Sex Judas brought David Holmes to my mind. There was a summertime open-air party in Budapest, and he was late because of police problems. Hours went after hours. When he finally arrived at dawn I was drunk and smoked so much that I was not able to speak normally. And after he started to play I was just shouting and wallowing on the grass. Same feeling.

Norwegian producer Tore Gjedrem of Ost & Kjex channels his love of comix, bohemia and fascination with human vice, the unspoken, the Red Light districts, the alleys of the mind into his alter ego Sex Judas. He is no bad character but certainly says what it’s author cannot.

“I wanted to create a world where any musical idea is possible, wound together by the world and word of Judas, the ultimate sinner, reborn as a child of Venus.”

The album GO DOWN JUDAS was made with contributions by his friends in the Oslo scene as hometown legend Dj Pål Strangefruit Nyhus, composer Ole-Henrik Moe, jazzpianist Bugge Wesseltoft, Sidiki Camara from Mali playing that beautiful Ngoni, and multi instrumentalist Ivar Snuten Winther. Music inspiration ranges from Africa to 80’s NYC, from Bohannon to Quasimoto, from Norwegian New Wave to Acid House. It touches anything from blues, funk, disco and post-punk to IDM, acid house and electronic explorer music. And it’s a fuckin funny album:

The album comes as a 2 x LP and Digital release on OPTIMO MUSIC on May 25th. Distributed by Kompakt.

Sex Judas on Spotify

After more than 10 albums QUINTRON‘s first book EUROPA MY MIRROR is recently released by GONER RECORDS. Illustrated by the amazing Miss Pussycat!

Ostensibly it is a chronicle of Quintron’s last European tour, but the book is just as much about the myriad illusions of American identity. The tales are funny and thrilling and mostly true and someone almost dies on every page.

“If Dr. Frankenstein were working with raw material from Madame Curie, Delia Derbyshire, James Brown, and Wilhelm Reich, the result might be something like QUINTRON. Underground inventor, composer, record maker, impresario, and performer par excellence. There is nothing and no one like him and this is his first book and it’s a gas!” – said Ian Svenonious – musician: Nation Of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Chain & The Gang, Escape-ism, and writer.

Quintron is a nightclub organist (and member of Gary Wrong Group) who runs an electronics repair shop/recording studio called Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans. He invented a mechanically-rotating, light-activated drum machine called Drum Budy. His current project is centered around a weather-controlled synthesizer he made called WEATHER WARLOCK designed to produce mellow, healing tones, randomly modulated by sun, rain, wind, and temperature.

WEATHER WARLOCK also is a band. Their first album Sunset Waits For No Man was recorded with Weather Warlock on the Gulf Coast with Quintron, Aaron Hill (EYEHATEGOD, Missing Monuments), Gary Wrong (Wizzard Sleeve, Vatican Dagger) together with two New Orleans free jazz sax players to glue this mass of southern scum rock:

Weather Warlock’s second album Headless Falcon was made by the core group with with a handful of local musicians in Abu Dhabi.

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.

Kornél (Új Látásmód Fúzió – cold wave synth pop) és
Csabi (Csermanek Lakótelep – no wave synth punk) duója

a STÍLUS EGYÜTTES ad ma este 11 órai kezdettel nagy sikerű koncertet RNR666/DAVORIA közös buliban Budapesten az Aurórában.

Utána DAVORIA LIVE ACT a techno zene kedvelőinek.

Belépő 800, mellé magazin mert

az alkalomra jelenik meg a C11H18N2O3 2. száma, melyből kiderül

Teljesülnek a régi álmok? Együtt változik-e ízlés és személyiség egy tudatos LSD túladagolást követően? Mit szeret magában Csermanek Csaba? Hova megyen Prince? Kié Bill bal cipője? Shitkid vagy Bianka? Láthatta-e Melies klasszikusát Kohn Náthán? Na és van-e lejjebb?

