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2010-06-09T15:38:00.004+01:00

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Asbestos Lead Asbestos

2010-06-08T12:50:00.000+01:00

I'm reading the nausea and everything i listen to on the radio makes me sick. I'm sitting in my room looking outside onto Peckham road, a scuzzy grey cloud is telling me he's sticking around for a while so my bags are almost packed and a move to Berlin is imminent, 2 weeks in Deutschland on my own. 2 disposable cameras, 1 notebook, Tape player, box of earl gray tea, passport, pocket half full of gold, a small synthesizer, three changes of clothes and a tape or two.

Here is what i hear when i look out of my window..

The 012 - Asbestos Lead Asbestos

Raping Rat Records part 1

2010-06-01T15:55:00.000+01:00

Anytime i have change in my pocket and i'm in Camberwell, Rat Records is where i'll always end up. When i first started buying punk, before i knew about minus zeroes and Intoxica in Nothing hill i used to go in every Saturday, early as i could to haul through the singles. Sometimes i'd leave empty handed but a lot of the time i'd come away with a plastic bag full of the best grotty, slimey looking groups i'd never heard of slap bang on multi coloured tatty sleeves, rarely were they shit or more than a fiver! I hadn't had one of those little hauls for a while so i decided to get my fingers dusty.

I'm now at home smug as anything, 20 pall malls and 3 fucking singles! Tenner it cost, to the old tarts reading this i bet you can remember picking these up for 15p, hoorah to the past, unfortunately to any young man with coppers in his pocket and a thirst for those little black plastics, Oxfam now have the record price guide and every record shop has Popsike hence making it nearly impossible to 'bag a bargain' unless you really really trapse hard or buy a job lot of stuff, which i sadly had no time to do when in Camberwell this morning.

Johnny Moped - Incendiary device

One of the most dog eared, nasty little singles i've got. The lyrics say it all

Walkin down the road with my Incediary device
Lookin for a lady, blow er up with gelignite
stick it in er lug-oles watch it blow er 'ead apart
stick it in er lug-oles stick it in er other parts.

Metail Urbain - Paris Marquis

When i joined S.C.U.M all i would do live was slam down the nastiest sounds, i was never in time, nor listenable, i was sure i was turned down in every gig. Making a racket was all i wanted to do, if you listen to any Metal Urbain you can hear them cane their synthesizers in small doses, i would leave the keyboard on bypass and go from there.

Funnily enough it was in Paris i realised that i needed to learn the parts to the songs because we were playing on a big stage with a massive P.A and it sounded dispicable. Anyway dig this.. I couldn't find the flip to this single on the internet so a live performance is what you've got.. This cost me 3 quid in the bargain singles!! What the fuck is it doing in Camberwell!?

Fad Gadget - Back To Nature / The Box

Was over the moon to find this this morning, i love everything about this single, both sides are fucking excellent!

I call this post, raping rat records part 1 because i haven't really looked through my other stuff and hopefully there'll be more little finds to report in the future! Enjoy!

Join The Underworld

2010-05-31T18:52:00.000+01:00

My New House #5

2010-05-30T13:20:00.001+01:00

Okay, I must say i'm over the moon to leave the last place. The radio transmitters were long fizzled out, there were wholes in the floor so i couldn't play marbles plus i had no means of getting back to shore so i had to eat fucking barnacles. An opening came up fortunately from a friend who worked at general motors in 1964. I decided to move straight in. Pretty romantic little space this..

I got to the place and this fucking bandit was parked nicely above the house.

Pain in the arse to drive but this expat human synthesizer is on the stereo..

I'm not interested in telling you about the life and times of this man but more about the song in particular. The song is called The World Is One. I heard it when i was on my own trapsing around a few record shops, it's a fucking strange song but i think as someone who reads this blog, you might see the absolute genius in it. Finders Keepers have just reissued a collection of Sam Spence's mooged out fuckery and this song in particular tore my fucking head off. I have a real thing for choral vocals and this pushes all the right buttons, not something you can play at parties or anywhere where more than yourself are hanging out but I mean I can't say much about this record that you won't feel yourself when you hear it. Do yourself a favour and listen to it in headphones or big fucking speakers you won't regret it.

P.s - it's really worth checking out this guy and his music out, quite the story. Enjoy!

School's finally finished

2010-05-21T00:25:00.000+01:00

I've finally left school. I'm never going back, all my friends left today. Everyone i grew up with is going there seperate ways, i'll probably never see half of them again, they'll never be in the groups i remember them to be in, everyone has grown up since i last saw them. I must say it was one of my favorite days of all time. I feel really weird at the moment, that was the last thing in London that stayed the same, those people being there.. People going to prison, university, people changing is something i'm finding hard to get. Going to miss them all i think.

(except the cunts that stole my rollups).

The Tops - I found you

This song is all i could play when i got home, it has in no way got any relevance to school or anyone in it but it has this strange sort of connection. The stride of the song is like a feeling of moving forward, "and then i found you". It feels like your embarking on a journey when he sings those lines. This song wherever it's played you can't help but feel happy. It has a quality to it that creates instant nostalgia, quite hard to explain but this song represents for me really good times. It might not for you but i can't think of anything better to accompany this post.

When I was played this for the first time at a friends house, i can remember being speechless throughout the whole song. This song really needs no introduction, for me it's the song that stands aside from everything else. The end of it has probably my favorite part in any song ever, the female vocals cut me into pieces. This song is also a dedication to everyone on Amhurst road past and present.

My New House #4

2010-05-19T16:42:00.000+01:00

I've been extremely reluctant to leave my last house, which i'm sure none of you can remember but Ennio Morricone provided the soundtrack and the view was fucking excellent. Unfortunately every good thing has to come to an end. So, i have packed my bags and left for Maunsell Towers Sea Forts. Buildings built to protect the Thames estuary from enemy air craft in the second world war, i've brought plenty of bedding and a two man dingy so there is indeed fun to be had. Of the 4 structures, I've chosen to take up residence in the radio control tower, which you can apparently still transmit from. So i'll try and get a podcast going or something in the next week for you all.

Choosing the music to accompany this was quite tough, it took me some time to think of what kind of sound would suit the forts brutal, steel structure. I thought something Electronic, Heavy, brooding, industrial or something "Cold Wave" yar. but then realised how bone shakingly obvious that connection was. I've chosen to use a song by a guy called Eden Ahbez instead who according to wikipedia

'Lived a bucolic life from the 1940s, who traveled in sandals and wore shoulder-length hair and beard, and white robes. He camped out below the first L in the Hollywood Sign above Los Angeles, studied Oriental mysticism, and claimed to live on three dollars a week, sleeping outdoors with his family, and eating vegetables, fruits, and nuts'. Genius. Do a bit of research on him, he's quite an interesting character and i think this song has every feeling of desolation that these buildings project with there facade surviving 67 bitter British winters. This song sounds how the picture looks i think.

Walking to Wigan

2010-05-18T16:19:00.000+01:00

Jaibi - What Good Am I

I apologise for the ridiculous amount of writing i've done recently so i'll keep this one pretty bog standard. Right here is a straight up down town hot cake of a record. Perfect in every way. The guys who fix windows turned up yesterday now i can have my window open and play everyone my music! Perfect track to start with. Southend boxing day favorite!

Each Of Our Senses Screaming With Deelight

2010-05-13T14:57:00.000+01:00

Groep 1850, a dutch band started in 1964 in Den Haag with a fairly / sadly common story, first single released on a tiny label, picked up as a prospect by Phillips dropped as next to no copies sold, Dutch Discofoon picked them up and released a slightly less outrageous LP which again did nothing to dent the pop scene so Groep 1850 faded into obscurity staying active into the seventies and releasing an album and a few singles to them then fading away completely. yadda yadda yadda, draw my breath.

At every stage of their ten year reign, for me they are one of the most exciting, strange, freakish, creative outfits that i know of. Creating a sound so fucking diverse that 'Trippy' and 'Acid Drenched' as accurate a description those terms are, just don't cut it, it's so much more than that.

Groep 1850 is bordering on brilliant insanity. Agemos trip to mother earth is full of the best studio work which barely just manages to remain human. I mean some of their songs "I Put My Hands On Your Shoulders" notably have the ability to drag you screaming into the abyss. The ability to make you lose yourself in your mind and find yourself alive in theirs - a raging river built of strong currents of wild amplified sound throwing you down further and further swallowing you up and regurgitating you out again a different human being. Even if you're on a 171 on your way to work at 9 o clock on a Monday morning and have never touched acid in your life you can still feel the absolute brain frying power of their records. In a simpler more easy to digest sentence some of it is how i imagine being possessed would feel.

MUZZER EARRRTH AND VEE SHOULD BE ALL TOGETHER:EACH OF OUR SENSES SINGING WITH DEEELIGHT:NOW WITH THE VURLD GONE MAAD! NOW WITH THE VURLD GONE MAAD! A TASTE OF A PAINFUL LONGING FOR MORE AND MORE:FOR MORE FOR MORE FOR MORE! demonic drums welcoming you deep into the world of Groep 1850. One serious come down for flower children everywhere.

For me, the first time i heard Group 1850 it was on a brilliant series of tapes i was given by a friend entitled 'shapes and sounds vol 1-3'. I had no idea what was what on any of it as their was no track listings pictures or anything but I remember sitting on a ferry to Calais on a way to a gig, listening to one side of this tape over and over again just for this one song. It's movement from a nice psychedelic mover into extreme darkness had me completely confused, i'd never heard anything like it. Surreal music, that was more like a play than a record. Every sound in it's whirling atmosphere felt like it was adding to the make up of this set i'd painted in my head. It sounds strange but until you hear it you may or may not know what i mean. But for me it's all about the first two minutes of pure pop hit. This is the song "I Put My Hands On Your Shoulders".

