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Playlist:
Joy Electric - 1234 (Feist Cover from their new album, Favourites At Play)

belladonnakillz - 4 U (From their early July album, Sorry try again, released on Dross Tik)

Hudson Mohawke - Z0o00OOm

The Sales Department - On Baseline

Fever Ray - I'm Not Done

Ada feat. Raz Ohara - Lovestoned (I heard this track on the Kompakt 10 compilation... my favourite)

Four Tet - Love Cry (The new single from Four Tet came out November 3rd on Domino)

Wisp - keeper of the hills (Wisp's newest album The Shimmering Hour came out on Rephlex earlier this year)

A Bit Crusher - A Message

Bitrate - Arbutus and 3rd

Chris Tenz - Fearing Home

Black Feelings - Gails (From their self-titled album on Alien8 Recordings, released November 3rd)

Things I'm Excited For:
Who knows how long ago it was now but I heard a track that I really dug one morning. It didn't occur to me to mark it in any special way, I just looked at the artist and thought I'd remember to listen to it again later. Weeks past and I kept thinking about this song by Christina. I look it up on my iTunes and there is not a single artist with the name Christina, not a song and not an album. So, I lost the song. Well, today I found it thanks to last.fm. It was by Cristina and it came off the ze 30 compilation. Phew, what relief. The album is great... all this retro synth-pop, electro-funk and post-punk kind of stuff (any genre that has a hyphen basically). Anyway, the song was Things Fall Apart and it rocks.

I also went to a Mexican restaurant in Vancouver last week and they were playing a band called Caifanes. They are my new love. Their first album (self-titled) was a total rip-off of, er, tribute to The Cure. It's pretty rad. Imagine Robert Smith going to Mexico, learning Spanish, recording an entire album and doing some videos then returning to the States to continue on with life as normal. That's Caifanes. What a trip!

New Releases November 2nd, 2009 - November 8th, 2009:
November 2, 2009: Four Tet - Love-cry (single) (Domino)
November 3, 2009: Syntaks - Ylajali (Ghostly)
November 3, 2009: Joy Electric - Favourites at Play (Tooth and Nail Recordings)

Just passing this stuff through the grapevine. Legally free music is something that needs to be shared, always. If you find an album you like, be sure to pass it on. :3
Semi-constantly updated, check back often.


she



Some really cool chiptune electronica type stuff. Five full free albums, and two retail ones that are definitely worth it if you like this stuff. My favorites are digital ambient designs, pioneer and days, although I have yet to try chiptek. Enjoy!

Downloads for all the free albums down the middle column.



shipwrek



Awesome chillout electronica. They've only got one album out right now, but it's amazing. Perfect to just put on during a sleepless night and listen to. Cool pic, too. ^^

Download their album here, give it a free listen if you want a taste before downloading.



Hexfire



Nice space ambient, psyprog, psychill type mixes. Each song is upwards of an hour long, and they're all free, to boot. Nice background music for reading or something, and fun to just get lost in to.

Unfortuantly, the only place I can find to download all of his music that isn't broken is from last.fm. All of the album names should be the same as the song's.



The Gasoline Brothers



Really nice indie rock type stuff, pleasing vocals, guitars, all the good stuff. I'm bad at explaining thing music that isn't electronic, so I'll just let you be the judge of what they sound like.

Download, or get a free listen beforehand to see what you're in for.



Signal Path



Cool electronic stuff, kind of dubstep-y, I think. Pretty chill, not that much to say. Some cool vocals (samples?) in a good bit of the songs, real catchy, kind of... dizzy feeling.

Download and listen here.


distimia



Kind of noise-y hardcoreish breakcore stuff I don't know it's just cool. >_>

His musics can be found here and on his last.fm. Also, he owns Wicked Area Records, which releases a lot of free music but I have yet to check out most of it, although one awesome album is...

War I: Destructors of the Mind - Various



Wicked great breakcore / digital hardcore compilation. Lots of different great artists, and a bunch of them release free music on their own as well.

Download on the last.fm.


