no interest reviews of the no audience underground

Ubique daemon vs. Zyrtax split-dead mind-7”-tracing paper cover!

/Instead of being (quite) boring ambient, Tribes of Neurot could sound like this: noise/electro/ambient version of Neurosis; more emphasis on the non-rock aspects of the music, adding variety without loosing its power. Really good.

/controlvschaos_at_hotmail.com or PO Box 1377 – 5200 Den Bosch - NL

Ultra Milkmaids & Vance Orchestra ‘milk orchestra’-thisco- CDR in a PVC envelope: still my favourite

/Gently opens with glassy drones that break with a click. Then a little gentle synth line layered with noises-that-make-beat and a bassdrum. Then a little bruits concrets like someone playing with a speaking toy in a rehearsal room. Then a wonderful ambient piece that slowly evolves from field recording to spaceage analogue pads. You had just under 20 minutes of sheer pleasure and you should be thankful.

/www.thisco.net

Ultra Milkmaids ‘03/02/USA lives’-Umohol-3”CDR-color cover

/Memories of their USA tour mixed (but not edited) to 21 minutes of pure pleasure. The best artistic comparison I can come to is a painting, something careful and delicate, something you imagine the painter has been thinking of for months and then is about to render in a couple of hours with very little color and very few elements. Sweet repetitive tunes played louder and louder till they become walls of melody. Sweet little drops of joy coming from a broken Alien-Beauty-Generator™. Limited to 50 copies: RUN AND BUY IT, cause I already have one and that’s 49 left.

Ultra Milkmaids ‘pop pressing’ – ant-zen – CD digipack

/Once upon a time in a perfect world there was this movie from the Coen brothers called ‘the man who wasn’t there’. Told the sad story of a man executed for a murder he was innocent of after actually killing someone by accident –his wife’s lover- and having his wife committing suicide before being executed for it (what a plot ain’t it). A melancholic movie about how things happen and how you sometimes should do something to prevent them from happening. Or maybe you shouldn’t do anything cause they’re going to happen anyway. Or whatever you do other sad things won’t fail to happen. This man smokes all day, says few words, has grey hair, never smiles, likes Beethoven sonatas and he’s a barber. And all this mess in his life begins because he’s offered the chance by some kinda old roué to become a millionaire with dry cleaning stores… Which leads us to this UM album, because ‘pressing’ means ‘dry-cleaning’ in French and I suspect what you see on this record cover actually is a picture of a laundry/dry-cleaning store. In a perfect world, the Coen brothers would’ve used this beautiful record as the soundtrack for their beautiful movie since it would’ve fitted perfectly, with its nostalgic reversed guitar loops, its echoing delays and sweet tunes. This is no perfect world, so wish this WONDERFUL record good luck with me before the next Coen brothers movie is out (who would’ve said I’d like anything from ant-zen -I like this one probably because ant-zen isn’t printed anywhere on the cover J).

/www.ultra-milkmaids.com

Urban Struggle/Agathocles split-wee wee-7” vinyl-nice cardboard package

/One of those metal releases you find yourself wondering whether you should play them 33 or 45 rpm. Since my preferences go to sludge and depressive doom (for me, it’ll be without clichés, thank you), have a guess at what my choice was. On my left champion Agathocles at its best delivers its usual heavy stomach hooks with double pedal fists and grinding guitar sound. These people simply are the best metal band in Western Europe, I think. Why doesn’t Mr Negre at Universal Musesick seem to agree, I wonder. By the way, even at 33rpm, this is real FAST. On my right, challenger Urban Struggle is the good surprise of the month. Naive political lyrics? Who cares. Lofi sound? 1-not that much 2-do you like Limp Bizkit (shame on you)? Two voices, one male and female singing like in punk bands? A good idea, isn’t it, for a crust band. Nothing technically original there? SO WHAT. Tracks are fast, short, efficient, and do their job of leaving you feeling you’ve just been beaten up by a raving horde of semiquaver-hungry pokemons just as well as Agathocles’ do. And their names are delicious: Michael Bolton and Mariah Carey sing there, you know. Tie.

