood Warrior first ever NYC performance at the After The Jump Fest last Sunday at Littlefield. Nevermind that Greg is a modest and nice guy probably incapable of such vanity, but Blood Warrior was conceived equally between Greg and the multi-talented Joey Weiss, with significant contributions from Kristin Kellas. Like O’Death, the music of Blood Warrior is faithful to folk and bluegrass, but unlike O’Death’s dark Appalachian influence, Blood Warrior could be better described as melancholy prairie folk. The harmonies were also quite outstanding — as Jamie’s shakey tenor is complimented well by Kellas’ beautiful soprano and Weiss’s rich baritone and supplemented by Weiss’s melodic guitar lines. Blood Warrior will release their first 7″ (“Darling Eyes” featured as track 06 on this recording) on Ernest Jenning Records in October. Blood Warrior will next perform at the Ernest Jenning CMJ showcase on October 21 at Knitting Factory Brooklyn, and then again on October 25 at Glasslands.

We recorded this set with the Neumann microphones placed at dead center, approximately 30 feet from the stage and combined the room mics with a stereo feed from the soundboard. This is a professional quality recording. Enjoy!

Download and stream the complete show [HERE].

https://archive.org/details/BloodWarrior2009-08-30.nyctaper

Blood Warrior
2009-08-30
After The Jump Festival
Littlefield
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2009-09-06

Setlist:
[Total Time 38:53]
01 Hummingbird
02 Blood Letting
03 Winters Day
04 King Day
05 Untitled New Song
06 Darling Eyes
07 Choir
08 Snake Seer

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Blood Warrior, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their releases when they become available from the Ernest Jenning Record Co site [HERE].

Acidjack reports:
“This Kentucky band rolled into New York City with swagger, first selling out the Mercury Lounge on Friday night, and then following that up with an epic show at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The band kicked off the night with an acoustic set, preceded by the folk duo Vandaveer. After a break, Brooklyn standouts Motel Motel played an opening set, followed by These United States and a blistering electric set played to a smaller but very excited crowd. The band played classics from both their current albums as well as new songs from their forthcoming album, Everything Touches Everything. Only one song is repeated out of the two sets. Thanks to These United States, their management, and Union Hall for permitting us to record this fine performance from an optimum spot in the venue.”

This recording was captured from the prime location in this venue and the sound quality is outstanding.

Download and stream the complete show [HERE].

https://archive.org/details/tus2009-08-28.acidjack

These United States
2009-08-28
Union Hall
Brooklyn, NY USA

An ACIDJACK master recording

Equipment: DPA 4061 (Coresound HEB)>R-09HR
Placement: Mounted on ceiling pipe, center, 3′ split
Processing: raw WAV>Audacity (tracking, amplify each channel, set fades, downsample to 44.1kHz/16bit)

Set One (acoustic)
17 Tracks (setlist help needed)
Set Two (electric)
15 Tracks (setlist help needed)

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT These United States, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their official releases from the buy.it link at their site [HERE].

[photo by zenametalz]

The Swedish psychedelic rock band Dungen are currently wrapping up the last few dates of an extensive U.S. tour. Two weeks ago, they performed at Bell House and acidjack was there to capture it. As this show took place while I was on vacation, I will refer our readers to the excellent review of this show by the “Look At Me, I Made a Blog” music blog [here].

Acidjack recorded this set next to the soundboard with his new AKG microphones and the sound is quite excellent. Enjoy!

Download and stream the complete show [HERE].

https://archive.org/details/Dungen2009-08-14.acidjack

Dungen
2009-08-14
The Bell House
Brooklyn, NY USA

An ACIDJACK master recording

Recorded and produced by acidjack
Equipment: AKG ck91 cardiod capsules (Busman active mod)>custom battery box>R-09HR (24bit/48kHz)
Location: Mics mounted DIN on custom kwon bar on pole clamped to left corner of SBD cage, 10ft total height
Processing: WAV>Audacity (smooth peaks, tracking, downsample to 16bit/44.1kHz, amplify each channel to -0.1dB)>FLAC ( level 8 )

22 Tracks
(setlist help needed)

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Dungen, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their official releases from the Shop at their site [HERE].

