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V./Ultra Milkmaids ‘drone+unease’–zeromoon–CD–homemade BW package

/Old school industrial meets electronica. Imagine the bunkers Throbbing Gristles used to play in, covered in flowers and perfumed with subtle scents of lavender and lilac and you’re halfway there. Great. Inspired, melodic, rhythmic, violently beautiful and so varied too (I’m not part of Zero Moon’s staff)(yet). These bands both toured in the US and played several shows together. With almost nobody in front of them, or so it’s said. But you know: ‘people ain’t no good, they never do what I think they should’.

/www.zeromoon.com – jeff_at_zeromoon.com

Violet ‘green’ and ‘let the sunshine in’-ZeroMoon-green CDR/3” CDR-superb shell box / superb slim sleeve

/’music for record player, guitar, autoharp, tape’ it says. Music for Sunday’s after-lunch coffees, sitting together at the kitchen table, aware another week of work is behind without being quite aware there’s another one ahead, barbecue smell still floating around, ice-cream remains melting slowly in their cups, I say. Absolutely charming, dreamy, peaceful and both wonderfully packaged. My personal favourite is ‘Kwangmjonghoele’ on the ‘let the sun…’, a beautiful long song with a weird long name, background for meditation under the sun on a (chaise longue) in the garden with a smile on my face.

/http://www.zeromoon.com/

Vultures ‘great discoveries and plasma ticks’-momt-CD-jahwyl raggamuffinnaboxhaa

/One thing’s for sure: Vultures kept their great singer and their great singer kept his vocal overdrive knob in the right corner (and added a tremolo, good idea). And they forgot all the EBM stereotypes that usually make electronic-influenced metal so tedious. Beats are distorted bitreduced compressed multi-layered residues of rhythm; guitar riffs are as simple as they should be and basslines are as close to the dancefloor as Robocop is to Starsky&Hutch. And, and, and NO MELODIES in there!! No wannabe easy-listening soft-bellied moments à la Nine Inch Nails!! Regrets? Yeah, regrets: 4 tracks from Vultures there and they’re uniformly great, but 6 remixes too and they’re uniformly… Well uniformly not worth speaking about, for the exact reasons why I usually hate industrial metal. Why not releasing a 3”or a split with Muckrackers instead?

/www.momt.co.uk

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V./Ultra Milkmaids ‘drone+unease’–zeromoon–CD–homemade BW package /Old school industrial meets electronica. Imagine the bunkers Throbbing Gristles used to play in, covered in flowers and perfumed with subtle scents of lavender and lilac and you’re halfway there. Great. Inspired, melodic, rhythmic, violently beautiful and so varied too (I’m not part of Zero Moon’s staff)(yet). These bands both toured in the US and played several shows together. With almost nobody in front of them, or so it’s said. But you know: ‘people ain’t no good, they never do what I think they should’. /www.zeromoon.com – jeff_at_zeromoon.com Violet ‘green’ and ‘let the sunshine in’-ZeroMoon-green CDR/3” CDR-superb shell box / superb slim sleeve /’music for record player, guitar, autoharp, tape’ it says. Music for Sunday’s after-lunch coffees, sitting together at the kitchen table, aware another week of work is behind without being quite aware there’s another one ahead, barbecue smell still floating around, ice-cream remains melting slowly in their cups, I say. Absolutely charming, dreamy, peaceful and both wonderfully packaged. My personal favourite is ‘Kwangmjonghoele’ on the ‘let the sun…’, a beautiful long song with a weird long name, background for meditation under the sun on a (chaise longue) in the garden with a smile on my face. /http://www.zeromoon.com/ Vultures ‘great discoveries and plasma ticks’-momt-CD-jahwyl raggamuffinnaboxhaa /One thing’s for sure: Vultures kept their great singer and their great singer kept his vocal overdrive knob in the right corner (and added a tremolo, good idea). And they forgot all the EBM stereotypes that usually make electronic-influenced metal so tedious. Beats are distorted bitreduced compressed multi-layered residues of rhythm; guitar riffs are as simple as they should be and basslines are as close to the dancefloor as Robocop is to Starsky&Hutch. And, and, and NO MELODIES in there!! No wannabe easy-listening soft-bellied moments à la Nine Inch Nails!! Regrets? Yeah, regrets: 4 tracks from Vultures there and they’re uniformly great, but 6 remixes too and they’re uniformly… Well uniformly not worth speaking about, for the exact reasons why I usually hate industrial metal. Why not releasing a 3”or a split with Muckrackers instead? /www.momt.co.uk