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THE COSMIC DEAD - SCOTTISH SPACE RACE - NEW ALBUM AND EU TOUR
Heavy psych experimentalists The Cosmic
Dead's eighth album - Scottish Space Race - is set to be released in
September via Riot Season Records on Gatefold 2xLP / CD and has been
mastered by John McBain (Monster Magnet, Wellwater Conspiracy).
The album was recorded in their Glasgow HQ
with cosmic sound guru Luigi Pasquini, four sprawling chunks of music
recorded live amongst a run of momentous late night festival
appearances in the summer of 2018. Scottish Space Race is the first
Cosmic Dead release to feature the drumming of Tommy Duffin (Headless
Kross) and the lap-steel synthesizer yowls of Russell Andrew Gray
(Girl Sweat) alongside long-time cosmicians Omar Aborida and James T
Mckay.
To accompany the release the band is set
to embark on a run of dates across the UK and Europe this autumn.
Check out the teaser trailer for the album
here :
SCOTTISH SPACE RACE EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
SEPTEMBER
17 UK HUDDERSFIELD @ The Parish
18 UK LONDON @ The Lexington
19 BE BRUSSELS @ Magasin 4
20 NL UTRECHT @ DB's
21 DE BAMBERG @ Pizzini
24 DE BERLIN @ Urban Spree
26 SL LJUBLJANA @ Gromka
27 HK ZAGREB @ Mochvara
28 HU SZEGED @ Jazz Kocsma
30 RO BUCHAREST @ Q-Fest Quantic Club
OCTOBER
01 RO CLUJ-NAPOCA @ Subform
02 RO TIMISOARA @ Capcana
03 AT WIEN @ Viper Room
04 IT VERONA @ Stoner Mafia
08 FR PARIS @ Supersonic
09 FR LILLE @ La Malterie
10 FR ROUEN @ Les 3 Pieces
11 UK BRISTOL @ The Lanes
NOVEMBER
14 UK BEDFORD @ Esquires
15 UK FALMOUTH @ The Fish Factory
16 UK BATH @ St James Wine Vaults
17 UK NEWCASTLE @ Brave Exhibitions
Festival
More dates TBC
KRAUSE 'THE ECSTASY OF INFINITE STERILITY' LP
Heavy-as-all-hell Athens, Greece noise
rock quartet KRAUSE formed in 2016 from the ashes of several extreme
metal and noise bands and exploded onto the scene in 2017 with its
massive debut LP 2am Thoughts (Riot Season), described variously as
a pissed-off, swamped, noise rock album
that is going to melt your brains and rattle the teeth out of your
skull and a demolition spree disguised as an album. Featuring
veterans of various scenes and genres, with active and past members of
VULNUS, Cut off, Rita Mosss, Casual Nun, Progress of Inhumanity,
Dusteroid and Straighthate, KRAUSE play AmRep/Touch and Go inspired
heavy noise rock and put on an equally unforgiving live show to go
with it.
After spending the rest of 2017 and 2018
playing with various international and local extreme music stalwarts
such as ZU, Electric Wizard and Dephosphorus and appearing at
Desertfest Athens, KRAUSE went back to the studio to record its
sophomore
album. An immensely heavy record that
still manages to remain quite eclectic, THE ECSTASY OF INFINITE
STERILITY is calculated to make you feel as filled with anger and
self-loathing as the band were while making it. KRAUSE has mastered
the arts of the riff and the crushing groove, offering 10 tracks of
pure sonic violence, catchy, brutal and uncompromising, with the odd
bit of melody thrown in to make the suffering just that much sweeter.
The album was produced by the band, and was recorded live and mixed at
AUX studios in Athens, Greece, by Giotis Paraskevaidis.
