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Age: I entered this world in 1970. A British Blogger.
2008 ALBUM RELEASES: 2008 FORTHCOMING ALBUMS
using rateyourmusic.com: 2008 Album Releases [Updated Regularly]
This information is updated on a continual basis.
[These dates apply to the UK and can change as record companies/distributors do have a habit of messing us around!]
(30.09.06) supersilent will tour in europe in mid november and also on 08.12.06 with two other rune grammofon artists, susanna and the magical orchestra and in the country. the dates and the venues are to be confirmed.
10.10.06 istanbul, turkey @ babylon
(09.11.06 -18.11.06, 08.12.06)
rune grammofon tour in europe, tba w/ susanna and the magical orchestra, in the country including:
09.11.06 helsinki, finland @ umo jazzhouse
11.11.06 praha, czech @ roxy, stimul festival
16.11.06 genk, belgium @ casino modern, motives festival
08.12.06 brussels, bergium @ beursschouwburg # posted by DJ Martian 7:06 PM
Friday, September 29, 2006
Mojo - New Issue
New issue of Mojo magazine features Jimi Hendrix on the front cover.
FREE CD!
EXPERIENCED! Music inspired by The Jimi Hendrix Experience Blasting psych and funk, all inspired by or under the influence of Jimi Hendrix. Featuring Love, Funkadelic, Santana, Curtis Mayfield, Rotary Connection, The Move, Jamie Cullum and many more… # posted by DJ Martian 7:34 PM
Squarepusher special in the new time slot: Thursday night/Friday morning 2-4am.
Breezeblock branding has gone, now with the tagline Mary Ann Hobbs - radio 1's experimental show
So ideal listening for American's on Eastern Time Zone at 9pm on Thursday's. However for Brits this will be even more of a listen again show via BBC radioplayer. # posted by DJ Martian 8:29 PM
Earplug is a twice-monthly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features to the international electronic-music community. # posted by DJ Martian 7:36 PM
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
by:Larm 2007
Norway's leading music business convention by:Larm will he held in Trondheim in February 2007.
by:Larm celebrates a 10 year jubilee in Trondheim 8-10th of February in 2007 and you are welcome to 3 days of the newest & best scandinavian music.
by:Larm increase focus on new Scandinavian acts; we’re inviting bands from all parts of Scandinavia to by:Larm 2007!
In 2007 by:Larm returns to the beautiful city of Trondheim for three days of concerts, seminars and meetings. Between the 8-10th of February more than 10.000 spectators will have the chance to see approx 170 new bands from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Finland. 1500 delegates from around the globe are also to be found on business meetings and seminars discussing music today and future of the music industry. By:Larm is Scandiavias largest music convention, and hopefully we will have even more bands from Scandianavia on the program in 2007. This depends on promoters, press, managements and artists. No matter if you’re into indie, hardcore, pop, electronica, rock, metal, trance or dance; send us your material for consideration. The artists will be chosen out by our jury and those lucky few will receive compensation for accommodation and travel costs.
Details of SightSonic 2006 - York International Festival of Digital Arts
October 19th - 22nd
Since 2000 SightSonic has presented an annual programme of digital art works by leading international artists. For 2006 SightSonic joins forces with Touch, one of the UK's leading experimental labels, to celebrate the label's 25th anniversary. The Touch 25 programme features Touch artists from around the world including Biosphere, Rosy Parlane and BJNilsen, and a welcome return to the festival by Christian Fennesz. We are also presenting a unique opportunity to hear about Touch, its artistic vision, curation, its technical realisation, its use of web technologies and design in a Touch 25 Conference. The conference will include talks and presentations by label curators Jon Wozencroft and Mike Harding, presentations by artists Christian Fennesz, Phil Jeck, audio mastering engineer Denis Blackham and web designer Philip Marshall. # posted by DJ Martian 1:50 PM
Delicate rhythms, electric cobwebs in the rain, light experimental pop, featuring the always stunning Japanese vocalist Piana. 12K (12K1038CD) October 2nd, 2006
is about to release another slice of looping krautness, with mushrooms. Tierbeobachtungen is only 6 tracks, but each hovers around the 7-8 minute mark, and never outstays its welcome.
