Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs:
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Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.
Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.
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Sheena's Jungle Room
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Music behind DJ: Ocean Waves for Sleep |
Ocean Waves
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Ocean Waves for Sleep |
Ocean and Air |
2010 |
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| Big Fun |
Shameful And Heavy Eyed
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Shameful And Heavy Eyed | Guttertech Worldwide | 2024 | Big Fun hail from California. They are: Nasty Kathy - synth/vox Beef Angel - bass Bing Bong- drums They are not the Big Fun who were an English boy band who were active between 1988 and 1994. Their noisy, hard hitting, electronic rock style riffs on the idea that things which are scary can also be funny and things that are funny can also be scary. Their music can be listed under a bunch of different genres: Dance-Punk, Surf-Punk, Synth-Rock and so on, but they like to describe it as ‘Gutter-Tech”. The sound of Gutter tech is made up of electronic instruments thrown into an abrasive rock environment. They are currently on tour so visit their bandcamp for infos! | * | 0:10:12 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Diode |
Diode
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2 | Diode | 2024 | This full length was released in April. Diode is a supergroup of experimentally conscious and fiercely talented like-minded folks making warped, yet endlessly catchy, dystopian rock. With 2, Diode have fortified their DNA with layers of dense, radiating synthesizers, modulated guitars, freaky vocals, and tightly wound, speedy drums. Music to hack the freakin’ system to. | 0:12:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Maraudeur |
Le Couloir de Soir
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Puissance 4 | Peroquebien | 2021 | You can't have angular and pointy without Leipzig's Maraudeur. "To me, these nine unique songs of „Puissance 4“ - the second album by Maraudeur - are completely Sci-Fi. They are opening up the view into various worlds inbetween seconds. Images I feel familiar with are transforming themselves to unexpected landscapes, driven by the strong integrity of bass, synth, and drums. If this would be a shuttle it would go back and forth on sonic streets guided by the vocals of the different songs, intersecting with crowded supermarkets, car traffic, wide beach and beaming portals to parallel universes...." - Schreier Johann | 0:15:12 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| BB Eye |
Headcheese Heartthrob
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Headcheese Heartthrob | Lumpy Records | 2017 | BB Eye are from one of my favourite named places in US.... Knob Noster, Missouri. They are a duo on Lumpy Records. They are egg punk. They are mysterious..and they are good. | 0:16:44 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Femme Fiction |
What?!
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NONFICTION | Donkey Kong's Label | 2023 | There is so much to like in this song and this band. This tune is like a rollercoaster ride in the best way! They are two clever laides who make in their words "funny" music. Their most recent gig was a Battle of the Bands in Malibu? I really hope they won. There is no Bandcamp so follow insta... | 0:18:02 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Pink Stiletto |
PLANET PUNK ROCK
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NEW WAVA | Pink Stiletto | 2024 | Pink Stiletto is from San Francisco. Self described as ITS PINK AND SHARP NEON NOIR! "Pink Stiletto is set to reinvigorate New Wave and post-punk with their debut track, “Synthesize.” Echoing the eclectic, avant-garde essence of ZE Records, Pink Stiletto merges disco’s allure with punk’s rawness, funk’s rhythm, and new wave’s idiosyncrasy. “Synthesize” stands out with its unconventional sound, capturing the vibrant, artistic spirit of downtown New York. It draws inspiration from the likes of Gina X, Tubeway Army, and Cristina. Valery Kvochkova, the visionary behind Pink Stiletto, shares, “The project’s name was inspired by iconic tracks like Fancy’s ‘Slice Me Nice’ and Link Wray’s ‘Switchblade’, embodying the 80s New Wave and Post Punk’s eclectic mix of wacky, cheesy, and sexy elements. It’s a solo endeavor I embarked on last year, aiming to revive the distinctive spirit of that era.”" - postpunk.com | 0:21:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Anarchicks |
Siouxsie in the Box
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Really!? | Chifre | 2013 | Anarchicks was formed in Lisbon in 2011 with Priscila Devesa on lead vocals accompanied by a guitarist, bassist, drummer, and keyboardist. The lyrical focus of the band is said to be based around feminism and creative freedom. They played on the Super Bock Super Rock festival in 2013, as the opening band on the Super Bock stage, opening for Azealia Banks, Johnny Marr and the Arctic Monkeys. | 0:24:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Falco/Chill With Lofi |
