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SOFT CELL
DEMO NON STOP - SBZ059CD -OUT NOW COLLECTION OF DEMOS FROM THE SESSIONS OF SOFT CELL’S MULTI PLATINUM DEBUT!! Non-Stop
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Erotic Cabaret was the first album released by the groundbreaking synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell, released in 1981 by Some Bizarre Records. The album's critical and commercial success was bolstered by the worldwide success of its single Tainted Love, a cover version of a little-known R&B song by Gloria Jones which topped charts worldwide and became the best-selling British single of 1981 in the United States. The album continued to produce a string of Top-5 singles in the UK, including "Bedsitter," "Torch," and the unapolagetically sentimental "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye." Now the newly resurrected Some Bizarre is releasing the best of the until now unreleased demos for the sessions of the album, including an early version of the hit single “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye”. An essential addition to any Soft Cell, Grid or Marc Almond fan’s collection.
SOFT CELL
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Historical rare recording made between 1978 and 1982 by the now legendary 80’s electro pop group SOFT CELL!!! Originally, vocalist Marc Almond and synth player Dave Ball teamed to compose music for theatrical productions, and as Soft Cell, their live performances continued to draw heavily on the pair's background in drama and the visual arts. A self-financed EP titled Mutant Moments brought the duo to the attention of Some Bizzare label head Stevo, who enlisted Daniel Miller to produce their underground hit single "Memorabilia" the following year. This was the launch pad for the band to rise to international notoriety in their short and successful career. Sleeve notes: “I remember there was a little makeshift studio tucked away in the corner of Leeds Polytechnic Fine Arts department,the "studio" basically consisted of two Revox B77 quarter inch reel to reel tape machines,a funny old Tandberg reel to reel machine and a six channel line mixer.I had a Korg DV800 duophonic synth,(my first one) a couple of stylophones and eventually aquired a very basic drum machine.I used this set up to make weird little tunes up for reasons known only to myself(ie no reason). It was probably 1978 when Marc Almond;a fellow student happened to be walking by and heard these funny electronic bleeps and came into the studio to listen and asked if I would do some sounds for his performance art shows which I did. A year went by and we had started writing our idea of "pop songs" which we performed live at the Fine Art Xmas party.Before we knew it we had turned our "art pop" into "pop art" or maybe the other way round.” :- Dave Ball 6th June 2005
PSYCHIC TV
FORCE THE HAND OF CHANCE
SBZ060CD
Remastered Double CD re-issue in Digipack of Psychic TV's debut album from 1982. Second CD features the "Themes" a bonus album that was included in the 1st 5,000 copies of the orignal LP. The album featured high production values, catchy pop songs written by Alex Fergusson ex-ALTERNATIVE TV (with barbershop quartet vocals arranged by Andrew Pearson), and sound experiments primarily created by Peter Christopherson and Geff Rushton, a.k.a. John Balance - foreshadowing the pair's later work as Coil. Marc Almond was also involved.
Remastered Double CD re-issue in Digipack
Includes "Themes" from the orignal pressings of the album (and Japanese version)
Features the classic line up of Genesis P.Orridge, Alex Fergusson (ex-ALTERNATIVE TV) and Peter Christopherson (who went on to form COIL)
Features guest vocals from MARC ALMOND
PSYCHIC TV
DREAMS LESS SWEET
SBZ061CD
CD re-issue in Digipack of Psychic TV's second album from 1983, re-mastered and presented in a digpack. Continuing the high production values they employed on their debut "Force The Hand Of Chance" this P,T,V Album Dreams Less Sweet featured host of guest musicians and Choral singers to produce for it's day one of the most cinematic albums ever released the album once again featured a mix of Alex Fergusson's psychedelic pop and Peter ChriStopherson's noise experiments. (who went on to form COIL) The album Holiphonic 3D Sound Recording as featured on Tomorrows World and the New Sciantist as this album was compleatly using this Holiphonic 3D Sound Recording also used this Holiphonic 3D Sound Recording in the gaps between tracks on the Pink Floyd album "The Final Cut"
Remastered CD re-issue in Digipack
Features the classic line up of Genesis P.Orridge, Alex Fergusson (ex-ALTERNATIVE TV) and Peter Christopherson (who went on to form COIL)
Orignally released in 1983
DAVE BALL - IN STRICT TEMPO
SBZ075CD
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British synthesizer player Dave Ball was one half of Soft Cell, along with Marc Almond, starting in October 1979. Before that duo broke up in December 1983, he made one solo album, In Strict Tempo. Originally released in 1983 the album was a leftfield masterpiece, featuring a plethora of guest musicians including GAVIN FRIDAY and the mercurial GENESIS P. ORRIDGE with Dave Ball acting as producer, multi instrumentalist and main vocals. The album was also mixed by enigmatic british producer FLOOD (known for his sucessful work with U2, DEPECHE MODE and SMASHING PUMPKINS).
