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Podcast Episodes 701 & 702 are now live!

Cow in Maui from Veronika in Vienna

Two new shows just for you.

We have squeezed out two extended release episodes for this weekend to get you through this week. They contain mostly new songs but there's also new issues from the vaults.

The first show features music from Rider/Horse, Mint Field, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Anastasia Coope, ISAN, Stone Music, La Securite, Bark Psychosis, Jon Rose, Master Wilburn Burchette, Umberto, Wand, Tim Koh, Sun An, and Memory Drawings.

The second episode has music by Laibach, Melt-Banana, Chuck Johnson, X, K. Yoshimatsu, Dorothy Carter, Pavel Milyakov, Violence Gratuite, Mark Templeton, Dummy, Endon, body / negative, Midwife, Alberto Boccardi, Divine.

Cow in Maui from Veronika in Vienna.

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BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa, "Vikinga Brennivin"

Sunday, 06 March 2005

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This is one of the best, most expertly crafted releases I have heard inquite some time. The artist formerly known as Hazard (Nilsen) andStilluppsteypa (recently reduced to a duo of Sigtryggur B. Sigmarssonand Helgi Thorsson) combine sounds that evoke panoramic landscapes.

BJ Nilsen, "Fade to White"

Sunday, 06 March 2005

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The first thing I noticed upon picking up this disc was the cover,startling in its divergence from Touch photographer Jon Wozencroft'stypically blue-toned design. The majority of images here are gradationsupon a white scale, slow and detailed blends like the windowledge-fragment on the front, juxtaposed with the dramatic plunge intopure white of the tree silhouette on the inner sleeve.

Big Business, "Head for the Shallow"

Sunday, 06 March 2005

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At first I thought, "Great, another duo playing guitar and drums isreleasing music with the intent of resurrecting the lost heart and soulof lead-lined rock." This time around it's Jared Warren of Karp playingbass guitar and singing with drummer Coady Willis from Murder CityDevils. The most immediately obvious and awesome feature of Head for the Shallowis its neutron-thick production.

Smegma, "Rumblings"

Sunday, 27 February 2005

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The ever revolving cast of characters that form Smegma grew out of theLos Angeles Free Music Society in the mid-70s and has not stoppedreocrding or performing since. This, however, is their first "proper"album in over ten years. Rumblingsincludes a cast of familiar characters, but also includes the infamousRichard Meltzer (known for his writing and for his involvement in theBlue Oyster Cult).

Jesu

Sunday, 27 February 2005

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This album is going to make a lot of people very happy. Jesuis the first full-length, all-cylinders-firing rock-oriented releasefrom Justin Broadrick in quite a while, following a long period of timeduring which the former Napalm Death guitarist and Godflesh founderindulged his interest in hip-hop, dub and other, more experimental,less satisfying projects.

The Field Mice reissues

Sunday, 27 February 2005

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In a proper offering of respect, LTM has assembled three releases(including a double CD) collecting all of the Field Mice's output whichhas been out of print for a number of years. The majority of songs arelicensed from the now defunct Sarah Records, a label which was createdfor the very specific teleology of releasing 100 singles (though inactuality they surpassed that initial vision).

Bill Fay Group, "Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow"

Sunday, 27 February 2005

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More than 35 years after Bill Fay's work first surfaced on DeccaRecords, the unique singer-songwriter is finally getting his due. Isuppose its inevitable that an artist who recorded two such singularlyidiosyncratic and intensely rendered albums—1970's Bill Fay and 1971's Time of the Last Persecution—andthen permanently disappeared off the radar screen would be the subjectof much speculation.

Vicious Pink Goo, "Take U To The Car Crash"

Sunday, 27 February 2005

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Yuck. Thankfully this 12" from Vicious Pink Goo is not indicative ofthe depth and breadth of current trends in dance music.

ANAL, "ZERO BEATS PER MINUTE"

Sunday, 27 February 2005

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In 1995, Jody Evans was a 19-year-old studio technician working on Julian Cope's dreadful 20 Mothersalbum, when the Archdrude himself caught the youngster fucking aroundwith his VCS3 synthesizer, creating a marvelous racket.Thighpaulsandra, the widely acknowledged master of all instrumentssynthetic and analog, was also at those sessions, and, similarlyimpressed by Evans' instinctive techniques, joined forces with Cope toproduce his debut album as Anal.

Hive Mind, "Death Tone"

Sunday, 27 February 2005

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I think this is supposed to sound grinding, heavy, and intimidating,but the latest from Chondritic Sound's founder sounds more like a blastof dense, hot air than anything else. This single, 42 minute trackfluctuates between a frustrating stasis and short, intense barrages ofmachine noise and static. The bass-like rumble that stays through theentire album undergoes a series of modulations that becomes thicker andthicker while waves of bees, never-ending crunches, and low-endfrequencies boil over one another in an almost indistinguishable haze.