I'd recommend downloading the entire album although it is often tough to listen to, not so much in the way of it being intense but it being outrageous, in pretty much every aspect. Here is another of my favorites off of the same LP, not exactly as freakish as the last but more towards the '68 psychedelic end of things.

Steel Sings

And finally here is a track off of the third album i'm really into at the moment..

Starfighter

I'm only really touching the surface with these three tracks, so i'd seriously reccomend checking the band out properly. Their singles are fucking excellent and all albums are worth buying.

Check them Out live in '75

Moebius Ist Ein Gott!

2010-05-12T15:23:00.000+01:00

For 2 and a half years i have played a Moog Rogue. I don't think i can look at it in the same way anymore. Since my 18th birthday i've been listening routinely to Moebius-Plank-Neuimeier's Zero set, now, to me electronics sound different, a present that changed everything. I was always aware of the capacity synthesizers had, the range in sound and dimension you could achieve but never really appreciated the true fucking value of synthesis. Moebius gave me that ear and capability to manipulate a synthesizer into any fucking shape. Nothing is impossible now. Before the sound of a car was reachable, jet engines - piss, bass - tick, pretty sounding things - sorted, hmmmm where to now? i've mastered this machine i thought. Bollocks. I needed zero set, to kick me up the arse, i'd been blown away to the point of no return i needed to hear the rest to keep me from going insane so i picked up a copy of Beerbohm and Moebius' 'strange music' and Moebius' own 'Tonspuren' and they all seemed to get better and better, i have played the Moog differently ever since. A sound just isn't complete any more, there is always one more thing i can do to it, taking it to the extremes, until you've moved so far away from your original patch that, in essence was actually quite good to the point that it now sounds nothing like it ever was supposed to. Getting Picasso on it. The more fucking wild the better, take it to within an inch of breaking point, total all out fucking chaos. If i'm going to make a beautiful sound do i just play the notes? do i play it with this on and then this off with this on it with a significant helping of this? Sounds now take on quite familiar shapes, for example writing a line that sounds like it's made of glass, or maybe an underwater bass line, String stabs? a farting envelope generator perhaps?

Moebius' records are for the unsaved, the criminals who make synthesizers sound twee and shit or who don't take them to their total capabilities. There are infinite ways to play a synthesizer and the feeling you get when you listen to Moebius is that every sound he has created has been executed with great care, care in the sense of it's placement, conviction and heart when playing it - is it a sound that can lead you gently into a dream? or is it one that is projecting a hard concrete image? Either way he's nailed it. His bass sounds have so much definition and when a guitar is used it's a different instrument entirely thanks to Conny Plank of course but that's another tribute for another day. He layers a song that will never rapidly descent into madness or will never dramatically change from what he has begun with, it's all about what is already there and how sonically things, electronics in particular can sprout from their existing branches. You receive a new respect for repetition and how repetition can maintain to keep you interested if not glued to what you're listening to. Some people feel it's too intense, which is fair enough everyone has their limits, but fuck me play your machine with the desecration and clout it deserves to be played with. Enough jabberwocking - here are a selection of tracks i think represent what i've said best.. Enjoy!!

Zero Set

Moebius~Plank~Neumeier - Speed Display

Moebius~Plank~Neumeier - Load

Strange Music

Moebius And Beerbohm - Subito

Moebius And Beerbohm - YingYang

Absolutely ferocious sounds on this, such a kick back record. Download the whole album you won't be disappointed, the song with whatever it is trumpet or sax is so fucking boss, 883's the one, it sounds like at any point it's going to dive straight into Morriconne's Exorcist theme!

Tonspuren

Moebius - B36

The reason i chose to write this post stemmed mainly from this song, there is such dramatic depth and so much consequence in every sound on this song, strangely enough it really reminds me of different trains by Steve Reich, in it's urgency and use of that roaring siren sound. It has a really bad vibe about it, it sounds evil, you get a real gut wrenching sense of foreboding (for want of a less trivial term). Fucking cool but with all of the above thrown in. It's certainly got a story behind it as it sounds so destructive and is so different in it's style from the rest of the album. It's almost a black cloud that looms over the album which compliments everything that comes before and after it perfectly.

Moebius - Transport

Moebius - Rattenweisel

Fuck this Lp is such a joy to listen to. If you're more into the Cluster side of things you'll dig this album down to the ground. Those were my favorite for the moment but i would definitely recommend buying or downloading the albums and listening to them as pieces because i'm sure they'd make a lot more sense and have a more complete sound. Fucking hell Moebius you god.

Back from Berlin

2010-05-11T13:02:00.000+01:00

I've just got back home from one of the best weekends i've ever had. We flew out to Berlin saturday morning and got back monday morning. Danced all night Saturday at the club and peddalled around Berlin for hours on the Sunday, met some great people and saw the city in full. We also were asked to play Heaven by a friend of ours which turned out to be one of my favourite gigs we've ever played and here is a song that can try and show you how good this weekend actually was..

Not much is known about these guys other than they are comprised of the core members of Can - Schmidt, Karoli, Leibzeit and Czukay and this single was recorded for a strange political satire film called Agilok & Blubbo on vogue records, this is all second hand information but i think it's all pretty reliable. The boring shit aside there is something so endearing about this single, the other side is so obviously the origins of Can and the other for me is one of those songs. I find it hard to describe but when you hear something like this you feel completely isolated from the world, just sitting in my room bit of a gloomy day watching the camberwell traffic move two and throw, this record is every bit of happiness for me, it's insane, beautiful and so full of life, the transition between a beautiful young frau's hypnotic vocal and the 2 seconds of frantic sound make this song just that little bit better than everything ever (for now). My favourite music has that transition between chaos and beauty, something my old man and i always used to talk about, it's the tension and character given to a song when it isn't always rosie, you discover there are dark sides to this blooming meadow which has grown in front of your eyes, there is more than what meets the eye. Even though this song presents 2 seconds of what i would call chaos for perhaps need of a better word it only suggests not tells, it suggests the darker side which makes listening to it that much more interesting. Songs like Le Diable by Shusha and The Machine is Bored With Love have that same unbelievable transition and contrast, good and evil. How a chord change can suggest millions of different things. I don't know whether i want to go outside or sit inside and play this on repeat because this record gives you that feeling, the feeling to want to go out and discover everything you haven't yet, find people to share this music with personally, play it to everyone who's interested. This may all sound cheesy as stilton and you probably have no interest in how this record makes me feel but i think it's important i put this on this blog because it sums up for me like every post i put up times and experiences i have that i value and Berlin was abso-fucking-lutely one of them. Enjoy!

Intricate Blend

2010-04-21T12:31:00.000+01:00

Intricate Blend - Insane

As sad as it may sound for the last couple of nights i've been cutting my computer music collection in half as shuffle manages 9 times out of 10 to play me some absolute wallop i've uploaded. I mean some of the songs that come up don't even have the right to be considered music let alone be put on a compilation. Although, something good has come out of it, have a listen to this record..

Jaanejaan dhundhta phir raha

2010-04-02T23:10:00.000+01:00

From the film Jawani Diwani R.D Burman and Kishore Kumar play Jaanejaan dhundhta phir raha which is for me one of the most beautiful things I've heard in a very long time. I've had yet another of those moments, sitting back head in hands at what was blaring out of the speakers. To some, Bollywood soundtrack music strikes no chord and i think jars a lot of people but to others, it's one of the most exciting, passionate, creative forms of music that has ever existed. Whether you're into Bollywood sounds or not i would seriously recommend giving this record a chance. It has a charm that i haven't heard matched, sure there is some beautiful stuff some brilliant experimental funked out psychy stuff but for me, this record has everything i ever want on any record. Almost Billy Strange strings with the trademark rolling Burman beat, the vocals leave me breathless, the arrangement is fucking beautiful, it's a complete song, you forget bits exist until they come in again sounding better than you remembered them. When he returns to the original vocal line, it hits you so hard. Big wow. Perhaps this song doesn't do much for you but for me it is everything i've ever wanted.. Enjoy...

And here is the brilliant video, couldn't publish this post without having the video!By the way i WILL be ripping off that delayed flute.

Neil Krug And Joni Harbeck's PULP

2010-03-26T11:53:00.000Z

I originally stumbled across these images whilst i was looking for a picture for the post beneath this one for Tamikrest. I wanted a completely unrelated photo to the band that sort of reflected how i heard them in an image. So as i was a bit drained and feeling lazy i wrote (of all things) 'Desert Psychedelia' into google images and this is what turned up. Absolutely stunning! Like stills from a Jadorowsky film or something. Shot with old polaroid film the photographers Neil Krug And Joni Harbeck are releasing a high end coffee table art book entitled 'PULP art book and prints'.

These images are so beautiful, if the prints weren't so expensive i'd buy the ones i've posted. To accompany these images i've decided to have some serious far out psychedelia from Pure Jade Green, a record i'm about to have pressed up onto acetate. Have a listen and see if you can see my logic for choosing it. Fucking incredible record! Ride on, into the sun.

I'm getting them all!

The Psychedelic Sounds Of Mali

2010-03-25T17:46:00.000Z

Tamikrest, from Northern Mali are being dubbed as ‘the spiritual sons of Tinariwen’. They are maybe a bit inspired by Tinariwen but in my opinion, shit all over them. I do usually hate it when bands with so much behind them are explained and twinned with other bands through marriages and one night stands or bands romping together creating bastard sons. I suppose it is a good way of describing someones music because of it's simple 'to the point' and easy to grasp style but i don't think it gives the band you're describing any where near enough credit, especially when they write songs like this.

