My favorite electro Scotch, Jonnie Common, after amazing debut and too perfect and dry second, now here is his crazy third album, made exclusivley from sounds of his kitchen. It started with an oven door.

„The oven in my flat at the time made a really great thud noise when you shut the door, and I thought I really want to hear this as a kick-drum in a song.”

That one idea escalated into a whole album Kitchen Sound. It will be released with hishandmade fridge magnets soon on Song, by Toad Records.

More Oven is like a Mouse on Mars

The Civil Rights struggle has gotten this treatment in particular. Its now been ossified as a series of marches and sit-ins which led to the overturning of the most glaring US racial inequalities, and which culminated in the the martyrdom of Martin Luther King Jr. With the riots following MLKs assassination, and the malaise following his death, „the movement” lost its hope, drive, and focus.

But Civil Rights was never just the monolith of angry Malcolm vs. peaceful Martin, and the history channel wants the population to forget that the „movement” was radicalized beyond what is generally understood.

In the 60’s therefore, the nation stood on the precipice of some kind of revolution. In many ways, the country experienced a civil war.

The INVADERS of Memphis were like an intellectual street gang with incredible style, who devoted themselves to justice and confronting white supremacy. A group or „gang” of organizers, they were on the front lines of the struggle in the South, and experienced extraordinary harassment, violence, and imprisonment. They conducted the last meeting with King at the Lorraine Motel before he was murdered, and yet their story is almost unknown.

THE INVADERS, a fast-moving re-telling with a funky soundtrack produced by King Khan and Jack Oblivian

Two soundtrack 7″ singles from King Khan and his band

on limited military marijuana green vinyl:

mixed and mastered by Nene Barratto (Movie Star Junkies)

hungarian minimal synth pop real

STÍLUS EGYÜTTES

the first 2 songs

Átmenet (Crossover), a poem about summer turning to fall

the second one is a short sociography,
titled Támadnak a bőrfejűek (Skinheads Are Raiding)

The band is a collaboration of Kornél (Új Látásmód Fúzió, cold wave synth pop) and
Csermanek Csaba (Csermanek Lakótelep, marxist dadaist synth punk cabaret).

„Music has been the only constant thing in my life.”

Stomping Nick Jackman is a one-man-band from Lyttelton (Delaney Davidson also from there), New Zealand, who fuses primitive garage punk with rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie and Appalachian folk. The latter merges the Black, English, Irish and Scotch music traditions with the coal miners’ joy, sorrow and anger. And what is boogie-woogie? The phrase maybe comes from Bantu term „Mbuki Mvuki”. Mbuki: „to take off in flight”; Mvuki: „to dance wildly, as if to shake off one’s clothes”.

„I have tried to get a band like the Blues Grenade together with other people in the past but found it hard to find people who could understand the primitive blues aesthetic.” So he sings and plays harmonica, guitar and drums all at the same time, the old school way, without the aid of loop pedals, backing tracks, or any of those other fancy tricks. „The one-man-bands Joe Hill Louis and Doctor Ross are big influences – my act is based on these two artists.” But „The Gun Club would have had the biggest influence on me. Jeffrey Lee Pierce is the prophet. ”

In Europe in Cognac Blues Festival, France

Want to eat your breakfast with the sound of good music? At the Passions Village, for the end of the night or for early risers, come to the Tonic Day stage. This stage offers morning music to start a brand new day with Stomping Nick on 8 July from 16:15, and 9 July from 9:30 & 11:00.

from the brand new album

„Shake Your Cake” will be released by himself on 20 May

more onemanband music RNR666 RADIOSHOW

At the beginning Peter Kernel was a quartet. Because of a broken heart and a new girlfriend during the time it has become an international team of friends around the world and two core members, Canadian Barbara Lehnhoff, and Swiss-Italian Aris Basetti.

On the drums now the number 7 member, Ema. „The first time we met Ema was in 2010 and we thought: “Naaa, he’s a 2 meter tall rasta playing drums in a metal band, he can’t be right for us”. From the latest album Thrill Addict on On The Camper Records

More about the twenty some members

And there is Camilla Sparksss, electro noise wave alter-ego of Barbara. Short interview on rnr666.

„Bülbüls are a family of medium sized songbirds. In general they are resistant to human pressures on the environment and are tolerant of disturbed habitat. The song of the Bulbul is described as „the most unattractive noises made by any bird”.

BULBUL started as a one-man band in Wels, Upper-Austria, when Raumschiff Engelmayr, outfitted with guitar, drumcomputer and vacuum cleaner released a CD with a 600g handmade steelcover and began playing concerts disguised as space-indian. Then a bassplayer and two jazz reeds joined, then reeds quit, and a drummer has come. One of the most interesting bands in Austria.