Rock Me Amadeus
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Rock Me Amadeus |
Chill With Lofi |
2021 |
Bet you never saw this coming for 2024...MOZART JUST DROPPED A NEW BANGER! Last Thursday, Leipzig municipal libraries revealed their discovery of a previously unknown work by the great Austrian composer. The music was found in the collection of the Leipzig Municipal Library while researchers were completing a new edition of the Köchel catalogue of Mozart’s works. Composed for string trio, the seven-movement piece is believed to have been written in the mid to late 1760s, when Mozart was a teenager. The manuscript features dark brown ink on off-white laid paper, with the title Serenate ex C. The 12-minute piece has now been named Ganz kleine Nachtmusik. The first modern performance of it took place last week at the composer’s birthplace in Salzburg. |
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| Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney |
Ludite 1
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Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney | Voiceprint | 2008 | "Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney did two albums, while Mark guests on Ed’s album Urban Nature. They also did the England World Cup song, England’s Heartbeat, under the name of Shuttleworth, with the video shot at Salford City FC, plus The Train, Blindness and more. Ed is also currently writing a book about their relationship…“Mark wanted me to do it” says Ed “And it will be a true account of our friendship, and the music thing will be second…” //////// "In 1994 I started with my band Trigger Happy and had done some demos but hadn’t done a gig. I gave my mate and The Fall tour manager, John Rawlinson, or JR, a tape and he gave it to Mark who loved it. I got a phone call saying ‘Right, the Roadhouse tomorrow, it’s an album launch for The Fall and Mark wants you to play’. That was it. First ever gig!… //////// At that time if anyone famous came to your gigs it was news for papers like the NME, and loads of prominent Mancunians and Salfordians were in the audience – but I didn’t get a mention, and in many ways that anti-establishment thing was there from day one. There was another gig at the Roadhouse and he came up to me and said ‘It was good that but don’t stand so close to me you’ll be tarred with the same brush’. I thought ‘We’ve got something in common’… After that we got a few gigs with The Fall, and I was at his house one afternoon in Winchester Avenue and he had this old piano which he said was off a sunken ship. I was playing on it and he said ‘That was good, we’ll have to do something’ and I remember going home thinking ‘Fucking hell! Bring it on!’ //////// A few weeks later I was sat on the stairs, skint, with my head in my hands thinking ‘What am I going to do?’. The phone rings and it’s Mark saying he’s got some work. I thought it was going to be about doing a tune together but he had a tour starting and wanted me to be tour manger. He said ‘£100 a day, cock, is that alright?’ I was like ‘Wow’. I borrowed £2,000 from my sister, got a van, got some tips from a couple of mates who worked with the Mondays and did the tour. //////// The day after the tour we met up in Prestwich, I gave him about £2,500 and he said ‘How much do I owe you?’. I said everyone had been paid and he couldn’t believe it. After that he took me out for a meal and said he wanted me to manage him. Then we just became really good mates. We had fall outs and stuff like that, but it was a good love-hate relationship as we challenged each other. And we killed it. The Fall was on its arse when I took over; they were unbookable but we both got our heads right into it. We did a UK and European tour, and a sell out tour in America ten weeks after 9:11. We had no visas, no instruments; we just got on a plane and we pulled it off." | 0:34:13 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Claudia |
Vow
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Dress | Self Released (Bandcamp) | 2024 | Released September 21, 2024. Claudia is the project of Drew, half of duo Bananananana... All of this happens in Hamilton, Ontario, if that helps. Artist statement: "Hello.thx. watch ur ears if u have headphones. Compressorless" -----A few days later, artist elaborates: "I just uploaded the right version to bandcamp bout 5 mins ago." (It is, indeed, a different version) ------- Today's thought, special for us, from artist: "OK quote is...."When I kiss my own hand, it feels nice."" ------- https://claudiaclaudia.bandcamp.com/ | * | 0:38:08 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney |
Ludite 2
