- 1: Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet - Yesterdays
- 1: 2 Bob James - Sign Of The Times
- 1: 3 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - The Lonely Bull (El S
- 1: 4 Doris Day - Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
- 1: 5 Nina Simone - Rags And Old Iron
- 1: 6 Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child
- 1: 7 Ella Fitzgerald With Paul Weston & His Orchestra - Russ
- 1: 8 Burners Feat. Kylie Auldist - This Girl
- 1: 9 Little Willie John - I'm Shakin
- 1: 0 Dinah Washington With Quincy Jones & His Orchestra - Is
- 1: Harry Belfonte - Jump In The Line
- 1: 2 Frank Sinatra - High Hopes
- 1: 3 Chris Connor - Time Out For Tears
- 1: 4 Thelonious Monk - Black And Tan Fantasy
- 2: 1 Ella Fitzgerald - All Through The Night
- 2: Johnny Mathis - Someone
- 2: 3 Cal Tjader - Walk On By
- 2: 4 Gil Scott-Heron - Home Is Where The Hatred Is
- 2: 5 Mongo Santamaria - Watermelon Man
- 2: 6 Peggy Lee - I'ts A Good Day
- 2: 7 Ferrante & Teicher - Theme From Exodus
- 2: 8 Quincy Jones - Soul Bossa Nova
- 2: 9 Ahmad Jamal - Angel Eyes (Live At The Alhambra)
- 2: 10 Charlie Parker & Miles Davis - A Night In Tunisia
- 2: 11 Les Brown Feat. Doris Day - You Won't Be Satisfied (Unt
- 2: 1 Cab Calloway - The Hi-De-Ho Man (That's Me)
- 2: 13 Glenn Miller - Doin' The Jive
- 2: 14 Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven - Weary Blues
Suche:double j
- 1: Cavity - First Communion
- 1: 2 Figurative Theatre
- 1: 3 Burnt Offerings
- 1: 4 Mysterium Iniquitatis
- 1: 5 Dream For Mother
- 1: 6 Stairs - Uncertain Journey
- 1: 7 Spiritual Cramp
- 1: 8 Romeo's Distress
- 1: 9 Resurrection - Sixth Communion
- 1: 0 Prayer
- 2: 1 Dogs
- 2: Romeo's Distress (Demo)
- 2: 3 Deathwish (Demo)
- 2: 4 Desperate Hell (Demo)
- 2: 5 Spiritual Cramp (Demo)
- 2: 6 Cavity - First Communion (Demo)
- 2: 7 Sleepwalk (198 Frontier Demo)
- 2: 8 Invocation (198 Frontier Demo)
- 2: 9 Cavity - First Communion (Alternate Version)
- 2: 10 Lord's Prayer (Alternate Version)
CHRISTIAN DEATH was formed by Rozz Williams in Los Angeles, California in 1979. Williams was eventually joined by guitarist/songwriter Rikk Agnew of ADOLESCENTS, James McGearty on bass and George Belanger on drums. This CHRISTIAN DEATH line-up was responsible for recording the band's iconic 1982 debut, ONLY THEATRE OF PAIN, widely regarded as the #1 American goth album of all-time. This exclusive double-LP version of OTOP commemorates its 40th anniversary- the first disc is the digitally remastered, original version of the album while the second disc is comprised of "Dogs" from HELL COMES TO YOUR HOUSE, four pre-Frontier demos, two studio demos made for a second Frontier Records' LP that never happened and two alternate studio mixes from OTOP. The gatefold LP jacket is printed in its original its black and metallic gold, includes a Colver collage poster and a hardcover copy of the photo book, ONLY THEATRE OF PAIN and all come in a hard slipcase. The oversized 12" x 12" book features rare and never-before-seen photos of CHRISTIAN DEATH as well as new interviews with photographer Edward C. Colver, the surviving band members, Frontier's Lisa Fancher and others. Colver befriended the band and followed them around in late 1981 and early 1982 at more than a dozen concerts as well as photo shoots in Rozz Williams' family home (used on the back cover and insert of ONLY THEATRE OF PAIN) and a session of now famous images at a Pomona CA cemetery. Info: Just as the theatrically-minded LA punk scene was beginning to give