30 Days - Various



Really interesting concept album. Covers a lot of genres: mostly electronic, but some other stuff here and there. It's really long, too - 30 tracks and upwards of an hour and a half of music. :3

More information and downloads can be found here. The record label, Peppermill Records, also releases some other free stuff that I have yet to check out.


Breakbeat Heartbeat



Chiptune with some breakcore and hardcore techno mixed in. Really really pleasurable music.

Music.


Nero's Day At Disneyland - grievances and dead malls



I have one way to describe this album - holy fucking shit. There is a bad side and a good side. Bad side - it's 20 minutes long. Good side - it's the best 20 minute album I have heard in my life. It's impossible to describe without listening to it and it is really the some of the breakcore I have ever heard. And it is free, so you have NO excuse to not get this, seriously. If you download it it WILL be on your repeat for a long time. You may notice how I'm saying more than I usually do - it's that good. Get it now. (Download is on last.fm) He also has some other free stuff that I'm going to check out as soon as possible, and I've heard that it's BETTER. :D

Wisp



While he has released three or four commercial albums, Wisp released a lot of free mp3 material, and I mean a lot. He released upwards of 10 EPs and full-lengths for free, and they're all pretty awesome. Most of them have a warmer and more downtempo feel when compared with his commercial albums, but they're all definitely worth a listen. I wholeheartedly recommend About Things That Never Were, Frozen Days and In A Blue Face, although all of it is at least worth one listen.

You can find all of these to download at The Wisp Archive.


Xinon - Moonlight Sympathy



Highly recommended for fans of she, especially his more chiptune-y stuff. This album is a really nice chiptune-meets-trance sort of thing, and it's very enjoyable. :3 Chilled without being lethargic, energetic without being too intense.

Album can be downloaded from here.


Xinon vs Sabrepulse - Realization



Awesome split between two fantastic chiptune artists, Xinon and Sabrepulse. You can really feel the contrast in their styles, and it makes for a very well-rounded and awesome album. Xinon's tracks have a more trancey feel, while Sabrepulse's are a tad more poppy. I think I like Xinon's half of the split a little bit more, but I am biased towards trance, so yeah. :3 Sabrepulse's half is bad by no means, though.

Download it here.



Turtle Mod - Wise Device



Pretty cool glitch / idm / breakcore stuff. A bit like Nero's Day At Disneyland, but not as aggressive. This more or less describes it.

This is our first release. The music in this one drags you around the boundaries of idm, drum and bass, breakcore and glitch genres, And even while not staying in one for too long, it manages to seem constant, but not boring. The goal was to form eerie, sometimes absurd atmospheres, whilst not being necesserily dark.

Pretty fun music. I recommend it.

Download it from their myspace.


Pyongyang Hardcore Resistance - Corea



Really cool "underground anarchist hardcore" that was apparently smuggled out of North Korea and made by two guys. Kind of interesting premise, although it may not be completely true. >_> Anyway, it's a really great hardcore techno EP, great sampling (mild warning: they say "FUCK" several/many times >_>) and loud beats. If you're into breakcore, I'd really recommend you check it out, as hardcore techno is really awesome. Highly recommended, very good. :3






Major major MAJOR thanks to Dhaman for some of this music. Keep it up, man. :D


If anyone is curious about a good place to free music, I'd recommend bandcamp.com. Lots of variety, cool interface, and, if you're a producer yourself, lots of cool stats and stuff. Only real complaint is that you have to search through all of it, but it's kind of cool to hear all sorts of sounds. :3
For 8bit stuff, I cannot recommend http://www.8bitpeoples.com/ enough. Lots and lots of material, all of it very nice. :3


Will be updated as often as I can! :3

Playlist:
Para One - Turtle trouble

Wisp - Clipian

Thom Yorke - Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses (His new 12" comes out on XL RecordingsSeptember 28th)

Vitalic - Chicken Lady (This lovely piece of work, albeit quite funny and so well crafted comes from Flashmob coming out September 28th on PIAS)