It has been an outstanding year for Kode9’s Hyperdub label. Hyperdub’s first album release, the sublime self-titled debut by Burial, looks like it will be the best LP of 2006. Now it is the turn of Kode9 and his MC, Spaceape, to take centre-stage, with their debut LP, 'Memories of the Future.'
SUSPERIA, the Norwegian band featuring former members of DIMMU BORGIR and SATYRICON, entered StrandStudio in Oslo, Norway at the beginning of August to start work on their fourth studio album, the follow up to 2004's acclaimed release "Unlimited".
Forthcoming releases from Huntsville and In The Country 09.15.2006 New signing Hunstville will release their exciting debut album in early October. Huntsville is Ivar Grydeland, Tonny Kluften and Ingar Zach. Grydeland and Zach founded the Sofa label for impovised music in 2000, but Huntsville contrasts sharply with their earlier work and reveals a quite different, more groove-based approach with strong elements of composition. Check: Huntsville
In the Country:
In The Country release their second album "Losing Stones, Collecting Bones" in early November. Their debut from last year received massive critical acclaim in Downbeat, Jazztimes, The Guardian, Straight No Chaser and several other places. The new album is a magnificent achievement with 11 brand new Morten Qvenild compositions. A fresh and original group that are re-defining the piano trio format.
textura profile RUNE GRAMMOFON # posted by DJ Martian 11:33 PM
2006 Autumn Albums
I have significantly updated my 2006 Autumn Albums list on rateyourmusic.com
A selective sequential list of Autumn [September, October, November] 2006 albums.
Also extensive ongoing research for the 2006 A - Z Albums Tracking List: 2006 Albums
What: Europe's coolest Autumn electronic music festival.
PROGRAM UNVEILED including: SATURDAY > RALPH MYERZ & THE JACK HERREN BAND - BEL CANTO - NICOLETTE - 120 DAYS : FRIDAY > PUBLIC ENEMY - SNOOK - MUNGOLIAN JET SET - FROST
Artists profiled. Headliners this year are PUBLIC ENEMY and RALPH MYERZ & THE JACK HERREN BAND.
Tromsø is renowned for breeding innovative artists within the electronica genre. The Insomnia Festival seeks to continue the creative energy this has given rise to.
Insomnia is a festival for electronic music – which means music created with electronic contraptions. The genre is wide enough to cover music ranging from introverted artists hiding behind their computers to crowd pleasing acts, which might not even be suspected to be electronic music. The creative process within the genre is as varied as the music itself, and the festival hopes to sample a variety of it.
The festival has its base in Tromsø as the city was Norways capitol of house and techno when the genre emerged. The local artists found their influences in music created outside Norway’s borders, and got contacts on the international scene.
RALPH MYERZ & THE JACK HERREN BAND (N) BEL CANTO (N) Nicolette (UK) 120 Days (N) Aavikko (FIN) Hundarna Från Söder (S) Pavan (S) Sunkissed (Olanskii+g-HA) DJ Vidar (N) DJ Ceri (N)
Friday: OCTOBER 13th
PUBLIC ENEMY (US) SNOOK (S) Mungolian Jet Set (N) Frost (N) Kango (N) Dokkemand (N) DJ Olle Abstract (N) DJ Doc L Junior (N) DJ Las Plantas (N)
Thursday: OCTOBER 12th
ALOG (N) Hammond Heads (N) Pong Remix (N)
Wednesday: OCTOBER 11th
HUMCRUSH (N) Big Spender (Kohib & Itchy) # posted by DJ Martian 4:55 PM
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
The Wire - October 2006
New issue of The Wire features Pere Ubu on the front cover.
Pere Ubu Rafael Toral Invisible Jukebox: Chris Corsano Once Upon A Time In Melbourne Cross Platform: Jayne Parker James Blackshaw COH Little Annie # posted by DJ Martian 9:22 PM
The Tuesday DiScussion: DiS's album picks for autumn Artists: Deftones, Squarepusher, Blood Brothers, Isis, Jeremy Warmsley, Xiu Xiu, Desert Hearts, Subtle, Optimist Club, Jóhann Jóhannsson
With Martin Clark away on vacation, Chantelle Fiddy and Gutterbreakz's Nick Edwards fill in, offering the latest on Dirty Canvas [above], Bristol dubstep, and Classic FM, among other topics.
