Thursday, 21 January 2010
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
Friday, 15 January 2010
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...
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...
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
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..
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)
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)
Monday, 4 January 2010
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.
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.
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Track Of The Week #4
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...
This is the only picture i could find that is remotely similar to the lp sleeve. Honestly put on some head phones and rock out to this number or play it loud with plenty of bass, or else your not doing this enormous track justice, the most amazing hypnotic vocals and filthy groove. Been trying to find this record for such a long time, even just an mp3 of this song, so happy to find it was comped! Check this out, Fucking fantastic, if anyone is interested in trading or selling their copy of the lp, do get in touch...
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Through The Eyes Of Another
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
Friday, 11 December 2009
Track of the Week #3
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!
For a friends Birthday last week a good friend of ours claimed he had found the best french psych track, at the time a lot of us trusted him that he'd found a right blaster but not the best.. Well he may of been right. This record is so addictive and it's definitley up there, i have put a limit of listening to this song once a day so i don't over do it, been humming it all week. Thank you madcap zach for this one.
Also if there is anything you want to know about french psychedelia i would seriously reccomend checking this website out,
45toursderockfrancais.net/ theres no mp3's or anything just good information and loads of great picture sleeves!
Thursday, 10 December 2009
The Space Lady aka Suzy Soundz
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!
Friday, 4 December 2009
Track of the Week #2
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
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
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
The Truth
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
Monday, 30 November 2009
Martini On Ze Go
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
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