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Sold outVisit product page →The seventh installment in Sonic Youth's series of experimental and sometimes instrumental releases on the band's own SYR label features on the A-side a previously unreleased 22-minute drone piece recorded at the All Tomorrows Parties festival in the UK in April of 2001.
At ATP, the band previewed instrumental and early versions of songs from the then soon-to-be recorded NYC Ghosts & Flowers album, and this exclusive performance was the premiere of J'Accuse Ted Hughes. The B-side is a soundtrack-style piece recorded at the band's Murray Street Studio in 2003 for a never-realized collaboration with French clothing designer Agnes B.
The 18-minute-long song was recorded by a five-piece version of the band-the four members of Sonic Youth plus Jim O'Rourke, who also mixed Agnes B Musique.
This LP will be soon followed by a CD-only release of the band's Another Side of Sonic Youth Roskilde Festival performance, where the five-piece Sonic Youth line-up was joined by saxophonist/reed player Mats Gustaffson and electronic noise legend Merzbow for an hour of improvised music.
Tracklisting:
Side A:J'accuse Ted HughesSide B:
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Visit product page →Choice new collection of B-sides, rarities, alternate takes and previously unreleased tracks dating back to 1993. Geffen Records CD release December 12, 2006.
New York's most influential avant-garde rock band, Sonic Youth, follow up their critically acclaimed 2006 release, Rather Ripped, with a special set sure to please fans and completists.
The Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities, a collection of near-hidden Sonic Youth gems hand-picked by the band, brings together songs from throughout the band's tenure at Geffen Records.
Focusing on tracks previously available only on limited-edition compilations, vinyl-only releases, or as B-Sides or international singles, The Destroyed Room also features material that has never before been released.
This deluxe, double-vinyl LP edition is being released on the band's own Goofin Records imprint with a CD version available via Geffen.
Tracklisting:
Side A:1. Fire Engine Dream2. Fauxhemians3. Is It My Body?4. Doctor's Orders (T-Vox Version)Side B:1. Razor Blade2. Blink3. Campfire4. Loop CatSide C:1. Kim's Chords2. Beautiful Plateau3. 3-Part Sectional Love Seat4. Queen Anne ChairSide D:1. The Diamond Sea -
Sold outVisit product page →Side A:1. The Empty Page2. Disconnection Notice3. Karen RevisitedSide B:1. Rain On Tin2. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style3. Plastic Sun4. Sympathy For The Strawberry -
Sold outVisit product page →Side A:1. Reena2. Incinerate3. Do You Believe In Rapture?4. Sleepin' Around5. What A Waste6. Jams Run FreeSide B:1. Rats2. Turquoise Boy3. Lights Out4. The Neutral5. Pink Steam6. Or -
Visit product page →Live multi-track recording of NYC legends¦. Rare photos and liner notes galore¦. Features the never-properly-released track Kat 'n' Hat¦.Vinyl includes digital download coupon¦..In the fall of 1985, Sonic Youth were touring the States following the release of their Bad Moon Rising LP.
This show at Chicago's Smart Bar was recorded on 4-track cassette and consists of live versions of most of the songs from that album, early performances of Secret Girl and Expressway to Yr Skull (later to be released on Evol) and a rare, never-before-released live rendition of Kat 'n' Hat. Mixed and mastered by the band from the original tape source, this single-CD / double-LP edition includes liner notes by Gerard Cosloy and Sonic Youth engineer Aaron Mullan, plus unpublished photos by Pat Blashill and Steven Koress.
The ideal archival offering would meet a list of criteria: it should be an unreleased and sonically compelling recording of an amazing performance, which not only sheds some light on the known Sonic Youth catalog for the serious aficionado, but also captures the attention of the general fan. It's a pretty tall order, but I think this tape from Chicago 1985 fits the bill¦. It's the earliest live multitrack of a Sonic Youth show known to exist. Having now listened to this tape maybe 100 times, I can say this: it's a killer show. The material was mostly released on the studio album Bad Moon Rising.