U.S.E - Party People (From the album Loveworld, released Austust 26th on Mannheim and The Rebel Group)

Subvert & Excision - Darkness (From a little promo for Subvert's new 4 song EP Speaker Humpin')

Automelodi - Schéma Corporel (From Automelodi fait ses courses, released on April 22nd)

T.H. White - Earth is on Fire (Appears on Company Book, released on T.H. White's label Sky Council Recordings September 29th)

port-royal - nights in kiev (Comes off dying in time, coming October 5th. Released on n5MD)

Xeno & Oaklander - An Introduction

New Releases September 21, 2009 - September 27, 2009:
September 22, 2009: Sissy Wish - Beauties Never Die (Afternoon Records)US Release, released in 2007 in swedan
September 22, 2009: Wallpaper - Doo Doo Face (Eenie Meenie Records)
September 22, 2009: The Sales Department - Measured Life (Noise Factory)
September 22, 2009: Assemblage 23 - 23 (Metropolis)
September 22, 2009: Suicide Commando - Die Motherfucker Die (Metropolis)
September 22, 2009: Claire Voyant - Lustre (Metropolis)
September 22, 2009: herzschlag - Fest Der Liebe (Metropolis)

Whoop! The best new track tonight was 'It Is Nothing' by A Place To Bury Strangers. It's a bendy, distorty wall of shoegazey loveliness. Check out the album too, they thow a swaggering, garage twist into the mix.



The best old track was 'Kickin' Back' by BeachBuggy. This is the perfect song to blast out when you're driving round on a summer's day. Sooo good, in a surfy, Pixies-ish way.

This is what you heard:

Gifts From Enola - Weightless Thought
Infinite Scale - Behind The Scenes
Woodpigeon - Knock Knock
Seven - The Darkness
The Answering Machine - Obviously Cold
Wienzeile - geisterbahn
Skeletons And The Empty Pockets - Oh Brother
Freeland - Under Control
Mother Mary - Magnetic Space Plug
St. Vincent - Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood
LMFAO - I Am Not A Whore
Far - Bury White
U-God - Stomp Da Roach (Featuring GZA And Scotty Wotty)
Minor Threat - Filler
Major Lazer - When You Hear The Bassline feat. Ms. Thing
Wave Machines - I Go I Go I Go
August Burns Red - Rationalist
Michael Hunter - Soviet Connection (Theme from Grand Theft Auto IV)
Tiga - Shoes
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Panasonic Youth
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
SonnyJim - Running Late (Ft. Irs)
Folsom - Looking Good (And Being Scene)
Palpitation - I¥m Happy No
Exlovers - you forget so easily
Dan the Automator - Rapper's Delight Tepr Remix
Taking Back Sunday - Sink Into Me
Cats on Fire - The Borders of This Land
mc chris - Fett's Vett
Gojira - Toxic Garbage Island
Surrogate - A Constitution
Beachbuggy - Kickin' back
6BLOCC - Warning
Venetian Snares - Einstein-Rosen Bridge
A Place to Bury Strangers - It Is Nothing
Atmosphere - THE ROPES
Animal Collective - water curses
Burning Hearts - Close To Her
Wisp - Katabatic
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band
Endwell - Living Through Losses: 02/30/01
La Coka Nostra - I'm An American Ft. B-Real
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices
Ultravox - 05 The Thin Wall
Lovvers - creepy crawl
Hackman - Loophole
Four Tet - She Moves She
D.O - Watch Out
The Invisible - Monster's Waltz
Wilco - Wilco (The Song)
Zed Bias - Colditz
Even as We Speak - Falling Down The Stairs
Stellastarr - Robot
Eyedea & Abilities - Burn Fetish
Ochre - Circadies
Matt & Kim - Daylight
Sparks - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth

Song database updated!

