Black Tambourine - Complete Recordings

Black Tambourine were one of the earliest Slumberland groups, consisting of members of Whorl and Velocity Girl, plus their pal Pam Berry on vocals. Conceived as an explicitly pop band at a time when pop bands were pretty rare in America, Black Tambourine wore their influences on their sleeves: The Jesus & Mary Chain, of course, but also folks like Phil Spector, Smokey Robinson, Love, The Ramones, Shop Assistants, The Pastels, 14 Iced bears, Orange Juice and the list goes on.

Though they only played a handful of gigs in their brief career, their two singles on Slumberland and Audrey’s Diary wielded a large influence, and were key artifacts in the birth of US indie pop. This compilation includes all the songs from both of those singles, plus two cuts from compilations and a previously unheard demo song. Liner notes from Jennifer Silver of Swingset Records round-out this important record - check it out!

(Taken from last.fm)

Tracklist
1. For Ex-Lovers Only
2. Black Car
3. Pack You Up
4. Can't Explain
5. I Was Wrong (Previously Unreleased)
6. Throw Aggi Off The Bridge
7. Drown
8. We Can't Be Friends
9. By Tomorrow
10. Pam's Tan

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Noisy Sins of the Insect - Discography

This is some good stuff from Turkey: equally emotional and aggressive screamo, everything you would expect it to be. As far as I know, this is their complete discography which the band released as one record after they broke up.

Tracklist
1. Experiment 00
2. Experiment 01
3. Experiment 02
4. Cursed Day
5. Lora
6. An Exit, But It Was Useless
7. The Place in the Hope
8. Life on the Pills
9. Open Arm's Revenge
10. There Won't Be A 'My Life'
11. Dear God, I Don't Feel Alive
12. Dennis, I've Got New Shoes
13. Experiment 03
14. Experiment 04
15. Dream Connection Between Seat no. 21 and Seat no. 44
16. End of a Love Doesn't Mean End of Me
17. Simple Death Wish of the Mentally Helpless During Suffocation
18. My Funeral in you, and Our Memories
19. Untitled

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De Magia Veterum - Spikes through Eyes / The Bloods of Prophets and Saints

Coming from the Drachten region of the Netherlands, De Magia Veterum is a one man avante-garde black metal/black metal band created by Mories of Gnaw Their Tongues. Lyrical themes include the Old testament, mysticism and misanthropy.

(Taken from Last.fm)

To finish the journey through the perverted and black mind of Mories I put up two records from his third project De Magia Veterum. Expect the same deal as Gnaw Their Tongues, just with more black metal then drone. Good stuff for erveryone who likes his avantgarde works. Enjoy!

Spikes through Eyes

Tracklist

1. Lifting the Bridal Veil from Misanthropy

2. The Futility of Creation

3. To Crawl ashore Salvation

4. Fleshwound Revelations

5. The Meek shall  inherit the scorched Earth

6. A Nightmare Existence forever

The Bloods of Prophets and Saints

Tracklist

1. A Prison of every unclean Spirit

2. Defying Mortality

3. The Bloods of Prophets and Saints

4. The Whore of Babylon

5. Thrown to the Lions

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Crocodiles - Summer of Hate

Crocodiles are a two-piece from San Diego, USA formed in 2008 playing lo-fi new wave, featuring former members of The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower. So far they have released a 7” on Zoo Music, and have two forthcoming split 7”s with a number of artists plus an LP entitled ‘Summer of Hate’.

(Taken from Last.fm)

I picked that one from a blog on a hot summer night. I just got it because I was amazed by the title "Summer of Hate" and the description that was given on the blog that Crocodiles combine lo-fi new wave with indie elements. And hey, Summer of Hate is a damn sexy name for a indie record. The music is awesome, so enjoy it.