The album is brilliant, but the material is also so visceral and improvisatory that it greatly benefits from the additional perspective offered by a live recording. Kim's vocals, more detached on the album, are fierce here. Sheets of feedback insanity on the album which I always assumed to be lucky studio accidents turn out to be actual parts that Lee and Thurston can re-create at will.
The album was recorded with Bob Bert on drums, but this show was one of the first after Bob left and Steve took over. Bob's primal stomps doubtlessly propel the studio versions, but hearing these parts as interpreted by Steve's systematic pummeling, illuminates the crucial transition to the Evol and Sister albums and beyond. We do get a taste of Evol too, with an early performance of 'Expressway To Yr Skull' and the first known live performance of 'Secret Girl,' plus an instrumental version of the rarely performed, and never released, 'Kat 'n' Hat.' Aaron Mullan 2012
Tracklisting:
1. Hallowe'en2. Death Valley '693. Intro / Brave Men Run (In My Family)1. I Love Her All The Time2. Ghost Bitch3. I'm Insane1. Kat 'N' Hat2. Brother James3. Kill Yr Idols4. Secret Girl5. Flower6. The Burning Spear1. Expressway To Yr Skull2. Making The Nature Scene -
Visit product page →Vinyl reissue of quintessential 1988 Top-40 tribute album. Features the classic Burnin Up demo featuring Mike Watt and Greg Ginn.
Latest in Sonic Youth's vinyl reissue series which also features the group's 1982 debut, Thurston Moore's Psychic Heartsand deluxe (to come) & box set editions of Dirty and Goo.
A deluxe vinyl re-release of Ciccone Youth's The Whitey Album, the full-length recorded by Sonic Youth's Top-40 obsessed alter-ego is now available on the band's own Goofin imprint. In 1988, after hinting that a tribute to the Beatles' White Album was in the works, the band about-faced and delivered this brain-sick celebration of pop-culture and The Material Girl in particular.
The album has been spectacularly remastered and manufactured to provide hi-fi reproductions of such favorites as Needle-Gun, MacBeth,Ó and Mike Watt's original demo recording of Burnin Up.
Tracklisting:
Side A:1. Needle-Gun2. (silence)3. G-Force4. Platoon II5. Macbeth6. Me & Jill / Hendrix Cosby7. Burnin' UpSide B:1. Hi! Everybody2. Children Of Satan / Third Fig3. Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening To Neu4. Addicted To Love5. Moby-Dik6. March Of The Ciccone Robots7. Making The Nature Scene8. Tuff Titty Rap9. Into The Groovey10. Macbeth (Alt. Mix) -
Sold outVisit product page →After twenty-three years of explosive creativity sonic youth throws down what may be their heaviest classic since the genre-breaking daydream nation.
Nurse is the nineteenth long player by the new york city supernova, an action explosion time magazine has already tagged as “sonic youth’s most adventurous and soul-stirring release to date, by a goddamn country mile.”
Ten songs of american beauty and sonic death: on “pattern recognition” kim gordon takes justin timberlake’s hand and sticks it in a tendon-shredding meat grinder; they gay marriage the hell out of religious zealot war pigs cheney, rumsfeld, bush and ashcroft with the meditative “peace attack”; bare trees-era fleetwood mac jams with jealous again-era black flag on the heart-pounding “unmade bed” and “i love You golden blue”; the core reactor awesomeness of “paper cup exit” reduces such legends as led zeppelin and yes to just so much british schoolboy whimpering.
Tracklisting:
Side A:1. Pattern Recognition2. Unmade Bed3. Dripping DreamSide B:1. Kim Gordon And The Arthur Doyle Hand Cream2. Stones3. Dude Ranch NurseSide C:1. New Hampshire2. Paper Cup ExitSide D:1. I Love You Golden Blue2. Peace Attack -
Visit product page →Icarus Line have always trumpeted squawk over rock convention, but Penance Soiree jacks that ante from the very first measure of "Up Against the Wall." Sneering like a crack whore Mick Jagger ("Why can't I get some fo' free?!") and swallowing the bassline howl whole, Icarus vocalist Joe Cardamone makes sex the type of thing to be scared of.