SOME BIZZARE ALBUM
SBZ101CD
Re-release of the legendary album that not only launched the careers of the likes of Giants such as Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and The The - but also cemented 'Some Bizzare records' position as one of the worlds most important independent labels. Original vinyl copies of the album are rumored to change hands for around 200.00 GBP!!! A true collectors Item for anybody interested in the genesis of 80's Electonica, Goth and New Wave. An extremely important album which featured the first outings from some of these legendary artists. For fans of any modern genre this album is as relevant today as it ever was. This special re-release also features tracks
Fad Gadget Back To Nature (Bonus Track) The Normal Warm Leatherette (Bonus Track) The Residents - The Act Of Being Polite (Bonus Track)
Which now appear as bonus tracks and the sort film of THE RESIDENTS The Act Of Being Polite on the enhanced section of the CD
27 Years after its original release the legendary SOME BIZZARE album finally sees re-issue
All the Original tracks + 3 bonus tracks + Video
Features some of the first released music from THE THE, DEPECHE MODE and SOFT CELL Original vinyl copies can change hands for £200
Test Department
Release Date: 30 / 04 / 07 BEATING THE RETREAT - SBZ065CD THE UNACCEPTABLE FACE OF FREEDOM - SBZ064CD
Test Department
Release Date: 25 / 02 / 08 BEATING THE RETREAT - SBZ065CD THE UNACCEPTABLE FACE OF FREEDOM - SBZ064CD
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TEST DEPT contribution to the movie 2006 "The Year 2027, the last day of the Human Race, No Child has been born for 18 years. He Must Protect Our Only Hope - Universal Pictures. "Children of Men" Test Dept were an industrial music band formed in New Cross, London, by unemployed musicians (including Alastair Adams, Paul Jamrozy, Angus Farquhar, Graham Cunnington, Tony Cudlip, Toby Burdon and Paul Hines) from Glasgow, Scotland, where the band later re-located. Formed in 1981, they are hailed by many musicians as one of the most influential early industrial music acts. Their approach was marked out by a strong commitment to radical politics. Their discography spans a wide variety of influences and styles, including a collaboration with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir in support of the Miners' Strike of 1984. They were particularly notable for complex and powerful percussion, as well as high-energy live performances. Like the German band Einstürzende Neubauten, with whom they are often compared, Test Dept used unconventional instruments such as scrap metal and industrial machinery as sound sources; however, Test Dept's use of these objects was far more rhythmic than was Neubauten's, and was often accompanied by film and slide shows. Continuing the re-issue of their extensive back catalogue Some Bizarre present here 2 classic albums from the band’s 80’s incarnation. Both re-issued in Dig packs like the other releases on the label such as FOETUS and NEUBAUTEN. Essential for any collector of early industrial!!!
Swans
COP/YOUNG GOD/GREED/HOLY MONEY - SBZ047CD -OUT NOW AMAZING DOUBLE CD RE-ISSUE OF 4 SWANS EARLY ALBUMS!!!
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Crawling out of the same noisy, arty New York underground that sired SONIC YOUTH and LYDIA LUNCH, Swans created a dark, abrasive, murky, slowed-down noise rock that served as a starting point for their ruminations about alienation, depression, depravity, and the disturbing side of human nature. Singers Michael Gira and Jarboe have been the group's only constants over the years; Gira has taken the group from its early confrontational shock tactics to a more varied, mature attack. The band first appeared on record in 1982 with a self-titled EP, and these early releases document their search for the musical vocabulary to express their ideas effectively. Female singer Jarboe joined the group for 1986's Holy Money and brought a gentler, more relaxed dimension to Swans' sound. “The Swans are the only band in the universe. There is no other sonic experience of such incredible power and magnitude to be found anywhere. That is an absolute fact.” - ATTITUDE (USA) “Swans can confidently be described as nothing short of a miracle” - NME “Swans are like some elite combat group. Abandoning conventional concepts of pitch and melody, they strip rock and roll to the barest bones. Power, urgency, excitement. This is no pose” - THE VILLAGE VOICE The track “raping a slave” is included in Kurt Cobain’s handwritten journals as one of his top 50 tracks of all time.
