Monster Zoku Onsomb! - 2009 - Earth Eaters

Genre: Breakcore, Monster Electro Shit, B-Movie/Horror Lounge
Label: DEATH$UCKER REC. (UK)

I am not that fan of posting the newest records, but this project need some more attention!

See their Website for Tourdates and the Remix Project. Go to their shows, it's fun!!!

The Monsters third full length release is certainly not for genre purists. To create EARTH EATERS, MZO have moved beyond just splicing and dicing samples and mashups, with Miss P. Leisure securing the mic and creating a new sound using the very strangest of vocal effects. They still retain their samplistic roots with plenty of bashment & retrodelic rollers, but add super futuristic basslines, beats which are unrelenting and lyrics about body implants, circuit bending and dancing in the nude to create the sound that is uniquely their own.

Put simply, MZO bring the party to any planet of sound that you happen to inhabit.

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Tracklisting

1. Earth Eaters
   
2. Matterhorn Stab
   
3. La Vida...
   
4. Children Of The Atom
   
5. Exterminape
   
6. Scathing Beauty
   
7. Frankin'stein
   
8. Suicide Sinewave
   
9. Drag Strippers
   
10. Raggiddim
    
11. Team Siouxsie
    
12. Xylophobia
    

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Anubian Lights - 1998 - Let Not The Flame Die Out, 2001 Naz Bar

Genre: Space Rock, 60ies Agent&Spy Lounge Soundtrack, Ambient Electronica, Dance
Label:Hypnotic/Cleopatra (US), Crippled Dick Hot Wax (GER)

For the 100th post I've got something ehm special... not really, but it's my alltime fave. 10 years ago this retro-space-age revival was in full bloom. These „lounge sounds“, sampled sixties tunes mixed with some light beats, where played everywhere. Anubian Lights started as these traditional Space Rock projects in Hawkwind tradition, but turned to the light weight chilling tunes. Both records are the best. A cool mixture of space rock, pure sequencer electronics, some techno/electronic/breakbeats, sampled sixties tunes, spacey synths and grooves. Check it, it's fun!

Hey order Naz Bar for just 5 EUR the CD at the Labelwebsite!

Tracklisting 1998 - Let Not The Flame Die Out

1. The Fire Breathes
   
2. South Of Dashur
   
3. The Locusts Call
   
4. One Eye To The Sky
   
5. Ali Mamoun's Broken Entranceway
   
6. Frequency Of Sand
   
7. Mutashaker (Thank You)
   
8. Our Man In Baghdad
   
9. Atoms Of The Gods
   
10. As Seen In 822 A.D.
    
11. Sanctuaries Of Jupiter
    
12. Nara - Yana
    
13. Vision Of A New Homeland
    
14. Let Not The Flame Die Out
    

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Tracklisting - 2001 - Naz Bar

1. Introduction
   
2. What A Bagdad Had
   
3. Smoke And Mirrors
   
4. In Flight
   
5. Out Flight
   
6. Epsilon
   
7. Dreamstate In The Mainframe
   
8. Micronite
   
9. Hot Sand
   
10. Starvox
    
11. Lazytown
    
12. The 3-Step Formula
    
13. Smoothing Out Of The Curve
    
14. Outer Space Music

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Monster Zoku Onsomb! - 2007 - Attack!, 2004 s/t

Genre: Psychobilly Breakcore,Dance
Label: Rats Milk (AUS)

After the bunch of psych posts, some Psychobilly Breakbeat Fun Stuff. A collective from Australia with an amazing stageshow full of that B-Movie Horror shit and Rock'n'Roll tunes smashed and mashed, cutted and pasted with dancable Breakbeats.

