Have you ever thought to yourself, “Gee, I wish I could just buy one HUGE, amazing, catch-all album of previously unreleased music by my favorite artists that I can happily listen to for the rest of my life!”
Have you ALSO ever thought to yourself, “Gee, I wish I could help raise funds for such worthwhile institutions as Black Lives Matter (an organization dedicated to the “affirmation & embrace of the resistance & resilience of Black people”), St. James Infirmary (a San Francisco organization offering “free, confidential, nonjudgmental medical and social services for sex workers of all genders & sexual orientations”), AND Ghost Ship Immediate Fire Relief (benefitting the victims of Oakland’s Ghost Ship fire)…all at the same time!”
Welp, then have I and the good people over at Ratskin Records got some GOOD NEWS FOR YOU, my friend: The SF Bay-area label has recently announced a preposterously enormous, 12-hour, “ten CD box set” labor of love called Rogue Pulse / Gravity Collapse for the exact purpose of raising funds for each of these three organizations.
The comp features no fewer than 184 tracks of “unreleased, exclusive material created specifically for this project” from (*inhales*): XIU XIU, CLIPPING., DJ SPOOKY, ROBERT TURMAN, DREW MCDOWALL, WOLF EYES, MATMOS, WOBBLY, DANIEL MENCHE, PANICSVILLE, AMPS FOR CHRIST, NEGATIVLAND, SUCKDOG, BURMESE, JOHN DUNCAN, MOOR MOTHER, MALKIDS, CIARRA BLACK, MENTAL JEWELRY, JOHN BENDER, AARON DILLOWAY, FUTURE BLONDES, NAMES, HOQ I QUIT CRACK , DREAMCRUSHER, SKIN GRAFT, G.X. JUPITTER LARSEN…and many…many…MANY more!
In addition to benefiting these worthy causes, and to receiving the gift of, ya know, ALL THE MUSIC YOU’LL EVER NEED FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, the label also assures us that “music videos” will also be released “for every single track over the next eighteen months,” including the premieres of the first six of them “when the compilation is released.”
Oh yeah; speaking of which, it’ll be released on August 25 (in both physical and digital formats). But (DUH) the thing is selling out quickly, so you’d better head here and/or here to have a look at the (insane) complete tracklisting and pre-order yours before it’s too late.
Actually, before you place your order, I suppose you might wanna check out the compilation’s poster and trailer video (yeah, when an project/album is this big, it gets its own posters and trailer videos) and stream a few of its exclusive tracks — Moor Mother’s “CTM Five,” Aaron Dilloway’s “Birgu Ropes,” and Burmese’s “The Future of Suffering.” But you’d better make it fast! This thing is going, going…
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ROGUE PULSE / GRAVITY COLLAPSE Benefit Compilation by Ratskin
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More about: Aaron Dilloway, Burmese, Ciarra, clipping., Daniel Menche, DJ Spooky, Future Blondes, Matmos, Negativland, Sun Araw, Wolf Eyes, Xiu Xiu
