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Nevinost Ploča!

2012-01-10T04:09:00.004+01:00

Eto, u novu godinu Vam želim i nešto od ovoga... Vjerojatno je vrlo vrlo teško naći ovu ploču netaknutu i neokaljanu, ovo definitivno ne možete napraviti na CD-u bejbe. Mora biti vinil i kraj.
Forna zamisao koja je ostala po meni, slabo informiranom kakav već jesam, neprevaziđena sve do "Drill Your Own Hole" od Guy Bykers on Acid tamo negdje već na kraju 80-ih.
Dakle, vi ste prvi, i morate napravit rupu...bez toga ne možeš čut što si kupio. Po meni svjetska fora, inovacija provokacija do jaji. Šteta što glazba na albumu nije jednako inovacija provokacija ali Skakavac je definitivno hit koji traje i daje, toliko glup tekst da šljaka. Great!

Tehnik, ali ja?

Laboratorija - Nevinost
Vinyl rip in 24bit /96kHz | FLAC+artwork | 2% recovery
803 MB | Pop, Rock/YU | 1986 | Jugoton LSY 63244

Label: Jugoton – LSY 63244
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Yugoslavia
Released: 1986
Genre: Pop, Rock

Track Listing
A1 - Daj mi Bugi, Dam ti Vugi
A2 - Igra
A3 - Mala Moja, Al Je Paranoja
A4 - Setnja
A5 - Rastanak
A6 - Milice-Milice
B1 - Vili-Vili
B2 - Otkucavanje
B3 - Disem
B4 - Devica
B5 - Jos Ovaj Put
B6 - Skakavac Joj Zaso u Rukavac

Credits
Bass Guitar – Stojan Jovanović-Kića, Đorđe Urban
Design – Davor Grčić
Drums – Ivan Fece
Engineer – Mladen Vranešević
Guitar – Zoran Bulatović, Zoran Maletić Zoxx
Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals – Peđa Vranešević
Keyboards – Senad Jašarević
Producer – Mladen Vranešević
Saxophone – Deže Molnar
Violin, Synthesizer [Guitar-synth] – Olah Vince
Vocals – Dina Vranešević, Mladen Bata Vranešević, Renata Vigi
Voice, Vocals – Vilmoš Lakatoš
Written-By – M. Vranešević (tracks: A1, A2, A5, B1, B5), P. Vranešević (tracks: A3, B1, B3)
Notes
Recorded at Studios in London, Dortmund and Novi Sad.

24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip by Ljubo44
29. December 2011.

RCM Record master 1
Denon DP-51F DD TT
Denon DL-110 Cartrige
Denon DRA-565 RD Preamp
EDIROL FA 66 Fire Wire Audio Interface
W7 Q4 Phenom 3.2 GHz
WaveLab 6.1 recording software
foobar2000 for FLAC 8 conversion

Click Repair - Manual
Vinyl condition: 5+

Runout A: LSY 63244 A 03 03 86 SB
Runout B: LSY 63244 B 03 03 86 SB

part1 | part2 | part3

Pass: ljubo
Hvala ljubotu i awaxu na udarxu!

Suicide!

2011-11-06T03:42:00.003+01:00

Vjerojatno je da će mnogi blogger dati svoj sud o 2011. i najboljim albumima u istoj. I ja sam bio u iskušenju napraviti isto međutim, ne mogu se baš sjetit što me je to posebno dirnulo u prošloj nam godini a da je bilo recentno. Dirnulo me je to što je otišlo je nekoliko dragih ljudi, a neki kao i da su već otišli...

Imate li dana kad ne znate što bi slušali? Vrtite se po vlastioj kolekciji glazbe i ništa a baš bi nešto slušali. Kad imam takav dan uvijek na kraju iskopam neki favorit, album koji mogu uvijek slušat i kojeg poznam u milimetar.
Kad ne znate što, opalite ovo po ušima, još uvijek novo, inovativno, opasno, hrabro, eksperimentalno a ogoljeno do bola...Ponekad mi se čini kako je ovo ustvari nekakav mutirani rockabilly - Vega na delayu i Rev sa zvučnim zidom iza, a opet tako bazično i primitivno jednostavno a nedostižno.
Koji album čo'eče uf!

Suicide – Suicide (1978)
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz & 16-bit/44.1kHz | FLAC (Tracks), artworks | Stereo | 692 Mb, 205 Mb | 5% RAR Recovery
Styles: Electro, Synth-pop, Experimental |
Red Star/Bronze Records

Track listing:

01. Ghost Rider
02. Rocket USA
03. Cheree
04. Johnny
05. Girl
06. Frankie Teardrop - Nick Hornby u svojoj knjizi 31 songs opisuje ovu kao pjesmu kao nešto što se sluša "samo jednom", i oh, da teški su to osjećaji.
07. Che

All songs written by Martin Rev and Alan Vega.

Personnel:
Alan Vega - vocals
Martin Rev - keyboards, drum machine (Seeburg Rhythm Prince) - ne možeš fulat taj zvuk, definitivno totalni trade mark (zvučni) ranog Suicidea. Činele su šum, a snare i kick toliko frekvencijski blizu da na kraju nije ni bitno koji je koji. Zakon!

TT: Technics SP 15 with SME 3009 tonearm & customized plinth
Cartridge: Ortofon Concorde 30 + OM 30 stylus
Phono amp: Pro-Ject Tube Box II with 2X JAN 12AX 7WA (General Electric)
Cables: Wire World Solstice 5.2
Computer: Sony Vaio VPCJ1
ADC: Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Software: WaveLab 5.01, ClickRepair, Redbook Resampled And Dithered with iZotope RX

linkovi

Sonic Temple, sjećate se zida nasuprot Palachu?

2011-11-05T04:41:00.005+01:00

Sonic Temple je ono što smo na prelazu 80-ih u 90-e zvali Rock. Billy Duffy raskoračen oće udarit svog Les Paula u jaja. Masu bendova su tada bili Rock i svirali Rock. Tada je i Ri Rock bio Rock.
Naravno, to je degradiralo Rock kao takav, jer je puno njih sviralo Pop a furalo se da je to Rock. I tako je Rock otišao u racku. Neki su otišli ka jutu i the kult i mislili da su Rock a ja na Killdozer i Jesus lizard i Mule i mislio da nisam Rock nego nešto puno opakije.
Ipak, ostaje činjenica da sam puno slušao Cult u tom dijelu života svoga i kako mi je ovo zadnji njihov album koji sam uopće imao živaca preslušat do kraja. Još uvijek nisam (ponovno) kupio ovo na vinilu, dok Electric i Love nisam uopće niti prodavao in the first place. Kad sam ponovo pokušao ovo preslušavati skužio sam kako je b strana malo lošija. Eto što ti je vinil, možeš slušat recimo A stranu i uopće ne B stranu i misliš kako je album bomba a sav filler oni stavili na B stranu. Mudrilisuga oni!
Any way ovo je najkomercijalniji album koji su snimili a ono poslije ni ne znam kakvo je i da li valja.

Tehnikalija kaže:
CLEANING
Spin Clean Machine / Vinyl Aerobics (patent pending)

RECORDING
Rega P3-24 W/TTPSU Audio-Technica Cartridge AT33EV Upgraded Rega Drive Belt (Cart @ 2g Phonostage @ 100 ohms)
Dual Rega Felt Pads for VTA
Project PhonoBox SE II
E-MU 0204 USB 2.0
MSI i5 Quad Laptop
Adobe Audition 3.0 @ 32-192

PROCESSING
MSI i5 Quad Laptop
Izotope RX Advance Manual Declick
Izotope RX Advance Normalizing and dithering
dBpoweramp 14.2 w/FLAC 1.21 (@lvl 5)for conversion and pic Tagging.
Foobar 2000 1.1.8 w/discogs and DR report.

Linkovi:
sugar talker paradise dream stealer
Password: 0pp0
Love i Electric su mi bolji albumi ali ako želite zaokružiti Cult na bitno ni ovo nije loše ako niste zagriženi za goth fazu jer ovo je ustvari Glam metal ili tako nešto. Electric je falši Acdc križan s onim što će kasnije postati grunge, ustvari to je Zep influence. Love je zadnji onako Goth album i najjači od svih tih njih svih.
Dakako treba i apsolvirati i Southern Death Cult i Death Cult by all means i apsorbirati iste. Ja sam over a bogami i out.

Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music

2011-09-01T00:34:00.008+02:00

Eto što ti je biti moderan. Čak je i ovo dočekalo remaster i vinilno reizdanje. Čuje se bolje? Da li se treba čuti bolje? Da li se prije čulo loše pa sad ovo reizdanje ispravlja tu nepravdu?
U originalu je album bio kvadrofoni, a remaster je donio novi, osvježeni stereo mix.
Eto naći će se kupci i za ovo reizdanje, uključujući i budalu koja piše ove retke. Odmah sam utopio katastrofalnu CD verziju iz '97 od BMG, nije da se nije čulo dobro ali knjižica je bila čisto smeće. Kao da je reizdanje napravio SUZY. Remaster je nadzirao sam Lou i vjerojatno se izvuklo što se izvući da, s tim da se na novom vinilu držalo i originalnih zabilješki Bob Ludwigovog masteringa prvog izdanja.
Evo i tehnikalija dakle:
Side one
“Metal Machine Music, Part 1″ – 16:10
Side two
“Metal Machine Music, Part 2″ – 15:53
Side three
“Metal Machine Music, Part 3″ – 16:13
Side four
“Metal Machine Music, Part 4″ – 15:55

On the original vinyl release, timings for sides 1–3 were stated as “16:01″, while the 4th side read “16:01 or ∞”, as the last groove on the LP was a continuous loop.

power: Dedicated circuit, Monster HTS1000 PowerCenter
cleaning: Steam clean→ wash → distilled h2O rinse → vacuum → carbon fibre brush → zerostat
hw: Technics SL1100-A w/ AT-OC9ML/II → Pro-Ject Tube Box SE II → E-MU 0404 → MacBook Pro
sw: Audacity [capture 24-bit/96kHZ] → Izotope RX2 [de-click/resample] → Xact [sbe correction] → XLD [flac conversion/tag]

Since RS got rid of link lists and instituted Rapidsave packages, I am not sure the link will work, so here are direct RS links:

https://rapidshare.com/files/256752990/lewisallan1644mmm.part1.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/2058978634/lewisallan1644mmm.part2.rar

https://rapidshare.com/files/4156415011/lewisallan2496mmm.part1.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/1046654514/lewisallan2496mmm.part2.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/2585181485/lewisallan2496mmm.part3.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/1070012197/lewisallan2496mmm.part4.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/1648138254/lewisallan2496mmm.part5.rar

all files interchangeable
password: analog

Thanx to original uploaderu. Hvala avaxu na udarxu.

Tuxedomoon Rijeka

2011-08-25T19:38:00.002+02:00

Bez sumnje događaj godine u gradu. In fact, događaj nekoliko proteklih godina.
Dobro izgledaju, onako zadovoljni, primili smo ih što smo carskije mogli, trpali ih domaćim delicijama, rezervirali im super sobe. Mislim da im je bilo dobro i možda se ipak još koji put vrate u naše malo selo...

Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two (Island 1969) 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip

2011-07-08T04:28:00.005+02:00

Ima tako nekih albuma i nekih prijatelja koji uživaju izvuć asa iz rukava, pa ti "podmetnu" nešto što nikad prije nisi čuo iz razdoblja za koje ti i nije baš stalo, i ostanu, zalijepe se i kažeš eto nikad čuo a u stvari ovo šije neke razvikane stvari.
Najbolji album u njihovoj karijeri, u stvari mogao bih reći jedini kako spada, album s boljim pjesmama od bilo koje kompilacije koju bi mogli sklepati od svih njihovih izdanja zajedno. Nije da sam baš imao volje dalje istraživati njihovu diskografiju, ali taj onaj friend koji je kopao kaže nema smisla ionako kopat bez potrebe. Ovdje sve šljaka i svaka im je stvar tu na mjestu. Jedan od mojih favorita što se tiče tzv. (ja to tako zovem) freakovske glazbe.
Gospodin tehnikalija će nato:

Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two (1969)
Vinyl rip @ 24/96 | FLAC | Artwork | 791MB
Rock | Early 70's UK re-press | Island ILPS 9098

Track listing:

A1. Waiting For The Wind
A2. Feelin’ Bad
A3. I’ve Got Enough Heartache
A4. Evil Woman

B1. Lost In My Dream
B2. That Was Only Yesterday
B3. Better By You, Better Than Me
B4. Hangman Hang My Shell On A Tree

Personnel:

Mike Harrison – vocals
Gary Wright – keyboards, vocals
Luther Grosvenor – guitar
Greg Ridley – bass
Mike Kellie – drums
Arranged by Spooky Tooth
Recording engineer Andrew Johns
Produced by Jimmy Miller
Mastered by George “Porky” Peckham

Knosti RCM
Pink Triangle LPT with
Funk Firm Achromat.
Moth Arm.
Audio Technica AT33PTG MC Cart.
Harman Kardon PM660 Integrated Amp.
Creative S80300 ADC. Gold Interconnects.
Click Repair.
Split and manual de-click with Adobe Audition.

veza 1 + veza 2

Password: emanation
Files are interchangeable
Posted By : son-of-albion | Date : 15 May 2011 21:08:35 on Avax

tuxedomoon live in florence 2011

2011-07-07T22:52:00.002+02:00

I eto njih mladića za koji dan i u Rijeci. JEEEEE. Bolje od onanije I tell ya.