Some Bizarre Artists
"Redefining the prologue -1981 - 2006"
Some Bizarre Artists 1981-2006 - Redefining the Prologue,
Reviewer: NEEDLEMAN (UK)
Some Bizzare is the seminal label set up in 1981 by Stevo Pearce. This is an 18-track compilation, celebrating 25 years of the legendary Some Bizarre label that has given us some of the most unique and inventive dance industrial tracks of the past few decades as well as producing.some of the best selling pop music and has helped establish acts that have become million sellers. About half of the CD is material from the early 80s such as Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, The The etc but this long-overdue anthology is perhaps more geared towards the revival of Some Bizarre Records in the 21st Century.... Heading this list is the awesome "Crazy" by Dark Poets. 'The Dark Poets' are an electronic breakbeat outfit from the UK. Mixing dark, moody breakbeat with blissed out warped electronica, they are probably most well known in the public domain for their soundtrack work on Alex Chandons 'Cradle of Filth' horror movie 'Cradle of Fear' (As well as the official soundtrack album) and 'Crazy' is the first track to be released by the Dark Poets on the 'Some Bizzare' Label. The track itself can only be described as "Prodigy on acid" or "a bad trip inverse of handbag house" but either the way this is an act not to be messed with. Apparently they've got an album coming out in 2007 on Some Bizarre Records and i personally cannot wait to hear more. Other great tracks on the CD are Soft Cell's "Memorabilia" - Monkey Farm Frankenstein's Mental Remix which brings the original bang up to date with a slamming new breakbeat mix. And also "Accelerate" by Meka is cut from similar cloth as Soft Cell. MFF - "Just another victim" is another 2006 track which sounds fantastic. More bizarrely is that some of the 80s tracks sound remarkably current - Cabaret Voltaire, Einsturzende Neubauten's and even The The all seem way ahead of their time and showcase the labels amazing diversity. Some Bizarre has been responsible for some of the most innovative recordings of the era, this eclectic mix of songs shows how important and influential the label has been over the last 25 years. And with artists such as Dark Poets, Mainstream Distortion and Meka etc the label is set to continue to be genre defining into the future. I urge you to buy it now, if only for the awesome Dark Poets track, but the other 17 are worthy of a place in your record collection.
Some Bizzare: Redefining the prologue 1981-2006
(Universal CD)
Mike Barns (Wire Magazine)
25 years ago, Some Bizzare founder Stevo's dyslexia gave us a name that even today makes this writer fumble over its correct spelling. He also gave us music that was eclectic yet unified by being maverick, hard edged and largely electronic. There's more to it that that description, of course, and this 18 track anthology is more like a presentation than a journey through the past. This is put cheekily into context firstly with Soft Cell's "Memorabilia" - Monkey Farm Frankenstein's Mental Remix thereof - which unsentimentally ends with found speech "forget about it; it's better to have no memories." To complicate matters, MFF's own "Just another victim from 2006 sounds as if it's come from the same Some Bizzare motherload, and "Accelerate" by Meka is cut from similar cloth as Soft Cell, albeit with a meatier 21st century digital sound. Dark Poets "Crazy", another 2006 track, with its fuzz Metal chords and monomaniacally sampled voice, is a bad trip inverse of handbag house. Taking that into account, it's quite amazing that - by avoiding the cliches of the era - some of the 80s tracks sound remarkably current. Swans' "Time Is Money (Bastard)" (1985) is typically sour with cod-menacing vocals over a marching rhythm. But from the same year, Cabaret Voltaire's "Crackdown" and Einsturzende Neubauten's "Yu-Gung", with its Can-like beat -and even The The's "Twilight Of A Champion" (1983) - all sound suprisingly fresh.
MARC ALMOND
VIRGIN'S TALE VOL 1 + VOL 2
SBZ071CD
Two classic Marc Almond albums available as a special double CD set.
MARC ALMOND
JACQUES
SBZ114CD
Re-issue of the popular 1989 Marc Almond release Jacques
MARC ALMOND
ABSINTHE
SBZ113CD
Reissue of the popular 1993 release Absinthe : The French Album
Scraping Foetus off The Wheel
HOLE - SBZ052CD - OUT NOW
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NAIL- SBZ053CD - OUT NOW
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Re-mastered by SCOTT HULL (David Bowie, Herbie Hancock etc.) at Scott Hull Mastering Restored artwork in Digi pack format (under supervision of J.Thirwell himself) FIRST IN A SERIES OF DELUXE FOETUS RELATED RE-ISSUES In an age when terms like "alternative" and "independent" get bandied about corporate boardrooms as mere mass-market packaging slogans, it takes an artist as rare as Jim Thirlwell (FOETUS) to inject some meaning into what is so casually labeled "the underground." With his history of relentless aesthetic terrorism and committed cultural subversion, Thirlwell is one of the most independent thinkers on the music scene today, a much-needed alternative to "alternative rock" itself. Linking up with Some Bizarre in the early eighties Thirwell adopted the “Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel” moniker for the release of two of his most well know early albums “Hole” and “Nail” in ‘84 & ‘85 respectively. With a collision of electronics, tape loops and harsh