Quote:
"Fuck Buttons was conceived by Andrew Hung & Benjamin John Power in the winter of 2004, Bristol UK.
Initially the group was born as an outlet for their nihilistic-noise tendencies but quickly, the two Fuck Buttons realised they could harness the use of noise as a tool to immerse and evoke.
No longer afraid of melody or rhythm, the group started fusing all these elements to the point when drone becomes melody becomes rhythm.
With their electric live performances sealing the notion that the two Fuck Buttons are attempting some kind of transcendence between the listener and the Universe itself, one could easily envisage one’s psyches being shaken by the very rumbles of the earth’s motions.
Tribal beats and subtle beautiful melodies weave amongst contorting Technicolor drone-scapes while preaching distorted-vocals scream for dear hope herself…
Fuck Buttons straddle you between the wall of sound that lies between the beginning of destruction and the end of birth. This grand noise will fondle you into a state of immersed euphoria."
Thanks to: Bolachas Gratis blog 
Interesting images/sounds...investigate for your sake.,.,
Monday, January 28, 2008
Bright Tomorrow : Fuck Buttons
Tolerance: 'Divin' - Divinity from the past
Amazing lp of primitive, murky minimal electronics which was originally released in 1981 on the legendary, Osaka based Vanity Records.
Vanity Records stock-in-trade was raw, electronic experimentation which sounds impressively comtemporary when compared to current glitch, minimal techno and laptop artists found today.
It brings to mind Basic Channel and Moritz Von Oswald's Maurizio M-type sounds dipped and smothered in a muted analog mud stack on top of bloody pancakes of rhythm & quasi digi/analog percussion; oh, yeah!, 10-12 years ahead of it's time.
The "pulse static (tranqillia)" track is one for the ages.
Fantastic!
Find repress here
Thanks, KFW.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
March Down Babylon, mon frere
Prince Douglas: Dub RootsQuote:
This album contains the original Chosen Brothers / Prince Douglas version of "March Down Babylon" - one of the finest heavy heavy dub pieces you will ever hear..guaranteed!!
Engineer Douglas Levy was part of the original Wackies set up from 1974-75, alongside Lloyd Barnes and Jah Upton.
For a while he would have his own label - Hamma - within the Bullwackies group; but besides Sugar's International Herb, this 1980 dub album is his finest work.
Wackies' fans have been clamouring for its reissue ever since Rhythm & Sound began making the catalogue available again.
Many of the rhythms are derived from a tape given to the studio by Sly and Robbie, containing their versions of recent Joe Gibbs hits.
And there are brilliant treatments of Tribesman Dub - the rhythm for Tyrone Evans' Black Like Me - and Wayne Jarrett's definitive interpretation of Every Tongue Shall Tell. Elsewhere Jah Batta takes deejay duties - likewise Prince Douglas himself.
But the deadliest cut of all reworks another gift, Steel Pulse's "Handsworth Revolution", which arrived in a parcel of records from England the same weekend as the session:
March Down Babylon Dub, with Bullwackie himself at the microphone in his Chosen Brothers guise, as steely and apocalyptic as Douglas Levy's fabulous production.
Immense.
Full-on audio brilliance, friends. Please enjoy.
One minor note:
Sound quality is ripped at LAME 3.90 around 145 VBR.
Until I get my hands on a better version, play till the stylus (sic - I mean digiPlayer) runs batteries dead...
March Down Babylon (Dub)
Dub Roots
peas
Monday, January 14, 2008
Papo Pepo - In Ordem
Nath Family wants you as a new family member
Nath Family: Sounds of the Indian Snake Charmer
Quote:
'For the first half of 2005, I lived with my wife Erika in Kirtipur, Nepal. During our days, while she was studying at the Kathmandu Association For The Deaf, I was roaming the streets and villages of the Kathmandu Valley in search of sounds and music. While kickin? round the tourist district of Thamel picking up cassettes, I met a family of Snake Charmers from Haryana, INDIA. An old man probably in his 70s or 80s, his 2 grandsons, and one of the grandson?s sons.
'For the first half of 2005, I lived with my wife Erika in Kirtipur, Nepal. During our days, while she was studying at the Kathmandu Association For The Deaf, I was roaming the streets and villages of the Kathmandu Valley in search of sounds and music. While kickin? round the tourist district of Thamel picking up cassettes, I met a family of Snake Charmers from Haryana, INDIA. An old man probably in his 70s or 80s, his 2 grandsons, and one of the grandson?s sons.