The first and only Tamikrest track i've heard 'Adagh' brings to light colors, shapes and feelings you rarely see or experience on most modern records. The entire sound of the record is so rich and layered that it's like the music (i imagine) you'd hear in your dreams after swallowing your last drop of Iowaska. But shit, these guys are 18 and 19 years old! This is what the desert must do to you. Far out psychedelic sorcery of the purest kind, their backwards guitar drones and vocals have a real mysticism. It is the sound i've been chasing since i was given Damon's Song of A gypsy LP when i was 15 for my birthday. It has this Spiritual, loner, dark, hypnotic, almost occult tripped out psychedelic sound. But like most music i love, i haven't the foggiest on whether it's even close to any of the above because i have no idea what Tamikrest are actually saying, which always reminds me of a brilliant bit in the 'Shawshank Redemption' when he says:

"i had no idea to this day what those two italian ladies were singing about, truth is, i don't want to know, some things are better left unsaid. I like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words and makes your heart ache because of it".

it's exactly how i feel about listening to Serge, Morricone with Vocals, Francoise and thousands of other weird and wonderful foreign records that give you that feeling. 'Adagh' has that i think.

And one final thing before i actually let you listen to the record. Toureg musicians are the coolest looking mother fuckers on the entire face of the earth!

S.C.U.M Signals: PARIS

2010-03-25T10:28:00.000Z

Our third offering unto you of our latest Signal. Paris for me was a really strange one, we walked for hours looking for a late night drinking den in Montmarte the night before and had absolutely no luck whatsoever. We woke up a bit knackered and we went on the hunt for flea markets and antique shops, we managed to find a brilliant place around the corner which in the door sat a propellar for a heinkel and a bit deeper in there was a whole box and shelf full of brilliant victorian theatre costumes. By the time Tom and I got back to the studio Huw had written this piano line. Enjoy!

La Route De Salina

2010-03-24T23:49:00.000Z

Christophe - La Route De Salina OST

Speechless, just bought the 45 of this. So beautiful. No words to describe, so powerful. THE DRUMS AT THE END WITH THE VOCAL AND THE DISCORDANT HARMONICA/SAXO SOUNDING THING!!!!!!!! FUCCCCKKKKKKKINNNGGGG HELLLLL. I can't believe it. What a record.

A Minute To Pray A Second To Die

2010-03-20T10:42:00.000Z

I was in rough trade yesterday and the kid behind the counter stuck this on. Flesh Eaters are one of those bands i always always see written places, so familiar with the name but never heard any of it. I was so happy to hear it because i was in rough trade looking for something like this. I'd of never of known to pick it out and would of had to of lived without it. Sooo, I asked him what it was as soon as it came on. Here is some info on them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flesh_Eaters_(band), see what you think..

If you're into this then here is the download link via the Mfdownloads website:

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

International Psych Mix #1

2010-03-18T13:52:00.000Z

For the first in the series we have Swedens own Jens Lundstrom. An international psych and freakish new wave mix just for you...

http://www.laplanetesauvage.com/soundfiles/10march/TrueSoundsOfLove.mp3

01 ALAN DELL blue sound of love (France)
02 WAITESSES clones (Usa)
03 MOTHER SUNDAY midnight graveyard (Switzerland)
04 HOLGER MUNZER sing little bird (Germany)
05 THE OUTCASTS winds escape (Usa)
06 CHAQUITO the good the bad and the ugly (Uk)
07 JASON CREST black mass (Uk)
08 LOS SEARFINS lucy go home (Uruguay)
09 INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS skeletons (Usa)
10 MEMBERS BLUES BAND p s elic (Sweden)
11 BJÖRN FAMNE vampire (Sweden)
12 EDDY LOUISS baby chorus (France)
13 LOAD CONTROL words of wisdom (Belgium)
14 JIMMY AND THE MUSTANGS ruins of time (Usa)
15 PORTER WAGONER the rubber room (Usa)

Bag Of Spiders

2010-03-16T10:57:00.000Z

Slumber Party

Slumber Party are a brilliant band, Played to me by a friend years ago, i always forget about Slumber Party, then they crop up somewhere and i realise how fucking good they are. I'm in that mood today so i'm going to rough trade to pre order a few singles and see if i can find anything worth buying. Here are three tracks from Psychedelicate.

Bag Of Spiders

Never Again

I'm Not Sad

This whole album is amazing, here is a download link via the take the pills blogspot

http://takethepills.blogspot.com/2009/02/slumber-party-psychedelicate.html

My New House #3

2010-03-14T21:36:00.000Z

Here i am at my third place of residence. Here it is, forever at the right temperature and always in this beautiful summer night light. Anywhere but a flat in camberwell at the moment.

Basically, it's not worth describing this place without music to accompany it. Who else could provide the soundtrack other than Ennio Morricone. My favourite record of all time, technically not a record but a c.d my mum had when i was little. Ennio Morricone singles collection. If i could i'd invite you all round to this marvellous place and listen to this in it's entirety i really would, just so i could see your reactions as you heard this music. This c.d is the soundtrack to my life, in every situation.

Sunshine in france in a little caravan in the middle of nowhere my mum playing this so loud out of the double doors, lying down in ruskin park, headphones on watching the ducks and the over enthusiastic tennis players, falling asleep with your girlfriend after a long night forgetting you have GCSE's the next day or listening to this music with your old man at christmas. But now, overlooking what i imagine to be an american town in somehwere like colorado, martini in hand, dapper as steve mc queen in the thomas crown affair beautiful woman by my side this on in the background. (get real).

I will not stop until i have every single one of these incredible tracks on record. These songs will follow me forever and hopefully if you don't already know and love these records they will you to. Like most of the best records on the planet they create the feeling of extreme happiness and following close behind, the inevitable feeling of intense sadness with a change of key or beat of the drum. I hope this post doesn't come across as soppy but more as an introduction to music that has no definate place, music that lives above everything although soundtracks to films and written around an idea they unlike a lot of the films prevail and are pieces of the most gut wrenching, heart pounding beautiful music that has ever existed and stands alone, able to create thousands of different atmospheres and scenarios in your head that even the original scenes the songs are featured in are just one of the many things this music could be set to. I once saw on the sky arts channel, morricone playing i think one of these songs in Venice, it was pretty tacky the videos that accompanied them but one of the women he had come on stage and sing with him was unforgettable. Dressed in what i remember, a red gown with the biggest fucking sleeves you've ever seen, arms outstretched belting out the most beautiful chanting chorus, i was pretty absorbed until my grandad said " how the fuck does she wipe her arse in that".

La Moglie Piu' Bella

L'Assoluto Naturale

Sambravi Desiderare

Sauna

Plume Di Cristallo

Violenza In Attesa

Come Un Miracolo

Lei Se Ne Muore

Come Guiletta & Romeo

Let me know what you think...

Le Stelle Di Mario Schifano

2010-03-09T10:02:00.000Z

Hello everyone. This week i have for you a record that will turn you inside out. A record a fellow freak unleashed on me and my old man recently.

Le Stelle di Mario Schifano's Dedicato a.. a record with a story that your everyday oddball psych lp doesn't. This record depending on how fucked up you like your sounds will have no mercy on you and your flower friends. The first side is out and out screaming, shouting, fire breathing psychedelia. Almost like This Heats peel sessions in the beginning few minutes and in others what i imagine would have happened had The Dirty Filthy Mud's 45 'Forest Of Black' been unedited and left to fry for another grueling 15 minutes. YES, THIS IS EVIL MUSIC! Avant Garde acid fuckery! Deep down in some Turin basement this arrogant fuzz freak artist was conducting this shit! MONSTER! Keep with this song no matter how strange the beginning is, i wasn't joking when i said this was fire breathing. Put it on and do what it says in the title, let it become a soundtrack for your thoughts, don't concentrate on it like you would a normal song, let it creep in and out of your conciousness, read a book or do as the title says..

Le Ultime Parole di Brandimante, dall'Orlando Furioso, Ospite Peter Hatman e Fine (da Ascoltarsi con TV accesa, Senza Volume)
And that translates to “The Last Words of Brandimarte, as taken from Orlando Furioso, with guest Peter Hartman; which should be listened to with the TV On, but the Sound Off”. Genius!

In my opinion the other side has nothing on the first in it's tyrannic style but in it's own right it has a really cool sound, sort of like a lost tropicalia lp in places, maybe a tad conventional but these are the two i really like on the second side.

Molto Alto

Intervallo

See the tropicalia reference? The rest of the lp is pretty good too if you liked that.

Check out stelle di mario schifano on Julian Copes Head heritage, the guy has everything, you think you've found something and he's already on it! Brilliant blog. The story behind Schifano is excellent. Anyone that fucks over Jagger is a star in my books!

Heads up to Paul Drummond for this one!

My New House #2

2010-03-06T08:33:00.000Z

This week i've moved here, in fact i've bought several properties by the same architect (artist).

“Charles Harper painted homes designed by Rudy Hermes as photomontage backdrops to introduce the 1960 Fords in November 1959's Ford Times magazine... ‘the ultimate in prefabrication since it has no footings or foundation.’”—Dwell.

I decided to have the one and only cosmic spaceman Bruno Leys head up this post. His eerie sounds and funked up rhythms illustrate more or less my new houses in my head, it's the only place to be when listening to these songs. Only problem was I didn't know whether to dedicate a blog post to Bruno Leys or to Rudy Hermes, i think they both pretty much compliment each other perfectly!

Maintenant Je Suis En Voyou

Hallucinations

And a download for one of the best canadian psych numbers http://www.divshare.com/download/10676691-4a9

Track Of The Week #5

2010-03-05T11:05:00.000Z

Bikini Kill - New Radio

By far one of the coolest fucking songs ever written.

Into My Mind

2010-03-03T14:14:00.000Z

Death Valley Sleepers

A discovery past over by a friend that came as a bit of a suprise. I could try and describe it but i think it'd be a bit pointless, not sure about one or two of the songs on the myspace but i'd seriously reccomend checking this guy out. Not the most original sound but Into My Mind ticks all the right boxes, brilliant vocals and a great song to tempt the sun to come out and shine.