There's post-punk in here -- that angularness that's the rage with operators too cool for things like "smelling nice" and "having a job." Icarus Line will attract these couture ghouls, no question. But Penance Soiree might also have true and valorous mass appeal, a shelf life past its buzz as an export from the land of inky black hair styles.
Don't doubt it: Icarus Line are crazy. But listen to that melodic preen in "Spike Island," and the way its guitars roar and teeter for an unavoidable groove -- this isn't the inaccessible intellectualism of Mars Volta, or Liars' distempered noise quackery. No, Icarus Line are uniters, not dividers. Even when "On the Lash" loses interest in its cracked psychedelia and rides Cardamone's reverbed wail into a pile of ridiculous static muck, it reengages with fresh crackling fury.
"I can feeeeeeeel it," he screams over the pound, and it's better than hearing Van Halen for the very first time. The rest of Soiree is no slouch, either, cleverly weaving between the cones of insularity and throbbing accessibility. "Getting Bright at Night" is nine minutes of Karl Wallinger binging on old 4AD records, the beat-damaged "Caviar" invites the world to its druggy key party, and "Virgin Velcro" tears a hole in the disco ball to find strutting heavy metal inside.
As serious as things get on Penance Soiree (and the choppy "Spit On" gets pretty serious), there's the happily nagging notion that Icarus Line just want to entertain, and that they're damn good at it. The notion pays off in the last two minutes. "Party the Baby Off," behind all that squelch and trebly production, is just T. Rex classic rock with a message for the kids: "Tonight, take off all your clothes." Icarus Line -- pop's new heartthrobs. - Allmusic
Tracklisting:
1. Up Against The Wall Motherfuckers
2. Spit On It
3. On The Lash
4. Caviar
5. Spike Island
6. Kiss Like Lizards
7. Getting Bright At Night
8. Big Sleep
9. White Devil
10. Meat Maker
11. Virgin Velcro
12. Seasick
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Visit product page →Heavyweight Vinyl LP + MP3 Download Card.
Mining the rich territories of The Velvet Underground and The Beach Boys, their debut album proper "Wooden Head" features fourteen thrillingly taut and melodic pop songs with a deep, dark undercurrent. Comprised of Argentinian Max Claps and James Hoare (also of Veronica Falls) ' who both sing and write the songs ' and joined by Daniel Nellis (bass) and Robert Syme (drums), the band have already shared stages with the likes of Real Estate, Woods, Crystal Stilts, Toy and Metronomy.
Maximo Claps arrived in London in 2008 on a one-way ticket from Buenos Aires, aided by former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Oldham had produced a record by Claps' Argentinian band of the time but the group had fallen apart in a mess of drugs and acrimony and Claps' family were attempting to intervene by sending him to a mental hospital. The only option seemed to be to flee the country. As Claps recalls, "The day before flying to the UK I got run over by a car and had to escape hospital in order to make it so I arrived with bandages and my head all stitched up."
A few weeks later Max walked into the vintage clothes shop where James Hoare sat behind the counter reading a book on The Velvet Underground, and attempted to cause a diversion while his kleptomaniac girlfriend stole a pair of boots. She didn't steal them in the end, says Max. They weren't her size. However, the shop assistant and the would-be accomplice bonded over a mutual love of the Velvets, Love, Felt and West Coast pop and began writing together, taking their name from a song by the pioneering soft psych band The Free Design. In 2010 they released their first single, "Recalling", following it up with a five-song EP for London label No Pain in Pop.
In 2013 Lo Recordings released all their output to date on a collection titled "Waiting for the Summer", followed by the single First Step Out in February 2014. Their new album was recorded at a studio in Hackney, as well as at home in their old flat in Whitechapel on a broken 8-track reel-to-reel bought off eBay from an angry guy who threatened to shoot them and chop off their balls when they attempted to return it - a terrifying experience for a pair of skinny indie boys.
