Parting Songs For Tearing Skies (IMP 39, October 2008)

October’s mix has no theme at all, just stuff that I have been listening to a lot recently. I have been using a new program to mix these with ,so it was more an exercise in learning to use that…which means there are some dead fucking smart segues and transitions in it, even if I do say so myself. The ones between High Places and Deerhunter, Zombie Zombie and TVOTR are perfect, perfect I tell you!





Parting Songs For Tearing Skies (IMP 39, October 2008
http://www.sendspace.com/file/s9ty2e


Tracklist:

01. High Places - Papaya Year
02. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
03. Frightened Rabbit - The Twist
04. The Black Angels - Science Killer
05. Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat - The Firesky
06. Paavoharju - Uskallan
07. Zombie Zombie - Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free
08. TV On The Radio - DLZ
09. Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
10. Woodcraft Folk - Old House At Home
11. Shackleton - Death Is Not Final
12. Cotti - The Search
13. Sparkling Wide Pressure - Tearing, Rippling
14. Appleblim - Vansan
15. Wovenhand - White Knuckle Grip
16. Shearwater - Century Eyes
17. Crystal Antlers - Parting Song For The Torn Sky
18. The Donkeys - Pretty Thing



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Disciples Of Frith (IMP 38, September 2008)

Here is the second posting of my IMP mixes.

September's mix was smashed out just before Syd Hauk was born. I knew that if I never got it out before he arrived it would be waaaay late, so it is kind of rushed and kind of simplistic. It's a load of new British bands that I thought my IMP friend across the pond might like to hear in case they never make it over.














Disciples Of Frith (IMP 38, September 2008)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9rgb12

01. The Indelicates - Last Significant Statement To Be Made In Rock & Roll
02. Hateful Abandon - Lungs (Demo Version)
03. David Thomas Broughton - Aint Got No Sole
04. Future Of The Left - The House That Hope Built
05. These New Puritans - Swords Of Truth
06. Metronomy - My Heart Rate Rapid
07. Late Of The Pier - Bathroom Gurgle
08. A Forest Of Stars - Earth And Matter
09. Jonquil - There Is No Ian Bridgwater
10. Frightened Rabbit - I Feel Better
11. Pete & The Pirates - Mr Understanding
12. Los Campesinos! - Broken Heartbeats Sounds Like Breakbeats
13. Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyant
14. Working For A Nuclear Free City - Eighty Eight
15. Errors - Pump
16. Double Handsome Dragons - I Saw Simon Dance
17. Caina - Constantine the Blind
18. Wreaths - Bury My Tracks

IMP Downloads

I am going to start posting up the mixes I make for the International Mixtape Project. I am not going to be posting them up on the actual IMP site, because Muxtape got shutdown for hosting mixes and I don't want the same thing to happen to the IMP. Not that I think me alone would cause that to happen, but shit like that happens...especially to me.

So, there will be one mix a month coming, but over the next few days I am going to back date it a while, starting from the summer. I have no idea if anyone will be interested in this at all but it's no effort to post them up so i might as well.

Introduction over. Here's the first one:















The Killer (IMP 37, August 2008)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/q6f7za

August's mix started off a just a load of tracks I'd been listening to recently. then I kind of tightened it up into a cohesive atmosphere but it still didn't really feel right until I found a title and sorted the artwork. It's nice when that happens, and i don't use that approach too often but I especially liked this one a lot for it when it all clicked together. Despite what it seems I don't actually spend all my time listening to music and songs that remind me of killing or death....not all of my time anyway.