Into My Mind - Free Download

http://cowbell.fm/track/169499-death-valley-sleepers-into-my-mind

His Myspace

http://www.myspace.com/tobiaswinberg

Cheers Yvonne

My New House #1

2010-02-27T23:21:00.000Z

I've decided to do a weekly post based on some brilliant architectural pictures i've found on the net called 'My New House'. I try and couple it with music i think suits it best.
-Chambre Des Enfants

Today i chose a track by Francis Dhomont called Chambre Des Enfants to accompany this strange structure. This music is absolutely stunning, mindblowing. It's the music of dreams, familiar day to day sounds that ride on waves of what i can only describe as an electronic current, softly accompanied by the most beautiful piano. It's like when you've had a busy day and your trying desperately to fall asleep in bed, turning the pillow over and over, counting sheep even though you know it doesn't work, thoughts come and go of the days events in a strange haze and blur, a flurry of sound, thoughts, ideas and memories crowd your already over worked brain which is now emitting a strange sweeping curtain of noise and a continual static pulse. You try haarrrd to sleep but your head is propelling this energy in the most obnoxious garish way. Until, you finally submit to sleep and the piano carries you gently onto the next track on the playlist which is usually seriously noisy and annoying so the dreams all over, awake again. Shit.

-Implosion

I love the complete deconstruction of music and construction of sound in this other track, 'Implosion'. i'm finding it so fascinating at the moment. Musique Concrete for me was never something i took much interest in or could relate to but the stuff i've heard from Dohmont and some of the french composers i've tracked down recently have left me speechless.

Suck It And See

2010-02-24T23:44:00.000Z

Music at the moment has so many oppurtunities and so many interesting minds, why is everyone so fucking cynical towards each other? Grow up and enjoy making music, ditch the shit attitude, it's boring. Live your own life, Play hard and prove your worth instead of talking so much. Suck it and see...

A guitar line that sounds like a chorus of cats dying! Phasing that tears the record almost in half! Pounding bass and drums 1.39 of the most furious, charged, fuck off garage punk with a vocalist that warns

IM GONNA SHOW YOU THINGS THAT WILL TURN YOUR LITTLE HEAD AROUND

ha! can't beat that.

A Thousand Wonders

2010-02-24T16:27:00.000Z

It's grey outside and dull inside i think it's time i got on the good foot.

Cajun Hart - Got To Find A Way

The lyrics in the song and the backing make me literally weak at the knees. Screaming the lyrics at the top of my lungs with the single on full blast until my neighbours bang on the ceiling and the walls. Some seriously powerful stuff, might not appeal to most of you because you're either not listening to it loud enough or you have two left feet, but the band behind Mr Hart are giving it fucking everything and you can feel every punch of the brass and strings with the lyrics and racing drums through your bones and body, so i wonder where the wind blows. Fucking hell! you cannot beat music like this. I dig it out once every few months just for that added effect.

Danelle Darris - Don't Love Me And Leave Me

This was played to me by a friend when i was first getting into Northern Soul. Dannelle Darris is my future wife, with a voice like that i would do anything. like seriously anything.

Rita And Tiaras - Gone With Wind Is My Love

One of my absolute favourites, an amazing record. Prices on this one go out the roof, which i'm not suprised about. It's just got that driving beat and perfect female vocal which i won't rest until i have it in my hands. Ouch
http://www.popsike.com/RITA-THE-TIARAS-DORE-783-GONE-WITH-THE-WIND-45-RPM/280341922973.html

T S U Toronadoes - A Thousand Wonders

A slightly more groovy version than i'm used to but nonetheless one of the sweetest coolest records from the scene that i've heard. I heard it first on one of the After Hours comps which are just fucking brilliant, seriously worth picking up on c.d if you see it.

Every single one of the songs above has opitimised feelings i've had for previous girlfriends and in my eyes will sum up many more ahead. The flirtations - nothing but a heartache for example is a record that sees you at your happiest with someone and a few months later your saddest without them. It's a classic and it's never been beaten, if you've heard it to much i feel sorry for you.

I'm fucking knackered after that and have just blown my speakers and thank you jack for reminding me how good these sounds were!

For No One

2010-02-23T11:43:00.000Z

I'm not usually the one to fly the beatles over flown flag or ever thought they'd ever find their way on to this blog but i kind of have to for this song. The album is almost faultless and this song in particular can't reeeally be beaten eventhough the second side is a bit loose except for the two below. Today should be an interesting day.

now Beatles never darken my doorstep again

Moderately sexier than the other take

Modulate with ME #1

2010-02-22T18:04:00.000Z

Erika Thrasher

Bands with girl synthesizer players are the fucking nuts. Girls that can Modulate like this are deitys. Erika Thrasher, i think is her name, and she plays in the texan band Indian Jewelry, she fucking rocks. She plays synthesizer, guitar and vox. Indian Jewelry were played to me by a friend recently whilst we were driving through hastings in almost complete darkness. Fucking hell it was good. Their album Invasive Exotics is insanity. Good speeding round country roads music, drunk melodies, storm trooper vocals, beautiful noise, throbbing synthesizers the fucking lot! This band are underrated, filthy and have been around too long for you to not know who they are.

Here is the link Via the marvellous I.d Reverberations Blogspot.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cx5czc4c2gz

Assembly Line Club

2010-02-22T11:25:00.000Z

The Assembly Line Club is mine and a friends new venture into giving you a new club that'll make it's way through London, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Warsaw, New York, Kiev, Antwerp, Texas, and Paris. The idea is it's an exploration through Electronic music from the late 1950's to Today. Francis Bacon wrote this in 1624 in his novel The New Atlantis and sums it up perfectly..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atlantis

"WEE ALSO HAVE SOUND-HOUSES, WHERE WEE PRACTICE AND DEMONSTRATE ALL SOUNDS AND THEIR GENERATION. WEE HAVE HARMONIES WHICH YOU HAVE NOT, OF QUATER SOUNDS, AND LESSER SLIDES OF SOUNDS. DIVERSE INSTRUMENTS OF MUSICK LIKEWISE TO YOU UNKNOWNE, SOME SWEETER THAN ANY YOU HAVE, TOGETHER WITH BELLS AND RINGS THAT ARE DFAINTY AND SWEE. WEE REPRESENT SMALL SOUNDS AS WELL AS GREAT AND DEEPE; LIKEWISE GREAT SOUNDS, EXTENUATE AND SHARPE; WEE MAKE DIVERSE TREMBLINGS AND WARBLINGS OF SOUNDS, WHICH IN THEIR ORIGINALLE ARE ENTIRE. WEE REPRESENT AND ARTICULATE SOUNDS AND LETTERS AND THE VOICES AND NOTES OF BEASTS AND BIRDS, WEE HAVE CERTAIN HELPS, WHICH SETT TO THE EARE DOE FURTHER THE HEARING GREATLY. WEE ALSO HAVE STRANGE AND ARTIFICIAL ECHOS'S, REFLECTING THE VOICE MANY TIMES, AND AS IT WERE TOSSING IT; AND SOME THAT GIVE BACK THE VOICE LOWDER THAN IT CAM, SOME IN THE LETTERS OR ARTICULATE SOUND, FROM THAT THEY RECEYVE, WEE HAVE ALSO MEANS TO CONVEY SOUNDS IN TRUNKS AND PIPES, IN STRANGE LINES, AND DISTANCES. . . "

Projections at the club will be as dominant as the music policy. Psychedelic Pornography, Psychotic animations, Oil Projections (of course), Italian Horror Film, Solar Flares Burn For You, Beyond Image. Entertaining the senses. And Here, what you can expect to hear..

Clozier and Lejeune - Petite Suite

I found a copy of this a while ago and refused to spend £150 on it, since then i've pissed around with copies on ebay and always just missed them, but fuck me get your head around this record. These are some serious sounds floating around on this. The track 'Danse' had me in tears the first time i heard it. It was meant to be my track of the week a few weeks ago but i couldn't locate an mp3 of it, so you'll have to make do with this. This is a slice of out and out Psychedelic freakery that i can't stop listening to at the moment.

Flying Lotus - GNG BNG

Now someone i rate quite highly is this guy flying lotus, this track is from his album Los Angeles which came out in 2008, i remember hearing this in Phonica in soho and being bowled over. Quite a salute to the late Add N To X this one but still fucking good.

We are in the process of tracking down a venue for the club and tracking down new bands routed in Electronic music. Here is the link for the myspace where there is more music and details and where you can get in touch with either myself or Jack --

www.myspace.com/assemblylineclub

Tribute to Senior Seven

2010-01-21T17:05:00.000Z

Brilliant live video of ADD N TO (X) in 1998. The moog i play in s.c.u.m is up there, in the arms of another. eurgh.

And here is an interview from a German Tv Show

Shoob Shoob Shooby Doob

2010-01-15T17:15:00.000Z

Der Moderne Man - Dauerlauf

This'll melt your face off. My favourite punk record of all time and also my favourite music video. This record is perfect. The album is a goodun but i'd say for me this was theee stand out track. I get so fucking excited listening to this song. 1 minute 39 seconds later i've lost a shoe, my hairs on end, red faced, bedroom in a heap, no two ways - this record makes you thrash around like a pissed off badger. Listen to it loud on your ipod walking down deptford high street or before you go out, never play it early in a set and make sure you wake your mum up with it. All stellar advice for a song like this.

Probably my favourite change in a song at 40 seconds it's something else! Most fantastic vocals and drums! Though, in the video i have no idea which one is the singer. I wish i had friends that looked like that, they look like the coolest kids in Germany. My favourite one is the guy in the glasses at the back. Have a look...