beats and vocals these albums helped define the burgeoning underground industrial scene in London at the time. With lovingly restored artwork under direct supervision from Thirwell himself these two albums are now available in deluxe digi packs which do the original LP’s artwork justice like no CD issue has ever done. Both albums have also been re-mastered by SCOTT HULL (Herbie Hancock, David Bowie etc.) to bring out the best in these milestone releases freeing them from the bad CD mastering these titles have suffered from in the past.. These two CD’s are essential to any fan or curious music buyer. FOETUS reissued, starting October 23, 2006 Posted October 05, 2006 wassonii says: side-line has this to say from side-line: 1st reissue for Foetus back catalogue “Hole” is the first in a series of deluxe Foetus reissues on Some Bizarre. Linking up with the Some Bizarre label in the early eighties Jim Thirwell adopted the ‘Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel’ moniker for the release of two of his most well know early albums “Hole” and “Nail” in ‘84 and ‘85 respectively. With a collision of electronics, tape loops and harsh beats and vocals these albums helped define the burgeoning underground industrial scene in London at the time. For this reissue the material has been remastered and the artwork restored under direct supervision from Thirwell himself. man, i’m so broke right now, but this moves to near the top of i MUST have this. somebizarre Permalink Comments dj ivi says: “electronics, tape loops and harsh beats” those are the magic words for me! i am looking this album up! thanks! Posted wassonii says: I haven’t followed through with these particular rereleases, but read that through his site, thirlwell is offering a new album of reworked pieces and such from his most recent sessions. i think it was at brainwashed.com, but can’t swear to it. too, check out the music blog mutant sounds. deals with a lot of the musics that led to where foetus and others went and beyond. The Throne of Agony Posted September 24, 2006 sedagive says: Sometimes you have a staple in your musical pantheon that was a major influence, but has faded into a kind of personal obscurity. For some reason, you’ve let it slip away, despite its importance; or maybe it exists only in the form of a single over-listened track in a playlist or on a mix disc. Inevitably, you rediscover it and all that awesomeness comes flowing back into your ears (or lack of awesomeness – sometimes it’s not as great as you remembered it). Recently, I wrote a piece about “angry music,” in which the crown jewel was Anything (Viva!) by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel. I was moved to revisit my collection, and rediscovered one of the most original, most caustic, and mostly forgotten artists of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Known under various and equally designed-to-shock names like “You’ve Got Foetus On Your Breath” and “Foetus Uber Alles,” Jim Thirlwell, aka Clint Ruin, creates a wall of cacophony in his music. But behind the madness is a distinct method. Foetus music is carefully crafted despite its noisy quality. It is also composed music in the classical sense, as there is a definite symphonic quality to it. And it is also angry, sarcastic and brilliant. The first thing you notice when listening to much of Foetus’ work is that you want to dance to it, but you can’t. It’s often nearly melodic, often be-boppy, but always bound for Hell on a rattling, out-of-control handcart. Thirlwell is considered by many to be a first rate composer, he just happens to use screeching metal, power tools, and other found noise as a complement to more traditional instruments. The discography is extensive, encompassing around 50 LPs and EPs. Other side projects include Steroid Maximus and Wiseblood, and one album with L.A. performance artist Lydia Lunch. He is still producing albums, with a decidedly more melodic edge in recent years, but his opus remains the album, Nail (1985). This is almost a concept album, opening with Theme from Pigdom Come, a cinematic instrumental, continuing to the masochistic Throne of Agony and ending with the megalomanic Anything (Viva!). Somewhere near the middle is a brilliant piece called Descent Into The Inferno that must surely be the top dance hit in the 8th ring. Foetus music is the absolute opposite of easy listening. It’s hard listening. You have to work to enjoy it sometimes. It can get hard to work your way past the pompousness and pretension, the painful slog through the self-flagellation of Jim Thirlwell’s tortured id. The reward, however, is a deeper look into the abyss than you ever thought you might take. Anger Mismanagement Posted September 10, 2006 TAGS: Artist: Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel Album: Nail Track: Anything (Viva!) Ministry, Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein sedagive says: When I was younger, I pretty much fit the stereotype of the “Angry Young Man,” so most of the music I listened to was what you might call “angry music.” In the ‘70s (the high school, god-aren’t-those-jocks-a-bunch-of-assholes years) it was Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, et.al. In the ‘80s (the art school, isn’t-reagan-a-dumbass-prick years), there was a lot of punk, goth, proto-industrial music – Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, The Cure, Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel, Husker Du. After that came