Rowland S. Howard

Rowland S. Howard
"Pop Crimes"
2009 (Liberation)

1. (I Know A Girl) Called Jonny- 03:51
2. Shut Me Down - 04:21
3. Lifes What You Make It - 06:43
4. Pop Crimes - 07:23
5. Nothin - 03:51
6. Wayward Man - 03:42
7. Ave Maria - 04:00
8. The Golden Age Of Bloodshed - 04:31

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Review from Wire Magazine (March 2010):
"Despite a lifetime spent playing with groups and collaborating with a variety of postpunk musicians, ex-Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S Howard produced only two solo albums. The second, Pop Crimes, emerged a decade after its predecessor Teenage Snuff Film and two months before his death from liver cancer in December 2009. Backed by his ex-Birthday Party colleague Mick Harvey and The Hungry Ghosts’ JP Shilo, with appearances from Brian Hooper and Sean Stewart, Pop Crimes is Howard at his finest. Opening track “(I Know) A Girl Called Jonny” is an organ driven, lust-fuelled duet between Howard and HTRK’s Jonnine Standish, which recalls the 1960s cinematic pop of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigette Bardot. The timbre of the album moves from a sonic detournement that evokes the structures and tonal moods of 60s girl groups, to the driving rhythms and slashing guitar of the title track and “The Golden Age Of Bloodshed”. Howard’s guitar playing moves from raw notes to sonic barrage, yet it retains a unique delicacy of touch. His voice, rich and dark, enunciates tales of desire and failure. Along the way he makes Townes Van Zandt’s “Nothin’” his own and transforms Talk Talk’s “Life’s What You Make It” into a churning, relentlessly hypnotic beast through almost abstracted layers of guitar noise. One album highlight,“Shut Me Down”, echoes with the refrain “I miss you so much” – yearning has rarely been so well articulated as here. Similar images of decline and ruination dominate these songs, but there’s a knowingness and dark humour at play. When he sings “I do all my best thinking, unconscious on the floor” in “Wayward Man”, it’s with a wry worldliness."

GHQ

GHQ
"Everywhere At Once"
2008 (Three Lobed)

1. Rembrance - 04:42
2. Four Trees - 13:37
3. Drop City Blues - 04:54
4. Morrow Rose - 05:05

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Review from Wire Magazine (June 2008):
"This is one of nine albums which make up Three Lobed’s Oscillation III series, featuring exclusive recordings from Bardo Pond, The Bark Haze (featuring Thurston Moore), Jack Rose and Lee Ranaldo, among others. A bit like Konkurrent’s In The Fishtank series, it offers artists an experimental breathing space aside from their normal output. GHQ is a trio of Steve Gunn, Marcia Bassett (from Double Leopards) and drummer Pete Nolan (of Magik Markers). Unlike some of the more extended pieces in the series, GHQ’s album is a varied collection of four contrasting tracks ranging from the tense, hovering guitar buzz of “Rembrance” (sic) and the murmured vocal drones and dappled psychedelia of “Four Trees” to the hollowed out drift of “Drop City Blues” (not unlike the eerie torpor essayed in Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan”) and the murky reverb and hum of “Morrow Rose”."

No Bra

No Bra
"Dance and Walk"
2006 (Muskel)

1. Doherfuckher - 02:26
2. Munchausen - 02:29
3. Noise Pollution - 03:10
4. Fags On My Floor - 01:33
5. New Girls - 02:22
6. Voodoo - 02:46
7. Polite - 03:52
8. Foxy Congregation - 02:06
9. No Woman No Crime - 02:16
10. X Sauna - 02:18
11. Motorcockhead - 02:21
12. Dance And Walk - 02:24

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Review from Wire Magazine (April 2007):
"Originally, duo Susanne Oberbeck and Fanny Pistor-Ettinger (male) came together to make what they term “a retard porn film”. When Fanny declared he was fearful Oberbeck would rape him onstage (or suffered stage fright in alternative versions of the act’s history), he was replaced by Dale Cornish. All of which serves admirably to set the scene for the macabre, sexualised, cheap, sleazy and often hilarious world of No Bra. The broken down pop beats and dance tracks of Dance And Walk concern themselves lyrically with the more fraught aspects of humanity’s diverse proclivities. 2005’s cult hit “Munchausen”, included here, captures the mood. Two pseuds trade claims punctuated by the verbal tick “Really?”: “I love Karl Heinz Munchhausen”, “Really?”, “I shared a flat with him once”, “Really?”, “I shagged him once”, “Really?”, “I used to piss on him every day”, and so on. Pointedly true, funny and frequently revolting."

Fabulous Diamonds

Fabulous Diamonds
"Fabulous Diamonds"
2008 (Slitbreeze)

1. Untitled - 02:36
2. Untitled - 04:02
3. Untitled - 02:53
4. Untitled - 03:12
5. Untitled - 05:13
6. Untitled - 03:53
7. Untitled - 02:23

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Review from Wire Magazine (August 2008):
"The latest run from the relaunched Siltbreeze label has been the most impressive yet, and alongside the Eat Skull LP, the Fabulous Diamonds album is the cream of the bunch. An Australian boy/girl duo, they work from a blueprint of primitive drums, keyboards, saxophone, tapes and piano, with Nisa Venerosa’s simplistic rhythms extrapolated and confused via huge dub-scale doses of effects, while Jarrod Zlatic switches between drugged, Terry Riley-esque drones and devotional Pharoah Sanders-style sax. Their vocal duets have a frail pop quality that sounds most like the Aussie wing of the International Pop Underground while the overall heft of the sound is as propulsive and psychedelic as The Silver Apples. A unique and maddeningly addictive listen."