Sampling anything from 50’s rockabilly, lounge to ragga and noise, MZO combine eclectic sampling with fat synths to create a hybrid sound all their own. From punk gigs to drum n bass. Lounge shows to breakcore. House to experimental, and from electro clash to rockabilly …MZO destroys them all… … Someone said MZO sounded like: “Techno Jungle Sixties Hardcore Punk from Outa Space! ” … Someone else said : “Mental ragga rave n bass with zigzag bass lines and the kind of free spirited abandon guaranteed to ram a dance floor in 10 seconds flat! ”

Check their website for the latest record "Earth Eaters"

Tracklisting

1. Eat Brains
   
2. Day They Came Back
   
3. E.PhUMPerDinK
   
4. Dead Eyes Glow
   
5. Poisen Soil
   
6. Ka Ka Monsta
   
7. Thai Angle
   
8. The Coroner Comes
   
9. Wet Seance
   
10. (s)Tinker
    
11. Nuclear Assault (Flipper Edit)
    

+ first self titled album from 2004 here

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Teeth Mountain - 2008 - s/t

Genre: LoFi, Drumming, Psych
Label: SHDWPLY Records (US)

7 piece band from Baltimore (yes Dan Deacon, Video Hippos, Future Islands ...) with a great blend of fuzzy drones on cello and electronix and polyphonic tribal drumming. Psych-Drone-Ritual of Joy!

"I don't know what god or gods you all are praying to but you're praying too fucking loud" Boston Police Department

Tracklisting

1. Introduct
   
2. Black Jerusalem
   
3. Keinsein 
   
4. Spirals
   
5. Ghost Science
   
6. Soft Beast
   
7. 13
   
8. Harsh Tanz 
   
9. Malamut
   

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Wizardzz - 2006 - Hidden City Of Taurmond

Genre: Space Rock
Label: Load Records (US)

Synth + Drum Duo, related to Lightning Bolt and Bug Sized Mind. Sailship got a great synthie lead. check this!

...a smooth, dreamy, synth driven album that keeps the listener interested in exploring further...

Tracklisting

1. Disembark 
   
2. Sailship 
   
3. Whispers From Wallface 
   
4. Glimpse Of The Hidden City 
   
5. Jelipper-Lilly Field 
   
6. Do Come In (Tea And Chullwigs) 
   
7. Sea Battle At Orkusk 
   
8. Diamond Mirror 
   
9. Chasing Our Shadows 
   
10. Ambused By Time Quagga 
    
11. The Bubiliad Woods Of Taurmond 
    
12. Ladydragons 
    
13. Rest At The Gate 
    
14. Mimi Vivian Sunrise - (Live) 
    

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Woods - 2009 - sunlite 7" - complete disco [update]

This is just a collection of links, because I've got no time to write more right now ;-)

Here is the complete Woods discography, hope you enjoy and buy their records!

• New 7" Sunlite on Captured Tracks
• Songs of Shame
• Ram 7"
• How To Survive In/In The Woods
• Some Shame (Tour Tape 2008 - much rawer (better) version of Songs of Shame (2009)
• At Rear House
• Woods Family Creeps
• From the Horn cs [Fuck It Tapes, 2008]
• VA - 2006 - Mythos Folkways Vol. No. 2: Pre-American Lands (Raccoo-oo-oon & Woods Split) LP 
• Great Liveset here

all from http://aerophonesonaeroplanes.blogspot.com

http://somepeopleridethewave.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/woods/

http://community.livejournal.com/psych_folk/505755.html#cutid1

Titan - 2007 - A Raining Sun Of Light & Love For You & You & You

Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock
Label: TeePee Records

Similar Artists: Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Ashra Temple

Nice classic Psych/Prog-Rock, with that typical heavy guitars and organlines. The last track is more far away from that Prog Rock Sound because it sounds like the german NEU! and that is really refreshing beside that oldschool sound.

Tracklisting

1. Annals Of The Former Work
   
2. Hashishin Ohel Acide Cerveau Fracas Du RAyonnement Uchuu Iv
   
3. Obelisk Orbit Overdrive
   
4. Aufruf Der Pilze 
   

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The Balustrade Ensemble - 2007 - Capsules

Genre: Steampunk Ambient, Neo Folk, Electronica
Label: Dynamophone (US)

Very nice soundscapes, some kind of victorian ambient. The Soundtrack for Good Friday. Enjoy!

An otherworldy collection of adroitly-crafted pieces of dense, acoustic guitar pickings, mellotron, orchestron, claviola, cello, piano, pedal steel, and voice (Wendy Allen). Delicate and sometimes spooky, Capsules is like the lost soundtrack to a Brothers Quay film, a collection of lovely, brittle compositions viewed through a hazy, antique looking-glass.

