Premiere: White Rainbow “Demon Sweat” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
White Rainbow, aka Portland’s Adam Forkner, has played his music in a geodesic dome. He’s sat on a floor and made drones on video and we’ve watched it. We’ve made good natured jokes about celestial energies and crystals while listening to his music. We’ve fallen asleep to it and done work with it playing in the background. It is unabashedly New Age, filled with waves of sustained sound and hand drums, and we just can’t get enough. “Demon Sweat” is not from his upcoming album New Clouds (Kranky, Oct. 19th) but it could be: Throw it in between any track and it would fit seamlessly. To be honest, he shouldn’t even bother separating songs into tracks—just record one 50-hour album and sell it as a single, constantly looping mp3. Incidentally, New Clouds will come out on double vinyl, and while that is awesome, we cannot think of a worse torture than having to actually get up to flip this record over.
Download: White Rainbow, “Demon Sweat”
Freeload: The White Rainbow Summer Boogie Breezers Mixtape
- story THE FADER
We don’t usually expect such tightly focused songs with actual drum beats from Portland’s White Rainbow, but there’s a lot of that on this mix. Here’s the rundown from dude himself. We will tell you now that it is much better than he makes it seem and also that we plan on using this mix as a soundtrack to our next killer hacky sack session.
“This is a mixtape of unfinished/weird/fucked/bad/boring/bangin’/terrible-use-of-MIDI-presets/cool-idea-that-goes-on-too-long tracks made between 2007-2008. lots of electronic beats and synths. this is definitely in a more upbeat/summer/pop/rave/hip hop/flange vibe than most of my more ’serious’ musics. but sometimes i gotta get the led out!
i sold it out the trunk as a CDr on tour of california with white fang and rob walmart in summer 2008. made about 20 copies, sold out.”
Download:White Rainbow, Summber Boogie Breezers
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posted on Mar 17, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, experimental, freeload, White Rainbow
Freeload: White Rainbow Live From A Geodesic Dome
- story THE FADER
Apparently the new thing is to stage marathon concerts: Excepter did it, and Fucked Up did it before them. Now the dudes over at Portland’s Audio Dregs jumped in the pool with a 24-hour continuous jam session housed in a geodesic dome and closed out by our favorite bearded drone king White Rainbow. Download the final ten minutes of the event below and after the intense contact high you get from hitting play, you’ll realize you just listened to what would happen if a million chipmunks made dance music, and that it actually sounded pretty good.
Download: White Rainbow Live From A Geodesic Dome (Via Light and Sound)
Video: White Rainbow Live
- story THE FADER
Dudes! If you are having a frantic Wednesday, put this video on loop, zone out to some celestial drones, and check in every couple minutes to see if White Rainbow is still jamming out to a bunch of guitar loops and delay while sitting on the floor. If he is, don’t even worry about it! Just keep relaxing.
Our pal Claire L Evans talked to dude for us awhile back, if you missed the interview check it (and his awesome Grateful Dead t-shirt) out here.