Zola Jesus

Zola Jesus
"New Amsterdam"
2009 (Sacred Bones)

1. Odessa (Live on WNYU) - 04:07
2. Dog (Live on WNYU) - 04:23
3. Orthodox (Live on WNYU) - 04:34
4. Last Day (Live on WNYU) - 04:28
5. New Amsterdam - 03:13
6. Lady Maslenitsa - 04:02
7. Nativity - 03:00
8. Little Girl - 01:22
9. Be Your Virgin - 01:41
10. Lady in the Radiator - 02:18

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Zola Jesus on AMG

These Are Powers

These Are Powers
"Taro Tarot"
2008 (Hoss)

1. All Night Services - 03:52
2. Chipping Ice - 03:31
3. Cockles - 04:18
4. Untitled (Garbage Bird) - 00:43
5. Peel Some Off - 03:42
6. Twin Remains - 04:32

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Review from Wire Magazine (June 2008):
"Featuring ex-Liars bassist Pat Noecker, the drum-heavy sound of These Are Powers evokes the echoing dub displacement of PiL accompanied by chanted vocals and howling, reverberating guitar. The group’s self-styled “Ghost Punk” music has its obvious antecedents, then, but its trancelike repetition and unsettling barrage of processed guitars and voices, bolstered by a robust low end, lend it a certain distinction. These Are Powers’s intense, ritualistic sound is a rechannelling of rock energies (rather than a post-punk rejection of them) and the 20 minutes of Taro Tarot are like a short, sharp shock. Here the group make their mark and sign off with the guitar’s distorted siren cries and the fading echo of tribal percussion."

Pumice

Pumice
"Quo"
2008 (Soft Abuse)

1. Pumice Quo - 05:31
2. World With Worms - 02:09
3. Fort - 01:34
4. Thermos in the Studio - 02:12
5. Pebbles - 02:20
6. Whole Hoof - 02:46
7. Sick Bay Duvet - 03:27
8. Dogwater - 03:29
9. Heavy Punter - 04:57
10. Battersby - 03:10
11. Beak Remedy - 07:13

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Review from Wire Magazine (August 2008):
"Pumice aka Stefan Neville is the new heir apparent to the New Zealand DIY punk/pop crown previously held by The Clean, Chris Knox and This Kind Of Punishment. His songwriting combines a crude lo-fi aesthetic that manifests itself in muffled vocals, huge ‘dooming’ drums and a motorik take on Lou Reed-style chord solos with drunken folk melodies, lonesome vocals and bursts of free rock. Quo expands the remit even further, with song styles that run the gamut of breakneck hardcore, sea shanties and even moonfaced doo-wop, all rendered with that classic ‘edge of the world’ feel that defines all of the greatest New Zealand independents."

Trans Am

Trans Am
"Futureworld"
1999 (Thrill Jockey)

1. 1999 - 01:37
2. Television Eyes - 05:02
3. Futureworld - 07:02
4. City In Flames - 03:55
5. Am Rhein - 05:24
6. Cocaine Computer - 04:10
7. Runners Standing - 03:45
8. Futureworld II - 03:50
9. Positron - 06:17
10. Sad And Young - 06:40

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Review: Pitchfork

Salaryman

Salaryman
"Karoshi"
1999 (Twelve Inch)

1. Strong Holder - 03:03
2. The Companion - 04:10
3. Thomas Jefferson Airplane - 04:31
4. My Hands Are Always In Water - 04:04
5. Monterey Days / Malibu Nights - 03:49
6. Dull Normal - 04:36
7. Graze The Umbra - 03:33
8. Taco Muerte - 04:16
9. My Dog Has Fleas - 03:05
10. Craters Of The National Moon - 03:56
11. Karoshi - 04:51

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Review: AMG
Official Site: Salaryman

Black Mountain

Black Mountain
"In The Future"
2008 (Jagjaguwar)

1. Stormy High - 04:33
2. Angels - 03:07
3. Tyrants - 08:02
4. Wucan - 06:02
5. Stay Free - 04:29
6. Queens Will Play - 05:16
7. Evil Ways - 03:26
8. Wild Wind - 01:42
9. Bright Lights - 16:41
10. Night Walks - 03:56

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Review from Wire Magazine (January 2008):
"Stephen McBean’s defiantly anachronistic Vancouver group evokes an era of fin de siècle post-hippy burnout, with filthy boogie riffs, thick, rolling grooves and the aural equivalent of 70s smog. What’s great about Black Mountain is their elusiveness – they trade in a certain familiarity but mix and match their influences to such a degree that they become more a general touchstone than they provide any specific references. In The Future sounds heavier than their debut in all senses: the riffs are deeper and the feeling is more grimly antiestablishment, even as it recalls an era when ‘sticking it to the man’ carried some sort of serious currency. With Amber Webber’s vocals rising to Amon Düül II peaks of intensity, this album eclipses their previous output and hits a consistent note of righteous force."