Check out the full album here ORDER NOW VIA THE LABEL WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE ELECTRIC MOON / TERMINAL CHEESECAKE 'IN SEARCH OF HIGHS VOLUME 3' LP The third 'In Search Of Highs' release is something of a battle of the big hitters. Step forward Electric Moon & Terminal Cheesecake. This is kind of a dream split for me, two AMAZING bands. The record is available pressed on either transparent red or transparent turquoise coloured vinyl. 250 copies of each for retail. I have already SOLD OUT of the entire mail order allocation of both (pre sale to the label mailing list subscribers went crazy!) but there are some copies out there in shops/distros for June 14th release. A black vinyl repress with alternative sleeve artwork is in production and should be here by the end of June. You can pre order a copy via the webshop/bandcamp site now BLACK VINYL REPRESS WITH ALT SLEEVE ARTWORK NOW AVAILABLE VIA THE LABEL WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE
FIRST PRESS ON TRANSPARENT RED OR TRANSPARENT TURQUOISE VINYL : SOLD OUT
NANI∞GURU 'VOVIVIZM EPISODE 1.5' CASSETTE
A long awaited and well overdue new tape release on sister label Swap Meat is finally here. Nani∞Guru is a new due formed by Acid Mothers Temple pair Kawabata Makoto & Satoshima Nani. The tape is limited to 100 copies in total with turquoise tape shells and a double sided full colour inlay card. My half of the pressing is now totally sold out so thanks to all that grabbed a copy. Check the full album over at the label bandcamp page here HIBUSHIBIRE 'TURN ON, TUNE IN, FREAK OUT!' LP The wait is nearly over ... Japan's newest psych-rock gurus release their second album 'Turn On, Tune In, Freak Out!' on Riot Season on May 10th 2019. The follow up to their much loved 2017 debut album 'Freak Out Orgasm!' will be available in two vinyl editions, neon orange or classic black vinyl and as a very limited cassette.
It would be fair to say Hibushibires
2017 debut album Freak Out Orgasm! went down well with fans of
psych-rock (call it what you will). So far its had three vinyl
pressings, two cassette pressings and a CD run back in Japan. It
garnered quite a few influential underground (if not mainstream)
reviews and seemed to sell through on word of mouth alone - which in
these times seems to be the way things are going: thriving social
media groups sharing their love of recent purchases and fellow vinyl
lovers going out and scooping them up without the need to buy a
magazine or read an online review to make their mind up. My favourite
review of Freak Out Orgasm! came from UK based music blog Dayz
Of Purple And Orange as I think he nailed it perfectly...
Fuck me! I think I've died and gone to
psychedelic heaven! If anyone had asked me what I would really want
from a freak out, heavy-as-fuck psych band I would have to say I would
want the sheer guitar pyrotechnics of Acid Mothers Temple, the
hard-as-nails scuzziness of The Heads, the lead heaviness of a
fucked-up Blue Cheer and the instrumental dexterity of Hendrix on
speed. Guess what, that band exists and they are called HIBUSHIBIRE!"
That, to me, said it all. Nail hit hard.
But let's get onto 'Turn On, Tune In, Freak Out!'
Once again the album is produced by Makoto
Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple, Mainliner) and for me it's the next
logical step in the bands sonic development. As with its predecessor,
side one consists of three tracks, "Ecstasy Highwaystar / Blow!
Blow! Blow! / Overdose, Pussycat! More! More!", (they do like an
exclamation mark). Some of these titles will be familiar if you've
followed the band's live shows in recent times, and it's pretty much a
guitar to the front, full gonzo-style hard-rocking psychedelic freak
out from the first blast of Changchang's guitar panning from left to
right before the main riff kicks it all off.
Again, as with their debut, side two
comprises of just one epic length track. 'Rollercoaster Of The
Universe' clocks in at seventeen minutes and is, in my humble opinion,
the sound of the band moving onto the next level during its journey.
It's a shudderingly beautiful piece, with many hypnotic twists and
turns. I can't wait to hear how they play this live.
The band did initially attempt to produce
this album by themselves, but got 'brain fever' in the studio and
called their old friend Makoto to come down and help them finish it
off. As he had no preparation in advance, he knew nothing about how
the recording was going in the studio, and moreover there was little
time left for adjustments to be made. But his technique of mixing
was, as always, both mighty and almost destructive.
He said to Changchang during the mixing
process, Listen carefully! I am teaching how to work magic.
And he has.