Imena lhuda nalhaze se Khuda

2011-06-25T20:07:00.004+02:00

Ničim izazvan izađem tako tu i tamo poslije posla na neki koncertić (Melvins, Big Business, Porn, Jucifer i eto jučer Khuda) a sam faca koji bendovi a?
(Šuti budalo - Melvins, Big Business i Porn su jedan koncert)
I tako sjednem ja na miru i pijem ovaj sok što ga zovu radler iliti piva razrijeđena limunom, otkrismo Amjeriku...., i pogledam ničim izazvan odličan koncert onoga što ja zovem novi noise, tj. bendovi koji su skužili da je Lightning Bolt ustvari super ideja koncepcije benda. Khuda je manje noizičan a više ritmički sređen mlađahan bend, s utjecajima King Crimson (gitarski rad), dečko gitarist pametno koristi loop pedalu i tako slaže slojeve gitarskih temica jednu na drugu, krasno dječko krasno.
Baš lijepi jedan koncert. Bolji od Jucifer koje je sje*o tonac jer je bubanj bio loše ozvučen, nije pucao u glavu a mora, pucat u glavu, tresao je pod a gitara ga je pojela, ne može to tako sjedi jedan

Khuda bandcamp

The Police - Bring on the Night Paris 1981

2011-06-08T07:18:00.003+02:00

On a previous post for Damo Suzuki Network, by accident in a zip file there, you have also included a very fine bootleg by The Police. Among the very first records I really cherished in my youth, Zenyatta Mondatta is still the record I enjoy very very much. And I know it by heart. This was Zenyatta tour I guess and as the reviewer below says the new songs did not glue all that well. It was also interesting, for me at least, on athe official Police live double disc, the fact that the band needed a couple songs to really start cookin'. Here they oscillate wildly ;-))

"Well, this bootleg is interesting for several reasons. First of all, it's a very good soundboard recording. It could well be an official release, were it not for the fact that there is hardly any audience audible. Unfortunately, it appears that the Police were not having their best night. The new songs like Don't Stand.. and De Do Do Do sound awful (it's a concert from 1981). They make mistakes and even Stewart plays insecure. The older songs have great renditions, however. And the fact that they were not having their best gig kinda makes it interesting.. I'd recommend this one for any Police fan, but don't expect a flawless gig! Gerry, Holland."

Damo Suzuki Ne Damo Kawasaki

2011-06-02T02:23:00.006+02:00

3 albuma snimljena s Can + pol pjesama sa Soundtracks dovoljna su da Damo Suzuki zauzme posebno mjesto u svačijem bilo čijem mojem srcu. Ne bivši dovoljno informiran o tome kako gospodin Damo i dalje jaše stejdževe ovog svijeta bijah (ah) ugodno iznenađen kad sam doznao da ima svoj projekt Damo Suzuki Network i kako izdaje redovito albume koji su izrazito improvizatorske prirode. Kako sam radio u CD-shopu (vinili su bili veeelika rijetkost, mislim novi), došlo je do ideje da nešto od toga probamo nabavit i predstavit gradskoj krautrock javnosti (ako takva uopće postoji)... te smo nabavili par cd-a + box set Damo Suzuki Band P.R.O.M.I.S.E. (7CD Box) 1998.
Veliku većinu (sve osim boxa) kupio sam na kraju ja a nešto od toga predstavljam ovdje.
Sjećam se i da sam tog 28.3.2003 potegnuo nakon posla čak iz Splita i to na ho-ruk jer sam samo par sati prije koncerta doznao za isti i trk u auto i udri za Grebzu!
EEE isplatilo se. A za bis su svirali Mother Sky i to nezaboravno, koji grooove je to bio, pojeo je sve drugo te večeri. Za tih desetak minuta isplatio se sav put. Always in my heart, hvala Sin.

Kako su Swansi (zamalo) razbili Jedinstvo a mene da

2011-05-25T15:29:00.007+02:00

E, da bilo se na Swansima u Jedinstvu, i bilo je worth every penny i više rekao bih...

Razbili eeeeee!!!!

Nema svrhe pričati racenzija tipa bilo ovako i bilo ovako bla bla. Ko nije bijo magarac je bijo i osto. Točka. R.M. Točka (žena od R.M. Točka).
Ovo i meni daje ono utjehu da će tijelo možda omlohavit ali duh i srce neće.

Pokretna slika vrijedi više od nepokretne riječi tejk it over joutube:

1.
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Inače, evo nekoliko meni omiljenih citata vezanih uz ovaj koncert (nabasano na webu)

1. U ponedjeljak, 23. svibnja, od 20 sati u Pogonu Jedinstvo (Trnjanski nasip, bb) u Zagrebu nastupa kultni britanski bend "Swans". preuzeto sa H-Alter

2. Girov koncept komunikacije s publikom sastoji se u formuli da kako koncert odmiče publiku treba natjerati da se osjeća sve nelagodnije. Sinoć je upraznio ovakav pristup pojačavavši baseve na razglasu do razine grčenja abdominalnih mišića te naredivši da se klimatizacija u dvorani isključi u potpunosti (sljedeći princip purifikacije nativnih Amerikanaca). - preuzeto s portala VIP.

a.) dvorana inače nema klimatizaciju niti ju je ikad imala...
b) Girov koncept bi bio naprimjer kad bi se čovjek zvao Michael Gir.
c) jedan kanal je probila mikrofonija (ili sa Girinog pojačala ili bas pojačala, pa je to tonac koji je by the way valjda zaspao isključio kanal na svetog nikad... itd.itd.
Inače se nativni Amerikanci (indijaneri valjda) okreću u grobu znojeći se pritom.

Don't yu džast love Kroejša...

Ivo Malec - Triola - Hrvatska sutra?

2011-05-16T20:39:00.007+02:00

Naš drag gost od prije pol godine, Ivo Malec govorio je pomalo s tugom o svom životu u Francuskoj, kako se i dalje osjeća strancem nakon tih svih godina, vjerojatno i u tom leži odgovor na pitanje zašto je tako slabo poznat kod nas a ni vani nije baš jedan od tih superstarova avant garde. No ipak da je ostao ovdje, vjerojatno bi istrunuo u nekoj državnoj instituciji i nikad ne bi imali priliku slušat ovo: Njegovo najvažnije djelo Triola, snimljeno za francuski label INA, naime teško je za povjerovat da bi rafinerija dala lovu za ovo, možda da za En Face ali za ovo ipak NE.
Zato i valja sine...

Evo i još jedne zanimljive vijesti od prije godinu i pol...

Zaredale su nagrade za skladateljstvo Ivi Malecu (Zagreb 1925.), ali uglavnom u njegovom dugogodišnjem prebivalištu u Parizu. Sada mu je žiri Francuske fondacije dodijelio Međunarodnu nagradu Arthur Honegger 2009 za životno djelo. Samo mjesec dana ranije u Akademiji lijepih umjetnosti ja na javnoj svečanoj godišnjoj sjednici primio je nagradu za skladateljski rad, a treba podsjetiti da mu je proljetos dodijeljen i Zlatni Orfej za najbolji CD s djelima Epistola na stihove Marka Marulića i Arc-en-cello. Koncert s praizvedbom Epistole u Louxembourgu izravno je prenosio Hrvatski radio. Bar nešto iz rodne zemlje.
OBJAVA: 03.01.2010 / 15:12 Večernji List napisala Maja Stanetti.

Eto nešto su mu ipak priznali iako nije snimao uz potporu naftne industrije...

This is a 24-bit transcription of an amazing pair of electroacoustic works by the Croatian composer Ivo Malec, who has worked in France since 1959 and has been a longtime member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. The LP transcribed for this installment was released originally in the INA-GRM Collection in 1979. Like everything else I have in that collection, this is one of my most prized LPs. The works were also released by the INA on CD, but that release appears to be out of print.
The composer recommends that part 1 of Triola be listened to very, very loud. I have had good results with a level that elicits equal parts rapture and blind panic. You can then keep it at that level for the rest of the work. If your ears start bleeding during part 3, you should probably dial it down a bit. There are longish silences after each movement.

The LP transcribed for this installment is in excellent condition, on the INA-GRM's chaaracteristically excellent vinyl. There is no noticeable tracking distortion, even in the most sonically challenging passages. The LP was mastered at a high enough level that I actually got a bit of digital clipping in the loudest passages, but not enough to distract. The torrent includes a PDF file with scans of the notes in French on the LP inside cover.

Triola 1
Triola 2
Triola 3
Bizarra

Liner notes

Avant Garde Project

Richard Pinhas & Merzbow

2011-04-20T17:18:00.002+02:00

While browsing the ever changing and time consuming Cuneiform site, I came across a real treasure: Richard Pinhas & Merzbow collaboration. Never before have I heard such a romantic noise scuplture , it is a really enjoyable hum/music. Guess we have Richard Pinhas to thank to, since Merzbow does not make noise in this vein.
Absolutely beautiful, I tell you.

Rhihome 4
ParisOne

Cuneiform Story

2011-04-13T02:24:00.010+02:00

A fine compilation covering the great Cuneiform label. Dating from 2005, catalog number MJCD 1172, Italy, from the Musica Jazz magazine.
Containing great track from the early Soft Machine (with Robert Wyatt on drums!), my personal favourites Impossible John by The Muffins, and a great track Misty Hymen by The Claudia Quintet.
More on Cuneiform Records on their own site: link
Listen

Re-ups

2011-04-12T02:23:00.005+02:00

I've re upped some Cabaret Voltaire since they have not been available for a long time.
here are the links:
The Conversation 1 & 2
International Language
Nag Nag Nag

Enjoy, give it a try and then buy!

Watch

Jučer, danas, sutra

2011-04-09T12:26:00.004+02:00

Hrvatska glazba jučer danas sutra. Upravo tako, iako kronološki gledano trebalo bi se zvati davno nekad i jučer ali zanemarimo gnjavažu zvanu vrijeme, povijest, kronologija itd. ionako izgleda to ništa ne postoji po najnovijim dostignućima znanosti i umjetnosti bla bla.
Prvi u nizu, album je hrvatskih crkvenih napjeva, gregorijanskih korala, dakle srednji vijek - Hortus Musicus - Croatian Music of the XI-XIV Centuries, estonskog "ansambla" Horticus Musicus.
Izdavač Melodija, dakle CCCP.
Zvuči zanimljivo i moćno.

Tehnikalije:

Hortus Musicus - Croatian Music of the XI-XIV Centuries (LP / FLAC)
FLAC | CUE | NO LOG | Full LP Covers (1:1) | 180MB
Genre: Gregorian Chant | Label: Melodiya C10 250789 009 | Original release: 1986

The album of gregorian chants of Croatian origin, dating from medieval times and the Ars Nova (what more seductive and unsettling times.) This vocal group in singing fills me to the soul in terms of singing, vocal chords to the spirit of those who sing.
Sunniva, the owner told me this LP was recorded in the cathedral Oleviste, Estonia. If you havn't ever heard Gregorian chants, I think it's a great way to leave and go into the real passion of christianity

Vinyl rip: Sunniva
Turntable: Sony PS-212
Cartridge: Shure M92E
Mastered and audio correction: Fran Solo
Software: WavePurity Professional 6.50, Macromedia SoundEdit, XLD Lossless.
Scan LP cover (1:1): Sunniva
Redesign and corrected covers, LP & CD versions: Fran Solo

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Drugi po redu je, glupo je reći ali je istina, legendarni Homo Istrioticus Franci Blašković sa jednim od svojih 156 albuma (lažem ko pas ali snimio ih je npu racku...), i to projekt Rostiglio, jedno od najdotjeranijih njegovih izdanja u zadnjih ohoho godina. Zadnje nešto ovako fokusirano je bio, mislim, Masterplan, ili čak možda još raniji Kobra je u brajdi.
Franci raspušta Gori Ussi Winnetou nakon 59.albuma i snima pod drugim nazivima a jedan od njih je ovdje prisutni Rostiglio. Jule je ovdje zaslužan za sve tekstove i muziku i sve je sam odsvirao a Franci je odpjevao. Na albumu se sviraju svi pravci u muzici pa možemo čuti akustiku,metal,elektroniku,folk,progressive rock,funk,gothic, industrial,punk itd. Inače ovo je Francijev 65.album.

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I na kraju treći, kronološki jebza ali realno i stvarno nešto što pripada budućnosti odnosno nečemu što bi moglo biti budućnost.
Ivo Malec. O njemu više drugi put. I to u FLAC-u. Majke mi.

"The World of Harry Partch"

2011-03-30T01:35:00.008+02:00

E, pa moja transkripcija ove ploče u digitaliju je nestala netragom, srećom danas na netu ima doslovno sve pa je tako i na stranici avantgardeproject eto u punom sjaju objavljen vinyl rip najpoznatije kompilacije glazbe Harry Partch-a,"The World of Harry Partch" inače objavljenu za CBS.
Zvuk je odličan i kopija ploče je u boljem stanju od moje a šumovi su karakteristični za medij, dakle vinil. Za upoznavanje s Harry Partch-em ovo je odlična početna postaja. Ako želite znati od kuda Tom Waitsu ideja za Swordfishtrombones, evo ga ovdje dotični gospon...Udri ga Harry!

Daphne of the Dunes
Barstow
Castor & Pollux

Equipment used for A/D conversion: Lyra Helikon phono cartridge, Linn LP12/Lingo turntable, Linn Ittok tonearm, Audioquest LeoPard tonearm cable, PS Audio PS2 preamplifier, Kimber PBJ interconnect, M-Audio Audiophile USB A/D converter.

And here's the adress of a real goldmine that I stumbled upon...Avant Garde Project

Dissected

2011-03-26T16:35:00.006+01:00

Tko bi rekao da ću odjednom za redom postati 2 albuma Swansa/Jarboe ma kužite što misllim ustvari nije bitno. Dissected je kompilacija remixa, kolaboracija Jarboe s njoj omiljenim ljudima. J*****p je rekao da se njegov primjerak jednostavno izbrisao i da ne može više nigdje naći ovaj album, ako se dobro sjećam govorili smo o ovom right? Ako sam fulao album javi.

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Forever Burned

2011-03-24T14:34:00.004+01:00

Evo i najdražih, my precioussss...
Gira dakle ne voli ovaj album i pljuje po produkciji Bill Laswella ali mislim da ne smeta. Ne smeta jer je drugačije od svega što su do sad snimili ali je jednako moćno i snažno i jako i krv i kosti jednako kao sve ostalo uključujući i Skin i Angels of Light. Činjenica je da je Forever Burned limitirano izdanje albuma Burning World, s nekoliko bonusa s albuma koji su izdavani oko tog perioda,Love of Life i White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, i da je dijeljen na turneji Angels of Light, izdanje je 2003, a to znači da je i Gira pronašao svoj mir u vezi tog razdoblja. Neke od ovih stvari su se u drugačijem mixu našle na albumu/kompilaciji Various Failures i zvuče ipak sirovije od Laswell-ove vizije zvuka. Ma mogu ja tu pilit do sutra ali ništa ne može oblatiti ove pjesme i ovaj genijalni album, čak ni onaj tko ga je napravio, iskomponirao, otpjevao, otsvirao i tako to. Ne mož, no pasaran bejbe. Ali je pošteno od njega da ga je dao van opet makar i na kapaljku iako je prijetio da nikad neće, vjerovatno zbog spora sa major labelom MCA, koji je objavio Burning World. Da se mene pita, neka samo oni svi krepaju i propadnu jer u diskografskoj industriji odavno ne rade ljudi koji se kuže u dobru glazbu nego u psihologiju i marketing, a takve, jelte, kad vidimo na cesti cipelarimo i pljujemo.
Gospon Tehnikalija, preuzmite kormilo molim:

01 The River That Runs With Love Won't Run Dry
02 Let It Come Down
03 Can't Find My Way Home
04 Mona Lisa, Mother Earth
05 (She's A) Universal Emptiness
06 Saved
07 I Remember Who You Are
08 Jane Mary, Cry One Tear
09 See No More
10 God Damn The Sun
11 The Sound Of Freedom
12 No Cure For The Lonely
13 Love Of Life
14 God Loves America
15 Song For The Sun
16 Power And Sacrifice
17 Love Will Tear Us Apart (M. Gira Version)

http://rapidshare.com/files/180461625/S-FB.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/180461630/S-FB.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/180461633/S-FB.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/180691391/CoverSFB.rar

Izripano u FLAC-u pa se čuje kako bi se i trebalo uvijek čuti.

