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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Turing Machine - Zwei

This is one of the first records I posted on here more than 2 years ago. I'm reposting it today in memoriam of the incredible drummer who played on it. Jerry Fuchs died this past weekend after falling down an elevator shaft. I was lucky enough to see him play with Maserati a few weeks ago. He was fucking intense! Maserati will not be the same without him. His death is a great loss to the independent music world. So listen to this fantastic record in honor of Gerhardt Fuchs, a truly great drummer who will be missed by family, friends and admirers around the world.

Download: megaupload
Label/Date: Frenchkiss Records, 2004
Genre: instrumental rock, krautrock
From: New York
Similar/Related: Maserati, !!!, Neu!, Lite, Lightning Bolt, Monkey3
Website : Myspace

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The Bronzed Chorus - I'm The Spring

Been listening to this for weeks and had no idea they only had two members until writing this post. Makes sense though because they sound like El Ten Eleven. If El Ten Eleven didn't go all dancey and instead rocked the fuck out once in a while.
Download: megaupload
Label/Date: Hello Sir Records, 2009
Genre: instrumental rock duo
From: Greensboro, North Carolina
Similar/Related: El Ten Eleven, Mercury Program, Adebisi Shank, Auto!Automatic!!, Tristeza, From Monument to Masses, Te', Precious Fathers, You.May.Die.In.The.Desert
Website : Myspace

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Loan - Hontziria

This record is fucking heavy. Especially the track Niagara. Think SUMA with more stoner rock.
Download: mediafire
Label/Date: Odio Sonoro / Lehendakari Lee Records, 2009
Genre: Stoner/Sludge/Doom Metal
From: Bilbao, Spain
Similar/Related: Suma, Electric Wizard, Sons of Otis, Gonga, Iota, El Paramo, Yob, Earth, Sleep, Sabbath
Website : Myspace

Monday, October 19, 2009

Guizado - Punx

"Kaleidoscope of Babylon: Push the play button, and close your eyes: slides of urban landscapes will be projected in your mind in a kaleidoscope of signs and scents of the city, and hearing will unveil the musical nuances of each code, abstract or not, from the daily São Paulo life - the thermic chaos and poetry made out of concrete, a wall of graffiti in any corner, the smell of rain on the asphalt or espresso coffee pulled right away, the ice cold beer poured in short glass, the texture of pollution that tinge the blue horizon ... The music of Guizado has this cinematographic effect and his first album, "Punx," sounds completely drunk of the noisy aura of São Paulo. From a rhythmic gear full of electronic noise, the plant lays the timbres of the background for the sentences of a trumpet almost always disturbed that yells to be heard in the midst of the collective loneliness of the metropolis. The project is fronted by Gui Mendonça – trumpet player who accompanies or has already accompanied artists like Curumin, DonaZica, Lucas Santtana and newly formed Trio Esmeril. In Guizado, the musician searches (and thinks) his own stamp on a mixture of harmonic inks of his instrument with the textures found in experiments with several electronic paraphernalia. If, on one hand, many of the beats are made on analog synthesizers and gameboy, the recordings of “Punx” were all made on analog tape, and the clever combination of retro and futuristic atmospheres gives strength to the work. The trumpet also went through some filters and overdubs, creating climates more congested, harmonic collisions that leave no listener injured, but stunned. On the way the trumpet is played, the reference to Miles Davis can be heard – much more because of the spirit of transgression than by an alleged virtuosity, let it be said. But Guizado is not jazz. Nor is rock or hip-hop – it is, indeed, an original collage of all that and a little more. Although pushed by a pulse as almost robotic, electronic, the pace is always guided by the trance of African ancestry. Besides the creative engine of Gui Mendonça, the Guizado has other key pieces. Curumin is the drummer on most tracks; in four of them, who beats the skins is tireless Mauricio Takara (Hurtmold, Esmeril Trio, etc...); still on the rhythm section, special feature of percussionist Mauricio Alves (Mestre Ambrósio) in two songs; Régis Damasceno and Ryan Batista, guitarist and bassist of the band Cidadão Instigado, complete the machinery. With this ensemble, the band fills the gaps in the combination of horns with digital beats and gives us an intriguing sculpture made of scrap sound. It is the soundtrack that was missing in order to decipher, once and for all, the soul of Babel / Babylon." Ramiro Zwetsch September / 2007