HTRK

HTRK
"Marry Me Tonight"
2009 (Blast First Petite)

1. Ha - 05:10
2. Rent Boy - 03:38
3. Your Mistress - 03:38
4. Kiss Before The Fall - 02:36
5. Waltz Real Slow - 05:45
6. Panties - 03:13
7. She's Seventeen - 02:35
8. Fascinator - 05:15
9. Disco - 04:48

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Review from Wire Magazine (April 2010):
"Pronounced Hate Rock, the Australians’ debut album proper is an unashamedly sordid affair. Produced by ex- Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S Howard, who also contributes guitar on a few tracks, this is grinding and ground-down rock, a drunken trawl in a gutter of trudging bass, with drumming as relentless as an inner city concrete estate and the guitar as flat and unyielding as fluorescent light. Vocalist Jonnine Clementine Standish sings with a cold whispered threat, like Lydia Lunch channelling Nico. She sings of pathetic romantic reunions (“Ha”), corrupted perversions of marital respect (“Rent Boy”), blank acts of sexual slavery (“Panties”) and the cold parade of nightclub narcissism on “Disco”, a world where “conscience is nowhere in sight”, a line which stands as fair warning for the sexual turmoil of Marry Me Tonight."

Fursaxa

Fursaxa
"Mycorrhizae Realm"
2010 (All Tomorrow’s Parties)

1. Lunaria Exits The Blue Lodge - 02:06
2. Poplar Moon - 04:27
3. Celosia - 06:42
4. Well Of Tuhala - 06:53
5. Sunhead Bowed - 04:04
6. Charlote - 08:28
7. Ode To Goliards - 05:51

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Review from Wire Magazine (April 2010):
"This is Tara Burke’s seventh album, but the first where she has availed herself of a formal recording studio, previously preferring to work at home with a four-track machine. The result is a mesmerizingly textured set of recordings. The title describes the symbiotic state that exists between some fungi and their host plants, and there’s an appropriate sense of interplay on “Poplar Moon” between a two-note guitar figure, rising vocal drone, minimal harp line and a swell of sublime strings. On “Well Of Tahula” the chorused vocals and harmonies form such a fine tapestry that the sound is akin to a theremin."

Extra Life

Extra Life
"Made Flesh"
2010 (LOAF)

1. Voluptuous Life - 02:09
2. The Ladder - 06:29
3. Made Flesh - 04:59
4. One of Your Whores - 05:05
5. Easter - 06:15
6. Black Hoodie - 03:26
7. Head Shrinker - 04:09
8. The Body is True - 11:15

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Review from Wire Magazine (March 2010):
"New York’s Charlie Looker presents a personal vision as bewildering as his resumé (Glenn Branca, William Parker) is impressive. Made Flesh offers a contemporary form of urban Prog, drawing as much on the symphonic clang of Branca and Chatham as the brooding chamber rock of Magma and Univers Zero. The crashing rhythms which introduce “Voluptuous Life” set the tone for a work which finds Looker unafraid to plumb ludicrous depths in pursuit of his muse, occasionally displaying a kinship with Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart in terms of unapologetic self-absorption. His affected nerd-squawk vocals are at times irritating but in truth everything here grates, and admirably so."

White Hinterland

White Hinterland
"Kairos"
2010 (Dead Oceans)

1. Icarus - 03:46
2. Moon Jam - 04:19
3. No Logic - 03:41
4. Begin Again - 03:42
5. Bow & Arrow - 03:35
6. Amsterdam - 02:55
7. Thunderbird - 03:38
8. Cataract - 05:14
9. Huron - 05:12
10. Magnolias - 05:20

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Review from Wire Magazine (March 2010):
"There’s been a buzz recently about the crossover between indie rock and R&B following The Dirty Projectors’ magnificent “Stillness Is The Move”, which gained a degree of legitimacy via a cover by Solange Knowles. That comparison is mostly spurious, though, as it is in the case of Casey Dienel’s White Hinterland project. For sure, the cool, collected vocals are set within an environment of looped rhythms and electronic interference, but there’s little to make Electrik Red spill their “drank” and more to inspire wistful gazing onto snowcovered landscapes. This isn’t a criticism of the music itself, however, the glacial quality of which could teach The XX a thing or two about making effective and affecting minimal pop."

Bruckmayr

Bruckmayr
"A Little Warning From The Pimps"
2007 (Angelika Koehlermann)

1. Amplifier - 03:56
2. I See Them Cry Backstage - 03:41
3. Crashing - 03:17
4. The Good Times - 04:18
5. Deep Down - 04:44
6. Here Come The Assholes - 03:47
7. Regular Life - 04:07
8. Did You Really Love Me? - 04:28
9. Stupid - 03:46
10. Sniffing Glue - 04:19
11. Miss Biglove - 03:22
12. Only Love - 05:28
13. The Cat Is Gone - 03:31
14. Another Night In The Club - 04:16
15. Always Untrue - 04:24

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Review from Wire Magazine (March 2007):
"At the wheel of this rumbling killdozer of a disc is hunched the bare chested and tattooed figure of Fuckhead mainman Didi Bruckmayr, who, together with various heavy friends, crashes on to the dancefloor with some severely warped pop, rock and disco . He gleefully hacks into these genres with serrated wit and wisdom. Coming across like Giorgio Moroder meets Leonard Cohen performing the Soft Cell songbook, Bruckmayr’s brilliantly performed electro pop and Motorhead strength hard rock connect perfectly for the ultimate death disco showdown."

