Do you listen to music when you listen to Coil?

Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil is the most extreme outing by Coil I have had the pleasure of listening to. This is really extreme stuff and is the closest to say, Merzbow, that they ever got.
I rate this and Merzbow's "Oersted" as the most challenging discs I own, which does not make them bad at all. With releases as these the way you listen to music is not a required one. You need to change the setting, change the scenario. This is not easy listening nor is it enjoyable setting; you need to concentrate hard in order to penetrate this stuff. You simply need to focus. Your reward is on its way.
Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/155614378/Constant.zip.html

Tracks	Higher Beings Command I Am The Green Child Beige Lowest Common Abominator Freebase Chakra Tunnel Of Goats [ends at track 23]
Personnel	John Balance Peter Christopherson Simon Norris Thighpaulsandra
Label	Threshold House
Country	UK
Catalogue	ESKATON 24
Format	CD
Date	September 2000
Edition
Notes	Mistakenly shares the same catalogue number with Time Machines Live. Comes in a pink C-shell case.
Press release	This new album by Coil deals with the threat of lavishness and responds with noise. It's trial by musick. This intense density of energetic anger explores areas that Coil have threatened to open out into in the past, but rarely have pursued with such hallucinatory ferocity. 6 new pieces still fresh with blood and electronics. It is released to coincide with Coil's 2nd Royal Festival Hall concert this year; an event which Coil are calling Persistence Is All. Points of reference? Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, Can, LaMonte Young, Flipper, Butthole Surfers, Supermarket Sweep. Composed & arranged by John Balance, Peter Christopherson & Thighpaulsandra.

Spend a Night in a Box

I think that this post has the most fun music to listen to. Just the other day I listened to Sue Jack Daniels song from this album while going to my job, and I just smiled while listening to the words. Cleaner in production than their Sub Pop outings, equally funny and enjoyable. Recommended as high as possible!

http://www.badongo.com/file/10955071

Sony Playstation 1

Lately there has been a buzz about the first generation of Sony Playstation being a terrific CD player. My brother bought one and we plugged it into his setup comprising of Harman Kardon HK610 amplifier, Avalon Acoustic speakers connected with a classic Kimber loudspeaker cable. His CD player is a classic budget Technics SL-P 170. While the Technics is siginificantly louder, it is undeniably more harsh and unnatural to the ear. Guess the buzz is true, don't believe the hype believe your ears. Try it yourself.

Pops Mohamed presents...Bushmen of the Kalahari

M.E.L.T. 2000 releases a carefully selected choice of World Music-, Jazz- and Acoustic recordings from mainly Southern Africa. The site features well known names from the beginnings of the label in early 90's but also presents new offerings from long standing recording artists like Madala Kunene, Bernard Mndaweni, Amampondo, Busi Mhlongo and Mabi Thobejane. Recent recordings and filming of new and exciting artists include L.A.P. (Live African Percussion), Castro B., Vivid Afrika, Greg Georgiades, Ashish Joshi, Della Tamin, , Thabang Tabane, Syd Kitchen, Johnny Fourie, Carlo Mombelli, Ernest Mothle & Ntombe Thongo's African Band. ELECTRIC M.E.L.T. is undertaking several new projects in conjunction with local South African- and European remixers.

Making music is the most primeval form of human expression, imbued with a mystical power to communicate at an instinctual level that transcends language and speaks directly to the soul. The San Bushmen - the indigenous people of the southern African region are Africa's oldest inhabitants, having lived in the region for approximately twenty-five thousand years. For them, music and dance are not merely creative expressions, but an integral part of their being. An essential element of the San cultural identity is their medicine dance and music, in which they use rhythm to heal both the individual and the collective. The medicine men have a supernatural potency within them called n/um that enables them to cure sickness. To activate this substance they dance and sing, creating sounds and a tempo that heats the n/um, causing it to rise up to their heads and evoke trance. Tragically, after decades of systematic marginalisation and dislocation, the modern world threatens these ancient people, their culture as hunter-gatherers, and their strange and beautiful music. The San involved in both the original Melt recordings Pops Mohamed Presents the Bushmen of the Kalahari, and the forthcoming remix projects come from an area of Namibia called the Omaheke Region, bordering with Botswana. In May 2001 four San musician Ngube, Anna,Kuela and Marcela visited England to launch the SanScape Project. Performing with Pops Mohamed and Zena Edwards, the artists were reunited after their success at the . There are over twenty different San groups distinguished by their language spread over Southern Africa. There are seven different San groups in Namibia with Ngube, Anna, and Marcela from the Noa, based in the corridor in the Omaheke Region. Kuela is from the Dcuikhoe tribe in Botswana.

