On The Spot with Xeno

at the darkest hole of Budapest

 

– Hi! Are you Xeno or Oaklander?

– I’m Xeno.

– What are your favourite Hungarian music?

– Korda.

And after a short discussion with Oaklander she said:

Új Látásmód Fúzió, Alpár, Koyanisquatzi, Hungarian Dracula*, but last year we made a live radio show with our favorite Hungarian music for the London based radio station NTS. It contains Katalin Karády, Új Látásmód Fúzió, Csermanek Lakótelep, Alpár, Trabant and Pal I, Prince Esterhazy of Galántha, Palatine of the Kingdom of Hungary, who also was a composer and wrote numerous cantatas:

*Very strange. I did not hear the name of Koyanisquatzi in the past 15 years. It was a great ritual rock band in Szeged in the late 80s and early 90s. And for the first time I got news about the darkwave band Hungarian Dracula from same place and same period like Koyanisquatzi.

Anyway, XENO & OAKLANDER are a cold minimal synth pop duo from Brooklyn. They are on European tour now.

 

KILLBONOCLUB # 8

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Hi there, here’s the 8th historical KILLBONOCLUB

the monthly music below the line:

great artists, independent labels, brand new records

 

The drawings from graphic artist Luca Retraite who has a bunch of punk band like Ventre de Biche in this show.

 

I have got the DARLENE SHRUGG debut album from the English label UPSET THE RHYTHM with the remark that it will certainly like to me. I thought of course when I saw that American art pop artist Meg Remy – aka U.S.Girls – makes music together again her husband the Canadian art rock artist Slim Twig,  and I like their music very much. And Toronto based synth pop duo Ice Cream also involved in the project DARLENE SHRUGG which started as a duo of long time collaborators Slim Twig and Simone TB of Fake Palms and more. I added these info and tried to imagine their music before listening, and I was totally surprised

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SAPIN is an easy French country garage rock band, and this love song In My Head from the album DARK IS THE NIGHT…ON IS THE PARTY is the indie pop hit song of the month. It is released on HOWLIN’ BANANA and BEAST RECORDS (Both F).

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A fucking strong debut album from L.A. punk trio THE SIDE EYES. SO SICK is released on IN THE RED RECORDS (US). Anyway lead singer Astrid McDonald is the  daughter of Go-Go’s guitarist-songwriter Charlotte Caffey and Redd Kross singer-guitarist Jeff McDonald. The last song on the album is a cover song, was written by Astrid’s mother when she was in the late-70s L.A. punk trio The Eyes.

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In the late autumn of 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden, the Baron called Philippe Jean-Piere Dominique Sainz met a beautiful creature, Linda Felicia Marie Rydelius, and they fell in love. Since then they created dark and mystical music together as BARONEN & SATAN. Their debut album SATAN IS A LADY will be released on 31st Oct on DIRTY WATER RECORDS USA. It’s sounds like an upside down cross between the Cramps and Bauhaus with Siouxsie casting spells through a fender vibrosonic amp!

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PERE UBUs new album 20 YEARS IN A MONTANA MISSILE SILO contains nasty little punk songs and as paradoxical as ever. Released on CHERRY RED (UK)

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Gradual metamorphosis from punk aesthetics to a truly cosmic country by GUN OUTFIT (US). The new album OUT OF RAGE on PARADISE OF BACHELORS RECORDS (US) on 10th Nov. It is debating the denouement of the decaying American dream.

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Some interesting statistics by Finnish grindcore band DEATH TOLL 80K on the album STEP DOWN on SVART RECORDS (SF)

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WILD BILLY still CHILDISH. Subjects on the new album ‘brand new cage‘ include lost landmarks of ’70s Chatham, the true revolution of punk, spirituality, lost loves and the sidelining of Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones. Released on DAMAGED GOODS RECORDS (UK)

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Post Washington DC hc-punk by THE EFFECTS. Debut album EYES TO THE LIGHTS on DISCHORD RECORDS (US). „Post” means not really hc and punk, but hc-punk influenced rock music, a lil bit seems progressive, but fine.

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‘Why bother moving to a more expensive city to be unemployed when you can do that in Detroit’  said Joe Casey the singer of PROTOMARTYR who write the lyrics of resignation for the sound of abandoned buildings in the manner of Gang of Four, The Fall, and sometimes Joy Division. New album RELATIVES IN DESCENT on Domino Recordings(UK)

But the city „is really changing. If you had walked here from where you’re staying five years ago, there is a good chance that you would have been murdered.”

EURO TOUR NOV: PRAGUE, POLAND, GERMANY, COPPENHAGEN, HOLLAND, UK, DUBLIN, BRÜSSLES, FRANCE

Quotes from the interview in Loud & Quiet

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VENTRE DE BICHE is a cold synth-pop project of French punk musician and graphic artist Luca Retraite, who runs the label Maison De Retraite.  „Musical influences? Brainbombs, Flipper, Serge Gainsbourg, Wu Tang Clan, Suicide, Missing Foundation, Burzum, Spacemen 3, DNA, Mars, Captain Beefheart, DAF, Stooges, NEU!, Swans, Throbbing Gristle, Jesus and Mary Chain, la Grande Triple Alliance Internationale de L’est… I also listen to more and more hip-hop and traditional music.”

