High school basketball’s regular season isn’t quite finished yet, but the French Settlement boys are closing in on some of the boxes they had set as goals for their season.
Plus: James King (aka the GTW) launches the #chigeria series of weekly song drops, and both founders of local weirdo label Hausu Mountain release solo records.
Hausu Mountain has released a staggering array of music in the nine years since the label was founded: longform drone and lysergic easy listening; slow-motion techno and blown-out breakcore; hymns to the Weather Channel and fingerpicked Americana; mutant gabber-screamo and whatever the hell you call the music of Ohio duo Moth Cock. For all its range, though, the label’s guiding aesthetic is easy to describe. “We like gaudy, trippy, rainbow stuff,” says label co-founder Maxwell Allison. His partner, Doug Kaplan, chimes in: “We like ignoring ideas about what’s cool or what’s cheesy collapsing high and low culture and seeing them all as one thing. There’s very little irony happening on the label. Everything is out of honesty and love.”
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