This one goes to infinity!!!

TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!!!

There is light in darkness. There is darkness in light. The eternal ouroboros swallows its tail as the cycle continues, dark light dark light dark light... like the seasons. As December is the darkest month, I gathered some choonz that encompass darkness and light, sometimes within the same song. Cuz without Yin there is no Yang, and vice versa. And this playlist is all over the fucking spectrum so prepare for a wild ride!

Starting with a couple borderline glowstick-waving trance-edelic tracks, Zement and Throw Down Bones bridge the gap between rave (Goa? you either know or don't) and krauty motorik. Then shit gets really weird.

Low have long been known to produce insular claustrophobic lo-fi slowcore, but their last couple albums have culminated in one of the most groundbreaking "rock" albums of all time: "HEY WHAT". Using the studio as an instrument they utterly deconstruct what could be relatively straightforward indie rock pieces, made from nothing but guitar, drums, and incredible, impeccable vocal harmonies, then shattering it through the looking glass with digital noise and manipulation. I haven't heard an album as "important" than this since early Eno. ALBUM OF THE YEAR.

Then an adventure into the ecstatic, with noisemongers in love with sound for sound's sake Mildred Maude, Mythic Sunship who take psych rock to Sun Ra freak jazz proportions, poly-tonalists King Gizzard from New Zealand, and millifluous guitar/drums duo of brothers Tonstartssbandht from Florida, pastoral-gone-ritual frenzy from Upupayama, and desert-fried reverence from Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapor. The Nova Saints top it off with the cathartic sugar high of early ecstasy culture.

Then to counter all that light we get dark with Jesu's cinematic shoegaze, A Place To Bury Strangers latest and earliest (Skywave is Oliver Ackerman's pre-APTBS project), and 10,000 Russos' metronomic drive.

Then we're back the psychedelic catharsis of Menk and Papir, largely improvisational outfits, culminating in a lengthy tension-and-release workout from Hey Colossus.

The following tracks are included in the player below:

Spacerock Continuum Intro - bRambles
Goa - Zement - Rohstoff
No-Fi - Throw Down Bones - Two

More - Low - Hey What
Chemo Brain - Mildred Maude - Sleepover
Going Up - Mythic Sunship - Wildfire

Black Hot Soup - King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
Falloff - Tonstartssbandht - Petunia

Hopsa-Japape - Upupayama - s/t
Desert Brain - Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapour - Desert Brain

Sugar Coated - The Nova Saints - Newfoundland
Alone - Jesu - Terminus

End Of The Night - A Place To Bury Strangers - Hologram

Over And Over - Skywave - Killerrocknroll

Super Inertia - 10,000 Russos - Superinertia
Coh (instrumental) - Menk - II

VI - Papir - V
A Trembling Rose - Hey Colossus - Dances/Curses