333, MI HOMME, MI BETE (means half man, haf beast) album on TEENAGE MENOPAUSE RECORDS (F)

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Free jazz and poetry against human brutality: debut recording by IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS (US) the liberation-oriented free jazz quintet, who came together to perform at a Musicians Against Police Brutality event. Album released on INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM and DON GIOVANNI RECORDS (both US)

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OBNOX (US) is a personal punk blues soul rock and roll hip hop noise project of Bim Lamont Thomas drummer of blues punk duo BASSHOLES. On the new album MURDER RADIO punk is the dominant style. Released by ever/never (US)

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KOHTI TUHOA. Finnish HC. Pelon neljäs valtakunta, ie 4th Kingdom of Fear, album on Svart Records. No need to say more.

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Manchester-based PROTO IDIOT started as a one-man garage punk band, but because the idiots draw each others it is a trio for the present. Presents a mix of 60s garage, 70s glam and 80s oddball, like a post-punk Bay City Rollers. LEISURE OPPORTUNITY album on SLOVENLY (US) and BAD PAINTINGS RECORDS (UK)

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LES LULLIES: Jean-Baptiste, Jean-Louis, Baptiste and Louis Lully. Their motto: speed not weed and punk. From France. DON’T LOOK TWICE 7″ EP on SLOVENLY.

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The Mallissimal Movement born in the 50’s in St-Petersburg by self-taught Russian musicians who took an interest in old Siberian sacred rituals. The French CERCLE DES MALLISSIMALISTES is devoted to the research, preservation and diffusion of Mallissimal Music. Recently they recorded a work of an Italian far-leftist terrorist and composer Faustina M. Todesco who left the Music School of Milan before graduating to join The Red Brigades. It formed in 1970 and sought to create a „revolutionary” state through armed struggle. They attained notoriety in the 1970s and early 80s with their violent attempts to destabilise Italy by acts of sabotage, bank robberies and kidnappings. Their most infamous act was kidnapping and murdering ex-PM Aldo Moro in 1975. But Faustina M. Todesco quit from the organization in 1974 and fled the western world and left activism for mysticism. Later she killed herself in the river Seine. But I don’t believe these things. I think these are just the game of the fantasy, but I like them. And as always in the Mallissimal Movement, the matter is electro-acoustic trance.

LE CERCLE DES MALLISSIMALISTES: F.M. TODESCO – I TRE ANGOLI DEL CONTINENTE. Album on KYTHIBONG/ LES POTAGERS NATURES / MON CUL C’EST DU TOFU / LA REPUBLIQUE DES GRANGES RECORDS (All F)

 

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Drawings of Luca Retraite

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KILLBONOCLUB # 7

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Hi there, here’s the 7th historical KILLBONOCLUB

the monthly music below the line:

great artists, independent labels, brand new records

 

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1. „We manufacture blues for smartphones, and tunes to celebrate the failure of the human race as biological species.”

EL PAN BLANCO (Mex) – Droga cassette on Burger Records (US)

Strange Texan punk band plays like Sonic Youth
SPRAY PAINTLIVE AT THIRD MAN 7″ EP on THIRD MAN RECORDS (US)

“We have the tools and we have the talent. No show too small, no fee too big. We’re ready for anything.”

ACID BABY JESUS (Gr) – LILAC DAYS album on FUZZ CLUB (UK)

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.

SHITKID (Swe) – FISH album on PNKSLM (UK)

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HOLY STRANGERS is a “modern folk opera” by Memphis born Texan singer/songwriter MICAH P HINSON. He is telling the story of a wartime family, going from birth to love, to marriage and children, to war and betrayal, murder to suicide. In this show we are in the lovers’ lane.

Album released on FULL TIME HOBBY RECORDS, and he is on tour in Europe now!

Jazzy anarcho punk no wave new york. And Ani Ivry-Block from Palberta so beautifully screams like Stefania Pedretti of OvO.

SHIMMER (US) debut album on DROP MEDIUM (US)

Thee 20th OH SEES (US) album ORC on CASTLE FACE RECORDS (US)

This pleasant pop album brings the 80s new wave synth pop, but sometimes like New Order and Joy Divison for me.

KELLEY STOLTZ (US) – QUE AURA album on CASTLE FACE RECORDS (US)

to get a sound that makes you feel sick in the stomach because it sounds so good.”

NUN (Aus) – IMMERSION (WITH ENDERIE) digital EP and cassette

For many years, LYDIA LUNCH has envisioned a collective dedicated to funeral arts. That seed was finally planted in 2012 when The Phantom Family Halo supported Lunch’s Retrovirus’ US tour. Lydia spotted Dahm of Phantom Family Halo wearing an undertaker jacket while performing in NYC. It has turned out that Dahm Majuri Cipolla, a descendant of Edgar Allen Poe, has been interested in undertaking and the funeral arts since a young boy. It is of no surprise that he spent his formative years inhabiting a funeral home in Louisville, KY where he fell in love with our in-house mortician, Sara Majuri Cipolla. Sara and Dahm’s love remains a guiding light in the FAMILY IN MOURNING community as can be heard on the album EULOGY on GALTTA RECORDS (US)

Person L is Oakland (US) resident, solo artist and academic Dania Luck. Deeply involved in the minimal wave and underground electronic music scene. She tries to maximise the minimalism.

