Friday, December 4, 2009

Updates: New Slew of Not Not Fun releases

The extremely productive output of Not Not Fun continues unabated with tapes, LPs and 7"s from bands old, new, bold and true. Plus, they have a shit-ton of represses and other random albums that were saved from distro limbo. All available...right now....what are you waiting for?...go!





Sex Worker

The Labor Of Love

We start off with the first LP from Sex Worker, solo project of Mi Ami member Daniel Martin-McCormick (Check out the Water Sports LP from Mi Ami. One of the better things out this year). As an album it certainly has the vibe of a sex worker, not that I'm familiar, but its sparse and drifting synths, matched with the chaotic and desperate vocals give it an air of loneliness and despair. Twisting patterns take you down dark corriors, electronic drones suffocate you as the glitches rain down. Voices reach out at you, but you can't really find or understand them through the din of pulsing noise.
It all drops out and your left to take on another journey along the rhythmic spine of emotive drum machines. More voices reach out, but you can't really get to them as it crescendos into a void.
Then we get the first glimmer of hope in shining, pretty synth/vocal loops while vibes play softly underneath. It's almost as if to remind us that under the repungance of the sex trade, their is a child-like innonence and playfulness that is being destroyed, though it is ultimately the hope that makes it worth going.
A very personal project from a skillful musician. Freeing bodies through ryhthm.

NO MORE









Inca Ore

Silver Sea Surfer School

This album plays on some of the more abstract parts of the Inca Ore repetoire, with dense sound sheets and lack of melody, but also comes through with upbeat singing/talking through loops that seem both ancient and new, both human and animal. The dense cathedral organs are always nice, too, and shiny synth fuzz is never far behind.

Between the more structured moments, abstract sounds and pretty tones, Silver Sea Surfer School manages to blend them all pretty seamlessly, affording the sound to be just more than the sum of it's parts.
The songs are nice and concise as well. For every reflective, lilting ode there is a quick cut up of borrowed sound collages and fractured voices, often echoed in bells off in the distance. Very eerie yet somehow homey (with sultry voices and sun ra keyboard freak outs to boot).

That's what I kind of think of this record. It's like the feeling of travelling or being in an alien environment. For all the new things pushing their way into your conciousness, there is always that bit of familiarity that is universal and warm in its own way.

ADVENTURE OF LIGHT





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Dylan Ettinger & The Heat

Smokin'

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The second of the Dylan Ettinger singles out on NNF recently. This wax edition of futuristic old-schoolism features "The Heat", lending more gravitas to Ettinger's midi and synth dominated Miami Vice skylines.

Sure enough, you drop in and you're waiting for the camera to pan back to show a dystopian city scape that only our hard-boiled hero can save. The addition of the saxophone leaves you with the kind of slinky, down-and-out vibe, while the subtle guitar work is a piercing anecdote to Ettinger's sound wall creation.

The second side starts slower, building. Strangled voices off in the distance of a simple drum-pattern. Things build, shit happens and it gets totally out of control. The sleaze and paranoia are dripping, twitching mustaches looking over playing cards in rooms full of cigar smoke.

No, I don't know. In all seriousness, it is hard not to think about 80's film imagery even if you were barely born in the decade. I just like how it doesn't try to touch on some kind of nostalgia from the period, but just recreates it. It's more of a homage than a reimagining, though the futuristic tweaks are certainly there. Happy to be what it is, neither pretentious or trendy, just fun jams to get your late night stake out on to.

SMOKIN'

And on top of this there is the new Topaz Rags full lengther a bunch of represses and a bunch of random awesomeness available in limited amounts on the web site right now!

NOT NOT FUN

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Review: Tonstartssbandht - Dick Nights (Dœs Are 2009)


Tonstartssbandht is one of the best new bands to emerge from this year. It are the project of two brothers, Andy and Edwin. With the release of their new LP "Dick Nights," they have asserted themselves as one of the premier psych/noise bands. They exploded onto the scene earlier this year with the release of "An When." Dick Nights is clearly their most mature release out of the two previously released this year.

Dick Nights starts off strong and keeps your attention throughout. The tape weaves in and out of psych madness and beautifully layered vocal harmonies. Songs like "Haughty Deb" and "Subtropic Gleme Rock" immediately grab your attention with heavy drone bliss. "Tahiti Nui" provides a stark contrast with a lighter "tropical" tone with instrumentation that I am guessing is a ukulele. The album finishes strong with the at times ambient "Yo A.J.J Hess" and the album closer "Mimi Vari."