Trial - No Fate (Germany 2008)
Tesla Boy - Tesla Boy (Russia 2009)
Teknika - Yo No Pienso En La Muerte (Spain 1991)
Telerotor - Mobilitaet (Germany 2005)
Ten Data Keshin - neo neon generation (France 2008)
Tenek - Submission (UK 2009)
Testcard - Lines (UK 2008)
Vuneny - whatever singularity (Bosnia 2009)
The Royal Dead - Love Exodus (Japan 2008)
Kadaver Acht - The First Remix Collection (Germany 2009)
House of Usher - Angst (Germany 2009)
The Moon and the Nightspirit - Oesforras-Collector's Edition (Hungary 2009)
The Path of Least Resistance - America One EP (US 2009)
Theodor Bastard - Agoraphobia (Russia 2007)
Till it Bleeds - Draw Me a Bloodline (Belarus 2009)
Tom Lacy - Welcome To The Future (Austria 2009)
The Outside Agency - Reality Collapse - Hell's Basement (Netherlands 2009)
The Outside Agency - Un Titre En Francais Intensement Profond Et Complique Que Vous Ne Comprendrez Jamais (Netherlands 2008)
The Outside Agency - Reality Collapse - Hell's Basement (Netherlands 2009)
Totakeke - eLekatota - The Other Side of the Tracks (US 2008)
Totakeke - Forgotten On The Other Side Of The Tracks (US 2008)
Tonikom - The Sniper's Veil (US 2009)
Uberbyte - Dos (UK 2009)
Uberbyte - Dos (UK 2009)
Stahlnebel vs. Black Selket feat. Menschdefekt - Interbreeding X: Kagefighters (US 2009)
Code 64 - Dynamo Vol. 1 (Germany 2006)
Valium Era - Personified Perfection (Germany 2009)
Valium Era - Tanz im Kopf (Single) (Germany 2009)
V2a - Mechanized Infantry (Germany 2009)
Varunna - Cantos (Italy 2007)
Violet Tears - Breeze of solitude (Italy 2007)
Von Thronstahl - Schwanenspiel ( 2008)
Rose Rovine e Amanti - Schwanenspiel (Italy 2008)
Venetian Snares - Filth (UK 2009)
Violent Work of Art - Alternated Species (The Remix Album) (Sweden 2009)
Wintry - Atmosphere Around Us (Brazil Germany 2009)
X Overkill - We Are Not Dead Yet (South Africa 2009)
Weihan - Symphonies Of Divination (Belgium 2007)
Whispers in the Shadow - Borrowed Nightmares And Forgotten Dreams (Austria 2009)
Whitar - Demo (Ukraine 2009)
Dunkelwerk - Remixes (Austria 2005)
Wisp - The Shimmering Hour (US 2009)
wertstahl - Kontrol (Germany 2009)
Worms of the Earth - The Angels of Prostitution (US 2008)
Worms of the Earth - The Whores of Carcosa (US 2008)
Uberbyte - WTF (UK 2009)
Uberbyte - Dos (Uk 2009)
Wumpscut - FUCKIT (Germany 2009)
Xenofobia - Caos (Mexico 2008)
Yendri - Broken World (Germany 2009)
Zeromancer - Sinners International (Norway 2009)
zi - Parla-Pana (Russia 2009)
Zombie Nation - Zombielicious (Germany 2009)
Zoo - Revolution (Argentina 2009)
Zweifelhaft - First Step [Demo] (Russia 2009)
Camerata Mediolanense - Musica Reservata (Italy 1994)
Camerata Mediolanense - Campo di Marte (Italy 1996)
Camerata Mediolanense - Madrigali (Italy 1999)
Camerata Mediolanense - L'Alfiere (Italy 2001)
Camerata Mediolanense - Pankration (Italy 2006)
The Ropes - What They Do For Fun (Us 2008)
Dazzle Dreams - Go! Go! Go! Disco Killers (Ukraine 2009)
M.O.D. - ENTZWEIT GESICHT (Italy 2009)
Angelspit - Black Kingdom Red Kingdom (Australia 2009)
a-ha - Foot Of The Mountain - Single (Norway 2009)
aimonia - Demo (US 2009)
Antidote - Fantastic Four (Spain 2009)
Pati Yang - Faith Hope and Fury (Poland 2009)
DEMONOID 13 - Death To The Vulgar Lord (Japan 2008)
Depeche Mode - Dj Remix Anthology Vol.8 (Uk 2009)
Depeche Mode - DJ Remix Anthology Vol.9 (Uk 2009)
Depeche Mode - Dj Remix Anthology Vol.10 (Uk 2009)
Ehron Vonallen - Sin Of Nature (Wumpscut Version) (US 2009)
Fix8:Sed8 - Dormicum (Germany 2009)
Gaval - Gaval (Russia 2009)
Implant - Implantology (Belgium 2009)
Infektline - Organics [EP] (Russia 2009)
Joy Electric - Curiosities And Such (US 2009)
Lip Service - Copy Kill Original (Sweden 2007)
Lip Service - Black Cat (Sweden 2008)
MAGNITUDO 8 - Lucro Chimica (Italy 2009)
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Death Threat (US 2009)
Mantus - koenigreich der angst (Germany 2009)
Client - Make Me Believe In You (UK 2009)
Interlace - Nemesis (Sweden 2009)
Oldschool Union - demo (Finland 2009)
Of the Wand and the Moon - Solanaceae (Denmark 2009)
(Project) Ritual Noise - Railroad (Moldova 2009)
R.K.B. Studio 13 - Molten Lips (Russia 2009)
Rome - To die among Strangers (Luxembourg 2009)
Sith - Leiden (France 2009)
Schneewittchen - Perlen Vor Die Saeue (Germany 2008)
Tamtrum - Fuck You, I'm Drunk And Stronger Than Cats (France 2009)
The Eden House - Smoke And Mirrors (UK 2009)
terrorfrequenz - In der Dunkelheit (Germany 2009)
Kadaver Acht - Second Remix Compilation (Germany 2009)
Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low (US 2009)
The Ropes - Be My Gun (US 2009)
The Stylists - Passion Is A Fashion (Czech Republic 2009)
Ultraviolet - Envy (Spain 2009)
VHELENA PROJEKT - FLESH RIOT (Italy 2009)
Joachim Witt - Dorian Hunter Theme (Germany 2009)


