Physics - 1998 - Physics 1, 1999 - Physics 2

Genre: Post Rock, Space Rock, Electronic, Math Rock
Label: Flapping Jet Records/Gravity records

Similar Artists: AshRaTemple, Tortoise, Trans Am

I think Epitonic.com introduced me to this band nearly 10 years ago.

Well, this Band doesn't exist anymore, but reincarnated into Aspects of Physics, a more electronic, but still outer space project.

Physics 1 is a compilation of live tracks and singles. They play a very spacey Post-Rock in vein of Krautrock groups like AshRaTemple or Can. Lot of synthie-swirrls, that special groovey drums, echoed guitars and endless space rock jams.

Oh and if you wanna see a website from 10 years ago and need more infos about the project, visit the old Bandwebsite

Tracklisting - Physics 1

1. Second 7 - Side 1
   
2. Second 7 - Side 2
   
3. Delayed Drone 
   
4. First 7 - Side 1
   
5. First 7 - Side 2
   
6. Song From Video
   
7. Live At The Casbah
   

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Tracklisting - Physics 2

1. Positive Heterodyne
   
2. Delayed Drone
   
3. Wave File 3 
   
4. Level 2 Part A
   
5. Level 2 Part B
   
6. +⇄−
   
7. Proper
   
8. Neutralogue
   
9. Negative Heterodyne
   

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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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Thuja - Ghost Plants (2002)

Genre: Acoustic Freeform Psych Folk Drone
Label: Emperor Jones (US)

Similar Artists: Pete Wright, The North Sea, Skygreen Leopards

Thuja released a lot records, all with untitled tracks and all of them with a beautiful organic athmosphere. For me it sounds always like a recording in a greenhouse.

Improvised dreamscapes with weird freeform freak outs and mantras. This is not rockmusic! Oh, and Glenn Donaldson of The Skygreen Leopards is part of that collective. Wonderful!

Ghost Plants is as savory and involved as improv music gets. It isn’t a sound effects record but should be. There are piano, guitar, percussion, electronics and other shit mingling freely but in a cohesive way.

Tracklisting

• 13 untitled tracks
  

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Klangstabil - Böhm Gott Der Elektrik (1997)

Genre: Analogue Old School Electronic, IDM
Label: MHz (GER)

Similar Artists: Kraftwerk? not really :)

If you listen to their myspace, don't get confused. This record is different from their Electro/Industrial style.

These tracks are pure analogue electro sounds from one instrument, the Boehmat. Try it, it's fun!

machines like the "boehmat" are used as to compliment element (electronic harmony) for the musical surface. besides the tunes that sounded rather like a harmony, which were lined up in accords or in an arpeggiator rhythm, klangstabil offered, for the first time, the opportunity of demonstrating how easily the electronic drum could be used (which sounded so real!). these new possibilities were immedialtely understood and contributed ideally to a new kind of music, a music which continues to find more and more appreciation - electronic music. the old analogue drum machines, the ancestors of today's more advanced digital drum machines, opened up a new path for musicians who were, for whatever reason, unable to play the drums themselves. those machines offer completely new possibilities, along with a completely new sound.

klangstabil is trying to express through the boehmat that in spite of its age, this particular machine still has a lot of creative potential. one just simply has to appreciate it for what it is.

Tracklisting

1. Obermanual 
   
2. Begleitautomat 
   
3. DIN Böhm 
   
4. Böhmatron 
   
5. Tanzmaus 
   
6. Musikfreund 
   

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A Broken Consort - The Shape Leaves (2006); Crow Autumn (2007)

Genre: Drone, Freefrom, Psych Folk
Label: Sustain-Release (UK)

Similar Artists: Thuja, TwinSisterMoon, Nature Snow Buildings

Shimmering freeform mantras on violin and sparkling guitar pickings. Very organic sound which make the time stands still. Checkout the labelwebsite to see the full beauty of his releases.

