tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65558079701751595192024-03-13T17:22:24.584+00:00The Black Static>>> Broadcasting from beyond the limits<<<Goatmeathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14735814158810222708noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-52416246930180918182010-10-07T09:23:00.000+00:002010-10-07T09:23:06.488+00:00Hi, How Are You and Thanks For Visiting.<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Nothing new happens here any more, it's all over at the <a href="http://www.nfrblog.blogspot.com/">NFR Blog</a>, but my guess is you just came from there. <br />
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I do have a load of stuff in here that might be interesting to read and some of the mix/compilation links might still be active, so feel free to hunt down the links archive and see what you can find.<br />
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MxBx</b></span></div>Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-42453282152052913952009-11-06T14:29:00.000+00:002009-11-06T14:33:10.178+00:00Just to quickly say that......I am really looking forward to writing up my top 50 albums of the year this year. The process drives me to the edge every time but it's an enjoyable one and this year especially I have heard some seriously inspired, inspiring and mind blowing music so it's a challenge I am inviting on myself more than ever.<br /><br />Also, this being the coincidence of my 30th year and the close of the first ten years of the 2000's I am tempted to make a little top 10 albums of the decade. I already have strong feelings over five or six records so I am feeling like I want to do it.<br /><br />This shit writes itself anyway, doesn't it?<br /><br /><br />MxBxMeatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-8319277610522448702009-09-28T20:46:00.009+00:002009-09-28T21:12:03.602+00:00Not For Resale Vol. 5 (IMP 49, August 2009)It's Not For Resale at the Penthouse this week - Thursday. Diaries out. good good. coincidentally, this month's download mix for you in a Brighton based NFR special.<br /><br />This is your sneak preview teaser trailer of a mix of demo mayhem. There'll be 4 more hours of this and then some later in the week when we hit the Penthouse for an NFR which might also double as an epliogue or addendum to my 30th birthday from Sunday.<br /><br />It's the 5th installment of the Not For Resale mixes I make for the Project. Usually these are compiled from demos, self- and subterranean label releases we’ve been playing from all over the world; but this one is more special. This is an exclusively Brighton only mix (except the xbx jingles. He’s from the US, but no one in town has made me a mini-jingle yet…hint hint!) –designed to show off the undeniably awesome strength of a music scene that’s full of razor sharp talent, freaks and undiscovered genius. Just in time for Brighton Live too, which is pretty much lacking in a lot of that.<br /><br />So here you go. Here’s Brighton for you:<br /><br />NFR!<br /><a href="http://www.nfrblog.blogspot.com"><br />www.nfrblog.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/notforresaledjs">www.myspace.com/notforresaledjs</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SsEiTU8-NOI/AAAAAAAAAOo/tJTM1rS3hHU/s1600-h/Folder.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SsEiTU8-NOI/AAAAAAAAAOo/tJTM1rS3hHU/s200/Folder.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386624344749126882" /></a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br /><br /><br />Not For Resale Volume 5 (IMP 49, August 2009)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/qq026k">DOWNLOAD</a><br /><br />Tracklist:<br /><br />01. Power Up! – NFR Jingle<br />02. Masks - Fang<br />03. 129 Die In Jet! - Progression<br />04. Elks – Four Pale Letters<br />05. Awesome Wells – I Think I Just Heard The Hens Applauding In The Henhouse<br />06. Bellows - Troop<br />07. xbx – Shut Up NFR Jingle<br />08. Beadle – Chasing The Feedback Monkey<br />09. Curly Hair – Oh Brother<br />10. Halogen – Not The Remix<br />11. Drum Eyes – 50 50 (Live At The Engine Rooms)<br />12. Nullifier – If Days Corrode<br />13. Everyone To The Anderson – The Man Who Was Born Inside A Horse<br />14. Hind Ear - Coconut<br />15. Lamp – 1 Means 2<br />16. Esben And The Witch - Corridors<br />17. xbx – WolfMeat NFR Jingle<br /><br /><br />MxBxMeatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-16932092547166902912009-09-10T19:05:00.004+00:002009-09-10T19:10:19.618+00:00Crawling Lke A LeechI haven't listened to this kind of buzz for a while then <a href="http://theworriedwell.blogspot.com/2009/09/black-sun-crawling-like-leech.html">this</a> turned up on The Worried Well. <br /><br />Along with the music, it's probably the most disturbing video I have ever seen.Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-74430867971569968252009-09-01T11:01:00.000+00:002009-09-01T11:02:46.603+00:00Start Beef IMore of these are getting out there. Check yrselves.<br /><br />Start Beef: <a href="http://www.jealouseating.com/?p=28">ONE</a>Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-50382180656801842092009-08-27T20:31:00.006+00:002009-08-28T14:56:56.961+00:00Summer Winter (IMP 48, July 2009)July’s IMP mix concludes my Summer Trilogy on the bleakest of notes. Somewhat predictably of me I realise, but it’s a kind of predictable I can live with especially given the premise of the series – the soundtrack to my summer split into 3. The final part is 70 minutes of black metal, ranging from the claustrophobic through the ambient to feral punk, doom, back-yard and downright (read subterranean) dirty. All that and more. 12 individual caustic/beautiful entities to climax this triptych.