new releases by CLAN DESTINE RECORDS Scotland, UK

DJ LOSER from Greece, he has two projects as minimal techno maximum noise Body Snatchers with Raw Ambassador, and industrial ambient Magdalena’s Apathy with Penelope’s Fiance. Cassette and digital album.

MARC ASH – aka Plovdiv – is a Berlin base Italian, drawing his inspirations from electro pioneers, early new wave and „dirty industrial” (esp. mining industrial). He is the founder of Blacksilk Records. Ostracism cassette and digital album.

„existing is useless. life is pointless. throw it away. be free” is the motto of the existentialist American DJ/producer COLLIN STRANGE, founder of the early American power electronics act Intrinsic Action which started in 1984. How I Creep cassette and digital album out now.

3 punks, 1-1 from Japan, France and Spain, together with
a Caribbean tennis teacher,

who unlike the others was not in a band before,
but was chosen for singing because he is a frenetic dancer, well,
they met at first at a Billy Childish gig at Dirty Water Club in London,
and soon they formed the

KING SALAMI & THE CUMBERLAND 3

influenced by the 50-60s rhythm and blues, rockabilly, rock and roll and soul,
like Andre Williams, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Bo Diddley, Sonics, Trashmen, Link Wray, James Brown and more. They play it with punk attitude in an exceptional manner.

New album Going Back To Wurstville on Dirty Water Records (Europe), Off The Hip (Aus) and Disk Union (Jap)

A lysergic mix of South-American tropical music with an out of control computer, or the „Southamerican psychedelic sound of the XXI Century” by Columbian trio LOS PIRANAS

La Diversión Que Hacía Falta En Mi País LP on Staubgold Records (France)

Experimental hard rock ambient jazz, sometimes danceable doom on drums, bass’n’sax by Italian trio MULBÖ. Reminds of the Austrian Electro Guzzi, the Hungarian Másfél, or the Italian Mombu, just not so heavy.

from debut album on Dischi del Minollo (Ita)

Brand new releases of great little record label
WHARF CAT RECORDS (US, NY, Brooklyn)

PALBERTA is Ani, Nina, and Lily. I strongly agree with they say about their music: „You wanna wabbada? Wap wap wap dabbada? You see that mabada? ding ding dack dabbada?” New album Bye Bye Berta.

HOLY MOTORS from Estonia. When I listened to them first I thought this song could be in a David Lynch film. But Jim Jarmusch was who lent their music for his film Mystery Train. 7″ single.

CARSON COX, SAM YORK & AUSTIN BROWN: Cox from new wave pop band Merchandise, York from raw rock band WALL and Brown from indie punk band Parquet Courts make disco music. 7″ single.

TROPICAL SKIN BYRDS, no wave punk trio with ZZ Ramirez (Ukiah Drag, Destruction Unit), Sean Halpin (CRAOW) and artist Nina Hartmann. EP.

SNAKEHOLE, noise rock hc-punk duo under the influences of w33d & $A+aN. Debut album Interludes of Insanity.

UROCHROMES, a duo with drum machine. Influences: Chrome, Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Flipper, Flesh Eaters, Stick Men With Ray Guns. EP with a fine new wave disco remix.

To live on the outskirts, still isolated in the digital age from outside trends and current sounds as Australian musician Dusty Anastassiou. His band is DAG. Dag means the dried faeces left dangling from the wool on a sheep’s rear end, but also refers to being unfashionable, eccentric and fool-like.

Debut album Benefits of Solitude on Bedroom Suck Records (AUS), Omnian Music Group (US) and Cargo Direct (UK)

What was the Iron Maiden in the early ’80s today it is the Zig Zags

from 7″ vinyl on Famous Class Records (US)

EURO TOUR MARCH – APR Ger, Bel, NL, UK, Ire, Fr, Sp, It, Au, Swi, DK, Nor

It was a time full of adrenaline and rapid changes.

The second half of the ’80s. This was a decade marked by the rise in tension between the American and Russian blocks in the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thirty years have passed since the historical events which dramatically changed the cultural scene of the Soviet Union forever.

A team of filmmakers decided to carry out their own investigation into the change that was started by one man: Indulis Bilzens. He stood by the birth of rave culture in Germany and successfully has brought it on the other side of Iron Curtain in the second half of the ’80s.

Techno first appeared in the Baltics in 1986.

Bilzens was born in Riga in 1940, in the last year of the first independent Latvian Republic. In this year happened the first Soviet invasion, and his father was deported to Siberia. Between 1941 and 44 the country was occupied by the Germans. His mother fled the country with him into West Germany because of the second Soviet invasion in 1944.

Bilzens studied English in Cambridge – and was involved in the British peace movement -, medical informatics in Bonn and Stuttgart, and electronic composition at the University of Düsseldorf. Worked for a number of German newspapers and organized avant-garde music events and exhibitions. He began to visit his homeland in the late ’70s (then part of Communist Russian Empire i.e. the Soviet Union).

His friendship with the German DJ Maximilian Lenz (WestBam) led to an interest in the new electronic music coming out of the US. He was involved in the founding of Low Spirit label, Love Parade, and Mayday parties. Bilzens and Lenz made repeated visits to Riga in the late ’80s, introducing DJ culture.

ERA OF DANCE

a film about the first techno beats in the USSR.

More videos from the film.

A long article about the movie on Deep Baltic

His real name is Craig Allan Rothwell. Obsessed with the idea of genetic mutation, he submitted to a botched operation in an effort to land a media deal with a big media company. And he became Booji Boy – a bizarre adult infant freak with pre-adolescent sexuality and Yoda-like wisdom. He wrote a book entitled My Struggle. It has a red cover. Booji Boy primarily performs live with DEVO, but his voice was used on several early DEVO recordings because the character was created by them in the early 70s.

But look what happen when some BOOJI BOYS in Nova Scotia make music together, and sing songs about fun in the sun, class war and shameful fantasies.

Debut album on Drunken Sailor Records (UK)

MOUNTAIN BIKE is a band from Brussels. Their name is so unfortunate and stupid as their indie poppy punky noisy garage rock good. Very.

Second album Too Sorry For Any Sorrow

on HUMPTY DUMPTY (Belg) and TEENAGE MENOPAUSE RECORDS (Fra)

PC WORSHIP is a band, solo project & collective of musicians, trimming steadily on the outskirts of punk, while enlisting methods of new music and free improvisation.

A journey through alternative rock, experimental tape manipulation, downer punk riffs and long form improv-based psychedelic instrumentals.

This time musicians from Liturgy, Guerilla Toss, and there is the complete no wave trio The Dreebs.

So funny, almost like the Butthole Surfers

New album Buried Wish on NORTHERN SPY RECORDS (US)

Look’n’ listen! Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes’ soul in a Swedish girl,  Åsa Söderquist, aka as ShitKid!

Second EP is coming on 3rd of March by PNKSLM Recordings (Swe)! Order here

Singing in a local band but struggling with shyness and blackouts whenever she tried to perform in front of an audience, so she treated the problem with beers. When she was in a feminist punk band started to record on her own at home on a half broken computer, and a shy kid turned into shit.

In this film as Ball-Jugler she is going home with her schoolmate Stargazer from the Superhero Academy