Revolver Guide To SXSW 2013 - Saturday March 16th.

BANHART, DEVENDA

Showcase @ Central Presbyterian Church

BARRERACUDAS

Party - Burgermania II @ Hotel Vegas, set time 10:00 PM

BLEEKER, ALEX & THE FREAKS

Party - Ground Control @ Beerland, set time 1:15 PM

COLEMAN, JOHN WESLEY

Party - Burgermania II @ Hotel Vegas, set time 5:00 PM

DOSH

Showcase - Graveface Records @ The Velveeta Room, set time 10:00 PM - 10:40 PM

EVAPORATORS, THE

Showcase @ Headhunters Patio, set time 11:00 PM - 11:40 PM

EX-CULT

Party - Impose & WNYU present The 2013 Austin Imposition @ Yellow Jacket Social Club

HOLY BALM

Showcase - Sounds Australia / Electronic Music Conference @ Maggie Mae's Rooftop, set time 7:00 - 7:40 PM  

KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEYBIRDS

Party - Rubberneck Show @ Tillery Park

Showcase - Requiemme Mgmt Music @ Maggie Mae's Gibson Room, set time 12:00 AM - 12:45 AM  

MISSING MONUMENTS

Party - Burgermania II @ Hotel Vegas, set time 7:30 PM

NOBUNNY

Party - Brixton and Filter present Crashing the Capitol @ Clive Bar, set time 4:00 PM  

Showcase @ Hotel Vegas/Volstead, set time 1:15 AM - 1:45 AM

OBNOX

Showcase - 12XU Records @ Trailer Space Records

OH SEES, THEE

Party - Brixton and Filter present Crashing the Capitol @ Clive Bar, set time 6:00 PM

PALLBEARER

Showcase - Brooklyn Vegan @ North Door

SINKANE

Party - Pop Montreal @ The Liberty, set time 3:45 PM

SPIDER BAGS

Party - Ground Control @ Beerland, set time 2:45 PM

TIMMY'S ORGANISM

Party - Rubberneck Show @ Tillery Park

TV GHOST

Party - Hozac/Castleface Party @ 701 E. 53rd St., set time 4:00 PM

WILSON, RENNY

Party @ Charm School Vintage

And for those animals still around....

SUNDAY MARCH 17TH

TV GHOST

Party- Panche Hangover Party @ Beerland, set time 12:00 AM - 1:00 AM

A Ribwich Or A Podcast?

Pass the mustard, the next Midheaven / Revolver USA podcast is ready for consumption. PoCa #27 features new musical highlights from Woods, Dosh, Wounded Lion, White Fence, Chin Chin, Lodger, Brilliant Colors, Peter Gordon and the Love Of Life Orchestra, Naked On The Vague, Mount Carmel, Cleric, Rossi B and Luca, Rudi Zygadlo, Bloody Panda, K11, Howling Wind, Monarch, Tideland, and Ferocious Few. 36 mins and 6 seconds of mouthwatering tantalizingly delicious goodness. Download or stream at:

REVOLVER POD PAGE

Podcast #26 Is At Your Disposal

Another rolling rulin' raucous Midheaven/Revolver USA podcast is ready for your listening pleasure. Podcast 26 (for 4/13/2010 street date releases) features music by : Dosh, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Harlan T. Bobo, Subhumans, Jucifer, Capsule, Crazy Dreams Band, Hooded Menace, Coffinworm, Vex'd, Internal Tulips, and Starkey. Download and streaming options can be found at the usual destination -
REVOLVER POD PAGE.

Dosh Daytrodder Session & NPR's Second Stage Piece.

Download live versions of songs off The Lost Take and Wolves & Wishes from Dosh's Daytrotter session.

Dosh

A Balancing Act Of A Dentist And Dozens Of Metamorphoses -23 June 2008

Words by Sean Moeller // Illustration by Johnnie Cluney // Sound engineering by Patrick Stolley

Maybe it’s just the lingo and it’s not in me to understand it or to have been around it enough to appreciate the garden varieties of it, the ho-hum building block of the mostly instrumental music that Martin Dosh makes when he’s not maxed out being busy with everything else. When describing his song “First Impossible,” he mentions, “the main drone for this piece is something I have been working on for over three years,” and the word “drone” elevates itself right up out of the explanation. Given the chance to define it, that word would be accompanied by a soft explanation of what it means to lock into a groove. It’s the worker bee, the drone bee syndrome, a sort of monotonous system of similar initiatives that – when combined with other perfectionists in different categories – can create a dangerously spectacular experience.