Tonstartssbandht is clearly a band you should be listening to if you are not already. This is their third release this year and it is evident that they are one of the best projects out there. If anything, at least check them out for listing "The Rutles" as one of their main influences.


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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Update: Colour Sounds Recordings

New shit to check out:



Here’s some exciting happenings!

***LA OTRACINA***

The trio has taken the past few months off as drummer Adam joined Los Angeles psych rock legends NEBULA and did a bit touring with them and Evan had a baby, Jackson Harry Sobel!!! The boys have just started to rehearse again, shows to commence in the NYC area in early 2010.

Also these Brooklyn space-metal-psych-prog-ers are busy completing their newest double album, which will be entitled “Reality Has Got To Die”, which will be released on the Holy Mountain label in early 2010. You can listen to some of the tracks from this album on our myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/laotracina

Also LA OTRACINA has an *exclusive* track on the “I Can't Get It Out Of My Turn To Stone Head” CD compilation that accompanies the newest issue of mega-psychedelic fanzine Galactic Zoo Dossier, issue #8. Get it here: http://www.plasticcrimewave.com/projects/galactic-zoo-dossier

The following LA OTRACINA titles are available for mailorder from Colour Sounds Recordings.
(e-mail colour_sounds@hotmail.com for inquiry/cost):

LA OTRACINA “Dawn Haze/Early Daze” 2xCD-R
LA OTRACINA “The Risk Of Gravitation” CD-R
LA OTRACINA “Gardens Of Blackness” CD-R
LA OTRACINA “Woven Wanderers” CD-R
LA OTRACINA “Tonal Ellipse Of The One” CD
LA OTRACINA “Blood Moon Riders” CD-R
LA OTRACINA “Blood Moon Riders” 12” LP

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***NEBULA***

Los Angeles psych-rock mind-melters NEBULA will be doing 5 shows in California Nov/Dec 2009!!

11/28/2009 Blank Club - San Jose, CA w/ Dusted Angel, Radio Moscow
11/29/2009 Annie's Social Club - San Francisco, CA w/ Dusted Angel, Radio Moscow
12/03/2009 Kensington Club - San Diego, CA w/ Dusted Angel, Radio Moscow, Red Octopuss
12/04/2009 The Royal Dive - Oceanside, CA w/ Dusted Angel, Radio Moscow, Red Octopuss
12/05/2009 Nomad Gallery - Los Angeles, CA w/ Dusted Angel, Radio Moscow, Green & Wood

For those of you who didn’t hear, Adam Kriney has joined veteran stoner gurus NEBULA, as of late August 2009. Joining them mid-way through their summer tour, as their previous drummer quit on the road, Adam joined them the next day, and the rest is a blurry haze. Read about it here: http://mymusicbinge.blogspot.com/2009/09/nebula-w-entrance-band-and-naam.html

Check out some live videos of Adam playing with NEBULA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULGJBUDiS5E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkVR6sqc0P0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e72Cp6mRofg

NEBULA will be touring the EU from late January until late February!

Also the boys will be doing some recording in the next few weeks for a planned split 7” with Canadian rockers QUEST FOR FIRE, to be released on Teepee Records in conjunction with a NEBULA/QUEST FOR FIRE US Tour in March/April 2010.

Please check our websites for all upcoming dates:
http://nebulamusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/nebulamusic

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***Other news/projects***

There are still 3 amazing unreleased Owl Xounds records sitting in the vaults. I am hoping for release of all of these in 2010. Any vinyl labels interested? Check it: http://www.myspace.com/owlsounds

There is also a bunch of newly recorded GREENWURM (formerly DRAGONFRYND) material looking for release in 2010 as well, any takers? Check it: http://www.myspace.com/dragonfrynd

The following assorted projects of Adam Kriney are available for mailorder from Colour Sounds Recordings.
(e-mail colour_sounds@hotmail.com for inquiry/cost):

VORG VESSEL “The Queen Of Fish Mountain”/”Illuminated By Stripes” CD-R + 3” CD-R (last copy left!)
DRAGONFRYND “Smoke Ring Mandala” CD-R (2 copies left!)
Feral Debris Magazine issue #3 with compilation CD-R featuring exclusive tracks by OWL XOUNDS, THE MICHAEL FLOWER BAND, SOLAR FIRE TRIO AND MORE (3 copies left!)
OWL XOUNDS “Teenagers From Mars” 12” LP
RUST IONICS “Moving/Pictures” 12” LP

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I bid you all farewell, may your day’s quest be epic and mighty!

