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RNR666 Rádió
„Plastic bag has only one message: DEATH”
„I do not have any idols anymore, and I am not really a ”fan” of anything – ok, maybe I am in some ways still a fan of Iron Maiden, but that is almost like an alchemical marriage – nor do I follow anyone, so in that sense I am in my own hermetic world, but obviously there have been many influential artists and bands for me – and to see something like Keiji Haino, Boris, Godflesh, or Melvins play live, still shake me mentally and physically.”
Finnish musician (and graphic artist) Albert Witchfinder has hardcore-punk, black, doom, death, drone metal and power electronics background. His bands’ names speak for themselves: Reverend Bizarre, Opium Warlords, Spiritus Mortis. He has started a new project with Vilunki 3000 from Kraftwerk-style electro band, Op:l Bastards. Originally it was Opel Bastards, but it would be changed on request.
strange ice cold minimal techno
Tähtiportti – Poikarakkaus
from debut self-titled album on Svart Records (Finland)
The original song from the 80s
„Maybe I was surprised twenty years ago, but now I am just very deeply saddened. I am disgusted when thinking of what people do to the forests, oceans, lakes, air, animals and plants. It is horrible and sad. We most definitely are living the Kali Yuga. I guess in the Mad Max – world we have other worries than ”where can I get that new Merzbow album?”
What’s the matter with that hedgehog?
Dear Jonnie,
I have listened to your new album many-many times, but I can’t write about it too much words, just this: perfect. (Dear reader, please click the play button below, and listen to fine Scotch electro-pop music. Owing to its mood I call it Trip Pop.) Recently I edited a playlist from new releases, and wanted to play one of your new songs, which can arouse the listeners’ curiosity. The task was no easy one, however this is a good album. (BBC6 also played songs from it.) And there are lots of added useful thing. Birnam Wood, the Hangman’s Tree and the little sculptures of characters of Beatrix Potter’s animal tales have come to my knowledge. And I have decided to read my first Shakespeare. Thanks indirectly to your new album. But I can’t enthuse over it. But there is your first album Master of None, happy happy joy joy.
Cheers,
szabo
ps: There’s an interlude, a woman leaves a message on your answering machine. She talks about a hedgehog, starts in English after switchs over to German and finally to Dutch – at least for my ears. I don’t understand. What’s the matter with that hedgehog?
Jonnie Common – Trapped in Amber, album on Song, By Toad Records (Scotland)
Enfant Terrible News
ENFANT TERRIBLE is a Dutch electronic label for bohemian spirits, libertine hearts, decadent souls and hedonistic minds. Its sub-label is Gooitland Elektro. Forthcoming albums
Solitude FX (aka Solitairen Effekten) plays minimal electronic Neu Deutsche Welle musik. From fsx LP
Freikörperkultur V/A LP. It’s a celebration of the body on every level. Tracks from hi-nrg influenced synth-pop to new school cold wave and from harsh body beats to trance indulging spacious elektro with Tobias Bernstrup, Sololust, Zarkoff, Popsimonova, Lesbian Mouseclicks, Le Moine, Brusque Twins and Tannhäuser Gate
You can listen to all tracks here
Black Metal in Soft Pink Mood
Extremity on the cube. A gay professor of literature
has made one of the most interesting cover albums ever, titled
Why Do the Heathen Rage?
(Electronic Profanations of Black Metal Classics)
The cover art looks as if it was designed by a Satanist Tom of Finland.
Because of it one of the label main distributors
has refused to carry the record.
Out now on Thrill Jockey Records (US)
The Soft Pink Truth is the solo alter ego of Drew Daniel, one half of Baltimore-based electronic duo Matmos. Mr. Daniel has taught the history of electronic music at the San Francisco Art Institute and a sound art seminar at Harvard. He now teaches in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University. He has written a book about industrial-experimental-electronic band Throbbing Gristle; released a similar album in 2004: Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth?) which consists of house covers of classic hardcore and punk songs; produced remixes for Björk, Herbert, Grizzly Bear, Dat Politics and more. And he is a black metal fan.
Black metal is a very special subgenre of heavy metal. It was born on 1 November 1982 by British band Venom. That day the band’s second album titled Black Metal was released. Strange fact, but Venom’s music was fast, harsh and primitive rock and roll rather than heavy metal at that time. It stood nearer Motörhead or Ramones, than Judas Priest or Iron Maiden. As special features their lyrics had dark, occult and devilish themes. But Venom’s music and texts were refined and gentle compared with the subsequent, more and more extreme bands. Today’s black metal bands’ music is just like a mix of noise of coffee grinders and sounds of a pig-killing. Unfortunately some bands and many fans take the Satanist rubbish seriously. But the blackest black metal bands are adherents of white supremacist and Nazi ideologies. The words beget acts. In this case their fruits: violence, church arson, suicide, murder. All these in welfare states of North-Europe mainly. And they say always: I did it only in self-defence.
