Monthly Archives: July 2014

poino

The urgency, the erratic surges, that sense of simmering agitation metered out by punctuating eye jabbing riffs, crooked stop start zig zag time signatures and that feeling that your one misjudged chord away from total collapse and chaos (’bird trick‘). … Continue reading

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biscuithead and the biscuit badgers

By all accounts these dudes have been setting hearts a fluttering and heads a scratching with their conventionally non conventional catalogue of English eccentricity. Mind you with a name like biscuit head and the biscuit badgers you are alerted long … Continue reading

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heroin in tahiti

Finally from boring machines – news that there might be a little action from Heroin in Tahiti, these dudes, alas previously unknown to us, apparently wowed all with their acclaimed ’death surf’ set for the label way back in 2012 … Continue reading

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zone demersale

Also due to make an appearance on boring machine shortly are duo Zone Demersale – made up of Pietro Riparbelli and Michele Ferretti – the press release promises repetitive loops inspired by sciamanism – being showcased at present as an … Continue reading

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dream weapon ritual

Next up and via the same outlet, dream weapon ritual – I fairly certain that’s what they call themselves, is the work of sound alchemist Simon Balestrazzi whose extensive career can be traced back to the early 80’s wherein he … Continue reading

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adriano zanni

Mentioned in brief passing last missive out when casting our ears over that superb Futeisha cassette (lead guitarist with la piramide de sangue), Boring Machine are readying themselves for a holiday break though not before tripping out a handful of … Continue reading

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theatre royal

Staying with all things Vacilando 68, theatre royal’s eagerly anticipated ’we don’t where we are’ is due to touch down imminently and from it we’ve been sneaking fond glances at the near perfect pop prowess of ‘here it comes’ as … Continue reading

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marianne dissard

Alas no information as yet for this ‘un, that said is it just me that thinks that this has a touch of the Brigitte Fontaine and Marlene Dietrich about its wares albeit as recoded by Weill and Brecht, arriving here … Continue reading

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spids nogenhat

Many thanks to Lars of Bad Afro records for posting this out, a video of psychedelic progressive groovers Spids Nogenhat captured regaling audiences at Tivoli, Copenhagen before appearing at the Roskilde festival. The whole Tivoli set was recorded for TV … Continue reading

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sykes

Super chilled loveliness from the as yet unsigned Sykes, a femme fronted three piece hailing from London who judging by this delightfully delicate gemstone know a thing or two about the craft of amorphous glacial pop. New single ‘gold dust’ … Continue reading

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