<br /><br />Sounds just right for long summer days lazing around the beach right? Yep.<br /><br />Fuck off.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/Spbtfa5iOnI/AAAAAAAAANw/tcrtO1nZr6U/s1600-h/FrontCover.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/Spbtfa5iOnI/AAAAAAAAANw/tcrtO1nZr6U/s400/FrontCover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374744329365633650" /></a><br /><br />Summer Winter (IMP 48, July 2009)<br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/uknfid">Download</a><br /><br />Tracklist:<br /><br />01. De Silence Et d'Ombre - From The Dark Unknown Space<br />02. Carrion Wraith - Vers Une Nouvelle Ère<br />03. 1349 - Maggot Fetus... Teeth Like Thorns<br />04. Woe - Alone With Our Failures<br />05. Weapon - Cacophony! Black Sun Dragon's Tongue!<br />06. Bone Awl - Make For Yourself A Last Vision<br />07. Al Namrood - Atba'a Alnamrood<br />08. Bone Ritual - Attend To The Signs <br />09. Darkcell - II<br />10. Urfaust - Unter Töchtern Der Wüste<br />11. Teitenblood - Infernal Dance Of The Wicked<br />12. Cobalt – Two Thumbed Fist<br /><br /><br /><br />MxBxMeatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-64842707594161184442009-08-02T08:00:00.000+00:002009-08-02T08:00:03.363+00:00Summer Strings & Skins (IMP 47, June 2009)June’s mix is part two of my Summer Trilogy and it’s all the guitar based tracks that my summer is revolving around. That’s as far as the concept stretches but it’s still come out as a really involving listen from the patient intro that builds up and bounces on to Wild Beasts right down to the imploding amp firestorm of Mayyors and out into the quivering pulse of Jungle Gym Vaginas; Shifting through scenes and sounds this keeps a certain heat and excited momentum going throughout.<br><br><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SnIJymge4jI/AAAAAAAAANA/XW3SuAp2Nj0/s1600-h/Folder.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SnIJymge4jI/AAAAAAAAANA/XW3SuAp2Nj0/s320/Folder.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364360871086580274" /></a><br><br>Summer Strings & Skins (IMP 47, June 2009)<br><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/1k4fog">DOWNLOAD</a><br><br />Tracklist<br><br />01. The Flowers Of Hell – Bluemchen<br />02. Wild Beasts – The Fun Powder Plot<br />03. The Maccabees – No Kind Words<br />04. Oneida – It Was A Wall<br />05. Atlas Sound & Panda Bear – Walkabout<br />06. Best Coast – Sun Was High (So Was I)<br />07. Velvet Davenport – Ocean Summer Time<br />08. Ilyas Ahmed – Enter A Shadow<br />09. The Warlocks – Standing Between The Lovers Of Hell<br />10. The Phantom Band – Folk Song Oblivion<br />11. Magic Wands – Kiss Me Dead<br />12. Mayyors – Deads<br />13 Jungle Gym Vaginas – Wavy Caps Side AMeatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-76896690103039603472009-07-31T08:10:00.001+00:002009-07-31T08:12:48.375+00:00Summer Dub & Bass (IMP 46, May 2009)May’s mix has finally been completed right at the end of July. A terrible state of affairs that I can blame on all sorts – mostly I am saying that it’s because I was working on the best mix I might ever make if I can actually ever finish it. More on that when it’s done. Instead of that I conceded defeat for the time being and put together a load of grinding bass heavy dub tech and ambient soulful dubstep. This is the first part of my Summer Trilogy - named in an homage to Oneida’s Kill Yr Parents trilogy for sure.<br /><BR><BR><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SnIEVsg21fI/AAAAAAAAAM4/mlBSq1vLt7s/s1600-h/Folder.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SnIEVsg21fI/AAAAAAAAAM4/mlBSq1vLt7s/s320/Folder.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364354876924417522" /></a><BR><BR>Summer Dub & Bass (IMP 46, May 2009)<br><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/i9806n">DOWNLOAD</a><br>Tracklist:<br><br><br />01. Mount Kimbie - Verticals<br> 02. La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream’s Lets Get Ravey Remix)<br>03. Kwaidan - Masaki<br>04. Raffertie - Sugar<br>05. Bar 9 - Coalescence <br>06. 16 Bit - Chainsaw Calligraphy <br>07. Bombaman - Rear End <br>08. Egyptrixx - Godzilla <br>09. Joker - Snake Eater <br>10. Ramadanman & Appleblim - Justify <br>11. Peverelist - Clunk Click, Every Trip <br>12. Silkie - Purple Love <br>13. Goth Trad - Far East Assassin (Distance Remix) <br>14. Coki - GoblinMeatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-2158475270712203732009-07-24T07:30:00.004+00:002009-07-24T07:38:31.349+00:00Thrash Hits Nachmystium ReviewI was recently approached by Thrash Hits magazine to write about US Black Metal for them and they seem to be happy for me to flex a bit and really go for it across the whole world of the genre which is awesome news and a thoroughly welcome development for me. I have a couple of pieces in the works on Canadian and Saudi Arabian BM but my first piece for them went up last night - a review of the new Nachtmystium EP, Doomsday Derelicts.