STACIANPERSON L album on NIGHT SCHOOL (UK)

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Rock ‘n’ Roll with heart and soul from Texas. So cowboy.
THE GOLDEN BOYSBETTER THAN GOOD TIMES album on 12XU RECORDS (US)

The strange Texan punk band with Ben from the Aussie Cuntz
SPRAY PAINT with BEN MACKIE7″ single on 12XU

That’s how it goes living in Doom Town, USA
DARK/LIGHTKILL SOME TIME album on DIRT CULT (US)

Tina (Vocals/Trumpet) & Simon (Guitar/Vocals) became neighbours and frequenting the same sweaty cellar dance nights around town. They formed the band around the idea of creating a vibrant blend of new-wave vicious psych-surf, garage-punk, exotica & rock n roll. Currently also contains members from Italy, USA, Colombia, Spain & UK.

OH! GUNQUIT (UK) – LIGHTNING LIKES ME album on DIRTY WATER (UK) and DECAPITATOR RECORDS (UK)

Hard noisy rock and roll, featuring former members of Psychic Ills and Amen Dunes: HONEY (US) – NEW MOODY JUDY album on WHARF CAT (US)

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And this picture! I’ve found it recently. Oh how I like this

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 It was shot by the police during a general raid in Budapest in 1972.

Lots of pictures from the same raid. A travel through the night. Through pubs and streets and bars and restaurants and taverns. Meet every kind of figures, even a police dog. And finally go to the police station by a paddy-waggon.

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Divatok jönnek, divatok mennek, de

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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?

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Szilveszteri inspirációk 4.

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

Electronische Melodie und Harmonie aus Karl Marx-Stadt

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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.

1 From Long O

Your Heaven, Your Rules by Tasmanian poet Peter Escott from Native Cats (The Fall/Suicide-like minimal wave bass/synth duo).  He plays piano and operates the most user friendly electronics.

It’s taken from his solo album The Long O on Bedroom Suck Records (Aus)

 

From New Records

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Nothing strange, nothing weird, just good dynamic rock music for your entertainment by Jonly Bonly from Texas. It’s side project of OBN IIIs.

„Put Together” LP on 12XU Records (US)

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From RNR666 party I know a Turkish new wave synth-punk band: Kirik Cizgi. Now here is another one: Kim Ki O. Their music is a little more darker and minimal than the other one, but it shows surprising rhythmical similarity! Yes, the influence of Turkish folklore. Bir, Iki LP compiles the best cuts from Kim Ki O’s long out of print CDs, with a song from (!)Enfant Terrible Record’s „Radio Resistancia” CD compilation. „Synth, bass, indie, dark”

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You can find some free stuff on their site!. Anyway, Kim Ki O means „who is that anyway?”

Synth Pop Round And Round

French singer and songwriter NOIR BOY GEORGE
plays simple music on his keyboard.
One of the best video makers ever
tab_ularasa has made an amazing clip for his song

ENFONCE TOI DANS LA VILLE

from 7″ vinyl on POUet Schallplatten (France)

There’re no enough words to describe the magnificence of art of tab_ularasa

NBG is a member of French dada doom grind supergroup 1400 Points De Suture together with Cheb Samir (Bobsleigh Baby, Capputtini I Lignu, The Normals, Trans Upper Egypt, Vernon Sélavy and more), Emmanuel Satti (A.H.Kraken, Anals, The Dreams, Funk Police, Scorpion Violente and more), Seb Normal (Crash Normal, Feeling Of Love, Le Chomage, Cheb Samir & The Black Souls Of Leviathan and many more) and others.

Free download Noir Boy George & 1400 Points De Suture

 

Enfant Terrible News

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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

 

From New Records

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Cha Cha Guitri was a French minimal synth pop band in Saint-Etienne in the early 80s. The boys composed and sang, the girls sang and designed minimal costumes. Only two cassettes were released and three concerts were given. They were too artistic for the break-through.

Their records of 1981 on LP/CD/digital on Born Bad Records (France)

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„Das Leben ist ein Puff…” und Puff ist eine Berliner synth punk gruppe

7″ vinyl platte über Slovenly Recordings (US)

A Postcard from Budapest

Xeno & Oaklander, cold minimal synth pop duo from Brooklyn,
in January between New York and Moscow landed in Budapest
to play a show and to shoot a video for the new album Par Avion,
because Sean McBride also loves this city

 

cold summer of budapest

 early 80s german style minimal synth/electro industrial

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on 5 June at 9pm in Budapest at Kontra Klub with

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Pure Ground Music          FB Event           Ticket: 1000


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