MB Mixtape 2011 .06: Pete Swanson, "Remote View"

.06 Pete Swanson, “Remote View” You might remember Pete Swanson from the Yellow Swans, a Portland-based drone-noise project rather more inward-gazing than a lot of stuff that falling under a category (still) heavy on dude-rage. Post-noise? I dunno, but it was always interesting and frequently transcendent. The YS duo’s since parted ways and now Pete Swanson lives in New York going to school for psychiatric nursing and recording under his own name. Swanson put out two records this year and this is off one of those, /Man With Potential/, released on the infinitely good Type Records. In any case, you could listen to this forever, on one hand trying to sort out its deep strata of sounds and ideas and, on the other, letting its strangely comforting night-drive synth backbone work its magic on your neck hairs. It’s almost like something Cliff Martinez might’ve done for the Drive soundtrack — more on that later — but filtered through some apocalyptic industrial cityscape of flame-spewing towers and screeking metal on metal. Remote View by _type Enjoy more selections from Motherboard’s 2011 mixtape right over here.

Image: Type Records