rise to such morbidly themed outfits as 45 Grave and the Flesh Eaters, an androgynous teenaged street performer named Rozz Williams (né Roger Painter) founded CHRISTIAN DEATH, one of the most prolific, enduring, and beloved gothic acts of all time. Williams' otherworldly groan can make "Only Theatre of Pain" difficult going for those that aren't the gothic faithful, but the loud/not-too-fast music (courtesy of ex-ADOLESCENTS guitarist Rikk Agnew and the walking-dead rhythm section of bassist James McGearty and drummer George Belanger) is appropriately doom 'n' gloomy, with inventive arrangements and clear sound - thanks to Frontier Records' go-to punk production legend, Thom Wilson- capturing the mood in full B-movie fidelity. The lyrics sacriligiously address horror topics and religion: they're overwrought (the backwards masking of 'Mysterium Iniquitatis' being one clever exception) but easy to overlook in the wash of inspired rock noise. The original lineup's recorded debut is a gem. Artists inspired by CHRISTIAN DEATH include Danzig, Craddle of Filth, Paradise Lost, Korn, Type O Negative, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson and Jane's Addiction. Press: "A depraved masterpiece, this was punk rock made poetic, subversive, and gracefully savage."- AV Club "The Gothic album to out-gothic all others" - Melody Maker "Only Theatre of Pain's influence should not be underestimated" - Record Collector Limited availability!
- 1: The Creation Recordings Why Does The Rain
- 2: Like
- 3: Winter
- 4: Up The Hill And Down The Slope
- 5: Your Door Shines Like Gold
- 6: Lonely Street
- 7: Time
- 1: Bbc Radio Janice Long Session - 9/2/84 On A Tuesday
- 2: Skeleton Staircase
- 3: The Canal And The Big Red Town
- 4: Lonely Street
- 1: Live At The Living Room - 8/6/84 On A Tuesday
- 2: Your Door Shines Like Gold
- 3: Time
- 4: Colours I See
- 5: Emily
- 6: The Nothing Box
- 7: The Canal And The Big Red Town
- 8: Why Does The Rain
- 9: Over The Hill And Down The Slope
- 10: Day’s End
- 1: Bark Studio Recordings - 5-7/2/05 Model Village Rickety Frame
- 2: Beware
- 3: Mad Old Woman Mad Old Man
- 4: Ride
- 1: Bbc Radio 6 Music Gideon Coe Session - 24/9/5 Why Does The Rain
- 2: I Can’t Keep My Mind Off You
- 3: Up The Hill
Triple coloured vinyl version (Each disc is a different colour) of the double CD that came out on Cherry Red in 2021 Presented in Tri-fold gatefold sleeve with 16 page 12x12 colour booklet, poster & photograph.
ONLY 350 COPIES WORLDWIDE
Among the first crop of Creation Records bands in the mid-1980s, THE LOFT seemed the most likely to break through. Following the success of The Smiths, guitar-based independent pop was in vogue, Alan McGee’s Creation label was turning heads – its bands blending 60s psychedelia, the melodic end of punk and a new sound which would soon be immortalised on NME’s C86 cassette. And in this London quartet, Creation had their answer to bands like Television, The Only Ones or early Modern Lovers, offering taut, off-kilter songs with an irresistibly deadpan cool.
Sadly, after just two singles, 1984’s downbeat debut ‘Why Does The Rain’ and the punchier sequel, ‘Up The Hill And Down The Slope’ – an indie hit which the band performed live on TV show The Oxford Road Show, The Loft dissolved, with various members founding new bands The Weather Prophets, The Caretaker Race and The Wishing Stones. They left behind seven studio tracks, a BBC Radio 1 session for Janice Long and one track from a Creation LP documenting the scene’s roots in small club The Living Room.