http://rapidshare.com/files/109003783/Bushmen.zip.html

maximin

Charlemagne Palestine

Young God Records' release of the music of the seminal early Minimalist composer Charlemagne Palestine, as re-configured/re-iterated by David Coulter and Jean Marie Mathoul, in co-operation/collaboration with Mr. Palestine. Coulter and Mathoul have taken previously recorded works of Mr. Palestine and - with the full respect due these often transcendent and sacred works - interwoven new sounds/found-sounds, drones, and unexpected textures into an ever-shifting flow that brings new light to these deeply soulful, sonic-sculptural emanations. Re-contextualizing the pure and spiritual force of nature that Mr. Palestine’s music represents could be a risky musical undertaking, but in my opinion Coulter and Mathoul have pulled it off beautifully, inspired solely by their love and respect of the original works themselves. The mixes have an authentic, hand made sensibility, and even when electronics are occasionally introduced, retain an organic feel. The music on this CD has given me hours of listening pleasure, and I hope it provides you with a similar experience. It’s also our hope that the release of this CD will serve as a portal to the work of Mr. Palestine for those who might not already be aware of his substantial catalog of music.

- Michael Gira/Young God Records

This is quite a great CD and as an introduction to Mr.Palestine's it fits perfect.
If you like this, go and dig some more of his stuff. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

http://www.badongo.com/file/8940035

Three Cherries

SIN ROPAS

Tim Hurley: vocals, guitars, accordian, trumpet, korg, keyboards, assorted manipulations
Danni Iosello: drums, percussion, howlings, organ, korg, harmonium, rocks, jangles.

Look down when you meet Tim Hurley and you'll see him wearing his worked-in black leather shoes-all cracked at the seams and screwed together at the heel. He'll sway over you silently, commentlessly noticing them too, but never replacing them, only just adding things to the integral structure to keep them working, and to him, favorite. It's fitting then that Hurley met up with Danni Iosello over years of multi-band playing. She too had grammer-school-loved shoes, duct-taped and straps-stapled to the walk-worn heels.

Sin Ropas' music is like this also: substantial bits of essential form, the gaps and cracks filled, but never quite covered, with new, and necessarily-changing materials. This might explain why Sin Ropas' records are featured on Top 10 Alt-Country lists at the same time as they appear on "Best of Rock" lists and psychedelic music websites. Elements of all music are there, lovingly, if not permanently, stitched-together fragments that slip on and cross each other. Sin Ropas' first CD, Three Cherries (Perishable Records 2000) was received in this way:

"It's easy to imagine each of this records' eight juggernauts as a deconstructed and slightly decayed version of a conventional pop song, falling apart at the seams and unraveled at both ends...If this sounds to you like words of highest praise, you heard right" [Puncture].

"Three Cherries is unique in that it sounds both old-fashioned (in a sittin' on the porch watching the dust bowl fill itself to the brim kind of way) and new-fangled (all the parts that sound like snake charmers playing plastic horns while on mesculine) all at once" [Faster Than Sheep].

After releasing Three Cherries, Sin Ropas moved to the former-East Germany. This presented them with new bits and scraps to paste on, finally recording their second CD "Trickboxes on the Pony Line" (Sad Robot Records 2003, Konkurrent Records 2004) mostly in their apartment and The Lone Star Studio in Germany. This new CD was different, of course, from the first one: living on the raw Baltic coast changes your stamina and color, Trickboxes being heartier somehow, but still amorphous and sinewy.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/gkllxh

Pole: R

" Pole is Berlin-based producer and ~scape founder Stefan Betke. Central to the album are "Raum 1" and "Raum 2", two tracks produced in late 1996 and released by the ace Din label in 1998. R" stands for remix, but this to me is a proper album since the versions of these two "songs" sound different, and each one of these songs can be perceived as a different separate track. Maybe I'm a bit biased with this one because it was my first introduction to Pole.
Since then, I hold him to be one of my favourite artists within glitch genre. I remember, when David Byrne released his Bip Hop compilation on his own Luaka Bop label, guess who had the best song on it. In fact if my memory serves me well it was the only song I thought was any good on whole disc.

Give it a try.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/8mzwgg

kotai

Kotai is my favourite electroclash album. Nuff said. Go listen!
http://www.badongo.com/file/7204050

Go buy!!!
http://www.kompakt-mp3.net/

Cows

The Cows were a noise rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1998. They were known for a unique mixture of punk rock and blues played with large amounts of noise; their music can be considered noise rock.
Some say that the group's most acclaimed album is 1992's Cunning Stunts.

The band was notorious for their raucous live performances. Acts the band have performed onstage include kicking people in the front row, spitting on the stage, throwing the microphone stand into the crowd, throwing food at the crowd, drawing on themselves, among others. Lead singer Shannon Selberg's trademark is that he has a tattoo illustrating the game Hangman on his body that reads "F_CK" and another tattoo of an anchor with the word "DAD" on top of it. One reviewer wrote about the band's shows, "I have no doubt that The Cows know how to play their instruments. What I don't understand is why they refuse to tune them."

Their singer, Shannon Selberg, has gone on with music, fronting the Heroine Sheiks.