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Lots of bad ones, lots of good ones, and some forgotten...
If anyone knows any tour names, supporting bands, supporting bands I've missed, etc...
Please let me know. I'm trying to make this as complete as possible!

09/11/2009
North America Tour 2009
Venetian Snares - Wisp - Cyrusrex - Naha
Naha was great again. Cyrusrex, again ok but nothing spectacular. Despite never having heard Wisp before, I enjoyed his set a great deal. Vsnares were even louder this time I think, and my organs have been scattered about from the absurdity of the bass. Completely intense. The last few minutes of his set were bordering on Extratone, wow. That was almost unbearable live. Oh well, my hearing will officially be gone for a while now. If I learned anything from this show, white people look like retards when they try to "dance" to this kind of music. Made for an entertaining evening at least. I wanted to start seizuring throughout Vsnares set, but well, the show also happened to be my first date with a fine young lady, so I restrained myself... First impressions and all!

15/05/2009
Paganfest North America 2
Korpiklaani - Primordial - Moonsorrow
Primordial was awful.
Unfortunately, we only caught half of Moonsorrow's set.

13/05/2009
General Surgery - Engorged - Funerot - Superbad
Superbad was Super... boring.

31/10/2008
Blood Freak - Bung
Got there late so we only caught those 2 bands.

09/09/2008
Finntroll - Warbringer
We had to leave after 2 of Finntroll's songs...

08/06/2008
Venetian Snares - Otto Von Schirach - Naha - Cyrus Rex

18/10/2008
Foreigner

14/09/2008
eXtractor
Most bands canceled, so we only went for them...

16/02/2007
Unleashed - Belphegor - Krisiun
Ignored Ceremonial Castings.

10/06/2006
Goregon Massacre Fest
Zombie Ritual - Ghoul - Splatterhouse
Unfortunately, I missed the rest of the fest...