I've been preparing for tomorrow's session, so this class is on my mind. It's a graduate course at Juilliard, about music criticism. Last year my students were half classical musicians, and half jazz musicians; it looks like the mix this year will be pretty much the same.
October 15th Exeter, UK - The Cavern (Feat. Guapo) October 16th Birmingham, UK - The Custard Factory (Feat. Una Corda) October 17th TBA, UK - TBA October 18th Glasgow, UK - Barfly October 19th Belfast, UK - TBA October 20th Dublin, UK - The Village October 21st Sheffield, UK - Corporation (Feat. Una Corda) October 22nd London, UK - The Scala (Feat. Una Corda) October 23rd Bristol, UK - The Croft October 24th Southamptom, UK - Nexus (Feat. Ephel Duath, Tangaroa) October 25th Milton Keynes, UK - The Pitz (Feat. Guapo)
cultural identity and cultural consensus the narrow demographics of a large percentage of music bloggers the network effect of music blogs and music bloggers ethics and music promotion the commercialization of music blogs # posted by DJ Martian 1:53 PM
This fifth edition of UK mag Rock-A-Rolla features interviews with Mike Patton, John Wiese (Bastard Noise), Red Sparowes, The Ocean Fracture, Ramesses, Kayo Dot, Jamie Saft, David Scott Stone, Efterklang and Mono. # posted by DJ Martian 1:44 PM
Last year she reaped unanimous acclaim from well neigh every international publication that features serious musical reviews. Now Hanne Hukkelberg has released Rykestrasse 68, the sequel to her fantastic debut Little things.
No UK release date for this album at the mo. # posted by DJ Martian 4:25 PM
He has put together an interesting online learning resource for Music, Media and Technology: Module Guide 2006-7 learning context: [Music, Media and Technology is a final year option associated with the Sociology, Culture & New Media degree course, but also available and of much potential interest to those studying Sociology and Applied Psychology & Sociology.]
Overview:
The aim of this module is to examine the relationship between media, new technological developments and the ways in which music is produced and consumed. Among other themes, we will cover accusations of standardisation, theories of authenticity, fans and subcultures, music videos, representations of gender in music, local and virtual music scenes; file sharing; digital recording; DIY music production; and various historical and contemporary examples of the diffusion and use of technologies among musicians and fans. The module focuses on the significance of media and technologies for music itself and for the practices, discourses and identities of musicians and listeners.
Includes extensive reading lists and summary of weekly lecturer sessions. # posted by DJ Martian 4:41 PM
Earplug is a twice-monthly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features to the international electronic-music community # posted by DJ Martian 8:16 PM
A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box
Pitchfork provide a reminder that Rhino Preps Massive Goth Box titled: A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box due for release next week. Pitchfork have the track listing info.
The set hits stores (including, quite possibly, Hot Topic) on September 19 and compiles 53 goth-but-not-goth songs and 12 videos onto three CDs and one DVD. # posted by DJ Martian 2:20 PM
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster The Cure - A Forest Killing Joke - Pssyche The Slits - Typical Girls The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey Laurie Anderson - O Superman Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner Misty In Roots - Mankind The Rezillos - Can't Stand My Baby The Ruts - In a Rut 4 Brothers - Pasi Pano Pane Zviedzo The Damned - New Rose The Jam - Down in the Tube Station At Midnight Scritti Politti - Sweetest Girl Steel Pulse - Ku Klux Klan Mekons - Where were You? Ivor Cutler - Life In A Scotch Sitting Room
CD2 Joy Division - Atmosphere Cocteau Twins - Musette and Drums The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Echo & the Bunnymen - Over The Wall The Associates - Party Fears Two Grandmaster Flash - The Message Wah! - Hope (I Wish You'd Believe Me) Sugarcubes - Birthday Red Guitars - Good Technology Poet & The Roots - All Wi Doin Is Defendin The Redskins - Keep On Keeping On Birthday Party - Release the Bats The Wild Swans - Revolutionary Spirit Gang Of Four - Damaged Goods Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination The Undertones - You've got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?) The Fall - Eat Y'self Fitter Half Man Half Biscuit - The Trumpton Riots # posted by DJ Martian 2:11 PM
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Zero Tolerance Magazine - New Issue
Issue 13 of Zero Tolerance magazine now on sale. US Death Metal band Suffocation are on the front cover. # posted by DJ Martian 10:10 PM
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Decibel Magazine: Mastodon
Mastodon are on the front cover of the new issue of Decibel Magazine
FAD GADGET BY FRANK TOVEY A RETROSPECTIVE IN SOUND AND VISION 2 DVD / 2 CD PACKAGE RELEASED 11th SEPTEMBER 2006
Frank died on Wednesday 3rd April 2002 at his home in London of a heart attack.
