Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Xeerox ‎– 1979 - 1981 Recuerdo Espectral De Un Viejo Decorado Eléctrico (2008)


Now this is a fascinating album. A while back I (fruitlessly) searched for some underground albums from Spain. I decided to give it another shot recently and I found this album along with a few other gems that I might share in the future. This comp is heavily influences by the No Wave scene going on in New York at the time. It has a really weird and hypnotic quality to it thanks to its incredibly muffled and hectic guitars and great use of backmasking. In short, it's unlike any No Wave album I've heard before and I highly recommend it.

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Faust, Tony Conrad, Jim O'Rourke, Richard Youngs, Keith Rowe - In God We Trust (1995)


Just by looking at the title you can tell that this single has a real powerhouse lineup. This single was given out for free to lucky attendees of a British tour. I can best describe the single as a weird mishmash of noises and sounds. There are five tracks crammed into the one sided single, each performed by a different artist, each were about a minute long, and each of them very well done, All in all it's a great listen, well worth a mere 6 minutes of your time.

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Friday, July 25, 2014

Michio Kadotani - 腐っていくテレパシーズ (1991)


Great comp of music from Michio Kadotani which was released shortly after he died in 1990. I can best describe the album as supremely noisy punk/post-punk. That really doesn't to the release justice though, its basically if Les Rallizes Dénudés decided to do a post-punk album, and it's absolutely fantastic. It's noisy, hypnotic, and an all around incredibly listen. I highly recommend it if you're even vaguely interested in noise rock or anything else that I've mentioned, this album really shouldn't be passed up.

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Fahrenheit 451 - Fahrenheit 451 (1981)


Cool post-punk single from the Netherlands. The single consists of 4 super short lofi jams with some nice frantic singing to boot. The Dutch band certainly seems like they were influenced by the no wave scene going on in New York at the time. All in all it's a cool single, I'd recommend it to any post-punk or no wave junkies.

sorry about the quality

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

The Apartments - The Evening Visits... (1985)


Great jangle pop album out of Brisbane. Most of the songs are very catchy and upbeat, but also really melancholy at the same time. The singing comes off as kind of nasally and melodramatic at first, but it gains sincerity with repeated listens, this is an album that really grew on me after a while. Definitely worth a listen.

The girls walk Lazarus all around the room
As he changes color from red to blue
Here's your drama. Here's your fuel
I'm just sitting here cause there's nothing else to do

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Mamoru Fujieda- Patterns of Plants (1997)



Apparently if plants could speak they would talk in brief phrases that meander and loop over and over and over, only slightly varying with each iteration, yet still conveying great depth: showing that the seeming randomness of our electricity causally links us to nature, to the chill of air that hits you after rounding a corner, or the whirling path those helicopter seeds take after launching from their pods to the ground below, or the chirping crickets that won't shut the fuck up on a summer night yet still create a lulling drone that canvases an entire forest, as if blanketing your ears for protection from damning silence, from silence that, when present, makes you turn inward, chewing on your own thoughts to fill the void with some chatter all at the expense of your own sanity, which is merely the result of sparks running through your head in a certain fashion, the same sparks that reach out into air and feel that wind chill or process that image of the seed spinning, spinning, around and around, meandering through the air before abruptly coming to a halt, in the style of those plants, whose language floats about in a circle, both going nowhere but still saying so much in the process.

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Circle X - Prehistory (1983)


Another great release from Circle X, this one is basically a more refined version of Untitled, but don't let that discourage you. Prehistory is also way more post-punk influenced than their debut EP. It's still very chaotic, but in a much more organized way, if that makes any sense. In my (oh so humble) opinion this album is better than Untitled, so it's definitely worth checking out if you liked that, but it's also worth checking out if you thought Untitled was too harsh, as this one is a tad bit more ~tame~ for lack of a better word.