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Theremin Babylon At Capricon 34 Wheeling Illinois

 

theremin babylon performance

I always like to say that I am ALL of Paisley Babylon and HALF of Binary Partners, so when BP performs, technically speaking that’s Paisley Babylon up there albeit in a different band….but I am still playing the theremin.

SO, Paisley Babylon will be part of the insanity at Capricon 34 in Wheeling, Illinois when Binary Partners performs an all-ages live show on the 15th floor where the Capricon party suites are located. The show is Saturday February 8 at 9PM. More information is at

https://www.facebook.com/events/353530414774589/

–Joe Wallace

Paisley Babylon Tracks You Should Hear

There has been a lot of Paisley Babylon studio time happening–this is a cross section of the sounds evolving in the last six months or so. A bit of dub here, a bit of Chicago industrial there, Theremin and Space Echo, it’s been a fun cocktail of sound to be immersed in.

I don’t know why I’ve been sitting on these for so long, they were immensely enjoyable to experience when they were created….indulge your choice of recreational consumption and have a listen to these:

Paisley Babylon Side Project Binary Partners To Perform Friday Sept 27 in NYC

Joe Wallace performs as half of Binary Partners when he isn’t working solo as Paisley Babylon. Binary Partners is playing a show at Spectrum in New York City on Friday . Wallace is playing Theremin, tape manipulations, and echo machines on Friday as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the Thanatos album “This Endless Night Inside”.

Paisley Babylon ideas, imagery, and aesthetics are well represented by Binary Partners, but BP features more Burroughs and more emphasis on sound design as music. It should be a pretty heady evening indeed!

Paisley Babylon News

Paisley Babylon’s next full-length release is nearly finished. Called “Electronic Acid”, the album so far is 11 tracks of surrealism, a dose of harsh ambient, a dash of power electronics, aural hallucinations and inner journeys to outer space. Samples are coming soon, and there will be a single or two released from this album in remixed form prior to the official album launch.

In the meantime, Paisley Babylon’s Joe Wallace has been working with Esmeralda Trujillo on a project called Binary Partners, with a live performance scheduled in December ahead of a full-length LP release scheduled for early 2013. In the meantime, here’s a sample of what to expect from Binary Partners, which is a return to old-school first generation industrial and experimental music (before the industrial genre became overtaken by sequenced drum tracks, cocaine abuse, and football fans–think Throbbing Gristle, Coil, and Wire rather than Ministry and Pigface.)



Post Mortem Telepathy Live at DMZ, San Antonio, Texas

Back in the mid to late 90s, Paisley Babylon was involved with a collective music/mashup/remix project called Post Mortem Telepathy, which featured members of Crevice, Mission Giant, The Lysergic Dream, and other rotating members. This performance video features Post Mortem Telepathy as a two-piece with Lysergic Dream on the right and Paisley Babylon on the left, throwing their respective influences and techniques into the maelstrom to see what got hurtled back out again.

This brief excerpt is a video sculpture created from footage and audio of a live performance at San Antonio, Texas club DMZ and is a strange beast indeed…