<br /><br />Read it: <a href="http://www.thrashhits.com/2009/07/ep-nachtmystium-doomsday-derelicts/">HERE</a>Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-13317657505487939142009-06-18T21:08:00.013+00:002009-06-19T07:53:07.950+00:00Songs of the year so farHalfway through month six of 2009 seems like a suitable time to drop some kind of landmark for the year. I will definitely be doing another top 100 tracks of the year come December/January. The kind of exhaustion it made me feel last year was masochistically enjoyable and it was a far more popular and well received exercise than I imagined it would be. But that's for later, just so you know its coming and to prepare yourselves, for now I just want to drop my current two favourite songs so far.<br /><br />I don't think revealing my relationship with these two songs is going to give too much away at this stage, anything can happen in the next six months, song, album, demo releases and my own opinions, but halfway through the year these are the two songs that for me have, in one instance have distilled and defined the sound of the year so far, and in the other created a whole separate world just a sidestep from this one furnishing it with songcraft of genuine genius and arresting lyricism.<br /><br />The first 3 months were totally owned by <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/a4clei">Mount Kimbie's Maybes</a> from the Maybes EP on Hotflush. Ostensibly a soulful dubstep and bass label this branch out in sound totally spun the game around on its head and incorporated some kind of shoegaze element into the continually evolving beast that is dubstep. The track features a rippling echo of a guitar part for half its length before dropping a bassline bomb and shuddering stuttering female vocal hook along with the electronic ornamentation. Simply put; Icy cool.<br /><br /><br />The second of the two is <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/8c10on">Sunset Rubdown's <span style="font-style:italic;">Nightingale/December Song</span></a> from Dragonslayer on Jagjaguwar. For the first few listens it was the first half of this album that I found especially compelling then suddenly I could get past this one song - or rather, I had to skip straight to it: "Let me hammer this point home" - and more than that, the structure of it is the pinnacle of everything the album tries to create (and does successfully across it's entire length), but here it all comes together in the buzzy electronic drum beat and voice of valour and heroism striding across it, the euphoric swell of the verse into the chorus, the sensual eroticism of "sacrificial virgins" and "fast explosions" and the organ breakdown/build up. After all that, I'm not sure whether the ending is a bit of a let down or not but by then it's too late to worry about a simple thing like that.<br /><br /><br />So far I have about 30 songs vying to get in my top ten of the year, but these two are my current obsessions. Let me know if they become yours.<br /><br />MxBxMeatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-89790305365271570062009-06-04T09:49:00.001+00:002009-06-04T08:49:41.999+00:00Home Shopping<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.aurora-b.com/images/ABX036_product.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 243.50px;" src="http://www.aurora-b.com/images/ABX036_product.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://aurora-b.com/images/WORMS_preview1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 294px;" src="http://aurora-b.com/images/WORMS_preview1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />Yesterday I received a lot of stuff in the post all on the same day and last week I got a whole stack of records I'd been waiting a while on receiving. I've got a lot of listening to do! A few of these are albums from my top 10 last year that I promised myself I'd buy and I only got round to it now, the rest are brand new exciting. The Wormsblood 12" is amazing - it's the blue/black splatterfest up there. The grey Heavy Winged is really nice too, real heavy. These things are objects of beauty. Adam also gave me all the albums he's been working on recently, so there's a journey of about 5 hours of deep claustrophobic psychologically challenging drone I am about to embark on.<br /><br />Adam Lygo – Legend Of The Grey Woods (Hive Music)<br />Adam Lygo – The Mythology Of Mirrors (Hive Music)<br />Adam Lygo – The Mythology Of The Spiral (Hive Music)<br />Adam Lygo – Virus (Hive Music)<br />Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs (Profound Lore)<br />FNU Ronnies - 12" (Night People)<br />Harvestman - In A Dark Tongue (Neurot)<br />Heavy Winged - Waking Shaking 12” (Aurora Borealis)<br />Horna - Sanojesi Aarelle (Debemur Morti / Moribumd)<br />Invisible/Sarah Walpole – A Life In Whispers (Hive Music)<br />Our Love Will Destroy The World - Stillborn Plague Angels 12” (Dekorder)<br />Ride For Revenge - Wisdom Of The Few (Bestial Burst)<br />Sylvester Anfang II – Sylvester Anfang II (Aurora Borealis)<br />U.S. Christmas - Eat The Low Dogs (Neurot)<br />Wooden Shjips – Dos (Holy Mountain)<br />Wormsblood - In The Stars 12” (Aurora Borealis)Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-39345373282161817182009-05-28T08:29:00.000+00:002009-05-28T08:29:57.797+00:00Not For Resale: Quad Throw Salchow<a href="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=117852282&blogId=490995575">Quad Throw Salchow Myspace</a>Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-79134756332448154332009-05-21T20:04:00.005+00:002009-07-10T20:06:11.849+00:00The Swarovski Mix (IMP 45, April 2009)Like a lot of the mixes I make this has been based on me noticing a theme running through a lot of the music – usually artists names – that I have been listening to. I am making a concerted effort to be a bit more intellectual about things, but am failing dismally – the proof is clear in the title of this mix. After noticing a lot of jewels in my playlists – Emeralds, Diamonds, Crystals - I realised they were nearly all Crystals so I just went with those and came up with the most stupid, cheap name and artwork I could think of. It’s a really varied selection of music though, so I think it works. I got away with it. Just. I am under duress to stress that the Mr Crystal Face track is one of the greatest pieces of music ever created.