Nite Flights

2011-03-23T19:59:00.009+01:00

Koji tip je taj Scott Walker eej! Slušaš one rane albume gdje on onako grlato jodla neke štotijaznam šansone i šit kad koznakoje droge uzimao u međuvremenu i evo njega kužiš sa četiri pjesme na ovom albumu koje kao da su došle niotkuda! Sigurno ne iz duge tradicije njegovog songwritinga, ono je zvučilo ko tužni tuljan koji hoće nešto poševit poslije gaže a ovo je pojelo svu pop glazbu prije i poslije njega. Svi se slažu da su ostatak pjesama na ovom albumu takva tlaka da je trebalo objaviti EP samo sa njegovim stvarima i gotovo, ali je Scott kao pravi "brat" prepustio i drugoj dvojici da se iskažu ali eto kad nisi baja nisi i gotovo možeš dubit na glavi meditirat radit od sebe budalu itd jednostavno nitko nije od nas i od njih i nitko nigdje osim Scotta Scott. Kao zadovoljštinu za vanserijsko, vanvremensko iskustvo slušanja njegovog opusa s ovog albuma predlažem nastaviti sa albumom "Climate of Hunter" i to bi bio kraj njegove vanzemaljske pop faze. Ovo i Climate of Hunter su najbolji pop ikad odsviran otpjevan snimljen. Nema boljeg. Nakon toga je došao "Tilt" koji je otišao na sami rub glazbe kao takve a "Drift" boldly gone where no man has gone before. Jebote ta dva albuma su OutMusic, van svega prije ili poslije njega.
Zaboravite sve njegove "istoimene" albume. To je kamilica, to dajte mami i tati doma i nek se tope kako je to "ljepo". Brte mili ovo je glazba, muda, inovacija - pobjeda pod suncem. Pobjeda ljudskog duha.
A sade... Adu... gospon Tehnikalija:

Track listing:
A1. Shutout
A2. Fat Mama Kick
A3. Nite Flights
A4. The Electrician
A5. Death of Romance

B1. Den Haague
B2. Rhythms of Vision
B3. Disciples of Death
B4. Fury and The Fire
B5. Child of Flames

Personnel:
Scott Walker (Scott Engel): writer A1-A4. Vocals on all tracks except A5, B1, B2.
Bass A3, keyboards A5, B1.
John Walker (J.J. Maus): writer B2-B5. Vocals on all tracks except A5, B1.
Gary Leeds: writer A5, B1. Vocals A5, B1. Percussion B1.
Jim Sullivan: guitar A1, A2, A4, B2-B5.
Les Davidson: lead guitar A1, guitar A5.
Peter Van Hook: drums A1, B1, B3.
Frank Gibson: drums A2-A5, B2, B4, B5.
Mo Foster: bass A1-A3, A5, B1-B5.
Dill Katz: bass A4.
Dave Macrae: keyboards A2, A3, B1-B5
Alan Skidmore: tenor sax A2.
Ronnie Ross: soprano sax A5.
Chris Mercer: sax solo B5.
Morris Pert: percussion A4.
Dennis Weinreich: background vocals B1.
Joy Yates, Katie Kissoon: background vocals B2, B3, B5.
Arranged by the Walker Brothers.
Orchestrated and Conducted by Dave Macrae
Produced by Scott Walker & Dave Macrae
Recorded by Dennis Weinreich
Mixed by Scott Walker, Dave Macrae & Dennis Weinreich
All at Scorpio Sound, London, February 1978.

http://www.filesonic.com/file/312331641/GTLP033.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/312410224/GTLP033.part2.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/312342504/GTLP033.part3.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/312342874/GTLP033.part4.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/312331314/GTLP033.part5.rar

Izripano losless sa vinila. Čista divota. Naravno A strana je izlizanija od B strane. Možete pogađati jednom (1) zašto.

An American Band

2011-03-23T16:49:00.005+01:00

Ako ste/si rok kritičar ili čovjek koji aktivno prati glazbu i drži do sebe eto benda koji je ful uncool i nemojte si dalje ovo čitati jer će vas slične ljudske izdrkotine popljuvati odmah.
Moj prvi susret s ovim bendom bio je preko lista Rock(rok) koji je izlazio jelte u bivšoj državi i bilo je to ona legendarna rubrika - nešto kao legendarni albumi rok muzike (tako se to tada zvalo) i recenzija ilitiga napis o njihovom prvom albumu On Time. Ja sam mislio da je to uf baš mjuza za mene jer je tamo ako se dobro sjećam bilo riječi o nekakvoj grmljavini. I tako ni 5 ni 6 eto ja nabavio ne taj nego album nakon njega istoimeni dakle Grand Funk Railroad (crveni cover).
Pa, nakon što sam čuo i neke speed metal i hardcore bendove nije meni to grmilo ali sam gušto slušat. Meni to bilo mekano i hm..."elastično" jer je bass bio visoko u miksu, ali to visoko u mixu sam skužio tek kasnije kad sam naučio što je to mix itd. dakle kad mi se percepcija glazbe bespovratno uništila...sad kad raščlanjujem glazbu taj osjećaj slušanja glazbe intuicijom više nije moguć.
Kasnije sam još čuo albume E Pluribus Funk, Survival (moj osobni favorit iako objektivno i nije baš nešto, ali znate ono ima nekih albuma koji svi pljuju a vama je zakon) i ovaj ovdje album koji je zaista zaista dobar. Tko sluša tu neku nazovimo je "gitarsku" glazbu ovaj album će mu dobro sjest, provjereno jer sam par puta dao ljudima da ovo poslušaju i onako na "slijepo" bez da znaju o kome je riječ niko nije pljuvao već dapače guštao.
Toliko od mene, a sada glazba iz našeg studija:

Kolega Tehnikalija:

RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"
Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable
Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires
Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500
Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp)
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5
WaveLab 6 recording software
iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 for resampling and dithering

Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > E-MU 0404 > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal >
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > converted to 24/96 (16/44.1) with iZotope RX Advanced 1.21
> split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.

With my vinyl transfers, I try to catch the whole beauty of vinyl records; therefore I don't use any post-processing or any sound improvement. What you get is a clear and flat transfer. For getting a clear sound, I'll do an extended washing of each record with my RCM, which can take up to 30 minutes brushing on each side. Resistant ticks and clicks I try to remove as good as possible, but the priority is not to lose any musical information in the process. Surface noises, as long they are not too high, are left in place. Only on bad pressings or on records recorded at extremely low levels do I use a fade in-/-out. As John Peel said, "Life is full of surface noises." In some cases this means that I have to make a compromise.... The result has to pass my personal quality criteria, which is IMO quite high.

All files are inside the folders.
High resoulution files are marked as 2496, CD-compatible files as 1644.

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PASS: aksman

Lossless rips

2011-03-22T17:15:00.008+01:00

Planiram ubuduće postati neke zanimljive lossless ripove ilitiga vinile i cd-e transferirane na kompjuter u punom njihovom im sjaju. Fajlovi su veliki ali ih se isplati skinuti i poslušati. Izbor je isključivo moj a fajlovi nađeni na netu negdje/bilo gdje.
Hvala ljudima koji su to marljivo lijepo ripali sa vinila s dobrom opremom i s dobrih ploča.
Smrt plastičnim gramofonima i smrt jeftinim sapphire iglama. Oni su i donijeli smrt vinilu ali saut šel rajz agen!
Neke albume jednostavno ne mogu imat na cd-u, ne ide mi to. Kao da kupim lutku na napuhavanje a želim zitgu pravu ženu. Nije isto i neće moći.
Dobro, znam da sam sick ali ipak ima i gorih od mene vidi ovo:

Pločomanijaci
Pločuljupci
Pločošupci
Pločimačci
Pločoderi
Pločožderi
Pločoperi
Pločonožci

Inače čuo sam da najviše diskofila ima u Pločama...koja ideja za njihovu turističku zajednicu..."Sajam ploča u Pločama" Ko ne dodje pakšu uf haug rgh mgh!

AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE vinyl rips!

2011-03-22T17:15:00.007+01:00

Već prije sam postao jedan album od AHC, ali ovo je pravo blago:

5 albuma izripanih sa vinila u lossless formatu. Dakle prava rijetkost, ali i nevjerovatan gušt jer bas ore duboko i trese tebe, sobu, namještaj, susjedov luster i goblene njegove bake (ionako su ružni i imaju premalo pixela).

Pronađeno negdje drugdje na netu kao i obično...(čuvajte se Rusa!)

Hvala Avaxu na udarxu.

A sada za one koje zanimaju pojedinosti i tehnikalije evo ih u svom njihovom sjaju:

African Head Charge - 5 Albums
Drastic Season - Environmental Studies
My Life In A Hole In The Ground - Off The Beaten Track - Songs Of Praise
Vinyl Rip in 24-Bit/96-kHz FLAC tracks Artwork Filesonic 4,2 GB
Reggae, Dub Label: On - U sound 5 LP stereo

E, pazi sad ovo je vrlo bitno: zvuk je nekompresiran i ovo je DVD - AUDIO, ponavljam DVD - AUDIO. Ako želite ovo slušati u nekom "manjkavom" formatu, bježite od ovog posta glavom bez obzira.

- 24bit/96khz vinyl rips of 5 African Head Charge albums:

1 Drastic Season
2 Environmental Studies
3 My Life In A Hole In The Ground
4 Off The Beaten Track
5 Songs Of Praise

The DVD-A has a menu system allowing selecting of each individual album or track on an album for playback.
This DVD-A is only playable in any DVD-A player.
ManWhoCan's vinyl ripped by Euripides.

Rip rig: Nu vidju kakav rig srcetij****m

Vpi HW-17F Record Cleaning Machine,
Heybrook TT2 turntable,
Origin Live! Power supply and DC motor,
Origin Live! modified Rega RB300 Tone Arm,
Lyra Helikon M/C Cartridge,
Denon PMA 8500 Integrated Amplifier (Phono Section Only)
ESI Systems Juli@ Sound Card sampling at 96Khz/32bit.
Measured S/N ratio for this system was -86 dB
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1)
African Head Charge - Drastic Season
On-U Sounds October 1983 (UKLP) ON-U LP27 Recorded - 1983
Electronic, Reggae, Dub, Experimental, Lee Library

Featuring percussion by the one Style Scott; Congos by Bonjo I; produced by Adrian Sherwood. You should already know about African Head
Charge, but for those who don't....

(from Skysaw):
It always seemed that Adrian Sherwood's future-proof labelling of his early eighties On-U Sound albums, as for example - "another 1992 On-U
Sound production", was an affectation at best & mild megalomania at worst. Listening back to that work now the arrogant young producer's
artistic licence can be acknowledged as precociously well founded, especially when applied to the work of the unit known as African Head Charge
(AHC). This virtual band coalesced around the percussion talents of Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, Bonjo to you & me, subsequent to the demise of
Creation Rebel, a real time band who had been subject to the rigours, disciplines & boredom that recording, rehearsing, touring & playing
inevitably bring.
The "Drastic Season" LP (ON-U LP 27) was originally released on vinyl on the 20th of October 1983. Like its predecessors it was a largely
instrumental affair with little actual dubbing & no detectable vocal samples. However the sound of Sherwood's production had become radically
different with the move to Southern Studios, where state of the art digital studio hardware lived in harmony with the hard edged punk ethic of
the musicians who inhabited the area by night. The first phase of AHC's development was coming to a logical conclusion, as on their future
recorded output we would discover more studio generated ideas & the introduction of more chants & captured vocal & ambient sounds (samples)
whilst Bonjo conversely emerged as the leader of not only a real band, but also a fully-fledged touring outfit.

So this set finds Head Charge very much in mid-stream. Bonjo had not yet carved out his niche as the happy-go-lucky king of the ethno-chant so
beloved by the festival-goers of UK & Europe. The sound of "Drastic Season" is stop-go, at once urgent but searching, wired & speed-fuelled,
some would find the listening experience failing to stop short of the psychotic. The band suffered from not conforming to one particular category
or another, not reggae or new wave & certainly not new romantic! Who would play this on radio? Which promoter would take the risk of presenting
this stuff in live performance before a crowd of innocent & gullible students? Where was this music coming from? The answer was - the mind &
fingers of Adrian Sherwood who regarded the album's studio sessions as...

"...experiments in active frequencies, out of time noises, rhythms within rhythms & endless tape edits (edits on edits) resulting in the ultimate
cut-up & paste job..."

...which, in retrospect, can be seen as an integral learning experience for the then young producer. When "Drastic Season" was originally released
On-U Sound were not in the habit of commissioning sleeve notes for their albums. However, a few sporadic press releases crept out of the On-U
bunker, including this one:

"A high-tech rhythm mix of human, animal & machine sounds, captured on the Southern Studios digital rig by the "wackid' mixer ADRIAN
SHERWOOD, up in sunny Wood Green, "DRASTIC SEASON" features that On-U rugged bass sound. Check it if you're a dancer, a listener, a film
maker, a computer programmer, a human or an animal. Special treats in store for steam locomotive enthusiasts & biologists. You've never heard
such sounds in your life (to quote ESP)."

