Recording: Slime

Artist: Slime

Song: [second piece]

Recorded at Dundas Video ("Track Could Bend #5"), August 4, 2015.

Slime - [second piece]

A man of many projects (currently including Bert Sugar and Germaphobes), Neil Rankin slathered on the slime to step back into this sax-and-radio project, strolling the length of the room (and even briefly out onto the street) to bring himself — and his coating — close to the crowd.

Recording: Slime

Artist: Slime

Song: [excerpt from second piece]

Recorded at Ratio ("Wavelength 653"), March 27, 2015.

Slime - [excerpt from second piece]

A mix of solo sax skronk and radio noisescapes, Neil Rankin's New Positions started off something like this before HSY's Jude pushed things in a more rock/industrial direction. Performing while being covered in a dripping layer of personal lubricant, however, is a new twist that gives this project its name.

Recording: Doomsquad

Artist: Doomsquad (feat. Slime)

Song: The Cools

Recorded at Jam Factory ("Feast in the East 44"), January 3, 2015.

Doomsquad - The Cools

The first weekend after New Year's Eve is often a deadzone for gigs, a gap that Feast In The East has been filling for a couple years now. As the night's best gig in town, this drew a full room to the other side of the DVP, offering a very tasty Dutch meal and a quartet of bands you'd want to stand up and move a little to.

As they get ready to head down to New Mexico to record their second album, Doomsquad started off the new year with a look at what they've achieved so far. The long, grooving tracks in their headlining set drew on last year's Kalaboogie, but also reached back to their first EP for their set closer. The core trio was joined, once again, by percussionist Brandon Valdivia throughout, and also for this one by FITE co-founder Neil Rankin (in his Slime guise) on sax.

[Doomsquad will be playing "a plugged down set with trance and harmony" on Saturday, January 31st out on the Island, as part of the IMBOLC celebrations. Meanwhile, the next Feast in the East, on Saturday, February 7th, is more of a mellow affair, but offers a no-less-impressive lineup including EONS, Matthew "Doc" Dunn, Jooj (Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz) and Alex Lukashevsky.]