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Freeload: Gavin Russom Mix for 20JFG

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Only a site as stylistically esoteric and linguistically labyrinthine as 20 Jazz Funk Greats would write a long post about astronomers and Goya’s nightmares and weird little bands with crazy songs and then plop a custom mix by an unquestionable badass at the very bottom, but that is exactly what we love about 20JFG and why we listen to everything on it. For a more personal approach to Russom and his Black Meteoric Star project, watch our recent FADER TV episode in which we visited him in his DFA rehearsal space and went to his show at MoMA.

Download: Gavin Russom Mix for 20 Jazz Funk Greats

posted on Jun 23, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags 20JFG, Black Meteoric Star, DFA Records, electronic/dance, freeload, Gavin Russom

Schnipper’s Slept On

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Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Black Meteoric Star’s “Dawn”/”Dreamcatcher” 12-inch. Buy the album it’s from and read Schnipper’s thoughts on it after the jump.

FADER TV: Black Meteoric Star at MoMA

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One of the weirder things that has happened to us was that we met Gavin Russom and he was really nice, polite and normal. We were expecting some bizarre shit, and this was before we saw him perform wearing a red thong and garter belt at MoMA’s Poprally event a few nights later. Now recording as Black Meteoric Star in addition to under his own name, we spoke with Russom the week before his collaboration with Brazilian visual artists assume vivid astro focus. He took us to his rehearsal space at his label DFA to explain his homemade synth wizardry, and then up to the roof to postulate on the upcoming large balloons, lazers, 3-D, creepy/hot dancers and two and a half hours of deep electronics. Black Meteoric Star has three 12-inch singles out in the coming months, with a compilation of edits of the records out this coming Tuesday.

posted on Jun 3, 2009 in MUSIC tags Black Meteoric Star, electronic/dance

Audio: Black Meteoric Star (Finally) + Live in New York City

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Chances are you have not been consistently banging “Black Spring” from Gavin Russom and Delia Gonzalez’s wildly slept on Days of Mars, waiting years for new tracks of the breadth and heft. In F53 last year we talked to Gavin Russom amidst the promise of three 12-inch singles of new solo material recorded as Black Meteoric Star. Those never came for 2009, but on Friday we saw Russom open for The Juan Maclean. Shrouded in scarves and possibly a wig, Russom hunched over a keyboard and some anonymous equipment he’d built himself, tagged in crummy handwriting, “relax and enjoy the ride.” Now, if you weren’t within ten feet of the stage, it would not only have been difficult to read that, but also to see his dancers, two intense women in high heels and loose flowing short cut silver fabric. We definitely saw a boob. Then we bought records! White label 12-inch singles we were promised so many months ago. Check out Russom’s thirty minute set of homegrown acid house on Beats in Space for a taste.

Download: Black Meteoric Star Live on Beats in Space