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Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney | Voiceprint | 2008 | Ed Blaney: "We had a really great spiritual connection which some people don’t get, and I don’t care if they think I’m off my head. We did it. We did it without any corporate stuff. People go on about success but they don’t know what success is. Success isn’t having a million plays on Spotify that you don’t get paid for; it’s not about that. It’s about doing it. I’m lucky. I got everything I wanted out of being in a band – I didn’t get it in my band, it transpired into The Fall and I got it that way. I brought half of Trigger Happy with me into The Fall…" //////// "What is success? Doing what you’re told by some twat? We had Rob Ayling from Voiceprint Records supporting us when Mark was bankrupt. No big machine and stuff. Mark never stopped, even in a wheelchair with staples in his hip. //////// Mark was a Salfordian, Salford through and through, but Prestwich was his base. I think through the dark years before I met him, in the 1980s, people around here may have written him off; deadlegs who had no right saying he was finished and all that. But when he was back on top of his game we’d come to all the pubs around here and he’d take great pride that he was back; he had a bit of a spring in his step. It was always important to him, this area, and he knew everything. He used to write anonymous letters to the Prestwich Guide and Bury Times complaining about stuff, real sensitive issues to him. He loved the area and would never move out. He talked about it. The Madchester thing was just too much. ///////// Whenever there was a big gig at Heaton Park of someone we both didn’t like, he’d say ‘Come on get some gigs’. So when the circus came to town, we left town…" //////// "I mean, he wanted success and he got it. When I first met him he told me a story of being so skint he went down the settee for change, going to the garage on Bury New Road and them being funny with him about it all being in change. And later he went in with £50 notes. That was a good feeling. He was always generous. If anyone was in need, even band members that had left and fucked him off, he would bail them out. //////// Mark was difficult but he had an opinion and was set in his ways. Living in Sedgley Park, he wasn’t anti-semitic or right wing, far from it. I never came across it. He was fair but if you crossed him you were up the road. We had so many great nights, some three days long, but he wasn’t a pop star when he was out. It was just Mark, normal guy in the pub. It was in the Woodthorpe where we conducted most of our business, but we’d go drinking in the Lion, the Nats, the Ostrich, the old Grapes, the George…Fans would come over and he’d say ‘Fuck off leave me alone, I’m having a beer’…he wasn’t always rude but when it was his time, out with his mates…He wasn’t a pop star. I mean, he loved it and all that but he liked to say ‘Right that’s it, switch off, we’re in the pub, no shop talk’. And in the dark times, with relationships and stuff, he was always there for me and I was always there for him." -------------- "Tracks 1 & 6 are both simply listed as "Ludite" on the back of the package." -- "Recorded at Farm Studio (Lake District) Stepping Hill-HiToy, Cool cheap studio Salford, Karnobat Bulgaria, House on the Hill studios, Prestwich." | 0:40:31 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Snapped Ankles |
Letter From Hampi Mountain
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Stunning Luxury | Leaf | 2019 | "Stunning Luxury is the second studio album by English band Snapped Ankles. It was released on 1 March 2019 under The Leaf Label. Described as a "10-song Gang of Four style takedown of modern capitalism" and "a stridently political album that loses neither its sense of humour nor its capacity for bangers", the album's themes and settings are based in the city and suburbs rather than the forests of 2017's Come Play The Trees." | 0:44:14 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Sunroof |
Ensnare
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Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3 |
Mute / Parallel Series |
2024 |
Sunroof, aka Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones, release their brand new album, Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3, via Mute’s Parallel Series. Out on limited edition transparent orange vinyl (limited to 1000 worldwide) and CD formats. ///////// Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3 is a collection of nine improvised tracks, recorded using the duo’s Eurorack modular systems, and builds upon the self-imposed parameters laid out on their 2021 debut. ////////// Daniel Miller, the Founder and Chairman of Mute, and Gareth Jones, producer and engineer, notable for working with Depeche Mode, Einstürzende Neubauten, Erasure and Yann Tiersen, have been collaborating for four decades. Although neither dwell on their past work, preferring to constantly explore new ways to create, Miller and Mute’s legacy is given a nod on the track “Splendid” which opens with the distinct hiss of cassette over a rhythmic heartbeat before oscillators burst and collide. This track was recorded using the original 4-track TEAC that Miller picked up second hand in the late 70s and recorded The Normal’s “Warm Leatherette” 7” on. ////////// This record follows their debut Electronic Music Improvisations Vol.1 (2021) and second album Electronic Music Improvisations Vol.2 (2023), along with their Bandcamp exclusive release Electronic Music Improvisations Live in London and Frankfurt, which captured their live shows at Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Electronic Music and London’s IKLECTIK. ///////// Releases November 29, 2024 (According to Bandcamp) https://sunroofmusic.bandcamp.com/ |