<br /><br />There. I said it.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/ShWz3HRKePI/AAAAAAAAALw/4oAIDESycnk/s1600-h/Folder.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/ShWz3HRKePI/AAAAAAAAALw/4oAIDESycnk/s320/Folder.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338370692742805746" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Swarovski Mix (IMP 45, April 2009)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/hcc8bc">Download</a><br /><br />01. Crystal Plumage - Three Mothers III <br />02. Mr Crystal Face - Polar Bears <br />03. Crystal Castles - Untrust Us <br />04. Crystal Fighters - Xtatic Truth <br />05. Lazer Crystal - hotpinkbmx <br />06. Crystal Antlers - Parting Song For The Torn Sky <br />07. The Crystal Unicorn - The Light The Light <br />08. Crystal Stilts - Crippled Croon <br />09. Crystal Shards - Two Hard <br />10. Crystal Dragon - ‘Untitled 2’Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-47361830173986176282009-05-20T18:49:00.001+00:002009-05-20T18:50:46.197+00:00NFR @ NWFA Fringe Festival WeekenderSuper stunning Fringe Festival weekender starring Meatbreak and Fokka Wolfe!!<br /><br />These flyers say we're djing after bands, but we're on from 8 til midnight. Change of plans! Because the best laid ones.....<br /><br /><br /><center><font face="tahoma" size="4" color="282828"><b>THE NICE WEATHER FOR AIRSTRIKES FESTIVAL</b></font></center><br /><center><font face="tahoma" size="3" color="22CCEE">Brighton Fringe 22 -24 May Bank Holiday 2009</font></center><br /><center><font face="tahoma" size="4" color="DDA0DD"><b>FREE ENTRY!!!</b></font></center><br /><font face="tahoma" size="3" color="282828"><span style="font-style:italic;">“A weekend of PostRock, Shoegaze, PostPunk, AntiPop, and loopladen soundscapes from Brighton’s Nice Weather For Airstrikes Records.”</span><br></font><br /><font face="tahoma" size="3" color="22CCEE"><span style="font-weight:bold;">* BANDS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT</font><br /><font face="tahoma" size="3" color="22CCEE"><span style="font-weight:bold;">* ALL DAY SUNDAY ACOUSTIC AND LOOPS</span></font><br /><font face="tahoma" size="3" color="22CCEE"><b>* NOT FOR RESALE DJS FROM 8 - MIDNIGHT</b></font><br /><font face="tahoma" size="3" color="22CCEE"><b>* AT THE DRUIDS ARMS, Ditchling Road, Brighton</b></span></font><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/nwfafestival"><img src="http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/lorca5/nwfafest7.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/nwfafestival"><img src="http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o179/lorca5/nwfafestreverseside.jpg" /></a>Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-77471867373684365352009-05-19T12:02:00.010+00:002009-05-20T18:36:35.295+00:00USBM DNLD<span style="font-style:italic;">“This thread, and the other one about the PlanB article, are the best things on the music board since the minimal techno thread.”</span><br /><a href="http://drownedinsound.com/users/marckee">marckee</a><br /><br /><a href="http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4181610">http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4181610</a><br /><br />In response and in addition to Plan B’s article on USBM and my reply post on <a href="http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4180676">Drowned in Sound</a> I made my own compilation of US Black Metal to illustrate a whole range of styles of black metal that will hopefully reveal the many different facets and angles to what can be done with this genre of music - or more specifically, what American artists are doing with it, how they are interpreting the templates that already exist and how they are mutating them. I think that it is evident that even the more traditionionally indebted tracks still display a sense of progression and flair for interpretation while the out and out progressive shows scant regard for what went before other than it simply being the style of music the artists enjoy most. <br /><br />No compilation will ever be complete, exhaustive, succinct or get into all the niches and dark little corners that exist and I can only ever be subjective in my selection, but what I tried to do here is cover as wide a range of sound and influence as possible, from original Heavy Metal, through traditional Scandinavian BM, to post-rock, prog-folk, doom-drone and power-electronics.<br /><br />In reducing this selection down to something fairly concise and focused instead of the enormous compendium I was tempted to do I have ended up compiling 21 tracks of US Black Metal recorded since the year 2000 – in alphabetical order. It comes in at 2:22:23, which I think is nice and tidy. Shame it wasn't 22 tracks and 22 seconds, but never mind., I don't think it means too much anyway.