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

a girl/boy as you have the place at DISCOTHEQUE

here are the first recordings of AMOR

just 2, but more than 13 mins tracks on 12″ vinyl

by 3 Glasgowan, Richard Youngs (eg. Jandek), Luke Fowler, Paul Thomson (Franz Ferdinand and The Yummy Fur) with the Norwegian double bassist Michael Francis Duch

on Night School Records UK, Scotland

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.

cold wave disco from Sweden

MOLLY NILSSON

On and on, something’s are stopping us from moving along
when they tell you the skies are grey
but looking through a glass of rosé
the skies are clearly pink

from new album will be released by Dark Skies Association (Sweden) and Night School Records (Scotland)

By the way “our knives are never dull / our moon is always full”

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)

Hey you, ugly bastard! Have you any know about David Shrigley? Nichevo. He’s a drunken British who living in Scotland and makes all kinds of stupid artistic trash like drawings, sculptures, poems, installations, animations, and made videos for Blur and Johnny King Billy, or who the fuck. And of course why not he also makes records. For example there was a split with Thee Oh Sees, and such musicians made music for his words, and sang his silly songs as Deerhoof, Tv On The Radio, R Stevie Moore, David Byrne, Scout Niblett, Trans AM, Dirty Projectors, Max Tundra, Franz Ferdinand, Alig Fodder and more similar dumb assholes. These were released on the album Worried Noodles.

His brand new horrible, but awful album has been made with Malcolm Middleton from the luckily disbanded Arab Strap. I’m fucking happy to listen to this shit. You will suck it totally.

Next item of his illustrated toilet paper collections
Weak Messages Create Bad Situations were released recently.

Anyway, Shrigley is illegitimate godson of Rod Stewart, and honorary president of Artists with Mental Handicap Movement.

the umbrella of the Glasgowan electro scene. A free compilation from them

„high calorie synth jams”

„rap existentialist… but he’s not a rapper”

„half-man, half-maschine. vinyl cuts and chromakeys”

„melodies and man-hair. your beats is weak, his beats is bangz”

The most known figure is Jonnie Common. I’m waiting for his new albums constantly.