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vinyl -- selection DECEMBER 2005
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Lied music
Vs boy-band tax returns |
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ULTRA ECZEMA |
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LP |
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18,5€ |
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"Lied music is a musique concrete/inprov project of JOHN
FAIL, -who did an amazing 4 cassete box on spencer yehs drone
disco label- together with underground film maker LUKE FOWLER
from glasgow, sensitive soundcollages drowning in a bath of
electro acoustic beauty mixed with BOY BAND TAX (aka vernon
and burns, who did and awesom lp on gagrin records) strange
aproach to samples and field recordings, very strange combination,
and again, like a lot of stuff on ultra eczema sounding very
much like old collage stuff like nurse with wound or sensitive
soundseekers like new blockaders etc.. cover is a fucked up
bi
zar mix of a melting monster and a tiger by d tyfus."
- Ultra Eczema. |
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THANKSGIVING |
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Thanksgiving |
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MARRIAGE RECORDS (US) |
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3 LP |
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TBC euro |
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one red one blue and one white 12”vinyl in full color triple gatefold jacket with cdr version of same content ! Amazing songwriting. Family of MICROPHONES |
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As the nights begin to draw in, there's nothing better than a new Sunn 0))) record to get you in that bleak midwinter mood. The 6th expulsion from the Sunn 0))) camp, 'Black One' sees Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley getting even more desolate on your arse than you thought (in)humanly possible. Delving into their little (very) black book, Sunn 0))) have assembled an elite squad of doom-merchants to further ferment their claustrophobic drone founded vision, with the likes of Oren Ambarchi, Wrest, Malefic and John Wiese all donning their best cloaks and top hats for the role. Opening with 'Sin Nanna', Sunn 0))) immediately unsettle the listener through proper haunted-house soundscapes; wherein clouds of bellicose noise lap up around some seriously f*cked tape effects. Jolting you from this uneasily soporific state is the jarring metal (Earth indebted) riffs of 'It Took The Night To Believe', soon followed by spiraling walls of white noise and tortured soul/animalistic wails. James Blunt this ain't. Similarly, 'Cursed Realms (Of The Winterdemons)' takes its cues from the very darkest of medieval torture chambers, with a crushingly dense sound carved from dissonant drenched granite, whilst 'CandleGoat' has all the grace of a ballerina in its horrifying barrage of subterranean guitars and throat bleeding vocals. Closing with 'Bathory Erzsebet', a song that was achieved by loading a casket into a Cadillac Hearse, and locking Malefic inside with only a microphone and a severe sense of claustrophobia, Sunn0))) have once again proved they are the genuine , shit-scary kings of darkness. Now bow down suckas! |
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ARIEL PINK’S HAUTED GRAFFITI |
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House Arrest |
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Paw track (US) |
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LP |
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17,5 euro |
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Making all the drum sounds with his mouth, writing songs that sound like a Jive Bunny mixtape being played backwards and using lyrics that sound like they’ve been pinched from Beck’s waste paper basket makes Pink’s music curiously interesting if nothing else. At over an hour the album seems quite long and slightly too zany for its own good, Pink could do with relaxing on the re-releases for a while and rethinking his next step. I’d like nothing more than to hear an album with a little more thought it in it than this random collection of noisy ramblings, but for now we have to settle for what we have.... |
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CLAP YOU HANDS SAY YEAH |
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Clap your hands say yeah |
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WICHITA (US) |
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LP |
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18,5 euro |
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Propped up by a mighty big pitchfork, New York's Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have a back-story which will warm the hearts of anyone harbouring a serious record-company aversion. Pumping out copies of the eponymous debut from their bathroom, Clap Your Hands attracted the adoring gaze of online-indie stable Pitchfork; a turn of events which led to them becoming America's Arctic Monkey's; ie., they did it on t'internet. Combining a sound that demands comparison with the standard Velvet Underground/Talking Heads axis, Clap Your Hands specialize in making BIG SONGS that tend to all sound the same. Yet whilst that may suggest a bad thing, their pop-accumen and evident passion for the enterprise carry you along on waves of Arcade Fire bombast, Radiohead angst and leftfield flourishes. With highlights including the sweaty 'Let The Cool Goddess Rust Away', 'Details of The War' and it's Lou Reed backbone, and 'Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood' (think The Smiths collaborating with The Flaming Lips), Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have ensured the BBC won't be short of accompanying music for the upcoming year... Clap Your Hands Say Maybe. |