They asked if I wanted to see a show....I said Hell YES!! They gave me a show...a KILLER show... we?re talkin 3 fuckin? king cobras dancing at once, while a giant boa chilled at the side and few other random lil? snake dudes are wigglin around here and there. I became obsessed. I had met my new best friends... Though the kind of best friends you have to pay to hang out with. They were hustlers, yes.. But that?s their job... The money was well worth the shows.
I spent about 3-4 days a week for the next 2 months, recording their music and their snake shows on mini-disc and videotape.
I Drank alot of chiyaa with them, smoked alot of cigarettes and bidis. They taught me how to make reeds out of bamboo, and I traded them some clothes for a snake charming horn. They call them Beens, they are also known as Pungis. These guys were the best. At the end of April they left Kathmandu, heading to Pokhara, after that it was time for them to head back home with their earnings. Man...I missed them.
This LP is the BEST OF THE BEST of the recordings I made of them. There are some classic Bollywood tracks, a Nepali folk song, and side 2 is a 19 minute drone journey into the head of the KING COBRA. The recordings were done in stereo. A been on the left, a been on the right. A premtal (stringed percussion instrument) on the left, a premtal on the right. The stereo recording of the charmers sway creates a very disorienting stereo tremelo effect. It?s almost as if YOU are the SNAKE! These tracks were recorded in an alley. There is the occasional rumble of a car passing by, and the low murmer of the locals checkin out the white kid with the fancy gadget hangin? with the snake dudes.' -- AARON DILLOWAY, May 2005
Addicting Nepal muzak...so f-ing Great, enjoy.
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HOTSAUCE > Ra Ra Riots (RAC Remixes)
Wooden Shjips are here among us
Music speaks for itself - awesome.
Sit back in your favorite lazy boy, burn some incense
and...
peas
Deer Tick (is gonna getcha)
Found this incredible album entitled, "War Elephant," by Deer Tick:
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Deer Tick began as the songwriting project of John McCauley, a singer/songwriter based out of Providence, Rhode Island. Thanks to the help of Brendon "Viking Moses" Massei, McCauley has been ferociously zig-zagging across the United States, hitting all the sparsely attended basement shows, smoky bars, upscale joints, small to medium size festivals, and everything in between, since April of 2005. At 21 years of age, McCauley has worked very hard to get his homemade CD's in players across the country, and has no plans to stop any time soon.
Deer Tick's first official release came out on September 4th, 2007 through Houston's Feow! Records. Entitled "War Elephant", the album represents the fearlessness of a young man who will play a set at a New England sports bar while a Red Sox championship game is on the tube. But more than that, the album celebrates the art of songwriting and the songs that have advanced McCauley in his career and made him a unique figure on the face of music for the past two or three years.
McCauley takes his cues from legendary songwriters such as Townes Van Zant, Neil Young and Ritchie Valens, and big stage personalities like Sammy Davis Jr., and Tony Bennett. His influences are something that sets his live shows apart from most other acts. The Deer Tick experience is something that can be fun and heart wrenching at the same time. The performance is usually riddled with jokes, but always with a genuine and serious message that is delivered sincerely to the listener. You might just have to go and see it to fully understand it.
This is not going to be the record they play at the dance party in the warehouse that you got all done up for. This will be the record you listen to on the drive back, alone and after you’ve sobered up enough to make it.
LIVE IN LA > The Cool Kids, Hollywood Holt, Million $ Mano, more.. at the Echo!
This is a show I'm truly excited about. The Cool Kids goes without saying but the bonus kickers here are Million Dollar Mano and Hollywood Holt. I get the sense that this will not only be a hip hop show but also a flat out dance party.
Peep the tracks below and definitely check out the show. Tickets are $15 advanced and can be bought HERE.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
BIG FLOOR: It's True (Dabruck & Klein Remix)
I think the formula is something like this:
2 Producers x 2 Remixers + One Original Artist. OMG Math.
Liked Axwell and Sebastian's original. This remix just gives it a little dancefloor punch.
It's True - Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, Salem Al Fakir (Dabruck & Klein Remix)
It's True - Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, Salem Al Fakir (Dabruck & Klein Remix)
High Quality Mp3 available at BEATPORT
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