2)
African Head Charge - Environmental Studies
UKLP: ON-U LP19 September 1982

Drums: Bruce Smith,Ben Bow,A.V.Scott & Mus' Come
Bass: Keith Logan, George Oban & Crocodile
Guitar: Crucial Tony
Keyboards: Fuse, Nick Plytas & Steve Beresford
Percussions: Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah
Melodica: Dr.Pablo
Harp [Chinese]: Kishi Yamamoto
Horns - "Deadly" Headley Bennett , Dave Flash Wright , Steve Beresford
Sounds, Effects - Crocodile

Engineer:Steve Smith
Producer:Adrian Sherwood
Studios:
Recording:Berry Street (London,UK)
Mixing:Berry Street (London,UK)
Mastered By - Kevin Metcalfe

3)
African Head Charge - My Life In A Hole In The Ground
On-U Sound Records 1981 UKLP: ON-U LP13

AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE My Life In A Hole In The Ground (Original 1981 French issue On-U Sound label 9-track vinyl LP.
One of the most revered albums of the post-punk era on Adrian Sherwood's label, largely due to it being an impressive
retort to the collaborative success of Brian Eno & David Byrne's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts released earlier that year.
Film trivia fans take note, Far Away Chant was used to scary [& surreal!] effect in David Lynch's Wild At Heart. Glossy
picture sleeve ON-ULP13).

This LP my dear visitors is one of the very best On-U Sound
productions as far as I'm concerned. I would call this 'Urban
Ethnic Experimental Dub ina London Sauce', all stirred up to this
magnificent dish by 'Chef' Adrian Sherwood. Close your eyes and
let the music take you on a staggering trip without boundarys.
And again it's from 1981, what a year indeed.

4)
African Head Charge - Off The Beaten Track
On-U Sound Records August 1986 (UKLP and UKCLP) UKLP: ON-U LP40 / UKCLP: ON-U LP40C
Electronic, Dub, Reggae, Lee Library, World Music

Additional Musicians - Skip McDonald, Jah Wobble

5)
African Head Charge - Songs Of Praise
On-U Sound Records November 1990 (UKLP/CD1/CLP) UKLP: ON-U LP50

Personnel:

Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah (percussion),
Prisoner (drums),
Sunny Akpan [aka Sonny Akpan] (congas, percussion),
Crocodile (bass),
Junior Moses (bass),
Bruce Smith (drums),
Charlie Eskimo Fox (drums),
George Oban (bass),
Nick Plytas (keyboards),
Perry Melius (drums),
Tony Phillips (guitar),
Wayne Nunes (bass),
Skip McDonald (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals),
Jah Wobble (bass),
Andy Moses (djembe, percussion).

link list:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/63422145/AHC5x.part01.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/63420533/AHC5x.part02.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/63422209/AHC5x.part03.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/63422639/AHC5x.part04.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/63421871/AHC5x.part05.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/63422337/AHC5x.part06.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/63487007/AHC5x.part07.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/63489285/AHC5x.part08.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/63489613/AHC5x.part09.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/63487261/AHC5x.part10.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/63458111/AHC5x.part11.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/128957711/african_head_charge_scans.rar

svaki dan jedan post pametnome dost. meni jedan na mjesec ipo.

Heavy Heavy Low Low

2011-02-19T14:55:00.003+01:00

Another post covering the very few fine EP's from the last year.
This is Hospital Bomber from the band Heavy Heavy Low Low.Makes me wonder what will the album sound like, because this band makes perfect EP's.
Try:bomb

myspace

Best of 2010

2011-01-31T14:47:00.004+01:00

Here's a no brainer:
Best album of 2010........Backsliders an apostates will burn EP, by The Austerity Program, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

And oh yes, you got to see the promo vid too:
The coolest trio on earth.

SUN RA un mondo eliocentrico

2010-05-04T01:51:00.005+02:00

Sun Ra, un mondo eliocentrico, LRS, 04/2002, musica jazz

1. Fate In A Pleasant Mood
2. Hocus Pocus
3. Dawn
4. Second Star To The Right
5. Discipline 27
6. A Quiet Place In The Universe
7. Space Is The Place - We Travel The Spaceways / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Outer Spaceways Incorporated
8. Yeah Man
9. String Singhs - Discipline 27 / I'll Wait For You

Oh my god! If there was something stranger than Sun Ra, Then humanity should be alarmed a bit '.
Nothing is in perpetual motion like this album And I fear that the Earth will never again be graced by something like that.
Sun Ra was a eccentric screwball who came from Saturn, played a clavinet (A keyboard instrument played by archetypal), field feeding on piles of garbage from George Lucas, dressed as ancient Egyptian, was a fire-eater in his shows, because you do not fucking believe how pure a angel, attended the Rotary Club of Grosseto and often went to dinner at Bill Gates. Sorry, the last two are not true, but Sun Ra himself was a absurd liar ...
This is free-jazz stage more experimental, Using instruments never heard before then to create a'Only to plot music as in its intentions, something alien and at the same time spiritual. Sun RaAmong other things, was also a musician a invented the day music cosmic.
Using electric keyboards under a years after their appearance, Sun Ra quickly pushed the new technology to the extreme limit.
Surprise, intrigue and terror, then, and the fact that Sun Ra believed to have met these extraterrestrial people is really the most normal thing in the middle of everything.
And, among other things, was also a musician ..

Well, I still prefer his rendition of Pink Elephants on Parade, a revorking of an old Disney tune appearing on Stay Awake compilation. He could do all sorts of things in an unique way.
Watch out for a standout track „Dawn“ recorded live in Egypt with some local allstar musitians. This is a real order of the songs and their correct titles. Forget mp3 tags since they are splendidly wrong. This cd is long time out of print and thus I hereby am correcting this injustice.

Ole Lukkøye

2010-05-03T00:39:00.003+02:00

Ole Lukkøye are part of the Russian underground. The band was formed by Boris Bardash and Andrej Lavrinenko in St. Petersburg in 1989. With the release of their second album "Toomze", the band showed the high ambition they aspired to: It's a concoction of British ArtRock, musical influences from all parts of the former Soviet Union and elements of ambient and trance which makes this music so intriguing. The group fuses traditional Russian styles (for example that of the Tuva-region in southern Siberia) with current western rhythms and sounds. The result, a dark and shamanistic psychedelic trance rock with much percussion and many acoustic instruments, opens a door between east and west. Ole Lukkøye knew the early albums of Faust, which found their way into the Russian music scene and acquired a cult following there. Thus the contact was established and after a meeting, the two parties agreed that Ole Lukkøye's fourth album Crystal Crow Bar was to be produced at Faust's studios in the spring of 2000.

Band's website

Ne Zhdali!

2010-05-03T00:07:00.006+02:00

Gloriously wild, shamelessly blending elements of punk, Rock in Opposition, and traditional party music from Russian and Jewish extractions. Exit the mathematical instrumental compositions; these songs scream, shout, and laugh. They tap into the Ex's energy but pair it to the craziness of Palinckx and the Stick Men to cover up the sweet-and-sour feelings of a country freed from communist oppression but unable to fulfill aspirations. The horn section (Vadim Veeremaa and Oleg Davidovitch) plays intentionally out of tune; the rhythm section (Ilya Komarov and Vitaly Redchits) grooves through complex beats and sudden left turns, making them sound logical, almost inevitable. On top of it all, Soybelman sings his songs of surreal love in Russian and occasional Hebrew. Sounds like Melt Banana an Naked City covering beloved Soviet popular songs but in a wild & joyous mood.
Saw them play live twice and both concerts were damn good. I remember that guitar had an amp "Dinamit" (dynamite), of course made in USSR. It did not sound like that you know...

here are a few nice soviet guitars... but I wasn't able to find a picture of the amp anywhere. Anybody?

Rapeman live Stockholm 1988

2010-02-11T08:39:00.003+01:00

This is the best Albini fronted band ever. Full-stop.
Better than Big Black, better than Shellac, and better
than Scratch Acid. On a par with Jesus Lizard.
Final show of their only European tour, with lot of
interruptions, edited out but not entirely. They had some
problems with PA that night so first song is missing since they
started again when the right channel "occurred".
just listen to them play...their guts out.

Psychic TV: my personal favourites...

2010-02-09T11:26:00.006+01:00

Psychic TV were signed to WEA Records and subsequently CBS based on the infamy of Throbbing Gristle. Their first albums Force The Hand Of Chance and Dreams Less Sweet featured high production values, catchy pop songs written by Fergusson (with barbershop quartet vocals arranged by Andrew Pearson), and sound experiments primarily created by Peter Christopherson and Geff Rushton, a.k.a. John Balance. How about that lineup, ha?
Towards the end of this period Fergusson/P-Orridge completed their third proper studio album Allego ry and Self: Thee Starlit Mire. It was at this point that Genesis became interested in acid house and techno. Alex Fergusson left and was replaced with techno artist Fred Gianelli.
In 92 Genesis got into rough wheather thanks to a fabricated accusation of satanic abuse, he exiled to California where he got introduced to Larry Thrasher, co-founder of the experimental noise band Thessalonians. This began a new period with Psychic TV returning to its psychedelic pop roots with Thrasher co-producing the critically acclaimed Trip/Reset.Sadly though it didn't last long.
So you might say that I prefer pop to techno? Guilty as charged.

Hafler Trio

2010-01-24T16:17:00.013+01:00

Hafler Trio (or H30, for short) is a project of Andrew McKenzie, who explores various sonic phenomena through his records. Another issue that the project explores is a blurred line between the fact and the faction and various ways of mass manipulation – initially the band claimed that Dr. Edward Moolenbeek was its founder, but he turned out to be a fictitious person. Initially, Hafler Trio included Moolenbeek, McKenzie and Chris Watson from Cabaret Voltaire, but eventually McKenzie became a center of the project.

Hafler Trio debuted in 1984 with “Bang! An Open Letter”, which was supposed to demonstrate that the band was a part of ROBOL, a research organization and worked on issues related to perception with Dr. Robert Spirgeon (all of which, of course, were also fictional).

All Music Guide pointed out that “Bang!” contains different types of material, including harsh ambient music, which H30 would explore in depth later, as well as looped and layered news and radio broadcasts. AMG concluded that “The album’s overall effect is a spectrum of recognition, from overt to subliminal, and the relative brevity of the tracks makes for an overall disorientation, requiring more active listening than the group’s later works.”

I bought this because this is the first project Chris Watson was engaged into after leaving Cabaret Voltaire. It is on the border where music ceases to exist in its original form. There is no melody just sound collages that sometimes have a rhythmic pattern because they are being constantly repeated. I would categorize this as "not quite music but not quite not music"

Latter day singles Wolf Sheep Cabbage - Episode 1 from 2004, Right Here Where You Are Sitting Now from 1996, are ambient, drone, cloudscape sound textures. I have ripped these off vinyl but it is perfect cd music. When put on a repeat it works better, because one listen is not enough.

kings of dub

2010-01-22T04:11:00.008+01:00

My favourite dub albums here on display.

Dub combo is a compilation of dub tracks from several Israel Vibration albums. It is the most laid back and the most classical dub of all albums here. Trans-cending.

Drums of defiance is more of a modern album, sort of trip hop meets dub meets african music. The feeling of this album is just great.

Twilight Circus Sound System is the most out-there dub into-infinity album of the three here on display. Chrome of dub. Deep groovy and reverberating into-space album. An endless chain of dub. Did I also mention hand made cover? I did not? No, I did.

best of 2009

2010-01-22T04:06:00.002+01:00

Well, it's Jarvis Cocker and his Further Complications. It's way more exciting a record than anything bearing name Pulp. Plus it has signature Albini sound and signature Cocker wit and humor.
Not surpassed by anyone last year. Let's complicate some more this year Jarvis. Don't you get soft on me!

Cabaret Voltaire - Outer Limits

2010-01-21T01:18:00.005+01:00

The Outer Limits is another 1976 demo tape that came to the surface and made it to the Brainwashed CV discography.

Tracklist

A1	Capsules	7:29
A2	Is That Me (Finding Someone At The Door Again?)	4:48
A3	The Single	3:30
A4	Ooraseal	4:22
A5	Loves In Vein	4:30
A6	Dream Sequence 1	2:56
B1	Dream Sequence 2	3:42
B2	Do The Snake	5:59
B3	A Sunday Night In Biot	3:26
B4	She Loves You	8:44

My copy is two songs shorter than the one described on Brainvashed. It lacks Stolen from Spectra and Bedtime Stories.
Sound quality is... well this is a demo. Some of the songs appear on Methodology 1, and some on 1974-1976 album. Some versions do differ but only in length (they were edited because of the tape limitations, see they made these demos on c-60 cassette so they trimmed a song or two to fit on a cassette side.) Other versions seem to have different pitch. Again it is possible that the equipment they used to duplicate these tapes had different speed. But that only makes it all a bit more interesting does it not.
I like their early stuff. The sounds they produced back then show a great deal of creativity because it was not easy back then to create such sounds on equipment they had those days. I think highly of this period. Almost religious about it...

Companyia Electrica Dharma

2010-01-21T00:18:00.004+01:00

Companyia Electrica Dharma is a long lived Catalan jazz ethnic rock combo. They have been around for more than 30 years with their first album dating as far as 1975. I've become acquainted with their work through two very different albums from 2000's. First one: Sonada! from 2000 and Llibre Vermell from 2002. Saw them play live 2003 promoting the latter. While Sonada is more upbeat and more Mediterranean and an overall cheerful album, Llibre Vermell is a medieval Mediterranean goth-like album. It's dark and it's all about creating a certain atmosphere, executed first rate . It only goes to prove that these are seasoned musicians each one a master of his own instrument. I was quite excited upon first hearing this record because I have never heard anything like it. The emphasis on their Catalan background is predominant but they also create a feel similar to some neo folk artists such as Death in June or later day Current 93 + The Ape of Naples era Coil.
The bottom line is, I really like this album.

Bill Laswell City of Light

2010-01-07T22:49:00.006+01:00

I bought this mainly because it has some interesting names on the front cover, mainly Coil to be frank, but it apparently is not the track worth buying this cd for. Trilok Gurtu and Tetsu Inoue have done a finer job here. All in all this is a Bill Laswell record. It has his signature sound written all over it and I find it to be a pleasurable listen allthough it is not your every day music you know. It is much more in vein of an other Laswell record which I enjoy very much: Hashisheen : The End Of Law
it also has Hakim Bey on it but it features vocals of Sussan Deyhim, and I'm a big, no, I'm a huge fan of her work.

try city of light first

then buy

Santa's Little Helper

2009-11-11T15:31:00.023+01:00






Shock Therapy was born from the distorted life of Itchy.
born May 30th 1964 - died Nov. 5th 2008
Unusual circumstances shape unusual artists! so also in the
case of the 80's Elektropunk icon Gregory John Mc Cormick,
better known under the artist
name "Itchy" (set on Iggy Pop!).