However, The Loft’s legend endured, eventually prompting a reunion in the early 2000s with all four original members – singer/songwriter/guitarist Pete Astor, guitarist Andy Strickland, bassist Bill Prince and drummer Dave Morgan. Alongside various well-received live shows, that led to a new single, ‘Model Village’ (2006) and more recently a session for Gideon Coe on BBC 6 Music (2015). The Loft’s reputation as founding fathers of a new breed of mid-80s indie pop continues to grow to this day, with the band often cited as an influence.
Compiled and coordinated by the band, Ghost Trains & Country Lanes expands on previous retrospectives of The Loft, adding those reunion recordings (including three previously unissued tracks), the Gideon Coe session and several live recordings from that historic performance at The Living Room back in 1984. (including many exclusive songs which were never recorded in the studio).
With new sleeve-notes by Danny Kelly, this is the definite tribute to The Loft
- 1: Roll Alabama
- 2: 10,000 Miles Away
- 3: Parsonos Farewell
- 4: Cold Blows The Wind
- 5: Cross-Eyed & Chinless
- 6: Captain Wedderburn
- 7: Betsy Baker
- 8: Yarmouth Town
- 9: Haul Away
- 10: Little Sally Racket
- 11: The March Past
- 12: Rosemary Lane
- 13: Sloe Gin
- 14: Roll The Woodpile Down
- 15: London Town
- 16: New York Girls
- 17: Frogs Legs & Dragonos Teeth
Black Vinyl[26,01 €]
Bellowhead re-connected online during the lockdown in 2020 and for the
sheer fun of it remotely made and released 'New York Girls At Home' - all
from their respective homes around the UK
This unplanned performance was warmly received and ignited another idea for
the band to reunite - in person - for a full length recorded show at a mansion
house just outside London.This one- off performance was broadcast online in
December 2020, selling over 10,000 tickets and featuring a host of Bellowhead
favourites, including New York Girls, Roll Alabama, London Town and Roll the
Woodpile Down.
Released for the first time on vinyl and remastered by Mikey Young '3-19-98' is 400 Blows at their purest form. Sonic assault galore. Formed in Los Angeles in 1997 after a few lineup changes, 400 Blows gained notoriety throughout Los Angeles and beyond with their menacing stage presence which would practically destroy everything in its path. 1998 saw the release of their first record “3.19.98” and after three years of laying siege to eardrums and soundboards everywhere, the sixteen track double record “Black Rainbow” had them touring with At the Drive In in 2001. Showing no signs of slowing down, 400 Blows had hit the ground running when they signed to the lionized roster of Gold Standard Laboratories in 2005 to release “Angel’s Trumpets and Devil’s Trombones,” which was followed by a European tour with The Locust and appearances with The Mars Volta at All Tomorrows Parties.
Mal-One’s latest single is again taken from a title of one of his Artworks Kiss Me Punk (till my mouth gets Numb). The cover of the single is the artwork itself, giving the listener something to contemplate as ‘The needle hits the Plastic, hear those speakers hum’ as the lyrics point out.
This single does not carry the usual ‘Version’ side, but is what we call a ‘Double “AA” Feature’, as the flip side track is the full unedited version of the title track to Mal-One’s forthcoming debut album “It’s All Punk Rock’’ due out on 15 October 2021. Hope you enjoy this double feature…long live the 45…..
- A1: Jacques Satre – La Traversée De Taillard
- A2: Hektisch Sprengen Djs & Listensport – Waterbomb (Acid Dub)
- A3: Poly Chain – Buspironum
- B1: Jai – Emotion
- B2: Dj Normal 4 – Basement Romance Memories
- B3: Listensport – Deleted Scenes
- C1: Gee Dee – Waterdance (Lunar Mix)
- C2: Jai – X Life
- C3: Johnmon – Coast Ryda
- D1: Mogwaa – Mesmerize
- D2: Imogen Soundsystem – Original Sin
- D3: Hektisch Sprengen Djs – Cosmic Reisen
Another Terra Magica release is coming! The new ‚Axisdance‘ - Various Artists (TERRAM003) double-vinyl 12″ compilation coming out this summer August/September on Terra Magica Rec.
With artists from all over the world such as Poly Chain, Mogwaa, Jacques Satre, Jai, DJ Normal 4, Imogen Soundsystem – Ilija Rudman and Antonio Zuza, Gee Dee, Rambal Cochet, Listensport, Johnmon and Hektisch Sprengen DJs.