Tracklist:


01. Urfaust - Untitled (Drei Rituale Jenseits Des Kosmos Track II))
02. The Mausoleums - Commerce
03. Racebannon - The Killer
04. Thee Ohsees - The Guilded Cunt
05. A H Kraken - Black Borny
06. Brown Jenkins - Forever Funerals
07. Deerhunter - Never Stops
08. M83 - Kim And Jessie
09. Der Blutharsch - Untitled (The Philosophers Stone Track II)
10. Awesome Color - Already Down
11. Double Handsome Dragons - There Are Ghosts
12. Come Jolly Death - That Night Everything Went Slomo
13. Ihopeyousuffer - Armed With Colour
14. U. S. Christmas - Uktena
15. A Place To Bury Strangers - To Fix The Gash In Your Head
16. I Haunt Wizards - FF
17. On Earth - Risen


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Not For Resale Setlist 4th December 2008

So. End of the year as far as NFR goes. Me and the Fokka Wolfe went of 2008 blazing our best tracks from the last 12 months - or at least, as many as we could squeeze in to 4 hours. To hear that Krallice track at intense volume was worth the trip out alone. An amazing riff to spend 15 minutes with.

More on details later though - This is almost a prelude to my own Top 50 of '08, which will be coming soon. But it isn't. It's EN EFF ARGH!!!!

Next Penthouse jam is 5th February. Wrap up warm, don't get lost or hurt and we'll see you then.


M83 - Kim & Jessie (Saturdays = Youth, Mute)
Diagonal - Child Of The Thunder Cloud (Diagonal, Rise Above)
Religious Knives – The Storm (The Door, Ecstatic Peace)
Cotti – The Search (12”, Soul Jazz)
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno – Brainstorm (Sonic Attack (Psychedelic Warlords, Trensmat)
Crystal Antlers – Parting Song For The Torn Sky (Crystal Antlers, Touch And Go)
The Black Angels – Science Killer (Directions To See A Ghost, Light In The Attic)
Krallice – Forgiveness In Rot (Krallice, Profound Lore)
NFR Jingle – Awesome Wells
Plastic Passion – We Have Come So Far (Contrived Imagery, Knew Noise)
Pete & The Pirates – Dry Wings (Little Death, Stolen)
Wavves – California Goth (Wavves, Fuck It Tapes)
Caina – Temporary Antennae (Temporary Antennae, Profound Lore)
Deerhunter – Little Kids (Demo) (Nothing Ever Happened 7", Kranky)
Fucked Up – Golden Seal (The Chemistry Of Common Life, Matador)
Of Montreal - Alter Eagle (Id Engager 7”, Polyvinyl)
Pocahaunted – No More Women (Chains, Teardrops)
Who Owns Death TV – Cathode (One:18, Toy Soldier)
Turbowolf – Ghost Hunt (Demo)
Kowloon Walled City – My Hands Are Turning To Bricks (Turk Street, Word Clock)
Nullifier – 30 Minute Heat (Demo)
The Death Set – Around The World (Worldwide, Counter)
Errors – National Prism (It’s Not Something But It Is Like Whatever, Rock Action)
Double Handsome Dragons – I Saw Simon Dance (Double Handsome Dragons, Pocket Change)
TV On The Radio – DLZ (Dear Science, Interscope)
Paavoharju – Kirkonväki (Laulu Laakson Kukista, Fonal)
Mogwai – The Sun Smells Too Loud (The Hawk Is Howling, PIAS)
Foals – Two Steps, Twice (Antidotes, Transgressive)
Late Of The Pier – Heartbeat (Fantasy Black Channel, Parlophone)
I Haunt Wizards – Pimp Someone Else’s Ride (Demo)
Benga – 26 Basslines (Diary Of An Afro Warrior, Tempa)
South Central – Golden Dawn (The Owl Of Minerva, Egregore)
Tweak Bird – Whorses (Reservations, Volcom)
U.S. Christmas – The Scalphunters (Eat The Low Dogs, Neurot)
White Hills - Be Yourself (Sonic Attack (Psychedelic Warlords, Trensmat)
Awesome Color – Already Down (Electric Aboriginies, Ecstatic Peace)
White Fang – Acid Reaper (Demo)
Hotel Wrecking City Traders – Cup Weekend Murders (Black Yolk, Bro Fidelity)
The Mausoleums – Skeletal (Blackened Fawns Will Cleanse The Earth With Fire, Chinese Workers Labor Union)
Oneida – Untitled/Track 1 (Preteen Weaponry, Jagjaguwar)
Witch – 100mph (Paralysed, Tee-Pee)
Black Mountain – Stormy High (In The Future, Jagjaguwar)
Iron Pirate – Shark (Iron Pirate, Neigh Music)
Medicine & Duty – Flags And Cannons (Flags And Cannons, Foolproof Projects)
Frightened Rabbit – The Twist (Midnight Organ Flight, Fat Cat)
Varghkoghargasmal - …Near The Stars (Drowned In Lakes, Tumult)
Grails – Take Refuge (Take Refuge In Clean Living, Important)
Action Beat – Maximum Bletchley (1977 – 2007: 30 Years Of Hurt Then Us Cunts Exploded, Self-Released)
Brown Jenkins – Forever Funerals (Angel Eyes, Moribund)
Wold – The Frozen Field (Stratification, Profound Lore)