He will be best remembered as one of the Electronic pioneers who, alongside Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and The Normal, were at the forefront of the Electronic Movement of the late '70s/early '80s. # posted by DJ Martian 8:27 PM
TRENTEMØLLER Interview & Listen to New Tracks on myspace
The Last Resort. The album is simply beautiful, and will likely surprise many of his fans, not only because of the dominance of sweet melodies, but the loads of acoustic instruments like guitars, live drums, glockenspiel, melodica, etc. The album doesn't completely leave out the dance-floor - there are a few hypnotizing jams on the record - but it makes for a great at-home listen, something many electronic producer-albums cannot pull off.
Notice that 3 new album tracks are streaming on myspace: TRENTEMØLLER
chilled slo-paced ambient dubby soundscapes, also part of the evil track reminds me of basslines from The Cure - Mixed Up era
This music fits in with dissensus forum favourite word of early 2006: Hauntology # posted by DJ Martian 8:16 PM
7th - Dublin, Temple Bar Music Centre 8th - Glasgow, ABC 2 9th - Manchester, Academy 10th - London, KOKO # posted by DJ Martian 8:00 PM
This week's Breezeblock - Mathew and Nathan Jonson
This week's Breezeblock show with DJ Mary Anne Hobbs features Mathew and Nathan Jonson
It's brothers vs brother on the Breezeblock, as Canadian techno masters Mathew Jonson and Nathan Jonson (aka Hrdvsion) go head to head with live electronica sets. # posted by DJ Martian 1:46 PM
The Woodentops on 6 Music Gideon Coe Show
The Woodentops are special guests on 6 Music - Gideon Coe show tomorrow morning. [Show will be available on Listen Again]
As i mentioned earlier this year The Woodentops have reformed, check them on myspace The Woodentops
The Woodentops are performing in London and Paris this week. # posted by DJ Martian 1:11 PM
Xela is the depraved audio offspring of John Twells- He’s just about to release the projects third album called The dead sea, a concept album based around a zombie attack at sea. Musically the project is very varied taking in drone heavy dread, decaying sea shanties, brooding synth banks and guitar elements. with more than a nod towards the Italian zombie film genre in both sound and imagery.
John Is also one of the brains behind the one of the most inventive and challenging electronic labels around the Uk based type label. John Kindly agreed to give me an email interview. # posted by DJ Martian 1:03 PM
Monday, September 11, 2006
Terrorizer - October 2006
New issue of Terrorizer magazine features Mastodon on the front cover. On sale September 14th.
#149 - REGULARS
ALBUM REVIEWS Iron Maiden, Amon Amarth, Lamb Of God, Hatebreed, Napalm Death, Slayer and Vader test the mettle of their metal.
Features
BONUS UNSIGNED CD! Vote for YOUR favourite unsigned band!
STUDIO REPORT: HAMMERFALL STUDIO REPORT: GOD DETHRONED STUDIO REPORT: BELPHEGOR MASTODON SUFFOCATION AMON AMARTH VADER SCENE REPORT: SOUTH WALES HATEBREED CIRCULUS AGALLOCH DAUGHTERS
DEATH METAL SPECIAL ALBERT MUDRIAN GLOBAL DM: GOTHENBURG ARTWORK ORAL HISTORIES: ROSS DOLAN + KARL SANDERS OTT # posted by DJ Martian 12:33 PM
DiScover: Bat For Lashes
DiS interview Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes # posted by DJ Martian 12:23 PM
Sunday, September 10, 2006
6 Music - Listener's 6 Mix
A new radio show starts on 6 Music today: Listener's 6 Mix 8pm to 10pm
The 6 Mix show is now broadcasted on the Friday 10pm - 12 slot
Both shows will be available on the BBC Radio Player listen again function. # posted by DJ Martian 6:10 PM
Matador will not be releasing this album in the US or Europe.
