04/03/2009
26/02/2009
Ghost Hordes and Dread Lords on the Xbox 360
If you have an Xbox 360 then meet the clan . . . . .18/02/2009
La Monte Young - Dream House
I originally found this LP in a dodgy scruffy record shop in Scarbourough many years back in its original gatefold sleeve and the record was immaculate. Years later i found out about its raritiy and value and was astounded. It comprises 2 epic unfolding drones, one side just pure sine wave tone generator and the other the same tone with La Monte Young utilising overtone singing. The drone side is amazing as you move around the space you are listening to it in you notice subtle changes in the timbres and if you get down low the whole thing turns into a sub bass. Originally released by the French label Shandar with the catalog number Shandar 83.510 and never re-released on CD, "Dream House 78' 17" is one of the very few recordings ever made by minimalist composer La Monte Young, in this case together with his long-time companion Marian Zazeela and his group The Theater of Eternal Music (spelled "The Theatre of Eternal Music" on the record). The 78' 17" in the title consists of the duration of the record measured in minutes and seconds. This length, almost double what was then normal, was extremely unusual in its time. Young in the sleeve notes says that "Time is so important to the experiencing and understanding of the music in the record that every effort was made to make the record last as much as the original master tapes.The first composition, "Drift Study 14 VII 73 9:27:27-10:06:41 PM NYC" is a part of "Map of 49's Dream The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery", itself a section of an even longer work called "The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys". In it, three sine waves and the members of The Theatre of Eternal Music play together. According to Young, the lack of harmonic content of the sine waves makes accompanying them with regular instruments and human players extremely difficult.
The second composition, "Drift Study 14 VII 73 9:27:27-10:06:41 PM NYC (39" 14")", is played entirely by sine wave generators. Frequencies and voltages of the sine waves generators were determined and tuned by La Monte Young using oscillators custom-designed by sound technician Robert Adler to generate specific frequencies and voltages of great stability. The sine waves produced are such that they interfere with each other, creating changes of volume both in time and space that can be experienced either walking within the room or staying put. If one chooses to walk, he will change the sound experience of other people in the room by moving the molecules of air.
A Dream House exists at the Mela Foundation on 257 Church Street, NewYork, and is open to the public.
LINK
04/02/2009
GLAMROCKSAMPLER
The Arch drude of Wessex (Julian Cope) is back with a tasty collection of proto Glam nonsense. You can check the full in-depth article over at Head Heritage Part 1
2. The Move - When Alice Comes Back to the Farm (3.44)
3. John Kongos - He’s Gonna Step on You Again (4.24)
4. Tiger B. Smith - Tiger Rock (5.17)
5. Pussy - Feline Woman (2.28)
6. Lucifer - Fuck You (4.53)
7. White Witch - Class of 2000 (6.15)
8. Jobriath - World Without End (3.45)
9. Silverhead - 16 & Savaged (4.26)
10. Amon Düül 2 - Jalousie (3.29)
11. Argent - God Gave Rock’n’roll to You (6.41)
12. Pantherman - Pantherman (3.10)
13. Mustard - Good Time Comin’ (2.33)
14. Iron Virgin - Rebels Rule (3.12)
15. Dump - Annabella (3.20)
16. Neil Merryweather - The Groove (5.32)
17. Be Bop Delux - Swansong (5.53)
18. Seventh Wave - Star Palace of the Sombre Warrior (3.12)
19. Dictators - Master Race Rock (4.17)
20. Rik Kenton - The Libertine (3.21)
21. Kiss - Great Expectations (4.24)
22. The Runaways - Dead End Justice (6.10)
23. Chrome - My Time to Live (4.21)
24. Doctors of Madness - Mainlines (15.46)
02/02/2009
Benevolent Beats Volume one
Benevolent Beats is a compilation by artists which was born by a mad idea through the Ninja Tune Records Forum.
The main purpose is to create a unique, eclectic and if not odd compilation from just using samples taken from crackly old charity shop records.
That's right, no beats, no vocals, no preset sounds - just loops, anything spoken word, nose flutes and bird song.