A drone, meeting a drone of a different stripe, meeting a drone of a different mind makes for a three-flavored explosion of three specialists playing their cards right. Alone, it’s a drag and in combination, these three different repetitive signals, can be as exhilarating as a ride through some white rapids. Martin Dosh, Andrew Bird’s percussionist of choice (because just calling him a drummer would be a gross underestimate of the Minnesotan’s expansive talents) challenges his own efforts when he’s building these dense and daring walls of cacophonous sound and hoping that they’ll fluster people in ways that they’d never imagined they could be. He’s taken his drones and his meaty beats and braided them into a recipe that belies anything that could be categorized as simple electronic music. It could be the live-ness of how he makes and performs all of the songs that he pounded out in his basement. It could be even more to the point that he thinks like a songwriter, not a music-maker. Or at least that’s the venture that’s we’re willing to make. These pieces of music that have taken years of experimentation and dissection, re-application and jiggering, are not plated to the floorboards, but are filled with yeast buds ready to start multiplying when that targeted temperature reading hits. These songs on Wolves and Wishes are full of active ingredients that never interlope, just function precisely with one another, bringing out all of the aromas and accents needed to make the full picture – usually a peaceful torrent of steam that acts like a pulsation.

Watching Dosh work in a live setting is a bit of how it would be if there was one room – with an observation deck – or maybe a stadium full of spectators, where one we could witness a combination of things happen. These acts wouldn’t be exclusive of one another, but all happening at the same time, performed by the same person simultaneously. We’re talking about a dentist intensively drilling and filling a cavity – staying within that little off-white kernel of corn and straying from the nerve endings, a half a fleet of Monarch butterflies all metamorphosing at the same time, showing the before and after pictures, two drum corps battling off with each other, three or four hot air balloons ascending, and a big cat on the prowl. You – or we, cause this wouldn’t be something to miss – would be seeing all of this happening at once, like a hydra controllably flailing. Dosh pounds the shit out of his Rhoades with his drum sticks, then attends to his pedals, then attends to his kick for some brief flourishes, keeping the state of mind in a constant flux between the cerebral appreciation of the difficulties seen before you and the physical connection to the driving force of feeling as if you were on some sort of high-speed getaway, with Mike Lewis’ getting red and sweaty in the cheeks and giving you a flattering, brassy push with his saxophone blurts. You’d be looking behind your back all the time if the circus in front wasn’t so captivating.

DOSH ON NPR's Second Stage.

Dosh: 'Don't Wait For The Needle To Drop'

NPR.org, July 2, 2008 - Martin Dosh is a percussionist from Minneapolis, Minn., but his solo work is far from simple drum work. With Wolves and Wishes, Dosh's fourth full-length release on the Anticon label, Dosh has composed a series of richly orchestrated, mostly instrumental electronica tracks with a cinematic grandeur. With collaborative help from such well-known artists as Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Andrew Bird (for whom Dosh plays backing drums), the record finds a balance between Dosh's trippy synth, keyboard and drum work, and the album's guitars, violins, clarinets and saxophones. The result is organic, never feeling over-produced or mashed up, as it works a happy, eclectic medium between trip-hop and more grandiose orchestral sound.

The album opens with "Don't Wait for the Needle to Drop," and from the first few notes you might think you're listening to a new Sufjan Stevens record. But Dosh quickly adds a heavy hip-hop beat to disorient any expectations. Instrumental chaos builds in a flurry of keyboards, drums, and synths until a short, sweet violin melody floats out of the mix, only to be chopped up and overcome by all the bells and whistles. Ultimately, a simple repeated keyboard motive prevails and the track slides into a soft ordered decline. The record isn't all trip-happy though. Much of Wolves and Wishes rests between jazz-influenced works like the smooth piano piece "Kit and Pearle" and jam-rock tracks such as the head-bob guitar track "The Magic Stick." Still, the album holds together under Dosh's signature, nervous, percussive jitters.

