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Andy from garage-thrash band Digger and The Pussycats
as BRAT FARRAR running a one-man-punk band
and plays surprisingly various lo-fi punk music.
He said the sound is reminiscent of early Wipers, Chrome, The Spits, Suicide, a bit like My Bloody Valentine (well just the guitars) on a few tracks and sometimes like power pop bands recorded incorrectly.
And even more like his fellow Australian TV Colours. Same feeling.
Here is a fine shoegaze one, bit like My Bloody Valentine
3rd album out now. Listen to it here
CD: Off The Hip Records (AUS). Vinyl: Kizmiaz Records (France)
Take a Nightride with The Pussywarmers
from the sunset till the sunrise
THE PUSSYWARMERS is a Swiss band. I wrote some years ago about them
„The Pussywarmers is a band of a traveling circus. They play swing for the rope-dancers, blues for the knife thrower, tarantella for the lion tamer, dixieland for the magician, cha-cha-cha for the trapezists, tango for the bears, polka for the poodles, waltz for the monkeys and criss-cross for the clowns on four languages.”
They have recently released the Nightride EP under the name of THE PUSSYWARMERES & RÉKA’S ELEKTRONISCHE ABTEILUNG via Annibale Records. And it is totally different than their previous recordings. So I have had to ask what is the story of this project?
Réka: At the beginning of the year we introduced „The Pussywarmers & Réka’s Jizz Ensemble” which represents our „Tropical Big Band”. For the new record we decided to strip down to a quartet: „Elektronische Abteilung” which means „Electronic Department”. It´s a concept for an „Alter Ego Band”. Inventing this band in a Band-Project lead to more freedom in the creative process of composing and recording.
We have a hideout in the mountains of Italy where we are only allowed to play in a low volume. These situations forced us to play around with loops which we kept on sometimes for hours. This sounds and loops created sometimes states of hypnosis. In this new found state we also started to experiment with new sounds and instruments. For „Nightride” we wanted to capture those moods and used instruments that would reflect perfectly those nights. From the sunset till the sunrise.
„Nightride” is very cinematique, so a big influence – for this new way of writing and recording music – were definitely movies. In Zürich exists the Institute of Incoherent Cinematography. Pablo Assandri – the head of IOIC – organizes silent movie events to which he invites musicians to create new film scores for these movies in a live situation. He invited us a couple of times and we loved it. To compose music to images is a very different approach. Music can be created which would never arise in normal practicing situations. Characters and scenes of the movie can become your muses. For example we played for Fred Niblo’s film The Temptress (1926).
The event series is called „The Underworld in Silent Film”. Here is an old trailer just for the feeling
Next silent film event will be on 30 March. Marena Whitcher’s Shady Midnight Orchestra will play on the film Der Geisterzug (Ghost Train, Germany/UK, 1927) by Géza von Bolváry.
NEXT PUSSYWARMERS & RÉKA SHOWS
30.3.2017 / Geneve (CH) / Bongo Joe / NIGHTRIDE RELEASE TOUR
1.3.2017 / Basel (CH) / tba / NIGHTRIDE RELEASE TOUR
1.4.2017 / Zurich (CH) / Bundeshaus Residency 68 / NIGHTRIDE
Divatok jönnek, divatok mennek, de
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!”
Festive Days
In the UK there were solemn acts owing to the 40th anniversary of the release of debut single of Sex Pistols’ Anarchy In The UK. And it is told that 26th day of November in 1976 is the birthday of Punk.
I heard about two things only.
1 for the why: Luton made this November memorable forever with UK Subs and Vibrators concerts.
2 for the pose: son of Malcolm McLaren and Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Vivian Westwood burnt punk reliques supposedly in the worth of 5 million GBP together with his mum on that birthday on Thames in London.
But 3 to get ready for THE MOONLANDINGZ
Persons taken from the Fat White Family & The Eccentronic Research Council
Debut album Interplanetary Class Classics coming soon on Transgressive Records (UK) and Chimera Music (US)
Anyway the B-Side of Anarchy was „I Wanna Be Me”, so „This is brainwash and this is a clue / To the stars who fooling you.”
for the funs of Butthole Surfers, The Fall, Csermanek Lakótelep
another strange aussie punk band
„Initially we were influenced by the likes of Geza X & The Mommymen, DNA, The Screamers, The Mentally Ill, The Effigies, The Meatmen and the Dangerhouse catalogue.”
BRANDO’S ISLAND on synth, vibraphone and drums
7″ on Million Dollar Records (AUS)
All US and o/s distribution is being handled by Feel It Records
For UK and EU based customers, the record is currently available via Norman Records
The band is a minimalist form of chaotic no wave punk band THE ZINGERS
enfant terrible reocrds
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″
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE JANE FONDA AEROBIC VHS?
I have found them just now, and I have to share
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE JANE FONDA AEROBIC VHS?
Best Finnish indie pop synth punk from Kouvala. This song is a little bit long, and not so perfect, but there is something very important
from split EP with The Shangri Blahs on Blast Of Silence Records in early November
more songs UK Tour on 22-27 Oct
They live in a special place, because Kouvala has been founded just in 1.1.2009, when 5 cities merged into one. It is famous for its Soviet-like Brutalist architecture, and Verla factory, which was a mill community, and belongs to UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Molly Nilsson Thinks Pink
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”
Ninni Forever
Finnish Lunatic Synth Pop
Ninni Forever Band
The Best
Kuustoista nollakolme
from the album „Lätäkössä” will be released in the fall 2016 on Svart Records
Ninni Forever Band is Ninni Luhtasaari of Tampere. She makes hats too.
UPCOMING SHOWS
09.06.2016 Tavastia, Helsinki /w Räjäyttäjät, U.F. Ojala
29.06.2016 Lepakkomies, Helsinki /w Neiet
13.08.2016 TBA Pori
Fashion Fades, Style Is Eternal
hungarian minimal synth pop real
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).
KLAUS JOHANN GROBE
tropical swiss kraut disco
from the new album on trouble in mind records (us):
Tour in April in US, in May In Germany
Hi there, here is Jonnie from the kitchen
Scottish electronic musician Jonnie Common has gone to his kitchen and made an album using only noises what he has found there. Here is an album preview
He’s releasing the album on a set of four hand-made fridge magnets. Each one of these magnets is unique because they were all cut directly out of a stomach-churning 80s cookbook. He says: inside each set, I have even gone to the trouble (and believe me it was painstaking) of including the name of the dish from which each magnet was taken. I must stress that the combinations (or menus) were chosen for what looked good together rather than what would taste good together but I did spread it out so that every set includes 4 different types of dish. The categories are: soups, salads & starters, meat dishes, poultry dishes, fish dishes, vegetable dishes, supper dishes, savouries & snacks, puddings & desserts, cakes & baking.
Kitchen Synch is going to be released on Song, by Toad Records on May 9th.