Every track has its own spirit, in a kind of a 90s journey way. The compilation is a fascinating mixture of weird cosmic and slow goa vibes to more emotional places with powerful bassdriven downtempo techno and slightly trance influenced anthems as well as distinctive tribal acid easiness with epic melodies. Furthermore it involves faster loaded minimal hypnotic synth sounds and dark UK-House with a big-beat touch to it. Raw liquid floating old skool breaks melts into rave stompers which are inhabited by sensitive living microbes vibrating jungle atmospheres.
The relationship between Bryn Jones’ music as Muslimgauze and the track/abum titles he would provide (sometimes right on the tapes he would send in for release, but often determined later, sometimes even giving two different pieces months apart the same title, accidentally or not) has always been a little mysterious. Jones himself can no longer be asked, and as we continue to investigate the swathes of material he provided, you hit sources like the DAT or DATs that make up the contents of the new double LP »Turn On Arab American Radio«. Nine tracks, the first LP/four tracks titled »Turn On Arabic American Radio,« and the other LP/five tracks labelled only »Arabic American Radio.« None of them sound particularly radio-esque, although given the simultaneous vastness and ornate focus of Jones’ Muslimgauze work that gap between name and sound is far from atypical.
Instead here the de rigeur percussion loops that underpin this particular set of tracks, while occasionally clipping into the fierce distortion that Jones either loved to use or couldn’t get away from, steer away from both the more consistent application of that distortion as well as the Middle Eastern and Asian influences he often used. It’d be a stretch to call anything here basic boom-bap production but they come closer to it than a lot of Muslimgauze production. And while those loops are, as always prominent, they’re not actually the focus; settling into steady vamps as structures for Jones to pursue an extended and often more gentle exploration of the other sample sources he has here. There are stringed instruments, the sound of water, but most prominently or strikingly the human voice. Nothing is in English but tone and the occasional word ('familia', 'passport') still provide guides. There are ululations, snatches of melody; but most often speech, dialogue, often tense and harried sounding. Is this what Jones was thinking of or referring to with his Arabic American Radio?
As with so many other questions about Muslimgauze, we’ll never know the answer to that one. (Most pertinently in this case we might wonder who appears here, and what the context of these recordings is. But Jones never provided that with his submissions.) Here, even though those inexorable loops pound on, indefatigable, that emphasis on some of the people Jones chooses lends a measured gentleness to much of »Turn On Arabic American Radio«, at least within the context of his body of work. The last thing you hear at the end of the second LP is one last question from one of the many speakers on this peculiar Muslimgauze radio, echoed away into infinity. We may never have answers, but those questions continue to resonate.
- A1: Enchantment 7:47
- A2: Hallowed Land 5:35
- A3: The Last Time 3:53
- A4: Forever Failure 4:40
- B1: Once Solemn 3:29
- B2: Shadowkings 5:18
- B3: Elusive Cure 3:28
- B4: Yearn For Change 4:53
- B5: Shades Of God 4:11
- C1: Hands Of Reason 4:29
- C2: I See Your Face 3:36
- C3: Jaded 4:51
- C4: Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us 4:39
- C5: True Belief 4:50
- D1: One Second 3:37
- D2: Say Just Words 4:44
- D3: The Rise Of Denial 4:48
- D4: As I Die 4:26
Draconian Times is probably the main album for Paradise Lost, so much so that they still tour the album today, which remains one of the milestones in the Metal scene of all time. Recorded at The Forum in London, this live set includes a few fan favorite tracks from their extensive back catalogue which rounded out a truly spectacular performance. Are there any highlights? Oh yes. Opening track ‘Enchantment’ still ranks as one of the best songs this band has penned and the moment when the haunting piano intro gives way to the rest of the band kicking in is a real shiver-down-the-spine moment. ‘Hallowed Land’ and ‘Forever Failure’ (complete with Charles Manson intro) sound as powerful and relevant as when they first came out, and the performance of ‘Shadow Kings’ stands head and shoulders above the original. After being released on DVD and CD, the album was also released on double vinyl, here you will find two new unreleased colors and a truly exceptional packaging: this album comes out in deluxe Triple Gatefold edition, in two colors (Gold / Silver) 500 limited edition each.