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Music behind DJ: Sunroof |
Ensnare (Daniel Miller Remix)
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Ensnare (Digital Single) |
Mute / Parallel Series |
2024 |
"Sunroof [Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones] have announced details of a new album, Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3, set for release on vinyl, CD and digitally via the Parallel Series of Mute on November 29, 2024. ///////// Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3 is a collection of nine improvised tracks, recorded using the duo’s Eurorack modular systems, and builds upon the self-imposed parameters laid out on their 2021 debut. With nothing pre-planned or rehearsed, each of the nine tracks were recorded using four channels (two each) with no overdubs. Explaining, “Our practice is more abstract than thematic. Every time we meet, we attempt a fresh start,” Miller and Jones arrived at each recording session with the spirit, energy and discipline of improvisation and recorded the tracks as live performances, with very little post-production work done once they were recorded. ////////// One exception is on “Ensnare.” The original, where glassy percussion works alongside submerged rhythmic beats, has been given two separate remixes by Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones, allowing listeners a glimpse into their very different but intrinsically intertwined processes. ////////// Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones have been collaborating for four decades. Although neither dwell on their past work, preferring to constantly explore new ways to create, Miller and Mute’s legacy is given a nod on “Splendid” which opens with the distinct hiss of analogue tape over a rhythmic heartbeat before oscillators burst and collide. This track was recorded using the original 4-track TEAC that Miller picked up second hand in the late ‘70s and used to record The Normal’s “Warm Leatherette 7.” ////////// Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones’ collaboration began in 1982 when Miller asked Jones to work with him on what became Depeche Mode’s Construction Time Again. After Depeche Mode had gone home for the day, the two would stay on to work on their own sessions, a practice that continues to this day. By the mid ‘90s Sunroof had become a remix project, reworking the likes of Can, MGMT, To Rococo Rot, Kreidler and Goldfrapp, amongst others, and their first recordings appeared on a compilation paying tribute to Neu! ////////// In 2019, Miller and Jones were heading to a György Ligeti concert at the Barbican and beforehand the pair spent a couple of hours improvising with modular systems. Unusually, this time they decided to record the session and over a pre-concert meal, Gareth asked, “Are we actually going to make a record together before we die?” ////////// The resulting album, Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 1 (2021) was followed by Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2 (2023). Since 2021, Sunroof have been performing select live shows, at venues such as Café OTO (London), the London School of Economics, the Museum of Modern Electronic Music Frankfurt, Silent Green in Berlin, Ombra Festival (Barcelona), Oslo Cathedral, Golden Pudel (Hamburg), DG Kunstraum (Munich), and IKLECTIK (London), allowing their live performance to feed back into their recordings. Some of these recordings were released last year as a Bandcamp exclusive, Electronic Music Improvisations Live in London and Frankfurt." https://sunroofmusic.bandcamp.com/ |
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| Artificial Go |
Artificial Go
