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NEW RELEASES - NEW YEAR 2001 - SHEET 5 |
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VOCABULARINIST – “Hasznasznisznasz” (M&E 569 ☼☼ 60 / CD 66:44 Seven Seater Records, Australia) That’s a nice ear-ripping piece of noise, and that’s just the beginning from this bunch of Australian loony tunes. You have to work at this a bit, not what you’d call “easily accessible”, but trust me, it is well worth making the effort. I know what you’re thinking; “So describe it, Magic!” Easier said than done. Okay, let’s take a few snapshots… i) mellow sax, drums, something that sounds like a pixie drowning, voices, latter day Pink Floyd sophistication… ii) Gong meets the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Black Flag aggression, synth FX, “I’m never afraid of cheeseburgers”… iii) like an avant garde goth band from Vienna… iv) American punk with Australian accents, psyched out Gong riffing, Germanic avant gardeness… v) Syd Barrett meets The Cardiacs… vi) a brain damaged sea shanty… vii) underground indie / industrial, the descent into cohesive chaos. Okay already, so you get the idea? The Vocabs are not yer run-of-the-mill band by any standards. This is quite a strange and alluring mixture of tunes and… er… other things. Not recommended for the feint-hearted, but then they wouldn’t be shopping at the United World Underground, would they? Love it. NB: running times differ as the CD had to slightly strimmed for a cassette release, nothing really significant was removed, honest.
VARIOUS ARTISTS – “Take It To The Bridge Vol.3”(CD 68.33 ☼½ Bridge Records, Wales) This is an ongoing Welsh project, brought to our attention by Steve Andrews, who just happens to be one of the included artists. Well, he’s Welsh. Quite a good collection, we thought, a fair variety of independent styles and a reasonable standard throughout. Ya gets; Peal (we liked them), The Scooters, Rocket Goldstar, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, McLusky, Cusky, Honey Ryde, Project Pigeon, Blither (impressive stuff, we thought), Lear, Lester Bangs, Majestik, Fford Allan, Beyond The Bars (the stars of the compilation for us, if they would like to get in touch, we’d love to have them on M&E!), Steve Day, Steve Andrews (who?) and Christopher Rees. A pretty decent compilation and excellent value, there’s some good stuff coming out of Wales for sure. And Steve Andrews! ☺
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SPECIAL OFFERS! Well, all them nice special offers we did last time went down very well, didn’t they? So well, in fact, that we decided to get some more nice CDs and offer them at the same daffy prices again! Do we spoil you or what? Did Mary Poppins get her tits out? Of course we do. And do you deserve to be spoilt? Is Tony Blair a wanker? Absolutely. It’s coz we can, you see. We do these nice exchange deals with other nice labels, so we can afford to give you near as dammit trade rates as a result of that. So we do, because we love you and want your baby. But do wrap it well, Postmen love to play football with anything that says “Fragile – Handle With Care”. Same deal as last time too; for every CD you buy from this list, we will give you a FREE CD (our choice, but we’ll try to find something you like, honest) with it! Are we big sweeties or what? But don’t forget, everything on this list is in limited supply, so do state alternatives wherever possible. Either that or we’ll spend your money on marzipan. No, of course we wouldn’t do that really! No, honestly. Okay, well I personally would, but don’t worry, coz Sammi won’t let me anyway. She’d rather hold it in credit until you tell us what to do with it. But we’ll probably put it up our noses or something so you won’t want it back. Right, suppose you’ll want to know what’s on offer then…
From Black Widow Records of Italy…
ARCHITECTURAL METAPHOR – “Creature Of The Velvet Void” (keyboard driven progressive psyche with femme vox) ST37 – “Spaceage” (American psychospacerock, sort of Hawkwind meets Can plus)
From Elefant Records of Spain…
USURA – “Hake Romana” (nice subterranean indie stuff with cute girlie vocals) EGGPLANT – “Catboy / Catgirl” (London trio, fast paced punky pop, bit like Elastica) UNION WIRELESS – “Saturn Ascension Experiments” (Krautrock from London, New Order meets Can and then some) HEBRIDAS – “Quién Dijo Mieo” (warm and Pixie-like subterranean indie with cute femme vox) PHANTOM DOG – “Only Pals” (um… more underground indie pop with cute girlie vocals) THE LOVELIES – “The Tuff Of The Tracks” (yobs from Pompey, punky stuff with Park Life vocals)
From Fraction Studio of France…
M.NOMIZED – “Different Ways – Part 2” (the eclectic French experimentalist returns with another avant garde collection, featuring guests like Mr.Moto, Messy and Megatory)
From Hammer Müzik of Turkey…
WITCHTRAP – “Witching Black” (ooh… scary doomy psycho metal, more frightening than defending against Galatasary, only listen with the lights on!)
All CDs on the above list are £5.99 each, any two for £10.00 ! Please remember that all the above CDs sold out over a decade ago and this is all just here for a little trip down memory lane! |
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