Eric Clapton’s studio albums for Reprise Records are among the most beloved of the guitarist’s storied career and the focus of a new series of limited-edition, vinyl-only boxed sets. The first instalment, The Complete Reprise Studio Albums – Volume I, is available now The 180-gram, 12-LP set features Clapton’s first six studio albums for Reprise (Money and Cigarettes, Behind the Sun, August, Journeyman, From the Cradle, and Pilgrim) along with an additional LP of rarities from the era. The second instalment, coming in January, features 10 LPs that cover all five albums Clapton recorded for Reprise between 2001 and 2010, plus an LP exclusive to the collection that includes rarities from the same time.
The Complete Reprise Studio Albums – Volume II will be available on January 13, 2023. The set contains newly remastered versions of five studio albums pressed on 180-gram vinyl: Reptile (2001), Me & Mr. Johnson (2004), Sessions For Robert J (2004), Back Home (2005), and Clapton (2010). All the albums will be released as double-LPs except Sessions For Robert J, which makes its vinyl debut in the collection as a single LP.
Rarities (2001-2010), the collection’s final LP, brings together eight hard-to-find recordings from this prolific era in Clapton’s recording career. Highlights include the B-side “Johnny Guitar” and the Japanese-only bonus track, “Losing Hand.” “Midnight Hour Blues,” another rarity, was released in 2010 as a bonus track for Clapton.
VOLUME II covers a nine-year period that starts in 2001 with Reptile, Clapton’s 14th solo studio album. It reached #5 on the albums chart in the U.S. and sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide. Two singles from the album – “Superman Inside” and “Reptile” – were nominated for Grammy Awards, with the latter winning for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
Clapton returned in 2004 with Me and Mr. Johnson, an album of cover songs originally written and recorded by Delta-bluesman Robert Johnson, a trailblazing artist who profoundly influenced Clapton. Packed with passionate performances, the record sold more than two million copies worldwide and was nominated for a Grammy Award. The album is presented as a double-LP in the new collection and features an etching of the album cover on the final side.
Also in 2004, Clapton released Session for Robert J, a companion piece to Me and Mr. Johnson. The album captures acoustic and electric performances by Clapton and his band in Dallas and England as they rehearsed and recorded songs for Me and Mr. Johnson. The album, which makes its vinyl debut in this collection, includes fantastic versions of “Terraplane Blues” and “Sweet Home Chicago.”
Clapton’s hot streak continued in 2005 with Back Home, his 17th studio album. Certified gold in the U.S., the record featured guest performances by Vince Gill, John Mayer, Robert Randolph, Billy Preston, and Steve Winwood. On the album, Clapton paid tribute to his close friend George Harrison with a cover of Harrison’s 1979 song “Love Comes To Everyone.” Back Home won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
Clapton is the final studio album on Volume II. It debuted in 2010 and peaked on the album charts at #6 in the U.S. and #7 in the U.K. Once again, Clapton was joined in the studio by an all-star group of guest musicians that includes Derek Trucks, Wynton Marsalis, Allen Toussaint, and J.J. Cale. On the album, Clapton mixed Tin Pan Alley standards and New Orleans jazz with new songs like “Run Back To Your Side,” which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2011.