Gerard from Matador notes: When and if there's any news to pass along concerning another label's plans for the album outside of Japan, we'll do our best to pass the info along.
In the UK eil.com have rather expensive Japanese imports of this available to pre-order: CORNELIUS Sensuous due for release October 25th
CORNELIUS Sensuous (2006 Japanese issue CD album - Keigo Oyamada's original album finally gets released for the first time in 5 years including Music', 'Gum', 'Breezin' and more, picture sleeve + obi-strip, more details to follow...). # posted by DJ Martian 5:45 PM
KRAUTROCKSAMPLER
post-punk junk has 2 PDF files of Julian Cope's out of print book: KRAUTROCKSAMPLER # posted by DJ Martian 5:34 PM
Terrorizer - New Website
Terrorizer magazine has a newly designed website. # posted by DJ Martian 5:30 PM
Sunday Times - Jimi Hendrix CD
Today's Sunday Times newspaper includes a free live Jimi Hendrix CD
FREE CD Get The Sunday Times today for your free Jimi Hendrix live at the Albert Hall CD
The Sunday Times, which leads the quality market with sales of 1.35m, is raising its cover price by 20p from £1.80 to £2.00
So these extra Murdoch freebies [including thelondonpaper the free weekday afternoon newspaper in london] are in effect recouped by price increases elsewhere! # posted by DJ Martian 5:22 PM
Books: Waterstone's Launch New Website
Waterstone's the specialist bookstore chain have launched a brand new website.
Waterstone's feels the time is right to go it alone online The Waterstone's book chain is to drop its partnership with Amazon and launch a competing online store this autumn.
In the 1980s, the legendary Rough Trade record label and shop had cash and kudos. In the 1990s it had neither... But as Rough Trade celebrates its 30th anniversary, it's thriving again. Fiona Sturges meets its founder, Geoff Travis, while, opposite, three old hands recall the early days # posted by DJ Martian 2:40 PM
Friday, September 08, 2006
Update: Top Rated Albums of 2006
Top 1000 Albums of 2006 has been updated on rateyourmusic.com today. # posted by DJ Martian 6:58 PM
Clash Magazine - September 2006
New issue of clash magazine now on sale, as per usual half interesting, half rubbish.
Free CD includes tracks from The Junior Boys, Early Years, Emperor Machine and Depth Charge
Clash Magazine is a bimonthly international music and fashion magazine based in the UK.
Issue 16 - OUT NOW!
Featuring EXCLUSIVE interviews and articles with: KASABIAN The Rapture Scissor Sisters FSOL Basement Jaxx The Lemonheads Sean Lennon Love Is All Sonic Youth The Walkmen Tori Amos Ben Kweller James Yorkston The Pipettes Bonobo Chris Clark Jamie T Digital Mystikz The Crimea Battle TV On The Radio Donovan The Veils Jamie Lidell Blondelle The Latest Underground Electronica
Plus a FREE 16-track Ones To Watch CD - the best from breaking bands to tempt and tickle - featuring: Peter, Bjorn And John, The Early Years, The Emperor Machine, Junior Boys, Depth Charge, The Pinker Tones, Aloe Blacc, Wildchild, Percee & MED, Justine Electra, Tobias Froberg, The Russian Futurists, Sound Team, The Blood Arm, Deaf Stereo, Rich and New Young Pony Club # posted by DJ Martian 5:32 PM
Patrick finished his third album 'The Magic Position' on the 30th of June this year on his 23rd birthday to be released by UK indie label Loog, in cooperation with a worldwide deal through Polydor/Universal in the February of 2007, preced by the release of two singles, the first recently announced as 'Accident & Emergency' that has been slated for release on October 9th this year
Wolf releases his first single in over a year, ‘Accident & Emergency’, on October 23.
October Tour
Oxford Zodiac - October 1 Manchester Academy 2 - 2 Glasgow G2 - 3 London KOKO - 4 Norwich Waterfront - 5 Stoke Sugarmill – 6 # posted by DJ Martian 12:33 PM
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Emap - 3 Kiss Branded Radio Stations
New website for Kiss radio in the UK. The switch over happened this week:
On September 6, Vibe 101 in Bristol will become Kiss 101 and Vibe FM in East Anglia will become Kiss 105-108, as Emap extends the brand beyond London's Kiss 100.