The title is Turn On, Tune In, Freak
Out!. True to its name.
ORDER NOW VIA THE LABEL WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE BLOW! BLOW! BLOW! PROMO VIDEO
KUNGENS MN 'CHEF' LP ORANGE VINYL REPRESS
There's an orange vinyl repress is here at last. Orange vinyl, alternative orange artwork, double sided insert. 300 copies for the world ORDER NOW VIA THE LABEL WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE
THE BAND WHOSE NAME IS A SYMBOL / SHOOTING GUNS 'IN SEARCH OF HIGHS VOLUME 2' LP
The second, and much later than planned volume in the In Search Of Highs split album series is currently being pressed over in Germany for release late April / early May 2019. Featuring two of Canada's finest psych/freeform outfits Shooting Guns & The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol, it's another killer slab of wax. This one is limited to 300 copies on blue vinyl and will be up for pre order alongside the new Hibushibire LP (see below) shortly so that folks that want both can combine the orders and save on paying two lots of postage. This is something i've toyed with doing for sometime, but it's rare to get two releases ready to post/ship at the same time. Hopefully this will help those that want both releases!
ORDER NOW VIA THE LABEL WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE Canada is a huge country, with very few people. Vast distances between many cities often make it tough for likeminded individuals to get together very often. Over the past few years, despite being physically separated by 2931 km (31 hours drive), Ottawa, Ontarios The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol and Saskatoon, Saskatchewans Shooting Guns have been forming a working bond. Becoming not only friends, but also fans of one anothers groups in the process, this current pairing is no accident. Both outfits are based on the art of improvisation and both are prolific. Each band boast extensive back catalogues of recorded and released material. These sessions you will hear on Volume 2 of In Search Of Highs are a wild heavy trip indeed. TBWNIS and Shooting Guns have really cranked it up for all to experience the sounds of the great white north as thats what they LOVE to do it also helps them keep warm in the winter! SHOOTING GUNS 'NEW LEVITATION' PROMO VIDEO
More news to come ... take a listen below
ORCHESTRA OF CONSTANT DISTRESS 'COGNITIVE DISSONANCE' LP
Delighted to announce the new Orchestra Of Constant Distress album 'Cognitive Dissonance' is at the pressing plant and will be released officially on April 19th 2019. 'Cognitive Dissonance' continues where 'Distress Test' left off with more relentless, brutal, hypnotic and down right nasty sounds. The band play this years Roadburn Festival on April 13th, so if you're going make sure you take the chance to catch them doing a very rare live performance.
One core dynamism within the field of
music is the relationship between performer and spectator. The
audience listen and watch the musicians enjoying themselves and
through that they get an experience of joy. This requires a system of
believing where organized sound can be recognized, and is therefore
music as such. Upon listening to Orchestra of Constant Distress
third album you might want to question this meaning of tonality.
Through catatonic riffs and uncanny sounds we are as listeners left
with a situation where we do not know how to distinguish bad and good,
pleasure from displeasure. OoCD seems to be moving beyond their decent
from such bands as Brainbombs, The Skull Defekts and Union Carbide
Productions towards a tension of disbelief.
The "Cognitive Dissonance" LP
(initial mail order copies only) is accompanied by the limited
"Dissonant Dub" Cassette on Swap Meat with The Idealist dubs
of a few tracks from the album.
The band still is:
Joachim Nordwall (The Skull Defekts, iDEAL
Recordings)
Anders Bryngelsson (Brainbombs, No Balls)
Henrik Rylander (The Skull Defekts, Union
Carbide Productions)
Henrik Andersson
ORDER NOW VIA THE LABEL WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE DISCOMFORT PROMO VIDEO
USA/MEXICO 'MATAMOROS' LP
Rejoice! the second album from Austin's USA/Mexico is at the pressing plant for March 22nd release. As with their 2017 debut 'Laredo' i will be handling the UK/European release with 12XU handling North America. Blurb ..
As a young person I frequently heard tales
that high-end stereo shops used Pink Floyds Dark Side Of The
Moon as a demonstration disc, in order to fully document the
prowess of their impossibly-expensive wares.