<br /><br />Also worth noting – because of the unique way black metal is recorded, the sound levels and qualities between songs are unpredictable, if nothing else.<br /><br />Brace yourself.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/vnad0i">DOWNLOAD</a><br /><br /><br />Agalloch - Limbs (<span style="font-style:italic;">Ashes Against The Grain</span>, The End)<br />Ash Pool - Origin Of Man (<span style="font-style:italic;">Saturns Slave</span>, Hospital Productions)<br />Black Witchery - Holocaust Summoning (<span style="font-style:italic;">Upheaval Of Satanic Might</span>, Osmose Productions)<br />Bone Awl - Culture Denied (<span style="font-style:italic;">By Ropes Through Dirt</span>, Demo-Worship Him-Klaxon)<br />Brown Jenkins - Forever Funerals (<span style="font-style:italic;">Angel Eyes</span>, Moribund)<br />Chaos Moon - Illusions of Dusk and Dawn (<span style="font-style:italic;">Origin of Apparition</span>, Wraith Productions - Ars Magna Recordings)<br />Cobalt - Pregnant Insect (<span style="font-style:italic;">Gin</span>, Profound Lore)<br />Draugar - Dust Chains Idiots (<span style="font-style:italic;">From Which Hatred Grows</span>, tUMULt)<br />Enbilulugugal - Slicing The Blood Clotted Cunt Of The Rotting Virgin Angel Slut (<span style="font-style:italic;">Nun Twat Armageddon</span>, Dipsomaniac)<br />Inquisition - Of Blood & Darkness We Are Born (<span style="font-style:italic;">Magnificent Glorification of Lucifer</span>, No Colours)<br />Krallice - Forgiveness In Rot (<span style="font-style:italic;">Krallice</span>, Profound Lore)<br />Leviathan - Fucking Your Ghost In Chains Of Ice (<span style="font-style:italic;">The Tenth Sublevel Of Suicide</span>, Moribund Cult)<br />Lurker Of Chalice - Granite (<span style="font-style:italic;">Lurker Of Chalice</span>, Southern Lord)<br />Servile Sect - Into The Bloom (<span style="font-style:italic;">Stratospheric Passenger</span>, Sounds Of Battle & Souvenir Collecting)<br />The Angelic Process - We All Die Laughing (<span style="font-style:italic;">Weighing Souls With Sand</span>, Profound Lore)<br />Velvet Cacoon - 1 (<span style="font-style:italic;">Genevieve</span>, Full Moon Productions)<br />Weakling - This Entire Fucking Battlefield (<span style="font-style:italic;">Dead As Dreams</span>, tUMULt)<br />Wolves In The Throne Room - Behold The Vastness And Sorrow (<span style="font-style:italic;">Two Hunters</span>, Southern Lord)<br />Wormsblood - A Wolf In The Night (<span style="font-style:italic;">Mastery of Creation</span>, Barbarian)<br />Wrath Of The Weak - Journey Of Many Days (<span style="font-style:italic;">Wrath Of The Weak</span>, Bastardised)<br />Xasthur - Soul Abduction Ceremony (<span style="font-style:italic;">Nocturnal Poisoning</span>, Blood Fire Death)Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-91878188776930706282009-05-14T12:19:00.002+00:002009-05-14T13:14:43.364+00:00USBM & PlanBCongrats PlanB. Joseph Stannard wrote one of the best features to appear in the magazine for some time, and that's not just because the subject matter is something I am so close to. It didn’t descend into the kind of cliché or rhetoric that cripples almost every piece written about the genre, it was very even- and steady-handed and really quite thorough. At the risk of sounding a bit supercilious, I would have published something on the genre this time last year, or even the year before, when all these bands featured were already releasing records and artists like Leviathan and Xasthur were still kicking it, but the country’s still buzzing with this, so now is just as good a time as any – there’s plenty more where they came from.<br /><br />I had a few thoughts on it, and here they are:<br />It concentrated on the more cerebral figures of the moment - or I suppose in another respect the more ‘hipster-metal’ artists - which I guess could have been either to:<br />a) give a coherent, focussed, narrative to the piece, or <br />b) to make it appear that the kinds of BM being produced in the US are all these artly crafted, cross-genre worthy strains. <br />There was no mention of the more base, violent, unsubtle thrashier end - No Black Witchery, Baphomets Horns, Bone Awl, Black Horns (…loads of other’s not beginning with ‘B’!). Although they got a brief mention, even Dominic Fernow’s Ash Pool are pretty down there, but deliberately so. Not too big a problem, but for the uninitiated it would be worth mentioning that the moronic Satanic sludge is not only still alive and kicking, but also producing some killer chops – just check Bone Awl’s new 7” for proof.<br /><br />I guess that the foil to the more progressive side of the piece was Averse Sefira. Despite their unorthodox Kaballistic angle they are a pretty orthodox sounding BM band, more indebted to and corralled by the Scandanavian form, with a rigid attitude at odds to the rest of the bands in the article. <br /><br />It felt the article didn’t quite finish off what it started in considering the lefty/liberal conundrum of musicians and the army, but it’s a real toughie for sure – For me, I want to give Cobalt my money so they can quit the army (and in recognition of their music of course), but at the same time, I wonder whether I want to give anything to the kind of person who would be in the army – that’s a superficial reaction to the idea of ‘Army’, which doesn’t consider any of the number of reasons why someone might want to join, and that’s the question I felt could have been asked of Phil McSorely, as opposed to the more patriotic angle.