Panther

Panther
"Secret Lawns"
2007 (Fryk Beat)

1. Use Your Mouth Your Breath To Breath - 02:46
2. Here We Stand - 01:05
3. How Does It Feel? - 03:25
4. Rely On Scent - 01:39
5. How Well Can You Swim? - 02:12
6. Take Us Out - 03:59
7. You Don't Want Your Nails Done - 02:09
8. Your Pants Are Creased Familiarly - 01:20
9. Telephone Wire - 02:00
10. Tennis Lesson - 01:28
11. Chanzz - 01:10
12. Talk For Tuesday - 01:48
13. Tigers Touch - 05:00

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Review from Wire Magazine (March 2007):
"Panther is the mutant strain of Charlie Salas-Humara, a one-man music machine whose broken disco riffs lock into a secret pulsebeat weapon that roughly pushes Prince (in the form of a giant robot) and Edan up against the wall and pulls the trigger. Secret Lawns is a mad mixture of unpredictable beats, hooks and catchy beatbox routines that lead the listener through black alleys and gaming arcades, discovering new musical thrills at every turn. At one point we are left alone with only a brushed cymbal sample for company while the rest of Panther’s song takes a well deserved break. Isolated from the busy clutter, this simple device sounds devastating."

Radio Massacre International

Radio Massacre International
"Septentrional"
2006 (DiN)

1. The First Cry... - 11:05
2. Seven Sceptres for Sephulcrave - 11:43
3. Trident - 11:19
4. Searching Septentional Skies - 09:19
5. ...The Last Laugh - 12:47

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Review: Synthmusicdirect.com

Reverbaphon

Reverbaphon
"Here Comes Everyone"
2007 (Benbecula Records)

1. Broad Island - 06:13
2. Us Mob - 05:06
3. Sea Minor Grave - 04:30
4. Sferics - 02:48
5. The Existential Sheriff - 06:08
6. Lapsed Catalyst - 05:54
7. Mbiraphon - 05:38
8. Here Comes Everyone - 05:04
9. Ainu Waulking Song - 02:06
10. Space Ship Earth - 02:42

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Shelby Bryant

Shelby Bryant
"Cloud-Wow Music"
2000 (Smells Like Records)

1. Hello So Fine - 03:01
2. The Walk - 03:23
3. Everything - 02:50
4. Fluxogen/Neverything - 08:20
5. In The Sun - 01:30
6. Inchworm - 03:52
7. Totally Sigmund - 02:13
8. You're A Star - 02:32
9. Peebly Mcnownow - 02:14
10. Thurmond Crimm - 02:57
11. Wedding (Daniel Johnston) - 03:06
12. My Dandylion Wish - 01:50
13. The Bitter Wind - 02:33
14. Never Wrong - 01:53
15. Arabesque - 03:26

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Review: AMG

Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart

Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart
"Full Moon Over the Shopping Mall"
2000 (30 Hertz Records)

1. Full Moon Over the Shopping Mall - 09:20
2. Ethos - 08:07
3. Waxing Moon - 04:57
4. Waning Moon - 04:21
5. Acting The Goat - 13:01
6. I'll Be Sad to See You Go - 05:19

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Seefeel

Seefeel
"Quique" (Redux Edition)
1993 (Too Pure)

1. Climactic Phase No.3 - 08:24
2. Polyfusion - 06:23
3. Industrious - 06:40
4. Imperial - 06:40
5. Plainsong (Album Version) - 07:43
6. Charlotte’s Mouth - 07:27
7. Through You - 05:48
8. Filter Dub - 08:46
9. Signals - 05:47
10. Clique - 05:28
11. Is It Now? - 04:23
12. Filter Dub (1-01 Mix) - 09:40
13. Come Alive (Climactic Phase No.1) - 05:41
14. Time To Find Me (Alternate Desk Mix) - 05:20
15. Charlotte’s Mouth (Avant Garde Mix) - 07:27
16. My Super 20 - 06:31
17. Climactic Phase No.3 (Overnight Mix) - 08:31
18. Silent Pool - 07:02

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Review from Wire Magazine (May 2007):
"The best of the first, superior wave of postrock, Seefeel obliterated the beginnings and endpoints of the guitar. Their shuddering mosaics of weightless, flickering loops and quietly insinuating rhythms traversed the chasms separating rock, Ambient and electronic music long before Radiohead climbed out of their bunk beds. 1993’s Quique was Seefeel’s debut album and it still sounds staggering, processing the guitar via dub tactics until it becomes a transient, ever-shifting instrument without organs. The group were often acclaimed as the next step after My Bloody Valentine’s evacuated song skeletons; it’s worth noting that Seefeel were saddled with that tagline while people were still hopeful that Kevin Shields might actually make another record. This ‘redux edition’ features an extra disc which mostly contains abstractions of album tracks, different versions of “Charlotte’s Mouth”, “Filter Dub” and “Climactic Phase #3”; it’s all completely essential."