[photo courtesy of franklin64]

Although we were not previously familiar with the music of Danish band Mew prior to their set opening for NIN at Terminal 5 on Wednesday, like much of the crowd by the end of the epic “Comforting Sounds” we were duly impressed with the band’s excellent mix of prog, 80s synth and Euro-style pop. The musical proficiency was obvious and the song structures were imaginative. Mew took advantage of the crowd’s unfamiliarity with the material to perform five consecutive songs from their brand new release No More Stories, which is said to contain a more pop focus than their previous releases.

The set was recorded from the identical location as the NIN recording, with the identical equipment from the first half of NIN. The crowd was not nearly as packed for this set, and as a result there is less of “din” during the quiet moments. Enjoy!

Download and stream the complete show [HERE].

https://archive.org/details/Mmew2009-08-26.dpa.acidjacknyctaper

Mew
2009-08-26
Terminal 5
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Audience Recording
Recorded from Directly in Front of Soundboard
Center Floor

DPA 4021s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (level adjustments, set fades, downsample) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2009-08-30

Setlist:
[Total Time 37:37]
01 New Terrain
02 Introducing Palace Players
03 Hawaii
04 Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy
05 Special / Zookeeper’s Boy / Special
06 Comforting Sounds

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Mew, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their official releases from the MewShop at their site [HERE].

[all photos on this page by Dave Pecoraro]

Last night was the final NYC show “ever” for Nine Inch Nails. The last song was an appropriate cover of the Pere Ubu classic “Final Solution” where NIN were also joined by Bauhaus’s Peter Murphy for the second straight night. “Final Solution” contains the lyric “guitars gonna sound like a nuclear destruction” which could accurately describe the sonic wall of sound that NIN produced last night. In what was clearly the best sound quality we have ever heard at Terminal 5, NIN vibrated throughout the cavernous venue with unmatched energy and intensity and ignited the oppressively packed and overheated crowd, who sang along in unison to nearly every number. There seemed to be no posers or yappers at this concert, only the diehards. Throughout the over two and a half hour set, the NIN setlist covered all aspects of their catalog from the very early (“Head Like a Hole”, “Terrible Lie”) to the latest (2008’s “1,000,000”) — all performed with the same level of conviction.

This recording is a true NYCTaper.com collaboration. I began recording from the perfect location with prime equipment, about two-thirds of the way back on the floor directly in front of the soundboard. As the heat and pressure of the crowd overwhelmed me halfway through the set, I had to leave for some air. Acidjack was standing next to me also recording, and his superb capture provides the second half of this recording. A seamless crossfade was applied and we challenge any listener to locate the exact point where the two nearly identical outstanding recordings were patched. Enjoy!

Download and stream the complete show [HERE].

https://archive.org/details/NiN2009-08-26.dpa.acidjack.nyctaper

Nine Inch Nails
2009-08-26
Terminal 5
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Audience Recording
Recorded from Directly in Front of Soundboard
Center Floor (both recordings)

DPA 4021s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) (first half) +
DPA 4061s > Edirol R-09HR (second half)
24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, set fades, downsample, crossfade, EQ to first half) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded by nyctaper and acidjack
Produced by nyctaper
2009-08-26

Setlist:
[Total Time 2:34:37]
01 Pinion/Somewhat Damaged
02 Wish
03 Last
04 Sin
05 March of The Pigs
06 Something I Can Never Have
07 Piggy
08 Metal
09 Terrible Lie
10 Head Down
11 Burn
12 Gave Up
13 La Mer
14 The Frail/The Wretched
15 Non-Entity
16 Gone, Still
17 Lights In The Sky
18 The Downward Spiral
19 1,000,000
20 Survivalism
21 The Good Soldier
22 [banter – band introductions]
23 Dead Souls (Joy Division)
24 Hurt
25 [encore break]
26 Suck
27 Down In It
28 The Hand That Feeds
29 Head Like A Hole
30 [second encore break]
31 Reptile
32 [Peter Murphy introduction – banter]
33 A Strange Kind Of Love/Bela Legosi’s Dead (Peter Murphy solo)
34 Final Solution (Pere Ubu) (with Peter Murphy)

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Nine Inch Nails, visit their website, and purchase their official releases from the NIN Merch page at their site [HERE].