The rules for the compilation are pretty simple, although making the tracks should be tougher, as you'll know
that most charity shops have mainly crap/classical/C&W, 7 inch singles unless you live in one of the big cities.
Each artist is given around seven minutes to play with, although they are allowed multiple tracks within that time limit.
Each track must be composed of nothing but records bought from charity shops with a maximum budget of £10.
To add to the project's feel it was suggested that all artists try to take photos of the records (considering there's likely to be some odd covers), and even take pics of you buying the record, displaying the charity shop etc. These have been to protect the artists and the tunes they therefore pilfered - although pretty much everything that was used has long been dead on the licencing front.
This compilation is covered under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence. Click here to read more about it.
1. Herma Puma -Sunshine Trumps Rain (Chariy D Remix)2. John Shima - St Beardo's
3. Soleboy - All Records a Pound
4. Absolutley Nebulous - A Pig With a Wig
5. Kovas - Hur This Interlude
6. Jbavi - Charitee
7. John Shima - Ghost Rider
8. Black House - Ride em Cowboy
Download compilation here
cover artwork
Web pages
http://charitybeats.googlepages.com/home
http://www.deskjob.net
15/01/2009
The Emperor Machine Live
Petrol 29/11 from Sander Verheyen on Vimeo.
Being a fan of all things DC Recordings, as well as a long time fan of the defunckt Vinyl Solution Records, I thought I'd post this. As DC say in their email newsltter, The Emperor Machine have had a good year with the birth of their new Live show and you can see an interview with Andy Meecham and some footage from a recent gig they did in Russia here: LINK
. There is also some footage from a show they did with The Oscillation in Antwerp which is the video at the top. Short but sweet, some nice warblings going on and a sign that the label has built up a fine roster of cosmic magicians. It's taken time for DC recordings to become what it really wanted to be, but you can see the logical progression from the heavy beats and bass, acid wash and electro monsters that came out in the late nineties and early naughties.
07/01/2009
2008 Cyon bboy championship final Rivers vs. JinJo crew
Nothing too odd about a B Boy final from South Asia, granted the breaking is top notch and certainly gives many nods to the styles of the 80s. What I like about this clip is that Can come in halfway through the session and it really works. Breaking to Krautrock? Could be be and you heard it here first.
Edgar Broughton Band Discograpy (1969 - 75)
1.Death Of An Electric Citizen
2.American Boy Soldier
3.Why Can't Somebody Love Me?
4.Neptune
5.Evil
6.Crying
7.Love In The Rain
8.Dawn Crept Away
SING BROTHER SING
1.There's No Vibrations, But Wait!
2.The Moth
(i)The Moth
(ii)People
(iii)Peter
3.Momma's Reward (Keep Them Freak's A Rollin')
4.Refugee
5.Officer Dan
6.Old Gopher
7.Aphrodite
8.Granma
9.Psychopath
(i)The Psychopath
(ii)(B) Is For Butterflies
10.It's Falling Away
EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND
1.Evening Over Rooftops
2.The Birth
3.Piece Of My Own
4.Poppy
5.Don't Even Know Which Day It Is
6.House Of Turnabout
7.Madhatter
8.Getting Hard into What Is A Woman For?
9.Thinking Of You
10.For Doctor Spock Parts 1 & 2
1.Get Out Of Bed/There's Nobody There/Side By Side
2.Sister Angela
3.I Got Mad
4.They Took It Away
5.Homes Fit For Heroes
6.Gone Blue
7.Chilly Morning Mama
8.The Rake
9.Totin' This Guitar
10.Double Agent
11.It's Not You
12.Rock 'n' Roll
OORA
1."Hurricane Man/Rock 'n' Roller"
2."Roccococooler"
3."Eviction"
4."Oh You Crazy Boy!"