Download: megaupload
Label/Date: Diginois/Urban Jungle 2008
Genre: Experimental Eletronica/Jazz/Rock/Psychedelic/Avant-garde
From: São Paulo, Brazil
Similar/Related: Tortoise, Zu, Jaga Jazzist, Teeth of the Sea, Mr Bungle, Silencio, 65daysofstatic, Patife Band, Battles, Tuna Laguna, Faust, Morkobot, Free The Robots, Aphex Twin
Website : Myspace

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Lullabye Arkestra - Threats/Worship

Just because I saw OM live recently how bout a two-man-band-stravaganza? All three bands, TV Buddhas, Orphan, and Lullabye Arkestra, have 2 members, a guy and a girl. And all three fucking rock.

"Lullabye Arkestra was formed in the summer of 2001 by Justin Small (drums) and Katia Taylor (bass) and are currently based in Toronto. Justin is also member of Do Make Say Think.

The Ark began by writing minimal, stripped down and raunchy rock songs using their signature fuzzed out bass sound and banshee vocals. They combined elements of hardcore punk with 60’s-era soul creating an unusual yet raw and energetic sound." -last.fm

Download: megaupload
Label/Date: Vice, 2009
Genre: noise-rock, stoner, garage, bass/drums duo
From: Toronto
Similar/Related: Jucifer, Big Business, Tweak Bird, Death From Above, Sonic Youth, Hotel Wrecking City Traders, DMST
Website : Myspace

Orphan - Aborted By Birth

"Armed with drums and (ultra distorted) bass only, this heavy, hellbound girl-boy two-piece from Brooklyn crashes and bashes though ten trashed tracks of roughhewn rumble, making quite a crazed art-metal-noise racket. The drummer (girl, Speck Brown) pounds the skins with brutal abandon. Meanwhile the bassist (boy, Brendan Majewski) sings, in the most vicious nasty shriek he can muster, which is indeed brutal too, all the while ripping out the distorted riffage - which can get kinda catchy, on such negative creep cuts as "Love Is For The Birds". Elsewhere they lay waste to such troubling topics as "Penis Farm", "Swan Blood", and "Jane Fonda".
Titling their album Aborted By Birth may be intended to draw comparisons to death metallers Cannibal Corpse, if only to stress their metallic bona fides, since otherwise they probably get a lot of Lightning Bolt references, due to the bass-drums duo setup. Naturally, godheadSilo, Jucifer, and Israel's Barbara would be other good comparisons.
By the way, if you go on YouTube and look 'em up, you'll find some pretty cool, arty homemade videos for each of this album's songs!
Released on evil white vinyl only, limited to 666 numbered copies." - aquarius records

Download: megaupload
Label/Date: From the Nursery, 2009
Genre: Nasty, raw sludgy rock/metal amalgam, bass/drums duo
From: Brooklyn
Similar/Related: Lullabye Orchestra, Black Cobra, Tweak Bird, Subrig Destroyer, Zoroaster, Tombs, Big Business, Melvins, Slayer, 5ive
Website : Myspace

TV Buddhas - The Golden Period

"In the world of two-people bands nothing much counts but the energy and drive they put behind their music. This is what set e.g. Lightning Bolt, United Movement and (early) White Stripes apart from the mediocre rest of two-people bands (and especially that breed that plays instrumental noise rock and usually gets as boring as the third rerun of The Golden Girls, but I am disgressing.) If a two piece band has drive and energy, it can be great. And, in fact, this is what makes “the golden period” by the TV Buddhas such a great record. A driving, energetic piece of sometimes overconstructed noise rock with equal parts songwriting and chaos in the mix to make it outstanding. Yeah, that and the band hailing from Tel Aviv, Isreal." - cracked