The music consists of long-spun acoustic soundscapes - drones and melodic repetitions, but with a great depth of sound. Most prominent are guitars, percussion, and various other bowed and strummed strings. The result is at the same time familiar, rooted in the earth, but also far from everyday experience. A wonderful musical depiction of the mystic depths contained in natural landscapes with only a hint of cultivation.

Tracklisting - The Shape Leaves

1. In The Hanged Air 
   
2. A Momentary Sun 
   
3. And All Their Silver & Gold 
   
4. For Nothing 
   
5. The Longing Day 
   
6. Untitled
   

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Tracklisting - Crow Autumn

1. Crow Autumn 

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Hochenkeit - omu4h 4aholab / 400 boys (2000)

Genre: Space Rock, Psychedelic, Experimental
Label: Road Cone (US) 

After the first, more acoustic release I love you (to be found here), this is more rock music in the widest sense. Krautrock jams, drones and space rock by this obscure project.

Tracklisting

1. Seen 
   
2. Two Fish Kissing 
   
3. To Be Born Drunk And Die Dreaming 
   
4. Give Them To The Ants 
   
5. 400 Boys 
   
6. Please Turn Out The Sun 

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Pumice - Yeahnahvienna (2006) + Pebbles (2007)

Genre: Lo-Fi, Freak-Folk
Label: Soft Abuse (US)

Similar Artists:Wavves, Mudboy, Neutral Milk Hotel

New Zealand Lo-Fi Trash. Northland is real rumbling bliss! Some droney harmionias, distorted pop tunes and acoustic folk.

...the eccentric, flummoxing and oft-gloomy one-man band helmed by Stefan Geoffrey Neville, a resident of the cultural hamlet of Auckland, New Zealand.  Though Pumice’s skewed take on experimental folk and pop songwriting is firmly rooted in the outsider vibes of downunder stalwarts like Pip Proud and Alastair Galbraith...

Yeahnahvienna was conceived and recorded during an artist residency in Vienna in 2004. Neville's precariously arranged arsenal of cassettes, chord organ, vocals, drums and guitar has yielded a fragile and fractured masterwork. A stark and melancholic affair, calling to mind Alastair Galbraith, Sun City Girls and Supreme Dicks. Through Neville's layers of hiss and murk lie beautifully stirring & shambolic downer hymns.

Tracklisting - Yeahnahvienna (2006)

1. Abominable 
   
2. King Korny Remains 
   
3. Worsted 
   
4. Wild Dogs 
   
5. Brawl 
   
6. Worsted 
   
7. Tears Tasting Fair 
   
8. Darkpark 
   
9. Worsted 
   
10. Worsted 
    

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Tracklisting - Pebbles (2007)

1. Eyebath 
   
2. Bold/old 
   
3. Brownbrownbrown 
   
4. Stopover 
   
5. Greenock 
   
6. Northland 
   
7. Spike/spear 
   
8. Both Beasts 
   
9. The Only Doosh Worth Giving 
   
10. Onion Union 
    
11. Pipi 
    

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Gowns - Red State (2007)

Genre: Shoegaze, Noise-Folk, Indie
Label: Cardboard Records

Red State, though, is an album with a particular sound, like the sun-bleached Polaroids of one’s family, documenting personal exercises in communal cultural contexts. Melodies lie obscured under a matte of cracked electronics, trains of thought dissipate before reaching a resolution, and thick streams of static and noise disturb states of ghostly beauty. Imperfections are purposeful and frequent, and the music derails from its predetermined path with consistency.

Tracklisting

1. Fargo 
   
2. Rope 
   
3. Fake July 
   
4. White Like Heaven 
   
5. Lie Down 
   
6. Clawless 
   
7. Mercy 
   
8. Subside 
   
9. Advice 
   
10. Cherylee 

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Oral Constitution - Bibelpreik (1993)

Genre: Neo Folk, Avantgarde, Freak Folk
Label: Artware Production (GER)
Similar Artists: Current 93

Seriously though, I am concerned about this and I'm particularly concerned about the little girls who you see on the cover of this Oral Constitution record.  They look sweet there, but their parents make them participate in fucked up music.  And I mean fucked up even by Norwegian standards!  Eerily sexual, nightmarishly mystical, gloomy, pounding, angry, demented and hypnotic folk music: sure to produce psychosis in high doses, especially for the young and impressionable - aren't you worried about the future of these little ones now?