And then this man resolved to make a peculiar electronic black metal tribute album. And who was the first man whom he invited to cooperate in this? Antony Hegarty (Antony and the Johnsons). By the way, the others: Jenn Wasner from indie-folk rock duo Wye Oak, Terrance Hannum from drone-metal band Locrian, his Matmos partner M.C. Schmidt, Irish composer and vocalist Jennifer Walshe and more.
And the music? Well, it’s not an easy pop album. A Mix of electro-industrial, drum’n’bass, trip hop, house and EBM. It came Kraftwerk, Björk, Madonna and Leather Strip to my mind. Some covers are spiced with samples of house hits. The album requires a good piece of sense of humour. At first it was very strange, but as I listen to it repeatedly, so like it increasingly. But „Who in the world wants to hear this?” Nobody, basically. Black metal people aren’t going to like it because it’s faggoty disco, but actual dance music people aren’t going to like it because it’s weird people screaming about Satan.” (Drew said this in a Pitchfork interview.)
Venom + Sarcofago covers
The album not requires know of the original songs, but you can listen to those here. There you can read about some words about the bands: Venom, Beherit, Sarcofago, Sargeist, Darkthrone, AN, Mayhem, Hellhammer and Impaled Northern Moonforest.
Keith Moonshine Show
Black Originals of Soft Pink Covers
The Soft Pink Truth has made a peculiar electronic cover album of black metal classics. Here are the originals with two covers.
Tracklist and some words about the bands >
Not So Cold
„Beta Frontiers is the soundtrack to a near-future physical video game where your shoes are hovercrafts and you actually make it to all the parties in one night. When you get there, everyone is like, “Hey Mike!!”, as beamy smiles melt into your now-hologrammed dancing body.” (Anamai, ambient folk artist, label mate)
Canadian artist Michael Butler makes 80s-like electronic pop under name of BETA FRONTIERS
So Cold
digital single on Buzz Records (Can)
cold summer of budapest
early 80s german style minimal synth/electro industrial
on 5 June at 9pm in Budapest at Kontra Klub with
Pure Ground Music FB Event Ticket: 1000
Godbite
The new Godflesh EP – hard stuff for brain cleaning
Limited edition LP, CD + digital on Avalanches Records (UK)
Godflesh is one of the most influential industrial/drone metal bands. It was founded by Justin K. Broadrick (who was the guitarist of Napalm Death in 1985-86. His other electronic/ experimental/ post noise projects: Techno Animal, Jesu, Final, Pale Sketcher) and G.C. Green in 1988. The band dissolved in 2002, and reformed in 2009.
Jonnie Common’s Remixes
A message from the amazing Scottish indie electronic artist Jonnie Common
– Album number 2 is done and dusted but it’s taking a while to move out. Mainly so people don’t think I’ve gone and died, I’ve collected the majority of the remixes I did between 2009 and 2013 into a set. I’ve put it up on my bandcamp as Name Your Price in case people already have a lot of the tracks from their respective original releases.
Free Kid606
Venezuelan born experimental electronic musician KID606 was one of the first acts signed to Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings. He is most closely associated with the glitch, IDM, hardcore techno and breakcore scenes, but his music is primely inspired by industrial and metal music like Napalm Death, Godflesh, Ministry, Kyuss and Black Sabbath. He has mentioned such diverse artists like influences as Cramps, Autechre, Black Flag, Aphex Twin, Blondie, Mr. Oizo, James Chance, Techno Animal, Giorgo Moroder, Lee Scratch Perry, Throbbing Gristle or Steve Reich. His official remixes show similar diversity: Locust, Depeche Mode, Foeuts, Peaches, Amon Tobin, Super Furry Animals, Dälek and more. He has founded his Tigerbeat6 label in San Diego, where he was raised. At that time he worked with legendary local label Vinyl Communications, where his first album was released in 1998.
His latest album is influenced by Yacht Rock like Christopher Cross, Doobie Brothers, Toto, and charming electronica like Mike Ink, The Orb, Oval, Border Community, The Field, and Tangerine Dream. Now here is its remix EP: free download for a limited time
An interview with a founder of Vinyl Communications.
From New Records
Dick Diver‘s members are from such great Aussie bands as Boomgates, Total Control, UV Race or Lower Plenty. Easy melodic indie rock or jangle pop
7″ on Fruits and Flowers
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A celebration of the dawn of the Italian commercial television, through the use of its synthetic sounds/effects and its involuntary hypnotic potential by CADEO. It hides two main figures of the Roman scene: members of other projects such as System Hardware Abnormal, Hiroshima Rocks Around, Maximillian I, Micropupazzo, Polysick and TheAwayTeam. 80s style minimal electronic music
Old fashioned green fluo cassette inserted into a 12 pages ‘zine.
Limited to 100 copies by NO=FI Recordings
KK NULL & PÁNDI K.U.K. TOUR
KK NULL (from Japanese metal band, Zeni Geva) & the Hungarian drummer BALÁZS PÁNDI, somewhere over the rainbow
This is one side of a 7 inch vinyl record to be released for the tour.
