
Christmas sure has that certain knack of bringing people together, and from all corners of the globe, and from all varieties of the Rack & Ruin musical spectrum. Vlantis, a RnR newcomer starts off proceedings with the joyous, fast, fun, frenetic opener "Hush Child, The Snow is Gone", a track based on one which Vlantis (Joe Jacobs) wrote with his friend Chris Ward at an earlier date. Grand Pocket Orchestra are next up, with another ridiculously catchy number entitled "Yum Yum", their coming year will be one to watch with interest. We slow things down a [...]

Gnomefoam - Dragonfist! Gnomefoam Fucklord Dragonfist ( download ) /chopped, twisted, and fucked/ /creative commons shitcore/ /girl talk can suck it/

The ever fertile cut n' paster, Gnomefoam returns to Rack & Ruin with his sixth proper release under this moniker (not counting his work with Almiqui and Anata Wa Sukkari Tsukarete Shimai). This new album is called "Fucklord Dragonfist", whose words seem to be strung unexpectedly together, much like the sounds contained within. Gnomefoam has tirelessly worked at his art, crafting soundscapes together from found sounds, located primarily from various creative commons websites on the internet. This highly experimental view on "what is music?" creates a weird and wonderful eclectic mix, integrating a vast array of [...]

Gnomefoam's Steve Bromley is a very busy man, finding time to work on the Almiqui project with Sister Ruth, anata wa sukkai tsukarete shimai from with _ and bunny, and also his very own Gnomefoam project. This release is full of remixes, and collaborations with various other Rack & Ruin artists, including the likes of Tyson Brinacombe, and These are Words. The remixes include PJE's 'Convex', as well as a Sascha Muller's 'Burn Korg Burn', and perhaps more intriguingly, a stomping version of the Boo Radleys 'Barney....(and me)'. With this being predominantly a remix album [...]