Still, mature songwriters were clearly behind the record; you'll find more than enough good ideas to entertain you throughout this twenty minute EP.  Threatening male vocals, darkly seductive female vocals, creepy reverbified little girl's vocals, simple but metaphysically resonant acoustic guitar, ripping distorted electric guitar, mournful cello, spectral birdsong: comparisons to Current 93 and Diamanda Galas make a lot of sense. (Nat Roe WFMU Blog)

Tracklisting

1. Barbie's Sang 
   
2. Oddny's Sang 
   
3. Christine's Sang 
   
4. En Hymne For Sven 
   
5. Untitled 
   

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Aavikko - History Of Muysic (2003)

Genre: LoFi, Electronica, Easy Listening
Label: Solnze Records

Don't miss this hissing, noisy outtakes and alternative recordings from Synthy Ensemble Finland. Buy all of their records! especially Derek! and their latest - Back from Futer

A truly awesome compilation including material from their very beginnings, rare singles, remixes, sold-out releases (like their first single, the "Oriental Baby"-ep and the "Kabar"-single). Definitely recommended.

Tracklisting

1. Siperian Rata 
   
2. Alas Volgaa 
   
3. Samojedien Keskuudessa 
   
4. Krakovan Niityt 
   
5. Viiden Asteen Pakkanen 
   
6. Aavikko 
   
7. Tyttöystävä 
   
8. Sibiri 
   
9. Oblomovin Henki 
   
10. Cafe Panama 
    
11. Seikkailu Villi 
    
12. Holiday Inn 
    
13. Oriental Baby 
    
14. Oaxaca 
    
15. Kova Lääkitys 
    
16. Boa 
    
17. Pelihelvetti 
    
18. Entinen Mies 
    
19. Superlake Beat 
    
20. Antarktis Slow Rock 
    
21. Kumman Kaa 
    
22. Of Stomping Men 
    
23. Kova Lääkitys 
    
24. My Yamaha 
    
25. Eye Of The Leopard 
    

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Köhn - (Köhn)² (1999)

This CD starts with an obscure and melancholic sounding tune/loop of a South german Brass band and turns fastly in a digital noisy drone. The next track is a clicking scribble of a pop song and so it goes on with digital mush, glitches, melodies, skipping CD sounds, loops, dance beats, acoustic guitars and so on. All recorded on a MiniDisc 4 Track Recorder - Sounds like Laptopmusic, but it's not at these times. The record ends with a catchy deconstructed pop tune. And I thought I would never see the Sun again, oh no...

Label: (K-RAA-K)³

Genre: Electronic, Noise, Abstract Pop

Tracklisting:

1. Willen = Köhnen 
   
2. Söng 
   
3. Dröhn 
   
4. Köh-köh-köh-kök 
   
5. Zwöhn 
   
6. Kukeleköhn 
   
7. * 
   
8. öhnöch 
   
9. De Köhning 
   
10. The Wrath Of Köhn 
    
11. Kröhn 
    
12. Sönn 
    

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Ultra Milkmaids - Pocket Station (2006)

Ultra Milkmaids are well known for their great Dronework in the mid 90s. Later they formed the Surfin Barmaids to play plain Surf Rock because they get bored by experimental music/scene. This record shows a creative melange of shiny melodies, drone/psych/post-rock and - surprise - Surf Rock. And it works very well.

Label: Ant-Zen

Genre: Experimental, Post-Rock, Surf/Rock'n'Roll

Tracklisting:

1. So Sorry (3:21)
   
2. A Real Cry (3:56)
   
3. Less Dream (4:33)
   
4. My Star (6:05)
   
5. Why? (4:18)
   
6. The Greatest Smile (3:11)
   
7. In The Mood (5:20)
   
8. Us (2:24)
   
9. Empire (3:31)
   
10. The Heat (1:18)
    

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