The Complete Reprise Studio Albums Vinyl Box Set - Volume 2 track listing
Reptile
• Reptile
• Got You On My Mind
• Travelin’ Light
• Believe In Life
• Come Back Baby
• Broken Down
• Find Myself 5:15
• I Ain’t Gonna Stand For It
• I Want A Little Girl
• Second Nature
• Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
• Modern Girl
• Superman Inside
• Son & Sylvia
Me & Mr Johnson (3-sided Album)
• When You Got A Good Friend
• Little Queen OF Spades
• They're Red Hot
• Me And The Devil Blues
• Traveling Riverside Blues
• Last Fair Deal Gone Down
• Stop Breakin' Down Blues
• Milkcow's Calf Blues
• Kind Hearted Woman Blues
• Come On In My Kitchen
• If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
• Love In Vain
• 32-20 Blues
• Hell Hound On My Trail
Sessions For Robert J
• Sweet Home Chicago
• Milkcow's Calf Blues
• Terraplane Blues
• If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
• Stop Breakin' Down Blues
• Little Queen Of Spades
• Traveling Riverside Blues
• Me And The Devil Blues
• From Four Until Late
• Kind Hearted Woman Blues
• Ramblin' On My Mind
Back Home
• So Tired
• Say What You Will
• I'm Going Left
• Love Don't Love Nobody
• Revolution
• Love Comes To Everyone
• Lost And Found
• Piece Of My Heart
• One Day
• One Track Mind
• Run Home To Me
• Back Home
Clapton
• Travelin' Alone
• Rocking Chair
• River Runs Deep
• Judgement Day
• How Deep Is The Ocean
• My Very Good Friend The Milkman
• Can't Hold Out Much Longer
• That's No Way To Get Along
• Everything Will Be Alright
• Diamonds Made From Rain
• When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful
• Hard Time Blues
• Run Back To Your Side
• Autumn Leaves
Rarities Vol 2
• Johnny Guitar
• Midnight Hour Blues
• You Better Watch Yourself
• Traveling Riverside Blues
• Little Queen Of Spades
• Take A Little Walk With Me
• Losing Hand
• I Was Fooled
WRWTFWW Records is ecstatic to announce the first ever best-of compilation of Soichi Terada’s amazing project OMODAKA. including 14 songs never released on vinyl before. The 18-track ZENTSUU: Collected Works 2001-2019 album is available on double LP in heavy 350gsm sleeve with printed inner sleeves, as well as in CD and digital formats.
Initiated in 2001 while trying to create a "boat racing song", the OMODAKA project features sublime music by veteran electronic/house/jungle/video game music producer/DJ Soichi Terada and the vocals of Japanese folk min'yo & enka singer Akiko Kanazawa for a never-heard-before colorful blend of retro game 8bit/chiptune sounds and traditional Japanese music with wet electro rhythms, joyful 90s house grooves, and slick downtempo vibes. Feel-good, sexy, and fun, Terada’s project brings forth one of the most unique sounds in recent memory. The smile-inducing sonic adventure is packed with irresistible hits and a good dose of dancefloor-ready gems: a well deserved delivery of good times for 2022 and beyond!
Tokyo born genius Soichi Terada has built an impressive career in different music genres. He co-founded respected label Far East Recording with Shinchiro Yokata, composed the soundtrack for cult video game series Ape Escape, released tons of amazing house music records (some included in the beautiful compilation Sounds from the Far East released by Rush Hour in 2015), and has been a celebrated world-touring DJ.
Stay What You Are is the breakout third studio album by the American alternative rock band Saves The Day. Produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliot Smith, Beck, The Vines) in early 2001 it's a record that remains incredibly influential within the emo and rock scene to
this day, showcasing the band's signature blend of upbeat catchy melodies, with dark lyrical undertones. Features the standout singles 'At Your Funeral' and 'Freakish'.
Originally released on July 10th 2001, the album saw Saves The Day crack the Billboard 200 at the same time other that emo acts like Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional were enjoying mainstream success.
This new pressing comes on double 10" splatter vinyl, packaged in a hand-numbered gatefold sleeve with lyrics and accompanying insert; released via Hassle Records for the UK/EU in conjunction with Vagrant Records to celebrate their 25th Anniversary.
- 1: Complete Mess
- 2: Easy For You To Say
- 3: Bad Omens
- 4: Me Myself & I
- 5: Take My Hand
- 6: Carousel
- 7: Older
- 8: Haze
- 9: You Don’t Go To Parties
- 10: Blender
- 11: Caramel
- 12: Best Friends
- 13: Bleach
- 14: Red Line
- 15: – Moodswings
- 16: Flatline
- 17: – Emotions
- 18: – Bloodhound
- 19: – Tears!
