11/25/2008

Lilypad - Capacitor



Lilypad is 1/3 of the mighty Emeralds. This cassette offers washes of envelope filters and dreamy LFOs and other alien stuff your brain just couldn't handle. Perfect for self-hypnosis evening.

Lilypad - Capacitor

11/24/2008

Sunburned Hand of the Man/Emeralds - What If God Was on the Subway?/Smoke This Now (Split)



This is one of the best split albums ever. You think you are hearing Skaters while its actually Sunburned and Emeralds is getting better and better with their unreal fogs of noises. Must check this out.

Sunburned/Emeralds - Split

No-Neck Blues Band - Clomeim



Mind-blowingly good twisted improv from New York's No-Neck Blues Band. This new album is brilliantly all over the place, taking in a tremendous range of stylistic stopping off points, all handled with the utmost freedom and spontaneity by these seasoned psych-blues travellers.

NNCK - Clomeim

Balmorhea - Tour EP 2008



Pronounced ‘Bal-moor-ay’, the Texan duo of Rob Lowe and Michael Muller have composed a tranquil, glistening affair brimming with organic instrumentation and bereft of any focus-slipping lyricism. Mirroring the vast Texas skies, Balmorhea's music is imbued with a visceral weight and endless space. Tour EP 2008.

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11/10/2008

Natural Snow Buildings - The Sundowner



France's mighty NSB is Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte. Over the course of several releases, their music has become the stuff of legend. This is their latest stuff. Must check out.

Natural Snow Buildings - The Sundowner

Eric Copeland - Alien in a Garbage Dump



Taking off where his last record, "Hermaphrodite" left off, these seven jams are steeped in modern media overload; dense, often fragmented blasts of ideas and sounds, representative of a half hour of prime-time TV (or something like that). This is overloaded, over-processed, overdosed music rooted in public sounds, but is somehow a giant leap from any fashion dominating the public mind.

Eric Copeland - Alien in a Garbage Dump

11/06/2008

Magical Power Mako - Super Record



Mako was born in Shuzeni Izu in Japan in 1956, and after commencing his musical education at a young age, making his first public performance in 1973 at the age of 16 with his band Genge in the famous Shibuya Club. Based on these impressive public performances, the precocious Mako was invited to play with one of Japan's foremost contemporary composers, Toru Takemistu, playing alongside the composer in 3 film scores, Inheritance For The Future, Petrified Forest and Himiko. The response to his performances was overwhelmingly enthusiastic, elevating Mako to almost god-like status in his native country. Super Record, the second of Magical Power Mako's 20-plus recordings, is considered by those that know to be his finest, combining strong elements of Japanese folk music alongside innovative psychedelic sounds and broad musical vistas of extraordinary imagination.

Magical Power Mako - Super Record