Track Of The Week #5

2010-01-12T18:09:00.000Z

Click Box - Step Session

A few friends from Southend played me this in the summer of last year. I never really knew what minimal techno was, still don't think i really know. But i know as much that this record is fucking brilliant, some of the other stuff i've heard is just hairdressers music but this record is really addictive, the pounding beat and the heavy bassed out synthesizers are pretty much spot on. Perfect. Enjoy..

Thank you God, Jesus, Mary, The Pope And Richmal Crompton

2010-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

Carolyn Hester Coalition - Follow Me

I stood outside on a friends balcony recently when the snow was falling listening to this song, it was quite cold and really early, the sun was coming up slowly. I hadn't slept for thinking about someone and i put this song on and i can tell you it was one of the most beautiful situations. It was the slow burning of the end of a trip and everything was still and i sat watching a snow covered estate wake up, birds flying, clouds parting making way for the morning sun, the sound of the first train leaving the station nearby, children on their way to nursery. Everything moving in perfect conjuction with this song.

I found this record when i was trying to research a song i'd heard by Carolyn Hester and her Coalition a while back called Magic Man, which is a screaming relentless freight train of a record which put me in a spin the first time i heard it and still does. As noisy and ghostly as the scene in dumbo when he's having lsd dreams, an insane one off i came to find, off of the metromedia label, quite similar in style to Joanna's howling Hold up Insuite. But nothing like this stunning record, 'follow me' was the only thing i could find by her at the time and it warmed my cockles* on a pissing cold estate in camden better than a moody pscyh number ever could.
*(i was taught by my mum to use a word or expression as many times as i could when i first heard / learned it so warming my cockles will feature heavily in all future blogs to come so piss off and let me parade my warmed cockles)

The New Year

2010-01-04T13:43:00.000Z

I haven't written in this blog for a while because i haven't been inspired to write anything worth reading or haven't found anything worth listening to. So far this new year has been more eventful than my entire 2009, so the next decade should go pretty quick with plenty of things to discover along the way. I'm currently itching to get writing some music and can't wait for the uprising of a music none of us knew existed, fingers crossed.

Mike Burnett - Saying I Love You

A lot has changed recently and this song is helping me adjust slowly. But my god what a record, off of the Norman Petty Comp, the infamous producer of some of the best U.S Garage and co-writer of some of Buddy Hollys big hitters. The lyrics and production is insane. This really warms my cockles in this most horrendously cold british winter. The lyrics are so good..Enjoy..

Glenda Collins - Something I've Got To Tell You

This song was played to me by two close friends on the day of the unbelievable snow that trapped us in doors and turned us into walking snowmen. My favourite Meek lady by far. I just bought this record and it stands up as one of my favourite songs of all time. The lyrics are next to none.

Track Of The Week #4

2009-12-16T11:05:00.000Z

Adam And Eve - The Witch

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...

Through The Eyes Of Another

2009-12-15T21:34:00.000Z

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Clouds Over Earthquake

2009-12-15T17:41:00.000Z

Get your head around this.

Wooden Shjips - Clouds Over Earthquake

Track of the Week #3

2009-12-11T00:18:00.000Z

Le Coeur - Bye Bye City

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!

The Space Lady aka Suzy Soundz

2009-12-10T14:04:00.000Z

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

2009-12-10T13:46:00.000Z

Up Yours Adam! Ha

Track of the Week #2

2009-12-04T12:42:00.000Z

Nico - All That Is My Own

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..

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

Pirate Radio

2009-12-03T17:54:00.000Z

Brilliant documentary about pirate radio.

The Truth

2009-12-01T09:52:00.000Z

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.

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

Martini On Ze Go

2009-11-30T01:02:00.001Z

In one of my earlier posts i disagreed with Lydon and Pop endorsing butter and car insurance but this is something else. Serge stepping in for martini and other publicty bits is fucking fantastic, i've not seen any footage that accompanies these recordings but can only imagine. Silky smooth. Here are the download links. Enjoy..

http://www.divshare.com/download/9543246-d90

http://www.divshare.com/download/9543247-60a

http://www.divshare.com/download/9543248-ab6

http://www.divshare.com/download/9543249-9d5

http://www.divshare.com/download/9543250-3d3

Polish Flea market

2009-11-29T23:52:00.000Z

When s.c.u.m did a tour of poland last winter we were told about a flea market round the corner from our hotel in Krakow. The skies over poland were bleak and the morning was absolutely frozen. The first sign we saw of street sellers i went storming in losing everyone. It was snowing hard and the product splaid out on the wide alley was getting soaked, they didnt care much. Reminded me of east street on a saturday, loads of rubbish and a lot of shouting. I got to the end of the alley and there was the most amazing little grotto, occupied by an eighty something year old woman, fag hanging out of her mouth reading a book. This grotto was wall to wall of books, the ceiling was leaking a bit and there were book sleeves in tatters all over the place. I started rummaging around and started to find this great set of books.

I bought a few others that weren't from this series so i think i probably bought about 25 books in all for 10 zlotych which i think works out at around 3 quid. Fucking bargain. I was reading passages from the books looking at the covers for hours on our way back to warsaw (and seeing who could stick there head out of the window the longest) ....

I've been trying to find information about these books on the internet, or even pictures, not much luck. If you know anything get in touch the publishers are called 'zapamietaj ten znak'.. later on, relieved, i found Tom in the actual market with ten bags full of stuff. Antlers, trousers, strange instruments and an old doctors bag for not much more than i paid! Both our hands were blue, so we went into the supermarket for a bit.

Track of the Week #1

2009-11-27T14:03:00.000Z

Petalouda - What Can You Do In Your Life?

From the Psych Funk 101 compilation, acid drenched fuzzed out funky greek psychedelia with the deepest darkest groove. What a vocal! this song makes me go weak at the knees.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZXCCMA9J

Christine 23 Onna

2009-11-24T13:30:00.000Z

Christine 23 Onna, what can i say? You need to hear this. The genius of noisician Yamazaki Maso widely known as masonna, one of the coolest cats on the japanese scene for well over twenty odd years and Toda Fusao of Angel'in Heavy Syrup...

I recently picked up two cdr's from a shop in notting hill by the band, entitled 'Shiny Crystal Planet and Acid Eater'. On first listen i couldn't make sense of the fact that these albums actually came out in early two thousands. The tracks are groovy as hell with the most demonic fuzz, throbbing synthesized landscapes and In true japanese style some intense spacey echo effects. Both albums are completely instrumental, the synthesizer playing is fucking next to none and they look so cool. They sound pretty dissimilar to a lot of bands that have come out of japan in the past 50 years and a lot more like an italian or french soundtrack from the late sixties, early seventies. The tracks all collide into one another so well, making it so hard to play just one song to your friends. I can't stress how good some of the synthesizer bits are on these albums, air synthesizer will be massive in a year or two just you wait.

I will be getting this all pressed up because i can't find a trace of the vinyl copies anywhere and this shit needs to be played everywhere.

Here is a link to the ACID EATER album, my preferred album via the celiosom blogspot

http://rapidshare.com/files/290784835/Christine_23_Onna_-__Acid_Eater.rar

And here is a link to the SHINY CRYSTAL PLANET album via the terror noise audio blogspot

http://www.mediafire.com/?bsrmcvr5u5b

Taj Mahal Travellers Film

2009-11-24T13:13:00.000Z

Here is a link to the Matsuo Ohno film footage of the Taj Mahal Travellers, most of it i think is shot on super 8 so it's bound to look incredible when a bunch of japanese psyched up long hairs invade scandinavia and europe. Nothing particular happens in this film, no outrageous parties or Jonestown like antics, just fucking strange performances and amazing footage of one of the most creative and intense bands to come out of the japanese rock n roll scene. It's fun to have on as something in the background at parties or just to relax and watch...

http://www.ubu.com/film/taj.html

Clash Trainer

2009-11-19T15:42:00.000Z

the company i work for, recently were asked to curate a fanzine for UK Punk high flyers The Clash. I was asked to write a passage and send it over to the board at converse, i sent my initial draft to my boss and he without checking it over sent it straight on to them. I went on tour and have arrived at work today, and realised we have been sacked from the project, here was my input into the fanzine.

"My argument on the clash is, that the clash is relevant to our generation in the way that we were brought up listening to this by our parents and often enough our balding secondary school teachers who were there and witnessed first hand the effect they had and can tell you in great great detail what a profound influence they had on them and how ‘music would be nothing without them’. But with that strong well supported preached opinion, comes the burden of something being over played, over appreciated and for me in particular over looked. Like the Beatles and the stones I was told I had to like them, I’ve seen the aftermath of stupid old bastards singing the same shit over and over being honored left right and centre, a snorted dad and a baker street shop, that I got into the pretty things and the Fall and went in search for something I hadn’t heard before. In a time when we are exposed to catalogues of music on the click of a button, we’re always trying to discover more, so when something is shoved down your throat you immediately feel repulsed by the subject and you go looking for what is not directly in front of your eyes and the clash were one of those things unfortunately. In my opinion you have to develop a unique connection with a band of undoubted influence and prestige so that appreciation of a band goes past who their fans are and goes past the 50,000 x 50,000 mile queue that follows close behind and really listen to the music in a way it was intended to be heard. Like Elvis and The Fall both said 50,000 Elvis/Fall fans can’t be wrong. So what’s the point of arguing with that? You either like it or you’ve just been preached to and not lovingly introduced to for so long you forgot they existed. Preached to about a god you may have liked given half the chance. I like the clash but big fucking deal. Love the unloved and find the unfound, the fact there is a trainer being made about them and not fucking Miles Davis or the fall says it all. The clash do not epitomize for me and a lot of my generation the feeling of youth and rebellion, they epitomize our mums and dads youth and a rebellion against an England which works and exists in a very different way now. Punk rock no longer is the sound of rebellion but an amazing look back into what music and England has gone through in the past 40 years. This is our white riot only more like a generational version, we want a riot of our own, but how can we do that when we’re wearing shoes plastered with the idea and a concept of a band we don’t understand. Put these trainers on your mantle piece or buy them for your kids, buy into something that has no fucking relevance to the band you love."