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Tracklist

1. Screaming Chrome

2. I wanna kill

3. Soft Skull (in my Room)

4. Here comes the Sky

5. Refuse Angels

6. Flash of Light

7. Sleeping with the Lord

8. Summer of Hate

9. Young Drugs

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Aderlating - Dying of the Light

Aderlating is a side project of the man behind Gnaw their Tongues.
Live the band consists of Mories: noises/voices/drums and Erik (mowlawner) on noises and voices.
In 2009 the band played a gig (almost) every month including the Roadburn Festival (Tilburg, Holland) and the APEX III fest in New York City (nov 2000).

The debut album titled “The nectar of perversity springs from the well of repression” came out (on Shadowgraph records) in february of 2009 and is limited at 200 copies.

(Taken from Last.fm)

I personally rate this project of Mories even a bit higher as Gnaw Their Tongues due to the fact that his Aderlating stuff got more drone on it and sounds much harsher then GTT. Enjoy this new EP from 2010.

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Tracklist

1. Dying of the Light

2. Soul Harvest

3. A Slow Exit

4. Flood

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Cursed - The Last Session

Cursed was a hardcore punk band from Ontario, Canada, formed in 2001. The band released records on Boston’s Deathwish Records and Ontario’s Goodfellow Records. Cursed was comprised of ex-members of Toronto heavy weights Left for Dead, The Swarm, Ruination, Ire, and Haymaker. Renowned for being “the loudest band ever” They broke up in 2008 on the last day of tour in Europe, after a break-in resulting in all of the tour’s money being stolen. After years of bad luck and similar situations, that was the final straw. Members went on to form Burning Love, Mature Situations, Crux of Aux and Quest For Fire.

(Taken from Last.fm)

Hardcore punk ain't that right, Cursed also put's a lot of sludge elements into their music. This are the final four songs, released more then one year after the split after the Prague show. Enjoy it guys.

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Tracklist

1. Reparations

2. Promised Land / Polygraph

3. Antihero Resuscitator

4. Into the Hive

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Of the Wand and the Moon - Nighttime Nightrhymes

:Of The Wand & The Moon: is the creative live and recorded music works of musician Kim Larsen from Denmark and various guest contributors.

After irreconcilable differences with his previous musical project, Saturnus, Larsen began writing music of a different vein, similar in style to his neofolk influences but very different than the doom metal he had previously created.

In 1999, the debut :Of The Wand & The Moon: album was released, entitled Nighttime Nightrhymes. Characterized by folk songs with themes ranging from expressions of love, loss, joy and ancestral Germanic paganism, the album was interspersed with experimental dark ambient pieces and tribal drumming. The album marked a new entry for Denmark in a new wave of Germanic post-industrial folk projects alongside contemporaries such as Forseti and Sonne Hagal.

(Read more at Last.fm)

I just felt like posting this one now. For the last days of winter you could enjoy some nice neo-folk from Denmark. Especially when the snow is falling outside in the woods....

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Tracklist

1. Ganthr

2. I crave for you

3. Lion Serpent Sun

4. Sol ek Sa

5. In the Colours of the Night

6. The Substance of Simplicity

7. Raven Chant

8. She with whom compared the Alpes are Vallies

9. Vargold

10. Wintry Mantle

11. Nighttime Nightrhymes

12. Mauna

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Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine - Rampton

Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine are an English drone doom supergroup, formed in 2001 in Nottingham, United Kingdom and featuring musicians from other metal bands.

They take their name from the second song from the Earth album Earth 2. The music is slow and heavy, similar to the music of Khanate and Burning Witch.

Black fumes non-verbal carnage spilled forth the unholy mines, minds and lanterns of Nottingham. Souls cracked and burned, a fitting feast for low end wave torment and high sound pressure hexing. Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine is the manifest of doomed mortality, divine suffering and flagellation through trance and drone. Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine commanded forth a golem of leprosy, madness, and punishment.