the late ‘80s/early ‘90s (the god-what-was-I-thinking-how-the-hell-do-I-make-a-living-from-a-fine-arts-degree years), there seemed to be plenty of angry music to listen to – the Seattle scene started taking off and for a while it was a sort of anything goes scenario – Soundgarden and Nirvana come to mind, naturally. Anyway, here is my current “angriest music” playlist, which I do not need to listen to nearly as much as I used to since marriage, fatherhood and a decent income have mellowed me (although there may actually be more to be angry about in this day and age than ever). Anger Mismanagement: A Perfect Circle – Judith Afghan Whigs – Debonair Big Black – Kerosene Black Angels – Young Men Dead Coal Chamber (with Ozzy) – Shock the Monkey The Crazy World of Arthur Brown – Fire Gob – Paint It Black GodSmack – Keep Away Gravity Kills – Guilty House of Freaks – Kill the Mockingbird Kittie – Brackish Linkin Park – Crawling LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out Ministry – So What Orgy – Blue Monday Rage Against the Machine – Bulls on Parade Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the Name Rage Against the Machine – Wake Up Rage Against the Machine – Testify Rage Against the Machine – Guerilla Radio Rage Against the Machine – Sleep Now In The Fire Rammstein – Du Hast Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel – Anything (Viva!) Soundgarden – Jesus Christ Pose Stephen Lynch – Bitch Tool – Sober Now, these are in alphabetical order for the sake of… well, order, I guess. But a word about a few of the selections here. First of all, yes, the list is heavy on Rage Against the Machine. Of course. They made a career out of making supremely angry music. Secondly, there’s not a lot of hip hop, much of which is very angry indeed. Black anger just isn’t my anger (but I don’t deny there’s plenty to be angry about in that musical genre’s base). It’s also a generational thing, I think. But how can you argue with the candid, smoldering moment in time, when you realize a relationship has disintegrated beyond repair, as in the Afghan Whig’s “Debonair?” “It’s locked it’s jaws and now it’s swallowing.” Or Big Black, arguably one of the angriest bands ever, in their tale of small town angst and isolation, in which they contemplate lighting each other on fire just to get some excitement. Rammstein – “Du Hast” means “You Hate Me” in German. ‘Nuff said. Arthur Brown is an oddity from the mid-to-late sixties who deserves an article all his own. His psychedelic “Fire” – sung with a flaming dish on his head – has the entirely campy yet dark “You’re gonna burn!” as it’s refrain. And finally, to top it all off, the two angriest songs on the list. The first is “So What” by Ministry, a searing, nihilistic tribute to thrill-killing and generational despair. The live version on “In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up” is the best. And at the absolute end of it all, Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel, aka just plain Foetus, aka about half a dozen other project names. “Anything (Viva!)” starts out gravelly and growling, with lots of Einsturzende Neubauten metal noise and miscellaneous cacophany, end ends in Lucifer conducting a symphony as the soundtrack for you smashing your car defiantly into the gates of hell. At least, that’s how I envision the crescendo ending of this amazing finale to the “Nail” album. I’m sure there are hundreds of equally hot-headed anthems for the disaffected out there. What are yours?
FOETUS - FINAL PARTS IN A SERIES OF DELUXE FOETUS RELATED RE-ISSUES - 'SINK' and 'THAW'
In an age when terms like "alternative" and "independent" get bandied about corporate boardrooms as mere mass-market packaging slogans, it takes an artist as rare as Jim Thirlwell (FOETUS) to inject some meaning into what is so casually labeled "the underground." With his history of relentless aesthetic terrorism and committed cultural subversion, Thirlwell is one of the most independent thinkers on the music scene today, a much-needed alternative to "alternative rock" itself.
Linking up with Some Bizarre in the early eighties Thirwell adopted the “Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel” moniker for the release of two of his most well know early albums “Hole” and “Nail” in ‘84 & ‘85 respectively (already re-issued by SOME BIZARRE this year!). Later adopting “FOETUS INTERRUPTUS” for the “THAW album in 1988 and “FOETUS INC.” for the “”SINK” album (collecting together rare and compilation/collaboration tracks). With a collision of electronics, tape loops and harsh beats and vocals Foetus’ albums helped define the underground industrial scene in London throughout the eighties and has remained (if indirectly) a large influence on the scenes development. With lovingly restored artwork under direct supervision from Thirwell himself these two albums are now available in deluxe digi packs which do the original LP’s artwork justice like no CD issue has ever done. These two CD’s are essential to any fan or curious music buyer.
Borderline: 2006 :Short film Directed By Alex Chandon. Music by J.R Hunter 'The Dark Poets' (Some Bizarre Records) Here is the internationally multi award winning short film 'Borderline' by visionary director Alex Chandon with music by Some Bizarre's own forward thinking cutting edge electro outfit 'The Dark Poets' genius J.R. Hunter. A Version of this track will feature on the forthcoming Dark Poets album currently in production for Some Bizarre records.
