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ABE VIGODA // World Heart // split 7" w/ Mikaela's Fiend // Zum *new
MANTLES // Trouble in the Streets // Burden 7" // Dulc-I-Tone *new
THE INTELLIGENCE // Block of Ice // Deuteronomy // In The Red *new
J.P. HERRMANN // Catch The Mouse // demo CDR // no label *new
WINGTIP SLOAT // Yea in the Haystacks // Add This to Rhetoric // VHF *new
O VOIDS // Frying Pan // Record On 7" // Lost Space *new
WINGTIP SLOAT // Beauty [Tall Dwarfs]
HOUSE 1 AND 2 // Peanut Butter and Jelly // Worse Kept Secret in Los Angeles: You Can Buy Heroin on Bonnie Brae Just Off Alvarado cassette // Barf *new
AIDS WOLF // Live // Live Dates split 7" w/ Pre // Sin Raft *new
DIAMOND HEAD // Street Leaf // Street Leaf CDR // no label *new
EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND // This Is Not the End... // What's Lost // Mississippi *new
THEE OREGON ARTIFICIAL LIMB CO. // tracks 4 & 5 // a-w-t-s-i-i-i-d-e CDR-EP // Jet's Idea/Micronizer *new
RUST IONICS // Side B // Moving/Pictures // Colour Sounds/Outer Limits/Quodlibet *new
WEASEL WALTER // Refraction // Firestorm // ugExplode *new
FLYING LUTTENBACHERS // The Serialization of Cruelty // Incarceration by Abstraction // ugExplode *new
PROLETARIAN ART THREAT // Operation Enormous // The Long Process of Quitting // Shandi *new
TERRORIST OTHER // Get a Life // T.O. CDR // Soundesign *new
MIDWIFE // Black Lungs/We Are Heathens // mp3s *forthcoming??
SHEARING PINX // Hate Rider // Ultra Snake // Isolated Now Waves *new
SECRET SOCIETY OF THE SONIC SIX // Into the Night // 9:00 7" // Touch of Evil 2005
IMIAFAN & VERONICA V. // Someone Else // v/a: Doppel Hertz 2xLP // Kernkrach *new
CHRIS DENERF // Tupperware // v/a: Doppel Hertz 2xLP
SCHIZOPHRENIC HOUSEWIVES // Ardia Girls // The Better You Are The More They Fuck You // Rollo Woody *new
DAILY VOID // Mechanical Teeth // Mass Communication Culture 7" // Boom Chick *new
THE FINKS // The Nomad // Fill 'er Up and Go // Dionysus 1994
THE FEELING OF LOVE // Dad = Eat/Mum = Die // 12 New Tracks CDR // no label *forthcoming???
HIROSHIMA ROCKS AROUND // Geriatric // demo CDR // no label *forthcoming???
BRAINBOMBS // End Up Dead // singles comp 2 // Polly Maggoo 2007
BILLY BAO // Borders of Mass Deception // Fuck Separation 10" // S-S Records *new
With a name like Alien Soundtracks, surely one expects more than a mere passing resemblance to the godly Chrome. This band from SoCal's Inland Empire fuse the aggressive punk crunch, deft Krauty motoriks, expansive psychedelic flourishes, and cold, clamey electronics much like their inspiration did nearly 30 years ago. I really appreciate how they paid attention to getting such a propulsive drum sound out of a kit that obviously cost all of about $100 at the pawn shop. That's what really struck me about Chrome when I first scored Touch & Go's reissue of Half Machine Lip Moves and Alien Soundtracks...that drum production, so ostentatious about its budgetness, yet still so very destructive. In terms of cheapness, the only thing I could compare it to at the time was the first Cure album, but it was immediately rendered silly novelty by Chrome. And maybe not since the mysterious Doppleganger Squid 7" from 1994, no band has gotten this idea of budget drum domination down pat as much as these guys. The CDR is an interesting mix of electronic ambient tracks and bent spacepunkers so that it almost sounds like a split LP with alternating tracks, yet altogether cohesive enough to keep me from skipping ahead. There is room for improvement, but they're on the right path, moving from the right starting point.
Oso el Roto are Chileans now living in Paris. They've made an extremely limited LP in a mangy DIY gatefold of decaying cardboard bound by brads. Fans of cherry merchandise need not apply. Rather, only fans of the rawest, yet most original take on "bluespunk" with the old-timey twang of the Piedmont tradition should hunt this one down. If the thought of another bluespunk band makes you brace for more pointless schtick from fellas with kneepads for Jon Spencer--or even if you're dead tired of needless rehashes of the Oblivians ideals--this record should be very refreshing for its rhythmic twists and turns, intriguing audio bits, and genuine freakiness. I've not heard much of the wilder side of Pacific coast South American rock from the 60s and 70s, but others more in the know say that this reveals some of its lineage to that music, too. I'm guessing that will make this sound very new and bewildering to most of us.
I missed you guys last week 'cos I was hanging out with Dan Melchior und Das Menace, makers of some of the finest EPs and unreleased LPs of the last few years. I saw Dan play a couple of live shows here in Sacto and Davis, plus live to tape on KDVS, which I promise you will hear on next week's AFS v. 156. This gem of a song you're hearing now is the B-side of the new 7" on Plastic Idol, and it's the weirder of the two songs on this perfect single. Somehow I knew that when a master like Dan and a shrewd exactor like Mario of Plastic Idol got together, the results would be perfect. What I didn't know is that seeing Dan play live would be so awe-inspiring because of his masterful guitarwork. I've been a fan because of the lyrical storytelling, the Englishness of the phrases, and the voice. I never realized until the live shows that the guy is seriously a great guitarist. This Das Menace lineup was also tremendous. A much heavier, more solid rhythm section than I expected. Burly American yin to clever English yang.
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