Tussle

Tussle
"Cream Cuts"
2008 (Smalltown Supersound)

1. Saturnism - 00:56
2. Transparent C - 07:05
3. Night Of The Hunter - 04:46
4. Third Party - 03:29
5. Abacba - 05:16
6. Rainbow Claw - 06:06
7. Personal Effects - 02:11
8. Titan - 06:23
9. Meh-Teh - 06:56

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Review from Wire Magazine (June 2009):
"San Francisco’s Tussle drag the denim clad wallflower of Krautrock into the centre of the dancefloor to create a sort of handmade psychedelic Techno. With producer Thom Monahan and contributions from Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Cream Cuts is the funkiest slab of strangely loose-limbed motorik you’re likely to hear this year, or indeed any year."

Walter Horn / Gary Kendig / Hugh Dickey

Walter Horn / Gary Kendig / Hugh Dickey
"Screwdriver!"
1999 (Leo Records)

1. Chainsaw At Sousa's Funeral - 15:58
2. Containment Apron - 09:39
3. Hurricane Elroy - 19:42
4. Sushi Lounge - 03:25
5. Ambulance And Gas Provided By Mutilation Bros,. Inc - 10:24
6. Welcome To The Lonely Village - 06:24
7. Screwdriver! - 09:52

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13th Chime

13th Chime
"The Singles"
(Sacred Bones Records)

1. Cuts of Love - 05:09
2. Coffin Maker - 04:34
3. Cursed - 04:10
4. Dug Up - 02:28
5. Tinker Man (Previously Unreleased) - 03:20
6. Fire - 03:59
7. Hide and Seek - 04:22
8. Sally Ditch - 03:23
9. 13th Victim (Previously Unreleased) - 03:01
10. Radio Man (Demo) - 04:09

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V.Majestic

V.Majestic
"For Educational Use Only"
2000 (House of Wrong) / 2010 (BKRSTK)

1. Lgpuri2k - 06:54
2. Dynamic Alloy - 07:04
3. That's Entropy - 05:07
4. Las Vegas Amateur Models - 05:02
5. Frostless / shopchop - 12:13
6. Limousine Scene - 05:07

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Band Info: MySpace

Burning Star Core

Burning Star Core
"Let's Play Wild Like Wildcats Do"
2005 (Hospital Productions)

1. Mes Soldats Stupides (Demo) - 15:20
2. Clouds In My Coffee - 13:22

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Wooden Veil

Wooden Veil
"Wooden Veil"
2009 (Dekorder)

1. Red Sky - 02:27
2. Shiverings - 02:54
3. Moon and Hamburg - 03:25
4. Gravity Problems - 07:38
5. Wooden People - 04:00
6. Red Desert - 04:58
7. Bird Shaped - 03:29
8. Gloom Across the Ice - 06:18
9. Ying Liss - 06:42
10. Church Scream - 07:07

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Review from Wire Magazine (March 2010):
"Splicing psych-folk with post-Industrial Noise and drone Metal heaviosity, Berlin’s Wooden Veil open with a frantic round of circular dervish energy on “Red Sky” before entering into a rigid pattern of furious percussion in “Shiverings”. Whatever the improvisational origins of these pieces, they sound composed, or at least brilliantly edited, and the quintet are convincing, whether tiptoeing their way through delicate reveries such as “Moon And Hamburg” or summoning ascending columns of spectral noise as on “Gravity Problems” and “Church Scream”. When such qualities are combined, as on the hypnotic “Wooden People”, the effect is transcendent."

Artanker Convoy

Artanker Convoy
"Cozy Endings"
2007 (The Social Registry)

1. Open Up - 12:03
2. Black Dauphin - 06:35
3. Ejector - 07:09
4. Rabbit - 06:16
5. Geyser - 05:14
6. The Happy Minotaur - 02:04

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Review from Wire Magazine (June 2007):
"Brooklyn based six-piece Artanker Convoy roll out an eclectic groove stew, equal parts funk and freakout. There are definite tinges of Miles Davis’s early 70s groups. “Ejector” could be straight off Big Fun with its mid-tempo laidback shimmer and shimmy. “Black Dauphin” soups itself up into a ghetto Prince strut, jutting its chin into the sun-baked fuel-thick city air. Likewise, “Geyser” is a slippery piece of funk with some warm, smoky guitar playing. The standout is “Open Up” a slow burn number with a percussion rustling intro, the guitar player rolling on the volume faders before the beat kicks in, his instrument now digging deep into the reverb on the bottom strings and surfing the echo on the high notes."

Clockcleaner

Clockcleaner
"Babylon Rules"
2008 (Load Records)

1. New In Town - 06:46
2. Vomiting Mirrors - 03:54
3. When My Ship Comes In - 06:34
4. Caliente Queen - 04:27
5. Human Pigeon - 05:34
6. Man Across the Street - 06:10
7. Daddy Issues - 03:03
8. Out of the City - 07:03

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Review from Wire Magazine (March 2008):
"This trio from Philadelphia appear to enjoy fomenting a degree of dumb notoriety unconnected with what they actually sound like: citing GG Allin and notorious white supremacists Skrewdriver as influences, and sneeringly calling their debut album Nevermind. In fact they’re a pretty tight combo with elements culled from, variously, The Jesus Lizard, The Birthday Party and The Cramps to be heard on this, their second album. Kicking off with the reverberating guitar twang of “New In Town” and thereafter mixing up trebly guitar riffs with grinding basslines, the group leave plenty of space between their top and low end for dynamic rhythmic lunges and for throwing muscular, blue-stomping (mis)shapes. When they adhere too closely to a predefined template, as on the Birthday Party-style sway of “When My Ship Comes In”, they sound merely derivative, but mostly they jab and feint with a suppleness and agility which belies their contrived crudeness."

