Antiquated Future

“Blindfolder is the moniker of Kieran Harrison-Buhlinger. He comes to us from the Pacific Northwest. His music however comes from everywhere all at once. Artifact Effect is an inspired collection of junk sound sculptures. Using sounds gathered from over five years worth of recording this album creates a mood like few other tapes. The mix of real instrumentation, field recordings, and basic electronic improvisational manipulation is quite engaging. This is a good example of the kind of music cassettes were meant to carry. Weird sure, but creative. The packaging has lots of color, a veluum layover, an insert, and hand-typed labels. Overall great effort!” -Jeff Daily, Cassette Tape Gods

Now all orders come with these little letterpressed cards and stickers. Just did them last night at the IPRC. I think they’re kinda cute.

Also revamped our Soundcloud page.

And then there’s some really exciting releases in the works. Taking it slow, but there’s some good stuff to come.

Land of the Low People is the new album from Corespondents. We didn’t release it, but it is the main project of Kieran from Antiquated Future’s very own Blindfolder, and we are spreading the good word. It is glorious.

The Upside Drown tour starts today and we ‘re releasing a new single from their album, Mood Music, in celebration.

“Go” (in my mind) is pure pop bliss. It’s a song I have played over and over and never get tired of.

There’s also talk of a brand new Upside Drown cassingle (or short EP) when they get back from tour, so…we shall see.

Our dear Upside Drown are hitting the road with Stephen Steinbrink (of French Quarter) next week! They’re not to be missed. Here’s some tour dates:

January 24th, 2013 | Oakland, CA
204 Ridgeway
w/ Ohioan, Cass McCombs
9PM - $5 - House Show

January 26th, 2013 | San Francisco, CA
The Pink House, 195 Flournoy St.
w/ Little Teeth
NOTE: Show starts promtly at 7PM and will end promptly at 10PM. Show up on time!

January 27th, 2013 | Santa Cruz, CA
Food not Lawns House, 1145 Laurel St.
8PM - $5 - All Ages 

January 28th, 2013 | Long Beach, CA
HOUSE.
w/ Emperor X, Rainman

January 29th, 2013 | Los Angeles, CA
The Smell, 247 S. Main St, 
w/ Bouquet, TONY
9PM - $5 - All Ages

January 30th, 2013 | Claremont, CA
Claremont College (more info soon)

January 31st, 2013 | Irvine, CA
University of California Irvine
via Acrobatics Everyday

February 1st, 2013 | La Jolla, CA
Che Cafe, 9500 Gilman Dr
8PM - $7 - All Ages

February 2nd | Pomona, CA
dA Center for the Arts, 252 S. Main St #D
8PM - $5 - All Ages

Feb 3rd, 2013 | Tucson, AZ
Topaz, 657 S. St Marys Rd. Unit C1A
8PM - $5 - All Ages

Feb 4th, 2013 | Phoenix, AZ
Trunk Space, 1506 NW Grand Ave
w/ Dogbreth, James Fella

Feb 5th, 2013 | Albuquerque, NM
Gold House, 1817 Gold SE

Recorded deep in the woods of Northern California, “Lassen” is a 22 minute soundscape of tape collage and ambient noise. Music for cassette tapes, guitar, bass, pedals, and voice. Released today on Antiquated Future.

The fine folks at Cassette Tape Gods did a fun review of Upside Drown’s Mood Music. Upside Drown (pictured above in Toulouse, France) are back from their tour in Europe. Their “Sheltering Sky” was also the KSPC Song-of-the-Day recently. Songs from the Blindfolder album have been getting posted on these blogs and sounds like more to come soon.
We’re also almost done mixing the Tapestry album. It’s a remastered live performance and should be released in the next month or so as a limited edition 3” CD.

A short introduction to Antiquated Future…

Reclusive geniuses, organic computer obsessions, ambient poetics, lo fidelity folk songs, metaphysical retro pop, electronic orchestrations, minimalist compositions, field recordings, sound collage, and other currently unknown sounds that the future past holds.