"... This is big exciting music. It punched me in the face from the opening chord and didn’t let up for its duration.
Without a dull moment on it, this is one of the great rock records of the year. (Ben Michael, Rhythms Dec 2008)
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(Vitamin/STAUBGOLD)
Project Transmit is a finely-tuned and relentless tempest. Savage, driving rhythms snake their way through every song, simultaneously a defining focus and an element of total instrumental synergy.
These tracks are surprising. They begin and end in the uncharted swamps of unresolved mayhem, prayer, Shellac, the Cure, pop, hardcore, neo-, post-, and proto-what. This album is a dream ceremoniously torn from the bed of a man who has slept beside and transgressed every musical notion worth a thought. Progressive textures, jangling guitars, an insurmountable maelstrom of drumming and even a post-rocking apocalyptic Dylan cover: It’s all there.
PAULIE STONE (RAVE MAGAZINE, March 09)
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This album keeps you on your toes, leaves your nerves on edge, never able to settle despite its strongly minimalistic rhythmic nature.
...He has set out to achieve a "sound and momentum" and has achieved that and more. Disturbingly excellent. (By Chris Peken. -Alternative Media Group)
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file under: Moving Mountains, Death Cab For Cutie, Anathallo, Appleseed Cast
Pompeii veröffentlichten kürzlich ihr neues Album "Nothing Happens For A Reason" auf Eyeball Records (Tiger Lou, An Albatross, Wolftron). Im September kommen sie nun endlich auch nach Europa. Man darf sich auf perfekt vorgetragene IndiePopSongs im Stile von Death Cab For Cutie, Moving Mountains oder Appleseed Cast freuen.
Sie haben innerhalb eines Jahres mehr Gehörgänge und Clubeinrichtungen zerstört als manch andere Band in ihrer ganzen Karriere. Und das, obwohl man dem Grand Pocket Orchestra aus Irland kein erhöhtes Aggressionspotenzial zuschreiben würde, wenn man sich nur auf den Genuss ihrer Tonträger beschränkt. Angenehmer Gänseblümchenpop im Stile von Animal Collective ist da zu hören, den auch Notwist-Mann Mario Thaler zu schätzen weiß. Er war so begeistert vom GPO, dass er sich aufmachte nach Dublin und dort Songs mit ihnen produzierte.
file under: Animal Collective, The Robocop Kraus, Bearsuit, Modest Mouse, Pavement (on Speed)
file under: The Pharmacy, Kymia Dawson, Damien Jurado
on their self-titled album, the terrordactyls' quirky, lighthearted yet decidedly melancholic pop/anti-folk tunes are augmented by toy pianos, kazoos, and the voice of kimya dawson (the moldy peaches, juno). despite all these charming trappings, though, nothing really serves to take the edge off the terrordactyls' gutsy interpretation of the sad sweetness (or sweet sadness) of living.
:: KAT FRANKIE and BAND - DEUTSCHLAND TOUR 2009 ::
Berlin Concert:
// Kastanienallee 7-9, Berlin // As an addition to Kat's band, this concert will also feature Heidi Mockert on Bassoon (das Fagott) // Support: Lian Ray (formerly of Rhesus) // 20 Uhr // Tickets: www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
Remaining dates: 17. Sept: MÜNCHEN - Babalu | 18. Sept: ILMENAU - BC Club | 19. Sept: LEIPZIG - Moritzbastei
Seit nunmehr 13 Jahren existiert die Band bereits. Zahlreiche Liebhaberplatten haben sie veröffentlicht und setzen dies nun auf Secretly Canadian fort. Wunderbar weltfremder und raumgreifender Pop ist das der hier detailnärrisch erdacht wurde. 2006 sind sie auf dem Soundtrack des Sofia Coppola Films "Marie Antoinette" vertreten gewesen. Sicher ist da noch ordentlich Platz nach oben für diese fantastische Band.
"five years and counting" - schraum label festival !
On
september 11th and 12th Berlin based label schraum will celebrate its
fifth birthday at Weisepuff - a new venue in Berlin-Neukölln. We invite
you to listen to some of the great acts who released music on our small
label during the last years...
*********** fr sept 11th
UTE VÖLKER SOLO accordeon solo
AXEL HALLER SOLO electric bass & objets trouvés
Torsten Papenheim's TRU CARGO SERVICE Christian Biegai - altosax Matthias Müller - trombone Dave Bennett - guitar, clarinet Torsten Papenheim - guitar, banjo Berit Jung - double bass Christian Marien - drums
*********** sa sept 12th
HUGHES / SCHERZBERG / WIESE John Hughes - double bass Lars Scherzberg - alto- and sopraninosax Nicolas Wiese - electronics
HOTELGÄSTE Michael Thieke - clarinet, altosax, zither Dave Bennett - guitar, radio Derek Shirley - double bass
In der knackigsten Nacht des Jahres gibt sich der Hardrock Roboter die Ehre. Diesen Samstag im Wild at Heart, aber nich an die große Glocke hängen ;) Juten Rutsch in die neue Woche, die ständige Vertretung
"An exquisite and imaginative London talent, Windmill combines star-gazing and
shoe-gazing without a hint of mediocre middle ground..." - BBC
"Freakoid Americana that sounds like a lost Mercury Rev or Grandaddy album. Not bad for a one-man
band from Newport Pagnell." - NME
"Timeless and Graceful. Tales of asthmatics and fashion houses, plastic pre-flight seats and boarding
lounges that you can't help returning to." - THE GUARDIAN
"[...] an impressive album of displacement anxiety with sonics to match. Think Mercury Rev making
a break up album." - THE INDEPENDENT
Einlass: 20:00 / Beginn 21:00
Tickets: 5€
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