The original lineup consists of :

Lee Dorrian - vocals (Cathedral, Napalm Death);
Stephen O’Malley - guitar (Khanate, Sunn O))), Burning Witch, Thorr’s Hammer);
Greg Anderson - bass guitar, organ (Goatsnake, Sunn O))), Burning Witch, Thorr’s Hammer);
Justin Greaves - drums (Iron Monkey, Electric Wizard).

(Taken from Last.fm)

Hihi, let's call this a super group. Sorry, most of you will know the band allready, but for everyone who's new to doom and drone should give this a listen.

 

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Tracklist

1. He Who Accepts All That Is Offered (Feel Bad Bit Of The Winter)

2. New Pants & Shirts

3. The Smiler

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New Ethic / I Have Dreams / A New Kind Of American Saint

This is the story of one band from Tallahassee, Florida. The most well-known incarnation is probably the screamo outfit I Have Dreams, a band that was born from the ashes of New Ethic, when their guitar player Daniel died in a car accident.

“It was an attempt to cope with the pain everyone was feeling after Daniel’s death.”

New Ethic played their last show in August, 1998 with Daniel’s best friend Mike Hanson in his place, and it was about a month or two later that I Have Dreams started playing.
After I Have Dreams broke up, a new band called A New Kind Of American Saint was founded, which then played something I like to call "hardcore done right": short, aggressive and fun songs, with breakdowns used exactly the right way.

The three bands' released material combined lasts about 33 minutes, but these are definitely 33 well-invested minutes for every hardcore/screamo enthusiast. Oh, and do not expect a good sound quality. I Have Dreams seem to have went with the same recorders Ulver have used for their ultimate lo-fi sound on Nattens Madrigal.

(Taken from Tallahassee Music Scene and my brain)

New Ethic - Summer Demo '98
1. Dragon Slayer
2. Miracle Song
3. Never Give In


I Have Dreams - Three Days Til' Christmas


1. Three Days Til' Christmas
2. Countless Rooftops
3. In Good Hands
4. New Song (I Don't Imagine You and I Anymore)
5. Thank you so much for having the courage to help a friend change his life for the better


A New Kind Of American Saint - Take A Shit


1. Don't Let These Tight Pants Fool You, I'm All Heart Motherfucker
2. Interlude
3. There's Only One Rule In This Town (A.K.A. Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Mosh's Door)
4. Jesus Wasn't Straight Edge, but I Am


A New Kind Of American Saint - (unreleased) Split w/ Poison the Well
1. If it ain't shit, it ain't shit
2. The War Is Coming
3. Dont let these tight pants fool you...(alt version)

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Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit

Motorpsycho is a band from Trondheim in Norway, formed in 1989. Their music can generally be defined as psychedelic rock, but they also mix in elements from metal, jazz, rock, noise, pop and many other musical styles. The members of the band are Bent Sæther (bass/vocals) and Hans Magnus “Snah” Ryan (guitar/vocals). Håkon Gebhardt (drums) left the band in March 2005 to concentrate on solo projects (as Gebhardt) and his other band HGH.
Kenneth Kapstad, drummer, joined Motorpsycho as a full member late in 2007.

(Read more here)

 

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Tracklist

1. Starhammer

2. X-3 (Knuckleheads In Space) # The Getaway Special

3. The Bomb-Proof Roll And Beyond (For Arnie Hassle)

4. Close Your Eyes

5. W.B.A.T

6. Gullible's Travails (Parts I-IV)

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Wurzelkraft - Primitv und Edel wie nie zuvor

Another post on the raw black metal front. This band called Wurzelkraft is a solo project run by Pestilence from the black metal band Runenblut. The lyrics are mystic and mostly about nature and the woods. After releasing two demos they put out their first full lenght out on Christhunt Productions. This makes them label mates of Zorn. Enjoy!

Infos 

Tracklist

1. Einklang

2. Traum

3. Verwüstung

4. Was einst ward

5. Zwischenstück

6. Urgewalt

7. Die alte Eiche

8. Runenlied

9. Blut Krieg Sieg

10. Verwüstung (Demoversion)

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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol. 2 & Vol. 3

For information and Vol. 1 please look at this post. On Vol. 2 and 3, they added a saxophone - it definitely gets more awesome here.