16/05/2006
Pungent Stench - Belial - Among The Decayed
Ignored Bowels Out.

27/01/2006
eXtractor
Ignored Atrocity Exhibition, Alan Park and Deterroform.

21/07/2005
Malevolent Creation - Origin - Divine Empire
Ignored Animosity. DE were terrible.

01/06/2005
Psyclon Nine - consectum - Particle Son - Abbyvein

15/05/2005
Rotten Sound - Phobia - Fall of the Bastards - Tormentium
Lord Gore was listed, but from what I recall they canceled...

01/04/2005
Engorged - Lord Gore - Splatterhouse - Funerot

08/01/2005
Lord Gore - Engorged - Splatterhouse - Ritual War Creation
Resickened CD Release Show!

20/11/2004
Engorged - Impaled - Funerot - Bung
Where Monsters Dwell CD release show?
I can't remember.
I thought that one was at Sabala's for some reason...

03/09/2004
Cephalic Carnage - Misery Index - Whore - Funerot
This was Whore's last show ever...

19/06/2004
The Bloody Holes Of Summer
Anal Blast
Ignored Stone Creep and Raze.

11/06/2004
Skinny Puppy - Tweaker
Who else was on this tour?

11/05/2004
Misery Index - Kataklysm
I don't recall (or care, really) if Cannae or TtD even played...
Once again, Kataklysm was extremely lame.

02/04/2004
Lord Gore
We got there late, so we missed FotB and Goatsblood...
Hawaiian shirt night, and all LG members played in Hawaiian shirts!!!

24/03/2004
Psyclon Nine - Unter Null - Aslan Faction

21/01/2004
Mushroomhead - Dope - 40 Below Summer
Ignored Twisted Method.

24/11/2003
KMFDM - Bile
Who else was on this tour?

23/11/2003
Immolation - Vader - The Berzerker - Origin

31/10/2003
Engorged - Stovokor
Ignored Carnifex and Last Empire. Stovokor was pretty lame.

11/10/2003
Art Of Noise 2
Nile - Amon Amarth - Kreator - Vader - Goatwhore
AA was fucking boring.

23/08/2003
Exhumed - Severed Savior - Fall of the Bastards - Bung
The only show I've ever attended solo.
Had a great time meeting the Exhumed guys.

20/08/2003
Type O Negative - Lacuna Coil
I'm not sure if LC actually played this show, or if I got there late.
If they played and I saw them, they must have been pretty unmemorable.

07/06/2003
Immolation - Grave - Goatwhore - Crematorium

14/04/2003
The United Tour
Pigface - Bile - My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Zeromancer
I'm pretty sure we didn't see Railer.

01/03/2003
Kataklysm - Dying Fetus - Into Eternity
Kataklysm and IE were extremely fucking lame.

25/01/2003
Nile - Dark Tranquillity - Strapping Young Lad - Napalm Death - The Berzerker
DT is fucking gay.

27/12/2002
Testament - Vio-Lence
Other supporting artists are unknown.

29/11/2002
Cannibal Corpse - Macabre - Hate Eternal - Deeds of Flesh
I wanted to kill those CC loving jocks booing Macabre.
Fucking faggots.

05/10/2002
Mortician
Supporting artists are unknown.
Also, this was an extremely boring show.

20/07/2002
Nile - Arch Enemy - Hate Eternal - Origin
AE was near intolerable.

09/06/2002
Six Feet Under - Skinless - Sworn Enemy
Ignored SE... faggots.
Left before SFU played.

01/06/2002
Sturm & Drang Tour
KMFDM - Kidneythieves - Pig - 16Volt

20/04/2002
Cannibal Corpse - Dark Funeral - Incantation - Pissing Razors
We were only there for Incantation.

14/03/2002
Dimmu Borgir - Cryptopsy - Krisiun - Diabolic
Pretty lame show...

11/02/2002
Blood Drive 2002
GWAR - God Forbid - Goatwhore
GF sucks.