Taking inspiration from Berlin-era Lou Reed, Jesus and Mary Chain's Darklands, The Television Personalities and West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, the songs are breezy and easy on the ear, with sublime harmonies and chiming Byrdsian guitar, but with a darker twist and a pervasive air of melancholy. Stand-out tracks include the beautiful but sad Summer's Gone (about mental illness), Magazine (an upbeat number written from the perspective of a bullet in the barrel of a gun) and You'll See (about how when you die you'll see everyone you know, all there lined up in a row).
With "Wooden Head", The Proper Ornaments prove that it is still possible to create an album of pure pop perfection. Max's girlfriend may not have stolen the boots, but The Proper Ornaments are about to steal your heart. The joint project of James and Max, through romantic drama that borders on that of The Libertines. And when you hear The Proper Ornaments you'll see why it's all worth it.
Tracklisting:
1. Gone
2. Sun
3. Ruby
4. Now I Understand
5. Don't You Want To Know (What you're going to be)
6. Magazine
7. Stereolab
8. Step Into The Cold
9. Tire Me Out
10. Always There
11. Summers Gone
12. What Am I To Do
13. You Shouldn't Have Gone
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Visit product page →Ltd to 1000 copies only.
Second Release in the Factory Floor Remix Series.
Side A - LYING ' CHRIS CARTER
Side B - A WOODEN BOX ' FACTORY FLOOR ORiGINAL MIX.
Chris Carter, best known for his visionary sonic alchemy for Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey.
His recent remixes have been for Can, Liars, & Brooklyn's future disco kings Excepter.
(A) A galloping clarion call, with, if you can believe it, added NOISE. !
(B) All sing along now¦. We won't need a gold chain We just want a wooden box Dig a hole in the ground / Throw us in and let us rot.
Forthcoming remixes from No Age, Angus Andrew of Liars & Gavin Russom (DFA).
Tracklisting:
Side A:
Lying - Chris Carter
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On saleVisit product page →Available on 180g coloured vinyl + DL, 2CD and digital download.
A decade on from it's critically acclaimed UK release, Katastrophy (Kat-as-trophy) Wife's sophomore album All Kneel finally makes its way to an international release and it's long-awaited vinyl and digital debut. Having cut an iconic swathe thorough alternative rock in the late 80's and 1990's with her band Babes in Toyland, Kat Bjelland reemerged from a brief musical hiatus in 2001 with Katastrophy Wife's debut Amusia, recorded in her home state of Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her then husband, Glen Mattson (Drums) and Keith St. Louis (Bass). Released to favourable reviews and a UK live debut headlining at the coveted Reading & Leeds Festivals the band soon became a favourite amongst rock critics and fans alike.
Alternating between her home in Minneapolis and Birmingham, England, Bjelland enlisted the talents of Andrew Parker (Bass), Darren Donovan (Drums) and Vanessa White (Additional Guitars) to co-write and record the bands second offering All Kneel in late 2003. Drawing influence from her new surroundings Bjelland & Co. collaborated with Producer Gavin Monaghan (Editors, Goldblade, The Twang) to create what has been cited as Bjelland's finest output to date, the aptly titled All Kneel.
Opening with pummelling riffs and frenzied melody the fan favourite Liberty Belle sets the bar for this chainsaw-wielding drag-race of an album that segues through 11 tracks of intelligent and aggressive punk-rock genius. Whipping up a hard and fast racket with standout tracks like Money Shot and Sweetheart before briefly offsetting the dirty for the sweet, with acclaimed singer-songwriter Carina Round on the collaborative Blue Valient, with its aching vocals that cruelly caress before the relentless pounding drums and aural onslaught reprise for the bone-crunching Emit Time and "Layne to Rest", Bjelland's unsettling and touching tribute Alice in Chains singer Layne Stanley.