Coughs

Coughs
"Secret Passage"
2006 (Load Records)

1. Quagmire - 03:35
2. Happy Harvest - 04:29
3. Dark Powers - 03:14
4. Life of Acne - 03:52
5. Fencing - 03:07
6. Bunny Slope - 03:44
7. Colors and the Way They Make You Feel - 04:14
8. Ditch That Zero - 02:25
9. Quinze Trous - 03:55
10. Intentional Community - 03:17
11. The Horse, He's Sick - 02:07

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Review from Wire Magazine (November 2006):
"Chicago sextet Coughs don’t so much stay on the one as stomp on it mercilessly, with seismic force. Their sound is utterly percussive, not just from the double-drum line-up, but also in the way that all the instruments land on the beat at once with a crunching brutality. The dynamic is rigid, with fuzz bass, trebly guitar, sax and bellowed vocals all fighting for the same corner. This stiffness combines with a fixedly monodimensional quality to create a powerfully undiluted sound. What prevents Secret Passage from drifting into tedium, however, is the group’s awareness of their own cartoon extremity, with Anya Davidson’s hoarse exhortations stuck in an over-revved exaggeration of angst – perfectly captured on the squealing “Life Of Acne”."

Gallon Drunk w/ Derek Raymond

Gallon Drunk w/ Derek Raymond
"I was Dora Suarez"
1994 (Clawfist) / 2008 (Sartorial)

1. Empire Gate - 28:55
2. Roatta (Dora version) - 12:53
3. The Detective - 02:45
4. Scene of the Crime - 08:46
5. College Hill - 06:50
6. Dora - 04:07
7. Close - 12:46

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By Cathi Unsworth from Wire Magazine (January 2010):
"At the inspired instigation of their friend Geoff Cox, who became the project’s unofficial PR, Johnston and Edwards made an album with the noir writer Derek Raymond, an adaptation of his 1990 book I Was Dora Suarez. The novel was a revelation. Raymond wrote of a London “scoured with vile psychic weather”, a frightening, fracturing city that evinced Margaret Thatcher’s curse: “There is no such thing as society.” His nameless Detective Sergeant worked a grim adjunct of the Met called A14 Unexplained Deaths, tending to the souls of the lost like a grievous, avenging angel. The black-haired girl at the centre of this story was a picture in a book of crime scene photographs that had affected Raymond so deeply he spent the next 18 months constructing the identity of Dora Suarez and, as he put it, taking her out of “that lifeless place”. Johnston, then living off Brick Lane, channelled the score from long walks around the East End, taking particular inspiration from the sounds of Liverpool Street Station. Empathetic sensitivity to the text is reflected in the soundtrack he and Edwards constructed, the sound of the trains forming the opening piano motif, the ominous drones and fractious free jazz squawks and screams that render the atmosphere of terror and decay, bringing the private hells of Suarez, her killer and the DS into focus."

Club Foot Orchestra

Club Foot Orchestra
"Wild Beasts, Kidnapped, And More"
1995 (Rastascan Records)

1. Theme From Club Foot (From The Club Foot LP) - 02:18
2. Elk's Dance Hit (Wild Beasts) - 05:04
3. Visions - 00:47
4. Wild Beasts - 04:06
5. Hip Hopi (Wild Beasts) - 03:17
6. Chinese Flowers (Wild Beasts) - 03:20
7. Time Axe Bag Dad (Wild Beasts) - 04:53
8. Suerte De La Noche (Wild Beasts) - 04:28
9. Entrance (Kidnapped LP) - 02:18
10. They Say Over There (Kidnapped LP) - 04:09
11. Take It To Mars (Kidnapped LP) - 04:34
12. Kidnapped Coed - 04:58
13. Zoogaloo (Kidnapped LP) - 02:32
14. Thrashinsky (Kidnapped LP) - 02:45
15. Innocent (Kidnapped LP) - 03:08
16. Clair (Kidnapped LP) - 03:46
17. Devil In My Soup (Kidnapped LP) - 04:35
18. Neolithic Female Goddess (Kidnapped LP) - 04:18
19. Theme From Club Foot: Medley (From The Club Foot LP) - 02:20

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Review: AMG

American Death Ray

American Death Ray
"Welcome To The Strange And Erotic World Of The American Death Ray"
2001 (Sympathy For The Record Industry)

1. Hip Hugger Suit(E) - 06:08
2. Black Dahlia - 04:43
3. Who's That Knockin' - 03:29
4. Rockets (Red Glare) - 06:16
5. Tight (El Gato Negro) - 05:00
6. Make Me Sick - 04:45
7. Sweet Sensation - 02:59
8. Tight (Reprise) - 01:25

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Cloudland Canyon

Cloudland Canyon
"Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004"
2006 (Tee Pee Records)