Double LP white vinyl Deluxe version, released in a die-cut triple gatefold jacket sleeve with printed inner, also includes a 24 page booklet and featuring 19 tracks
• The band have sold 2.5million+ concert tickets while touring the world several times over.
• They sold more than 12million albums.
• They recently joined Spotify’s exclusive Billions Club with their hit single “Youngblood.”
In the world of heavy music, few bands embrace dynamics and negative
space like Kowloon Walled City - Since forming 15 years ago, the band
has increasingly refined its deconstructed approach to noise rock, math
rock, and doom.Now, with Piecework (Neurot Recordings/Gilead Media),
the band's fourth album and first in six years, Kowloon Walled City
reaches new levels of restraint
Songs are bleak and slow, but also shorter and more concise. (Seven songs clock
in at about 30 minutes.) There are stretches of near silence. While the band has
always operated under the MO that less is more, it has doubled down on that
ethos for Piecework. Singer/ guitarist Scott Evans and guitarist Jon Howell, the
main songwriters, self- imposed restrictions to push themselves creatively
"restraining ourselves into oblivion," as Howell put it. Songs are written in more
straightforward time signatures. Evans and Howell also changed their guitar rigs
to sound more "clean and clanky."
With the gristle stripped away, bone and muscle remain: drums decaying in a
room, bass strings rattling, a lonely guitar chord. Sometimes, it's almost
uncomfortably barren. But the negative space also amplifies the ruptures of
heady aggressiveness that anchor Piecework. Angular guitar notes from Howell
skew off the neck, dissolving into space. Ian Miller's bass lines churn in the muck.
Drums and cymbal smashing by Dan Sneddon punctuate dead air. (Sneddon,
formerly of Early Graves, makes his recording debut with the band five years after
joining.) There's sadness and anger in Evans' shouted vocals, but also a desire for
something better.
Through the resignation and regret, Piecework also hints at perseverance and
hope. Pressed on Milky White color vinyl.
We have a very limited amount of these available now for stores. 4LP boxset - white vinyl - edition of 300 - includes: The Dream Derealised LP, Lightnesses I & II LPs, Near Future Residence LP. It’s nearing a decade since William Doyle released his Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album, Total Strife Forever, as East India Youth in 2014. A year later, he had toured the world and was releasing his second album, Culture of Volume, but it would be another four years before Doyle returned with his third full album, and the first official release under his own name. The dizzyingly ambitious Your Wilderness Revisited arrived in 2019 and was followed last year by the artpop masterpiece, Great Spans of Muddy Time. In the years between leaving the old project behind and re-emerging under his own name, Doyle self-released a string of ambient-leaning albums, The Dream Derealised, Lightnesses Vol I & II and Near Future Residence, which are now to receive a first vinyl pressing via Tough Love as both a highly limited four LP box set, titled ‘Slowly Arranged: 2016-19’, and as separate albums. The Dream Derealised is a collection of nine abstract, lo-fi pieces that were recorded during the summer of 2016, when focusing on creating them helped guide Doyle through a “difficult period of anxiety, panic and a regular dissociative feeling called derealisation.” At the time, doing something creative in a quick and immediate fashion felt vital to Doyle, carrying him to a new place: “I’m releasing them now as a cathartic measure, and as a message for others who may be going through difficult times themselves. What I told myself at the time, what I can tell you now: You are not in danger. You are not going insane. You are not alone.” Lightnesses Vol. I & II sees Doyle create what we might understand as true ambient music – that is, music intended for the background that wasn’t composed as such, but allowed to blossom out of the setting of some rules and parameters, played by sounds he created and then resampled. The deceptively simple, droning pieces are unlike anything Doyle has made before or since. “During their creation I’d often take photographs of the light coming in through the windows of the two houses I lived in during their creation. I’d post these on social media and they became quite popular parts of my output. This music was intended to accompany those visuals. The first volume’s photo is a double exposure of the sun shining in on my notebook and my hand, whereas the photo for the second volume was taken in Joshua Tree Park, California as I saw our tail lights illuminate one of the trees.” Near Future Residence is music for an imagined place based on real ideas; the soundtrack for an ecologically sustainable housing development somewhere in a not-too-distant future Britain. The eleven instrumental pieces here come from a place of optimism, imagining a future that is based on cooperation, community and ecological urbanism. It's music intended to sit in this imagined environment rather than impose upon it, similar in principle to the function of Kankyō Ongaku (Japanese environmental music). The ideas contained on Near Future Residence laid the groundwork for - and can be seen as a companion piece to - the album Your Wilderness Revisited, released to critical acclaim in 2019. Doyle explains how the pieces “were composed in entirely generative ways using samples of instruments, synthesisers and field recordings I've collected and developed throughout 2018. In generative composition, rules are set and parameters are chosen and then put into motion, the results constantly changing and surprising.”