-adam kriney
www.vorg.net

-a.s.j. kriney

Free Music: Orgone Accumulators - Good Advice

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It's been a couple of months since the Orgone Accumulators - Wilhelm Reich And Roll EP was presented to the general public and since then the Fifth Neuro Orgone Research Department has been a hive of activity. The research into the alien communications from Sirius has been incredibly successful and we can now announce the publication of the past few months results:-

ORGONE ACCUMULATORS - GOOD ADVICE EP


Four more tracks of sci fi surf techno including a version of Walk Don't Run by The Ventures. As we already know, many of these communications were beamed from the past and The Ventures certainly must have had some knowledge of how to intercept and translate them. We still haven't worked out how Chet Atkins came to be the first person to translate that particular alien communication as there does not seem to be any hint of ESP or suchlike in the rest of his catalogue. If anyone does have any theories please get in touch with us. Walk Don't Run is, of course, a fine piece of advice and it turns out that the other recently translated Sirius communications are also instructions on how to lead a better life - Don't Panic, Keep Calm And Carry On and Never Whistle While You're Pissing. All fantastic pieces of good advice.

The EP can be downloaded from - http://www.mediafire.com/?zroynlzozv5

Alternatively it can be streamed here - http://www.myspace.com/orgoneaccumulators

Monday, November 30, 2009

Live Recordings: Double Leopards on WMFU

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Some of the best from some OGs of the genre

Drone Out

WMFU website. Visit and support, etc. They rule. The most awesomest radio station, like, ever!

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Free Music: Junkyard Horns - Trapped In My Favorite Corner c20

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Junkyard Horns comes from Sao Paulo. Here is his description of this tape:

this week I have put it all together on 20 minutes and self-released (looking ahead for some tape label) and it's sounding great. side A was made with some small instrument made of wood from the north of my country mixed with slow 80s toy sounds-ish jams, side B is a mess of a one nylon string symphony, noisy sounds made with one TV and two mics, classical flute, a bit of outsider folk, cash drawer alarm, a weirdly fast synth beat, small rattle inside metal cans, flute melody from the closing song of Bixby's "Ode to Quetzalcoatl" (a personal favorite), between many others. all translated to the tape.

Yes, it is really as awesome as it sounds. Works so well, somehow. Foggy and creeping. Check it out!


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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Live Recordings: 84001 @ City Skies



Live from a couple of weeks ago are Nashville cosmonauts 84001. Bliss out to the ambient tones and textures, friends. And if you haven't heard these guys yet, go back through the archives and check out our other posts on them. You will not be disappointed.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Free Music: The Buffalos


Hey, kind of busy over here, but I still wanted to post something today.  What better way to reconcile the two than to try to give your own band publicity on your own blog!

Description: 

We are an experimental noise duo from Brooklyn. Our influences range from visceral free improv bands like Last Exit, amplifier noise destroyers like The Dead C, spacey kraut jammers like Can and fast, aggressive punk rock a la Bad Brains, but it's not guaranteed to sound like any of that. We are also influenced by musicians like Kaoru Abe, who play incredibly inaccessible music, take too many drugs and die young.

MYSPACE has a bunch of songs from the first tape streaming

WEBSITE has full downloads for both tapes

thanks for listening!

Monday, November 16, 2009

Free Music: Yair Yona - Remember

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This submission by Yair Yona comes to us from Israel by way of John Fahey. Beautiful solo acoustic meandering through traditional folk and rag-time right up through modern acid-folk and blues. Write up below:


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Armed with a 12 strings acoustic guitar, an intoxicated banjo and a cheeky Weissenborn, amongst other soaked instruments, Israel's Yair Yona adapts his British Folk influences and his love for the groundbreaking guitar works of John Fahey, to a captivating trip down memory lane of the 1920s & 1930s Mississippi and Delta blues, country, rag-time and contemporary acid-folk.

Through his happy/sad compositions, a clever Salute to the late Fahey and a somber wink to Godspeed You! Black Emperor with "Skinny Fists", the closing track on "Remember", Yona adds a brilliant album to the exclusive pantheon of innovative acid folk and modern blues albums. Recommended if you like Glenn Jones, Doug Martsch (Built to Spill), Bert Jansch, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Jack Rose, Leadbelly & Steffen Basho Junghans

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FREE DOWNLOAD SPOT AND OTHER INFO ON THE ALBUM

Friday, November 13, 2009

Live Recordings: Emeralds 12-22-07 @ Tusco Embassy

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Another scorcher courtesy of the infallible poopzmcgee.

Fuzz out