tach.dé - tach.dé

recorded in february 2009 and released july 2010, the tach.dé kids from Puerto Rico finally have an album. it contains music from their first phases as a group dating from 2006 till 2008 with soundscapes as interludes that were created in the following year. the bulk of the music sounds heavy with some sporadic riff action while other tunes are gentle and melancholic.

streams

Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship, The Landlord Is Dead

yet another album that grew up with me and shaped my ears into the eclectic listener i try to be. a good production from another humble canadian band that recorded this album inside a strange place. epic soundtracks for those long drives and cozy moments in life. long loops of distorted guitars with some rare delayed atmospheres. 

minminminminmin

A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace The Corners Of Our Room

this is the debut release by Montreal based band A Silver Mt. Zion (they have changed names various times and still changing), side project of guitarist Efrim Menuk of Godspeed! You Black Emperor. an instrumental record of epic proportions full of unique soundscapes and long compositions.

13 Angels Standing Guard 'round the Side of Your Bed

Half Japanese - "Greatest Hits"

"The band's proponents saw them as the epitome of a pure, unbridled enthusiasm for rock & roll, the ultimate expression of punk's dictum that rock should be accessible to anyone who wanted to pick up an instrument and play."


"Detractors found them gratingly noisy, borderline unlistenable, and too self-conscious and willful about their naïveté. That naïveté extended to their lyrical outlook too, not just their technical abilities; when they weren't singing about horror movies or tabloid headlines, most of their songs were about girls, veering between innocent longing and wounded sexual frustration."




"Their primary influences were clearly the minimalism of the Velvet Underground and the innocence of Jonathan Richman, with some Iggy Pop angst at times."[AMG]

One & Two.

Half Japanese - Calling All Girls

Their first EP. Songs clocking in at 2 minutes. Untuned & unruly.
git

Ruins.

Stonehenge.


Hyderomastgroningem.


Burning Stone.

For Mr.Diaz-Algaro:
"Ruins are the brainchild of drummer Tatsuya Yoshida, one of Japan's most original and fiercely independent musicians. He formed the band in the summer of 1985, originally intending to be a power trio, but when the guitarist didn't show for their first rehearsal, he bumped Ruins down to a rhythm-section-only duo.

Ruins produce a unique fusion of punk and progressive rock. Yoshida has stated that while he admires punk's energy, he has no desire to play pure punk, and in fact grew up on a steady diet of prog bands such as Genesis, ELP, and Gentle Giant. However, his true inspiration came from France's Magma. Magma's trademark odd-metered motives, faux operatic signing, and especially Christian Vander's extroverted drumming have certainly made their way into Yoshida's consciousness, although the jazzy undertones and relatively atmospheric group sound did not. From an early point, Ruins appealed to the avant-garde and punk listener more than the more traditional 'progger'. On their first recordings, they teamed up with NYC experimental sax-icon John Zorn, and would later put out albums on his Tzadik label. The Ruins sound is dense mix of hardcore punk, prog theatrics, and free-improv. Some critics have used the term 'jazzcore', but that seems inadequate. There really is no describing the duo's sound."



throw out your hella & lightning bolt cd-r's

Liars.

They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top.


Drum's not dead.


They were wrong, so we drowned.


Liars.


House Clouds.(single)

"Liars were conceived in November 2000 after two friends and ex-Los Angeles art students, Aaron Hemphill and Angus Andrew, reunited in New York City. They responded to a "musicians wanted" ad posted in a local record store by two Nebraskans, Pat Noecker and Ron Albertson. The lurching Aussie Andrew took on the vocal/frontman duties while Hemphill became their guitarist and drum-machine programmer. Bassist Noecker and drummer Albertson make up the Liars rhythm section. Combined, they write music -- surprisingly formulated after the beats are laid down on the drum machine -- exhibiting fundamental elements of punk rock. Synthetic keypads, vocal modulation, and interspersed prearranged compositions, mixed with their guitar-bass-drums equation, create angular yet melodic songs. Liars are reminiscent of U.K. groups that embraced dance music during the late '70s/early '80s (A Certain Ratio, Gang of Four, the Slits) -- bands that are all known for insidiously adding danceable rhythms to punk.

