G*Park - 15
Recorded live in Berlin in 2009, released in 2010 as a 100-copy CDR by Rumpsti Pumpsti Edition (aka Tochnit Aleph's record shop and gallery) in 2010.G*Park - 15
View ArticleMerzbow - Kibbutz
Some people don't even know that Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani only had guitars, drums, keyboards and the most rudimentary effects to pursue the Merzbow mission. Once a tape that was originally...
View ArticleRichard Lainhart - Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue
Beautiful electro-acoustic drone music recorded between 1975 and 1989. It's all great, but the big hit is "Two Mirrors Face One Another", the 40-minute mammoth of audio codeine made from bowed Japanese...
View ArticleVarious Artists – "Seattle Syndrome - Volume One" (Engram Records – ENG...
Seattle, the scene of that nineties atrocity "Grunge", the american equivalent of "Brit Pop".You will be very pleased to know that this local band compilation is a gauranteed Grunge-free zone; but it...
View ArticleMerzbow - Lowest Music & Arts 1980 - 1983
A massive pile of utterly necessary remastered tapes that were originally released on Masami Akita's "Lowest Music & Arts" label. You get a special Bleak Bliss prize if you can guess when they were...
View Articleva - As Yet Untitled
I love this compilation! Even though they released it before thinking of a title. All killer, no filler: AMK, Architects Office, The Haters, PBK, Tom Dimuzio, Illusion of Safety, Arcane Device, Hands...
View ArticleVarious Artists – "Seattle Syndrome Two" (Engram Records – ENGC 012) 1982
Well, fuck me! There was a second volume of post-punk Seattle groups.It's definitely Volume 1 part two. Lots of forgetable eighties Pop attempts, with a couple of more edgy numbers buried in among the...
View ArticleVarious Artists – "Vancouver Complication" (Pinned Records – PIN 79330001)...
As with most things north american, one almost always has to cross the border,northwards, from the USA to find better ways of doing things.As i've just inflicted two, yes TWO, volumes of frankly...
View ArticleVodka Sparrows - No Title / Self Title
Delicate and strung out twin guitar drones courtesy of Anthony Guerra and Mark Leacy. C32 released on Melbourne-based Albert's Basement in 2013. No Title / Self Title
View ArticleVarious Artists – "The Signal To Noise Set" (Only A Revolution – Only 2) 1984
Lets go back to Australia, and get a hefty dose of antipodean minimal synth from the Orwellian watershed year of 1984.All downhill from there, creatively, politically and culturally.This album is an...
View ArticleBeach requiem for Bela Lugosi
Zombies on surfboards.(Formed in Hamburg in 1998 and originally consisted of Oleg Gitarkin (bass) and Annette Schneider (synths). They had several member changes and in 2003, they invited Lydia Kavina...
View ArticleWelcome to the fright night
Making waves with vampires.(The Guitaraculas is a side surf-project of Oleg Gitarkin from Messer Chups).Here
View Articleأغاني الحب الغريب
Falling in love in the shadow of camels.(Zamaan Ya Sukkar is a compliation of Egyptian love Songs and instrumentals from the 60’s, compiled by Radio Martiko label; all music is remastered from original...
View ArticleSurfing on swamp traps
Werewolves and mummies moving their hips next to palm trees.(The Bonecollectors is a russian psychobilly band from Saint Petersburg, conceived as a side project of Messer Chups members).Here
View ArticleHumming under the poppies
Modulating the interaction of pre-synaptic neurotransmitters.(Amp is an English ambient/space/drone group based around the core members Richard Walker and Karine Charff. Walker was a member of a band...
View ArticleFantasies of the deep brain
Spontaneous dopamine flows through quantum sinuosities.(Harmony Of The Spheres is a drone/experimental/space rock compilation made by Drunken Fish records).Here
View ArticleEntering the night of the open coffins
Drink the monsters poison.(Messer Chups was formed in Hamburg in 1998 and originally consisted of Oleg Gitarkin (bass) and Annette Schneider (synths). They had several member changes and in 2003, they...
View ArticleCircling the red horizon
Walking across the bone pathway.(Barn Owl is a Psychedelic drone band from San Francisco, California, USA, formed by Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras(Elm) in 2006).Here
View ArticleYour Intestines - Untitled (Green)
Anthony Guerra and Matthew Earle (aka Muura) on guitars, Adam Süssmann on bass and Peter Blamey on drums. Great high-wire Aussie noise rock that just manages to stay upright. CDr released on Black...
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