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pedro INF

S/T

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PEDRO INF is Pedro De Carvalho, Tired of the current output of the electronic and post industrial music scenes, whose innovation has regressed to pre conceived ideas about music production, PEDRO INF is taking lead from the pioneers such as Kandinsky , Miro ,Coil , Test Department, Richard D James (Aphex Twin) & mu-ziq. Designing and building his own effects, computers and programs PEDRO INF has created his own self styled "sonar paintings", he believes that ART does not need humans at all to exist, in his own words "there is no need for a receptor and the need of a receptor is only because we cannot escape the human condition of egocentrism" ticking the boxes that this enigmatic producer has the madness to pull of his unique brand of electronica "The first goal of Pedro INF is to see the painting and not remember how it was done."

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satanicpornocultshop

Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos

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"Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos This is Greek of meaning said, 'As sweet as old favorite honey"

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Satanicpornocultshop

Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos (Some Bizzare)

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Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos? (2010). Another stunningly refreshing album by Satanicpornocultshop. I was introduced to this collective from Osaka a couple years ago and instantly fell in love with their quirky and eclectic electronica. A few years and multiple albums later, they?ve produced this a more laid back body of work that completely owns?

?Puzzling, destabilizing and futuristic hip-hop. One of the main features of this band is that they make music gush from the most arid field recording session. Give a Stanley knife or a red-bear shaped lighter to Ugh, and he?ll make it swing in a snap. Ugh is a real human sampler, a junk sound edit virtuoso. And that is undoubtedly Satanicpornocultshop main strength. Just ad to that an immense musical culture, a taste for ultimate groove and pop music satire, and you will have a pretty good idea of what makes that band so unique? - (Tim Ferguson)

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satanicpornocultshop

Oct-2010

Satanicpornocultshop ?Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos? (Some Bizzare)

As deranged, diverse and compelling as cover and title would suggest. Band hail from Osaka, though this is incidental to their defining achievement: a multiplicity of sound layers pierced by one single breakcore beat making for a destabilisng futuristic hip hop attack, alternating with fried folkery in the female Fursaxa vein.

Accordingly, opener Next Year's Snow lovingly mimics Vashti Bunyan to the point of pastiche. Only gentle glitches give warning of cut-up madness to come. Next up, (R.I.P.) Tide, a psychedelicised mash up of Pentangle's Light Flight, in which we are invited to get our collective freak on, repeatedly. Saddam Fed Bird While Jailed ups the ante on beats and samples and ushers in Stanley knife mayhem of next two tracks, slashing, ripping and pasting multifarious field recordings, riffs and songs and shaping them into howling beast beat monsters. A light and dark pattern emerges as the acid-fried harmonium chill returns with the respite of Glaneurs and Diamond Day hip hop of Pinky (the latter with further exhortations to get our freak on - a given by this point). Thence the breakcore-tastic Custom Drum Destroyer delivers on its title: wholesale lo-fi sample of No Fun mid-way through is nothing short of sublime. Left-handed Darling is twisted J-Pop. 9 Headed Monster begins by asking: "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?" - a leitmotif for all this light and dark dialectic bethinks y brawd. So thick and furious are the subsequent breaks that the answer has to be "dazed and confused witch, thank you very much". Things then tail off into pleasing mellowness: a stab at 80s pop with Paradise; more Vashti / Fursaxa shenanigans on Kanariya; Margo Guryan over easy on Nido; a reprise of Next Year's Snow; to finish, a mad big beat electro-debris cover of Francoise Hardy's unassailable Comment Te Dire Adieu.

Easy then to understand criticism from some quarters aimed at the lack of full on breakcore onslaught with this release. However, to these ears the leavening of beats and samples with female oriented chilled out pop and free folkery work their magic. Proving perhaps that nothing is ever entirely black and white.

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LUCID SKETCHMASTER

LUCID SKETCHMASTER: THE SEED

SBZ105CD

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US based Electronic madmen Lucid Sketchmaster comprises of 2 members GAIN (Vox/Programming) and 4000 ARMS (Programming). Utilising influences are far reaching as Noise, IDM and Industrial they create some of the most exciting and unique electronica around today sure to appeal to fans of APHEX TWIN, AUTECHRE, KID 606 and intelligent industrial electronica etc.

Tracklist:

THE SEED (INTRO)
THE SEEDS OF SKETCH
ULTIMATE VS. -
REDBONE STEPPING
EQUIPMENT
GOD COME TELL ME
FORBIDDEN FRUIT
59 SECONDS TO FAITH
CRAZY BIATCH
JESUS SAVES
SO EASY

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GL1TCHG0R3 GEARBALL MUSIC VIDEO

GL1TCHG0R3 is unusual in that they are primarily a “virtual’ band formed by Ted Bell and Patrick Chauncey, conceived, executed, marketed, discovered and signed before the two band members ever actually met in person. They formed in June of 2007, and within a few weeks developed a large underground following. GL1TCHG0R3 (glitch - gore) was born out of an experiment to create a new fusion of sound somewhere between hip-hop, improvisational jazz fusion, noise, IDM and glitch. Stumped at how to proceed with this task, they invoked Eris the goddess of chaos through song, art, insanity and an organ donation. The Mother of mechanized music was indeed pleased - so pleased that she plucked out her right eye, and created the most terrifying weapon of mass destruction in the universe to take its place among us. Thus Gearball, also known affectionately as Mister Twinkles, came to become the band's whimsical cyclopean mascot. Travel with Mister Twinkles and his friends through a wild acoustic romp into the depths of cosmic chaos. And if you listen closely, betwixt the screams of the undead and alien tribal rhythms, you'll hear the dancing laughter of Eris grinding away at the humming rotors of creation.