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MxBx back catalogue up for download

To mark the occasion of new recordings commencing (both Meat and other) I have put all the Meatbreak releases up for free download.

New material coming soon.

Previous emissions, here:




First full album of bassline noise, electric buzz and psych drone, released 2007

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD: THE INTROVERT PERVERSION (FUCKING RACKET RECORDS)

Tracklist:
01. The Sun
02. Masked Target Recovery
03. Grinding The Meat For Bungalor
04. They Will Follow The Stick If It Has A Good Beat
05. Socioneurological Entropy
06. Serpentine Tuberculosis
07. The Death Of Meatbreak
08. The Moon

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Bliss drone/ / skewed electro ep from winter 2006

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD: MEATBREAK VS. NEWBEING6 (FUCKING RACKET RECORDS)

Tracklist:
01. Spirit Shifter
02. The Conjuror's Best Trick
03. Variant

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Live two-piece / head-to-head Drums and Bass recordings from spring 2006

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD: MEATBREAK VS. G-CHRIST

Tracklist:
01. Thunderfoot vs the Hydra
02. Auto Necrotic Asphyxiation
03. Grind The Floor Electric
04. The Rising Tide Of Belief
05. Low Wood Watersports
06. Penny Reel

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First Meatbreak recordings and early demos from 2002 - 2006

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD: MEATBREAK

Tracklist:
01. Chrysalis
02. Reasion Chews
03. Demonstruate
04. Frozeneon
05. Noiss
06. Oooh Jiggy!
07. Slabac
08. Hocum Pocum
09. Arborate Them
10. Monkey Trap
11. What's It Made Of
12. The Deathslide
13. Poon On Bush
14. Must Keep Moving In The Light
15. Life Is Better Left Alone

Not For Resale Setlist – 6th November

Thanks to everyone who attended that grand NFR return to The Penthouse this month. Thanks too go to Oli for covering us while we took a bit of time off to get to grips with some new developments.

The time off meant we'd totally stocked up on a streamlined, otherworldly, outlandish full night's worth of new releases and demos – we still dropped a couple of regular essentials in for The Research and their fans (and Peter & The Wolf, The Special K's and The Fayres – hello again to youze all).

So yeah, we are back – next one's the 4th December. See you there for more of this:


I Hope You Suffer – I Could Move Mountains For You (Sampler, Pocket Change Records)
Kontakte – Life's Road Movies (Winterlight Remix) (Life's Road Movies, Drifting Falling)
Oneida – Preteen Weaponry III (Preteen Weaponry, Jagjaguwar)
A Place To Bury Strangers – To Fix The Gash In Your Head (A Place To Bury Strangers, Killer Pimp)
129 Die In Jet – Progression (Demo)
Cotti – The Search (12", Soul Jazz)
John The Savage – Hoser (Demo)
Racebannon – The Killer (Acid Or Blood, Southern)
Sparkling Wide Pressure – Tearing, Ripping (Touching Pasture, Students Of Decay)
Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened (Microcastle, 4AD)
M83 – Kim & Jessie (Montag Remix)
Paarvoharju – Kevatrumpu (Laalu Laskson Kjukista)
Caina – Larval Door (Temporary Antennae, Profound Lore)
Crystal Antlers – Vexation (Crystal Antlers, Touch And Go)
Pocahaunted – No More Women (Chains, Teardrops)
Turbowolf – Ghost Hunt (Demo)
Tweak Bird – Shivers (Reservations, Volcom)
Nullifier – 30 Minute Heat (Demo)
Late Of The Pier – Heartbeat (Fantasy Black Channel, EMI)
Telepathe – Devil's Trident (7", Merok)
Lovers – Teenage Shutdown (Think, Wichita)
Wavves – Wavves (Wavves, Fuck It Tapes)
T.V. On The Radio – DLZ (Dear Science, Interscope)
Women – Black Rice (Women, Flemish Eye)
Diagonal – Cannon Misfire (Diagonal, Rise Above)
Religious Knives – Basement Watch (The Door, Ecstatic Peace, 2008)
Mayors – Aiplanes (Megan's LOLZ, Self-Released)
Horna – Liekki Ja Voima (Sanojesi Aarelle, Debemur Morti)
South Central – Nothing Can Go Wrong (The Owl Of Minerva, Egregore)
Shackleton – But The Branch Is Weak (Soundboy's Suicide Note 12'', Skull Disco)
Mogwai - The Sun Is Too Loud (The Hawk Is Howling, Wall Of Sound/PIAS)
Double Handsome Dragons – Goat And Chicken, Best Of Friends (Double Handsome Dragons, Pocket Change)
The Black Angels – Science Killer (Directions To See A Ghost, Light In The Attic)
Wovenhand – White Knuckle Grip (Ten Stories, Sounds Familyre)
Grasscut – Muppet (Demo)
Friendly Fires – Paris (Friendly Fires, Xl)
Of Montreal – Ed Engager (Skeletal Lamping, Polyvinyl)
MGMT – Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
Bats – These Ones Lay Eggs (One:18, Toy Soldier)
Plastic Passion – Everything Changes (Demo)
Hotel Wrecking City Traders – The Lakeshore Strangler (Black Yolk, Bro Fidelity)
Late Of The Pier – VW (Fantasy Black Channel, EMI)
Action Beat – Justice Yeldham (1977 – 2007…Thirty Years Of Hurt Then Us Cunts Exploded, Self-Released)
The Mausoleums – Skeletal (Blackened Fawns Cleanse The Earth With Fire, Chinese Workers Labor Union)
Urfaust – I (Drei Rituale Jenseits Des Osmos, Debemur Morti)
Spleen & The Flesh Machine - Useless Pumping (Demo)
Errors – Pump (It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever, Rock Action)
Shackleton – El Din (Part One) (12", Mordant)



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Pocket Change Records Label Profile

Pocket Change Records
A glimpse of the future in an interview with an internet label.


Post Rock, Ambient, Instrumental, Experimental, Electronic, Psychedelic, Analogue Noise. These are the sounds. The theme running through them, that binds all of Pocket Change Records’ releases so far, from the very first wreaths to the current (at time of writing) Talbot Arms, is one of an enveloping atmosphere. The ultimate goal of soundscape artists is to build a bubble that refracts the world beyond it; the wall of sound the speakers throw up doubling as a blank canvas for the listener to project synaesthetic accompaniment, an emotional relationship that invests itself in the narrative of the album that needs silence for reflection and solace after the music finishes.

Now that the MP3 is king of formats the rise and potential dominance of the net label is inevitable, free music is about to mean something more that just piracy and theft. Pocket Change is a free-download net label run by San Francisco based 21 year old Bobbi Westfield. He began it in May 2008 as a way “to help out talented musicians who may get overlooked because they're not sure how to market themselves” and already has a roster of 15 artists with over 1000 downloads clocked up and counting. What is it about an internet based, download label that attracted Bobbi to it? “With all of this "illegal downloading" and "Music piracy" going on today I think it's important that artists have a choice. If they want to charge people $17.00 for a CD that’s fine - but if they want to give it away - really want to because they are so excited and proud of their music, then I think they should be able to do that as well.”