„Szilveszteri inspirációk 4.

Ha már keverjük a stílusokat, legyünk eredetiek. Ne menjünk a tömeg után, ne válasszuk a kiüresedett kliséket!”

Synth wave, elektro pop, acid tracks on Dutch label

ENFANT TERRIBLE RECORDS

TWINS (US, Atlanta, Georgia) is Matt Weiner who is also known for his Featureless Ghost project and of course as the head of the DKA Records label… it’s a classic minimal elektro record but at the same time a rather modern piece of electronic music…RATHER NOT 12″ MINI LP

Zarkoff together with Ikonal from Croatia… these three tracks are from one of the infamous synth jams Zarkoff is organizing in an empty factory near Sisak in Croatia… the acid tracks featured on this EP have a throbbing beat with a clear hint to EBM… and the acid lines are both psychedelic and dark… TOXICOLOGY 12″EP

Antlers Mulm from Leipzig, Germany… recommended to fans of New Order but also of Solitude FX… melancholy, dreamy and catchy… GIVE AND TAKE 7″

Enfant Terrible is a Dutch record label for electronic music. It has been founded in 2004 in Amsterdam. Besides new performers it also publish underground electro bands from the 80s. One of his sublabels for the danceable music is Gooiland Elektro. Noblesse Oblige is the upcoming album under this label. It’s a perfectly edited compilation with 6 different artists.

LCN and Osty are totally unknown for me and impossible to find them on the net. Anyway LCN is minimal, Osty is trance. Monocorpse from Holland is occult, ritual, monotone and primitive. I take it that the song Robert and Caroline is about a serial killer and his victim. Profligate (pronounced prof-la-git) from Philadelphia is retrospective rave wave. It’s Noah Anthony’s solo project. His highly entertaining band is Form A Log with three men who make music with 4-track cassette players. Future Blondes from Sehol, Texas are tribal industrial. Besides their acid pop tracks there are tiresome noise streams too. It’s a free form band of Domokos, performing member of Helios Creed/Chrome, Black Leather Jesus, Indian Jewelry, and drummer of punk band Rusted Shut, „one of the greatest Texas bands in the history of the universe” by Monofonus Press. Neugeborene Nachtmusik from Berlin is black. He said about his songs: battlefields just after the battle, but the song Yoshiwara (about Tokyo’s red light district) comes the Chemical Bros to my mind. And you can find easy cold dark danceable melodies on his brand new 7″ single which will be released soon by Petit Enfant, another sublabel of ET.

Monocorpse – Robert and Caroline + Profligate – Comeback +  Neugeborene Nachtmusik – Maze  and Kowakoma from the single + Neurobit – A Spin of Destiny

The last song is performed by Bas Welling, aka Former Descent. The Dutch musician is known as IDM, breakcore, 8-bit electro and African percussions artist. Under the pseudonym Neurobit he makes ambient droning a la Beequeen. It’s perfect background noise for your daily activity, for example to write a post to RNR666.

„Moira” mini LP on Vrystadt Records, lo-fi-psych-folk sublabel of ET.

Sonny Smith is a various artist: short story and play writer and musicians. His most special project was the 100 Records Project. He asked artists to make album covers for his 100 fictitious bands, he wrote 2 tracks (A & B side) for each bands, and recorded the songs with various musicians.You can find some songs from the 200 on his Bandcamp site. But now here is his next album with The Sunsets. Easy, funny, folky, lo-fi pop tunes

Sonny & The Sunsets – Talent Night At The Ashram album on Polyvinyl Records (US)

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Dark Acid Vol. IV. Various artists from Scotland, England, Sweden. This is Kid Who, a Frenchman from London

12″ LP on Clandestine Records (Scotland)

This is a Butthole Surfers’ song from Rembrandt Pussy Horse album. It also is a collaboration of two Irish electronic projects, Magnetize and The Last Sound. Their music is hard trance for me. Or maybe industrial acid techno. Even it also reminds me of early Ministry and Skinny Puppy. The label says: „For fans of classic Alec Empire, Justin Broadrick or modern day Downwards Records.”

