Some Images of Soisong live in Köln 9.11.2009

Just AMAZING!Full review to follow!

Soisong Live in Köln

On Monday 9.11.2009 Soisong play live in the event "Broken Sounds" in Köln,along with Sten Hanson and Bernd Schurer ,in Standtgarten.Jim Mutantsounds will be there.I will be glad to speak with any friends of the blog that will attend this event.Infos here:http://www.aufabwegen.de/events/?p=146

Leningrad Psychedelic Blues Machine -Dark Star,tape,1996,Japan

Psyched out fuzz monster by some masters of the kind!Leningrand Psychedelic Blues Machine was a meeting of the psych wierdos Leningrand Blues Machine of Tabata Mara with Nanjo Asahito(High Rise,Mainliner,Toho Sara,etc) and Kawabata Makoto.This meeting of acid burned psych minds ended up to a version of Grateful dead's Dark Star.Fuzzed psyched out bass keeping the Dark Star main rhythm while Mr. Makoto's mystical jazzy achievement to psyced out excurtions give as a result a spaced out version of Jerry Garcia's jam.

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Peter Scion's New Blog

Peter Scion mailed me a bit ago and informed me that he has created a new blog where all his officil recordings are free for download along with many unreleased stuff.BE SURE TOO VISIT THIS BLOG!One of the most prolific artists of our time!

http://www.peterscion.blogspot.com/

Cheveu-st,LP,2008,France

Wonderful French new band,sounding like lo fi(!) early Butthole Surfers jamming with Pixies and Velvet Underground with Casio tunes and guitar paranioc crescentos!already sold out 1st LP,here. Worth checking them out!Visit their homepage.

since i was just informed that this is not sold out yet i had to remove the link

7 From Life - Souls Of Dead Sharks,tape,1984,USA

Great ambient ritualistic industrial one man project of Lawrence Van Horn.Released through John Zewizz Inner X Musick, this one is more experimental than all other Inner X releases,reminding much in parts early NWW. A very nice recording.

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Antediluvian Rocking Horse - Music For The Odd Occasion,CD,1995,Australia

Very strange electronic/experimental band from Australia.As strarting point here we have the outskirts of trance(in their most extreme way)and we continue with dada experiments,psychedelic madness,ethno beats, strange sounds ,cut ups .... First released through Psyharmonics label but then released also by Negativeland's Seeland label(the similarities are more than obvious).The notorious Ollie Olsen is also involved in this project.Great listen!

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2+2=5 - Di Che Cosa Parliamo Quando Parliamo D'Amore - Odio,MLP,1985,Italy

2nd LP by this minimal synth italian outfit.After their 1st privately released "into the future"
they came back in 1985 with this mini LP released through Materiali Sonori.In the And also the trees,Fra Lippo Lippi vein here,totaly sung in Italian,minimal weirdness.

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ALPHABETICAL UPLOADS OF WHACKED OUT SINGLES PT. 15

KLINISCH SAUBER-DER KOMMERZ/DER KRIEG/DER MOND, 1982, SWITZERLAND

Fun (if textbook) Swiss sequence 'n' spiel minimal synthiness somewhat in the mode of fellow Alpine electropop movers Guyers Connection.

KONSTANTIN-SING MIR EIN KLEINES ARBEITERKAMPFLIED/DER KLEINE TROMPETER, 1983, GERMANY

AKA Neue Deutsche Welle operative and Foyer Des Arts member Max Goldt under a pseudonym and engaging here in a sorta genially capering art pop quirk. Nice.

KRANKHAFTE PHANTASTEN-DON'T FOLLOW/ANTI-MEDIOCRE-WORST-RIOT/KRANKHAFTE PHANTASTEN, 198?, USA

Einsturzende Neubauten was the obvious template for the year zero trashcan pound of these NYC art primitives; their corrosively gunked up in-the-red mixes reaching their apotheosis with the eponymous final track that sounds like the mix is being swallowed alive by a king sized hairball on the end of my needle. Missing Foundation and Sink Manhattan were obviously taking cues here.

KURASNAYA ROZA-S/T E.P., FLEXI, 1982, JAPAN

Don't let the first track's unctuously studio slicked and funk-a-poppin' qualities wrongfoot you into dismissing these obscure Japanese proggers. There's a reason that an imprint as associated with Japan's marginal freak fringe as were Cragale decided to issue this flexi, as tracks two and three here furiously whip through some very choice 80's art rock maneuvers that take a page from the best of 80's King Crimson; seemingly the very same page that L.A. avant prog units from the C.O.M.A. universe like Newcross and The Underpeople were taking notes from.

CHRISTOF KURZMANN-SINN BLAU PAUSE, 1995, AUSTRIA

This was the first salvo from this prominent Austrian electronic artist, issued in an edition of 100 copies on the fledgling Syntactic imprint and coming complete with the snazzy velvet bow tie if, like me, you grabbed the artist edition. Kurzmann would go on to become a major presence on the international scene, having co-founded both the Phontaktik festival and the Rhiz club and running the Charizma label alongside recording with the likes of Burkhard Stangl, John Butcher and Ami Yoshida. Way back on his debut here though, he was up to a different sort of mischief, beginning with the fact that, through the mysteries of the cutting process, several segments within the side-long suites that comprise each side here have distinct and separate tracks in the left and right channels that are apparently meant to be heard individually as well. Put together, the results are a curious and uneasy drift between moodily art warped synth pop in the mode of Mark Glynne and Bart Zwier and queasily looping kitsch ephemera ala Tom Recchion.