This is good though...

Desmond Leslie

2009-11-19T13:44:00.000Z

Recently i got in contact with the nephew of the Avant garde composer Desmond Leslie to ask him about his uncle's past in the royal air force, i had heard a story from my dad but wasnt sure. Here is the response he sent me when i asked him if it was actually true. .

"He trained secretly in Florida with the rest of the cadets when the US joined the war, so he effectively missed the battle of britain.

However, his stories were mainly funny in nature.

He faked footage of flying through a railway tunnel, by zooming in on a lightbulb through a drainpipe on a super 8 camera, and cut this in with his own footage - playing it back proudly to his peers who caught him when the noticed the splices on the film.

He also found a layer in the sky in which his Spitfire caused vapor trails - at which time he attempted to write FUCK in the sky hundreds of feet across, but only managed the first 3 letters before the smoke turned black and he had to land, his ranking officer remarked "Leslie your a Cunt".

He borrowed a friends Hurricane and nose dived it from several thousand feet, to illustrate its inferiority to the spitfire, the Hurricane was torn apart by the inertial forces and he bailed out, crashing the plane. He thought he proved his point.

He drove a spitfire down a country lane in Yorkshire and was reduced to no flying duties for a month.

Desmond also came across a experimental classified Mosquito bomber (two engined planes were regarded as Buses next to the zippy one engine fighters) He put his two fingers up and screamed away - intending to leave them in his dust - but sure enough they were right at his side, he tapped his speed gauge - and at full throttle gave them a puzzled look before they put their two fingers up and took off at twice his speed leaving him confused in their wake...

He eventually resigned from the Airforce remarking after successfully destroying a great deal of fighter aircraft, much of it his own - that the war effort would be cheaper with out-him....

thats about all i can remember...

let me know if you want other information.

Sincerely

Luke Leslie "

You can find all about the musical side of Leslie from a Trunk records reissue or here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1327100/Desmond-Leslie.html. My mum actually picked up an original copy of his Music Concrete LP Music Of The Future from my grandads house as a present for me. I never listened to music concrete once until my dad heard i had a copy and told me what an influence it was on him and his own music. You can here bits of it have been sampled on avant hard. The actual sleeve i have of Music Concrete is hand painted and the vinyl is thick as fuck. I'll upload a scan of it soon, some of the stories behind his songs are marvellous. Very similar in his workings to Joe Meek's early project with the blue men 'I hear a new world' E.P only without the pop rhythms. Brilliant Electronics.

Most people may know leslie as this fellow

If you like him that much you can go and stay in his castle, have a look

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/haunted178.html

fucking brilliant. Any takers?

Berlin Signal

2009-11-02T13:09:00.000Z

We've just done our Paris Signal so this Berlin Signal is being put out... We had a lot of fun recording this series.

Korositai Kimochi

2009-11-02T12:42:00.001Z

Here is a review that i wrote for my friend adham's fanzine called the URA ZINE,

Welcome to the cross kings, the basement dwelling of the Psychedelic Far East for the night. No lights are on except limited colored lights on the floor stage and a light illuminating a corner of the room marked with satanic graffiti. Ghost’s ‘Hypnotic Underworld’ is being played back to back and back again, bringing with it an atmosphere felt by myself and the two bands playing before and a few curious on lookers. Four young men with hair down to their waists (almost) take to the stage and begin, you can barely see a thing but you can hear the bouncing echo of the guitars ringing back and forth. That feeling in the air before a big storm, an almost static electronic pulse, an invisible atmosphere that keeps you routed in suspense, it’s on it’s way, you can feel it.

“Hello we are Bo Ningen, we thank you very much for coming”

(Silence)

A whirlwind of sound… Taigen amidst the rubbles of the awe struck crowd and the sudden crashing and colliding maze of fuzzed out guitars, like a voodoo cursed conductor, he leads his fucked up symphony to what seems a beautiful maze of noise. His hands shake in a wild sequence of contorted movements as he silently introduces his members which include Guitar number one Yuki Tsuji, guitar number two Kohhei Matsuda and finally Mon-chan the brutal backbone of the band.

Bo Ningen play with such fierce determination and such gut busting precision that it feels as if they’ve always been around. Nothing about this band is forged from the past; they are a complete separate entity. They play rock n roll through and through with a sense of humor, picking upon the anthem like riffs of the late sixties early seventies psychedelic scene filtering them through the experimental dirge of the japanoise revolution leaving the P.A to fry for the next band to dare play after them. As good as they are live they haven’t projected in my opinion a parallel on record*****, but at the same time why should they? And also this is only the beginning of what is to come. Their live performance is encapsulating, a sonic destruction a lot of people won’t understand or won’t want to understand, a true embodiment of there talent and lust for making noises and sounds is often impossible to put onto record. So critics hold your words.

Something that makes this band stand out is whether you like the music or not you will be inspired to start a band, collect music that they admire or at least want to look like them. Bo Ningen have a thing a lot of bands do not, a hypnotic presence which goes past the way they look, it’s the sound they project. An intense noise force designed for them and only them at that present moment. You the audience come second. It just so happens they know you’re there, so sporadic creation and blinding performance is imminent. They’ve stormed into London with a swagger that can’t for now be matched.

This music is the awful premonition that the pastors of fifties America proclaimed would behold the world and be it’s very downfall, if we fell for the charms of rock and roll. Well this is what they dreamt and we fell for it. Insane sound levels, chord structures unheard of for a long time, the snarling attitude that Japanese rock music adopted when the flower travellin’ boys sped butt naked poised for stardom on the road going ‘Anywhere’. It just so happens that these boys are driving harder and faster and intent on sticking around until we get the picture. All Hail The Stick men that are Bo Ningen.

**** Bo Ningen have a single release on the 7th Of December which is fucking brilliant, this review was written a while ago. Well done boys. S.C.U.M will be playing there single launch so come down!

Tour Van

2009-11-02T10:09:00.000Z

As S.c.u.m are starting tour with the horrors tomorrow (!) , i've not packed my bag but i have decided what i'm going to read when the vans asleep and i cant, what i can listen to when in the middle of Denmark and we've overplayed the BJM and Our Phil Good is out of Phil Good Tapes.. So I thought i'd share with you what i'm going to be reading and listening to in the next 2 weeks...

What i'll be listening to...Recently we took a trip to Milan to do a gig for a festival called Bats Over Milan. I only realised when we got there that we'd be supporting Section 25 and The Fall. An adequate laxative. We barely had a soundcheck and we popped out and went and ate some ugly pizza and walked around the San Siro. When we got back the venue was empty so we subsequently ended up playing to 15 people. Backstage we sat in for the most part of the evening talking about all kindsa shit until we heard a familiar voice on stage. The fall had started. We watched the whole gig from behind the drummer, played nothing we recognised but everything was recieved with goosebumps in part when he'd come up and remove the kick drum mic or turn the bass amp off.

Overjoyed after the gig tom and i went into their dressing room and introduced ourselves to his wife and said we admired her synthesizer and mark e had us kicked out by his skinhead bass player with a good riddance kids on the way out. Completely overwhelmed and really excited, the fall impressions came out and sent the rest of the band to bed for the rest of the night. When back in England i realised how little of the fall i actually knew, other than the collective 50, 000 fall fans can't be wrong. I went and bought bend sinister from soho and this 10 inch 'Slates'. What a record! i sat in my room mouth wide open for the whole duration of the first and second side.

My first love of music was through British Punk, i went into the dying Minus Zeros record shop recently and spoke with the Left Bill about the first few times i came in and rinsed repeatedly the punk box behind the counter, endless days off school trawling through strange band shot sleeves and slimey, snotty, two fingers up nazi saluting, snivelling shit hundred pound out of reach singles spending lunch money i'd managed to save (what a horrible shame the best record shop in london will become a fucking l'occitane or a pound tat shop). Honestly go there before they shut in april you won't regret it don't leave it too late

MINUS ZERO 2 Blenheim Crescent London W11 1NN UK Tel/Fax: (020) 7229 5424 Fri,Sat only 10.00-6.00pm

But back to the fall, i've never felt this strongly about a punk record, every song to the uninspiring drab music fan may sound like monotonous fall back catalogue, but to me, it has been everything i've been looking for in a Punk record. My favourite fall is the peel sessions and the really rough recording they present in the early stuff although the introduction of the 'blinky blonky space invaders' through out their career is as good and filled with the same creativity, dry humour, bitterness and spontanaiety as the first few fall albums like this... (Jules holland is a wanker)

fucking brilliant, fuck jools holland. A friend of mine told me that the fall actually had it written into there contract that the fall would appear if Jools Holland didn't play Boogy Woogy Piano with them. excellent

But what is so fascinating about Slates is it's energy and often quite disconcerting strange sounds that suits the voice of Smith so well. I mean in 1981 music had changed a lot to the original sound of 'Punk rock music' and it had taken brilliant new influences and gone places of profound influence so perhaps the fall were living on with the same sound they had had since '76... Bollocks, that's the beauty of it, it's an uncompromising aural biography of Mark E Smith and the many members who have stood behind him from '76 to today. Most people either love it or hate it, but it's your fault if you take notice of it and don't like it and have to tell everyone your ignorant opinion on them, so shaddap... i fucking bet you dj totally wired don't you.

Mark E in the red corner

and whatshisface in the blue corner

P.s how many of you actually forgot you were watching the football scores and thought you were listening to the fall, i certainly did

Here is a link for downloading slates via http://rarepunk.blogspot.com/2007/11/fall-slates.html Buy the 10 inch on ebay it's only 20 quid and it's on rough trade!
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Love this record, This'll be a 3 in the morning job riding across Scandanavian Countryside!