WHIRLING HALL OF KNIVES  – COMMINUTE

from  „Comminute” 12″ and digital EP by Earwiggle Records (Ireland)

Their records were also released on Trensmat.

After fall of the Acid House

here are the pioneers of Acid Basement. With a special taste of Anarcho-Jazz. And a little Melt-Banana feeling. Sometimes like a Japanese noise „rock” brigade from the 80s. Miraculous muddle by Guerilla Toss

„367 Equalizer” cassette EP on Infinity Cat Recordings (US)

During the listening read the list of fake jazz song titles!

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„Sur le toit” i.e. On The Rooftops. It’s a very special album by two French musicians King Automatic and Mr. Verdun. King Automatic is a rock and roll one-man band, Mr. Verdun is from the folk punk duo Thee Verduns. They have written music for a real film noir, a documentary about French prison mutinies in the early 70s. Plain, cold and dark ballades, sometimes in Western style, some of them are like instrumental Tom Waits’ songs. Down by French law

10′ vinyl on Kizmiaz Records (France)

After a bloody hostage-taking in the end of 1971 at Clairvaux Prison* all prisoners got general punishment in France. It led to a mutiny in Nancy in January. The prisoners protested against the cruel treatment, the harsh conditions, and sudden removal of the Christmas packages. They weren’t real criminals, rather poor and desperate young men without future, who were incarcerated owing to petit crimes. They occupied the building –  which is the centre of the city – and went up to the rooftops, from where they held the connection with the outside world. Outside the gate an organization for the penalty reform led by philosopher Michel Foucault and other intellectuals tried to intervene on behalf of them. The revolt was put down, but it evoked over thirty riots at other prisons.

*Clairvaux Prison lays on the site of the former Cistercian Abbey. It was turned into prison by the Revolution which demolished the Bastille.

ENFANT TERRIBLE is a Dutch electronic label for bohemian spirits, libertine hearts, decadent souls and hedonistic minds.

Kord feat. Annie Gylling – We Live In This, 12″

The musician behind Kord is an original member of Swedish cult electronic/acid oufit Frak and producing music since the late 1980’s… with Kord he produces a more synthpop minded kind of music… most of the time… for Gooiland Elektro he teamed up with his partner in crime/love and came up with this raw elektro EP… these tracks are the perfect mix of crazy and twisted electronic music (a signature of his Frak work) and dancefloor orientated sounds since the late 1980’s… so we get served unpolished dance tunes with hints of EBM, new beat and (minimal) elektro… non stop primitive disco for sure!

Rude 66 – 12″

Dutch acid and elektro veteran has been around for a long time… being part of the old school acid scene from The Hague with releases on legendary label Acid Planet and he is one of the originals (again) when it comes to the new wave of electro in the late 1990’s… especially for Gooiland Elektro he has created this dark elektro EP… Beta Evers and Sololust appearing as partners in crime… elektro, acid (beat) and a touch of old school gothic come together!

Europ Europ – Repeating Mistakes LP

The album is noisy but without being a simple drone… the band serves you lo-fi industrial soundscapes presented as songs… sometimes haunting and disturbing but the next minute soothing and hypnotic… ‘Repeating Mistakes’ is not an easy listening album but a piece of music you need to discover by listening to it over and over again… peeling away layers and uncovering the true nature of the songs by doing this… this is simply minimal electronics as it should sound!

MAILORDER

Shit Music For Shit People is and Italian-Portuguese record label. It’s mainly focusing on such garage rock bands as: Widlmen, JC Satán, Cane!, Vermillion Sands or Vernon Sélavy. But now here is the Cosmic Favela

by a psychedelic electronic acid italo disco band, Sybiann. Taken from the album „Spore” on SMFSP. Buy digitally here