5."Things On My Mind"
6."Exhibits From A New Museum/Green Lights"
7."Face From A Window/Pretty/Hi-Jack Boogie/Slow Down"
8."Capers"
9."Sweet Fallen Angels" (2004 CD reissue bonus track)
1.Get A Rise
2.Speak Down The Wires
3.John Wayne
4.The Whale
5.Germany
6.Love Gang
7.One To Seven
8.Lady Life
9.Signal Injector
10.Fruhling Flowers (for Claudia)
11.I Want To Lie
05/01/2009
GURU GURU - Discography (1970 - 73)
1- Stone In
3- Next Time See You At The Dalai Lhama
5- Der LSD - Marsch
1- Electric Junk
2- The Meaning Of Meaning
3- Bo Diddley
4- Space Ship
KANGARU
1- Oxymoron
2- Immer Lustig
3- Baby Cake Walk
4- Ooga Booga
GURU GURU
1- Samantha's Rabbit
2- Medley - a. Rocken Mit Eduard - b. Something Else - c. Weekend - d. Twenty Flight Rock
3- Woman Drum
4- Der Elektrolurch
5- The Story Of Life
1- Africa Steals The Show
2- Round Dance
3- 200 Clinches
4- Das Zwickmaschinchen
5- Guru Guru Ltd
17/12/2008
JAPROCKSAMPLER #33 - East Bionic Symphonia (1976)
Tripped out vocal drones,bowed Schnitzler styled glissandos from a viola and fiddle and scattered bamboo percussion this comes at you like Tangerine Dream jamming with Taj Mahal Travellers. Featuring sometime Taj Traveleer Kazuo Imai, this live recording dates from 1976.10/12/2008
JAPROCKSAMPLER #32 Datetenryu - 1971
Representatives of the early ’70s festival scene, Datetenryu was an obscure cousin to Communist agitator bands Zuno Keisatsu (Brain Police), Yellow, Les Rallizes Denudés and Murahatchibu. Led by organist Masao Tonari, the band on UNTO[album] played a frantic hogwash of soul-based progressive space rock that inhabited the same territory as The the Soft Machine’s debut- LP period (imagine ‘Why Are We Sleeping?’ or ‘Hope For for Happiness’ by way of ‘21st Century Schizoid Man’). Mainly instrumental, their music is a space trek through endless R&B riffs and classic soul moments, like some ever- unfolding medley. UNTO purports to be what the band members would have chosen had they had the opportunity to release an official debut album at the time, ie: a total barrage of lo-fi progressive garage rock. The 20-minute epic ‘Doromamire (Covered All Over In in Mud)’ is the killer, but really it’s all one insane 47-minute-long rush. Formed in May 1971, at Kyoto Sangyo (‘Industrial’) University, Datetenryu was a right bunch of refusenik longhairs. Masao Tonari set up sideways on to the rest of the band, while drummer Shogo Ueda played, head down, facing away from the stage pointing towards Tonari’s Yamaha organ. Indeed, guitarist Kei Yamashita appears to have been permanently out of proceedings in the same way that Yes’s Pete Banks and the Nice’s Davy O’List were forever being sidelined. Datetenryu’s biggest claim to fame, however, was the presence of bassist/singer Hiroshi Narazaki, who later became Hiroshi Nar and joined Les Rallizes Denudés, thereafter forming his own very excellent band the Niplets, who continue to perform right up to the present time. 
JAPROCKSAMPLER #26 Brast Burn - Same Title
This virtually unknown free chant’n’ritual ensemble made one brilliant LP DEBON for Voice Records in 1974, before disappearing back whence they came. Often compared to Faust, they actually come across more like some Cajun inbreds at a cannibal sacrifice, the chanting exhibiting an apocalyptic bluesy quality somewhat akin to Exuma the Obeah Man, or Captain Beefheart circa STRICTLY PERSONAL and MIRROR MAN. Hand drums, sleigh bells, tambourines, blues harp, and many many vocals go into the sonic stew that makes the sound of Brast Burn. JAPROCKSAMPLER #19 Karuna Khyal - Alomoni 1985
Deep trance inducing chantathons coming on like the freewheeling Krauts with shades of bongo driven Popol Vuh styled grooves and Beefheartian lurches. Along with Brast Burn this area of Japrock is the deepest.JAPROCKSAMPLER #16 People/Ceremony- Buddha Meets Rock