Borderline: 2006 :Short film synopsis Taking London on a trip by way of MC Escher and Mega City One. Deconstructing both modernist and neo-classical landmarks to rebuild a new, impossible cityscape of upside-down staircases, gravity-defying roads and liquid skies. short fact I made the film as an experiment with After Effects. I had been dreaming about mad buildings (Escher meets Mega-City) for a while, that became the vague brief.I went out alone with an XM1 mini-dv camera and a tripod for two afternoons in London, one spent at the south bank centre the other in the city. I shot what looked good with no constructive thoughts to actual compositions of the final shots. The only critical thing was that each shot was 'locked off' for the short takes. Matching the angles and perspectives on elements from different shots was a nightmare. But well worth it! crew director Alex Chandon editor Alex Chandon music The Dark Poets festivals, awards and screenings include: onedotzero 10 June 2006
Gary Lucas, New York Guitar Legend (Captain Beefheart/Jeff Buckley/Gods and Monsters - to name but a few) Teams up with shy British eccentric electro-genius James R. Hunter of 'The Dark Poets' (Cradle of Fear/Borderline etc) For an album that truly pushes the listener to the limits of beauty, horror and aural abstraction.
This meaning “Beyond the Pale” outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour came much later, as did good manners (the absence continues,) now with the etiquette - the one aspect (don’t bend over in a chicken run) decorum , the expectations of social behaviour on the side walk of entrapment, pavement face to face as opposed to safeguarding to shield - some bizarre protection. There is no avoiding the dirt of cart wheels. For the Mothboy who’s windows are bricked up, was it just that he placed himself beyond the pale of society ? So, the only failure is to cease to try - as if he could not please himself, how was he to please his soul ? To be 'beyond the pale' was to be outside the area accepted as 'home', Step to the curb hand reached out, to only stand and deliver, with one for the road, as disgraceful as was day light robbery. Sip slow through the thru lips, as to ease the strain of execution.
His work with Jeff Buckley and Captain Beefheart probably makes Gary Lucas the world’s most popular avant-rock guitarist, though his solo work can lack focus.
Here, his solo pieces mingle with tracks recorded with electronic composer James Hunter, aka The Dark Poets, whose samplescapes, synth beds and vocal samples about things like military mind-control techniques recall the dark portents of Cabaret Voltaire.
Highlights include a resonant cover of part of Popol Vuh’s Aguirre, Wrath of God soundtrack; an exhilarating "Judgement at Midnight" incorporating swirling National steel guitar phrases over a synth drone bed pockmarked with found-sound fragments; "Breath of Bones", a delicate tangle of guitar tendrils; and "Ted’s Theme", a lovely sequenced samba-shuffle burnished with glinting guitar.
Solo showcases include the glistening Frippertronic-style guitar tones of "Rosemary’s Baby" and the almost electric-flamenco flurries of "Rise Up To Be".
RECOMMENDED.
Pick of the album:’The Judgement at Midnight’, ’Ted’s Theme’, ’Aguirre’, ’Rosemary’s Baby’
GL1TCHG0R3 is unusual in that they are primarily a “virtual’ band formed by Ted Bell and Patrick Chauncey, conceived, executed, marketed, discovered and signed before the two band members ever actually met in person. They formed in June of 2007, and within a few weeks developed a large underground following. GL1TCHG0R3 (glitch - gore) was born out of an experiment to create a new fusion of sound somewhere between hip-hop, improvisational jazz fusion, noise, IDM and glitch. Stumped at how to proceed with this task, they invoked Eris the goddess of chaos through song, art, insanity and an organ donation. The Mother of mechanized music was indeed pleased - so pleased that she plucked out her right eye, and created the most terrifying weapon of mass destruction in the universe to take its place among us. Thus Gearball, also known affectionately as Mister Twinkles, came to become the band's whimsical cyclopean mascot. Travel with Mister Twinkles and his friends through a wild acoustic romp into the depths of cosmic chaos. And if you listen closely, betwixt the screams of the undead and alien tribal rhythms, you'll hear the dancing laughter of Eris grinding away at the humming rotors of creation.
PEDRO INF is tired of the current output of the electronic and post industrial music scenes, whose innovation has regressed to pre conceived ideas about music production, PEDRO INF is taking lead from the pioneers such as Kandinsky , Miro ,Coil , Test Department, Richard D James (Aphex Twin) & mu-ziq.
Designing and building his own effects, computers and programs PEDRO INF has created his own self styled ""sonar paintings" ,he believes that ART does not need humans at all to exist, in his own words "there is no need for a receptor and the need of a receptor is only because we cannot escape the human condition of egocentrism" ticking the boxes that this enigmatic producer has the madness to pull of his unique brand of electronica
"The first goal of Pedro INF is to see the painting and not remember how it was done."
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KONTOUR
SCANNNERS
SBZ081CD
Kontour has been experimenting with electronic devices and voice manipulation for over twenty years. This new album brings forth an array of pure electronics and experimentation. It explores some truths in society and the fears those truths create. Social disorder and mental derangement run amok in a post apocalyptic landscape. You are being watched everywhere you go; everything you do is being registered.
The album’s production involved no use of computers but harked back to analogue sequencers and tape machines, creating a sound not at home in the clean digital age we are subjected to. Percussion and rhythm came from a collection of vintage drum machines heavily processed and overdubbed with manually played electronic drums. Recorded voices were left almost inaudible, disappearing into a backwash of distorted phase.