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Hopscotch Fever | Feel It Records | 2024 | I said I was gonna play them again and I HAVE. "On first listen, Artificial Go's debut Hopscotch Fever sounds familiar, like an album from 1981 that was in the background once in passing. It fits between a few micro-genres that felt distinct decades ago, but have blurred together in the years since. While driven by a classic guitars/bass/drums configuration, the songs lack the aggression found in arty punk bands like the Bags and Suburban Lawns. Despite a tiny trace of modern digital manipulation, the mixes distinctly reference an earlier era, with the intimacy of Young Marble Giants, early Go-Betweens, and the Marine Girls. The interlocking vocals suggest a somewhat diverse set of bands, like the Au Pairs, the B-52s, and X, with a stylized British accent in the delivery. The historical references in the foreground are abundant enough to be purposeful, and diverse enough to leave room for originality. Hopscotch Fever is not just the Cincinnati-based band's first release—none of its members had actively performed live there before starting Artificial Go." -qobuz.com | * | 0:55:46 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| What are People For? |
Nursery Rhyme
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What are People For? | Alien Transistor | 2022 | What Are People For? make the perfect kind of dystopic dance music for our times. Born from a collaboration between artist Anna McCarthy and musician/producer Manuela Rzytki, the band could be the illicit lovechild of Tom Tom Club and Throbbing Gristle, displaying the ideal balance of hip shaking vibes and dark provocative content. WAPF? is a rare combination of contemporary punk energy, irresistible groove, absurdist dry humour and astounding depth of field. They have the mighty power to create a party with their music and soon you will find yourself lifting your arms as if controlled by an external force, to chant: WAPF? WAPF? WAPF? | 0:58:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| GRÓA |
Komið nóg
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What I Like To Do | Found Records | 2021 | There's an inherent rebellion to everything GRÓA does. As a unit, they're willingly dismantling the usual tropes in favour of doing things their way. DIY, experimental and principled to the core, next-gen punks GRÓA might just be the most exciting live band in Iceland right now. While their songs endlessly veer off into unexpected and sublimely jarring directions, all of GRÓA's music reveals the deep sense of purpose behind their nonstop experimentation: a profound desire to shatter limitations, dismantle worn-out patterns and narrow ways of thinking, and uncover new possibilities for living ... | 1:00:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| CDOASS |
Elevator Shaft
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Extra Fingers (Extended) | Playground Music Scandinavia AB | 2005 | Swedish rock/pop/new wave band from Fagersta, formed in 1999 by Peter Nilsson and Anders Pietsch. The band was nominated for a Grammy in the category Best Pop Group in 2005. Anders Pietsch is also a member of the band Bruket, where he plays drums. | 1:03:36 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Submissives |
I'm Obsessed
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Obsessed | Celluloid Lunch | 2024 | Low fi, garagey slacker music with sweet sweet dissonant harmonies from Montreal Quebec. They are a a conceptual girl group playing the music of experimental Montreal bedroom pop artist Deb Edison, who yearned for something more honest and perhaps...ironic after playing for many years in "random noise" groups... “The Submissives succumb to man’s every whim. Yearning for love and attention, they stagger blindly, tethered hopeless to a domestic mirage. They suffer with longing and pine for the boy who burdens them with this undying lovesickness.” | * | 1:06:23 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| The Primitives |
Really Stupid
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Really Stupid 7" | Lazy Records | 1986 | The Primitives are an English indie pop band from Coventry, best known for their 1988 international hit single "Crash". Formed in 1984, disbanded in 1992 and reformed in 2009, the band's two constant members throughout their recording career have been vocalist Tracy Tracy and guitarist Paul "PJ" Court. Drummer Tig Williams has been a constant member since 1987. Often described as an indie pop or indie rock band, The Primitives' musical style can also be seen as straddling power pop, new wave and post-punk...they played alongside bands like The Soup Dragons and The Wedding Present. Their major rivals within the 'blonde pop' scene were Transvision Vamp and The Darling Buds. They received valuable publicity when The Smiths singer Morrissey was photographed wearing a Primitives T-shirt. Guess he gets it right sometimes.... | 1:08:01 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| THE WAEVE |
Moth to the Flame
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City Lights | Transgressive Records | 2024 | We have almost played this entire album on this show and I have ZERO REGRETS. City Lights is the second studio album by British duo the Waeve, consisting of Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall. There’s so many elements to their music, but the way in which they play with texture is unique. Mixing distortion with smooth horns makes for something your ears become addicted to. “Moth to the Flame” has a vaguely 80s sound, the synth and percussion making it feel like something from a time before me. Perfecting a sound that can honor the past while still pushing the boundaries of the future is admirable. .. | * | 1:10:24 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Holy Magick |