Marking it's 10th Anniversary release the album comes complete with the complimentary Bonus Album For Your Patients, a 10 track compilation of previously unreleased, rare and exclusive bonus recordings, including alternative takes on album tracks: Sweetheart and No Thing from Babes in Toyland Producer Tim Mac (Nemesisters) and the electro-remix of Liberty Belle" by indie-icons Bis. Re-packaged, complete with lyrics and original band photography this 10th Anniversary Edition is available on 180g coloured vinyl + DL, 2CD and digital download.Tracklisting:
1. Liberty Belle2. Money Shot3. Sweetheart4. Blue Valient with Carina Round5. Emit Time6. Ice Cream & Cigarettes7. Babydoll8. Asstroglide9. No Thing10. Layne to Rest11. Suffrage..All Kneel: For Your Patients :1. Ice Cream & Cigarettes (Neil is the Only One Version)2. Money Shot (Demo)3. Sweetheart (Tim Mac Version)4. No Thing (Tim Mac Version)5. Blue Valient (Stripped)6. Alectronancy7. Liberty Belle (Bis Remix)8. Blue Valient with Carina Round (Jon Glass Remix)9. Sweetheart (Spatula Remix)10. Wind-Up Monkey -
Limited to 500 copies worldwide on Snowflake white vinyl.Visit product page →
Infamous former front woman for seminal band, the Nymphs, Inger Lorre is making her long overdue return to the music scene. Following up 1999's solo record, Transcendental Medication and the collectable Motel Shootout single, Burn (1995) with a 7 single.
Inger admits her return to the music scene has been a long journey, The music I hear on commercial radio stations is mostly uninspiring. It makes me think how lucky I was to be part of that grunge scene and witness the success of bands like Sonic Youth. So I've been gathering my energy. For me making music is the easy part, dealing with people at major labels ' that was always hard. I never understood the value my music might have to others - I credit Jeff Buckley with making me see that. Until that point I didn't feel like I was doing anything important or good¦When Jeff died it was just one week after my father passed away, and it took me a long time to be able to move on from that trauma.
Why now? Having good people around me such as Henry Rollins and my long-time publicist and friend Faye has helped me feel strong and safe enough to create new music. I'm glad to step back into the music industry, independently and on my own terms ' I feel empowered. I also have a new band that are young, talented and full of enthusiasm!
Inger is currently working on a new album, but welcomes the opportunity to be involved in Record Store Day, I want to really celebrate the spirit of independence - record stores ran by music fans for music fans. These are the people I want to make great music for!
Snowflake is a song summing up the horror and the fear involved in addiction. I'm very pale skinned and 'Snowflake' was my street name. As a teenager and young adult I was trapped in a self-medicating addiction, as a form of protection against physical & verbal abuse and constantly being around alcoholism. As much as it harmed me it also saved me from becoming a teenage suicide. This song is the sound of me walking through fire. Hate in my Heart is about the downside of relationships, confused emotions and the fine line between love & hate. It's also about making the decision not to take anymore bullshit.
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Visit product page →Hailing from Pity Me near Durham, vegan straight-edge pop group MARTHA have just signed to Fortuna POP! and will be releasing their new album 'Courting Strong' at the end of May. Providing energetic, impassioned pop punk, Martha are informed by 90s indie rock and Scandinavian anarcho noir. The album, produced by MJ from Hookworms, is laden with harmonies and interchangeable vocals whilst still retaining the energy and excitement of the band's live shows.
Formed in 2011 by siblings Naomi (bass, vocals) and Nathan Griffin (drums, vocals) with J. Cairns (guitar, vocals) and Daniel Ellis (guitar, vocals), Martha have fast become a staple of the UK DIY pop scene. There are many competing stories as to the origin of their band name but it's a fact that the very last passenger pigeon on earth was called Martha. When she died, the whole species became extinct.
Decamping from the North East to record the album at Suburban Home Studios, Leeds, the band enjoyed the freedom of being in the studio and experimenting with MJ's equipment to produce unexpected sounds. The process saw them opening up to new ideas and, feeling more confident in their own abilities, allowing a wider range of dynamics.
