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This week on Talking to Ghosts, for a very special 100th episode, we have Amulets! We chatted about tape loops, the Goodwill Bins, and incorporating tapes into art installations.
Theme Remixes:
Intro - SOLVE | Transition 1: FIRES | Transition 2: Cryounit | Outro: Monomorte
Thank you everyone for sticking around for 100 episodes, it means a lot to us!
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This week on Talking to Ghosts we talk to each other about going to shows! We chat about our first shows, the craziest shows that we have been to, and what makes a show good for us.
If you are planning to submit a remix of the theme song, this is the last week! Get them in before the 24th of January if you want to be included in the contest.
This week on Talking to Ghosts we talk to Lee Buford, who is one half of The Body. We chatted about playing with bands outside of your normal, designing and screen printing their own shirts, and the difficulty of touring with a choir.
The Body has a new record out in 2017, and 3 new records coming up in 2018 (including a collab with Uniform). You can find all of their music on The Body Bandcamp.
This week we talked to Jason Walton, who you may know from Cascadian black metal legends Agalloch, his upcoming new project Khôrada, or his even old noise project Nothing! We chatted about the beginnings of Agalloch, going from bars to huge festivals, the importance of clean socks, and how Khôrada will be different from his past work.
This week on Talking to Ghosts we have Patricia Wolf who is a solo producer and part of the duo Soft Metals. We chatted about Variform Gallery, Max MSP/Pure Data, and the weird ways that people are affected by sound.
Check out Patricia’s solo work on Soundcloud or Soft Metals on Soundcloud. Be sure to check out her Facebook or Instagram for more of her work and live dates.
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This week on Talking to Ghosts Michael talks to Blanck Mass before his Portland show! We talked about field recording and sample manipulation, touring with the new show, and creating an album that reflects the spaces that you are in.
We also have a great review of the Blanck Mass show from our good friends at I Die: You Die. Definitely check out their podcast: We Have a Technical.
This week we have something a little different. We're re-releasing an older episode that we really enjoyed. Back in December of 2015 (wow, that long ago???) we talked with Steve Gaynor of Fullbright (makers of Gone Home and Tacoma). The recording starts a little after we started talking, so you catch us talking about living with studio mates. We talked about game design, finding inspiration, and bad vegetarian jerky.
This week on Talking to Ghosts we talk to Kelli Anderson about making pop up books, creating a fake dystopian edition of New York Times as a political movement, and looking forward to the time in between projects to catch up on reading!
Kelli Anderson has a book out now called This Book is a Planetarium and you should definitely pick it up at your local bookstore!
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This week on the podcast we have Statiqbloom! We chat with them about what New York was like when they moved there, the weirdest shows they have played, and working on the latest album, Blue Moon Blood.
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This week we chatted with voice actor Sarah Grayson, who you may know from games such as Gone Home and Tacoma! We talked about living all over the world, the SAG-AFTRA strike, finding your character, and how language influenced her interest in voices!
This week we had a sit down with Chris from Soundcontrol PDX. Chris puts on dope shows, and is a part owner of the newly once-again Tonic Lounge in Portland, a venue we've played for years. We chatted about dealing with the name changes of the venue, turning down the guitars, Monday: The Gathering, and the importance of medium sized venues!
This week we talk to Andy Deane of the bands Bella Morte and The Rain Within. We talk to Andy about his horror novels, the inception of Bella Morte, and what ghosts are really like (if they are real at all)!
This week is part 2 of a 2 part series that we did with the amazing folks of I Die You Die at Terminus Festival up in Calgary! We chat with HAEX about amazing guitar tone, Glass Apple Bonzai about Terminus revenge sets, and then just blabber on for half the episode with Sophie about French acts, Wrestling, baseball mascots, and who the hell knows what else.
You can find the first part of this crossover episode on the We Have A Technical Podcast from I Die You Die.
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This week on Talking to Ghosts Michael talks to <PIG> and Julien-K at their show in Portland! Michael chatted with Raymond Watts about living and working in Japan, making music for fashion shows, and how PIG songs have made it into different projects he has worked on. Then! Michael chatted with Julien-k about their recording process, leading a successful fundraising campaign, and being in the restaurant business in LA!
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This weeks recommendations:
From Wes: Bandcamp Daily's article on EBM by Andi Harriman
From Michael: Friends From College (Netflix show), A Ghost Story (Movie), Pharmakon (show)
This week on Talking to Ghosts we have our good buddies Aviator back on the podcast to chat about their new album, Loneliness Leaves The Light On For Me. We chat about tour van jams, the DMX vocal takes that were removed from the new album, and spend a lot of time on wrestling!
This is another long, funny interview so we skipped Poltergeists again. You can go and check out Aviator’s new album instead:
This week we sat down with the guys from Pleasure Curses. We chatted about defensive submixing, a Discover Channel hostage crisis, renegade sound people, and Brendan Fraser.
No Poltergeists this week thanks to a fun long chat, but stick around after the interview to hear about The Liberty Foundation.
This week we sat down with the folks from swirly EBM-esque project Technophobia! We talked about running a non-profit label, putting on shows and club nights, very serious New Order fans, and a lot more!
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This week we sat down with sort of grunge sort of shoegaze Tender Age! We talked about sold out first shows, hot dogs in every city, and the shifting of musical influences.
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music by S. Alexander Reed
This week we chat with Boy Harsher about Chumbawamba's Tubthumper, movie production, and having a studio inside of a church!
Poltergeists for this week:
Michael
Wes
This week we chatted with Andy McMillan, who is a designer and overall doer, about starting a conference, how people should rip off The Manual, shutting down your Nintendo fan site because your girlfriend made you, and of course MBMBAM.
This week's poltergeists didn't really happen. But! We have some recommendations:
Wes: A podcast called "Friends at the Table" (live-play podcast)
Michael:
You can directly download the episode here!