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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 12m

Thank you for all the kind words. You help keep me going. I have some gigs coming up:

OCT 17 - CRIMEWAVE DJ set w/ DJ KTTNMTTNS at Portland House of Music

OCT 24 - SLAY III DJ set w/ DJ FOXY at Jewel Box

OCT 30 - SCROTAL TEAR live set at HOGO

NOV 6 - ICHORCLAW live set at Apohadion Theater

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 1d

Today would have been my mother's 76th birthday. There are reminders of her and my father all around the house right now, at every turn. I know in my rational mind that she would want her children to celebrate the good times we had together, but I am suffocating under a leaden blanket of grief.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 3d

Ahh, gotcha!

Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 3d

You'd mentioned that you've boycotted Swans since the 80's, now I know why. That's amazing that you got to collab with Jarboe, always seemed like a nice, genuine soul. And jealous you got to meet Roli, RIP.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 3d

SWANS live at Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA on 10.06.2025. My 4th time seeing them. They played for 2 hrs, traversing sonic ground from delicate folk fragments to raging oceanic swells, dense cinematic soundtracks of desert post-apocalypse to the finale's transcendent psychedelic western dub.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 10d

While in Boston for Sam's bday yesterday, we visited Big Dig Records, where we mined a rich vein of experimental incl. Laibach's Occupied Europe NATO Tour 94-95 VHS+CD box set, Profligate's debut LP, Sigmund Und Sein Freund's first 12", a stack of YGR/SWANS/Gira/Jarboe releases... Good times.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 15d

Visiting Shangri-La Records in-person for the last time was more difficult. I'd been going there for 30 yrs, since high school. Along w/ Chicago's Reckless Records, one of the inspirations for our description labels at CSO. I found & bought 3 Lost Sounds albums incl. my goal, the Memphis is Dead LP.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 16d

My final in-person visit to Goner Records was understandably bittersweet. I remember going there w/ my dad. I recall buying Throbbing Gristle's Heathen Earth on wax & still curse myself for passing on Lydia Lunch's Queen of Siam LP-- I've since picked it up elsewhere, so why does this still stick?

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 18d

GREETINGS PROGRAMS. NIN - TRON ARES 2xLP soundtrack on black & red vinyl. Always irks me to no end to see a release on store shelves before my pre-order arrives. But at least it's here now. END OF LINE.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 18d

Taken on the way to the Shelby County Clerks Office. I have forgotten the meaning of the word inscribed on its base.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 19d

No, I'm not.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 20d

I'm suddenly reminded of the Snuggle House that opened in Wisconsin that was strictly for platonic therapeutic cuddling but closed because everyone assumed it was a front for prostitution. Society was not ready. 🥲

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 20d

On Tuesday, we got into KC fairly late after a traumatic week of cleaning out my parents' house in Memphis. Wednesday morning, we were told that my mom had passed earlier that day. I never got to see her or say goodbye. I have lost one of my biggest supporters, closest confidants, and best friends.

A photo of my mother holding me as a baby

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Color Sound Oblivion @colorsoundoblivion.bsky.social · 22d

Our two stalwart defenders of the realm, idmtheftable and contemnlight, will be working at the shop Friday and Saturday respectively, Noon to 4pm. Thank you for your ongoing patience. A return to our regular schedule is in sight. 🖤

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 24d

Arriving at my parents' house this morning, we discovered someone completely filled the new dumpster we'd ordered for the remainder of our clean out w/ their own garbage after midnight last night. Authorities said they could do nothing, it was a "civil matter". It will cost ~$600 to have it emptied.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 26d

We've directed mourners to donate to my father's fav orgs in the wake of his passing, incl. the Memphis Public Libraries. We donated 300+ tomes from my parents' shelves to MPL's used bookstore, which earns $400k+/yr for the library system. In shopping there, I also netted some fun stuff for CSO. 🖤

MPL used bookstore donations from mom & dad's vast collection 🖤

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Color Sound Oblivion @colorsoundoblivion.bsky.social · 29d

@idmtheftable.bsky.social will be minding the shop Fri, Sat, and Sun this week (09/12-0914) from Noon to 4pm each day. Thank you for your ongoing support!!

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · 29d

"Death created time to grow the things that it would kill."

Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · Sep 11

Words cannot express how obsessed I was w/ these transparent anatomy sheets from my family's medical reference tome when I was a child. When I saw The Cell years later, the scene w/ the horse and the panes of glass, I was that child again, looking at those clear sheets. This book is a core memory.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · Sep 11

Sought out a brief moment of respite in the form of retail therapy. Picked up ART OF THE GRIMOIRE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MAGIC BOOKS AND SPELLS, compiled and edited by Owen Davies.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · Sep 10

They left the can of spray paint behind when they broke into my parents' house & tagged it while looking for valuables. We're obviously dealing with extreme geniuses here, real Italian Job / Ocean's Eleven types. Criminal masterminds of the highest caliber.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · Sep 8

Perhaps indicative of my current mental state, I have done something... egregious. Blasphemous, even. I give you a glimpse of... E. Elias Merhige's 1989 b&w art film BEGOTTEN "remastered"/defiled in the soft, soothing hues of Technicolor™. Forgive me. I am unwell.

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Remy Brecht @remybrecht.bsky.social · Sep 8

Brecht, Remy
...By A Thread
2025

Cicada photos may be cliche in 2025, but stumbling upon this dessicated carapace from Brood XIV? XIX? in the backyard of our AirBnB, hollowed out yet still somehow clinging to its lifeline, was the useful metaphor for life, death, change & rebirth I was seeking.

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Color Sound Oblivion @colorsoundoblivion.bsky.social · Sep 7

Huge thanks to our dear friend Jon (Contemn Light/Commuted) for minding the shop today from Noon to 4pm!! Tomorrow, Sunday, our equally dear friend Skot (id m theft able) will be holding things down from Noon to 4pm! Stop by!! 🖤🖤🖤

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