1. Opening / Ice Of Rift - 03:23
2. Clearlight Intry - 02:46
3. Carolina Foxtail / Sea Chirp - 09:01
4. Field Ghosts - 03:02
5. Coastal Breathe - 02:55
6. Holy Canyon - Vanquish - 05:40
7. Joyful Noise - 02:30
8. Secondary Chanting - 03:16
9. Summer Cloth - 02:39
10. Bright Beijing - 07:17

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Review from Wire Magazine (August 2006):
"Brooklyn guitarist Kip Uhlhorn and German multi-instrumentalist Simon Wojan first met in 2002 when Uhlhorn was touring Europe with his group Panthers. Requiems Der Natur 20022004 combines the guitarist’s rock stance with Wojan’s more electronically inclined leanings. Other hands were invited to leave their mark on the project and the tapes were further treated by the duo before being finally let loose. The pleasing result is a sometimes stunning neo-psychedelic experience where the musical spirits of This Heat, Ash Ra Tempel and The Mahavishnu Orchestra are evoked, celebrated and absorbed inside Uhlhorn and Wojan’s shifting cloud formations of sound."

Ass

Ass
"Ass"
2006 (Headspin Recordings)

1. Guidelines For Bespoke - 05:47
2. Two Different Ways - 03:05
3. Stealing Apples - 03:19
4. Why Astrid Smiles - 06:32
5. Don't You Tell A Word - 05:17
6. Chinese Dream - 05:16
7. Feud In, Feud Out - 06:39

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Review from Wire Magazine (June 2007):
"Andreas Soderstrom’s debut album as Ass is built out of lush Fahey-style acoustic guitar picking and his warm, velvety trumpet, and comprises both songs and instrumentals. “Two Different Ways” seeps into your heart on a fanfare of brass, glowing with afternoon light over forest-rimmed Swedish lakes. The same bittersweet sorrow infuses vocal tracks like “Don’t Tell A Word”. The two closing instrumentals “Chinese Dream” and “Feud In, Feud Out” are the highlights, where the insistent fingertip strumming and string scratching resemble Klaus Dinger’s trademark motorik drum tick. On “Chinese Dream”, it is further filled out with glockenspiel and organ chimes, while “Feud In, Feud Out” has a monophonic synth melody daubed with a child’s crayon."

Primordial Undermind

Primordial Undermind
"Loss of Affect"
2006 (Strange Attractors Audio House)

1. Intercessor - 05:43
2. Breathe Deep - 05:30
3. 3rd Class Sissy - 05:36
4. Color of Nothing - 04:51
5. Diftglass - 07:03
6. In Violation - 02:11
7. Tremens - 04:14
8. Pertussis - 03:36
9. Blinding Stars - 07:59

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Review from Wire Magazine (December 2006)
"Ex-Crystalized Movements guitarist Eric Arn formed Primordial Undermind in 1988 as a continuation of his enthusiasm for acid rock. On Loss Of Affect, he steers PU through a tangled Ambient swampland into musical territory that sounds like an alternative soundtrack to Apocalypse Now. Reverberating with primitive hallucinogenic drones, garage rock grinds and improvisations that slowly build from half-formed blowouts to cosmic Stockhausen-style epics, PU have crawled out of the psychedelic undergrowth and evolved into something special."

Mostly Other People Do The Killing

Mostly Other People Do The Killing
"Shamokin!!!"
2007 (Hot Cup)

1. Handsome Eddy - 05:51
2. The Hop Bottom Hop - 08:28
3. Shamokin - 03:50
4. Dunkelbergers - 07:48
5. Factoryville - 04:51
6. Lover - 04:33
7. Andover - 03:50
8. Evans City - 06:41
9. Baden - 06:37
10. A Night in Tunisia - 21:32

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Review from Wire Magazine (December 2007):
"Oliver Sacks’s collection of clinical case studies The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, which inspired an unsuccessful Michael Nyman opera, has the story of Witty Ticcy Ray, a “weekend jazz drummer” fuelled by Tourette’s Syndrome. During the week he’s calmed by haldol, but he needs his ticcing energy for drumming and leaves off treatment at weekends. Kevin Shea’s spasmodic percussion assaults on “The Hop Bottom Hop”, from the marvellous new album by Moppa Elliott’s Mostly Other People Do The Killing, made me recall Witty Ticcy. In this Mingus/free jazz parody, Shea meshes insanely with funky old-time pizzicato – imitating players from the pre-amplified era – from bassist and leader Moppa Elliott, whose stutters mimic turntablism and plunderphonics, apparently in real time, while alto saxist Jon Irabagon pours out beautifully judged bluesy licks."

