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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · 10d

OUT NOW: The 2nd release on my Yucca Alta label:

Raven Chacon/Present Music: "Voiceless Mass" double-LP

3-sided, with etched artwork in Side 4. Visually and aurally beautiful. Title track "Voiceless Mass" was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2022.

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Voiceless Mass - Vinyl 2LP Edition, by Raven Chacon + Present Music

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · 24d

Great review of my recent shahi-baaja-duo LP with Turner Williams Jr., "Drueling."

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 1 · Turner Williams Jr. and Derek Monypeny — Drueling (Twenty One Eighty Two) · Turner Williams Jr. Turner Williams Jr. and Derek Monypeny - Free Deliverance Drueling is a first for…

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silvercurrent.bsky.social @silvercurrent.bsky.social · Sep 1

PIONEER TOWN WEDS!! desert show ya'll first gig of the run, we're running on a 100% track record of killer first shows on our runs... FAAFO!!! w/ the desert's own sensational @derekmonypeny.bsky.social opening.

8pm Doors/ 8:30 Derek/ 9 OSM

TICKETS: www.eventim.us/event/orcutt...

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Gerard Cosloy @gerardcosloy.bsky.social · Aug 27

episode 274 of The Radio Hour That Feels Like Two Hours now playing (link below), this week with new stuff from Lukid, Fadensonnen, Anthony Milton, Turner Williams Jr. & Derek Monypeny and much more

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08/27/25 Show 274 : TO SAVE YOUR EARS, I'LL ZAP MYSELF INTO IRRELEVANCY

The other day, an East Village Radio colleague played a new recording by a band so derivative, so feckless, so utterly craven, so thoroughly lacking any musical or lyrical creativity that I knew I ha...

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Aug 17

Funny that Mason Jones would mention Caroliner as a contrast to TFUL that he preferred, since most of the members of TFUL were in Caroliner at that time

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Aug 17

I also saw them twice on the '92 SCG tour

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Aug 16

Announcing the 2nd release on my Yucca Alta label: a deluxe 3-sided double-LP (etched artwork on Side 4) edition of Raven Chacon & Present Music's "Voiceless Mass." Available for pre-order now: www.yuccavalleymaterial.org/shop/yvml-ap...

Raven Chacon & Present Music: Voiceless Mass Double LP — YUCCA VALLEY MATERIAL LAB

Yucca Alta Records is thrilled to present a limited, beautifully packaged three-sided double LP edition of Raven Chacon & Present Music's "Voiceless Mass," originally released on CD by New World R...

www.yuccavalleymaterial.org

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Aug 15

personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/no-tim...

No Timing, by Yea Big and Greg Saunier

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Aug 12

You can hear Jesse talk about it on this new SCG podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/16Rx...

Episode 1 (Pt. 1) Jesse Srogoncik :: Paris 1942 / Destruction / The Alien Free Quintet

The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast :: A Sun City Girls Story · Episode

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Aug 8

Speaking of - 2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com/album/drueling

Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Aug 8

OUT NOW on 2182 Recording Co.: Turner Williams Jr. and Derek Monypeny: "Dreuling."

This is possibly the first duo-shahi-baaja record ever made? It sounds like nothing else out there.

2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com/album/drueling

Drueling, by Turner Williams Jr. and Derek Monypeny

6 track album

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Aug 7

Order it here, and maybe check out some of the other artists on the label: 2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com

2182 Recording Company

2182 Recording Company started in Bisbee, Arizona. It is a project of Robert Anderson and Ryan J Bruce. We share an interest in sounds that engage beyond just listening. These sounds are rooted in ...

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Calimucho Screen Printing

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today is a good day to listen to/buy this:

2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com/album/abacom...

Abacomancy, by Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran

6 track album

2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Jul 30

Fun fact: one of the members of Child Abuse is the son of the guy that wrote the hugely popular "Chicken Soup For The Soul" series of books

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Jul 17

The original version of The Vanishing from 1988 is in this category

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MAGNET Magazine @magnetmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 7

Essential New Music: Derek Monypeny / Kevin Corcoran’s “Abacomancy” (2182 Recording Company, @derekmonypeny.bsky.social). “It takes you someplace that doesn’t exist … Sight and sound are just portals into a realm that transcends concrete perception.” Our review: magnetmagazine.com/2025/07/07/e...

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Jun 30

Jutht make sure that rotisserie chicken's juthsy

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Voerking @voerking.bsky.social · Jun 10

this is excellent! 2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com/album/abacom...

Abacomancy, by Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran

6 track album

2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · Jun 7

Abacomancy, by Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran, out now:
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · May 10

Happy 80th Birthday, Richard Meltzer! The Aesthetics of Rock (and more!) author & music/other-stuff journalist/Blue Öyster Cult lyricist/VOM vocalist at his home in Portland, Oregon. As he is quick to remind one: Meltzer rhymes with seltzer...

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