Mostly New Wave / Post-Rock / Punk / Electronic / Experimental and noisy:
Curve / The Chameleons / Kate Bush / Siouxsie & the Banshees / Public Image Limited / Joy Division / Scorn / Massive Attack / The Sneaker Pimps / Talk Talk / Magazine / Wire / The Sex Pistols / Killing Joke / Hawkwind / Can / The Cure / Techno Animal / Carthage / Godflesh / Jesu / Autechre / Tool / The Cure / Stray Dog City / Cranes / Tricky / BBC Radiophonic Workshop / Richey Manic / Sapphire & Steel / Jo Stapleton / Al Neilson / Ade Bordicott / Cocteau Twins / Scott Walker / Garbage / Throbbing Gristle / Main / Talking Heads / Patti Smith / PJ Harvey / My Bloody Valentine / Bill Hicks / Nine Inch Nails / Twin Peaks / Ivor Cutler / The Fall / The Manic Street Preachers / Depeche Mode / Leftfield / Underworld / The Smiths / The Ink Spots / Swans / Laika / Psychedelic Furs / Zoviet France / The Lines / Fennesz / Gurdjieff / Ouspensky / Whitley Strieber / Depeche Mode / Scott Walker / Meat Beat Manifesto / Nina Simone / Portishead / Tom Waits / The Walker Brothers: Night Flights / Jon Hassell / David Sylvian / Seefeel.
Sounds Like
The Mekano Set. "Bass-heavy 80's Noise". Seedy, "filthy electro-rock". Noise, sound, music. Post-rock. "Gothic not Goth". Reverse reverb, live guitar loops, drum machines, feedback, guitar-synths, fuzz-guitar, drones, grooves, bass riffs, white noise.
According to You, We Sounds Like: Curve, Placebo, Cranes, Sneaker Pimps, Echo & The Bunnymen, Joy Division, Massive Attack, The Sisters of Mercy, PiL, Killing Joke, Talk Talk, Meat Beat Manifesto, Kate Bush, The Chameleons, Breakbeat Era, Ruby, Tricky, Cocteau Twins, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Phil Spector through a fuzz box, etc.
There are thoughts unthought and words unspoken. And it's always over. And nothing ends.
This isn't hip hop but it's all about the beats and the bass. The guitar is there for special effects, the vocals are the story.
The words "sleazy" and "filthy" get used a lot. Bass-driven. White-noise guitar. Post-punk leanings. Multi-layered beats and vocals. Grooves, unconventional song structures. BBC Radiophonic Workshop style noise (usually guitar generated). Reverse-reverb guitar. Bass riffs. White-noise syn-drums. Dirty drum machines. Baritone guitar. Anti-fashion. Outcasts. Outsiders.
"Slick spiky electronic rock that screams darkness beneath a seemingly delicate exterior." Natasha Scharf, Metal Hammer
"The Mekano Set get us all worked up with the promise of a song called 'Dirty Hand Job', and then totally spoil the mood by being goths... about as menacing as a Crow soundtrack." Emily Strange Mackay @ The Stool Pigeon
"Like entering an 80's burlesque club in the middle of filming Miami Vice." Ali MacQueen @ http://www.rockfeedback.com/
"An excellent live show. Imagine a harder, more industial, more up-to-date Garbage. Hard beats, swirling Banshees style guitar and cool as fuck vocal." Rock and Roll Sweatbox.
Where sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a charmed sleep: Awake her not. Led by a single star, She came from very far To seek where shadows are Her pleasant lot.
She left the rosy morn, She left the fields of corn, For twilight cold and lorn And water springs. Through sleep, as through a veil, She sees the sky look pale, And hears the nightingale That sadly sings.
Rest, rest, a perfect rest Shed over brow and breast; Her face is toward the west, The purple land. She cannot see the grain Ripening on hill and plain; She cannot feel the rain Upon her hand.
Rest, rest, for evermore Upon a mossy shore; Rest, rest at the heart's core Till time shall cease: Sleep that no pain shall wake; Night that no morn shall break Till joy shall overtake Her perfect peace.
Not For Resale’s July mix has arrived and it’s a very special one indeed. We have reached number twelve in our series of free monthly downloads and to celebrate we are presenting the very best of the bands and artists featured over the last year of our mixes.
YOU ARE ON IT!!!
Thanks to you for being our friend, and a proper one too.
It wasn’t possible to fit all the incredible music we’ve heard on to one mix and be satisfied that we were really presenting the best of Not For Resale, so we have produced TWO for you with over 30 bands and artists spread across 140 minutes of unbridled demo and underground label mayhem including all these peoples…..
-A+M / Action Beat…The Noise Band From Bletchley / Awesome Wells / Bearhead / Bucks & Gallants / Candy Sniper / Comradedown / Cottonmouth Rocks / Curtis / Deliberate / Everyone To The Anderson / Fenech-Soler / The Flesh Happening / Foxes! / Hotel Wrecking City Traders / Kontakte / Kotki Dwa / Lonely Ghosts / The Middle Computer / Milk / The Miserable Rich / Monsters Build Mean Robots / Old Mayor / One Unique Signal / Plastic Passion / Power Up! / Pseudo Nippon / Quiznight / Revenge Of Shinobi / Sharing Sheaths / Turbowölf / Yuchi / Zettasaur….
Fireflies and summer sun in circles round we become as one. Singing songs at magick's hour we bring the winds and timeless powers. Turning inward, hand in hand we dance the hearth to heal the land. Standing silent, beneath the sky we catch the fire from out God's eye. Swaying breathless, beside the sea we call the Goddess so mote it be!
We’re playing at Electrowerkz in Angel on Sat 21st June at 8pm. It’s our first time playing there and could really use your help to play there again. Tickets are only £6 (less than the cost of 2 Magners!) which gives you 3 bands + free entry to the club night after…and it’s my birthday that night too…so all the more reason to come!
Please click on the link below for a flyer or let us know if you’ll be coming and we’ll leave tickets at the door for you.
Forgot to mention that we’re also planning on giving more CD’s away too!
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