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KONTOUR

SCANNNERS

SBZ081CD

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Kontour has been experimenting with electronic devices and voice manipulation for over twenty years. This new album brings forth an array of pure electronics and experimentation. It explores some truths in society and the fears those truths create. Social disorder and mental derangement run amok in a post apocalyptic landscape. You are being watched everywhere you go; everything you do is being registered.

David Hunt: Kontour

Side-line (UK) Review 2008

Kontour - Scanners (CD Some Bizarre Records)

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David Hunt aka Kontour is an English artist who has already been active for more than 20 years now. He for sure is a musician who remains faithful to a sort of early electronic tradition reminding me of the 80s. More than once “Scanners” evokes some early and good old Cabaret Voltaire memories. Especially the 2 debut songs are really cool and essential. There’s this brute electronic construction made with instruments like a Moog or MXR effect processor. It creates these typical electronic vibes while the good-old rhythm box percussion sound only reinforce the 80s feeling. The male vocal parts are pretty zombie-like, but totally fitting in to the music. “The Kennedy Syndrome” and “Loose Wire” are definitely strong openers. I’m not affirming that after such a great debut the album slowly stagnates, but it’s just that the other tracks left are less convincing. “Pressure Point” is a track that brings the album again to a higher level. Kontour also reveals a more experimental side, which brings some diversity, but less new high lights. It doesn’t take away that this album will for sure please the lovers of early Cabaret Voltaire and other bands in the same line. (DP:7)DP.

The album’s production involved no use of computers but harked back to analogue sequencers and tape machines, creating a sound not at home in the clean digital age we are subjected to. Percussion and rhythm came from a collection of vintage drum machines heavily processed and overdubbed with manually played electronic drums. Recorded voices were left almost inaudible, disappearing into a backwash of distorted phase.

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ZGA/FIGS

SBZ099CD


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ZGA is a unique phenomenon in Russian post-rock music. There’s never been a band that would for so long, so consistently and with such dogged perseverance and dedication pursue the non-compromised approach to music.

ZGA pretty much equals Nick Sudnick. Throughout countless personnel changes Nick has always been there - the mind, the heart, the soul, the creator and inventor of this unparalleled music.

We first met in the early 80s. The newly born Russian rock strived for lyrical freedom and new spirit, music hardly mattered and in most cases remained quite simple. I, however, craved for weirder and stranger textures. Sudnick was a connoisseur and avid collector of Rock in Opposition and industrial: Henry Cow, This Heat, Test Department, Universe Zero. That was the shape of sound ZGA was aiming at.

“Zga” is a very obsolete, obscure and peculiar Russian word. It means something really miniscule and in the contemporary language it survived only as a part of an expression ni zgi ne vidno - “pitch dark”. ZGA’s music when I first heard it was by no means sounded obsolete but obscure it very well was: asymmetrical rhythms, hardly any melody, distorted guitar paired with Nick’s homemade instruments. They lived in Riga, and in 1986 I was proud to bring this unusual band for their first ever gig in Leningrad, then capital of Russian rock.

In 1991 Sudnick and ZGA moved to St. Petersburg. His studio in the legendary artists commune at Pushkinskaya 10 is a mix between a scrap metal warehouse, where he builds, solders, puts together his countless homemade instruments, and a makeshift recording studio. He’s also a curator of GEZ 21 - Gallery of Experimental Sound, the hub for noise and industrial projects.

Living in Pushkinskaya 10 and working at GEZ exposed reclusive Sudnik to a whole new range of people and ideas. He works on a number of side projects, one is producing an all female band IvaNova. Its drummer Katya Fedorova became a full-fledged ZGA member and brought more accessible and less austere timbres of female vocals, violin and accordion of her fellow band members into ZGA’s later albums.

Katya Fedorova is also a member FIGS, another very special project that is featured on this compilation. FIGS is an acronym that stands for the names of four musicians: apart from Sudnick and Fedorova there are two drummers: Alexei Ivanov and Marcus Godwyn, a Brit who has lived in St. Petersburg for many years now. The resulting band - three percussionists and ever noisy Sudnick with his homemade instruments - is an apotheosis of rhythmic industrial sound.

ZGA/FIGS
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ZZONKED UPDATE FOR SOME BIZARRE Zga/Figs ‘Who Has Stolen The Air’

“Zga” is a very obscure, obsolete, and peculiar Russian word. It means something really miniscule and in the contemporary language it survived only as a part of an expression ni zgi ne vidno - “pitch dark”.

