Ohuzaru ‘thrash is business’-Weewee-vinyl 5"-bw artwork /5’’ you say. You mean a vinyl the size of a CD with four songs on it? That’s what I mean, ain’t that wonderful. The record is supposed to be played 33rpm but if I had a 12rpm switch on the turntable, that’s the one I’d press to make it all sound like Corrupted instead of sounding like Gorilla Biscuits, Chain of Strength or likewise bands with lots of capital Xs as logos. AH, this is short enough, for once and it does the job for sure: buy it for the format. /c/o David Sechand, 25 rue Goudouli 31240 Saint Jean – France or mailto:david_at_weewee.scs-internet.fr Opaque ‘your wording here’-consume-CDR-color artwork /Psychedelic rock is not dead. Did anyone ever said it was? Unlike all other forms of rock, psyche’s never been corrupted by any kind of consumerism (you won’t still call Monster Magnet a psychedelic rock band, would you? I bet you won’t cause your true friends may kill you if you do, and The Butthole Surfers stopped to be psyche the day they resigned to whichever major it is). You know, Helios Creed’s never been a star and although Lemmy did achieve some kind of celebrity (and uuuuuurrrrrrghhhhhhh to you as well, thank you), it sure wasn’t with Hawkwind. Skullflower (I’m probably the only one to consider them as psyche) is only known to a few lucky people. I guess Ramleh won’t ever be the next Sum 41 as they never were the next Whitehouse when they started. Terminal Cheesecake? I don’t even know if they still exist and they’re one of my favourite bands ever. Ah, yes they tried through Austin Powers to make easy listening pop pass as psyche, but they only fooled Destiny’s Child listeners and I won’t call it a great loss. Aha, Pink Floyd and Rare Earth and all were all on majors mister. Will you just shut up and let me think as I please. Is it because psychedelism resists all classification? I mean you sure got overdriven guitars, heavy drums, classical four stringed basses, some analogue keyboards and that’s all rock and roll if you follow me, but repeating a riff ten billion times through a heavy wall of feedback and making what normal people would have turned into three seconds transitions a whole ten minutes song is what this kinda rock is all about. This is a bit hard on the press, isn’t it, to resist classification. And as you (should) know: no media, no audience. Opaque is a wonderful and quite noisy and heavy psychedelic rock band and these words used to apply to Sonic Youth as well. Now you got 8 bands to compare Opaque with and look like an educated wanker in front of your friends. Don’t say thank you but to thank me, buy that record please. /label: www.freeserve.co.uk/opaque // band: j.l.cummings_at_amserve.net or flat 1/1, 435 sauchiehall street, GLASGOW G2 3LG, UK Orion
- minor - black CDR - fÿcka zem jeouyel bocses /And now for some different and quite unpigeonholable record. Imagine this:
some Krautrock band bought a computer and found Krautrock was rather
boring (their idea, not mine). So they started to experiment in many
fields including female ouahing over a six notes guitar tunes + electrosinenoises,
vocoderized vocals over slow drum’n’bassing, power-electro-type heavy
rhythmic noise, more vocal ouhahing, slowed down and not that much slowed
down hardtech (last two tracks wouldn’t sound misplaced on the next
Mechanoise compilation) and even weirdly filtered pop and jungle-with-a-silly-melody.
Needs a little time to get used to it, but that’s a hell of a nice disc. /www.minorlabel.de Ostomy-red brick chimney-3”CDR in a black cardboard folding envelope /Suicide with guitars instead of vocals? I’m talking about Suicide, the band, not committing suicide with a guitar soundtrack you moron. Except for track 5 (dark dub? Ambientish D&B? Real good in any case) it’s all filtered and delayed analogue beatboxes (with lots of them whisshhh cymbals I usually hate so much –not this time) and monophonic portamentoed saw-synths and low-end basses. Sweetly popish and New-Waveish: what? Only 33 copies of this nice record????? /kachifugetsu_at_yahoo.co.uk or PO Box 3 Jonava 55002 Lithuania Ovo ‘t+e’-where does this come from?-vinyl 7”-nice cover man! /What do we have here? Can you imagine anyone doing
a song with someone saying ‘claclaclaclaclac’ in loop mode
in the background, layer it with hiphop samples and having someone else
say ‘it’s fantastic’ from time to time using the ‘slower
tempo’ function of Acid? Can you imagine anyone doing a song using
hardtech beats and sampled metal guitars and a toy synth? (I bet you
can imagine this one, except what you’ll get isn’t remotely
as crazy as what’s on this record) Can you imagine anyone making
a free-fake -jazz song out of pretend ocarina and saxophone sounding
like a melodica? Well, what you imagine is what we have here. No contact
info anywhere on the sleeve, sorry. |
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