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For what i will be reading

The other day i picked up a great paperback book in the post, it was a brilliant copy of one of my favourite films Saturday Night Sunday Morning. Recently I've been keeping log of all films i've been watching and writing small bits on what i liked about them, and i've found i can't write about film at all, i just find it visually exciting and can't articulate what i feel very well at all. So this will remain a music blog... Usually i can't read anything, i start a book a day and most often than not i dont pass the travelling chapter which is the bus to rehearsals. I got collecting paperback books from my old man, our house when i was younger was either filled with old sixties and seventies paperbacks or furniture he'd picked up from around Camberwell, so i naturally became really interested in a lot of it. He'd also written the beginning of what i thought was a really fascinating book on the subject that i found under my bed when i was clearing out my room, i'll publish it one day, some how but That's what got me into collecting them and this is what will probably end up under the seat or in a hostel in Aarhus. (i tried to find a picture of the book but the one i have isnt on google images and i dont have a scanner)...

Heart Full Of Soul

2009-07-25T12:08:00.000+01:00

Last night i was playing records for a friends birthday and was asked to run a soul night in Brixton, in a pub that's being taken over by the same group of people who run the Amersham arms in New Cross and the lock in Camden. I hadn't gone through any of my soul records for a long time, not since my dad and I did a night called 'Die Nacht Network' which should of really been a stomping electronic night but ended up a father and sons rock n soul catch up!

...But i have been thinking recently about soul clubs and how in England through what i know from going to soul clubs around London and seeing events posted on Facebook from around Britain, the audiences seem to be predominantly white. Which i don't think is weird at all but i do wonder if the black youth of England feel the same affinity with black American soul music of the sixties like the Motown sound in the same way. I understand the way in which rhythm and blues and soul music has evolved and the culture of mainstream black music has changed so people are engrossed in it's modern manifestation understandably but i just wonder whether they feel the same. But I recently came across this band on some recent live coverage of Glastonbury and was awestruck.. This is the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

I've heard they've been around for a while but it was the first i'd heard of them and think they are fucking brilliant.
At my school towards the end of my final year in uniform, a young black gospel choir performed a few songs with a brilliant soulful swing and it sent shivers down my spine. A friend of mine introduced me to the idea of working with gospel choirs in Southwark and i had the idea of introducing them to a few songs and request they try a rendition of something like a Sam and Dave belter and book them to perform at the night. Because essentially Sam and Dave's music was so passionate and electrifying because of their connection with our lord and savior that if a young gospel group followed in similar footsteps, in a generation with a keen eye on the past we'd have the best group in town. I'm not suggesting that music needs this, i just feel it would be an exciting way of making use of real talent. And also a soul night with a doo wop/soul/gospel quintet heading the night instead of back to back soul spinners (which is in no way a bad thing) would be really entertaining and a brilliant change (if done well of course).

One woman who should drop the baggage is Noisettes lead singer 'Shingai Shoniwa.' This should of been released, hands down the best pop song that never was...

full of soul and catchy as hell, she looks so fucking cool in the video it's unreal. The first time i heard that was on Jools Holland, it was such a great surprise, it became my favorite new track overnight.

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Moving on, when me and a friend of mine in secondary school discovered soul music, it was a revelation, Howard Tate was his thing and Gil Scott Heron mine. On one of our many trips to Intoxica i bought a new copy of Gil Scott Heron - Small talk at 125th and Lennox and listened to it religiously and fell in love with this track in particular just because of the lyrical content and the way he uses his voice and the piano just makes for one of the most soulful, heart felt, heartbreaking records...

The first time i played this record to my friend it was a sunny day and we'd avoided school to listen to it which i reluctantly did (my mum's reading). As i played it to him i noticed a book on his table which he'd been reading, a paperback book beautifully scarred through it being read in class under the 'Schwarz, Rot, Gold text book' and beaten about in rumbles during P.E. It was called the Vulture and it was by Gil Scott Heron! (It has one of the best book covers ever! I can't find a single picture of it on the internet but i will try and upload it in the near future). What a revelation! The way the record sounded with it's raw nightclub recording, the way the tracks roll off of the last and the knife the words are delivered with is sharper than any. A new black poet indeed! but to discover he released a book of poetry and a novel fucking hell, i could take the week off. I don't have the mp3's of this, so i won't be able to share it with you but the record is definitely worth having.

If you've got the album, or just listened to a few of the tracks and feel like you need some revolution or something to rally against in your own bedroom then i would suggest you bought 'Punishment Park', it's been properly released on dvd now and you can get it at the Bfi on the south bank or you could just watch it like i did on youtube. It really makes your blood boil and it is one of my favourite films. A couple of quotes for you to give you an idea...

"Charles Robbins: Would you like for me to define what a politician is? A politician is nothing but a debater. All that you do is debate issues, you fat pig, you meathead. That's all that you are, because you are lying, sucker, you're lying to the camera, you're lying to your mama, you're lying to everybody, but every time I hear you open up your mouth, all I hear is oink, you pig. That's all I hear, oink. 'Cause you ain't got no humanity in you, 'cause you're a pig, you lying punk."

"Desert Pacifist: At another time, the honorable thing or the right thing to do might be to be a policeman or to be President. Right now, I think the honorable thing to do is to be a criminal."

Really fascinating way of film making too, read up on it on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment_Park it genuinely will provoke a strong reaction.

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The Larks

Just imagine if this is what became of my idea!!

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Some Top Soul Spins!

Elbie Parker!

£3.50 A Tape!

2009-07-23T22:03:00.000+01:00

If you get in touch with me at Samuel.kilcoyne@yahoo.co.uk and send me your addresses i'll send you a tape for £3.50! i'll be looking forward to hearing from you!

((( I originally was going to sell these for a quid but then realized how much cassettes are )))

An Englishman In New York

2009-07-23T18:49:00.000+01:00

It's the sequel to the naked civil servant (1975), a biopic about the infamous Quentin Crisp (check earlier posts) which looks really interesting. John Hurt plays the lead and looks fucking great. Get in touch we'll all go together, popcorn's on you!

COVER VERSIONS!

2009-07-23T12:15:00.000+01:00

Cover versions. Everything from churned out or exciting reworked blues classics to Japanese Eleki bands and straight up pop covers - the cover version is fascinating!

Here are a few to wet your appetite

Firstly, i'd bunked off of school because of unfinished English coursework one Friday morning and decided to hit the record fair with the little money i had managed to save up. I was sure the best way i could procrastinate over an essay on Henry V, a play i hadn't even began reading yet was to trawl through boxes of records, boxes and boxes of sweet time killing essay forgetting records which can often be a big mistake when you have a bank account which is gathering dust, rapidly. My old man's birthday was drawing closer and i had got him nothing. In the first box of singles i went through sure enough! this monster of a record unearthed itself. Old man 7 had his 43rd birthday present sorted..

Dave Phillips and His Hot Rod Gang - Tainted Love

Have a little look at the myspace

http://www.myspace.com/155037955

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EUROPEAN SON

I Found this cover while looking through youtube for clips of Ride and what a surprise it was, what a track! It really reminded me of the Spacemen 3 and Sound's nothing like the original but still it makes me feel the same way.. Off of the Heaven And Hell record

Ride - European Son

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Psycho

Here is a track played to me by Tom of S.C.U.M in one of our many trips up and down the country. When i tried to find it on the internet, i stumbled across the original as well. I don't think any of us realized it was a cover but here are both versions both as well delivered with an uneasy calm for what he's actually saying.

Here is the Eddie Noack Version

And The Beasts Of Bourbon Version

I can't tell who i would believe would sing this and mean it more...

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Some Velvet Morning

I think Lee Hazlewood is generally untouchable and this song in particular pretty unbeatable in the cosmos of music but i think to make the Primals and Moss cover obsolete i feel the Slowdive version is certainly up for the job. The woman's vocal on this makes me feel a little uneasy and has a real ghostly feel to it but i think it genuinely has captured something that Lee originally wanted people to get from this song mostly through the instrumental backing.

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SEND ME A POSTCARD

And now, when in Southend recently a friend of mine showed me this track which i think is as good as the original. The fuzz on the guitar is bone shaking and i don't happen to speak a word of Turkish but prefer singing along to this version.. Enjoy..

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9FOZ8E48

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Staying focused on Shocking Blue, Nirvana's cover of love buzz!

Shocking Blue

Nirvana

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The Sun Always Shines On TV

Nadja, the band who describe themselves as Ambient Doom released 'The Sun Always Shines On TV' a whole covers album. I would seriously reccommend you listen if you like that heavier sound. There cover of MBV's Only Shallow isn't great but the cover of Slayers 'Dead Skin Mask' and Elliot Smiths 'Needle In The Hay' are both beautifully drawn out trudging monsters. The solitary vocals that sit with the noise just leave you floating in atmosphere some how unable to get up and change the record. They'll be playing Corsica on the 2nd so i imagine it will be a good one. I have no download link for this unfortunately so i'm going to have to leave you to find this one..

(( They cover Aha, Slayer Swans, My Bloody Valentine, Elliot Smith, The Cure, Kids in The Hall and Codeine )) Horrific Record Sleeve though..

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To rap up this post Big Black with the model, 1,2 fuck you!

Check these out too

Diamanda Galas - I Put A Spell on You (only person who can yelp as well as Jay Hawkins)
Scott Walker - Scott sings Brel (Great Record but i'm not so familiar with originals)
Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra (Recent-ish c.d release of the mans own work and some interesting remixes)
R Stevie Moore Does The Beatles (I'm only sleeping in particular sounds really fucked up)
Nico - Heroes (Not such a great version but a great video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FfeXi5ymWk)

A Long Overdue Post!

2009-07-22T10:59:00.000+01:00

It's been long overdue i do apologize for letting this slip a bit. Two months since the last post. I've been doing the Topman Ctrl blog which has been alright. Had an interview which lasted the best of four hours and they've updated the site on things i've said, so not my blog technically. Enough about that, i have some exciting finds to report!

