DING056 - TRY TO STAY COOL: DINGLE 2012 SUMMER COMP

Yo Yo Yo Folks! I'm here again to give you the lowdown on all things Dingle! 

It's been pretty darn hot in the Belleville area, so much so that most yards are a wilted yellow and people are being encouraged to stay inside instead of going outside. I don't even remember the last time it has rained here either, which is a bummer considering I've had a tremendous lack of swimming this summer so far, AND July is almost over, and I've gotta get ready for school and such. Garbababababababababaabababa.

Anywhoo, What we've got today is a awesome compilation of All-Belleville/IL area artists that have made up the latter half of 2012 in spring/summer. It's not all encompassing because really this was a open invitation comp, and those who responded or sent me junk got onto it, so what you see is what you get. In fact, most of this I guess you could say are EXCLUSIVE TRACKS!!!!

Let's cut right into it shall we? I'll give you a track by track recap of this. Starting things off is the Belleville mainstay options R with "Star Peak".  I recorded both songs on this comp by him but the entire time he barely spoke and kept talking about dissociative identity disorder, weird guy. Acreage follows on the second track with "Statistic", whom are a jerky country-tinged three piece who've played more shows in New York than Belleville. Track 3 is by Todd Anderson's I Could Sleep in the Clouds, which any 2007 Dingle vets might remember his release from yonder under The Paper Transit, "Revelations" is a short recollection tune, but just listen to those snare roles! Freeburgians Dem Scientist shove out the headbangin' "Pizza World", which seeps with anger, irritation, and cheese grease. Wrapping up on track five is the epic five minute jammer by Carte De Visite, "The Worst Years of My Life", complete with French Horn breakdown. Jangly jammers Cinema Verite pops up from behind with the bouncy alterna-recording of "Turn into Gold", which they may or may not hate, followed by "Don't Say Nothin" By Dem Scientist, "What is Stolen is Gone Forever" by Acerage, "Manipulated Weapon Systems" by options R, and finally, military base mainstay and expert comic book artist Dusty Fingers ends the entire romp with "Happy Haunting", a fade out myriad of broken carnival rides petering out the last of their energy.

The compilation is free to download right here. If you made it out to recent Cheddr Den shows there were also crappy CD-R compies floating around. Stop by the Dingle Box soon though, for a tape version at a name-yr-price standing.

Anywhoo, that's about it for this here bugger. Give it a listen , listen to the lyrics really hard and make something out of it. Either or, enjoy the rest of the summer as well, coz the last thing you wanna do is mope about it coming to a end! Go out and get a slushie or something!!!!!

DING055 - DUSTY FINGERS, IT'S LATER THAN YOU THINK

(WELL! UHHH sorry about the lack of update-age in the past month. My labtop spontaneously combusted leaving me with little functioning internet availability. But here I am once again at work abusing my powers as a employee to write about the newest release. Oh well.)


DING055 is a release of swirling bile and ghostly tunes coming straight from the sewers of Mascoutah, by the Illinois ghoulmaster himself Dusty Fingers(aka Devin Hill). "It's Later than You Think" is the fourth "official" tape by Dusty Fingers, who utilizes droning tape loops of found footage, audiotapes, children's lullabies, and corrosive tribal toms to punch out nasty swampy ooze of musical bile. Songs like "Ectoplasm Under My Fingernails" literally makes you check your uncleaned and untrimmed claws for any kind of slimy particles. The music can convey some image of a old iron factory still running in a overgrown forest to descending into the soundtrack for a boat wandering through a haze-riddled lake at night, no sense of direction.

early show of dusty fingers at lemp arts center
The tape itself has a small run of 25 with exclusive artwork, so get em while they're hot! You can stream the entire thing on bandcamp right here, plus some of his earlier releases for free as well. Feel free to contact him directly as well for awesome hand-drawn artwork and comic books. Finally, in the forthcoming months keep your eyes peeled for a new full length tape of his, AND a split with Trauma Harness.