- A1: Awake Asleep (Bms Master)
- A2: Into The Warm Embrace Of Deviancy (Bms Master)
- B1: It's So Easy To Corrupt A Soul (Bms Master)
- B2: Silent Riot (Bms Master)
- C1: The Tendon Harp (Bms Master)
- C2: The Tao Of The Scarred (Bms Master)
- D1: The Procession Of The Neutral (Bms Master)
- D2: Tasting Hate From The Cup Of Gods (Bms Master)
Catharsis third strike in double vinyl format comes with brutal precission: Hydraulic techno func meets the sinister & scornful whispers of decaing Medusas, Roaring Drill Mechanisms in constant rotation, shuffling saws bending through a fog of noise & relentless bass drum rumble. The roaring sounds of dying matter orchestrated by the one and only. Terrifying Shadows is a representation of what Jung called the Shadow, through the lense of shadow work via Integral Zen, and the realms of dark Buddhsm as it brushes close to the nihilism of atheistic stanism. It is the tension between these philopsophies that are explored in this album. It is quite within the bounds of possibility for a man to recognise the relative evil of this nature, but it is a rare and shattering experience for him to gaze in the face of absolute evil. The shadow of the human being reaches all the way to hell. Cover art by Steve Voidloss.
- A1: Super Disco Breakin
- A2: The Move
- A3: Remote Control
- A4: Song For The Man
- A5: Just A Test
- A6: Body Movin
- B1: Intergalactic
- B2: Sneakin' Out The Hospital
- B3: Putting Shame In Your Game
- B4: Flowin' Prose
- B5: And Me
- B6: Three Mc's & One Dj
- C1: The Grasshopper Unit (Keep Movin') (Keep Movin')
- C2: Song For Junior
- C3: I Don't Know
- C4: The Negotiation Limerick File
- C5: Electrify
- D1: Picture This
- D2: Unite
- D3: Dedication
- D4: Dr Lee, Phd
- D5: Instant Death
Soma welcome the debut album from the ever-growing roster of youthful talent as Lewis Fautzi drops The Gare Album, named in homage to The Gare Club, Porto, where Lewis made his discovery of Techno. A bold 4 track single debut gave rise to the album process midway through 2013 and under the careful supervision of Soma, Lewis has provided a definitive peak in his sound cultivated on the back of years of studio work. A collection of deep, dark and twisted techno awaits.
A definite maturity in production shines through on this fantastic LP from Fautzi as he creates a cold and calculating output, clearly focused on the future. The Gare Album has allowed Fautzi to express himself fully through electronic music, a task that he has taken to whole-heartedly.
The Gare Album will be released on limited double LP.
High Focus Records is proud to present 'Powerizm', a brand new single from Fliptrix, fresh off the heels of the success with his group The Four Owls and their ground breaking album 'Nocturnal Instinct'
Produced by Yabu, ‘Powerizm’ is a deeply personal track which pays homage to fallen friend and graffiti artist POW. Dedicating the song to him, Fliptrix reminisces of brighter times as well as touching upon recent sobriety and future fatherhood.
This limited edition double A side single is pressed onto lumniescent red & yellow splatter vinyl. The second track is entitled 'Holy Kush' and produced by Zygote.
Limited to 300 copies, never to be repressed, get yours while stocks last.



