Kiss FM has taken over two radio stations in the East and West of England – what used to be Vibe 101 and Vibe105-8 – and now brings you even more. More what? Well loads of new DJs from Carl Cox to Raheem as well as club listings, the latest in entertainment as well as new ways for YOU to control the music we play.
LONDON - Emap is to rebrand its Vibe FM radio stations in Bristol and East Anglia as Kiss next month and plans to refresh the line-up at Kiss in London at the same time.
LONDON - Emap is to relaunch its Kiss network, with big-name DJs such as Carl Cox and Armin van Buuren signed for weekend nights.
On September 6, Vibe 101 in Bristol will become Kiss 101 and Vibe FM in East Anglia will become Kiss 105-108, as Emap extends the brand beyond London's Kiss 100. # posted by DJ Martian 11:10 PM
SOVIET 2 - Sat Oct 21st - London
Seed Records announce SOVIET 2 @ The Coronet Cinema, 21 Old Kent Road, Elephant & Castle, London
This week's One World features a spotlight on Wichita Records
One World takes a closer look at Wichita Records this week.
Coming Up: The last 3 One World shows ever?:
11th September - Best Of One World Part 1 18th September - Bestival Highlights 25th September - Best of One World Part 2 # posted by DJ Martian 11:25 AM
Julian Fane - Our New Quarters
www.myspace.com/julianfane - listen to a new track The Moon is Gone from the world's best Thom Yorke impersonator, Julian Fane
New album "Our New Quarters" will be released October 9th on Planet Mu. # posted by DJ Martian 11:21 AM
Trentemøller - The Last Resort
Front cover of the new Trentemøller album The Last Resort
California-based guitarist Christopher Willits settles near the shores of pop with Surf Boundaries. On his breakthrough LP, Willits merges the patterns of his signature guitar sound with treated strings, brass and five-part vocal harmonies for a sonic vision that draws upon elements of shoegaze, jazz, ambient and noise.
Recorded during the rise and fall of an intense personal relationship, the album’s spectrum of emotions naturally emerged from the sea changes of lovers’ boundaries, and the ultimate necessity of freedom and letting go. The vocal motif of the aptly titled “Colors Shifting” (sung by Willits and Ultra Records’ Latrice Barnett) appears in three variations, giving the album a rough beginning, middle and end, while other tracks full of electrified drones, intertwining melody lines and smooth guitar loops weave into the album’s structure seamlessly.
Named “the center cell of a rather complex indie rock-avant-garde electronic art Venn diagram” by the San Francisco Weekly, Christopher Willits proliferates artistic diversity in a unique context. After known collaborations with Kid606, Matmos, Brad Laner, Taylor Deupree and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Willits finds a new voice on these recordings. In these 12 tracks, Willits’ view is so broad that anything becomes possible inside his unique vision of organic electronic music. The process of creating this music was his most mysterious yet: “I felt like i was just along for the ride as I gave the music space to breathe and do whatever it needed to do”. # posted by DJ Martian 3:06 PM
Jan Jelinek - Tierbeobachtungen
via EAR/Rational Music! details of the new Jan Jelinek album: Jan Jelinek - Tierbeobachtungen - due for release October 24th
The follow up to his highly acclaimed and successful album Kosmischer Pitch from Jan Jelinek, the leading German producer within the experimental electronic music scene. Kosmischer was a drifting loop vortex peppered with subtle Kraut references, and this is the perfect continuation of that highly developed acoustical matrix. Tierbeobachtungen (animal observations) is his fourth album for ~scape, and it addresses the issue of release and liberation. Recorded almost in transit, while preparing his move to a new studio, the tracks reveal and relish in their improvisational character, and drifting, lost sound - yet, they never lose sight of their underlying structure. Tierbeobachtungen might constitute Jelinek's freest and most personal work, with simply arranged tracks based on four to five layered and modulated loops, while his own studio equipment provides the main sampling sources, from synthesizer and guitaret to vibraphone. Jelinek takes on the role of observer on this record, with a level of reflection