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SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN, THE |
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Wedlock |
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ECLIPSE RECORDS |
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2LP |
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30 euros |
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ECLIP SHM2 |
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"Wedlock captures Sunburned in its 2003 suit when they took it to the West Coast to tour their way up to Wasilla, Alaska to attend and perform at Paul & Val's wedding on the longest day of the year, June 21, 2003. Under the bright midnight sun, Sunburned recorded this document, a testament to irony, omnipotence, moisture, pain, and the weight. Come and dine at this one, clear table. Double LP. September 2005 release taken from recordings in Alaska on the Summer Solstice. Features a beautifully designed heavy duty gatefold sleeve with two inserts featuring many photos from the trip to Alaska as well as some pictures from Northern California from the same tour." |
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BORIS |
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AKAMA NO UTA |
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SOUTHERN LORD |
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Picture LP |
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22,5 euros |
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What is it about sheer heaviness and limited-edition vinyl pressings that combine to make certain people (you know who you are) just freakin' salivate with l-u-s-t? Whatever it is, it's not hurting business for our friends at Southern Lord, not to mention certain eBay sellers! Well, the Lord has allocated us enough of this new domestic picture disc vinyl version of Boris' Akuma No Uta to save maybe at least thirty of y'all from the rigors of the auction process. Of course, we've had Akuma No Uta on vinyl before, but the previous Japanese import version wasn't a picture disc and also was way more expensive. So if you didn't get it then (or are a true Boris obsessive, and why shouldn't you be?) here's your doubtless brief chance to nab this pic disc edition.
For those reading the above with more curiousity than comprehension, here's some of what we wrote about Akuma No Uta when first released: Akuma No Uta's six songs offer up a smorgasbord of styles from past Boris albums, drawing from the heavier-than-thou rumble of Absolutego, the exquisite beauty of Flood, and the sheer jams-out-kickin' of Heavy Rocks. Starting off with an Earth-esque drone-metal intro, the record then slams into the riffed-out, noisy stormer "Ibitsu". Distorted, manic, tear-shit-up stuff. After another song in the same Hendrix meets the Stooges style psych-punk rawk vein, Boris switch gears again, for the album's centerpiece, a twelve-minute opus entitled "Naki Kyoku" that begins all super languid, quiet and pretty before building into a soaring psychedelic jam. The jams continue on the next track, another stoner rockin' blow-out. Finally, title track "Akuma No Uta" winds things up with a return to the immense sludge grind of track one, melded into a headbanging groove, ending the disc on an adrenaline high. I'm sure there's mulleted, pot-smoking high-schoolers in Japan scribbling Boris logos on their binders...or so we'd like to think.
A couple of notes: we're told that Southern Lord will also soon be issuing a domestic digipack cd version as well, with the same Nick Drake homage cover photo and all the music found on the vinyl (which means it should have the full nine and half minute intro that was inexplicably shortened to two and a half on the Japanese compact disc). Also, there exists another Southern Lord issued, mail-order only picture disc version of Akuma No Uta with black and white alternate artwork -- Boris's take-off on the black metal band Venom's logo instead of the cover to Drake's Bryter Layter. But you'll have to check eBay for that one, sorry ! AQUARIUS
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LALI PUNA |
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I tought I was over that: rare, remixed and b-sides Morr |
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2xLP |
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22,5 euros |
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ERLP032 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ON 2 CD SET
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"I thought I was over that" is the playful offspring of a band finally confident enough to re-visit their most daring, misfitting, individually conceived moments to date. it's also an opportunity to look at those artists who have inspired them in one way or another over the years, pressing them to develop through remixes, collaborations and cover versions where their ideas blossomed from raw material provided by other artists - and vice versa. the list of luminaries is impressive - starting off with tim simenon's long-dormant bomb the bass, dragged out of hibernation for lali's tantalising collaboration on "clear cut". Leftfield hip-hop producer's alias and boom bip explore the meeting point between two seemingly incongruent generic paths, while canadian beat supremo sixtoo adds a previously unreleased remix of "small things" to his already vastly impressive oeuvre. Andrew Weatherhall and Keith Tenniswood,longtime admirers of lali puna, explore this symbiosis with two wonderfully different entries finding each band reworking the other, while jimmy tamborello's genre-defying dntel snuggle up comfortably alongside post-rock originators to rococo rot (both bands here pitching new remixes that are exclusive to this compilation), and iso 68's thomas leboeg undertakes the art of reduction for his mesmerising remix