EMI just brought in the CEO of a private equity firm to take over the helm and make it more profit. With the internet becoming the dominant music medium the death of traditional forms is inevitable: “The music industry today is trying to relive the glory-years of the 1960's - 1970's. And they are failing. I'm trying to keep it less about money and more about music/creativity/originality.”

Originality is something Pocket Change’s bands have in abundance. A defining feature of each release has been the sense that it starts in familiar terrain, yet instantly moves from there into uncharted territory. To describe just a few:

UK based Double Handsome Dragons’ combination of guitars, keyboards and samples offers an interesting and arresting angle to that heavy post rock template. I Saw Simon Dance and Goat & Chicken Best Of Friends are both incredibly propulsive tracks full of tricks, twists and riffs;

The Newcastle based wreaths creates doomy sad drone, embellished with touches of post-rock guitar work with a beautifully weighted production that oozes a heavy paranoid atmosphere;

Tunbridge Wells’ On Earth builds on a heady mix of ambient references that recall Eluvium, Meursault, Acre, Stars of The Lid, Natural Snow Buildings…a lot of intense records that combine into really beautiful flowing ambience;

From the USA, Arizona’s incongruously named ihopeyousuffer is a super heavy (but distinctly un-Metal) vista of guttural guitars mangled into a heady airless space with an inherently melodic core that makes for an exhilaratingly dense and claustrophobic listen;

Albuquerque’s ZH - who is the only artist Bobbi has put out two releases for, which should indicate how alluring this artist in particular is. As Bobbi himself says “Probably the most underrated artist I have. His work is genius” – both albums are woozy, surreal trips, intricate microclimates of sound with an overarching atmosphere that is similar to the apocalyptic sighing of the "They have a large barge with a radio antenna tower on it" section from Godspeed’s East Hastings;

Michigan’s A Death Cinematic, one of the farthest out of all PCR releases so far, is a one man instrumental (although nearly all PCR releases fit that description) heavy guitar drone improviser who you can really hear putting a lot of himself into his music. An intense artist with a direct, raw approach, stripped to the minimum that is a wonderful counterpoint to the detailed layers and textures of the other artists on the label.

Every new release has created a sense of anticipation over where Bobbi will take the sound of the label. Receiving submissions at a rate of “2-3 a week” is a very healthy start for such a young label. Is there a grand scheme at play with a mapped out trajectory and releases planned in advance? “Generally, I try and have a release every Monday. Sometimes I'm booked up with releases for a month in advance. We're working on a CD sampler that will have an original song by most of the bands on the label, so things have slowed down considerably while working on it. They will be packaged in beautiful white digi-packs with original artwork, and each and everyone will be handled, folded, stamped, and numbered by yours truly. They will go on a limited run of 200 copies with a PCR sticker, and cost less than $10.00. Aside from the CD release, there are a few big changes and surprises coming to PCR.”

Keep your eyes and ears, bookmarks and favourites locked to this label. Artists planned for releases in the near future include To The Boy Elis, [praw], Iconx6, and Yellow6. After such an encouraging start, with the owner’s focused, open minded attitude Pocket Change Records has the potential to develop into a postrock/ambient/beautiful sounds contender to rival current genre leviathans like Kranky and Constellation.



Links:

Pocket Change Records
www.myspace.com/pocketchangerecords
www.archive.org/details/pocket-change-records

Artists:
Conceptual Reality - www.myspace.com/conceptualrealityband
A Death Cinematic - www.myspace.com/adeathcinematic
Double Handsome Dragons - www.myspace.com/doublehandsomedragons
False Awakening - www.myspace.com/falseawake
Icon6 - www.myspace.com/iconx6
ihopeyousuffer - www.myspace.com/ihopeyousuffer
On Earth - www.myspace.com/chrissansonmusic
piers. - www.myspace.com/theweathercouncil
[praw] - www.myspace.com/prawmusic
Talbot Arms - www.myspace.com/wecryforwine
To The Boy Elis - www.myspace.com/totheboyelis
wreaths - www.myspace.com/wreathstaperecordings
Yellow6 - www.myspace.com/jonyellow6
ZH - www.myspace.com/zhus