Mountainhood - 2009 - White Banquet- Live at the Story Chapter 1

Genre: Freak Folk Lo-finess

How many Mountainhood releases scatched the surface this year?

3? 4? 5? Don't know - just to make this listing complete here's an live recording.

fragil Lo-Fi goodness and his frail voice as on the other recordings...

number of glitches can be heard throughout the songs. These glitches are not technology-related but they were produced organically in real-time at the live performance when the songs got intense and [the songwriter] passed into a mild trance, to fade out for a minute, then falling forward heavily, caught [his] guitar strings upon the mic." (insert)

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Die Welttraumforscher - 1995 - Sideria

Genre: lovely minimal acoustic/synth pop
Label: Ebus Music (GER)

Die Welttraumforscher (english universe scientists or literally "world dream sciencists") is a project from switzerland. They exist since the early eighties and they are dedicated to the tape/homerecording scene. So they can look back to an extensive backcatalogue of tape/cd/vinyl recordings and they are still active! I've got this CD from 95 and know some stuff from early tapes, but they disappeared in my collection.
So to the music - it sounds very lovely, playful and I think kids would love it. Their lyrics are very poetic tiny little storys. they use cheapo electronics, drumboxes, guitar some noises and create such a mysteriously little world that left you back wondering in your nursery.
All their lyrics are in german - so if you feel exotic grab and enjoy it.


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PS: If you like that, visit Der Likedeeler for another Welttraumforscher Trip

Ganglians - 2007 - Blood On The Sand

Genre: Psych Pop
Label: Captured Tracks

Just a quick post. Ganglians is one of the band from the woodsis/captured tracks swamp - and they release a lot of records this year - and they going to be better with each new.

I am wondering that this 7" didn't go through each blog. I've found it accidently - so I will just link to the source blog.

Enjoy - very good record/7" and buy it with some other nice vinyl on captured tracks.

That Ghost - 2008 - Young Fridays

Genre: Bedroom Fuzz Pop
Label: Two Syllable

What happend to that long awaiting Beach Fossil release? As far as I know 3 mp3 tracks circulated in the mid of this year... anyway That Ghost reminds me on them. A bit less "beach" and instead more garage. So check it out and go to the labelsite, to order his newest stuff, which is very good!

Check out these two songs too!

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Almaden - 2007 - The Dream Continues in 1,000,000 Roads as the Journeyman Slumbers to be Awoken by the Berries of Air and Forest, a Dawn Pre-Imagined

Genre: Psych Folk
Label: 267 lattajjaa (FI)

Ok, the full album title is: The Dream Continues in 1,000,000 Roads as the Journeyman Slumbers to be Awoken by the Berries of Air and Forest, a Dawn Pre-Imagined and so Owned in Footstep and Deed as Our Lovely Sojourner of Unabysmal Light Sojourns 4th into Willowy and Totally Purple Dawning, Day is Upon r Hero and the Golden Rd. of Infinitudinous Blessedhood get it :)? Who is Almaden? Yes you may know it - so if you like his current project you will like this too. This is Lo-Fi as it Low Fidelity can be. Tape hiss, Psych Folk and drone.

Find the lyrics and much more on the labelwebsite

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Kulturni Program - 1997 - POZOR

Genre: Hip Hop-Lounge-Sampling Madness
Label: Funny Entertainment (GER)

If you liked Beastie Boys and 2 Live Crew or Beck as kiddie in the nineties :P

Another CD from the wayback maschine - Kulturni Program - a group with czech bandname from germany who simiulate beeing from the states. Nice.

Saw them live, back in 1999 and it was very funny. Well this CD is a real gem - I am not sure if it sounds totally retro to you kids, please tell me.

This record contains so much styles - means sampling, from sixties easy listening tunes, over the crappy porn hip-hop band 2 live crew, over john zorn to some death metal.

Hold together by head nicking beats and weird breaks.

They were very inspired by the Beastie Boys - Check Your Head album, I suppose. This influence is very strong, but beside that you will have a lot of fun with theirs mixing skills.

Tracklisting

1. Start
2. Kicke Me
3. GewGaw
4. We Want Some Party
5. POZOR
6. Say Yeah!
7. Down In The Underground
8. Habambuleijah
9. Kultura
10. Jazzbo
11. Russ Meyer
12. Orientalni
13. Chicago Killer
14. Poetry In The Jungle

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Flugschädel - 1995 - Othniel Trug Flugschädel

Genre: Drum n Bass, Downtempo, Cut-Up, Collage
Label: Plattenmeister (Ger)

Flugschädel were kind of dadaistic Electro/Industrial from germany. If I write Industrial I mean that Electro Rock'n'Roll Bastard that Ministry forced, years ago.

On one of their record, Flugschädel used weird and dadaistic spreech samples. I never liked that Ministry sound, but that EP was different. It's more electronic with downtempo beats and some weird drum n bass + all layered with oriental tunes.

Tracklisting

1. Zija Waswarme San
2. Dubei
3. Malm 71
4. Moond 13

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Jeremy Bradley Earl - 2007 - Skulls

Genre: Artbook
Label: NotNotFun

You like the scrawly strange illustrations and artwork on woodsist releases, the collages with eyes or stuff like that? It's Jeremy Earls work, and it's as Lo-Fi as the first woods/woodsist releases.

You should order the book before it's sold out and these are just low-res scans so try and buy!

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of Montreal - Microuniversity 7", Sony Connect Set EP, The Interface Session

Genre: Indie Pop
Label: Polyvinyl Records US

My favorite Band! Yes - I fell in love in 2007 with the Hissing Fauna Album and it was easy to fell in love with their previous releases, too.

I'm not sure about their new output ( listen here or here) it's pretty sick, but I'm sure Kevin Barnes have a vision of his music and he's brilliant.

Here I will post a nice 7" and two great acoustic sets. Especially the epic "The Past Is A Grotesque Animal" as acoustic version is pretty nice and still work as fragile Singer-Songwriter thing. The Sony Connect Set EP contains a wonderful Love Is All Coverversion (the orginaltrack is also very good) and Harvest Moon by good ol' Neil Young.

Tracklisting - 2006 - Microuniversity

1. Microuniversity
2. I Am A Christian’s Son

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Tracklisting - 2007 - Sony Connect Set

1. Harvest Moon (Neil Young Cover)
2. We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafing
3. Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
4. Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up (Love Is All Cover)

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Tracklisting - The Interface

1. Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
2. Lysergic Bliss
3. The Past Is A Grotesque Animal

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Edit: Linkf of that Interfacesession is fixed now.