PLAN B & Q

Plan B Dec 07 “It’s Nasty” is populated by a malodorous urban hybrid of Tom Waits and the shrieking telly-demon out of Aphex’s”

Q Jan 08 "An extreme form of avant garde dance, imagine Tom Waits fronting Einsturzine neubauten and your close"

NEW MAGAZINE CHART PLACES these reaction are club promotion of three tracks taken from the Album.
CLUB PROMO
Chasing Chart Compilers…
COMMENTS

Wow, this has got to be one of the releases of the year in the left field selection. I’ve actually played at the venue mentioned in St Petersburg. Far out and some bizarre indeed. reactionspersonal: nine reactionsaudience: five favouritetrack: a2 use: Warm Up chartplace: 3 (Jon Tye – Lo Recordings/Various – UK)

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First Aid 4 Souls

MY FAVOURITE PAIN (WITH REMIX PACKAGE)

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FIRST AID 4 SOULS - MY FAVOURITE PAIN

(SBZ080CD)

FIRST AID 4 SOULD (FA4S) mix the brutality of noise music with the psychedelic pulsation of trance, the rich melodies of new wave and the strict grinding of industrial metal. Fantastic Double CD package featuring the album "My Favourite Pain" the EP "Terra Incognita" and a full album of FA4S remixes of SOME BIZARRE artists such as Coil, Soft Cell, Swans and Test Dept!!!

Hungarian electronic artist release SOME BIZARRE debut
Unique mix of Trance, Electro and Industrial
Double CD!!! features 1 album, 1 EP & a bonus disc featuring FA4S remixes of SOME BIZARRE's best artists!!!!

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SCRAPING FOETUS OFF THE WHEEL

"Hole"

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Jim Thirwell - Foetus

Experimental musician Jim Thirlwell has been using the moniker Foetus (and various elaborate derivations thereof) since the early 1980s. Thirlwell's work as Foetus is best described as industrial, yet contains traces of any number of diverse styles that would fall far from industrial's cacophonous aural tree. Using heavy doses of electronic noise and bursts of sampled sound, Foetus remains one of the more challenging projects in music. The prolific Thirlwell has recorded under several other names, including Flesh Volcano, Manorexia, and Baby Zizanie, among others. He's also composed film scores under his own name and the alias Clint Ruin.

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SCRAPING FOETUS OFF THE WHEEL

"Nail"

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SCRAPING FOETUS OFF THE WHEEL

"Nail"

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FIRST IN A SERIES OF DELUXE FOETUS RELATED RE-ISSUES
In an age when terms like "alternative" and "independent" get bandied about corporate boardrooms as mere mass-market packaging slogans, it takes an artist as rare as Jim Thirlwell (FOETUS) to inject some meaning into what is so casually labeled "the underground." With his history of relentless aesthetic terrorism and committed cultural subversion, Thirlwell is one of the most independent thinkers on the music scene today, a much-needed alternative to "alternative rock" itself. Linking up with Some Bizarre in the early eighties Thirwell adopted the “Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel” moniker for the release of two of his most well know early albums “Hole” and “Nail” in ‘84 & ‘85 respectively. With a collision of electronics, tape loops and harsh beats and vocals these albums helped define the burgeoning underground industrial scene in London at the time. With lovingly restored artwork under direct supervision from Thirwell himself these two albums are now available in deluxe digi packs which do the original LP’s artwork justice like no CD issue has ever done. Both albums have also been re-mastered by SCOTT HULL (Herbie Hancock, David Bowie etc.) to bring out the best in these milestone releases freeing them from the bad CD mastering these titles have suffered from in the past.

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FOETUS INTERRUPTUS

"THAW"

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FOETUS INC.

"SINK"

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FINAL PARTS IN A SERIES OF DELUXE FOETUS RELATED RE-ISSUES
In an age when terms like "alternative" and "independent" get bandied about corporate boardrooms as mere mass-market packaging slogans, it takes an artist as rare as Jim Thirlwell (FOETUS) to inject some meaning into what is so casually labeled "the underground." With his history of relentless aesthetic terrorism and committed cultural subversion, Thirlwell is one of the most independent thinkers on the music scene today, a much-needed alternative to "alternative rock" itself. Linking up with Some Bizarre in the early eighties Thirwell adopted the “Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel” moniker for the release of two of his most well know early albums “Hole” and “Nail” in ‘84 & ‘85 respectively (already re-issued by SOME BIZARRE this year!). Later adopting “FOETUS INTERRUPTUS” for the “THAW album in 1988 and “FOETUS INC.” for the “”SINK” album (collecting together rare and compilation/collaboration tracks). With a collision of electronics, tape loops and harsh beats and vocals Foetus’ albums helped define the underground industrial scene in London throughout the eighties and has remained (if indirectly) a large influence on the scenes development. With lovingly restored artwork under direct supervision from Thirwell himself these two albums are now available in deluxe digi packs which do the original LP’s artwork justice like no CD issue has ever done.

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