03/12/2001
Extreme Music For Extreme People
Morbid Angel - Deicide - Zyklon - Exhumed - Soilent Green

17/11/2001
Witchery - The Haunted - Martyr AD - Catastrophic
We were only there for Witchery.

12/05/2001
Deicide - Marduk - Gorguts - Withered Earth
WE is garbage.

21/04/2001
Cannibal Corpse - Lamb of God - Dimmu Borgir - The Haunted

08/02/2001
Pantera - Soulfly - Morbid Angel - Nothingface
The opening band's vocalist fell off the stage, haha!

24/08/2000
Ozzfest 2000
Pantera - Static-X - Kittie - Disturbed - Pitchshifter - Apartment 26
There were alot more bands who played, these are just the ones I recall watching...

15/07/2000
Tattoo The Earth
Slayer - Slipknot - Sepultura - Mudvayne - Nashville Pussy
There were alot more bands who played, these are just the ones I recall watching...

10/06/2000
Fragility V2.0 Tour
Nine Inch Nails - A Perfect Circle

18/06/1999
Rammstein - Soulfly - Mindless Self Indulgence - Sevendust

21/08/1998
Tool
Supporting artists are unknown.

06/08/1998
Slayer - Fear Factory - Kilgore
Back when the Roseland still served beer in glass bottles and Slayer fans were still crazy.

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Here are a few miscellaneous artists I don't remember venue/dates for...

Peyote Calamity
They played in some little shitty record store I think, 2003?
Supporting artists are unknown.

Phobia
They played in a basement out in SouthEast Portland near the Sandy Boulevard EM... 2003?
Supporting artists are unknown.

Splatterhouse and Bung
I know they played at the Jolly Inn, and it was Splatterhouse's first ever show, but I can't remember the day/year. Probably 2004...

Here are some great new albums that I have found recently and enjoy listening to! (In alphabetical order, to be fair!)

Anhedonia - Ontology


Aphorism - Surge


Bersarin Quartett - Bersarin Quartett


Coreline - Bone and Blood as Stone and Mud


IP Neva - Symbiosis of Contradictions


Marching Dynamics - The Workers Party Of Haiti


S.K.E.T. - Depleted Uranium Weapons


SE - Epiphora


Submerged - Violence as First Nature


Synth-Etik - Waiting For The Rapture


Tapage - Fallen Clouds


Tonikom - The Sniper's Veil


Wisp - The Shimmering Hour


There are a number of tracks for each artist that you can listen to here on last.fm. (simply click on the artist link above each album cover!) And if you do like them, go and buy the album/s! Support the artists! :D

(This list is by no means comprehensive, however, if you check through my listening habits of the last 3 months, you will see that i have been playing most of them quite a lot! And they are all fairly recent releases!)

Feel free to comment below if you have checked out these albums and tell me about your favourite tracks etc. Or maybe you found another album that is in a similar vein?

I use the journal entries to log all the new interesting bands/music I come across in the media/radio etc to research at a later time. If anybody has an pointers or advice on these tracks/albums/bands please do let me know or make a comment.

The Observer Music Monthly March 2009



To view the online version of this months Observer Music Monthly check the following link;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/musicmonthly

Random Recommended Albums & Tracks

The Horrors new album entitled "Primary Colours". (Rated at 4/5)



"And so it is. But now that this waking dream has actually come true, the big question which still remains to be answered is: how was such a miracle of sonic repositioning effected? Given that the unexpectedly thrilling, occasionally Krautrock-tinged Primary Colours was produced by Portishead stalwart Geoff Barrow - whereas its fairly dismal predecessor, Strange House, wasn't - it's tempting to give the lion's share of the credit for the Horrors' artistic rebirth to their reclusive Bristolian helpmeet. And yet what seems to have taken place here is a far more complex and interesting transaction.

Full review here

Recommended tracks to download ‘Primary Colours’

http://www.myspace.com/thehorrors

Mr Lif new album entitled "I Heard It Today". (Rated at 4/5)



“If the election of America's first black president was expected to blunt hip-hop's political edge, no one's told Mr Lif. The Boston rapper clings to dystopian terrain while exploring issues thrown up by the bank bailout, housing crisis and bama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright. His frantic rhymes are uttered with growing ferocity, until single The Sun lets a little light in. A masterly work.

