Tagged: variouslabels

Official Site MySpace Page Fueled by the personal vision of brothers Richard and Chris Adams, Leeds, England's Hood  combine such disparate sources as loner folk, Flying Saucer Attack fuzz, Bark Psychosis dynamics, New Zealand song-writing iconoclasm (think This Kind of Punishment/Pin Group), quality pop and collage aesthetics into an exciting sonic stew. - Slumberland Records calalogue For Hood, [...]

MySpace Fan Page UK Fan Site Much like The Shaggs before them, Half-Japanese were all about amateur rock music at its best (or worst, depending on a particular point of view). Started by brothers Jad and David Fair in the late 70s, the band rejected all conventional ideas about music and were some of the strongest supporters of [...]

Aarktica is a way to "execute the soundtrack of life in mono... one of audio distortions, aural hallucinations and reliance on painkillers." - Jon DeRosa Official Site Epitonic Page Aarktica, a solo project of New Jersey born guitarist Jon DeRosa was born out of a very unfortunate event - in the late 90s DeRosa suffered a permanent hearing [...]

MySpace Page 1 part Jesus Lizard, 1 part Alice Donut, 1 part Black Sabbath, 1 part Charles Mingus, [...]

All audio equipment distorts sound to some degree and, eventually through mechanical and electrical failure, fucks it up. Since indeterminacy as a compositional parameter has been a constant in our work, this often produces what we regard as interesting new developments. The Edge - Z-F Page Jim's Music Page - Z-F Section A collective of ethnomusicologists, sound explorers [...]

Unofficial Site Formed by a veteran musician Brad Laner, California band Medicine were doing their own original take on the shoegaze genre and managed to separate themselves from the rest of similar bands. As a teenager, Laner was playing with bands like Nervous Gender and Vox Pop, but eventually he also started listening and becoming influenced by  [...]

All audio equipment distorts sound to some degree and, eventually through mechanical and electrical failure, fucks it up. Since indeterminacy as a compositional parameter has been a constant in our work, this often produces what we regard as interesting new developments. The Edge - Z-F Page Jim's Music Page - Z-F Section A collective of ethnomusicologists, sound explorers [...]

Starbound - Tribute Site Not to be confused with 70s disco megahit, DI (the band) was a band of Londoners who, in the late 80s decided to formed a band under the influence of bands like Wire and Joy Division (as well as general output of Factory label). In the next decade, they produced a number [...]

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Official Site MySpace Page Taking equal bits of inspiration from art and punk, but leaving behind some of the more ridiculous aspects of both fields, Wire were able to fuse experimentation and rock music in ways that many bands attempted to capture ever since their debut "Pink Flag" came out in 1977. Future band members Colin Newman and [...]

Germany's Bohren & der Club of Gore are a black metal fan's lounge jazz act. Or, for those driven by the more extreme side of noir-ish ambient material, these cats lay it out with musical instruments (and a Mellotron), painfully slow and muted tempos, and a relentlessly gloomy atmosphere worthy of the first Black Sabbath [...]

Official Site MySpace Page Houston, TX  based PT blended together traditional rock music and sampling and digital effects in a way that sounded remarkably like few other bands. Centered around Scott Ayers and Bliss Blood, the band was formed in 1985 and originally was a solo project of Ayers whoat the time was enrolled at the University of [...]

MySpace Page Locrian is a Chicago-based duo of Andre Foisy (Break Of Dawn, Unlucky Atlas) and Terrence Hannum (City Of Liars, Unlucky Atlas), which so far recorded numerous tapes, CDr and one CD for such labels as Bloodlust, Catholic Tapes, Pilgrim Talk and Diophantine Discs. Although their main base is Chicago, none of the members are city [...]

MySpace Page Crawling out of the fertile 80s tape scene, Germany's Maeror Tri accomplished quite a few things during their run - while they never became a mainstream act, they toured and recorded for almost a decade and many of their original cassette releases got a digital treatment with much of their material still being reissued [...]

• maeror tri - ecstatic singing

Formed by two former Napalm Death members (Nic Bullen and Mick Harris) , Scorn eventually became a one-man show run by Harris after Bullen's departure. Musically, it have little to nothing to do with either of musician's past work and while their early work still retained traces of traditional rock music, Scorn's later/current output is [...]

  With the vast amounts of electronic music being produced, sold & shared week in week out its virtually impossible to keep up. So with that in mind I'm going to run down my personal top ten tracks (in no order) that I feel have been overlooked & underrated in 2008. Koss - "Earth" (Âme Remix) [Mule Electronic] (buy)   Released back in August this year, Âme's remix of "Earth" by Koss aka Kuniyuki is without doubt one of the best remixes this year. And one of Âme's personal favourite's too, & lets face it you don't hear that [...]