In the tender age of 8 years, his dad put him into a
locked mental clinic, because Itchy was out of norm!
and he only sat there and watched the
people so strangly observe-calmly.
For Itchy, one of the personal Highlights in his career,
is his late friendship with Charles Bukowski. For his song genius
of the crowd Itchy took thesame named lyrics of Bukowski,
and his publisher in america demanded 5000 $
for the unallowed use of other artists thoughts.
After a telephone call between Bukowski and Itchy,
Bukowski visited Itchy and gave him hispermission to use the
text free of charge.


then, some poetry by Itchy himself:

santa claus is sick
last night he drank too much
its his goddamned nagging wife
mrs. claus is a muther-humpin bitch

santa claus is sick
last night he scr*** a dirty old who**
too f****d up to wear a rubber
now theres a pus***g shanker on his d***

so this christmas itchy is coming
hes gonna s**t on your living room floor
instead of leaving a cheap plastic toy

When I played this song to my wife she said that it
sounded too scary for her taste.
Itchy is no fake, he's the real sh**. You either are
what you claim to be or you are not nor will you ever be.
I myself really like the amount of rage incorporated
into a some sort of mid eastern chant
which closes the first song of the set "The Golden Calf".
This is where I think he that he really means it.
It is a voice of a genuine rage.
He was for real.
Sleep tight, Itchy.


Gimme that cristmass present right now

Fusnota: Nedavno sam čitao knjigu Allice Miller - Drama Djetinjstva koja mi je
otvorila oči na nšto što dugo godina nisam mogao uprijeti prstom: u djetinjstvu
nam se događaju stvari (najčešće ružne) koje nam "serviraju roditelji" a mi
provodimo cijeli život brfaneći ih, trudimo se živjeti život kakav bi oni htjeli
da mi živimo, ili živimo točno onako kako oni ne bi htjeli, kako bilo, sve se vrti
oko njih ali mi to nismo svjesni.
Itchy je bio ljut na svoje roditelje a mrzio je svijet. Njegov bijes je palucao
po svemu oko njega ali nije bio usmjeren ka onima koji su ga stvorili takvog kakav
je bio. Njegov bijes nije bio fokusiran i pročišćavajući nego više sila prirode,
bez kontrole.
Sinead O' Connor je, čini mi se, imala taj moment katarze u
"Fire on Babylon", nakon toga je uslijedilo čuveno kidanje slike Pape, a sada 10-ak
godina nakon toga doznajemo otkuda taj bijes. Ona je vjerovatno bila i sama svjedokom
molestiranja djece pod okriljem crkve i krenula u svoj "boj". No najprije je
kanalizirala svoj bijes i obračunala se s majkom. Nakon toga je krenula dalje.
Sad kad je vidim ovako bucmastu i smirenu, mislim da i nije baš tako luda kako su
je prikazivali u medijima. Borila se za sebe.
Santa Claus kod Itchy-a možda predstavlja oca ali nisam psiholog,
možda su Santa Claus i njegova žena iz pjesme svi naši očevi i majke...

Pond

2009-10-29T00:04:00.009+01:00

Well, Pond were not a band from Seattle, but a band from Oregon, in fact, Pond's Charlie Campbell (guitars/vocals) and Chris Brady (bass/vocals) were really from Juneau — they ended up in Portland because Alaska's liquor laws kept the underage Campbell from playing in bars.
Pond were more emo than hard rock or grunge or whatever you call it. The playing is good and energetic, vocals a bit mild, but that's emo for you. They were ahead of their time since this kind of stuff became more popular few years later, and it eventually caused the band to break up, since they never attracted a wider audience and their label called it quits. (damn major labels)
On The Practice of Joy Before Death, I find too many songs, and if few were omitted it would only do good for the listening experience.
Their next album Rock Collection released in 1997, was the band's true masterpiece and a swan song. The Practice of Joy Before Death, however is pretty good but nothing spectacular, in fact it is less pop than other two albums they released, and pop is what they did best. The musicianship is excellent here, and the album was done with much care I feel. The way it sounds, and the way it feels is sorta like Helmet. I mean it is precise, accurate yet full of energy. It is a bit awkward, there's a lot of tape hiss present while listening some intros, some opening guitar themes, yet when you think about the album as a whole, it feels not lo-fi or sloppy in any way, it feels meticulous and tight, something I would never use to describe Mudhoney or Fluid.

try: joy
buy: sub pop

Skin Yard

2009-10-28T23:41:00.009+01:00

Toxic Shock TXLP-15, vinyl issue Spring '88, CD issue spring '92 with two bonus tracks. Was preceded by the single "Stranger/This Lonely Place" (Toxic Shock TX-009). CD also issued in Germany on Musical Tragedies MT-139. 200 copies of the vinyl were purple. The second pressing of the vinyl had the blue and red colors on the cover reversed, just for the hell of it. Recorded by Jack Endino at Reciprocal on the mighty Otari MX-5050 half-inch 8-track. Has been called their best album; definitely their most abrasive.

There is an obvious lack of an outstanding drummer that made all the difference between the first eponymous, and this album. I'm not saying that Scott McCullum is not a good drummer, only that in comparison to Matt Cameron... well they are not in the same league. I find that there is slightly more filler on this one than on the first album, and I haven't heard any of the subsequent albums.
I always heard a strong Bowie influence in their music, especially in Ben McMillan's voice, which is a sort of a compliment I guess. I would rate it 3 out of 5. Not bad album at all. Good for listening in a car.

Mailorder: $15.00 postpaid inside the U.S. through Paypal (this is a bit more than the other CDs, but this one is also the most rare and hard-to-find of their CDs)
try: toxic shock

Silverfish

2009-10-28T22:58:00.003+01:00

Cockeye is a collection of some early ep's by the Silverfish often described as british Butthole Surfers fronted by a woman. Lesley Rankine, later went on to form excellent Ruby, but that was a whole different type of music. This was originally released on Wiija records in UK, but in US it was out on Touch & go. I think it describes what Silverfish were all about. Noisy, nasty, weird, funny, aggressive, energetic. Made to be played really loud.

try:
The eye of the cock
buy:
amazon

Mojo Nixon for free on Amazon!

2009-10-10T15:02:00.006+02:00

dig dis!

Complete Mojo for free on Amazon but only for a limited period of time. If you don't mind leaving your name & adress & pretty much everything else.
It works only if you are an US citizen, the rest of us get something like this:

We are sorry...

Well, you have been warned. I have been burned.

If you don't got Mojo Nixon/ Then your store could use some fixin. (Dead Milkmen)

I had Unlimited Everything on a cassette and wore it out. My personal favorites were Elvis is Everywhere, Burn Your Money, Amsterdam Dogshit Blues and Stuffin' Martha's Muffin.
Nowdays I think of him as one of the greatest names in economics. His songs aimed against banks and money are true philosophical jewels of modern economic theory and hold a timeless value.

I Hate Banks
by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper

I hate banks...
I just can't stand 'em.
Gimme a shovel & man I'll plant 'em.
Six feet under thats where they belong...
I hate banks is the name of this song.
I think I'll rob myself one or two...
Yeah I hate banks, yeah, how 'bout you?

Well...lend me a nickel & lend me a dime,
repossess my house any old time.
Financial institutions think they're so high faluting...
Just a bunch of fruits in three piece suits,
trying to steal all my loot.
Things are smelling pretty rank,
We must be near a stinking bank.
Smells worse than Rockefellars feet,
Wall Street can eat my meat.

Yeah throw the moneylenders out of the temple;
I hate banks its just that simple.
Royal Crown Palm Ade Tin,
is a the best thing to keep your money in.
Mason jar is okay too,
if you see a bank well you know what to do.

Now, lemme tell you people something...
The only banks I like, well, I like Ernie Banks alright.
And I like the banks of the Mississippi River...
Yeah, and I like banks of fender twin reverb...
Electric guitar amplifiers behind me, raging on the stages...

Well,when I walk in they treat me like a dog;
want to hit them in the head with a doo-doo log.
Republicans, one and all...
Their talleywhackers are mighty small.
Stealing from the poor gonna give to the rich...
Wanna make the bank president twitch in a ditch.

Yeah, see that teller with the blue hair,
giving me the evil-eye stare.
Won't cash my check don't like my ID...
got the security guard after me.
If I was E. F. Sloane,
I'd say the Dow Jones can suck my bone.
Yeah.

Everybody say the three magic words!
I want you to help me say the words!
I want you to repeat after me!
I HATE BANKS!
Can't stand 'em!
I HATE BANKS!
Don't Like 'em!
I HATE BANKS!
Bunch of Foo-Foo's!
I HATE BANKS!
Contrary like a big zit!

I hate banks...
I just can't stand 'em.
Gimme a shovel & man I'll plant 'em.
Six feet under thats where they belong...
I hate banks is the name of this song.
I think I'll rob myself one or two...
Yeah I hate banks, yeah, how 'bout you?

Now lemme tell you something...
I'm not real fond of the PHONE COMPANY either!
You know?
Yeah, and I don't like the cable TV company.
You know why I don't like the cable TV company?
Cause they just be sucking that stuff right out the sky!
THEY don't have to pay nuttin for it!
I just get me one of them bootleg cable boxes,
and get me one of them climb the pole and stick the thing in...
I ain't gonna pay for it!
NOOOOO!!!!"

Leaving Trains and the "F" word album

2009-10-08T07:02:00.004+02:00

If you want to know more about the band I suggest you go to allmusic, and read all the blah blah about who was where and when in the band etc...
It's utterly boring and informative.
When I first heard this band, it was this albums' closer: What the president meant to say. I thought it was as much fun as Giant Sand's Swerwe. In fact, I thought there was Howe Gelb on board, but no it was Falling James Moreland all the way. For years I thought they were an offshoot for Gelb's punk leanings if he ever had any, but you know, there was no internet those days and I had no access to any of the fanzines and stuff, and I got the whole picture when I finally bought this cd few years later. It's an utter fun.
Personal picks: Violent Sex, What Cissy Said, Twenty-Seven Days .

try: naughty
buy: SST RECORDS
P.O. Box 1
Lawndale, CA 90260

Rhythm Pigs - El Paso

2009-09-24T02:37:00.003+02:00

The all career high for this versatile and complex hc punk group. This is what rock sounds like when technically skilled hardcore musicians get together to play some more laid back stuff. Not that all of the songs are laid back and rock-ish. They put on a fine racket somwhere towards the middle with a medley of 3 ultrafast songs + a funny no 12 Mr. Rhinocerous just to remind you where they came from. But where they came to is the real deal. Starting with Spun and Exploded guitar intro, and getting stellar on Model T Ford, Rhythym Pigs shine as brightly as never before or after. Listen to this record and you will ask yourself how come these guys never made it big? They surely were good enough.

link:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/6oewr2

Available to buy via Konkkurel label in Netherlands who reissued their entire output on 3 cd's.

David Thomas & Foreigners

2009-04-19T16:33:00.006+02:00

Release Notes:
Bay City is an album of reinvented roots-- part salty melancholic blues, part wounded sultry jazz and part jangling swamp rock. Bay City - tales from Philip Marlowe's lost nights in a town affluent and self-contented on the surface, rife with corruption and nepotism just underneath. Blood on the face of the moon. Bones buried in the hills. Double indemnity and dark visions.

On the other side of every desert is... Bay City.

David Thomas and foreigners started life at a concert staged in the middle of the Gefion fountain, in the rain, in Copenhagen in 1996. Jørgen Teller enlisted Mr Thomas along with 2 other Danish musicians, P. O. Jørgens and Per Buhl Acs. The collaboration, recorded on a farm in Denmark between 1996 and 1999, promised a hard-edged reappraisal of American music, the lingua franca of a planet drifting into strangeness. Contrary to all logic, it is a startlingly specific cultural folkwork.

Founder and lead vocalist of legendary out-rock band Pere Ubu, David Thomas has been re-writing the rules of popular music for over 25 years. Formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975, Pere Ubu developed a sound which combined traditional rock elements with an array of sounds, synthesizers and of course, Thomas's unmistakable vocals. The band's first release was in 1978, titled The Modern Dance, and since then they have put out a consistent stream of fascinating, highly original albums, the latest being Pennsylvania (1998).

David Thomas, while playing a major role in Pere Ubu's development, has always explored implausible creative configurations, and seemingly arbitrary production methods. His first solo release The Sound of the Sand appeared in 1981 and has been followed by a further 9 releases. Thomas's musical/creative aesthetic is as broad ranging as it is, paradoxically, specific - underscored by an almost visionary awareness of our cultural situation. Indeed his tireless inquiries into the nature of social relations, folk traditions and contemporary culture have led him up some unlikely creative paths, soda stops along Highway 61 to the banks of the Yenisei River. Musically, Thomas's work takes in a range of influences, sometimes bluesy, rocky, folky and downright experimental, but always conceived in a unique way.

"One more David Thomas recording, one would think, only to once again end up open mouthed in front of the loudspeakers." - Rolf Jager, Intro

"Fractured, bent, steamy, lyrically gruff and introspective--kind of in the Tom Waits/Capt. Beefheart/Col. Bruce Hampton (Ret.)/Shockabilly-Chadbourne vein...you'll just have to check it out for yourself...it left me slightly crippled when it was all over." - jennyt, Tom Waits Bulletin Board

I would add that this, to me, is a perfect "room" record. It sounds like they are in a room with you because of the sound and it sure releases a different feel to your listening experience. Your room transforms into a dark and dirty hotel room somewhere in the US, it is dark and the rain is falling. Totally noir.

try:bay city

buy: amazon

Kepone by Kepone

2009-03-28T00:25:00.007+01:00

I remember when this album came out, a friend of mine said: noise rock is dead, Kepone made a better album than Jesus Lizard (Down).
I thought it was a little overblown a statement then, and still think the same now. I'm not saying that Kepone is not a great album but it is still not in the same league. It is as good as, for example, Shot by Jesus Lizard, and that was the last album Jesus Lizard has released that I had bought, times changed and yes, it was the end of an era for me.
"Kepone" suffers a little in production department, since they sounded so much better live. I saw them play while they were touring promoting this album and the album never came close to the sheer power of their live show. It was produced by Bob Weston, and it sounds a bit muddier than what I prefer. Still, no producer can kill the quality of these songs. It is noise gospel what was introduced on this album. The song Leave Your Bones is a perfect example, and it is very similar to the acoustic Now I Truly Understand from the first Mule album.
In fact, there is so much more that these two bands have in common: they created a modern sound using their roots by updating blues/gospel with energy, and putting their hearts into powerful execution of the songs. This to me is the new take on the roots of american music. They made their past sound so fresh and exciting and gave new meaning to traditional influence in modern rock. And yes, the song sound spiritual I kid you not.
As for the rest of the tracks, they never stop to rock. As I said earlier, production stands in the way of getting it right, but listening to it really loud does help a bit.