/c/o David Séchand, 25 rue Goudouli, 31240 SAINT-JEAN, FRANCE or mailto: davids_at_weewee.scs-internet.fr

click on banner to go back to archive index

Ubique daemon vs. Zyrtax split-dead mind-7”-tracing paper cover! /Instead of being (quite) boring ambient, Tribes of Neurot could sound like this: noise/electro/ambient version of Neurosis; more emphasis on the non-rock aspects of the music, adding variety without loosing its power. Really good. /controlvschaos_at_hotmail.com or PO Box 1377 – 5200 Den Bosch - NL Ultra Milkmaids & Vance Orchestra ‘milk orchestra’-thisco- CDR in a PVC envelope: still my favourite /Gently opens with glassy drones that break with a click. Then a little gentle synth line layered with noises-that-make-beat and a bassdrum. Then a little bruits concrets like someone playing with a speaking toy in a rehearsal room. Then a wonderful ambient piece that slowly evolves from field recording to spaceage analogue pads. You had just under 20 minutes of sheer pleasure and you should be thankful. /www.thisco.net Ultra Milkmaids ‘03/02/USA lives’-Umohol-3”CDR-color cover /Memories of their USA tour mixed (but not edited) to 21 minutes of pure pleasure. The best artistic comparison I can come to is a painting, something careful and delicate, something you imagine the painter has been thinking of for months and then is about to render in a couple of hours with very little color and very few elements. Sweet repetitive tunes played louder and louder till they become walls of melody. Sweet little drops of joy coming from a broken Alien-Beauty-Generator™. Limited to 50 copies: RUN AND BUY IT, cause I already have one and that’s 49 left. Ultra Milkmaids ‘pop pressing’ – ant-zen – CD digipack /Once upon a time in a perfect world there was this movie from the Coen brothers called ‘the man who wasn’t there’. Told the sad story of a man executed for a murder he was innocent of after actually killing someone by accident –his wife’s lover- and having his wife committing suicide before being executed for it (what a plot ain’t it). A melancholic movie about how things happen and how you sometimes should do something to prevent them from happening. Or maybe you shouldn’t do anything cause they’re going to happen anyway. Or whatever you do other sad things won’t fail to happen. This man smokes all day, says few words, has grey hair, never smiles, likes Beethoven sonatas and he’s a barber. And all this mess in his life begins because he’s offered the chance by some kinda old roué to become a millionaire with dry cleaning stores… Which leads us to this UM album, because ‘pressing’ means ‘dry-cleaning’ in French and I suspect what you see on this record cover actually is a picture of a laundry/dry-cleaning store. In a perfect world, the Coen brothers would’ve used this beautiful record as the soundtrack for their beautiful movie since it would’ve fitted perfectly, with its nostalgic reversed guitar loops, its echoing delays and sweet tunes. This is no perfect world, so wish this WONDERFUL record good luck with me before the next Coen brothers movie is out (who would’ve said I’d like anything from ant-zen -I like this one probably because ant-zen isn’t printed anywhere on the cover J). /www.ultra-milkmaids.com Urban Struggle/Agathocles split-wee wee-7” vinyl-nice cardboard package /One of those metal releases you find yourself wondering whether you should play them 33 or 45 rpm. Since my preferences go to sludge and depressive doom (for me, it’ll be without clichés, thank you), have a guess at what my choice was. On my left champion Agathocles at its best delivers its usual heavy stomach hooks with double pedal fists and grinding guitar sound. These people simply are the best metal band in Western Europe, I think. Why doesn’t Mr Negre at Universal Musesick seem to agree, I wonder. By the way, even at 33rpm, this is real FAST. On my right, challenger Urban Struggle is the good surprise of the month. Naive political lyrics? Who cares. Lofi sound? 1-not that much 2-do you like Limp Bizkit (shame on you)? Two voices, one male and female singing like in punk bands? A good idea, isn’t it, for a crust band. Nothing technically original there? SO WHAT. Tracks are fast, short, efficient, and do their job of leaving you feeling you’ve just been beaten up by a raving horde of semiquaver-hungry pokemons just as well as Agathocles’ do. And their names are delicious: Michael Bolton and Mariah Carey sing there, you know. Tie. /c/o David Séchand, 25 rue Goudouli, 31240 SAINT-JEAN, FRANCE or mailto: davids_at_weewee.scs-internet.fr