Only months after forming, the group played its first show. Liars' debut album, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, was released on independent Gern Blandsten Records in October 2001 and was later reissued by Blast First/Mute. The album was recorded in just two days by producer/engineer Steve Revitte, who's best known for this work with the Beastie Boys and Lee "Scratch" Perry. Late the following year, Noecker and Albertson left the band and percussionist Julian Gross was recruited as a replacement. The trio began recording the second Liars album at Andrew's house in the forests of New Jersey with friend and co-producer Dave Sitek. The results, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned, which was inspired by experimental electronic music and German legends about witchcraft, arrived in early 2004. After moving to Berlin, Liars got even more ambitious on Drum's Not Dead, a concept album revolving around creativity and doubt accompanied by short films by the band and other filmmakers. The band took a much more stripped-down approach for 2007's self-titled album, which featured more structured songwriting and a harder-edged sound." -[AMG]

One of my favorite bands.

Disco Inferno - In Debt

For my good friend Andres. Compilation of early DI works.

In Debt

Red Krayola - Singles 1968-2002

Hail Mayo Thompson, Texan Psychonaut and founder of The Red Crayola/Krayola.

"The Red Crayola were one of the greatest psychedelic bands of the 1960s and probably of all times. They played extremely wild and cacophonous music that was decades ahead of its time. They predated Germany's expressionistic rock (Faust) and the American new wave (Pere Ubu). Their "freak outs" were closer to John Coltrane's free-jazz and to Jackson Pollock's abstract paintings than to rock and roll. Their leader, Mayo Thompson, is a composer who ranks among the greatest living musicians (classical, jazz, rock). His revolutionary compositional style had few stable coordinates. His pieces float not because they are ethereal but because melody and rhythm are left "loose". They are organisms that rely on supporting skeletons that are falling apart as they move. Thompson placed his art firmly in the iconoclastic tradition that Frank Zappa had just founded, and simply increased the amount and the speed of noise. Parable Of Arable Land (1967) is one of the milestones of rock music, a carousel of savage harmonic inventions/sabotages. God Bless (1968) was even closer (in spirit if not in sound) to the likes of Edgar Varese and John Cage. It is not a coincidence that Thompson was rediscovered by the new wave ten years later: his Soldier Talk (1979) could have well been the album of the Pere Ubu (the band he eventually joined). As of 1997, none of the major encyclopedias and histories of rock music published in Anglosaxon countries mentioned them. " - Scaruffi

Yik Yak

This Heat - Deceit

I discovered this like two days ago and i still can`t tell you how mind blowing this album is. The shit is amazing. The following is taken directly from wikipedia:

"This Heat were active in the ascendancy of British progressive rock and punk rock, but stood apart from those scenes due to a radically inventive approach that touched on numerous different styles and genres, but was always confrontational and politically charged. Their commercial success was limited, but This Heat are widely considered a missing link between progressive rock (especially krautrock) and such later experimental genres as post punk, post rock and noise rock."

I guess Slint was pretty influenced by these dudes as well.

Strings Of Consciousness - Our Moon is Full

Awesome album from this international collective relased in 2007. Resembling an urban-noir take on Current 93's miserabilism (at its most psychedelic) with huge touches of Barry Adamson's "soundtracks for non-existent films" approach (no wonder it was released in Barry's label) and Talk Talk circa "Spirit of Eden", Strings bring the shit with harp, violin, guitar, double bass, vibraphones, electronics and processed trumpet (courtesy of Andy Diagram of Spaceheads/Two Pale Boys). With vocal contributions from JG Thirwell (Foetus), Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Scott McCloud (Girls against Boys), demented poet Black Sifichi and Adamson, you can't go wrong with this one.

