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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Katorga Works News/Distro Updates

« on: April 22, 2015, 04:49:39 PM »

"GMK will annoy their way into your hearts and minds"

That is exactly what they did to me!  Ordering now.

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Demo Tape / Re: Петля Ельцина - noise/punk aus Russia

« on: April 22, 2015, 04:44:51 PM »

Love it!  Cool shit!  "Шорты / Shorts" - that song is gold.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 07, 2015, 06:53:31 PM »

This my groove comp today:

Electronic Phantasmagoria // A collection of electronic soundtracks from 60s and 70s sleazy horror

1. Nude for Satan - Running Naked Towards a Light in the Forest
2. The Demon Lover - Swords of Satan
3. Madame Zenobia - Blue Sucubus
4. The Redeemer - Drowning in Sleep
5. The Devil's Men - Forbidden Chamber of the Minotaur
6. The Devil's Plaything - Perhaps I am Under a Spell
7. Night of the Witches - Thanatos Leaf and Hemlock Flower
8. Curse of the Alpha Stone - The Business of a Wise Man
9. Premonition - Druggy Dream
10. The Demon Lover - The Gates of Hell
11. Nude for Satan - Satan in Slow Motion
12. The Devil's Due - That's Why I Joined the Devil Cult
13. Deviation - Orgy of Smoke
14. La Goulve - The Sorcerer's Bong
15. Premonition - Druggy Nightmare
16. Devil's Ecstasy - Do it for Lucifer
17. The Redeemer - From Out of the Darkness
18. The Sorcerers - No Harm Will Come to You
19. Mark of the Witch - The Hanging

Full comp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNHelS21hhE

Vol. 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlgI3OvlQ80

Thanks for the heads up on these!!

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Music Shit / Re: Heavy/wild songs by non-heavy artists/bands

« on: April 06, 2015, 05:54:41 AM »

Village People - Food Fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VggrgxGjL2k

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Music Shit / Re: Heavy/wild songs by non-heavy artists/bands

« on: April 05, 2015, 09:18:49 PM »

Well, not sure if this counts but The Zoot had Rick Springfield on guitar and a few guys that later went on to the Little River Band- and they're pretty fuckin' good and definitely heavy.

"The Freak"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMwNKv6MBEk

Dig this cover of "Elanor Rigby":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0apHilFrbU

"Hey Pinky"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFedv7ZoV7M

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 05, 2015, 09:02:00 PM »

Gary Glitter "I Love You Love Me" LP - This is a comp of stuff from, I believe the first two albums (I only have the first album). Way more hits/anthemic songs than the first album. Really into that "Hello I'm Back" song. The cover features a pic of Gary looking like he just stepped on stage in Manilla and saw an audience full of 10 year old ladyboys.



Yeah, "Hello, Hello, I'm Back" is pretty incredible.  That first album was actually played (with the sole exceptions of vocals and sax) by one guy - the producer, Mike Leander.  He used a fucked up guitar they had laying around the studio with really high action - which is why it sounded so weird.  Also, he couldn't play drums, so each drum part was recorded one drum at a time!  That's fuckin' nuts.  Also nuts this movie: The Execution of Gary Glitter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPtEWA2BzZQ) - not a doc, but a 'fantasy' film about Britain invoking the death penalty to kill Gary Glitter.  They don't try to make Glitter out to be sympathetic - he's a scumbag - but the hanging is still pretty brutal. "I'm the Leeeduh! I'm the Leeeduh!"

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Music Shit / Re: Hardcore 2015

« on: April 05, 2015, 08:42:28 PM »

NARCOLEPTICS blew me the fuck away Friday night. drummer is insane. Highly recommend this 7" - https://warthogspeakrecords.bandcamp.com/album/narcoleptics-s-t-ep

also BLACKBALL from raleigh just put out a 3-song tape, good god: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfdbyw_XYQQ

Narcoleptics.  Noted.  That drummer is mindblowing - how the fuck is he doing it?!  "Cop Sympathizer" is really fucking good.  The cover is hilarious.

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Music Shit / Re: Hardcore 2015

« on: April 04, 2015, 07:44:17 AM »

This http://rustbelthammer.com/2015/03/30/splat-is-the-new-wave-of-cleveland-hardcore-punk/

403 Forbidden!  They can smell the hippie on me.

GOWANUS MUTANT KOMMANDOS have a new version and video of / for "Mutants just Wanna have Fun" (yes, it's based on that song).  These guys just keep... well, mutating.  They're much tighter, but retaining a weirdness within the trad punk 'feel' that will appeal to punks and noise punks alike.
http://mutopiatoys.tumblr.com/post/115155529275/gowanus-mutant-kommandos-mutants-wanna-have-fun

7" will be out in two weeks. One time pressing of 300 copies because the world doesn't need more GMK than that.

REMIND ME!!  I'm old and prone to forget this shit!

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 04, 2015, 07:42:40 AM »

Blue Oyster Cult - S/t. I have a friend who is not that into them, trying to persuade him to change his opinion. First album is my favourite as a whole, however, Hot Rails To Hell on the 2nd album is my favourite song—both are great albums.

