Wednesday 16 December 2009

Track Of The Week #4

Adam And Eve - The Witch
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This is the only picture i could find that is remotely similar to the lp sleeve. Honestly put on some head phones and rock out to this number or play it loud with plenty of bass, or else your not doing this enormous track justice, the most amazing hypnotic vocals and filthy groove. Been trying to find this record for such a long time, even just an mp3 of this song, so happy to find it was comped! Check this out, Fucking fantastic, if anyone is interested in trading or selling their copy of the lp, do get in touch...

Tuesday 15 December 2009

Through The Eyes Of Another

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Tea with Fritz and his Alsation, this came from a private collection i found. This man was quite an affluent nazi judging by the other pictures in the collection, quite a dark collection of photos, nothing serious just dinner parties and over priced Luftwaffe Photos. Something to listen to while checking out the photos
Arzachel - Queen Street Gang

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I fucking adore this picture i found it at the bottom of a suit case in spitalfields i think it came from a similar collection as the one above. If you look closely you can see two men holding pistols to one anothers head and a family portrait or some sort of portrait imposed on the top. Insane.
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Beautiful Explosions, same collection as top one. Wish i knew what it was, but still could be anything, i found really cool reconnaisance photos of destroyed british bombers that cost a bomb a piece.
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And This one really reminded me of the place s.c.u.m recorded their demos in poland, we were walking for hours, really isolated strange looking radio station type place.
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These next few are pictures my dad took before i was born when he was living in prague, i found the whole roll of photographs under my bed when i was clearing out.
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This literally was what it was like looking out of our windows when we were in warsaw. Miles and miles of blocks styled exactly the same, bitterly cold and grey no colour.
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Another tune to listen to in case you'd finished that one, sort of like Scott Walker in a many ways, i love the organ sounds in this and the words kind of relate to the pictures (a bit) who does care for the city?
John Ylvisaker - Who Cares For The CIty

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Last Photo, these pictures really remind me of shots from films like nosferatu or one of ingmar bergmans films
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Clouds Over Earthquake

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Get your head around this.

Wooden Shjips - Clouds Over Earthquake

Friday 11 December 2009

Track of the Week #3

Le Coeur - Bye Bye City
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For a friends Birthday last week a good friend of ours claimed he had found the best french psych track, at the time a lot of us trusted him that he'd found a right blaster but not the best.. Well he may of been right. This record is so addictive and it's definitley up there, i have put a limit of listening to this song once a day so i don't over do it, been humming it all week. Thank you madcap zach for this one.



Also if there is anything you want to know about french psychedelia i would seriously reccomend checking this website out,
45toursderockfrancais.net/ theres no mp3's or anything just good information and loads of great picture sleeves!

Thursday 10 December 2009

The Space Lady aka Suzy Soundz

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The Space Lady, i have no idea where to start with this. This music is incredible, minimal flourishing phased synthesizers underneath the most beautiful delia derbyshire/white noise esque vocal. Her story and my personal favourite Major Tom are on her myspace have a look here...

http://www.myspace.com/suzysoundz

i found out about the space lady when i was looking for a cover version i had of Shakin' all over someone had put on a compilation for me, it turned out to be Drinking Electricity but while i was looking, the unbelievable space lady turned up! with a cover of the same song! I was taken aback, she looked fantastic, her story was so brilliant and i loved how heavenly and simple the sounds she was creating made shakin all over, a song known to be a hell raising rock n roll sleazer sound like an innocent astral fairytale of one space ladys untainted sexual exploits and her casio. With all over versions i know myself of this song, there has been no other version like it, they're all pent up explosions of excitement which johnny kidds bursts of guitar are nothing more than a show of a boundless adolescent's release of joy, sex and love through that bone shattering key hook we all know so well. But this is played softly, quietly and delicately, so the whole content and idea of the song is turned on it's arse. Shakin' all over is one of those songs like when you see those videos of the beatles or the stones playing in the early sixties and you can see the screaming audiences unable to control themselves, those girls with the uncontrollable 'shakes' and screams of excitement, that electrifying uncontrollable feeling created by these kinds of songs, like satisfaction by the stones, that do these marvellous things to a person, those shakes and shivers that one mustn't talk about at the dinner table, this is what this song is supposed to make you feel like, It's loud, it's raw and animalistic but our Space Lady delivers something so pure and beautifully different that it sort of makes the original and all other versions that have come before completely obsolete, You just have to listen to those beautiful minimal electronics and punching zuckerzeit drum machines to know johnny kidd wishes he could of traded his strat for a casio back in 1960! enough chit chat and wallop, here's to the almighty space lady!

Koroshitai Kimochi Part 2

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Up Yours Adam! Ha

Friday 4 December 2009

Track of the Week #2

Nico - All That Is My Own

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The first time i went on stage i played in a band called Le Volume Courbe, i played a few gigs as extra percussion, melodica and a strange growling Harmonium. I used to go down and rehearse at charlottes place in hampstead after school and my first gig was at the social for a sonic cathedral nico tribute night. When i first heard nico, charlotte had burned me a copy of Marble index and a copy of chelsea girls and a c.d of what we'd be doing which was a track called Le Petit Chevalier off the desertshore album and Réve Réveiller an outtake off of Marble Index. I remember chelsea girls was the album i really spent time listening to and loving, i neglected marble index and never went looking for any other of Nico's solo stuff, so when i found the c.d of the live recording at the social in 2005 i wanted to go and hunt down the albums of the songs we had played that night and i got my hands on desert shore and flicked through the tracks and decided to land on this one. I couldn't actually believe it. Really. It has this hypnotic beauty, every note she wails flows against the coldest winds of sweeping venus in furs string accompaniment, with radio like vocal treatments every so often with a morse code-esque trumpet. You feel like this wall of sound is closing in on you with sharp intense precision with this looming sorrowful vocal, then you listen harder, you perk up a bit and it suddenly feels like this song is wide open, a desert - a vast intimidating mass, flashing colours and a sound which makes the hair on the back of your neck stand on end, it's a scary sound but so fucking beautiful. This record really is haunting, beautiful and has so much power. Let me know what you think, i'd be interested in seeing how this song makes you feel...



Download link http://www.divshare.com/download/9606632-bcd

Here is a poster and review for the night we played at..

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http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Article.aspx?id=4255

Thursday 3 December 2009

Pirate Radio

Brilliant documentary about pirate radio.


Tuesday 1 December 2009

The Truth

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There are few records that i know and love that have the power that some of the songs on this album hold and have over me. I thought about this record this morning and i haven't actually stuck it on for a long time. So this morning, i decided that i'd put it on.

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My god, It's an amazing record, the accompaniment, every shimmering texture comes alive in big surges of power and the memories listening to this record made me lie staring straight at the ceiling for the duration of the album reciting on the bare ceiling a fuzzy psychedelic haze of a photo book of what each song reminded me of. The record is really beautiful in places and also a bit naff but nonetheless i thought i'd share it with you because i care a lot about this record and hopefully you will to. rest in piece dee dee.

Here is the link via the mesmirization blog

http://www.mediafire.com/?xtmjozywiyr