#lithics

Clovis point (chert, 12th century BC or later) from southern Illinois

Portalithics hard launch on a Sunday night! This is now the name I'm using for my rock and mineral stuff as well as the synth/new age/ambient music I've previously been making under the name Bognor, which seems inappropriate for the material.

Celebrating with this photo I've taken of an incredible moss agate slice from a nodule I found in the Collawash River with @pnw_rocktography years ago (who I think also made this cut, one of the first rocks I ever got cut). Im oddly proud that it's not edited or even cropped, but art direction was provided by Portalithics TruFanz, so shout out to you guys, all love🙏

Portalithics is a kind of combination of portals, which are cool, and lithics which is a cool word for rocks i think, which are also cool. It could also mean portable stone, or refer to the portamento on a synthesizer (cool), or be a kind of dumb reference to Portland but no probably not that.

Ooooh. Interesting.

1. 100% grindstones. All types. All in. I ADORE grindstones.

2. Glass Kimberley points (they’re just SO NICE)

3. Polished ground edge axes. Specifically basalt ones are very nice

4. Leilira knife macro blades are kinda fun.

The evidence isn't ideal, and the analysis is complicated, but I love the idea of a roving gang of children of various ages, packing around hammerstones and low-quality knappable stone, leaving little piles of trash wherever they go and hassling every grownup in the village to help them make good tools.

Of moms watching small bits of debris narrowly miss the fish she just filleted and going "you know who's really good at making spears? Your uncle Bob is really good at making spears. Why don't you go ask him and let me cook?"

Of grandparents who aren't up to going out to gather today sitting for hours showing whatever kids are around new ways to make things.

Of circles of skilled toolmakers interspersed with little kids who watch them intensely, making squiggly, probably-not-very-sharp versions of grownup tools, and proudly showing them off, and using them to make more things.

Spring 2020 Mixtape.

Lithics “Tower Of Age”

Self Defense Family “Jesus Of Nazareth”

Clamm “Beseech Me”

Emily Remler “Strollin’”

Human Impact “Contact”

Bikini Body “Hands Off”

Lana Del Rabies “Darcy” (Lav Andula RMX)

Tzusing “1976”

Damp “Death, Sex & Arby’s”

Georgia Maq “Away From Love”

Es “Hidden Track”

Mystique “No Excuse”

Horse Lords “The Radiant City”

Giant Swan “The Rest Of His Voice”

Jehnny Beth “I’m The Man”

Cleaners From Venus “The Jangling Man”

Pting “Boo”

Dave East “Godfather 4” (f. Nas)

Editrix “She Wants To Go And Party”

Gang Starr “Bad Name”

Snarls “Walk In The Worlds”

Kate Tempest “People’s Faces”

Shopping “All Or Nothing”

Turquoise Days “Grey Skies”

Skux “Kudis”

Control Top “Black Hole”

Free $$$ “Etc.”

Serfs, The “Caged And Bound”

Diat “Positive Energy”

Milly “Talking Secret”

Ekambi Brilliant “Mother Afrika”

M.A.Z.E. “Spread The Germicide”

Algiers “Can The Sub Bass Speak”

Future Punx “F Boys”

Necking “Big Mouth”

Ganser “Psy-Ops”

True Dreams “Please Sir”

Black Midi “BmBmBm”

Coriky “Clean Kill”

Stardeath & White Dwarfs “What Keeps You Up At Night”

Autumn “Night In June”

Miserable “Loverboy”

Districts, The “Cheap Regrets”

Seablite “There Were Only Shadows”

Ing self-titled

Power Alone “Self Fulfilling Prophecy”

Algiers “Dispossession”

Mikey Dread “Dread At The Controls”

Lithics “Hands”

Crumb “Ghostride”

Strobobean “Keep It Together”

Profligate “Jet Black (King Of The Road)”

Penelope Isles “Rounds”

Self Defense Family “Visit Scenic Western New York”

Serfs, The “Perverted Disco”

Future Islands “Day Glo Fire”

Help “Pennies On The Ground”

Nghtcrwler “Firestarter”

Lisel “Digital Light Field”

Zonal Wrecked

Pete Shelley “Homosapien”

Miserable “Fever”

Killing Joke “Hollywood Babylon”