Tracklisting

1. Glorianders
   
2. The Drowning Calm 
   
3. Tangle In Delirium 
   
4. Synnøve Skeie
   
5. Incarnadine
   
6. Fall Away Into Darkness
   
7. A Long Fetch Over
   
8. The Museums Of Sleep
   
9. Crushed Pears
   
10. Szól A Zene
    

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Volcano The Bear - 1999 - The Inhazer Decline

Genre: Avantgarde, Free Folk
Label: United Diaries (UK)

Similar Artists: Nurse With Wound

Krautrock, Freeform Folk, Freaky, Weird...

When Nurse With Wound's "A Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table.." was first released in 1979, the response was one of bafflement. Volcano The Bear's first album for NWW's United Dairies is just as baffling. Ostensibly following the 70s art-rock damage of Faust (especially 'Tapes') and the willfull eccentricity of The Shadow Ring, Volcano The Bear (Byram refuses to call them anything but BJ and the Bear) plods through disjointed percussive riffs with alien droning, incongruous guitar work, and a crystal clear production which wouldn't be out of place on Too Pure. It's not hard to see why Steven Stapleton sought this group out after their Pickled Egg debut for a United Dairies release. 

Tracklisting

1. Planetary Bethlehem 
   
2. Quarterstone 
   
3. Musima 
   
4. Bowl 
   
5. Ruth Da Moose 
   
6. Worse With Noun 
   
7. Giant Angels 
   
8. Vast Blanket 
   
9. Mung 
   
10. The Queen's Teeth 
    
11. Here Are The Bounds 
    
12. Planetary Bethlehem 
    

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Mujercitas Terror - 2007 - Mujercitas Terror

Genre: Post Punk, Rockabilly
Label: ?! (Argentinia)

Don't know what I should write. It's a mixture of eighties Cave Rock, Post-Punk, Garage and Rockabilly. With male and female vocals and lot of rawness as well as melodies. Hard to find, try it!

Tracklisting

1. chicos en penitencia 
   
2. ojos de vidrio 
   
3. pajaros descuartizados 
   
4. servicio maldito 
   
5. los alfonsos 
   
6. actriz 
   
7. desayuno de campeones 
   
8. el caramelo (starweather) 
   
9. desconexión rosa 
   
10. fuera de casa 

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Mike Rock - Psychedelic Renegates (Syd Barrett Photobook)

This is a Photobookscan with more or less well known pictures of Syd Barrett

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The Ivytree - 2004 - Winged Leaves

Genre: Psych Folk
Label: Cat supplate

Similar Artists: Skygreen Leopards, Thuja

Yeah again Glenn Donaldson - similar to Birdtree record, so check it!

Tracklisting

1. Flood
   
2. The Book Of Job
   
3. Winged Leaves 
   
4. Winged Leaves (Reprise)
   
5. Emerald Green, Peacock Blue
   
6. Longleaf Pines
   
7. Churches
   
8. Wind-Bent Grass
   
9. Think On These Things
   
10. She Is The Swallow
    
11. Clay Tablets
    
12. The Old Kingdom 

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Casino Versus Japan - 2000 - Go Hawaii

Genre: Ambient, House, TripHop
Label: Wobblyhead
Similar Artists: Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin Ambient Works

This got that special sounds from the end of nineties, or it always reminds me on that. Chilling beats, relaxing ambient textures and that special organ sounds that drops in. If you listen to It's very Sunny, you know what I mean. If that Droids record take you to the eighties, this will bring you back to the nineties!

Tracklisting

1. Theme 
   
2. It's Very Sunny 
   
3. Late For School 
   
4. Local Forecast 
   
5. Metrobolt 
   
6. Dielectric Saints 
   
7. We Are You 
   
8. Over Island 
   
9. The Larp 
   
10. Medery 
    
11. Warm Windows 
    
12. Go Hawaii 
    

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Droids - 1978 - Star Peace

Genre: Italo Space Disco
Label: Cherry Red Records

Similar Artists: Aavikko, some 70ies disco music

The first two tracks seems to be the blueprint for Aavikko - Back From The Futer Album or Aavikko in general. That's the soundtrack your parents dance on! yes! Analogue Sequencers and synthswirrls - reminds sometimes on Klaus Schulze and a funky bassline + drums and that's the perfect soundtrack for some retro disco or for a tv documentary from the eighties.