<br /><br />The one tangible thing holding the scene together is arguably Aquarius Records and Andee Connors. In making all these records available – even down to the 10 copy tapes – in one place alongside practically every other genre of music conceivable, by listing Neu! next to Necrosadistic Goat Torture, Wormsblood next to Wolfgang Voight, The Vaselines next to Varghkoghargasmal… etcetcetc…., he’s drawing the disparate sonic elements together and providing the overarching narrative/attitude/forum that gives the idea that all these sounds can and do tie up. He would never even acknowledge that as a viable hypothesis, but the evidence is there. This is why Wrath is wrong when he says his band is “not engaged in any USBM scene” Just because this US scene is more ethereal and doesn’t revolve around a record shop…oh no, wait…<br /><br />Joseph pegs it when he says that “the moment record stores added a black metal rack…the music was changed forever”, but I would go one further and say that they remain the energising, sustaining force.<br /><br />It was especially good seeing Umesh Amtey get some page space - Brown Jenkins released one of my top 3 albums of 2008 and has been deserving of attention as much as more prominent groups like Nadja for combining sonic elements and moving metal forwards through a refreshing mindset.<br /><br />Also, finally, Joseph must know, if not through the grapevine then personally, that Brandon Stosuy is writing a book on USBM – I wonder if he just wanted to get a cheeky little pop at it first! <br />PlanB, you should have stuck yr neck out and put Cobalt on the cover. The UKBM scene is coming on strong, with a few veterans…any plans for a follow-up?!Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-45824328632705482352009-04-24T06:48:00.010+00:002009-04-27T09:24:40.073+00:00Syd's Second Crawl (Happy Birthday Mum!)<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyG33eVk1An9p6fuCc7Fuu6S-NdDRnsrFGYs4JBTsPhhURtn0PNHrOQPCRLmIj1Bq_UWUGxzwBvHh0LQ7FV4g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br />I don't normally post much really personal stuff, but since it's my Mum's birthday I'm posting it up for her, and since this happened yesterday it's breaking news that the world needs to know. Syd starts crawling! Does this count as crawling? It looks more like swimming on the floor - or thrashing and floating. What a little boy!Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-35691979013615894762009-04-13T13:35:00.011+00:002009-07-10T20:05:34.336+00:00This Is How We Did It (IMP 44, March 2009)March's <a href="http://www.internationalmixtapeproject.com">IMP</a> mix seems to have taken so long to make. I had the idea for it ages ago where originally it was going to be a comparison of white UK and black US 90's chart R&B, Hip-Hop and a bit of Pop. After listening to a lot of East 17, 5ive, Westlife, Take That and other UK stuff I realised that the UK entries just looked embarrassing and sounded so weak and clueless next to their US counterparts. I guess that was actually the intention of the mix, but we already knew that (though it is interesting to hear in hindsight and proximity and just how large a disparity there is between the sounds - the reality falling so woefully short of the intention). So what it has been distilled down to is pure solid gold 90's chart R&B and Hip-Hop without the cultural cross-examination. The only exceptions are two songs I stumbled across while looking through all this stuff and couldn't resist putting them on because not only must they be in my top 10 guilty pleasures, but they also fit in pretty well as a break in pace too. After refining the tracklist the artwork took me ages to get right too. I think I‘ve done it.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SeNAUyFkdEI/AAAAAAAAAIo/szuvhk5RCPw/s1600-h/IMP44Folder.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SeNAUyFkdEI/AAAAAAAAAIo/szuvhk5RCPw/s320/IMP44Folder.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324169910268752962" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This Is How We Did It (IMP 44, March 2009)<br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/m2hxec">Download</a><br /><br />Tracklist:<br /><br />01. Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It<br />02. Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back) <br> 03. Blackstreet & Dr. Dre - No Diggity<br> 04. 2Pac - Changes<br> 05. Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack<br> 06. Ginuwine - Pony<br> 07. K7 - Come Baby Come <br> 08. Haddaway - What Is Love<br> 09. Ce Ce Peniston - Finally<br> 10. Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game<br> 11. Luniz - I Got 5 On It<br> 12. TLC - Creep<br> 13. Boyz II Men - Motownphilly<br> 14. R Kelly - (She's Got That) Vibe<br> 15. Method Man & Mary J Blige - You're All I Need<br><br>Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-61705548813031928232009-04-03T10:42:00.005+00:002009-04-03T19:19:35.633+00:00Primary Colours preview equation<br><br />Horrors = √ MBV X <font size="1"><span style="font-style:italic;">Neu</span></font> – (Joy Division / Sex Pistols)<br><br>Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-73825377170605624202009-03-19T20:17:00.006+00:002009-03-19T20:41:11.401+00:00The Procession<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/2/0/0/220085.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 261px;" src="http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/2/0/0/220085.