I rarely frequented any of these
establishments but always took these stories on faith. Im no
audio guru, but it seems to me that someone attempting to do the same
thing in 2019 could do a whole lot worse than adopting USA/Mexicos
long-awaited 2nd album, Matamoros for similar purposes.
The trios first album 2017s Laredo mightve been a
worthy candidate for a test-spin in the Bang & Olufsen showroom,
but the successor is the sort of record that really makes if youre
the sort of person who can appreciate the BACKES MLLER BM 100
loudspeaker (list price $500,000.00 USD)
Once youre comfortably settled in, youll
find that the all-star team of guitarist Craig Clouse (Shit &
Shine) drummer King Coffey (Butthole Surfers) and Nate Cross
(Marriage, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth) have done everything
possible to help you expand your sonic palette some might say theyve
even done too much! Either way, these guys are as unselfish as they
are loud. Or perhaps theyre as selfish as theyre quiet
i do hope youll agree their motives are less important than the
results, and in this instance, those results are nothing less than a
staggering sensory overload.
George Dishner (Spray Paint) and Kevin
Whitley (Cherubs on a rendition of his bands Shoofly, as
previously heard on 1992s Icing) make cameos. The
entire affair was engineered by budding genius Ian Runndell (he of
every other great record recorded in Austin) and is available
via the 12XU and Riot Season record labels in North American and
UK/Europe respectively.
VAPORWAVE HEADACHE PROMO VIDEO
KUNGENS MN 'CHEF' LP
I'm beyond stoked to announce the next Kungens Man album 'Chef', is coming out on Riot Season in mid February. I assume most of you know of them already, if not i STRONGLY suggest you check out their previous work on the excellent Adansonia Records out of Sweden. This is some top level shit! READ A NEW KUNGENS INTERVIEW WITH IT'S PSYCHEDELIC BABY MAGAZINE HERE
Kungens Mn from Stockholm, Sweden has
been around as a musical unit since 2012. The roots as friends go way
back though. Noises, impulses, fuck ups and improvised jams have been
recorded since day one and some of them have been put out on record.
This is the first one on Riot Season Records. EFTERTANKENS BLANKA KRANKHET PROMO VIDEO
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO UFO 'REVERSE OF REBIRTH IN UNIVERSE' CD/LP Due to demand, we've decided to repress the LP version after the original black & green vinyl versions and CD sold out quickly. The repress is in production now, and will be a limited 300 only edition pressed on sun yellow vinyl and housed in a 350gsm high gloss sleeve featuring this new alternative green artwork courtesy of artist Jessica at The Giant's Lab.
YELLOW VINYL REPRESS NOW AVAILABLE VIA THE LABEL WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE
ORIGINAL LP & CD COVER ARTWORK
It's with great delight i get to announce
the new album by one of my favourite bands, and one of the labels
oldest friends Acid Mothers Temple!.
Reverse Of Rebirth In Universe is
currently being pressed over in Germany and will hopefully be here mid
November for an official shop release on November 30th.
The album will be available in three
variations. Firstly a CD, which comes in a glossy card gatefold sleeve
and also two vinyl editions, a regular classic black vinyl version and
(for now at least) a mail order exclusive mint green vinyl edition.
I'll see how the direct sales go with the green one and if there are
copies left i will of course let them go to shops/distros when the
time comes. But if you 100% want to guarantee getting one then direct
is the way to go. The CD contains a bonus song (a cover of Gong's
'Flying Teapot') which hasn't been available on CD before. Both vinyl
versions will of course come with a download code which will include
this bonus track as well as the three album tracks themselves.
IN THE WORDS OF MAKOTO KAWABATA
"In 2016, 21 years after Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. were founded in Osaka, Japan, there was a major shift in the line-up and "Next Generation" was added to the bands name. We now view the first 20 years of the bands career as chapter one in our story, and we are now turning the page to start chapter two. In 2018, it's time to re-record our classics with this new line-up, we just opened the door to the next stage" More info on the release page here BLUE VELVET BLUES (2018) PROMO VIDEO
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