Full review here


Recommended track to download..... ‘Welcome To The World’

http://www.myspace.com/mrlif


Nathan Fake new album entitled "Hard Islands". (Rated at 4/5)



“Having protested that he was "not a DJ" circa his 2006 debut, it wasn't long before this Norfolk wunderkind producer seduced clubbers with eclectic DJ sets. The result is writ large on this brilliant second album, which welds his drifting
soundscapes to fractious, rapturous techno.”

Recommended tracks to download..... ‘The Turtle’

http://www.myspace.com/nathancake

Dizzie Rascal new single entitled "Bonkers". (Rated at 4/5)


“Even more instant than Dance Wiv Me, the title, and cheesy house backing – complete with loopy sound effects – suggest the man Jeremy Paxman calls "Mr Rascal" has settled for shallow pop stardom. Closer attention reveals something more disturbing, the lyrics being a very hip-hop peek inside the mind of a lunatic, bringing darkness to the centre of the dancefloor.”

Recommended track to download.....’Bonkers’

http://www.myspace.com/dizzeerascal

Peaches new album entitled “I Feel Cream". (Rated at 4/5)




“The title of Merrill Nisker's fourth album suggests that, at 40, she still enjoys provoking a response. Ideology aside, this is a diverse album that retains her trademark dirty electro but on collaborations with Simian Mobile Disco still delights. Lose You metaphorically rubs up against St Etienne and Mud is a superlative low-slung groove.

Recommended track to download..... ‘Serpentine (I Don't Give A..Part 2)’

http://www.myspace.com/peaches


Super Furry Animals new album entitled “Dark Days/Lights Years". (Rated at 4/5)



“Through bong-fuelled pop, cacophonous excursions in drill 'n' bass and parliamentary kudos for services to the Welsh language, there can be no doubt that Cardiff's Super Furry Animals are one of a kind. Since signing with Creation in 1995, Gruff Rhys's psychedelic troupe have set the controls to the heart of the pop mainstream via the most contrary route possible, taking in inspired Britpop (Radiator), high-gloss soul (Rings Around the World) and folk-tinged lo-fi sung in Welsh (Mwng). On this ninth studio album, the band temper their goofiness with an unusual restraint, kicking the clogged Spector-isms of 2007's Rough Trade debut Hey Venus! into touch for a potent mix of Krautrock, glam and Zep-ish freak outs. Perhaps inspired by Rhys's spell as half of last year's Mercury Prize-nominated Neon Neon, the likes of Kraftwerk provide deadpan sonic foils for several of the record's finest sallies, from Pric's psychic grooving to the proto-techno wobble of Inaugural Trams, which doubles as an ode to an unnamed German city's integrated transport system. This might just be their best record in a decade.”

Recommended track to download..... ‘Crazy Naked Girls’

http://www.myspace.com/superfurry

The Maccabees new track entitled "Wall Of Arms".
(Rated at 4/5)



“Enjoying the widescreen production that Markus Drav once brought to Arcade Fire and Coldplay, this time round the vocal quiver and inimitable art-pop hooks that distinguished the Maccabees' 2007 debut are offset by darker undercurrents. Wall of Arms is the meticulously evolved sound of a band aiming to bid to breathe life into British indie.

Recommended track to download.....’Love You Better’

http://www.myspace.com/themaccabees


Q May 2009



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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone new album entitled “Vs Children"
(Rated at 4/5) Q RECOMMENDS
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Recommended track to download…..”Killers”

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Disrupt new album entitled “The Bass Has Left The Building”
(Rated at 3/5)
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Newham Generals debut album entitled “Generally Speaking”
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http://www.myspace.com/2wofingers



Wisp new album entitled “The Shimmering Hour”
(Rated at 4/5) Q RECOMMENDS
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Recommended tracks to download…..”The Shimmering Hour”

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