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Electric Wizard - The Procession</span><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Rise Above</span></span><br /><br />There is a new one song Electric Wizard release thing! Not sure how else to describe it. It sounds like it was recorded on Spanish radio or something. What it is, is a 500-copy limited pressing on single-sided black vinyl with fold-out cover and A2 poster, released for the Rise Above Records 20th Anniversary Show at London ULU, Saturday December 13th 2008, where it was sold exclusively. That will be why I am a bit slow on the uptaek on this. But new Wizard is always exciting and this is no different....no wait, it is <span style="font-style:italic;">very</span> different! Listen >>><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/zqtknm">Download</a>Meatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-7977748099095685362009-03-16T21:41:00.002+00:002009-03-16T22:01:46.529+00:00DJ VS. Band Vs. Blog ActionMe and Fokka Wolfe have been busy blogging and setting up the new NFR blog over here - <a href="http://www.nfrblog.blogspot.com">www.nfrblog.blogspot.com</a> We have no idea whether anyone will read it, or even <span style="font-style:italic;">how</span> to get anyone to read it. Answers on a postcard if you do know....seriously. I will be focussing all my NFR related stuff on that blog, and using this Black Static for more personal things - well, not personal as such, just less NFR-oriented. I am not sure how well that will work, but I guess I will be putting anything that is more Brighton or demo oriented over on the NFR and anything and everything else here.<br /><br />So far we've posted up our opening mission statement, March's Penthouse setlist, a bit on Japanese shoegazers Hedgehog and a review of the Everyone To The Anderson gig we DJ'd at on Friday. Things to come will be a bit on Revenge of Shinobi, an Old Mayor preview for Wednesday (so that's coming in a minute!), and if all goes well and according to plan (which is very unlikely considering how quickly all major operations are going with me at present), a new download for you too.<br /><br /><br />MxBxMeatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-16231146540880737442009-03-13T15:17:00.000+00:002009-03-13T15:18:55.224+00:00Look at us, we made a BLOG!<br /><br />Yes, me and Fokka Wolfe have made a Not For Resale blog. Our mission<br />statement first post is up, plus our first setlist and extra curricular gig details >>><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nfrblog.blogspot.com/">http://www.nfrblog.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><br />see you there!<br /><br /><br /><br />MxBxMeatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-79731436441148351132009-03-10T20:34:00.011+00:002009-03-10T20:54:08.639+00:00Friday mega gig<b>I am DJing at this on Friday. Bring everyone you know >>> </b> <br><br><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SbbTPyEWNoI/AAAAAAAAAGA/UHJAPyg0SEg/s1600-h/ETTAMArch09.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SbbTPyEWNoI/AAAAAAAAAGA/UHJAPyg0SEg/s400/ETTAMArch09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311665078621582978" /></a><br /><br><br /><br />Everyone To The Anderson are my favourite Brighton band, on record and live. I don't even need to say Brighton, they are one of the bands I enjoy most full stop. There is an intensity and aggressive to them that commands attention, a (barely) controlled sense of chaos and a proclivity to volume that verges on hostile. All wrapped up in a warm and cosy sense of fun.<br /><br />Elks I have not seen yet so I do not know about them. If Ben is putting them on, I trust they will be worth watching.<br /><br />P For Persia are great! Psychedelic doom rock, full on volume and dirty low slung good times, telephone vocals and disco keyboard mayhem. Or something like that.<br /><br />Be there.<br /><br /><br />MxBxMeatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-57779213102058832332009-03-07T18:28:00.008+00:002009-03-07T18:49:10.838+00:00NFR Setlist 5th March, 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SbK92zGyvII/AAAAAAAAAFw/aakFDZ96gB4/s1600-h/Pink_Blue+NFR+bannerSMALL.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 58px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0kPlwULreUA/SbK92zGyvII/AAAAAAAAAFw/aakFDZ96gB4/s320/Pink_Blue+NFR+bannerSMALL.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310515659752520834" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><p>Another <a href="http://www.myspace.com/notforresaledjs">Not For Resale</a> setlist for all who came and stared in wonderment at the speakers wondering what it meant. And another setlist for youze who missed out and can read what you missed out on. No instant link to <a href="http://www.myspace.com/fokkawolfe">Fokka Wolfe</a>'s set yet, but I'll stick it in place of this sentence when I do.<br /><br />We are working on an NFR blog as we speak, and I suspect this setlist will be the second post up there - after an introductory/celebratory one, naturally. More news on that as and when.