KWALITAT 100%-S/T E.P. 2003 (RECORDED: 198?), GERMANY

Another excellent Neue Deutsche Welle archival tape find from the redoubtable Was Soll Das? Schallplatten imprint that was reissued in an edition of only 100 copies. The instrumental concoctions created by these cats are definitely off the experimental tip of the minimal synth spectrum and cover a good bit of ground, with overtones of stripped Ike Yard style proto electro and Sky-era Asmus Tietchens robot pop brushing up against hollowed out and alienated Monoton-like atmospheres.

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DINOSAURS WITH HORNS-S/T, TAPE, 1983, USA

Here's another forgotten freak fringe masterwork from the annals of the L.A. Free Music Society. Dinosaurs With Horns were the duo of Rick Potts and Joseph Hammer (and are currently reformatted as a quartet of Hammer & Potts together with Tom Recchion & Spencer Savage for their recent CD on Melon Expander that can be found Here ), their work on this debut cassette predating both their involvement in the first incarnation of Steaming Coils as well as their longstanding creative partnership together in Solid Eye, whose wonkily lurching cartoonish constructs are a direct outgrowth of the deliciously absurd tactics first unleashed here. Those lending an ear will find disjunctively loping loops of consumer culture detritus wheeling around the blearily surreal tonalities of Hammer's signature Optigan, while pitch perfect deployments of sound byte kitsch often provide the through-line. Beyond essential!

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Note: Due to much hue and cry, I've also now re-upped the link to the Steve Thomsen & Joseph Hammer-Swan Trove CDR.

RUDOLV EB.ER-KSK DOKUMENTATION NO 01: HUHNCHEN-ZERDRESCH-(A)AKTIONSJODLERTUM /... (ERBRECHEND-{UND)ABREAKTIV ), LP, 1990, SWITZERLAND

This 100 copy (seemingly a motif today!) LP in it's distinctive bug death sleeve was part of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock instigator Rudolv Eb.er's move from the more playfully inspired idiocy of  R&G's debut (recently posted) to a more raw AA-Kommune/Otto Muehl-derived stance of pure purgative dada antagonism, with blocks of silence shattered by rude intrusions of intestinal noises, gargling, belching and voiding, combined with split second stabs of industrial detritus, broken record fragments and assorted party favors.

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V/A-DER SAMPLER: COLLAGE, TAPE, 1982, VARIOUS

A typically all-over-the-map tape compendium from the deep recesses of the NDW scene (except for a few tracks of primitive plunderphonics from Italy's nutty XX Century Zorro, who've featured elsewhere on Mutant Sounds). Best bits here come courtesy of 894's DAF-ish electro pulse pound, the warbly and wispy electropop of Perlen Vor Die Saue and the aforementioned XX Century Zorro.

Track listing:

Perlen Vor Die Saue-Elfenreigen
Wolfgang Luthe-Psychatrie-Der Trunk Der Starken Heiden
Derdakunst-Beim Nachsten Ton
Makarna Pasta-Eastern Kists
FDJ-Chaos: Ende Von Modernes Kriegsspiel & Freiheitlicher Rechtsstaat
Ausloser-Impulsubertrager
Makarna Pasta-House Of The Rising Sun
Derdakunst-D.L.T.
Micky & Goofy & Urdap-Das Gestohlene A
Chemische Ameisen Scheisse-98 Sek. Aus Apocalypse Wow
Der Renende Kardinal-Peter & Gertrud
Perlen Vor Die Saue-Acht Stunden
Ausloser-Stossverkehr
Makarna Pasta-Mainzelmannchen
XX Century Zorro-Cinemascope In Moscow
894-Kein Gluck
XX Century Zorro-Le Poupee Electrique
894-Wer Ist Der Nachste

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GUNS & BUTTER-S/T, LP, 1972, USA

This Boston outift's proto prog moves sound both curiously dated for their release date and totally gripping with 27 years hindsight, with a horn-centric and violin laced approach that jibes more with the moves of UK groups from a few years earlier, like East Of Eden, Titus Groan and Blodwyn Pig than much else going on Stateside, save perhaps It's A Beautiful Day.

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COOLNESS ALERT! TOM FAZZINI-NECK TO NECK

The nature of my posts here generally follow a pre-set pattern, but I'm gonna depart here to celebrate a current release, as it's one of the big daddy titles of outwardly bound fuckery that I'd intended to ultimately share here, only the fine folks at Locust Music got their first and gave this glorious thing a proper reissue. Since that's the case, and since it's an album that I've been flying a private flag for over the years, I'd like to just take a moment to highlight what a demented lost gem this is and to offer a few tracks for you to hear and come to your own conclusions about, as this seems like the sorta release that could fly under lots of folks' radar if they weren't hepped to it's existence.

Originally issued in 1984 on the short lived cult label A-Mission (responsible for releases by Metgumnerbone, Asmus Tietchens and O Yuki Conjugate among others), this left field treasure chest opens to unveil a uniquely human and fried (and sometimes hilariously limp and dejected sounding) form of mutated synth pop that mates the smurfy insularity of NWW-listers Bomis Prendin to the quease atmospheres and jerry rigged electronic structures of The Storm Bugs and the primitive synthetics and campily declamatory spieling of Todd Clark or Ian Macfarlane to Frankie Teardrop-like Suicide-al psychodramatics. Only happier. Some 12 years on from here, Messr. Fazzini would reemerge as one third of Leaf label recording artists A Small Good Thing and latterly, as simply Fazzini for Chicago's Locust Music, who've now taken upon themselves to gift the world with this much earlier screwiness of his. Check out a couple of tracks
Here and if you're life's been enriched for the effort, think about picking one of these up from Locust Music Here