Buy: http://www.amazon.com/Kepone/dp/B0000037OG
Try: http://www.sendspace.com/file/1z434q

Still & Raw

2009-03-11T17:00:00.005+01:00

Welcome back Front 242!
This ep contains 7 tracks in their lp versions. Two last songs are repeated but in such a different version that it is irrelevant really.
The sound is great, as is songwriting. No wonder, this is Front 242! This is not some demo band striving for your attention, this is a genre defining band. That means that they do this stuff better than anyone.

http://www.badongo.com/file/13811484

Meat Beat Manifesto

2009-03-11T15:41:00.007+01:00

Armed Audio Warfare! A perfect title for this massively punishing collection of rare and previously unreleased songs that give a glimpse into what Meat Beat Manifesto's debut album might have sounded like had its masters not been destroyed in a fire. This is what they've gathered from various sources such as SUCK EP, or Bark compilation on Sweatbox records.
Dub, industrial and hip hop collide in a mass of distortion. Better in instrumentals than in vocal tracks, this is highly entertaining stuff. The sound is dated but is still highly enjoyable and a truly entertaining record if you're into this kind of stuff.

http://www.badongo.com/file/13811421

CABS live YMCA

2009-03-02T18:25:00.009+01:00

My first and inital contact with Cabaret Voltaire is this allmost lo-fi in it's quality release. This is by my humble opinion the most exciting period of the group. The sound is muddy and unclear but it still represents the essence of the early period in group's existance. I still enjoy it as much as I did before and it is my favorite album, as strange as it may seem.
Hope you'll like it too.

Here's a full review of the album from Julian Cope's Head Heritage site:

By 1979, The Cabs were smack-dab in the middle of their creative peak. Personally, I'm not such a fan of their post-Chris Watson phase, much as I respect and admire their contribution to acid-house and techno music. For me, though, the music produced from their seminal debut Mix-Up all the way to 1982's 2x45 remains some of the best electronica ever made, right up there with more celebrated acts such as The Human League, OMD and The Normal. The Cabs, though, remain more obscure sadly, mostly a name people have heard without hearing the music. Yet, for me, they today sound less dated, and more futuristic than 90% of their contemporaries, distilling a timeless electronica-meets-rock-meets-funk groove that I can quite easily picture future generations of humans, androids and robots swaying their hips to.

This is beyond doubt due to The Cabs relentless non-conformism and dedication to their sound. Never having had to conform to studio demands for hits and massive tours, they were able to continually push their boundaries, with saturated noise, waves of distortion, sound samples and processed rhythm patterns all being meshed together, then added to oblique lyrics that referenced Burroughs, Burgess, Dick and Ballard that all pointed to a stark dystopian future that, for all our progress as a race, has never seemed to recede or get less likely. As we face economic meltdown and the threat of ecological apocalypse, the harsh, robotic and cold sound of Cabaret Voltaire becomes more and more relevant, and oddly more and more danceable.

And what I wouldn't do to get a chance to seem them perform these songs live. Personally, I'm not that bothered that there are no unique tracks on here. No-one complains when Bob Dylan or Led Zeppelin do that. And this collection of tracks gives a near-perfect cliche of what The Cabs were doing at this time. Their motto may have been "no dancing" at one point, but here the mixture of repetitive electronic beats and sweeping analogue synth noise creates a bizarre mixture of funk and noise that can't fail to have you swaying even as your senses are assaulted. Whether this is on the insistent pounding opener "Untitled" or the industrial dance of signature tune "Nag Nag Nag", the effect is disconcerting, like hearing robots trying to tackle disco or something. Stephen Mallinder's nasty, seething vocals only add to the disquiet, as, submerged in the wall of sound, they come out more like an extra mechanical instrument than an actual voice.

But this not all about proto-dance music played by obnoxious futurists with no sense of humour. The Cabs, for all, their musical devolution and messy sense of harmonics, were not just rabble-rousers or sloppy belligerents. These fuckers could play, and they demonstrate it hear on the slower, less instantly rhythmical tracks such as "The Set up" (the jewel in this live set), "On Every Other Street" and their distorted, barely-recognizable cover of The Velvet Underground's classic "Here She Comes Now". Here, the synths and slashes of saturated guitar and bass noise compete, dipping and diving in around each other as Mallinder sneers incoherently into his mic, the whole pieces dripping with pathos, anger and barely contained violence. Live at the YMCA is intense, in a way only really rivaled by Bob Dylan's live '66 bootleg and the 30 Minutes Over Brussels EP by Suicide. Although the audience is more appreciative here than on either of those, there is a sense of menace and bile that few artists have ever looked to release as a live album. And to end the album on the experimental noisefest that is "Baader Meinhof", a tribute to or comment on the German terrorists from the 70s, took some guts, in my book.

So, whilst not confrontational -the at first quite quiet (disconcerted, maybe?) audience seems to quickly succumb to the dark charms of Cabaret Voltaire- Live at the YMCA is dark and aggressive, uncompromising and sullen like the artists themselves were. It wasn't put out to please or get you head-banging (hence the sound quality), but rather hit its audience in the gut and demonstrate the full, snarling fury of an average Cabs gig. These aren't showmen, they're fiercely anti-rock, anti-frills. But it is powerful, pulsating with suppressed energy and hidden menace. And, it is also one of the very few live albums to document the post punk period and the omnipresent anti-rock, anti-showbiz, pro-experimentation mentality that was streaking across Britain at the time. Seeing as PiL, Joy Division and Throbbing Gristle all missed the boat when it came to live albums (PiL's post-everyone except Lydon one was a disaster), thank God Cabaret Voltaire were out there letting us know the abuse they were heaping on their audiences. Who seemed to enjoy it and I bet were actually dancing.

From blog: jphimister.blogspot.com

link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/brktii

King Face - Everywhere You Look

2009-02-10T00:26:00.004+01:00

Unmistakeably a D.C. band, with a sound that I find to be a mixture of Bad Brains and Jawbreaker with a hard rock twist, or is it Dr. Know's influence?
Ripped off a vinyl, released by Dutch Konkurrent label.
I don't know if they ever released anything for Dischord, they certainly sounded like other bands from that label. Sometimes I find this record to be disappointing, and sometimes I find myself humming along the songs, especially from the side 1, like My only sin or Read my back...
Anyway I like this kind of music and enjoy in it. I think I can call this the sound of my youth really.

King_Face
Everywhere you look ep
http://www.badongo.com/file/13317229

Also available elsewhere:
http://vinyljourney.blogspot.com/2005/01/king-face.html
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/9810

Trobecove Krušne Peći - 85

2008-12-12T01:58:00.009+01:00

Trobecove krusne peci was a post punk band from Croatia that later on became known as Viva Glorio. They recorded this album back at 1985, taking their name after Slovenian serial killer.
Later, during the 90-s Kornel Sheper, guy responsabile for emerging of one of the finest labels and clubs in Croatia, issued this material on cassette. This excellent material never saw the light of day back in the 80-s, and remained just as much an underground classic as it ever was.
My copy of cassette was quite worn out and this is the best I could get out of it. If I find a better way to present you these songs to you I'll sure post it again, but for the time being this is IT!
Please visit Viva Glorio site and download their new album. Produced by Andy Gill.
Really a great stuff.

http://www.badongo.com/file/12443757

Do you listen to music when you listen to Coil?

2008-10-19T23:30:00.005+02:00

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

2008-08-07T02:49:00.004+02:00

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

2008-04-27T19:47:00.002+02:00

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

2008-04-20T16:49:00.003+02:00

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

2008-04-20T15:59:00.005+02:00

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

2008-03-27T12:52:00.007+01:00

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

2008-02-17T16:19:00.004+01:00

" 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

2008-01-07T16:16:00.001+01:00

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

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

Cows

2008-01-07T13:05:00.000+01:00

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

2008-01-07T12:29:00.001+01:00

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

2008-01-07T12:19:00.001+01:00

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

Turntable mania 2

2007-11-24T17:01:00.001+01:00

Nisam izdrzao i kupio sam novi gramofon...

headshell i žičice za zvučnicu u banani, da ne psujem sad ja tu

lemio i lemio kao da je to jednostavno, u stvari to se ni ne smije dirati ako niste potpuno sigurni što to radite...
prijašnji vlasnik je izgleda dosta eksperimentirao s ovim tako da sad ja moram kupiti nove jer ovo je veliko niš.

vidim da su i interkonekti stradali, ovo je naime diy opcija za jack.

ova žičica je bila malo previše puta lemljena i eto skratila se do neupotrebljivosti. baci, baci, baci,

trli brli lemljenje žičica, hiroshima mon amour.

stanton namontiran i ready to go...
ali avaj... igla ne valja i bacio ga ja van, probajmo sa dual dms 220 koji bi po rezonanciji zvučnice također lijepo sjeo na ovu ručku.

nakon što ni dual nije vrijedio suvu šlivu, odlučili smo se za priručno rješenje, krasni monacor

kako to samo krasno izgleda, dok ne kupim novu iglu za ortofon super om 10 koja mi je takodjer u banani ovo će morati zadovoljiti, i gle svira, i to dobro.

nisam nešto ali sviram ko veliki. kad narastem bit ću...zamijenjen.
Anyway ako itko ima kakvu ideju za nabavku novog headshell-a koji bi odgovarao ovoj rucki neka slobodno kaze. Ili di bi se mogle kupiti malo dulje žičice za headshell jer one koje sam našao na internertu su uglavnom za ručke s oblika i prekratke su.
hvala unaprijed.

Delusion of the Fury by Harry Partch

2007-10-02T01:33:00.001+02:00

delusion

Youtube is full of material on Harry Partch and I suggest you check it all out. That's if you have some free time. And I promise to keep posting more. I have some more of his stuff but I first have some vinyl ripping to do.

Mike Watt

2007-08-13T07:18:00.000+02:00

On his second solo album, Mike Watt created much tighter music than on his first, excellent Ball, Hog or Tugboat. This is an autobiographical album and is the one you should read like a book, thus making it one of his finest. Backed up by a tight and cohesive band it is a sound of a man who knows what he is doing and doing what he knows like no other.

http://www.badongo.com/file/4022530

Workdogs

2007-05-17T07:04:00.001+02:00

Old (cd)

• Stimulant • Painting the Davil's Office Again • Back in the Days • Brave New Blues • Robert Kennedy Blues • The Facts of Life • Back on the Night of May 27, 1977 • Too Young to Die • Little Joe •

Old guitars: Marce Hall, Jon Spencer, Ted Horowitz, Jerry Teel tenor sax: Kurt Hoffman trumpet: Pam Fleming bariton sax: Adam Kolker organ, piano: Maicolm Riviera accordion: Andrea Parkins harmonica: Flitz Fox mandolin: Fran Powers backing vocals: Shannah Ehrhart, Leila Haddad

OLD

Sympathy For The Record Industry.

Whatever grand traditions the blues Explosion harken back to, Rob Kennedy and Scott Jarvis are their greatest living practitioners. Now, the Workdogs can play their way out of all the last remaining paper bags in America, leaving a legend on a state of the Grand Canyon, the Mississippi, and the Panama Canal. Just because the duo's adventures in music haven't pointed to much in the way of "career," don't be foolish enough to think that the Workdogs are anything less than great rock'n'roll assets. They may look a little daffy, but one glimpse into the Workdogs' eyes says they've got it all on you. Sharing the name of a dead president's brother is no cakewalk. The honorable Rob K is liable to say anything once he starts to preaching his walking-talking blues, and chances are he'll be able to figure his way out. He swears sympathetically by the most impossible of hard times, the trickiest of rhymes, and the most excusable of crimes. Looking to learn a little of the Workdogs' natural-born and hard-earned wits. Marcellus Hall of Railroad Jerk and Jon Spencer of the Blues Explosion lend guitars to hall of these ten tracks. Honeymoon Killer Jerry Teel and Velvet Monkey Malcolm Riviera also kick in. It was probably the jukebox more than anything else that kept the Workdogs down thus far. Once a bar owner could get music that didn't talk poobahs like Rob K, and Scott Jarvis were numbered. With his gift of gab. Rob K takes you wherever he's been, wherever that he had, the hospital behind the wheel of a big rig, or in the arms of a neighbor's wife. Please don't be tricked by the "harmless old cool" guise-these two are wolves in sheeps' clothes, kid. You have to listen to a man with a talking dog and $1000 of a hooker's money in his underware, and this is the first Workdogs record to really lay it down.

Workdogs - Old
link dead

Vintage Cabs!!!

2007-05-16T07:58:00.000+02:00

Well, earlier I posted two last outings by legendary Cabaret Voltaire, now it's time for some auld stuff. Two early singles, one rare and one not so much. Vinyl ripps of course, no hiss removal, no click removal, no crackle removal. Just music.

Links:

Cabaret Voltaire - Jazz the Glass http://www.badongo.com/file/3038691

Cabaret Voltaire - Silent Command http://www.badongo.com/file/3038759

The Passage - Pindrop

2007-04-21T16:43:00.000+02:00

The Passage's first album is unique in many ways since this one is in fact a solo record. It sounds like Suicide at times, and at times like their later output. The sound is sparce and minimal and I just loove it.
This is a vinyl rip and it has a bit strange sound since I experimented with some noise filters, BBE sound maximizer to be honest, later gave the record away, and now I'm left with this. It's not all that bad but nothing can beat 33/3rpm vinly, can it?There is a nice reissue on CD with some early singles on it but is a bitch to find.
So
here's the
Link:http://www.badongo.com/file/2821128

Neurosis - Sovereign

2007-04-21T15:56:00.000+02:00

Produced by Steve Albini, this is much of the same old same old from Neurosis. It was the 15th anniversary of their existance and a first outing on their own Neurot label. The bonuses from the special edition were a must have for any fan, however I bought the regular one in haste and then missed the sp.ed. Sometimes it is a wise decision to wait a while and then react, but when I saw it I just had to have it.
If you happen to have the bonus disc post it. I'll be glad.

Link:http://www.badongo.com/file/2820555

More Texans - this time it's the Pink Swords

2007-04-21T14:30:00.000+02:00

http://www.myspace.com/pinkswords

Just what the other review said:it’s another hellswarm of ragged audio dust devils touching down in your ears and scrambling what’s left of your brains in short, barely controlled bursts of animal rage gone all hot and electric. This is rawknroll goddamnit!