ZGA is a unique phenomenon in Russian post-rock music. There’s never been a band that would for so long, so consistently and with such dogged perseverance and dedication pursue the non-compromised approach to music.
ZGA pretty much equals Nick Sudnick. Throughout countless personnel changes Nick has always been there - the mind, the heart, the soul, the creator and inventor of this unparalleled music.
We first met in the early 80s. The newly born Russian rock strived for lyrical freedom and new spirit, music hardly mattered and in most cases remained quite simple. I, however, craved for weirder and stranger textures. Sudnick was a connoisseur and avid collector of Rock in Opposition and industrial: Henry Cow, This Heat, Test Department, Universe Zero. That was the shape of sound ZGA was aiming at.
“Zga” is a very obsolete, obscure and peculiar Russian word. It means something really miniscule and in the contemporary language it survived only as a part of an expression ni zgi ne vidno - “pitch dark”. ZGA’s music when I first heard it was by no means sounded obsolete but obscure it very well was: asymmetrical rhythms, hardly any melody, distorted guitar paired with Nick’s homemade instruments. They lived in Riga, and in 1986 I was proud to bring this unusual band for their first ever gig in Leningrad, then capital of Russian rock.
In 1991 Sudnick and ZGA moved to St. Petersburg. His studio in the legendary artists commune at Pushkinskaya 10 is a mix between a scrap metal warehouse, where he builds, solders, puts together his countless homemade instruments, and a makeshift recording studio. He’s also a curator of GEZ 21 - Gallery of Experimental Sound, the hub for noise and industrial projects.
Living in Pushkinskaya 10 and working at GEZ exposed reclusive Sudnik to a whole new range of people and ideas. He works on a number of side projects, one is producing an all female band IvaNova. Its drummer Katya Fedorova became a full-fledged ZGA member and brought more accessible and less austere timbres of female vocals, violin and accordion of her fellow band members into ZGA’s later albums.
Katya Fedorova is also a member FIGS, another very special project that is featured on this compilation. FIGS is an acronym that stands for the names of four musicians: apart from Sudnick and Fedorova there are two drummers: Alexei Ivanov and Marcus Godwyn, a Brit who has lived in St. Petersburg for many years now. The resulting band - three percussionists and ever noisy Sudnick with his homemade instruments - is an apotheosis of rhythmic industrial sound.
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“Zga” is a very obscure, obsolete, and peculiar Russian word. It means something really miniscule and in the contemporary language it survived only as a part of an expression ni zgi ne vidno - “pitch dark”.
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Plan B Dec 07 “It’s Nasty” is populated by a malodorous urban hybrid of Tom Waits and the shrieking telly-demon out of Aphex’s”
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"TWITCH OF THE DEF NERVE" USA ARTIST MFF NUMBER 5 IN THE DMC HIP HOP CHART Monkey Farm Frankenstein
"TWITCH OF THE DEF NERVE"
Released on 6th Aug 2007
Monkey Farm Frankenstein is a pair of young horror-obsessed malcontents who write, perform, engineer, record, program, edit, produce, mix, and master their own unique style of industrial hip hop music. Gathering samples in the dark and rainy streets of Portland, Oregon, they construct their subhuman breakbeat monster from unearthed pieces of cult horror films and dead LPs, dusty stacks of videotapes and aging analog synthesizers.
Mainstream Distortion Discribed as "Nine Inch Nails on Cider" create passionate, industrial, techno which takes the listener on a journey through angst ridden, cyber punk and dark landscapes of sound fused with commercial poetic melodies. Formed in July 04, they immediately recorded 40 tracks that Stitch had pre-recorded onto his PC. The furious effect of these recordings quickly buzzed through the welsh music scene mastering the debut album
"Bully" is OUT NOW , enhanced with a video by cult movie Director Alex Chandon (Pervirella/Cradle of Fear). "Start a revolution and go to war"
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quickly gained notoriety for their unique use of Industrial sounds and electronics in their live shows, after releasing their first album the band signed to Some Bizarre for the production and release of their next four albums. All re-issued on deluxe digi packs these albums presented here represent the bands most popular period in the mid to late eighties. These are essential albums for any fan of the band or curious music fan looking to explore the creative heyday of the classic group or industrials most favoured period.
"Redefining the Prologue"
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COMPILATION OF NEW AND UPCOMING ELECTRONIC MUSIC FROM THE LEGENDARY SOME BIZZARE! Initiated by Some Bizarre , this eclectic compilation collects together some of the newest electronic acts from around the world. , this album is a most exciting and ground breaking music around!
