GEO RECORDS IS THE HOME OF GAGARIN - ONE MAN SONIC EXPLORER. On Geo I have released three albums - GAGARIN, EARTHLING AND ARD NEV together with several vinyl releases. 2008 sees the label expand to release material by other projects I'm involved in - RAF AND O - glitchpop three-piece built around the songs of Italian songstress Rafaella rumbling bass and electronic beats and atmospheres - and
ROSHI ft PARS RADIO - Iranian-influenced songs with vocals, cello, keyboards, electronics etc.
GEO have phyiscal and digital distribution deal with Kudos and the first fruit of this new relationship is the Raf & O 10" EP - HAS THE AIR GONE WALKING released Apr 2008.
The debut EP from Roshi ft Pars Radio - "And Stars" released July 08.
Brand new Gagarin 7" Golden Cap released Nov 08, followed by Gagarin album - Adaptogen - Jan 09. For reviews and more details please see relevant myspaces.
Forthcoming very soon - Roshi ft Pars Radio LP - The Sky and the Caspian Sea and also gagarin - Adaptogen remixes - download EP featuring mixes of tracks from the album by the likes of Rothko, Robert Logan, Hybernation etc.
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RAF and O - HAS THE AIR GONE WALKING ? 10" EP - £4 ROSHI FT PARS RADIO - AND STARS 10" vinyl EP - £4 .... AND STARS CD EP £2.50
What's up Geo Records? Your sweet voice is like the application of aloe vera upon a sunburnt back. You turn the atmosphere ablaze with currents of sweet ethylene when you smile. Your beauty is multiplexed in contemplation of your multidimensional effervescence. Your essence is equal to the beauty of a galaxy. The sand runes crossing your divided consciousness do speak of contemptuous monsters being slayed by flying phoenixes. I sense wild vapors of sweet champagne in your larynx. Please let me hear more of that wonderful sound. You are dressed with filaments and people take pains to make you fully incandescent this evening. Panoramic aromavision is the future. May you be as vivid as your hallucinations. Cities crumble, skies ignite spontaneously in your presence. In your absence I am forced into finding other forms of amusement while thinking about you. The stickers hugging the fruit smell better than the perfume of ambergris. You breath as delicately as vapors flowing towards an attractive flame.
MTVs 120 minutes taken off air!!! MTVs 120 minutes taken off air!!!
I have been watching 120 minutes on and off for 20 years. I have found over 50% of my record collection directly or indirectly from watching it.
I can remember seeing the first portishead video when it was first shown. Sonic youth, dead can dance, cocteaus, the knife, jenny wilson,feist, f** buttons, pixies, throwing muses, kristin hersh, crystal castles, gus gus, aphex twin,mazzy star beirut,my bloody valentine and skylarkin.
I could go on but you get the point. This program took huge creative chances and was bever mundane.
It has been the most consistant music programme i have ever discovered. Also totally eclectic, a rap track next to a folk track. 120 minutes sometimes dished me up artists that i felt indifferent towards and slowly revealed their brilliance. In a way the program has shaped my musical pallette
I have never got into radio, i just can't handle the amount of poor tracks you have to listen to to get to one okay song, and also the banality of DJ bantar.
Where do i go to find new music now? I find a lot at gigs, and off peoples blogs, but i need to replace 120 minutes with something. But what?
Also what happens to alternative artists and lables tring to get their videos shown? Where are they going to get their music heard?
What is the impact going to be on alternative music as whole?
When i heard that the show had gone under, my heart sunk. I know its a TV show and not a person, but it had a physical effect on me. Kind of like when one of your favourite musicians passes away.
I've signed up to this petition, but god knows if it will do any good..
Hearin' Aid presents Damon Frost (aka D-FROST Beats) and delivers a crazy 12" single called "//dATA-BWoY". It features five tracks fuelled with dirty hiphop beats, vintage samples and ultra-fat wobbly basslines. Pure digital FUNK, begging to defy any soundsystem!
Limited edition of 500 copies only!! available on September via.