Moonbeams

Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention - We're Only In it for the Money

"My name is Jimmy Carl Black and I'm the indian of the group".

Chrome Plated

Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!

The Alpha, perhaps? You could make a case for it.

Suzy Creamcheese does two somersaults

Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies - The American Metaphysical Circus

Requested by Andres. More electronic/psychedelic craziness from Mr. Byrd.

"Byrd wasted no time refurbishing his nest with another group, this time a studio-only entity known as Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies. Their lone LP, The American Metaphysical Circus, is another oddball classic. Opening with some dark, electronic soundscapes laminated with haunting, moaning female vocals that segue into an awesomely catchy, lightweight, psychedelic rock song; a parody of many musical styles then follows: ’60s pop, romantic ballads, vintage hot jazz (in one speaker only with tons of surface crackle added for authentic 78 rpm record sound), old folks' sing-along piano ditties, etc. with occasional ominous electronics bubbling up to the surface. The overall “Age of Aquarius” feel is subtly twisted by beautiful, mostly female vocals belting out some fairly mentally disturbed lyrics."

Mister 4th

The United States of America - s/t

Request by Andres. Like the Silver Apples, the USA's use of electronic apparatus to bolster the song into other planes of there made them instrumental to the development of popular electronic music.

"Joseph Byrd is a composer and music teacher who's been working since the 1950s. After starting out playing in pop, jazz and country bands as a Tucson, Arizona teen, Byrd moseyed on over to Stanford college in New York City in 1959, where he became a student of experimental composer John Cage and joined the nascent Fluxus art scene. He even debuted his first minimal music works at Yoko Ono's loft! Soon after college, Byrd accepted a teaching position at UCLA in the mid '60s, but after the music bug bit him hard, he quit to play full-time. His most well-known work appeared on two LPs at the end of that decade.

Byrd's first band, the short-lived United States of America, splashed out a unique spray of rock, psychedelic and avant-garde music. They eschewed rock's staple instrument, the electric guitar, in favor of then cutting-edge electronic devices like an early, primitive synthesizer and a ring modulator, the whoosh and bleeps of which they blended in with crystal clear female vocals and searing violin to effortlessly bake a whole loaf's worth of damaged space age pop. After the release of their one and only self-titled LP in 1968, the band played a few shows, then promptly and predictably imploded due to the usual drug problems and creative differences."

USA

Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance

The album that got my head rearranged, many moons ago. Did the same for many others as well. Essential.

Shoot him with a gun

Tangerine Dream - Zeit

TD as glacial, molasses like ambient outfit, recording approximations on the sound of galaxies colliding. Check how "The Birth of Liquid Plejades" puts chancers like Godspeed You! Black Emperor to shame...and it was recorded more 20 years before those canadian pretenders ever decided to pick up an instrument.

time

Spectrum - Forever Alien

Request from my friend Christiancillou. Spectrum is one of the main projects of ex-Spacemen 3 founder and Experimental Audio Research's head honcho Sonic Boom. On Spectrum he focuses on following the footsteps of the electronic constructions made by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the glacial electronics of prime Tangerine Dream within a pop context, using an array of vintage synths, pedals, ring modulators, and vocoders. Still "taking drugs to make music to take drugs to", forever drifting into cosmic bliss. This is their fourth album.

Owsley

Suicide - A Way of Life

Their third album, includes perhaps their most beautiful song, "Surrender", that sounds like doo-wop's ghost trapped in a web of old transistors.

I Surrender

Suicide - Half Alive

The legendary ROIR cassette, remastered with bonus tracks.

A pounding reminder of industrial dance music's early beginnings. They produced a unique obsessively American electronic music of enormous energy and enduring influence - throbbing sequencers and "Morrisonesque" vocals: Awesome. -Trouser Press Record Guide

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