<br /><br />Here you go, Meatbreak's jamz from the Penthouse. The first hour was pretty stargazey droney and intense - School Of Seven Bells clicked it back into the realms of pop and we hit it up and off, kicking and screaming from there:<br /><br />Crippled Black Phoenix – Rise Up And Fight (The Resurrectionists, Invada)<br />Heavy Winged – Wool And Water (Monolith:Earth 12”, Music Fellowship)<br />Wolves In The Throne Room – Ahrimanic Trance (Black Cascade, Southern Lord)<br />Kontakte – Motorik (Soundtrack To Lost Road Movies, Drifting Falling)<br />These Feathers Have Plumes – Quiet Sun, Indian Summer (These Feathers Have Plumes, Period Tapes)<br />Six Organs Of Admittance - Punish The Chasms With Wings (RTZ, Drag City)<br />School Of Seven Bells – Iamundernodisguise (Alpinisms, Ghostly International)<br />Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (Demo)<br />Minnaars – To Jackals (Minnaars EP, Self-Released)<br />Turbowolf – Seven Severed Heads (7”, X-Taster)<br />Lloop – Lei-Tei (60 Hertz, The Agriculture)<br />Distance – Konkrete (Repucussions, Planet Mu)<br />Yeah Yeah Yea’s – Zer (It’s Blitz, Interscope)<br />Mayyors – Airplanes (Megan’s LOLZ 7“, Self-Released)<br />Everyone To The Anderson – Harpoon Flesh Wound (Doodlebug, Toy Soldier)<br />Action Beat – Dinosaur (The Noise Band From Bletchley, Southern)<br />Cotti – The Search (12”, Soul Jazz)<br />Apollo Sunshine – Brotherhood Of Death (Shall Noise Upon, Headless Heroes)<br />The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – This Love Is Fucking Right (The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Slumberland)<br />Turbowolf – Read And Write (7”, X-Taster)<br />Crippled Black Phoenix – Rise Up And Fight (The Resurrectionists, Invada)<br />Quttinrpaqq – The Sea And The Birdman (Dragged Through The Streets, Blackest Rainbow)<br />Ty Segal – Watching You (Ty Segal, Castle Face)<br />Blank Dogs – Spinning (The Fields, Woodsist)<br />Lotus Plaza – Different Mirrors (The Floodlight Collective, Kranky)<br />Wormsblood – Inheritor (In The Stars, Skulls Of Heaven)<br />Emeralds – Living Room (What Happened, No Fun Productions)<br />Alva Noto – Xerrox Phaser Acat 1 (Xerroxx Vol II, Raster Norton)<br /><br /><br />MxBxMeatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6555807970175159519.post-30545799873534405042009-02-27T14:36:00.002+00:002009-02-27T14:40:39.126+00:00Blitz it!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/assets_c/2009/02/its_blitz_yeah_yeah_yeahs_c-thumb-430x430.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/assets_c/2009/02/its_blitz_yeah_yeah_yeahs_c-thumb-430x430.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The new Yeah Yeah Yeah's album <span style="font-style: italic;">It's Blitz!</span> is here....ish. It's due on 12th April or some time waaay far in advance of now. I got the leak yesterday. Exciting? Could be.<br /><br />Starts off with the very electro <i>Zero</i> and gives the impression that they have given up on creating something that could be better than <span style="font-style: italic;">Maps </span>or <span style="font-style: italic;">Date With The Night</span>, or <span style="font-style: italic;">Machine </span>and gone for a much more superficial, contemporary - so much so it will sound dated in a months time - sound designed solely for dance-floors. I think this is where a lot of people have stopped listening judging from initial reports. Maybe the really indie-schmindie kids got scared off here and deleted the file in disgust. It's not disgusting; it's just pretty disingenuous...but still pretty. Second track <span style="font-style: italic;">Heads Will Roll</span> is very similar but eases off the electro and brings in a bit more guitar. Already the shock reports of no guitars are w.r.o.n.g. Nick Zinner has got plenty of tricks up his sleeve across this album. The 3rd and 4th tracks are pretty subtle and more listens, and the actual high quality CD rather than a crappy mp3 will probably reveal a lot of sound design within them. Having said that, next up is <i>Dull Life</i> which comes on like a hammer blow. It's textbook YYY's anthemic and euphoric with a thick guitar riff that makes up for it's lack of subtlety by striking an immortal rock-pose of the kind the last two albums did so well, replicating the fist-pumping stadium filling <span style="font-style: italic;">Y-Control</span>. The lack of electric textures is made up for by the entrance of acoustic guitar in the second phase verse - it's an excellent addition to the tones of the track and is deployed much more effectively than the acoustic guitar in <i>Gold Lion</i>.<br /><br />Jump two more tracks. It's not that they're filler, more like I want to save you something to discover yourself >>><br /><br />Track 7 comes in with the kitchen sink romantic collapse of <i>Runaway</i>. I am always disappointed with love songs, not only are they boring subject matter but someone like Karen O is supposed to be the one making boys cry. She never mopes, lope. Ah well. The track is a winner though; swept into a climax of strings that breaks the heart of the song and adds a sudden sumptuousness to the centre of the record. Off the back of that and just so you know where they are coming from, leaving you in no doubt as to their credentials, the skulking dropped kerb bass-line lead of <i>Dragon Queen</i> is instantly arresting. The track goes on to mention Nightclubbing in lyric and sounds a lot like the rhythm of the Iggy Pop song too. Sweet chewy Pop with a hard Punk centre. Or at least, it was made in a factory that contained punk, so sensitive kids be careful. <br /><br />This could be good. Really good.<br /><br /><br />MxBxMeatbreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463844497241590984noreply@blogger.com0