As a long time B.O.C. fan, I find that most people just don't like them - and it just diminishes as the 70's continue to fade away from the collective memory.  It's understandable - they're weird in a fairly uncool, dorky way; they're a 70's band that's not "metal" enough (although, when I was a kid, we totally thought they were), a lot of keyboard action, their lyrics are pretty oblique, sci-fi or proto-punk douchey (as are the riffs, really - almost parodic - see "Dominance & Submission").  Kind of like the biker rock equivalent of Devo.  If "Don't Fear the Reaper" or "I'm Burning For You" was your entry point, you'd probably bum out pretty hard on most of their 70's material.  Top that off with the fact that they didn't really have a frontman and just looked like your uncle pretending to be a rock star down at the bar - yeah.  I get it.  But when you meet another fan - it's crazy - it's like you've suddenly got a best friend for life!

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Music Shit / Re: Music Documentaries

« on: April 02, 2015, 10:00:44 PM »

This Seeds / Sky Saxon doc should be entertaining.  Saxon was a grade A weirdo.  Even weirder, to me anyway, is that GNP Crescendo, their label from way back, released it.  But then you see that they've done reissues of the catalog and it makes sense.  This is, essentially, a feature length commercial for the reissues.  Personally, I'm interested in hearing about Sky in the 70's - the shit he did with "Rainbow Starburst" (The Stars New Seeds Band / World Peace Band) is so fucked up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQfUUNDspIk

 

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Music Shit / Re: Hardcore 2015

« on: April 02, 2015, 05:43:53 AM »

This http://rustbelthammer.com/2015/03/30/splat-is-the-new-wave-of-cleveland-hardcore-punk/

403 Forbidden!  They can smell the hippie on me.

GOWANUS MUTANT KOMMANDOS have a new version and video of / for "Mutants just Wanna have Fun" (yes, it's based on that song).  These guys just keep... well, mutating.  They're much tighter, but retaining a weirdness within the trad punk 'feel' that will appeal to punks and noise punks alike.
http://mutopiatoys.tumblr.com/post/115155529275/gowanus-mutant-kommandos-mutants-wanna-have-fun

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 01, 2015, 04:29:38 PM »

Grand Funk Railrod - Grand Funk

Killer.

"Paranoid" - that fuzz wah killed my Momma.  'Nuf Sed.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 01, 2015, 07:02:38 AM »

Let's pretend I'm not new.

So, I've been listening to V/A - Beyond the Calico Wall for at least a year - the craziest 60's psych sides compiled onto one slab of essential lysergic blow-out:  Afterglow - "Susie's Gone" (first heard this when Masonna 'covered' it years ago), Flower Power - "Mount Olympus" goes from a quality psych track to an intense noiseadelic meltdown, as though it's normal, Cosmic Rock Show - "Psiship" (possibly Michael Yonkers) it's one of those few songs that pisses all over the hippie dippy mindset, set to music that sounds like Suicide with a drummer they grabbed out of the audience.  Make sure to check out the b-side on Youtube "Rising Sun" - freak-out Minneapolis!

Velvet Whip - Warm & Tough, Bronze Medallion, 2014-03-22, The Grace Darling, Collingwood, VIC - I'm obsessed with this band.

Sore Throat - Disgrace To The Corpse Of Sid Generally, I don't like grindcore.  These guys are the exception and this record is my favorite - psychedelic noisecore grind - lots of vocal noise - like Masonna, kinda - over some rumbling noise blasts with a b-side of equally bizarro crust.  Love it.

Iron Butterfly - Heavy way better than the well known In a Gadda Da Vida.  Wouldn't say it's 'heavy', but it is great - "Unconscious Power" and "You Can't Win" are faves.

The Ritual - "Speed Freak / Walls of My Mind" - this is like Iron Butterfly if they were heavy.  Take the heavy organ psych punk stomp and apply it to Sabbathoid doomy atmosphere ("Speed Freak" literally bemoans being addicted to meth) - without sounding like Sabbath.

Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermint - their single doesn't sound much like the rest of the LP (the singer was a teenager that was hanging around outside the studio - he sang the track, got paid and disappeared back into the public).  Mostly it's keyboard and fuzz guitar filled commercial psych punk - fairly nerdy and not all 'Summer of Love' - check out the lyrics to "Humming Happy", which is as punk as anything from '77.

Glitter - probably one of the coolest punk bands out there - "Spinning Ballerina"!!!

Mongoloid - Demo & Birth of the Slam Pig.  Sounds like second wave NYHC (which I hated the first time around, and still don't care for) reimagined as spastic noise rock.  Pretty funny!

Gowanus Mutant Kommandos - Blitzwolves of Thunder.  Normally I don't go for screwy punk - but this mix of lyrical concept, musical ineptitude and fucking TOYS is just too much for me to resist!

Mutant Cross - Death Crawl & Filthy Hounds EP preview does anyone know anything about these guys?

Leathur Mutant SS - Cum Death Troops Fag Patrol  this band needs no introduction.  Former members of Wolf Wolf Wolf Collective.  Simply the finest band going today.



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