Monthly Archives: August 2015

eerie summer

Posted on August 31, 2015 by marklosingtoday

Another label to add to that ever growing essential and favourite imprint list that we have stashed about ourselves, this time Manchester’s Box Bedroom Rebels who’ve apparently sneaked some twenty releases beneath our radar to date much to our sighing … Continue reading →

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active listener #35

Posted on August 31, 2015 by marklosingtoday

In our absence there’s been a pile of releases / pods and various other gubbins that we are frantically trying to find time to hear and feature, not least several Active Listener samplers that are need of checking out at … Continue reading →

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cleaners from venus

Posted on August 30, 2015 by marklosingtoday

Second from the electric phantom corporation and due soon on soft bodies a new thang from the ridiculously critically overlooked and underappreciated cleaners of venus. ‘Denmark Street’ is your classically fried slice of English psych eccentricity which finds Mr Newell … Continue reading →

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petunia-liebling macpumpkin

Posted on August 30, 2015 by marklosingtoday

Several recent communications from the electric phantom sound bunker alerting us to two well heeled slices of ear gear, the first being from the much admired Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin who continues apace to baffle, bewilder and bedevil our sound system with … Continue reading →

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interlude….sound of cinema

Posted on August 30, 2015 by marklosingtoday

Interlude…….. Infamous for re-drawing the horror movie landscape, Hammer production studios resurrected the legendary core of 30’s horror titles – Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and the Werewolf and bequeathed unto them new life and in particular with regards to Dracula … Continue reading →

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in remembrance…..

Posted on August 30, 2015 by marklosingtoday

In remembrance….. Today would have been the birthday of the much missed John Peel – we’ve fired up the search engines for a ramble through the inter web and come back with a host of goodies – the latter of … Continue reading →

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interludes……the school is full of noises

Posted on August 30, 2015 by marklosingtoday

Interludes……..’the school is full of noises’ Found sounds, tape loops and weird orchestrations, just what was happening in our junior schools in the 60’s under the watchful guidance of such forward thinking tutors as John Paynter, Ian McMillan discovers this … Continue reading →

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have you ever seen the jane fonda aerobic vhs?

Posted on August 27, 2015 by marklosingtoday

I’m suspecting someone somewhere not only has the means and wherewithal to a secret bunker but has been busy mixing DNA cultures cobbled from all your favourite femme fronted indie starlets past and present and set about genetically creating under … Continue reading →

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a little light relief interval – bowie making ‘warszawa’

Posted on August 27, 2015 by marklosingtoday

A little light relief interval – Tripped across this by inadvertently opening an accidental hyperlink on the press release for the previously mentioned disappears ‘low’ news. A mock up Bowie animation for the recording of ‘warszawa’ featuring Eno and co … Continue reading →

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disappears

Posted on August 27, 2015 by marklosingtoday

Must admit to being a tad fond of this un, disappears cover of Mr Bowie’s ‘breaking glass’ here sounding edgily loose, funked out and decidedly ramshackle – but in a good way you understand and to boot scalped and haloed … Continue reading →

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