six organs of admittance, harmonia, spacemen 3, wooden wand and the vanishing voice, galaxie 500, voice of the seven woods, wavves, the velvets, neu!, popol vuh, gene clark, tim buckley, vetiver, skygreen leopards, espers, silver apples, the mc5, mv & ee, panda bear, left banke, charalambides, faust, vibracathedral orchestra, joy division, animal collective, love, brainticket, the earlies, the factory, wcpaeb, the clean, kaleidoscope (us/uk), hush arbors, tim buckley, elephant micah. labels: factory, fierce, brain, time lag, twisted nerve, finders keepers, pilz...
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Movies
ken loach, shane meadows, vertigo, the third man, rififi, village of the damned, la haine, some voices, 50s/60s british thrillers, basil rathbone holmes etc
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Television
porridge, our friends in the north, danger man, man in a suitcase, edgar wallace presents, the hammer house of horror, the human jungle.
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Books
where the wild things are, kes
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Heroes
gene clark, florian fricke, ronnie barker, kenny dalglish, louise brooks, liz smith, irene handl, wilfred hyde-whyte, and brian glover in "kes".
the great pop supplement is a tiny label run from home in london. putting out predominantly self distributed small run releases on (all sizes of) vinyl. (on extended pressings it must be said cargo muck in too). previous releases have seen 45s nut and bolted into 2 hard board squares, painted with black board paint then doodled on by the band, 6" lathe cuts in hand embroidered pouches, 45s wrapped in colour ferris wheel posters, 6 pg booklet sleeves, 50s wallpaper wraparounds, op-art psych sleeves and copious amounts of tracing / linen paper / board etc...
if you've been here before you'll have read about the GPS aversion to the conpacked disc. despite this loathing, this unfancied format will make appearances from time to time- vinyl time constraints being as they are.
digital companies who've been getting in touch of late: please note, that while grateful for yr interest, the gps has no interest in that dubious field of artistic nothingness..
with the "dj tones" spacemen 3 LP currently out there, next up is a 250 copy vinyl version to the long sold out woodcraft folk debut full length "trough of bowland" in beautiful screened sleeves & inners, 45s from cam deas, spoono and melodie du kronk and the long promised jerusalem and the starbaskets LP finally.... plus lots more bubbling away down the pipe.
as each release is ready to order, i'll post info up here, but best bet- and the promise of never missing out on anything, is to email me on thegreatpopsupplement@hotmail.com and i can add yr name to an emailout list. also, check out the website:
for past releases, sleeve pics, availability and all that kinda stuff, check out: WWW.THEGREATPOPSUPPLEMENT.COM
if your stuff sounds right up the GPS street, drop me a line or a pointer to yr myspace page...
New Anonymeye album ‘The Disambiguation Of Anonymeye’, featuring collaborations with Seaworthy and Mirrored Silver Sea, out Monday May 18 on sound&fury (www.soundandfury.com.au). First 50 pre-orders from s&f webshop also receive a bonus 3” CDR of exclusive material including collaborations with ii and Marisa Allen (Bremen Town Musician).
Just received David A Jaycock's 7" from Piccadilly Records. What a beautiful record. Opening it up, smelling the ink, feeling the thing in yr hand, noticing the little leaves cut out are left in the plastic wallet...and that's all before HEARING the thing. Long live vinyl. Good work GPS!
xNoBBQx Skewer 10" LP (Ltd to 300 copies) - Out May 12th
We first came across xNoBBQx (just call them No Barbeque, I guess) in Piccadilly Records last year when the Siltbreeze vinyl reissue of their first CD-r appeared on its shelves. The Siltbreeze label being a bastion of all that is great in terms of dirgy, lo-fi, transcendental unmusicality, we were thus intrigued to hear this slab. And, we have to say, it was one of the greatest shop-listening experiences of all time. Here was a duo, probably of fully grown men, bashing away at their instruments in a manner that suggested they had never really learned any 'proper' technique. We later read a review, in fact, that put it thus:
"So what exactly is the difference between an xNoBBQx recording and a couple of 14 year olds bashing instruments in the garage with record pressed down on one of their mum’s old tape recorders? Probably not a whole lot, actually, but I get the feeling that’s precisely the point. " (Cyclic Defrost)
Well, yes, that does largely seem to be the point. But it's a helluva point. The Australian duo, in spite of their unabashed simplicity, manage to create sounds that are warm as an old-fashioned blanket, each piece having the ability to induce a state of complete, dribbling mental stasis. It's disjointed, scratchy and 'difficult', yes. But it also manages to be completely absorbing. If you like your rock deconstructed to the nth degree, we highly recommend you dig this.
xNoBBQx will be touring the UK from 10th May 2009. We'll be putting them on in Manchester on 12th May (venue TBC), so keep yr eyes on this page.
................................... Kidnapper Bell - A sea of intense melodies, plucky math rock grit and pop prowess. (Rocksound) ...................................
The World in Winter label release their latest split 7", featuring a slice of experimental folk-drone from Chapters and the debut release from the superb psych folk solo guitarist Dean McPhee.
Cam Deas - My Guitar Is Alive and It's Singing LP out now on Blackest Rainbow Records, get it via my myspace page or from Blackest Rainbow. Limited to 300 copies.
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