Vol. 2 - Tracklist
1. Sun Prayer
2. Rip Tide
3. The Open Road
4. Cinecittá
5. Tropic Of Capricorn

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Vol 3. - Tracklist
1. Eugenie
2. Red Valley
3. Lonesome Traveler
4. Santa Sangre
5. Venice By The Sea

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Four Tet - There Is Love In You

Four Tet is the name used by Kieran Hebden (born 1977 in Putney, London, UK) for his experimental electronic music-oriented solo efforts, to differentiate from his work with post-rock band Fridge.

Hebden’s solo work typically utilises samples lifted from various sources including hip-hop, electronica, techno, jazz, and folk mixed with his own guitar playing.

In November 2009, details of the fifth full-length Four Tet album were released. Entitled There Is Love In You and scheduled for release on 25 January 2010, the album was preceded by a limited edition release of the 12" single "Love Cry".

(Taken from last.fm and wikipedia)

Tracklist
1. Angel Echoes
2. Love Cry
3. Circling
4. Pablo's Heart
5. Sing
6. This Unfolds
7. Reversing
8. Plastic People
9. She Just Likes To Fight

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Bobb Trimble - Iron Curtain Innocence

Born ten years too late to attract the attention he deserved, Bobb Trimble created an utterly unique body of work that merged psychedelia, folk-rock, space music and sound effects into rock’s most convincing depiction of a disturbed mind.
As with most tortured artistic souls, Bobb’s distinct vision is filled with much more than just fear and self-loathing. It drips with beauty and heartbreak, and his high, fragile voice bleeds with passion. The music evokes the sixties yet sounded contemporary when released in the eighties and again when re-released in the nineties.

Bobb’s two impossibly rare albums change hands for ungodly sums of money, and for years his reputation grew among collectors as his music was heard via tape trades (often on unlabeled tapes, which led to one male collector falling in love with the beautiful voice only to be informed that the singer was actually a man).
In the mid-90s, Bobb’s music was finally made widely available when the bulk of the two albums were released on CD as Jupiter Transmission. Die-hard fans of psychedelia rate Bobb’s music as the finest in the genre from the 80s.

(Taken from last.fm)

Jex Thoth covered "When The Raven Calls" on their self-titled debut album.

Tracklist
1. Glass Menagerie Fantasies
2. Night At The Asylum
3. When The Raven Calls
4. You Little Pawn
5. One Mile From Heaven (short version)
6. Killed by the Hands of an Unknown Rock Starr
7. Through My Eyes (Hopeless as Hell: D.O.A.)
8. One Mile From Heaven (long version)

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Thomas Köner - Nuuk

Thomas Köner, born 1965, attended the music college in Dortmund and studied electronic music at the CEM-Studio in Arnhem. Until 1994 he worked with film sound as sound engineer. He extended his concept of sound colour to moving images, resulting in video installations and film works.

While studying, he dedicated himself to intensive sound research in the recording studio. His first impulse consisted in avoiding rhythm and melody and focusing instead on the phenomenon of sound colour. To intensify the experience of sound, he decided to work with other media, resulting at first in the collaboration with film artist Jürgen Reble and the live performance Alchemie (1992).

(Taken from last.fm)

Tracklist
1. Nuuk (Air)
2. Polynya I
3. Nuuk (Day)
4. Amras
5. Nuuk (Night)
6. Polynya II
7. Nuuk (End)
8. Nuuk (Harbor)

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Pantha du Prince - Black Noise

Pantha du Prince, also known as Hendrik Weber, is a minimal artist signed to Rough Trade Records. His music is often characterised by a hypnotic, intricate combination of melodic chimes and dark, heavy techno beats, but does not confine itself to a single sound or strain of minimal techno. Arrangements are lush and textural, energising yet melancholy; a plethora of sounds and ideas unified by a consistent underlying tech-house beat. dreaming music.