Stolen Car
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Holy Magick II | Lost Room | 2022 | Holy Magick is a Brighton-based psychedelic dream-rock band formed by producer Dom Keen (ex-Death in Vegas, Dark Horses) and singer-songwriter Siobhan Lynch (ex Interscope Records artist, and writer and performer on Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode’s infamous Recoil project). | 1:15:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Miss Rayon |
Tell Me What to Wear
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Eclipse | XRay Records | 2018 | I'm smitten with this lost album and so I'm playing more. I CANNOT resist this chord progression...so satisfying! Comprising former members of bands like Gossip, Cat Hoch, Deathlist, Appendixes and Summer Cannibals, this talented crew has been places and are a truly passionate bunch.... | 1:18:38 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: G.S. Sachdev |
Kajri
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Romantic Ragas |
Sony Music |
1981 |
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| Rubber Oh |
Lift [w/ Voka Gentle]
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Soil | Mr. Medicine Records | 2024 | From "Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK" // "Sam Grant returns with weirded-out psych project Rubber Oh, announcing new album ‘SOIL’. //////// Including collaborations from Rozi Plain, Voka Gentle, and Newcastle artists Me Lost Me & Ceitidh Mac, this sophomore record offers a vivid journey through Grant’s otherworldly machinations. //////// ‘SOIL’ picks up where 2021’s debut ‘Strange Craft’ left off, presenting kaleidoscopic melodies floating above dense rhythms. It skirts a line between dark heavy riff and floating harmony. However, where the acclaimed ‘Strange Craft’ was a focussed, at times minimal affair, ‘SOIL’ looks to break out into a vast filmic landscape. It is a record with a new found confidence in what Rubber Oh is, both thematically and sonically. //////// A major feature of this record is the arrangements Grant has composed throughout for both choir and strings. There is imposed friction; the push and pull between the levity and delicacy of these voices and strings, rubbing up against the grit and distortion of the driving rhythm section - the music is once again built around Grant’s fuzzed-out, hard-panned basses. The unusual marriage of instrumentation here though creates an intriguing sonic space that feels both familiar and new at the same time. //////// Speaking about the underlying theme of ‘SOIL’, Grant said “This is a record that is about the ground under our feet. Where ‘Strange Craft was ethereal, and focused on journeying, this is a more literal album, more physical. It’s rooted in the earth that we try to control, and the earth that is ultimately mother to us. It is about our relationship with this environment that become more pertinent with every passing day, and how that relationship is symbiotically shaped, for better or worse.” //////// Released 20th September 2024 on the Pigs x7 collective imprint, Mr Medicine Records... Recorded at Blank Studios, Newcastle... Engineered and mixed by Sam Grant" https://rubberoh.bandcamp.com/ | * | 1:35:14 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| GROOP |
Highway Jam
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Groop | Mock Records / Greenway Records | 2022 | They already have 2 EPs worth of things out in 2024, but this is the one I stumbled across that really holds my attention through its length. Less murky and ambling than recent forays, perhaps... Though still epic & sprawling, to be sure. From Ravensingstheblues... "This album [the debut] has definitely been bubbling below the surface for some time. The L.A. psych collective GROOP has been letting out a few singles over the past year [2022], but this is the first hint at something bigger for the band. Featuring members of Hooveriii and ex members of Frankie & The Witch Fingers, the band deals in longform psychedelic shred with a propulsive heart beating beneath the surface of its solar flare singe. The band lets the lid off... ...eponymous album with the 16+ minute opener “Highway Jam.” The song uses every second of its extended runtime, working through synth squall, sax splat, and string wrangling that give a pretty good indication of what the listener might find once they get sucked into the wormhole of wonders on the band’s debut..." | 1:39:37 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Sunroof |
Sunroof - Ensnare (An Electrogenetic Remix by Gareth Jones)
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Ensnare (Digital Single) |
Mute / Parallel Series |
2024 |