While each of Dosh's albums includes a few tracks with vocals, he usually sticks to wordless music. "I like the sound of vocals and my voice, but it's just the words there's a disconnect with." For this record, Will Oldham of Bonnie "Prince" Billy offered some vocals, almost as an afterthought to Dosh.

Dosh recently wrapped up a U.S. tour and will be playing a number of festivals with Bird this summer as well as a shorter solo tour. Plans are in place for him to put together material for an EP later this year.

Dosh 7.7 Pitchfork Review

Dosh
Wolves and Wishes
[Anticon; 2008]
Rating: 7.7

Dosh fits many of the backpack rapper stereotypes. He sits on the Anticon roster, a bastion of rule-breaking hip-hop that has no truck with the likes of, say, Cam'ron or Petey Pablo. He comes from Minneapolis, home of the Replacements and Prince, but wanting for nationally known rappers, save the canonized-on-the-quad Atmosphere. Dosh's beats aren't composed of soul samples, drowning in bass, or expressly built to house verses and choruses: they are impressionistic, surging, cut loose of 4/4 constraints. Over the frenzy of drum machines and looped samples, he would take the pensive swirl of his vintage Rhodes and pile it dramatically-- with a flair for surprise-- on top of something else.

But he doesn't rap. His connection to the genre won't be obvious to most listeners. In fact, you might call him electronica's answer to the rising tide, reported in The New York Times Magazine, of one-man operations that sound like bands. But listening to Dosh, as opposed to listening to the equally skilled Four Tet, you don't have the sense of technology rudely intruding into the creative process, of the wizard too busy to care whether we can see him behind the curtain. He does care: where Four Tet parades his mastery of vivid, unapologetic collage, Dosh goes for a mastery of illusion.

So like any illusionist, he takes care to start and end with a bang. Only Dosh could imagine, let alone orchestrate, a meeting of Andrew Bird's tender violin and Fog's hyperactive guitar and bass. The play of vibes and keys lends this, the album opener "Don't Wait for the Needle to Drop", a mesmerizing texture, the grooves recalling a funk-tinged, gamelan symphony. "Capture the Flag" falls on the other end of Wolves and Wishes, where it reaches for the same exotic grandeur. Strings appear again, in sampled form, along with the Dosh's fuzzy arpeggios. But now we hear a sax pumping away. And more surprisingly, we hear Dosh's own voice lowered over the maze of noise, cutting a passage of coolness and clarity into the thickets of dense, off-kilter instrumentation.

Between these bursts of color, the album rarely tones it down. Without sounding repetitive, a network of reappearing themes, people, and sounds holds Wolves and Wishes together. Andrew Bird returns to grace "Kit and Pearle", for instance, with more anguished turns on his violin, underneath Dark Dark Dark's sighing vocals. The outer tracks' air of exoticism pours back in on the rhythmically brilliant "Food Cycles" and "Keep Up Appearances". And Dosh's protégé Mike Lewis launches his sax into Jeremy Ylvisaker's vibrating, room-filling sheets of reverb on "Wolves". Not until we reach the final minutes of the tectonic, Sun Ra-repping, Arthur Russell-influenced epic "First Impossible" do we hear an unexpected, unmistakable rap beat. It fits right in. People want to call this IDM. The label tells vendor to file this under "Rock". Bristling with jazzy forms, infused with a global soul, Wolves and Wishes turns hip-hop's philosophy of bricolage into a glitchy, raucous, genre-spanning achievement.

-Roque Strew, June 25, 2008

Amazing Dosh Video.

Get a glimpse of the Dosh creative process.


Dosh - "Capture The Flag" from anticon. on Vimeo.

Upcoming Dosh live shows:
06/06 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
06/08 Denver, CO @ High Dive
06/09 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
06/10 Boise, ID @ Record Exchange (in-store 6:00 PM)
06/11 Seattle, WA @ Nectar Lounge
06/12 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
06/14 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill
06/15 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
06/16 Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room
06/17 Tucson, AZ @ Solar Culture
06/19 Austin, TX @ Emo's
06/20 Dallas, TX @ The Door In Dallas
07/18 Aspen, CO @ Belly Up