(Taken from last.fm)

Black Noise is his new album and it's great. Also, Panda Bear (from Animal Collective) sings on Stick To My Side.

Tracklist
1. Lay In A Shimmer
2. Abglanz
3. The Splendour
4. Stick To My Side
5. A Nomad's Retreat
6. Satellite Sniper
7. Behind The Stars
8. Bohemian Forest
9. Welt Am Draht
10. Im Bann
11. Es Schneit

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Faust - Faust IV

Faust is a German krautrock band, originally composed of Werner “Zappi” Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunter Wüsthoff, working with producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner. The group formed in Wümme in 1971 and soon began recording their debut, "Faust”, which sold poorly, but established a devoted fanbase. With a series of early 1970s releases, Faust became one of the most significant bands in the genre that would eventually be known as krautrock.

Faust were arguably the most radical of the groups of their era, using advanced studio techniques and electronics in a way that opened up new possibilities for studio composition. At the time they may not have appeared to have had the same impact as a number of their German peers (notably Kraftwerk, Can and Tangerine Dream), but they are increasingly recognised as the most far-sighted of the German groups of that era.

(Taken from last.fm)

This album is an essential for every 70s psychedelic/progressive rock and especially krautrock fan or any fan of any band influenced by these movements (so basically everybody visiting this blog). Listen to this! There's nothing more to say.

Tracklist

1. Krautrock
2. Sad Skinhead
3. Jennifer
4. Just A Second (Starts Like That!)
5. Picnic On A Frozen River, Deuxième Tableux
6. Giggy Smile
7. Läuft...Heißt das es läuft oder es kommt bald...Läuft
8. It's A Bit Of A Pain

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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol. 1

Causa Sui (meaning cause of itself in Latin) is four Danes in their early/mid-twenties, who have made and released music together since before they were teenagers in various genres.
Causa Sui is not the hipster’s unintelligent 60ies-look nostagia music, not a scholar’s sad search for the most complex of compositions, nor a neanderthal take on sludgy riffs. This is free music – all written, shaped, played and produced by the band during 9 months of isolation.

Imagine the furious haze of manic Hendrix and Blue Cheer jamming with a young Iggy Pop, recorded and seamlessly layered by krautrockers Can. It’s untamed music picked up from the late 60s, not looking back at zeitgeists and other limitations, picking up different trails on the way, wrapped in a complex, but soundwise warm and simple jacket.

Play loud indeed!

(Taken from last.fm)

Tracklist
1. Visions of Summer
2. Red Sun In June
3. Portixeddu
4. Soledad

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The Microphones - Mount Eerie

The Microphones is the name of a project that Anacortes, WA’s Phil Elverum has headed since the late 90s. Its sound is best described as lo-fi “fuzz folk,” ranging from drum-crashing, bass-thrashing sonic freakouts, strummy classical guitar love songs, angelic vocal choirs, and almost-whispered vocals over harmoniums and bell kits. In 2004, Elverum abandoned the “Microphones” name to begin recording as Mount Eerie.

(Taken from last.fm)

Yeah you guessed it: more strange-beautiful fuzz folk by Phil Elverum, just as requested.

Tracklist
1. The Sun
2. Solar System
3. Universe
4. Mt. Eerie
5. Universe Conclusion

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Colour Haze - All

Founded in 1994, Colour Haze are a contemporary three-piece German stoner/psychedelic rock band, at least in the literal sense. The band’s current lineup includes Stefan Koglek (vocals/guitar), Manfred Merwald (drums) and Philipp Rasthofer (bass). Hailing from Munich, they follow in the tradition of other classic rock trios such as Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

(Taken from last.fm)

Tracklist
1. Silent
2. Moon
3. Turns
4. Lights
5. If
6. Stars
7. All
8. Fall
9. One
10. Remains

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