Download: mediafire Thanks Fuzzbox!
Label/Date: Trost, 2009
Genre: garage, psych, blues, noise-rock. guitar/drums duo
From: Tel Aviv, Israel
Similar/Related: White Stripes, Lullabye Orchestra, Lightning Bolt, Witch, Monotonix, Black Angels, Dan Melchior's Broke Revue, Comets on Fire, Neil Young, Tee Pee Records
Website : Myspace

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Collapse Under The Empire - Systembreakdown

I'm back. Sorry for the hiatus. No good reason really, just a bit busy, and a bit (lot) lazy. Today i've posted a bunch of band submissions. Albums sent to me by up-and-coming bands from all over the world who just want people to hear their music. Most of these are the band's first recordings and show great potential. Though most of these bands are already great and deserve your attention.
Huge thanks to all the bands (sorry it took so long to post some of them). I welcome submissions from more bands that want me to share their music. I'll only post albums that I like and listen to. Also I don't write reviews because I'm a terrible writer. And it may take me a while to post due to laziness.
In the next week or so I'll be posting something completely different for this blog. Then I'll get back to my usual posting.

Download: rapidshare
Label/Date: self-released, 2009
Genre: post-rock
From: Hamburg, Germany
Similar/Related: God Is An Astronaut, Vanessa Van Basten, Maserati, From Monument To Masses, The American Dollar, you.may.die.in.the.desert, French Teen Idol
Website : Myspace

Sad Breakfast - Sad Breakfast

Download: sadbreakfast.com
Label/Date: self-released, 2009
Genre: post-rock/metal
From: Distrito Federal, Mexico
Similar/Related: Gifts From Enola, Russian Circles, And So I Watch You From Afar, you.may.die.in.the.desert, EITS, Pelican
Website : Myspace

.note - my city of ghosts, stars and hours

Download: mediafire
Label/Date: self-released, 2009
Genre: post-rock, instrumental rock
From: Pirmasens, Germany
Similar/Related: From Monument To Masses, Collapse Under The Empire, God Is An Astronaut, Neil on Impression, you.may.die.in.the.desert, Samuel Jackson Five
Website : Myspace

Heirs - Alchera

"Heirs is the marriage of dark and light. The pain and hopelessness of addiction vs the elation of freedom.
Drawing influence from Michael Gira and his Swans legacy, the sledgehammer riffs and industrial pummel of Godflesh, and continuing Stegeman's incense shrouded low-end incantations from his work with doom dealers Whitehorse, Heirs debut album strips bare the needless excesses of post-rock and heavy metal in favour of something much more concise and affecting. A lurching drugged-out specter - holding solace in one hand, and vengeance in the other."
Download: denovali.com
Label/Date: Denovali Records, 2009
Genre: drone, doom, ambient, sludge
From: Victoria, Australia
Similar/Related: Cult of Luna, Omega Massif, Swans, Earth, Orca, HKY, Godflesh, Kayo Dot
Website : Myspace

Merkabah - Merkabah EP

"Merkabah was founded at the end of 2007 in Warsaw, Poland. Their music can be described as psychedelic metal combining improvised, noisy soundscapes with more precise, aggressive riffs and post-rock melodies. It often includes electronic influences, as well as tribal rhythms, all mixed with a feel of freedom and experimentation."
Download: mindfield.pl
Label/Date: self-released, 2009
Genre: sludge, drone, experimental, post-rock
From: Warszawa, Poland
Similar/Related: Heirs, Morkobot, Lento, Zodiak, Lustmord, Teeth of the Sea, Kayo Dot
Website : Myspace

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