Double CD compilation of new material unearthed by Some Bizarre
Dessign to be racked besides the Original Some Bizzare Album (1981)
Fad Gadget Back To Nature (Bonus Track) The Normal Warm Leatherette (Bonus Track) The Residents - The Act Of Being Polite (Bonus Track)
SHORT FILM of THE RESIDENTS "The Act Of Being Polite" on the enhanced section of the CD
The perfect compilation for someone looking for some of the newest underground electronic acts Double CD compilation for the price of a single album
The Grid are Dave Ball and Richard Norris. They formed in 1988 at the height of Acid House, releasing as their first single, the Balearic classic 'Floatation', in 1990, before notching up a string of increasingly successful albums -'Electric Head', '456', 'Evolver', 'Music For Dancing' - and ten hit singles, including 'Crystal Clear, 'Rollercoaster' 'Texas Cowboys' and the million selling 'Swamp Thing'. The band toured worldwide and remixed and produced numerous artists including Brian Eno, Pet Shop Boys, Happy Mondays and many more.
After a break in the nineties, the Grid reformed in 2004, playing their first gig in a decade in 2006 at the Coronet in London. "DOPPELGANGER" is their first album since 1995, and features the trademark Grid sound - sweeping, atmospheric electronics and hook laden melodies, fast forwarding into the future. A welcome return.
GAIN}, lyrical devour style master of the exploding throat technique in which he turns him self into a small woodland creature and utilizes his open palm attacks to turn his throat inside out producing a combination of octaves unknown the the human ear .when properly done the sounds hypnotize the brain and implants a vast variety of progressive suggestions all of which render you comotoasted and vulnerable to an attack of his choosing....... {4000ARMS}, master of the temple I utilize all techniques simultaneously while creating universes in another dimension I am fully equipped with the quwag stag an the Columbian box cutter behold at any time I am capable of negotiating the levels of the mind while displaying the vortex amputater saw style where I open a port hole in time creating a vortex around your body while leaven just your head in this realm then I close the vortex chopping your head off and sending the body from the head down into another dimension....
FIRST AID 4 SOULS (FA4S) mix the brutality of noise music with the psychedelic pulsation of trance, the rich melodies of new wave and the strict grinding of industrial metal. Fantastic Single CD package featuring the album "My Favourite Pain" the EP "Terra Incognita"
Hungarian electronic artist release SOME BIZARRE debut
The Golden Our Lord's Prayer- First Aid 4 Souls & Kertesz Madalina.
As Featured on the SOME BIZZARE DOUBLE ALBUM
The Csángó ( Romanian : Ceangau , plural Ceangai ) are an ethnic group of Roman Catholic faith, some speaking a Romanian and some Hungarian dialect. They live mostly in Bacau County in Romania , with many across the national frontier in the Republic of Moldova . The Hungarian speaking Csángó settled there between the 13th and 15th centuries. The Csángó (Romanian Ceangau, plural Ceangai) are an ethnic group of Roman Catholic faith, some speaking a Romanian and some Hungarian dialect. They live mostly in Bacau County in Romania with many across the national frontier in the Republic of Moldova
Csángó Hungarians are living now as a proud minority torn apart from the Hungarian Nation, but guarding proudly and consciously their ancestors' heritage and attitude. The Golden Our Lord's Prayer is sung by Melida Kertész, who has such a beautiful and natural voice which is rare to find elsewhere.
I was deeply touched and got carried away by the fate of the Csángós and the untainted, honest beauty and devotion that comes through from the recording. I composed to this unique voice my music to draw attention - also by this way - to the situation and wonderful culture of the Csángós.
RISQUÉ indeed is this fresh and quirky sound that strikes your heart-strings like a bolt of electro lightning! RISQUÉ is Nathalie and Huw, a new and vibrant, French and Welsh combo, wed to each other and their music. RISQUÉ's premiere release is the album TIE ME UP TIE ME DOWN is to be released SOME BIZZARE label RELEASE DATE 2008... So tune-in n chill-out to your FREE ON-LINE MUSIC trax here
Now RISQUÉ are avidly making music in their secret Barcelona studio. Their lavish sound comprises confident and robust driving rhythms, overlade with sweetly exotic and ethereal vocals.
Huw already has a well-established track-record for innovative synth production, with a concatenation of electro chart-toppers, including RUBIKON and ROOKIE.
Nathalie's (who is French as in the movie!) voice is spellbinding, somehow creating a lyrical synthesis of innocence and sensuality. Whats more, she intonates her lyrics in English and français, exuding a romantic pan-European aura.
The couple's romantic liaison, together with their music, makes a RISQUÉ story. They met on a rock off the beautiful North Wales coast. To escape any Anglo/French feuding between their parents, the duo ran away on a moonlight-flit to Las Vegas. There they were wed, in the Little Chapel of the West, where Elvis was married in Viva Las Vegas. But the sound of music beckoned from Europe, so the couple returned to immerse themselves and play, in the club and rave scenes of Paris and London.
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Featuring the short film of THE RESIDENTS The Act Of Being Polite on the enhanced section of the CD
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