Sunroof, aka Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones, release their brand new album, Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3, via Mute’s Parallel Series. Out on limited edition transparent orange vinyl (limited to 1000 worldwide) and CD formats. " //////// “Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3 is a collection of improvised tracks, recorded using the duo’s Eurorack modular systems, and builds upon the self-imposed parameters laid out on their 2021 debut. With nothing pre-planned or rehearsed, each of the nine tracks were recorded using four channels (two each) with no overdubs. //////// Explaining that “Our practice is more abstract than thematic. Every time we meet, we attempt a fresh start” the Miller and Jones arrived to each recording session with the spirit, energy and discipline of improvisation and recorded the tracks as live performances, with very little post-production work done once the tracks are recorded. /////// One exception is on ‘Ensnare’. Which, has been given two separate remixes by Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones, allowing listeners a glimpse into their very different but intrinsically intertwined processes. /////// Electronic Music Improvisations Vol. 3 out 6 Dec on The Parallel Series of MUTE.”" https://sunroofmusic.bandcamp.com/ |
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| The Cure |
Alone
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Songs of a Lost World | Lost Music LTD / Universal | 2024 | Released earlier today!!! "The Cure... return... with a new song—their first in 16 years, and the first sure sign of a studio comeback from a band that has been teasing an imminent return since at least 2019. “Alone,” the lead single of an album called Songs of a Lost World, will arrive Thursday at 7 a.m. Eastern after premiering on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC 6 Music radio show. Listen to a snippet on the band’s social media, and find the single artwork below. //////// Since their last album, 2008’s 4:13 Dream, the Cure have consistently toured, attended awards shows, and spoken to the press, often alluding to new music. The false alarms began in earnest, in 2014, when they said a sequel to 4:13 Dream, titled 4:14 Scream, would be released and packaged with its predecessor. After making the announcement, Robert Smith played the record down, then played it up again, and eventually decided it would never be released. In the end, the band’s promised return to the studio did materialize in 2014, albeit in the form of a cover of the Beatles’ “Hello, Goodbye” for a Paul McCartney tribute LP. //////// In 2019, Smith declared that the Cure had been into the studio and recorded 19 songs that were 10 to 12 minutes long, later said to comprise two albums. “We’ll finish [an album] before we start [touring] in the summer, and it’ll be mixed through the summer,” he told Rolling Stone that March. A few months later, he conceded that a few re-records were in order, but insisted he would be “extremely bitter” if a 2019 release date did not materialize. //////// By the following February, asked to confirm an album would come that year, he replied, “No! I’m too old to commit to idiot things like that.” Two years passed—mostly pandemic time. Smith eventually teased the Songs of a Lost World title, in 2022, and introduced some new songs to setlists. Two of them, “And Nothing Is Forever” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye,” are set for release on a live single this November. //////// The latest album rumors had the ring of truth: In the modern tradition of major rollouts, the band sent fans mysterious postcards, updated its social media logos, and put up an album release flyer in a pub in its Crawley hometown. A mysterious website—www.songsofalost.world—launched this month, unlocked by the date November 1, 2024, in Roman numerals. Previously empty except for a sculptural head, the site now hosts the same preview of the track as the band’s socials." | * | 2:02:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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Comic artist from Hamilton, Ontario, Joe Ollmann; have you read his work?
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The art is cartoony which is not necessarily bad because it goes with story.
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This Fish Evolved Legs
That Defy the Odds Again
Emerging From a Mexican Desert
And Has Got a Plan to
Fight Global Warming in
a Retreat From Ideology that
Could Alter the Oceans
as World Leaders Discuss
Our Warming Planet
But Have Lost Their Grip
on the World and Themselves
at a Perilous Time
As Romance Blossomed
This Summer In Unexpected Places
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22 tomorrow, so getting there at last!
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Aliases: Matthew Bower, Mirag, The Yllustrous Forger Of Dreams"
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Members: Daniel Miller, Gareth Jones"
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