Taken from a line in the song Gin and Listerine, the album title Courting Strong is an expression that was used to describe couples who were getting really serious. There's the old cliché that when you're young you think you're invincible and that everything will last forever - the album is about looking back and reflecting on past moments in your life, past friendships and relationships, accepting the uncertainty and fragility of those things and moving forward positively.
The overarching theme of the album is 'growing up weird'. It's a semi-autobiographical story about growing up in a small town, with a sense of not fitting in but on the way finding people who share that feeling and forming really strong bonds. It's about clinging to a sense of belonging and about being proud of who you are and where you are from, as well as the community of which you are a part. It's an album for the people who stayed in their hometown, and for the people who still go back and visit.
Martha's melodic punk pop celebrates being an outsider whilst being part of a community. The album touches on uncertainty, fear and loneliness whilst exuding an effervescent sense of excitement and joy. There's darkness beneath the pop surface - but there are also songs about teenage antics, drinking, courting and having your heart broken ' everything a good indie record should have.
Tracklisting:
1. Cosmic Misery2. 1997, Passing in the Hallway3. Present, Tense4. Dust, Juice, Bones & Hair5. Bubble in My Bloodstream6. Move To Durham and Never Leave7. Gin and Listerine8. Sleeping Beauty9. 1967, I Miss You I'm Lonely10. So Sad (So Sad) -
Visit product page →Limited Edition 12" Single on Green Vinyl!
This is going to be Mixmag dub step single of the month for November courtesy Joe Muggs. Sherwood & Pinch is the ongoing collaboration between Adrian Sherwood, the magisterial dub innovator and owner of the seminal, cutting edge label, On-U Sound, and Pinch, the brains behind the Tectonic label and master of darkly filtered bass science.
exciting project is an up-tempo, surging, floor- killer entitled Music Killer. It once again showcases the sound clash between these two producers who operate in the outer reaches of dub mastery and it's legacy in contemporary electronic music.
Since dropping their first single, Bring Me Weed (June 2013), Sherwood and Pinch have continued to devastate the dance floors at events around the world with their deeply psychedelic, bass-driven, futuristic dub wizardry. The second vinyl offering from this hugely
Music Killer is the result of the experimental and dynamic approach that the pair have applied to their !erce live performances and serves as a further taster of what is to come in 2014. Released as a strictly limited edition on beautiful green vinyl. Produced by: Sherwood and Pinch, Engineer: Dave McEwen. Artwork by Sam Whiffing.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
Music Killer (Extended Mix)
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Visit product page →An album of songs from the English Civil Wars and seventeenth century to accompany 'The Violence'.
Tracklisting:
1. Martin Said2. Bugbears3. Sir Thomas Fairfax March4. Seven Months Married5. Hey Then Up We Go6. The Owl7. The Contented8. Impossibilities9. Babylon Has Fallen10. I Live Not Where I Love11. Bold Astrolger12. Old England Grown New13. When The King Enjoys His Own Again -
Release Date: 01/12/2023Visit product page →
Southern California hard rock mainstays FU MANCHU are announcing details of their forthcoming new album, titled "GIGANTOID," out May 26th on the band's own At The Dojo Records distributed throughout the US and Europe via Cargo Records.
After almost 25 years together, and following last year's Scion A/V Club split 7" with friends MOAB and 2009's "Signs of Infinite Power," Scott Hill and company return with their first full-length album in close to five years.
Recorded with Andrew Giacumakis, singer / guitarist for he aforementioned MOAB at his studio in Simi Valley, CA, the album features a slightly more primitive, raw and ultra fuzzed-out sound than previous releases.
"We wrote 17 new songs for this record and got our favorite 9 songs out of that together," says Hill.
"We were planning on releasing a 'part 2' record later this year but have plans for some of the other songs to appear in early 2015 to line up with our upcoming 25-year anniversary."
