Here's a short video that Igor Amokian filmed outside eVocal while we played inside:
Online music zine Losing Today recently reviewed some of our tracks and had this to say about us...
"Alien Soundtracks - unsettlingly good and named after the Chrome album of the same name we wouldn’t wonder, from the grim imagery to the Dadaist chilled landscapes, there’s something unquestionably edgily austere about the aural wilderness that Alien Soundtracks navigate and explore, it’s a landscape similarly being plundered by the much admired Alrealon imprint at present, crafting out a psychotropic dub canvas that shares loosely an affinity with ’metal box’ era PiL albeit as though rewired by Cabaret Voltaire and admitted for further remoulds by a seriously out there 70 Gwen Party (the latter especially noted non more so than on mutoid drum n‘ bass styled ‘from here to infirmary‘ where to these ears it sounds like them crossing swords with Wagon Christ). Add to the equation a brandishing of titles such as the Fall-esque ‘opium den disco’ and ‘from here to infirmary’ then its easy to see why we just couldn’t resist. Mind you that said ’opium den disco’ is pretty much that - a seriously flipped and fried ’n’ wasted slab of dissipating nightmarish flashbacks of wailing guitars and ominous regimental marching treads. But then just like the name suggests Alien Soundtracks deal in a vaguely familiar though ostensibly fragmented and confused litany of sound collages, part ethnic / tribal - much drawing similarities at times with Muslim Gauze - though again abstract and part out there art rock in a skewed Henry Cow kind of way yet uttering a strange and discernible psyche dialect granted immersed in all manner of dismembered dislocated time signatures and squalling coils. Elsewhere ‘meet the new boss’ very much tunes into elements of early career Play Dead, the industrial intonations melded and moulded made more malleable by the curious appearance of reference markers nodding towards 23 Skidoo and Clock DVA (with a dollop of Muslim Gauze thrown in for good measure). All in all wonderfully wired and weirded out stuff and the kind of ear gear - had he been alive to hear it - that you could bet your arse a certain Mr Peel would have festooned amid his transmission play lists much to the annoyance of his ever receding in numbers ‘dandelion’ and flowers in their hair old time listening purists."
The review is featured under the April 16 edition of Mark's Tales . The link to the review is http://www.losingtoday.com/tales.php?id=254 . Check out his reviews of our good friends Halloween Swim Team and Sunken Landscapes. Thanks a lot Mark. =)
Olde
skozey fetisch performance newly posted @ YouTube. It was the first
ever Noise Pancakes at Pubis Noir. There were three audience members in
attendance.
2 Easy Buffa' tunes 'Oh My Daze' and 'Keep Going' featuring Undersound are now signed to Florida based label Point 5 Audio....Make excellent soundtracks or film music.
I am now
recording for a new set of releases called the "Persona Series". These
cassettes will be commissioned works (not by content, but by payment)
for individuals. If John Smith in London, England wants his own Zebulon
Kosted album, I will make a 45 minute album (one side of a 90 minute
tape), 2 hand drawn mini posters, I will name the album after him
(Zebulon Kosted - John Smith), and the fan will retain all rights to
the recording (for use of any future release, sampling, or broadcasting
rights). One copy of the album will remain in my personal collection,
and one will be sent to the customer, so that the only copy that will
be in circulation will be John Smiths copy! Each album is available for
the ridiculously low price of $10 (not including shipping), and will be
shipped in its completed form no later than 6 weeks from the date of
purchase!!!
The concept of this album showed the Moog delivering sounds sinister and exciting, with it's breakbeats galore, intense synthesizer, hip original themes, this was really a unifying concept. An occult Moog-album. The man behind this recording was a somewhat obscure solo artist; Mort Garson.
Under the devilish pseudonym "Lucifer", Garson released this record: Lucifer - Black Mass. It had his wildest hodgepodge of electronic sounds. Little is known about this release though.
Great Show at eVocal on Sunday! When you were playing I was tripping on the name Alien Soundtracks and I was imagining that your music was the summation of the science fiction theme of "the aliens learned about earth culture by all the media beamed into space." That idea has been in everything from Galaxy Quest to Man Who Fell To Earth. But I was listening to what you were doing and it was like if you were receiving all this information from different times at the same time. like it passed through a few light years at different rates of speed and it arrived all chopped up and scrambled!
The short version is, I liked the set. If I was an alien on a different planet I would have liked the set too!
i wish i couldve stayed! i already know that was an amazing show and sucks I missed the rest of it :/
i had planned to go somewhere in the evening with my girlfriend a few months back and the events landed on the same day so I had to leave fast to make it to both :) glad i was able to at least play.
While we were up in Scotland we popped round to their studio/living room, had lots of cups of tea and biscuits and made loads of terrifying nosebleed noise. The result of the session is on this 48 minute long album. It features Claire from TMH on vocals and synth; Mikee TMH on guitar and nutty pedals; Lou from BM on bass, synth and reverb spring and Graham BM on synth, contact miked cymbal and tape player.
Be sure to buy it NOW from Frequent Sea, the most exciting label around!
Hey ya'll. The World Wide Web has become limited and sometimes i don't get to read or respond to all my messages or comments i want to apologize for getting back to you guys so late. I didn't get to attend the Black Dice show that night because me and my friend were quite tired after hanging at the curio all day. We caught White Rainbow, Windy & Carl and Nudge it was a Kranky Night. I enjoyed it very much. How was Black Dice and Wolf Eyes? How are ya'll? The festival in August will possibly be my last show of the year maybe a one off date at the end of the year but i'm going to focus on school. let's get something going for july, we need to pack some bowls soon.
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