PS: Aavikko new album is out, yhihaaa!

Tracklisting

1. (Do You Have) The Force - Part 1 
   
2. (Do You Have) The Force - Part 2 
   
3. Interspace 
   
4. Tchoung Fou 
   
5. Be Happy 
   
6. Shanti Dance - Part 1 
   
7. Shanti Dance - Part 2 
   
8. Renaissance De L'amour 
   

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The Birdtree - 2002 - Orchards & Caravans

Genre: Psych Folk, Drone, Psychedelic
Label: Last Visible Dog (US)

Similar Artists: Skygreen Leopards, Thuja

Well, here again a great piece of work by Glenn Donaldson. If you read this blog, you stumbled often about his music (the last was this Mirza record). His most well known project are The Skygreen Leopards, but he did a lot of work as the one of the heads behind the Jewelled Antler Collective. You can get an overview about that collective with it's own soundcosmos here and here.

This record is a mixture of Glenn Donaldsons music he do with The Skygreen Leopards, more that song oriented folky stuff and the freeform drone-work of Thuja. If you like their work, check it!

The Jewelled Antler Collective put out a lot recordings, mostly on CD-r, so they are rare - if you like to share some of this stuff, please post comments. Thank you!

Tracklisting

1. White Sundials Faced The Sun 
   
2. Pillar Of Clouds 
   
3. Animals Of The Summit 
   
4. Red Midnight Raven 
   
5. The Marsh 
   
6. Black Rainbows, Part 1 & 2 
   
7. Everyone Of Us A New Leaf 
   
8. Mary Ann 
   
9. Scorpions & Lions 
   
10. The Bluish Vapor Of Tall Eucalyptus Trees 
    
11. The Lost Sun 
    
12. Raven Returns/The Uppermost Forest 
    
13. Sleeper Under A Tree 
    
14. Leaffish 

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Volcano The Bear - 2007 - Amidst The Noise And Twigs

Genre: Psychedelic, Free Folk
Label: Beta Lactam Ring Records (US)

Similar Artists: Grizzly Bear, but on a weird mushroom trip!, Hochenkeit

If all the * Bear bands are cuties and sweeties, this bear will abduct you in a cave inside really deep and dark woods. Volcano the Bear are from Lancaster UK and released on Steve Stapeltons Label United Diaries. That should give you a direction, if not, imagine dark folky soundscapes and surreal ritual music with flutes, horns, percussion and mutiple voices.

The Three Twins close the album and maybe this is your escape from that cave. Play Loud!

Who knew that amidst the noise and the twigs there was music…sweet, sweet music?! This world is Volcano the Bear’s womb. At last, the year that VTB gets a shot at Top Of The Pops, assuming the pops finally snaps out of its vapid trance and embraces the standards of Comus, 3 Hurel, early Residents and 12th century Arabo-Andalusian music. As usual, our heroes are found keeping things stripped to the bone trumpet, but dripping with a juicy, melodic marrow. The record pours slowly and resolutely like a folk-psych dream urn, loaded with full metal banjoes; crumhorns at 12 O’clock; and autoharps at defcon 5. The experimentalism is this time couched in shifting tides of self-spun acidic harvest ballads that noisily well up into proto-Kraut thrums and tribal night trips around the pyre. A rural, squelchy, DIY delicacy which stinks of occidental embouchure so crystal crisp that every skkrrrr, pphaaapph and brrruuuummmm resonates like a small, sound-specific god, intertwined with beautifully skewed notes, voices and rhythms. "Amidst The Noise And Twigs" plays like a recently discovered field recording of some obscured Celtic clan who accidentally stumbled onto psychedelia 600 years ahead of its time. These pipers truly rock the gates of dawn.

Tracklisting

1. The Sting Of Haste 
   
2. Before We Came To This Religion 
   
3. Larslovesnicks Farm 
   
4. Burnt Seer 
   
5. Cassettes Of Berlin 
   
6. Splendid Goose 
   
7. She Vang Moon 
   
8. One Hundred Years Of Infamy 
   
9. The Three Twins 

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Mirza - 1997 - Anadromous

Genre: Free Form Psych Rock, Space Rock
Label: Darla Records (US)

Similar Artists: Hochenkeit, Ash Ra Temple

Mirza is a Free-Form-Psych Rock group with members of Thuja and Skygreen Leopards (Glenn Donaldson).