of "nin-com-pop". Even valerie trebeljahr's voice is subject to these daring maneuvers, - with flowchart's remix of "fast forward" it mutates into a human beatbox that turns the band's usual rules of engagement on their head - and yet the music still retains that unmistakable identity. And as if to whet the apetite, two brand new tracks were recorded for this collection. "The Failure of the Leading Sign Industry" is a short instrumental piece that's swathed in layers of static and barely discernable emissions. This is a shrude introduction, highlighting their collective interest in even the most personal, miniature, outsider sounds. "past machine" is another brand new exclusive - originally written for the late, great John Peel, perfecting the band's line in uplifting melancholy that offsets a classic hook with a simple tale of time passing out of reach, the stagnant lyrics overflowing with an ennui that's impossible to contain. Despite the weariness of the subject matter, this is easily one of the band's catchiest ever tracks, a juxtaposition that's just classic lali puna. And this brings us straight back to the beginning.unlike so many female-led indie-pop outfits over the years, lali puna's music has an underlying self reflection that defies the saccharine coating you might mistakenly register on first listen. these songs shy away from tales of girly broken hearts and bubblegum storyboards, instead exposing a world-weariness - an "ageing out of time" that's often at odds with the adrenaline the band ignite musically. Its on the experimentations, collaborations, deviations and remixes found on this album, however, that this mood is offset against its most startling backdrop - allowing the band to get lost in different sounds, ideas and interventions...and still find their way home. 18 Tracks available on double cd or double vinyl. Highly Recommended. (BOOMKAT) |
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JAGA JAZZIST |
| Title: |
What We Must |
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NINJA TUNE (UK) |
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LP |
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19 euros |
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ZEN 103LP |
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LP version. "This 10 piece instrumental band is regarded as one of the most exciting and innovative in Norway...with no boundaries and an arsenal that includes trumpets, trombone, electric guitar, bass, tuba, two bass clarinets, Fender Rhodes, vibraphone and a rack of electronics, Jaga create timeless music. Melodic, hypnotizing, delicate and subtle. Many comparisons has been made about Jaga and their music; from Talk Talk, Soft Machine, Eric Satié, John Coltrane and Don Cherry to acts like Aphex Twin, Stereolab, Squarepusher, Isotope 217 and Tortoise."
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| Artist: |
COFFEE |
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Pissing Contest |
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QBICO (ITALY) |
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LP |
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18,5 euros |
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QBICO 017LP |
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One side recorded 1996, the other in 1988. Edition of 350 copies, splatter/color vinyl. "Side A. imagine to hear five 'Babi' rockets played together in Echo Tunnel Park, pretty strange and for sure heavy stuff ! Future free jazz !? Side B: dramatic electronic music with some cosmic synth/trumpet interludes....". |
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| Artist: |
DUNGER, NICOLAI |
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The Vinyl Trilogy |
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PLAIN RECORDINGS |
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3 LP |
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35 euros |
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PLAIN 109LP |
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Elegant 3LP multi-gatefold which includes LP sized booklet with lyrics, photos, info and a written forward. LP1: Blind Blemished Blues; LP2: A Dress Book; LP3: Sweat Her Kiss. "Nicolai Dunger sounds like Nick Nolte looks. Beaten down, dishevelled, with last night's Jack Daniels still coursing through his veins and this morning's Marlboros still burning in his throat, his careworn experience jostles with his undefeated optimism. He may have Nordic blond good looks, but he has the rough cynicism of a delta bluesman, singing dusty tales of wasted lives and unforgiven mistakes, childhood heroes and lost loves, while collaborator Will Oldham adds skewed harmonies and gorgeous guitar rhythms...an inventive, affectionate and utterly European homage to Americana." |
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| Artist: |
FEATHERS, CHARLIE |
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Get With It: Essential Recordings (1954-69) |
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REVENANT |
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3 LP |
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40 euros |
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RVN 6006LP |
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"Charlie Feathers: No other performer scaled such heights in both primeval rockabilly and keening hillbilly country. Presley? Nary a hillbilly wail in sight; Feathers' adenoidal whine could strip paint off walls. Here are all his Sun, Flip, King, Meteor, Kay, Walmay and Holiday Inn sides plus rare, unissued tracks including Sun demos, alternate takes and early home recordings with the likes of Junior Kimbrough. 3 discs, 42 tracks, and a photo-packed booklet with notes by Jim Dickinson, Colin Escott, Peter Guralnick and Nick Tosches." |
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