Hirn Fein Hacken 2xLP (2014) repress OUT NOW by ROCK IS HELL RECORDS. Silkscreened cover, yellow vinyl: limited to 297 copies, clear vinyl: limited to 47 copies. Buy here

& SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL: here are the first 3 of Hilfreich Seit 1996 20th anniversary 10 + 1 single series. The bonus single only available at ten special anniversary shows, and when you pre-ordering the complete set. On the first 3: recordings with different line-ups, soundtracks for horror movie and cartoon, music for radio play, tour field recordings, unreleased songs, unused melodies from between 1997 and 2014. Limited to 84 copies/item OUT NOW by ROCK IS HELL RECORDS. Buy here.

Or: NEXT SPECIAL EVENT: bul’n’bul without skins’n’strings: just organ, synth and e-drums at Rhiz in Vienna on 23.4. More dates

tropical swiss kraut disco

from the new album on trouble in mind records (us):

Klaus Johann Grobe

Tour in April in US, in May In Germany

Once upon a time when every German workers’ dreams came true in the German Democratic Republic, where citizens were so perfectly defended by the inner security service that every seventh one was an informer. It was so democratic that the media was totally controlled by the communist state, and any private publishing was illegal. In Karl Marx-Stadt (aka Chemnitz) there was a really underground new wave electronic experimental label klangFarBe run by Frank Bretschneider from 1985 till 1989. It published only 8 cassette releases.

A double compilation LP with AG Geige, Kriminal Tanzkapelle, Frank Bretschneider and Stein Im Brett

will be released soon by Mannequin Records (Germany)

You can download a Karl Marx-Stadt underground V/A tape from the 80s

and there is a film about AG Geige.

Bretschneider today run Raster-Noton. It is meant to be a platform – a network covering the overlapping border areas of pop, art, and science. It has been emerged from the fusion of Rastermusic, founded by Olaf Bender (AG Geige) and Bretschneider (also was in AG Geige) in 1996, and the sublabel Noton, which was run by Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto). It realizes music projects, publications and installation works. The common idea behind all releases is an experimental approach – an amalgamation of sound, art, and design, which is not only apparent in the music, but also visible from the artwork and cover design. In music the label’s aesthetic focus is on rhythmic, minimal electronic music alternating between playful pop and introspection.

Keel Her / Claire Cottrill split cassette

Keel Her aka Rose Jayne Keeler-Schäffeler is a London based alien-obsessed hyperactive girl from Brighton. Makes high standard lo-fi sometimes noisy bedroom pop. And managed by Satan. In 2012 the godfather of lo-fi, and World Champion of DIY home recordings, R. Steevie Moore invited her to play together at his studio in Memphis. And she is in The Bin Bags where playing violin, keys and vocals. Just released their first EP on Permanent Slump Records. (The third song in this playlist is from them.) She said in an interview: Being a female musician: it’s really fun, but sometimes lonely. I’m an outsider, but I always have been, regardless.

Claire Cottrill is a very young girl from Boston (Massachusetts, US). With her guitar she makes music under the influence of sixties soul and r’n’b and Korn.

Split cassette on Third Floor Tapes (Ardmore – formerly Athensville -, Pennsylvania, US)

Åsa Söderqvist aka ShitKid from from the land of 6 hours workday aka Sweden

Oh Please Be A Cocky Cool Kid + 666

from debut EP by PNKSLM RECS (UK/SWE) on 1 April

old but cool experiments

Albrecht Schrader den wundervollen Pop-Pianisten aus der Hansestadt Hamburg, der aber schon seit einigen Jahren in der Domstadt Köln wohnt. Leben in der Großstadt, so der Titel seiner kommenden EP spannt mühelos den Bogen von Steely Dan über Prefab Sprout bis Erobique

taken from „Leben in der Großstadt” EP out on Staatsakt March 18 2016

Influences: Serge Gainsbourg. Claudine Longet. Burt Bacharach. Henry Mancini. Blumfeld. Jane Birkin. Scott Walker. Tom Waits. Rocko Schamoni. John Lennon. The Divine Comedy. Cole Porter. Morrissey. Bob Dylan. Francoise Hardy. Harry Nilsson. Ennio Morricone. Elliott Smith. Vince Guaraldi. Claude Debussy. Prefab Sprout.

Albrecht Schrader Live
12.04. Köln, Studio 672
13.04. Hamburg, Kleiner Donner
14.04. Berlin, Monarch

Russian band uSSSy originally played noise-rock with elements of blues, techno and black-metal. By the third album of the band they became a drum’n’guitar duo, and development of the band went in the direction of Middle Eastern music. The unique sound of the band is the result of use of a specially modified baritone guitar, which were mounted additional quarter-tone frets, just as those made by Middle Eastern instruments. In 2014 Artem has left the band. Pavel continuous to play by his own as Holy Palms.

A digital compilation album out now by Aussie label Tenzenmen: noise-rock with elements of blues, techno and black-metal and Middle Eastern tunes. Frenetic

All uSSSy albums