Tracklisting:
1. Dimension Shifter2. Invaders On My Back3. Anxiety Reducer4. Radio Source Sagittarius5. Mutant6. No Warning7. Evolution Machine8. Triplanetary9. The Last Question -
Visit product page →Fatima Al Qadiri is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Kuwait. In just a few years, she has quickly built a reputation as a conceptual artist, exploring themes informed both by her own background and global pop culture, through a number of highly acclaimed EPs, multimedia projects and writings. She is also a founding member of the production team Future Brown.
Fatima's debut album is called 'Asiatisch', and as the track titles suggest, the record provides a simulated road trip through an imagined China. Musically, the album is an homage to that quietly influential sub-strain of grime, often loosely termed 'sinogrime' due to its preoccupation with Asian motifs and melodies, pioneered by the likes of Wiley and Jammer at the beginning of the 2000s in East London.
'Asiatisch' is a provocation which asks more questions than it answers. The title is the German word for Asian. Unlike its title, however, the music on 'Asiatisch' revolves around the fantasies of East Asia as refracted through pulpy Western pop culture, in particular Hollywood, literary fiction, music, cartoons and advertising.
Fatima asks what is meant by the term 'Asian' in a digital age of viral interchange and the hi-speed trading of cultural bytes; the concept of 'shanzhai' proves pivotal, a term whose meaning stems from a wild, out of control zone of banditry, but which has come to be used to refer to the Chinese counterfeiting of Western brands and goods. While a number of producers have made takes on 'sinogrime' over the last few years, 'Asiatisch' is really the first record that attempts to articulate this weird complex of sonic interchanges between the West and China.
With the exception of the opening track, 'Shanzhai', a haunting cover of 'Nothing Compares to You' with nonsensical Mandarin lyrics, and the shimmering 'Loading Beijing', 'Wudang' and 'Jade Stairs' which sample and distort classical Chinese poetry staging an epic confrontation between China's ancient soul and the onslaught of the industrial factory machine, most of the tracks blend mallets, bells, gongs, flutes, steel drums and choral atmospherics with the searing synth-brass and the skittering drums of grime, playing melodies that are inflected as much by classic R&B as to synthetic versions of traditional Chinese music.
On "Dragon Tattoo" for example, stereotypical iconography of imagined China is slotted into a threatening, robotic R&B format. The carefree pirating of Western brands blurs into a soft-synth pirating of Chinese musical signs.'Asiatisch' is wrapped in pristine artwork by Babak Radboy from Shanzhai Biennial, and the music was given a 3D sheen by in demand mixer Lexxx.
Proclaiming both its love of both ancient and imagined China, 'Asiatisch' is a rare album that is both icily beautiful and conceptually layered.
Tracklisting:
1. Shanzhai [for Shanzhai Biennial] ft. Helen Feng2. Szechuan3. Wudang4. Loading Beijing5. Hainan Island6. Shenzhen7. Dragon Tattoo8. Forbidden City9. Shanghai Freeway10. Jade Stairs -
Visit product page →The 5.6.7.8's are a Japanese rock trio, whose music is reminiscent of American surf music, rockabilly and garage rock. They frequently cover songs from American rock and roll. All members are from Tokyo, Japan.
The 5.6.7.8's first started performing as a quartet in Tokyo, and recruited guest performers during their Australian tour, once even utilizing a male member, "Eddie". They first officially became a trio in 1992, before touring Australia.
The 5.6.7.8's made a brief appearance in the 2003 Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill Volume 1, where they were shown playing barefoot in an izakaya.
In 2012, they appeared at the "Girls Got Rhythm" fest in St. Paul, MN alongside artists such as Ronnie Spector, The Muffs, Nikki Corvette and L'Assassins.
Tracklisting:
1. (I'm Sorry Mama) I'm A Wild One
2. I'm Blue
3. Road Runner
4. I Got A Man
5. Typhoon Girl
6. Hanky Panky
7. Harlem Shuffle
8. Green Onions
9. In The Subway
10. Teenage Mojo Workout
11. Let's Go Boogaloo
12. New Orleans Rock