More popular in Europe than in US, and that's how I got to know them. They toured allover Europe and voila!link:http://www.badongo.com/file/2820085

The sound of Sheffield from Zagreb

2007-04-21T14:09:00.001+02:00

When you start reading about Suicide you find out that the equipment they used was all used, used Farfisa organ, used drum machines etc. The same was with early Cabs, they played whatever they could find and incorporated it all to their sound. Today we don't even have to do that, since there is so much free and shareware software around that you can virtually do the whole thing without or with very little money.

So we come to Narrow, an excellent Cabs inspired project, from Zagreb, Croatia. Heavily into lo-fi, they use analog used equipment and a Sony walkman. Everything is mastered onto a compact cassette due to its "sound quality". This is their first release, made on two mini cd-r's and put into a very intuitive packaging, which resembles LP's gatefold sleeve.

The music itself is a near perfect old fashioned bleepy industro dance that Cabaret Voltaire are the crowned kings of. The prime track here is: Don't talk to me 'bout love, my personal DJ-ing favourite. It gets me started in the right direction.

LInk:http://www.badongo.com/file/2820037

ače are from France

2007-03-31T17:37:00.000+02:00

ače are from France and are one of the best european alternative bands I've seen over the years. The sound is ritch and textured, rhythms complex and songwriting excellent. This EP is from 1998 and is issued by "images de chantz 'urbains", that's chantzurb@aol.com if you get interested in this release.
discography:
1996
Pancake Attack !
1997
Totally Inadéquat
1998
Meet Jane Doe
1999
Mawa Sekai

ače: Meet Jane Doe EP
link: http://www.badongo.com/file/2624488

Weird Psychedelic America!

2007-03-12T00:01:00.000+01:00

In this post I give you two very interesting modern psychedelic bands from USA.

First will be Texans ST37 and their album of rarities and outtakes with a silly name: I Smoked Kevin Costner's Shitty Pot, which starts with some studio drone tracks but from the track no. 3 on it is raw garage stuff with somewhat poor sound quality, but with an unbeatable charm and rough but appealing ambience.

Second is band SubArachnoid Space with their live album These Things Take Time which is a recording of their live radio appearance. Songs don't have names, but later do appear in somewhat different form on their subsequent studio albums. Sound quality is very good and the feel of a whole set is impecable. Hope you enjoy this and tell me what you think.

Mind you, this is not as elegant as, say, ambient dub or ambient drone or post rock, this is Hawkwind meets Krautrock meets garage rock meets whatever. This is spacey but in my oppinion a bit rougher on the edge than your common dub. This is Can on fuzz.

Here are some excerpts of what I found on the web and at the end ... LINKS.

Enjoy.

www.myspace.com/subarachnoidspace

SubArachnoid Space was formed in 1996, first as a trio, then almost immediately adding the second guitar role. Since then, the band has continued to explore the infinite variations of instrumental mind-expanding heavy rock and drone.

http://www.myspace.com/st37

ST 37 was formed in January 1987 as a merger of sorts between Austin cult bands Tulum and the Elegant Doormats. Bassist S.L. Telles has been active in the Texas music underground since singing with Houston teen punkers Vast Majority in '79-'80, releasing a single on Wild Dog records that has since been reissued several times, including outtakes. Telles formed the Elegant Doormats in spring 1982 with original ST 37 drummer John Foxworth (who later joined Tulum). The group endured for five years, playing with bands like the Butthole Surfers and the Reivers, and recording with legendary God of Hellfire Arthur Brown.
Guitarist Joel Crutcher and vocalist Carlton Crutcher founded Tulum in 1985, and recorded for Rabid Cat records before that label disintegrated. Jello Biafra wrote, "The bizarre side of Austin is still alive - first the Buttholes, then Scratch Acid, and now Tulum."

Press:

ST 37, long-running specialists in bubbling-mercury riffage and German-flavored trance rock... - David Fricke (Rolling Stone)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

These Texas astronauts stuff their hash pipes to the brim and pay homage to Can, Amon Duul and Chrome...their psychedelicatessen of originals is stocked with brain-melting skree...- Fred Mills (Magnet)

Twistedly psychedelic and swirling in a cyclonic stew...one of the most infectiously woven slabs of noise- as- music released since the 60s drug boom. - Andrea 'Enthal (Alternative Press)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Melting Euphoria and the Texan band ST 37 are the two best working psychedelic bands in America today. - Andre (Crohinga Well)

link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6RMBREE7

Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Magnetic Drugs

2007-03-09T23:08:00.000+01:00

Magnetic Drugs is a very tightly constructed collection of tracks which is absorbing from start to finish. The record starts off intensely with a seriously focus swirl of noise called "the Overt Statuette," easily the most cacophonous thing that the Sunburned Hand crowd has laid down to date.
While some complain about the band's small print runs (this disc came from limited and numbered edition of 250 copies), as of this writing it was still available from online retailers Eclipse Records and Father Yod. If you have any interest in free, improvised music, take advantage of this availability while you still can. The Sunburned Hand of the Man have carved a significant and well-deserved niche for themselves within the free-music underground. Some naysayers claim that the band is more hype than substance—an examination of their released output will demonstrate that such talk is misguided and that they deserve all of they praise that they've been given. Magnetic Drugs is probably the album that grew on me. It's the most focused of the three that I own, and is the best for the introduction to the band. Now that the Uncut magazine has discovered them it will be very hard for you not to stumble upon them. Hope their music won't change in the years to come, they really are an exciting band as you are about to discover.

Here's the link: http://www.mediafire.com/?4cgfnwgmytj
And here's their tour page: http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/sunmark.html

One Dimensional Man, great noise rock from Italy

2007-03-09T00:51:00.001+01:00

One Dimensional Man were born as a brainchild of Pierpaolo Capovilla (voice & bass) & Massimo Sartor (guitar), together with Dario Perissutti (drums). Their eponymous debut album, came out in May '97, has 13 tracks with sound closest to Touch & Go bands especially those produced by Steve Albini, violent, rhythmic and uncompromising. The album was highly praised in press that year and was perhaps the best release by Wide Records up to that date. They promoted the album up to the end of '98 playing100 concerts in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Chech Repblic and Slovakia. They supported Blonde Redhead, The Cows, Kepone, Fluxus, Uzeda. 1998, Massimo left the group and was replaced by Giulio Favero, young guitar player from independent Padovan scene . With Giulio, One Dimensional Man sort of shifted their sound towards a more bluesy feel.

"One Dimensional Man"

Recorded & mixed by Massimo Sartor at Maximum Volume StudioVenice - Italy - October 1996produced by One Dimensional Man1997 Wide Records - WD025CD

Psychic TV & Monte Cazazza Live Heaven 23/12/1984

2007-03-08T02:34:00.002+01:00

Psychic TV & Monte Cazazza Live Heaven 23/12/1984

Live in Heaven is brilliant. Recorded on December 23, 1986 in Heaven, Charning Cross, London. Released by Temple Records (Catalog TOPY 018). Although Alex Ferguson is not creditied, some sites I have read say he did perform at this show. Most likely the vocals on "I Hear Voices" is Monte Cazazza.

Parts of this release ended up on the 2003 reissue "Live In Glasgow Plus".

For the realization of this project were Psychic TV:
Dave Ball - Keyboards Dave Ball - Keyboards
Monte Cazazza -Guitar Monte Cazazza-Guitar
Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson - Keyboards Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson - Keyboards
John Gosling - Samples, Percussion John Gosling - Samples, Percussion
Mouse - Bass Guitar, Clarinet Mouse - Bass Guitar, Clarinet
Genesis P-Orridge - Repartee Genesis P-Orridge - Repartee
Paula P-Orridge - Vibes, Percussion Paula P-Orridge - Vibes, Percussion
Live Mix by Ken Thomas. Live Mix by Ken Thomas.

Track Listing; (I included the actual song titles where appropriate).

1		I Hear Voices (Protocol)
2		Thee Leg Song
3		Paradise Lost
4		Lies And Spies (I Like You)
5		Revenge On God (Unclean)
6		Stolen Lightning
7		Feet Of Broken Glass (Southern Comfort)
8		New Regeneration (Papal Breakdance)
9		Radium (Color Climax)

link: heaven

My original rip was from tape, but I found this one which is way better from "Because God told me to do it" blog

In joy

We're all frankies Except Some Belgians

2007-03-07T23:07:00.000+01:00

23 Minutes in Bruxelles1980 - Evatone, 9" flexi # 828804
23 Minutes in Brussels1978Red Star/ Bronze recs, 12" # FRANKIE1

This official bootleg -quite difficult to find- exists under 2 formats, both in limited edition :12" : edited by 'Red Star Records Inc thru Bronze Rec Ltd', limited edition, 1000 copies. Comes in a white sleeve with stamp of ed. Number & with a short xerox copied insert of a typewriting-letter from the record label to the fans, dated september 8, 1978 and announcing the recordings of the 2nd LP.

23 Minutes in Brussels
(recorded at Anciennes Belgique 16/6-1978)
Ghost Rider
Rocket USA
Cheree Dance
Frankie Teardrop

It restores the ambient of a very chaotic concert in Brussels, Belgium (tour supporting bands like The Clash and Elvis Costello for a european tour) : Something began with the song Frankie Teardrop, and soon converts to a full riot, Alan Vega had even his nose broken.
Legends are built something like that no?
The Brussels' recording has also been re-issued as bonus trackof some CD-reissues, including the last (1998) one (20 years later).

"We're all frankies Except Some Belgians" (as stated on the 12" ex.)

http://www.badongo.com/file/2405464

Rare Melvins 7inch Vinyl Rips

2007-03-07T04:22:00.000+01:00

For completists only, but not quite dissapointing. It's raw, it's slow, hard and it's pure Melvins.

Plus you get these paper dolls. Ahh those Kiss fans, they're all merchandise crazy.

1987 Leopard Geck-O 7"
----------------------

a) Oven
b) Revulsion - We Reach

NOTES:
1000 pressed on pink vinyl; 200 came with paper dolls [see folder].

1989 Slap A Ham 8" Flexi
------------------------

a) Your Blessened
b) Pronoun - Piece Me

NOTES:
2 pressings of 1000 each, hand numbered. Inside cover is different. 1st press on clear, 2nd on yellow vinyl.
"Your Blessened" was recorded on 2/4/89 at Gilman and Pronoun's "Piece Me" was recorded 2/1/86 at C/Z Records.
Noisy & monotone slow core. Live recording is only above average, but it's hard & brutal (and nothing else counts...)
More info and scans can be found here: http://www.themelvins.net/discography/singles/slapaham/index.htm

1997 Barbaraal 7"
-----------------

a) June Bug (live)
b) Noise (live)

NOTES:
Both sides are listed as untitled #1 & #2 for some reason.
Barbaraal is a 48 page comic drawn & written(in english) by Dutch artiste Barbara Stok & this issue came out in early 97 which included a live MELVINS 7" recorded in Groningen, Holland at the Vera club with full permission from the band..In the comic you can read how Barbara finds out about
the MELVINS & how her love for them grows..great stuff!

link http://www.badongo.com/file/2398909

Big Black

2007-03-01T06:42:00.001+01:00

This is a bootleg recording of Big Black Peel Session from 1987.
Dirty and raw and I know you'll like it.

Big Black 1987 Peel Sessions (bootleg)

Punk, postpunk, wave, hardcore from former Yugoslavia

2007-02-25T16:36:00.000+01:00

Here are some great punk, postpunk, wave, hardcore albums that came out in former Yugoslavia. All the albums are excellent and a true rarity.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4nznmzvlzxm
STUDENI STUDENI - PUNK ROCK
http://www.mediafire.com/?0mzyoyznyvm -
PARAF/POST PUNK/NEW WAVE (similar to Siouxie & the Banshees)
http://www.mediafire.com/?cnwztqh2on3
DuDuA/POST PUNK/WAVE (reminds me of A Certain Ratio,hm?)
http://www.mediafire.com/?bygy2jwmnmm
SEXA/POST PUNK
http://www.mediafire.com/?dmmjigwuyom
DOBRI ISAK/POST PUNK(similar to Joy Division)
http://www.badongo.com/file/1687550
U.B.R.- HARDCORE PUNK

1.000.000.000,00 THANX TO THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE FROM http://forum.b92.net/

You Remain Anonymous

2007-02-23T16:25:00.000+01:00

Lubricated Goat was a noise rock band from Australia led by Stuart Grey. This album came out on PCP records, and is a result of Stu’s relocation to the States. This incarnation of the band was New York City all star line-up with members of such bands as Motorhead Bug, Cop Shoot Cop, and Railroad Jerk. It has Unsane/Foetus/Swans drummer Vinnie Signorelli on drums and he leaves his mark especially on the opening track “You Remain Annonymous” which is as good song as it gets. The album becomes more drone-like and slower in pace towards the end and is in many ways a rock n’roll album Foetus never made. This short-lived incarnation marks the end of Lubricated Goat, with Grey going to the West Coast and joining Bloodloss along with Mark Arm of Mudhoney fame, but it didn't last long either.

Vincent Signorelli
Drums
Tod Ashley
Sampling, Tapes
Stuart Gray
Synthesizer, Bass, Vocals, Producer, Guitar, Sampling, Cover Design, Tympani (Timpani)
Sandra Hamburg
Photography
Vicki
Vocals (Background)
Lubricated Goat
Main Performer
Tony Lee
Bass
Martin Bisi
Producer, Engineer

Discography (Buy CDs by this artist)
Lubricated Goat Plays the Devil's Music (Aus. Black Eye) 1987 (Amphetamine Reptile) 1989
Paddock of Love (Aus. Black Eye) 1988 (Amphetamine Reptile) 1989
Psychedelicatessen (Amphetamine Reptile) 1989
Schadenfreude EP (Aus. Black Eye) 1989
Forces You Don't Understand (PCP) 1995
Link: http://www.badongo.com/file/2298943

The Drone Dance

2007-02-23T16:19:00.000+01:00

Lustmord vs. Metal Beast

From Forced Exposure:
“This album is the result of a collaborative performance broadcast live on KUCI 89.9, Orange County, California, June 20 1997. The performance was arranged at short notice, and structured so as to be largely improvisational. While musical fads and fashions all too often dictate form and function, neither Lustmord nor Metal Beast desire to be constrained by definitions, and as such the results are a powerful, collision of noise and rhythm, with no quarter given to compromise“

The finest Lustmord release if you ask me, with a brighter sound than usual. I think it's Metal Beast who comes from techno to be thanked to, but it works perfectly well. It sounds like a a field recording mixed with some drones plus heavily distorted dance rhythms which blends amazingly, and at the same time danceable too, which is not exactly the word to be associated with Lustmord in the first place. While I think this release might irritate some of the more hardcore/diehard Lustmord fans, I think it is good for him to have fun and experiment with concepts, elements and ideas that he normally avoids. I call it progress, and it sounds damn good to me.
Link:http://www.badongo.com/file/2298893

Why shouldn't you Six?