Firstly, the Washington 4 piece 'Reeks And The Wrecks'. Sleazy, trashy, dreamy, otherworldly, everything about their intriguing 2005 LP entitled 'Knife Hits' mechanically strides along with menace and raw power. I've been listening to the album solidly this morning and find myself gobsmacked at every corner. It's a noisy masterpiece, filled with thumping bass lines and whirling electronics with an old trombone wheezing heavily behind. My favorite track on the album has to be 'Stoners On Fire' it sticks out as it is a track purely based on electronics, drum machines and a spooky backwards vocal. Pure filth and a really fun record to listen to.

Here is a link to there myspace, they sum themselves up really well i think

http://www.myspace.com/reeksandthewrecks

And here is a download link

http://www.mediafire.com/?2imnzytf5yz

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HOLY FUZZ

I've recently been trying to do podcasts on Garage band but fucking hate the sound of my own voice so i've given up and just started making mixes which somehow always end up with me putting tracks through stupid voice changing effects which is really funny but seriously a shit way to play people music you're really passionate about for the first time, therefore i've decided to stick to this and give you the albums straight.

Now, a compilation which is great fun. Holy Fuzz off the Hidden Visions record label released in 1998. I originally bought it for one thing and that was The Search Party track the news is you, which is brilliant - beautiful folky womens vocal over thundering heavy psych guitars! Amazing on big speakers the swelling guitars and the beautiful vocal swimming in and out is just acid drenched and is the height of celestial beauty on this album. I tried to buy the search party album directly but check out the price of it,

http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=the+search+party&x=0&y=0

Ouch indeed, a few of the tracks on this comp are just normal bog standard American psych numbers, but to make up for them being a little less electrifying than the others, you just have to listen to some of the lyrics and imagine the circumstances under which these songs were written, Christian hard rock societies - i imagine there are some fantastic stories. I am at this moment in time waiting for my copy of this to arrive, their is a booklet written by the Hidden Visions Label in it so when i get it i'll report back on some of the amazing stories and descriptions i'm hoping the booklet beholds. The guitar work on this will melt your face and the groove on some of the tracks is pretty hot. Let me know what you think of it, i personally really enjoyed listening to it and am quite looking forward to delving into this 'Jesus Music Era' stuff. Ha! ( I really do apologise about the amount of files, i could only work out how to do single files not whole album files, nevertheless download it all )

The Exkursions - It's Been Sent Down http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ISF97D64
Selha - Romans http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SU7CW4OS
The Bridge - Jesus http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L831XPEC
The Search Party - The News Is Youhttp://www.megaupload.com/?d=PDZD2EUM
Pre-Agape - In The Lighthttp://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZHYNHQED
Stonewood Cross - Majic Man http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3WO4K5XA
All Saved Freak Band - All Across The Nation http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZNXKDFLV
The Search Party - You And I http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EFMD5TF3
The Exkursions - Dry Ground http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MLSIN2YG
The Concrete Rubber Band - Christian http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3EQ2VULI
Pressed Down, Shaken Together And Running Over - Pressed Down, Shaken Together And Running Over.http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RME39C9C
Agape - Rejoice http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JVKUANPI

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MADELEINE CHARTAND - ANI KUNI!!

Oh! Also, this record was on ebay recently and it is absolutely fantastic! It was really massive in Quebec in 1972 i think. It's by the captivating Madeleine Chartand, this track is called 'Ani Kuni.' I'm completely addicted, the electric sitar in the middle everything about it. Let me know what you think, i can't stop listening..

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カルメン・マキ＆OZ－閉ざされた街

This is what i always imagined the yeti album by amon dull 2 performed to look like. This women is incredible. One of the coolest beginnings to a live show! It get's a bit much after a while but still brilliant viewing!

Some New Sounds

2009-05-25T21:21:00.000+01:00

I wanted to mention a while back a few bands going at the moment who are well worth a listen, bands who have been around for a while who have recently released something or i have seen who i think might be worth getting into.

S.C.U.M played a show in Glasgow as part of the recent signals tour and we were treated to dinner in the upstairs of the venue which was a rare surprise. Over the pub noise and ramble i could hear this brilliant melody. I went up to see who it was and was given a c.d, it was by a band called Tame Impala. I went and sat in the tour van and listened to every minute of it over and over until we had to go on stage. The track that grabbed my attention was called Skeleton Tiger. Modern psychedelic rock at it's best. This band make a perfect summer sound that can't be matched for the moment, it's got it's roots in the sounds of the sixties but sounds completely modern and exciting. This band deserve massive fame and the E.P should of got to more people. There playing some exciting shows across the planet even the japanese summer sonic festival so hopefully there in for big things.

Check them out here http://www.myspace.com/tameimpala.

...Since the early 2000's 'Dubstep' has been one of the most exciting developments in electronic music. I remember at school a friend of mine was heavily into it and played me a lot of stuff that he was unearthing from record shops around London. I got into it when i heard skream in rough trade and I mean what really turned me onto the sound was how dark and heavily electronic a lot of the stuff my friend played me was. I've never heard burial and never really been mad into the stuff that crops up at parties from time to time but one lot of musicians released this track onto the net a good while ago, not sure if it actually got official release but it is one of the hardest darkest and most interesting sounds i've heard crop up. Koan Sound ...

...A few weeks back i was invited to see two guys play a gig in Stockwell. There names Aaron Dilloway and Nate young. I hadn't heard much about them and didn't really know what to expect. I looked them up with the time i had and couldn't find much on them.
When we got there we were just in time for Nate youngs set. Annoyingly short and not much to the performance but still a good build up for what was to come. I tried to film the show with my shitty dutch film camera which ran out of memory in 3 minutes so i'm gonna have to show you the footage of Aaron Dilloway playing in Detroit. You don't need me to tell you that this is some psychotic intense shit and needs to be seen. Whether you can hack it or whether you like it is a different thing. I love it and bought the casette. Enjoy noise junkies! He's making most of the noise through a contact mic he stuck in his mouth. I met him after the show, lovely man.

...On my way back from Rosies flat in Surbiton i was reading the London Lite music reviews and there were a band mentioned who were given quite a glowing review, Papercuts they were called. I bought the album without hearing it hoping for a spontaneous discovery and indeed it was. I played it round at a friends house after a few drinks and it was a really nice album. Some of it is a bit boring but there are some really great tracks.

http://rapidshare.com/files/199856624/Papercuts-You_Can_Have_What_You_Want-_Advance_-2009-PAPERCUTS.rar

Track List
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1. Once We Walked In The Sunlight 5:09
2. Dictator's Lament 3:01
3. The Machine Will Tell Us So 5:45
4. A Peculiar Hallelujah 3:03
5. Jet Plane 5:00
6. Dead Love 4:17
7. Future Primative 4:25
8. You Can Have What You Want 2:51
9. The Void 4:49
10. The Wolf 2:55

...A friend of mine Chris Rotter made me a great C.d the other day, full of sonic surprises one of my favorites being this lot. Thee Oh Sees from San Francisco, i think they've been around for a while judging by the amount of stuff they have available to buy. He didn't give me a track listing so i don't know the name of the song he gave me but everything i've heard by them i really like.

Here's a link to there myspace see what you think

http://www.myspace.com/ohsees.

The Wonderful World Of Quentin Crisp

2009-05-23T12:15:00.000+01:00

Brilliant film and great inside into the life of Quentin Crisp. I was recommended this film by a friend to watch on one of the shitty days we've been having in between the intense summer flashes. A really great character with a lot to say.. Enjoy

The Last of My Money was Heavier Than a Death In The Family

2009-05-20T21:42:00.000+01:00

Recently on a binge to Rough Trade i picked up a copy of Julian Copes Jap Rock Sampler. I had walked in with the intention of buying a few LPs by the Tokyo band 'Ghost' after hearing them at a friends night conveniently called "Heavier Than A Death In The Family" at the Amersham arms in New Cross. So after finding out Rough Trade had a shit Japanese section i had to curb my enthusiasm and pre order some stuff which by the time they get in, i'll probably be into sludge metal (fingers crossed). The books front cover is of The Flower Travelling Band's Debut LP - Anywhere. Butt naked japanese long haired bikers on the road going 'anywhere!'... I am currently half way through the book and have got to say i am inspired and now fascinated by japanese culture. The characters mentioned make for an exciting read, Dr. Acid 7 and Moriaki Wakabayashi are firm favourites. Finding the records or even the recordings mentioned in the book is proving hard though. Here is the blurb..

"A cult deconstruction of Japanese rock music, and reveals what really happened when east met west after world war two. It explores the clash between traditional, conservative japanese values and the wild rock 'n' roll renegades of the 1960's and 70's, and tells of the seminal artists in Japanese post war culture, from itinerant art house poets to violent refusenik rock groups with a penchant for Plane Hijacking!"

Since looking into some of the bands mentioned i'd personally reccomend
Les Rallizes Denudes - Heavier Than A Death In The Family

http://www.mediafire.com/?02tni0zxndk

Track Listings

Strung Out Deeper Than The Night
The Night Collectors
Night Of The Assassins
Enter The Mirror
People Can Choose
Ice Fire

Also....

Quite the opposite to the above are a modern Japanese band i thought might be worth mentioning i heard they were playing the great escape unfortunately i missed them but i think the singles pretty good you can hear them on there myspace

http://www.myspace.com/screamingteaparty

And finally my favourite of all! ENJOY!

And a more recent discovery shown to me by a few friends, who were playing in the newly reformed London & Brighton in Peckham last night are london based Psychedelic / Experimental / Rock band Bo Ningen. I'm not too sure about the stuff they have on there myspace but the youtube videos look really exciting and there press picture is fucking great

http://www.myspace.com/boningen