Mixer: Steve Krakow

Mix Title:  High Falling Groove Heavies

Steve Krakow makes mixtapes instead of mix CDs and that is kind of fitting.  What this guy knows about  mix psychedelic music would take unabridged encyclopedia set to contain and really with his self published magazine that is what Steve is determined to accomplish.

Steve Krakow’s Galactic Zoo Dossier magazine is a classic personal journal of psych-rock obsession, and Krakow’s artwork is seriously untamed, combining ‘60s psychedelic poster art and the trash aesthetics of the schlock-horror art seen on the Cramps and Crypt records sleeves. He’s also releasing music through the Galactic Zoo Disk imprint, is the curator of the recent three day Million Tongues festival of psychedelic music that was held in August at the Empty Bottle, and is currently making noise in Plastic Crimewave Sound.

When he makes music, Mr. P.C. rounds up a band of skuzzy sonic thugs, throws ‘Sound’ on his moniker, and amps the distortion. From there on out, it’s a low-ceilinged wind tunnel of scratch and sniff, sound and fury.

Flashing Open is PCS’s first full-length, and Julian Cope even liked it enough to give it the esteemed Record of the Month status on his psych-biased web page, Head Heritage. It’s not hard to see why. Plastic Crimewave Sound manage to embody the mania of mind-expansion (via multiple flangers and delay pedals) but without foregoing their gritty boot-hold on the crap-streaked concrete beneath; theirs is a cosmos viewed from grimy alleyways, through muted glass and too many telephone wires. When the outfit hits on a riff or a groove, they grind it joyously into the ground with all the primitive oomph of school-kids crushing sand-pit mountains under their feet.


THERE ARE NO ADVANCE TICKET SALES FOR THE MUSIC MIXER. $5 Suggested donation at the door.

Call 312.255.9454 if you can not attend the party and wish to fax in a bid on a mix. All faxed bids must be received by midnight CST on Tuesday, September 20th, 2005.