Trippy Improvisations reminds on german Krautrock stuff like Ash Ra Temple and similar, check it out! More Information

Mirza, which means "royalty" in Persian, are a San Francisco quartet who play ghostly instrumental psychedelic sounds. This is their debut. It's like Magic Hour or Bardo Pond, if either of the aforementioned were from India. Perhaps they are the paisley side Rodan never had. The music is like lying on the grass in Golden Gate Park & watching the sun filter through the big evergreens while Jefferson Airplane blast away at an electric love raga with Ravi Shankar.

Tracklisting

1. Dream of the Fosil Sea 
   
2. Aphasia 
   
3. Bless This Gathering 
   
4. These Are Our Last Days 

(sorry MP3 Tags are Mizra but must be Mirza! ;-))

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Maladroit - Seal Clubbing

Genre: breakcore
Similar Artists: belladonnakillz, Drumcorps

Australian breakcore artist with lot of rumbling and clanking sounds, dedicated to the amen break and Metal Riffs. Including Metallicas "Master of Puppets" as Hi-Speed Version. Fun!

Tracklisting

1. Secret Sights 
   
2. Crown of Arseholes 
   
3. DMT Elf Core 
   
4. Destructicon 
   
5. The Jungle of 'S' 
   
6. Blach Pigment of My Heart 
   
7. Djinn 
   
8. Def Star 
   
9. Pupet Masta 
   
10. Zigzom 
    
11. Icepix Rmx 
    
12. Cocksucker Rmx 
    
13. Rubber Hose 

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Danielson Family - 1997 - Tell Another Joke at the Ol' Choppin' Block

Genre: christan freak folk/indie

Label: Secretly Canadian

Similar Artists: Danial Johnston, CYHSY, The Polyphonic Spree

It's like the post before, christian related indie music (that means nothing). I like the quirky music, I like the weird falsetto singing and the psychedelic parts. It's fun!

Daniel's quirky songwriting and the family teamwork may prompt references to the Shaggs, but musically the Famile is far more accomplished. Being devout Christians, there are religious undercurrents to every track. Make no mistake, though, because these folks are miles from the stuff that comes to mind whenever you hear the words 'contemporary Christian music.' Their sound lies closer to the Pixies or They Might Be Giants. Daniel regularly sings his unique lyrics in a shocking falsetto that sometimes recalls Black Francis, Jad Fair, and Daniel Johnston. (by a amazon reviewer)

Tracklisting

1. A No No 
   
2. Ye Olde Battleaxe 
   
3. Me To Datee 
   
4. The Lord's Rest 
   
5. Flesh Thang 
   
6. Jersey Loverboy 
   
7. I Am My Beloved's 
   
8. Big Baby 
   
9. Deviled Egg 
   
10. Quest For Thrills 
    
11. Smooth Death 
    
12. Jokin' At The Block 

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Half-Handed Cloud - 2006 - Halos & Lassos

Genre: Christian Psych Folk ;-)
Label: asthmatic kitty records
Similar Artists: casiotone for the painfully alone

A bunch of short nice songs. I cannot say much about the lyrics. It's about jesus and god and similar themes. It's not my cup of tea but the music is nice and makes fun.

Tracklisting

1. Eart Outside Of Ghost Will Only Be Quicksand 
   
2. Tongues That Possess The Earth Instead 
   
3. Foot On The Brake 
   
4. A Suit Of Clouds To Ride The Skies 
   
5. Praise Awaits You 
   
6. Rise To The Heavens On Evaporation 
   
7. A Picnic Few Would Want To Attend 
   
8. In You Now, But Still Below 
   
9. Eyes Peeled 
   
10. You Wouldn't Embarrass Me, Would You? 
    
11. You've Been Faithful To Us Clouds 
    
12. Skip The Rope 
    
13. Celebrating Hearts Aligned 
    
14. They're Bad, But We're Worse 
    
15. A Bed That Breathes With Him 
    
16. Feed Your Sheep A Burning Lamp 
    
17. Rainbow = Warbow 
    
18. A Tree Replanted Back In Eden 
    
19. Place Your Wind Against My Sails 

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