Le Stelle Di Mario Schifano

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

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

Bikini Kill - New Radio



By far one of the coolest fucking songs ever written.

Into My Mind

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.