remaining audible throughout. However, this is by no means intellectual, distanced music - Jelinek leads us straight into a thicket, an acoustic jungle where sumptuous splendor meets the uncanny. A long tradition of psychedelic music pervades the recordings - Amon Düül, Cluster, My Bloody Valentine - yet whatever musical memories might vie for our attention, these are no clear-cut references, just loose associations. On occasion, one might even be tempted to take them for field recordings - gems discovered, stored and returned from their travels by ethnologists fifty or a hundred years ago. Similar to the pioneers of industrial music, like Cabaret Voltaire or Zoviet France, who experimented with field recordings to challenge Western listening habits, Tierbeobachtungen takes us to new, unknown territories and brims with sounds that defy geographic or stylistic classification, not unlike the semi-conscious state between dream and awakening. Overt romanticism is also precluded by Jelinek's sense of humor, which rears its head in titles like "Palmen Aus Leder" (palm trees of leather) and prevents us from taking the album's mystic overtones too seriously. # posted by DJ Martian 2:17 PM
Field Music - New Track
On myspace Field Music have a new track In Context from their forthcoming album. This track will be released as a single on October 9th
1st - Dundee, Wesport Bar 2nd - Edinburgh, Cabaret Voltaire 3rd - Glasgow, TBC 4th - Wigan, Club Nirvana 5th - Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach 6th - Manchester, Night & Day 7th - Sunderleand, Independent 9th - Lancaster Library 11th - London, Bardens Boudoir 12th - Sheffield, Grapes # posted by DJ Martian 1:54 PM
Breezeblock - Acid On Sea rave Special
This week's Brezeblock show with Mary Anne Hobbs on Radio 1 features:
Sets from the legendary Acid On Sea rave, courtesy of Cylob and Ceephax Acid Crew.
[Now on listen again] # posted by DJ Martian 1:41 PM
2006 Autumn Albums - Updated
My 2006 Autumn Albums release list on rateyourmusic.com has been updated.
A selective sequential list of Autumn [September, October, November] 2006 albums.
Release dates are subject to change ! and primarily refer to the UK. # posted by DJ Martian 1:37 PM
Uncut - October 2006
New issue of Uncut magazine features Kurt Cobain & the Untold story of Grunge
NOT AGAIN ! in 2006 surely no one needs this boring story !
There is a free playlist CD:
Our free Playlist CD has tracks from The Twilight Singers, Grizzly Bear, The Hidden Cameras, Bert Jansch, Sparklehorse, Free, James Yorkston, Nina Nastasia and Nicky Wire. # posted by DJ Martian 1:31 PM
A brand new ANAAL NATHRAKH track, entitled "When the Lion Devours", has been posted online at the band's MySpace page. The song comes off the group's third full-length album, "Eschaton", due on October 16 via Season of Mist.
The new JESU album, recently titled 'Conqueror' [view artwork at this location], is currently at the end of the mixing stage and is about to be mastered. There are eight songs on 'Conqueror', with a running time of just over 60 minutes. Planned for a February 2007 release on Hydra Head, a U.S tour will coincide with the release, shortly followed by tours of Japan and Europe. # posted by DJ Martian 9:58 PM
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Mojo - October 2006
New issue of Mojo magazine is rather dull, Elton John on the front cover.
However there is a folk related CD: The Quiet Revolution
FREE CD! The Quiet Revolution MOJO celebrates the last rays of summer sunshine with this bespoke compilation of music that falls loosely under the folk umbrella and reaches beyond the realms of traditionalism. Featuring Bert Jansch, John & Beverley Martyn and many more. All in this month's MOJO Magazine - OUT NOW!
Includes: Vashti Bumyan, Woven Hand, Espers # posted by DJ Martian 1:25 PM
includes Christgau's email memo: ------ Forwarded Message Dear Friends and Colleagues.
It is now official--Village Voice Media fired me today, "for taste," which means (among other things) slightly sweeter severance...........
No Chuck Eddy, No Christgau at Village Voice= Death of Pazz & Jop, no one to organize it [Chuck Eddy left Village Voice earlier this year] and no pompous music year essays from Christgau.
I can't see the new owners of Village Voice carrying on with Pazz & Jop. # posted by DJ Martian 5:18 PM