Bassholes

Bassholes
"Out In The Treetops"
2004 (Dead Canary Records)

1. Ode To Charo - 02:08
2. Out In The Treetops - 03:10
3. Life Goes On - 04:20
4. Tattoo - 02:09
5. Raw Power - 03:03
6. Stack O Lee - 02:40
7. St Matthew - 02:36

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Gallon Drunk

Gallon Drunk
"Tonite... The Singles Bar"
1991 (Clawfist) / 2007 (Sartorial)

1. The Last Gasp (Safty) (7" Version) - 04:02
2. Rolling Home (7" Version) - 02:29
3. Snakepit (7" Version) - 02:51
4. Miserlou (7" Version) - 04:45
5. Ruby (7" Version) - 04:40
6. Draggin Along (7" Version) - 03:55
7. May the Earth Open Here (7" Version) - 03:10
8. Please Give Me Something (7" Version) - 03:09
9. The Whirlpool (7" Version) - 02:46
10. Gallon Drunk (7" Version) - 03:40
11. Just One More (Live in Chicago) - 03:59
12. Some Fool's Mess (Live in Chicago) - 05:37
13. Jake On The Make (Live in Chicago) - 02:24
14. Push The Boat Out (Live in Chicago) - 05:08
15. Arlington Road (Live in Chicago) - 04:56
16. Bedlam (Live in Chicago) - 05:39
17. You Should Be Ashamed (Live in Chicago) - 03:48
18. Two Wings Mambo (Live in Chicago) - 07:50

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Review: AMG

Rowland S. Howard

Rowland S. Howard
"Teenage Snuff Film"
2004 (Cooking Vinyl)

1. Dead Radio - 05:38
2. Breakdown (And Then...) - 06:25
3. She Cried - 04:58
4. I Burnt Your Clothes - 04:13
5. Exit Everything - 07:34
6. Silver Chain - 04:37
7. White Wedding - 02:53
8. Undone - 06:55
9. Autoluminescent - 03:26
10. Sleep Alone - 07:38

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Review: AMG

Sword Heaven

Sword Heaven
"Entrance"
2007 (Load Records)

1. Town Hag - 05:41
2. Skinned and Glued - 10:24
3. Sights Not Long Gone - 04:02
4. Faceless Nameless - 13:07

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Review: AMG

Flying Saucer Attack

Flying Saucer Attack
"Rural Psychedelia"
1994 (VHF)

1. My Dreaming Hill - 06:12
2. A Silent Tide - 03:49
3. Moonset - 04:25
4. Make me Dream - 04:25
5. Wish - 05:23
6. Popol Vuh 2 - 05:00
7. The Drowners - 04:34
8. Still - 01:50
9. Popol Vuh 1 - 10:18
10. The Season is Ours - 04:18

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Review: AMG

Weidorje

Weidorje
"Weidorje"
2001 (Musea)

1. Elohims voyage - 16:33
2. Vilna - 12:20
3. Booldemug - 07:10
4. Rondeau - 08:49
5. Kolinda - 12:28

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Review: Progarchives

Bondage Fruit

Bondage Fruit

"Selected"

1999 (Pangea)

1. Holy Roller - 03:54

2. Daichi No Ko - 07:23

3. Kinzoku No Taiji - 07:10

4. Hikou Suru Ko - 06:49

5. Recit (Live) - 28:13

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Review: AMG

Colosseum

Colosseum
"Colosseum Live"
1971 (Bronze Records)

1. Rope Ladder To The Moon - 09:48
2. Walking In The Park - 08:24
3. Skelington - 15:00
4. I Can't Live Without You - 07:53
5. Tanglewood 63 - 10:16
6. Stormy Monday Blues - 07:33
7. Lost Angeles - 15:47

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Colosseum

Colosseum
"Valentyne Suite" + bonus tracks
1969 (Vertigo) / 2004 (Sanctuary Midline)

1. The Kettle - 04:25
2. Elegy - 03:10
3. Butty's Blues - 06:43
4. The Machine Demands A Sacrifice - 03:51
5. The Valentyne Suite - 16:51
- January's Search
-February's Valentyne
-The Grass Is Always Greener
6. Arthur's Moustache (bonus) - 06:29
7. Lost Angeles (bonus) - 08:37

Tracks 6-7 recorded 18/11/69 and broadcast 22/11/69 on John Peel's Top Gear
Tracks 8-15 originally released as the US Album 'The Grass Is Always Greener' (1970)

8. Jumping Off The Sun - 03:33
9. Lost Angeles - 05:30
10. Elegy - 03:10
11. Butty's Blues - 06:43
12. Rope Ladder To The Moon - 03:41
13. Bolero - 05:26
14. The Machine Demands A Sacrifice - 02:48
15. The Grass Is Always Greener - 07:35

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Review: AMG

Jungle

Jungle
"Live in Leningrad 1985"
2008 (N&B Research Digest)

1. Etude Without Nature No. 1 - 04:54
2. Etude Without Nature No. 2 - 04:08
3. Function - 02:15
4. The War of All Against All - 06:25
5. Danger Zone for Consciousness - 03:29
6. Requiem - 04:20
7. Conformism - 01:55

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Review from Wire Magazine (April 2009):
"Jungle Live In Leningrad N&B Research Digest Download N&B Research Digest is a Russian/Finnish download label run by Anton Nikkilä and Alexei Borisov. This recording from Russian sextet Jungle is jazz rock from the Leningrad Rock Club on 16 March 1985. Made up of guitarist Andrei Otraskin, bass player Igor Tikhomirov, percussionists Pavel Litvinov and Andrei Myagkostupov, together with saxophone players Yuri Orlov and Nikolai Fedorovich, Jungle’s style lurches from melody to manic and back again. Interspersed with beautiful instrumental segments and engaging repeated guitar patterns, Jungle have trace elements of European free jazz and US No Wave along with their Eastern European sensibilities."