Band members
Thor Eisentrager – Guitar (1987–1998)
Kevin Rutmanis – Bass (1987–1998)
Shannon Selberg – Vocals, Horns (1987–1998)
Freddy Votel – Drums (1995–1998)
Norm Rogers – Drums (1990–1995)
Tony Oliveri – Drums (1988–1990)
Sandris Rutmanis – Drums (1987–1988)
David van der Steen – Fifth Udder (1987–1992)

Discography
Taint Pluribus Taint Unum – Treehouse Records, 1987
Daddy Has a Tail – Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1989
Effete & Impudent Snobs – Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1990
Peacetika – Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1991
Cunning Stunts – Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1992

http://www.badongo.com/file/7203332
buy here http://www.emusic.com/album/Cows-Cunning-Stunts-MP3-Download/10590415.html
Sexy Pee Story – Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1993
Orphan's Tragedy – Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1994
Old Gold 1989-1991 – Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1995
Whorn – Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1996
Sorry in Pig Minor – Amphetamine Reptile Records, 1998

Didjits

Didjits were an American punk rock band formed in Mattoon, Illinois in 1983, comprised Rick Sims (a.k.a. Rick Didjit) on guitar/vocals, Doug Evans on bass, and Rick's brother Brad Sims on drums. Didjits was known for the aggressive guitar playing and persona of Rick Sims, who often baited the audience between songs, and took plenty of abuse for it. Moreover, the band also added odd stunts and theatrical bits to some of their stage shows, particularly when playing in Chicago and Champaign.
They released their first album in 1987 on Bam Bam Records and disbanded in 1994. Brad Sims left the band in 1992. Former Scratch Acid drummer Rey Washam filled in for the Little Miss Carriage EP, and Todd Cole eventually took over as the drummer.
The band's following solidified with the release of Hornet Pinata, which equaled, if not bettered, it's predecessors:
1987 Fizzjob (Bam Bam Records)
1988 Hey Judester [includes Fizzjob] (Touch and Go Records)
1989 Fizzjob (T&G) [re-release]
1989 Lovesicle 7" (T&G).

The album was littered with memorable riffs and careening, pile driving rhythms, and perhaps the best set of lyrics on any Didjits record. Whether it was Rick Sims telling the story of a one-legged drug dealer who stored his stash in his peg leg in "Lone Lone Ranger" ("just touch my leg/and Santa Claus'll get you high"), offering a put down in "Evel Knievel" ("it takes a better woman than you baby/to call me a slut") or the pearls of wisdom dripping from "Sweet Sweet Satan" ("c'mon let me tell you my recipe/it takes 10 tons of bullsh*t/for 10 ounces of glory"), the album is a cackling joyride. It leads off with "Killboy Powerhead", later covered by The Offspring on their Smash album, has a worthy cover of The MC5's "Call Me Animal" and sloppy bash through Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady", with Doug Evans on lead vocals. The band shot a video for "Captain Ahab", an excellent midtempo song featuring some of Sims' most memorable guitar lines, which MTV refused to play due to drug references in the lyrics. Nevertheless, a clip of the video was shown on MTV's 120 Minutes show, and the clip contained some of those drug references.
I myself never saw Captain Ahab, but Sweet Sweet Satan video clip, which blew my mind right away. When somebody asks me what is rock I say Didjits.

All of the original members of the band appeared at the Touch and Go 25th anniversary celebration in Chicago, Illinois on September 9, 2006. [1] The next weekend, the band played another reunion show in Champaign. Both shows were extremely well received.
Hear them here:
http://punkoteca.blogspot.com/
http://www.somethingilearned.com/2005/08/the-didjits
buy them here:
http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/band.php?id=41
http://www.southern.com/southern/band/DIDJI/

Bailter Space

Bailter Space (a.k.a. Bailterspace) was an atmospheric noise rock band that formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1986 as Nelsh Bailter Space; they had previously recorded as The Gordons. Its members were Alister Parker (guitar, bass), John Halvorsen (bass, guitar), and Brent McLachlan (drums/percussion, samples). After releasing seven studio albums, numerous EPs/singles, and a career retrospective compilation, Bailter Space is assumed to be on hiatus or disbanded as of 2007
After several releases on Flying Nun, fledgling New York City indie label Matador Records signed them for release in the United States, in approximately 1990. Thermos was actually intended to come out on Matador, and it even has a (blank) roster spot in the official Matador discography; however, Matador never released a Bailter Space full-length until Robot World. The 1992 The Aim EP was the band's first official U.S. release. The band moved to New York City during the 1992 Robot World sessions, and would end up living there on a fairly permanent basis. The EIP EP was released, containing slightly-remixed versions of two Robot World tracks and two that would appear on the forthcoming Vortura.
I became endlessly hooked on them after seeing EIP video on MTV's 120 minutes hosted by Henry Rollins, and I never stopped being a true fan. Allthough Vortura is a more agressive and focused work, Robot World is my first love and my favourite Bailter Space album

1993 Robot World Matador/ Flying Nun - - FNCD259, OLE 50