2007-02-20T20:02:00.001+01:00

Re-upped Mule: If I don't Six
Link: SIX!

Mule by Mule

2007-02-20T18:58:00.000+01:00

Played by.:
James Kimball – Drums

Kevin Munro – Bass, Vocals

P.W.Long – Vocals, Guitar

Touch & Go / Quarterstick Records
Release Date: 02/15/1993
Catalog Number: QS15

This is what I call music. Produced by Steve Albini, with everything set up to go up to 11. Dry and loud guitar, greasy bass and drums loud and in yer face.
One of the greatest records in Touch and Go catalogue. A must have for any fan of Noise rock.

Link: dead, sorry

CHK!CHK!CHKK!!!

2007-02-06T01:00:00.000+01:00

!!! - Myth Takes (2007)
LINK 1: http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=7GH4ORDV
LINK 2: http://www.sendspace.com/file/p981e7

Bi-coastal political dance-punks !!! have announced details of their third album.Myth Takes will be released in March through Warp; it's the eight-man band's follow-up to the very decent indeed Louden Up Now long-player of 2004.The Warp website states that the album "combines an enhanced focus on incredible song writing with all the intricacy, freedom and shear dance floor swagger that made Louden Up Now such a delight". Excited? Oh good.

It sounds more postpunk than before on a first – title track, than more disco on All My Heroes are Weirdos, than on lenghtier tracks such as Bend Over Beethoven it kinda feels like Hawkwind have discovered disco. Utterly stunning. !!! have made a great album indeed. Roll on annother great year.

1. Myth Takes2. All My Heroes Are Weirdos3. Must Be The Moon4. A New Name5. Heart Of Hearts6. Sweet Life7. Yadnus8. Bend Over Beethoven9. Break In Case Of Anything10. Infinifold

If you like it go buy it. Released by Warp.

Readymade: Bold

2007-01-18T01:30:00.002+01:00

So the clicks and cuts found ways to be more palatable to the overground. Readymade sinks right in and keeps the integrity of the IDM movement with excellent sound production and knob twiddling. Consonant, glitchy noises bounce off each other in the most thought provoking and intriguing ways. But they also manage to create some of the most appealing melodies and addictive grooves. A couple tracks even incorporate vocals that flow so well over the experimental music, it’s like they were born together that way. Hell, it even has David Sylvian on one excellent track"Sugar Fuel."He did a marvelous job and it was back in 2001 when we all believed that he'll never record again. Well, we were very wrong. Blemish anyone?
Listen to this first.
It's a hell of a record.
try+buy

Ding Dong!!!

2007-01-15T00:42:00.001+01:00

DING DONG’, LP/CD (Kitty-Yo, 2000)
I don't know much about Jeans Team except the fact that they recorded this album for the German label Kitty-Yo, and that they are the closest I heard somebody came to something we could call electro punk. I came across this album working in a music shop, and while I was in search of some quality glitch stuff. This was not glitch but was so much more. It wasn't as aggressive as Atari Teenage Riot but was so joyfull and young, so fresh. Like a celebration of youth. My favourite track is unforgettable and hopelessly catchy little tune Keine Melodien. Yo no canto melodias, yo canto 1,2,3,4. A true gem.
(Jeans Team)

find more about them on:
http://www.myspace.com/jeansteam
http://www.jeansteam.de/

Cabaret Voltaire - International Language 1993

2007-01-14T01:10:00.000+01:00

Becoming less funk and less acid house made Cabaret Voltaire able to reinvent themselves once again in a glorious fashion, and International Language is no exeption to the rule. This is ambient techno at its finest. These guys simply know how to make music, or as in case with their ex member Chris Watson, not to make music but sound. Kings!!!
http://www.badongo.com/file/1999674
(Cabaret Voltaire - International Language)

Cabaret Voltaire - The Conversation

2007-01-13T00:10:00.000+01:00

A sort of a goodbye by Kirk and Mallinder, this is, up to this date, the last album by the Cabs and is one of their finest if not thee finest of the later period. It is where they show just how great they really are. A band so far ahead of their, and our time as well, that it hurts. You'll find no other band like this.
http://www.badongo.com/file/1999839 (Cabaret Voltaire - The Conversation)

The Best of 2006

2007-01-01T16:52:00.000+01:00

I think I'm going a bit soft here but this is the best album released this year. It's Crane Wife by The Decemberists whom I didn't like that much because they sounded much alike some of the bands I wouldn't exactly call my favourites (R.E.M., The Smiths etc...)
But somwhere along the line they listened to some ELP, who also suck, but it all melted into best album of last year by far, together with TV On The Radio and The Knife.

http://hideurl.net/?r=7bl

Thanx to the original uploader!!!!

happy new year

2007-01-01T16:49:00.000+01:00

Do The Right Thing

2006-12-27T12:20:00.000+01:00

J. Robbins needs your help!!
For those unfamiliar, J. Robbins was in Government Issue, Jawbox, Burning Airlines and Channels and has produced classic/great records by Texas is the Reason, The Promise Ring, Braid, Sleepytime Trio, Engine Down, Jets to Brazil, Jimmy Eat World, etc. etc. etc.J. Robbins son is very sick, and he is just a little baby. I am reposting messages from Rob of 108 and The Fire Still Burns...Of course you should check out those bands but this isnt about good music. This is much more important. Read on. ...

From The Fire Still Burns
Hi friends of J. Robbins, Janet Morgan and Cal Robbins: J. and Janet’s baby boy Cal was born with a serious genetic condition called Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Though there is no cure for this condition, there are lots of treatments that promise to give Cal the the best possible quality of life. Unfortunately, many of these, especially the alternative treatments, are not covered by health insurance.J. and Janet have given so much over the years to the music community we're all a part of, so Bill and I are hoping you can see in your hearts to help them out now.We've set up a website with more information and a place to make a donation. All of the money will go straight to J. and Janet to help defray their growing medical bills.Thanks for your support and feel free to send this email on to folks who might likewise be interested in helping. Take care
Kim Coletta and Bill Barbot

From Rob of 108"
J. Robbins, best known for his work in Jawbox, and Janet Morgan, gave birth to a beautiful son Callum Robbins. Callum was recently diagnosed with a genetic motor neuron disease called Type 1 SMA, or Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Simply put SMA kills kids. The disease affects the brain's ability to communicate with the voluntary muscles that are used for activities such as crawling, walking, head and neck control, breathing, and swallowing. Type 1 SMA is usually fatal; most Type 1 babies will die before their second birthday. Those infants who survive into childhood are in for a long road of occupational therapy, wheelchairs, and assistive devices. Despite years of work on its treatment and "ongoing promising research," it has no cure.I have two amazing sons that mean the world to me and I can't even imagine what J. and his family are feeling or going through. In addition to the emotional and physical tolls, the financial aspect to this situation is one that promises to get more difficult. Everyone that knows me knows that I never ask for something unless it is important and this truly is. Punk rock is not a musical genre as much as it is a community and an esteemed member of our community needs our help now.Bill and Kim, the former Jawbox members who also run DeSoto Records, have set up a fund where we can all help. The Callum Robbins Family Fund will help J. and Janet pursue every possible avenue of opportunity to help Cal out and give him the best treatments possible. I'd appeal to all of you to turn your attention to little Cal and to donate anything -- however small or large -- to his treatment fund.For more information about Cal, SMA, The Callum Robbins Family Fund, and to donate something via PayPal, please visit Cal's site here. With Love…R and 108

Here is a link to the Pitchfork Media article. All sites have a link to the paypal account where you can donate money for the cause. I am not much of a philanthropist but a number of factors have led me to donate money. J. Robbins is very important in the underground rock scene, mainly the DC area and the Dischord group. He has produced many great bands, and since I am a father too, I can't imagine what I would do if something happened to my little son, and I can only imagine that is 1% of the feelings J and his wife must be feeling over the condition of their baby .... Donate a few dollars. If not for anything then a way of saying thanks for all the albums you have recently gotten for free.
With my best wishes and love...
Bodo

Into the Eyes of the Zombie King

2006-12-26T12:26:00.000+01:00

vinyl covers

Chrome - INTO THE EYES OF THE ZOMBIE KING (1984)
_____________________________
And Then The Red Sun * You Can't Do Anything *Walking and Looking for You *Into the Eyes of the Zombie King *Trip the Switch *It Wasn't Real *Humans in the Rain *Don't Move Like That
_____________________________
DAMON EDGE lead vocals, synthesizers, TV, treatments on all instruments, cover art
REMY DEVILLA guitars and overlays
RENAUD THOREZ harmonized bass guitar
PATRICK IMBERT electronic drums and rotos
FABIENNE SHINE backing vocals

All songs written and produced by Damon Edge Except Trip the Switch, written by Damon Edge and Remy Devilla

Damon was bored of the U.S.A. He wanted change and he find it when moving to France with his wife Fabienne, bringing with him the Chrome entity. Helios is left in San Francisco, where he will start a solo career. The first recording of the "new" Chrome can be heard on the terrific Into The Eyes Of The Zombie King. Instrumentation and song structures became much simpler than before, giving a "purity" quality to Damon's music. Guitars are now played by french musician Remy Devilla, becoming the necessary second-half that Chrome needs. One must admit that the guitar work is amazingly basic, but that seems to fall into Damon's new vision of Chrome. They punctuates ice-rock anthems as Trip The Switch and You Can't Do Anything, while Damon brings synthesizers upfront on robotic songs as And Then The Red Sun or Humans In The Rain, where his voice gives claustrophobic tones. This is the beginning of a new era marked by coldness and catchiness.

There are many of those who question the quality of Damon Edge's Chrome. This is only to prove them wrong. Anything bearing the name Chrome is good, even the 1977 debut which is completely aside from the rest of their discography and is more Hawkwind than anything else.
link: http://www.badongo.com/file/1922927

cd covers

Voice of Chunk

2006-12-22T04:30:00.000+01:00

The best jazz album I own. Tarantella is truly a great song, Voice of Chunk a true masterpiece.
link:
http://www.badongo.com/file/1903012

Cocteau Twins_ Pink Opaque

2006-12-21T00:12:00.000+01:00

from Amazon Steven K. de la Vaux (Atlanta, Georgia)

An early compilation of material culled from two albums and three EPs released between 1983 - 1985, showcases the early, musical brilliance of two young kids from Scotland (Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth Fraser) and a lad from England (Simon Raymonde).
Standout tracks include, "From the Flagstones" (originally recorded for the "Sunburst and Snowblind" EP) which has a simple guitar, piano foundation, yet is such an elegant and romantic piece, "Aikea-Guinea (remixed from the the same titled EP from 1985 with slightly louder guitars) showcases how the Twins were able to evoke incredible feeling and emotion, and "Hitherto" which showcases the early guitar brilliance of Robin Guthrie.

Link: dead

Friends with videos

2006-12-19T04:00:00.000+01:00

i play in a band with friends who play in other bands and here are their You Tube stuff...

HR - Human Rights

2006-12-18T05:27:00.000+01:00

Those who want nothing more than Rasta-metal screech coming from the throat of Bad Brains should pass on this solo disc. Those who skanked to the reggaefied groove of H.R.'s (aka Joseph 1, Paul Hudson) so-so earlier discs on Olive Tree should like this tons...Rather than go for a standard roots/dancehall style, the accent is on a harder, Parliament-style proto-gogo with touches of soul and jazz. Granted, it lacks the insane intensity of The Brains' work, but it succeeds on subtler levels. Lyrically, there are no surprises -- plenty of peace and love vibes and rote Jah worship, but the band (Brains' Earl Hudson, drums; Kenny Dread, bass; David Byers, guitar; and Oscar Brown, Jr., keys) is tight without being tightassed, and give more than adequate support to H.R.'s croon-to-whine vocals... ~ John Dougan, Option s2_88, All Music Guide

human rights - album credits
Al Walker
Vocals
Kenny Dread
Bass, Arranger, Coordination
H.R.
Main Performer
Human Rights
Performer
David Byers
Arranger, Remixing, Gits
Jim Ebert
Engineer
Earl Hudson
Arranger, Drums

http://www.badongo.com/file/1844080

Sandoz - Every Man Got Dreaming

2006-12-10T23:03:00.000+01:00

Cabs were not as good in their house Detroit style phase, but switching onto rave techno made them exceptional once again. Sandoz is Richard H. Kirk at techno maximum. Better by far than your average crappy famous DJ.
Listen to this. This is the real stuff.

link: http://www.badongo.com/file/1844017

Glenn Branca

2006-12-10T22:52:00.000+01:00

This is a collection of Branca's work. 7 STUNNING TRACKS FROM SYMPHONIES 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10. Serves well as an introduction. Try it.
Link: http://www.badongo.com/file/1843821

Nag Nag Nag

2006-12-10T12:04:00.000+01:00

Nag nag nag is the punkiest tune Cabaret Voltaire ever recorded and is one of their finest. Since I'm a huge fan I will try and post some rare stuff I have such as some early 7˝ singles, some Richard H. Kirk 12˝ rarities, Chris Watson solo work etc.
This is an anniversary single edition with some nice remixes especially Akufen remix which is my favourite.
http://www.badongo.com/file/1843713

Rare Mark Stewart - Dream Kitchen ep

2006-12-10T07:53:00.000+01:00

Promo singles: Mark Stewart - 'Dream Kitchen'Mute Records / June 199612": 12MUTE 130 / CDS: CDMUTE 130
12":
1. * Dream Kitchen
2. Crawl Space
3. + Simulacra (Clone 1)
CDS:
1. * Dream Kitchen
2. Crawl Space
3. + Forbidden Love (Dub)
* From Data Control.+ Remixed from Data Control.

The lead track "Dream Kitchen" is almost poppy, but the "You love objects..." refrain gives the game away - a glossy critique of commodity fetishism. Elsewhere the influence of UK soundsystems remains, with dubbed out vocals and synthesised horns. Crawl Space is more hard rocking than your average Mark Stewart, with a tad more raw sound than one would expect.
link: http://www.badongo.com/file/1843668