Held By Trees – Talk Talk’s Legacy lives on and is rooted in Dorset

You Need to see / hear this band https://www.wegottickets.com/event/593559#

26th April they play In Chelmsford

read about them in objective words here and Classic Pops ( love that mag ) amazing article on Held By Trees

https://open.spotify.com/embed/artist/1ymZF1ZIsHaqneEoqAi7lz?utm_source=generator

I’m not gonna rant and rave ( well maybe a bit …) but at the risk of sounding like a total loon I’ve had an epiphany / amazing tripple whammy concidence after a big life change

I started working at an amazing company ( warm) it was an amzing experience but also quite stressful for a number of reasons I wont go into the best thing about it was I got to know the amazing and talented Mickey Browne

we worked side by side me as a booking agent and handling multiple tasks/ spinning plates and he running the Re: warm label , getting to work with Mickey and hang out and talk music was / is one of the great pleausres of my life in all honesty.

he gave me loads of great opportunities / laughs and encouragement to ( usually too blue to publish )

I Joke but he is my ROCK and I’m living laughing and loving again xx (eeeee thanks doll face )

1 ) First eeerie coicidence / jungian synchronicty theory in action

Often I would get totally distracted by Mickeys work as he would be playing new / old songs that were going to be included on the various Warm compilations

He was playing the latest comp of the label and night Afficianado ( , DJs Jason Boardman and Moonboots more on them here

and the first track was by Held By Trees – and I had heard it before after good pal and friend of Kerry Robinson Chris Mears sent it to me after we had reconnected after many years and got talking about Talk Talk ( boom tish )

BOOOM sonic booom 

at the Time of hearing it I was blown away and I had forgotten that Chris had mentioned his involvement, months later I got in touch with mutual pal of Mearsey and Kerry  Chris Peddley musician , film maker , face and and bit of a legend as I wanted to get back to DJing and putting on live gigs after a short spurt with Tom Moon at the Poole Hill Brewery nights Desert Shore I mentioned In the Trees and wanting to get involved and maybe put them on and what did he know about them and that they are incredible and I knew a bit about the Talk Talk legacy but not that much but I was ravenous to know more and so is Mickey …

in short

Held By Trees’ debut album brings together eight alumni of the revered Talk Talk albums Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, and Mark Hollis’ only solo album on new instrumental music.
Alongside the likes of Robbie McIntosh (guitar), Martin Ditcham (drums), Simon Edwards (bass) and Phill Brown (mix), the album also features…
Tim Renwick (Guitar – Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Eric Clapton)
Mike Smith (Saxophone – Blur, Gorillaz, Jamiroquai)
Gary Alesbrook (Trumpet – Super Furry Animals, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher)
Blues/roots legend Eric Bibb.

Boom – 2 number 2 coincidence / event

he said Im going to see / chat with David at my friends studio and do you want to come along meet and have a look – I immediately thought this is so odd / amazing / spoooky

thats a seperate entity in itself the studio – it is rediculous with its own reverb chamber made from a basement ( dig the cosmic hole ! ) – I’m hoping to send some cosmic messages between musicians I love and send them to this unearthly echo womb ( more on this studio at a later date )

I digress

Booooooom mind blow

So I went over and Met David and flipping out both as a fan and reverb nerd- this is a sepearate story in itself …

at the same time Mickey is having a conversation with David and we ( mickey and I ) were texting going wtf they are from Bournemouth ??!!

and now I’m really hoping to help them out / release their music / book them some shows , whatever I can do to spread the notes – the sparsity and beauty are the direct DNA of Mark – its so eeerie

when you think about Mark Hollis classic quote about the space between the music 

“Before you play two notes, learn how to play one note, y’know? And don’t play one note unless you’ve got a reason to play it.” ~ Mark Hollis

and his last leaving remark to a jornalist from the Wire “I think im done ” it had this eerie relevance to my life- ( working in an office with all the crap that goes with it ) and knowing when i’m done and needing and appreciating the space and beauty of the landscape around us and feeling restless ( Mickey and I constantly dreaming and talking hippy bollox about plateus of sound and being lost in nature and the strange pagan heritage and legends of dorset – see Gerald Gardner /

Sybil Leek /

Harry Paye and having moving experiences in this landscape – this is what Held By Trees is all about and it turns out David is from our beloved Dorset and this music was born out of a moment when the world stopped ( COV19)

In short I have a a bewildering urge to make this band heard by whatever means necessary.. It feels so odd to meet David but good odd …I wish I had dug deeper into them and reached out to learn a bit more about them.but TIme is just time right …Its opening up a world of Music to me that ive never had time to dive into Swans / Bark Pyschosis for example and David has a lot of plans and exciting projects coming up

to get a bit personal ive been Struggling with mental health and depression and Talk Talk have meant so much to me and I feel really and blessed to have met David and learnt about his mission to continue the legacy – I’m struggling to convey this but In short if you like Mark Hollis / Rustin man / Ambient / Pink Floyd or just in short MUSIC . please devour and buy everything Held By Tress have made .. enough of my waffle !

PS I had to run to a job interview and what Lennon said “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans”

but I hope David you read this and we work together. Whatever happens, signed Robin Fan for life and I hope Mickey becomes your dear friend and colaborator too xxxx

Desert Shore w/ Rose Io

the very talented and eerie Rose graces the stage at Cellar bar Bournemouth 25th may

her Project Rokurokubi. is an eerie spooky blast of cold air

I’ll be playing dark disco and cold waves with Lil Mishap TBC !!

happy to be in the cellar bar its a unique venue and full of strangeness

maybe bournemouth’s most beautiful venue

here’s a new mix with some Levon Vincent new gear

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Room Radio See Safari show / Luke Una / Levon Vincent / Warm new Job / Warm Comps

Been struggling to find time to put these shows mixes together and for good reason as I have just recently started working for https://warmagency.com/. which is a dream come true as they represent some of my fave DJS inc Luke Una – his compilation E Soul Cultura is a must you can get it here through Warms record shop for the fair price & have included some tracks from the comp on this here mix head over to warm and cop some of their amazing compilations including the
Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Volume One comp

and now just recently Levon Vincvent has signed to Warm Levon Vincent (dubby / muddy pure jacking material trax – here’s a wee blurb about his new Album

Levon Vincent returns with his fifth studio album, titled Work In Progress, the follow up to 2022’s Silent Cities cassette release. Progress sees the dub techno and NY house auteur throw away any overarching concept, apart from the idea that it must move you.

Work In Progress is a collection of club ready jams that form the latest productions from Levon’s incredibly prolific run of 12”s he’s pressed on his own label Novel Sounds, directly for the next weekend’s sets. His run over the last 20 years of 12” numbers almost 50 releases. Rather than his previous albums presenting a finished story, his fifth presents a diarist’s work in progress, his latest club constructions, many raising the BPM to 140 to reflect the faster pace of his latest DJ sets.

“The previous albums I have made are all meant to be heard from start to finish, where it takes the listener on a voyage” explains Levon. “I modelled the narrative idea after those LPs after greats like Stevie Wonder, who made albums that contained an arc that would unfold from start to finish. You were meant to listen to them from beginning to end.”

“With Work in Progress, I set out to break the pattern of writing albums with an arc. I wanted to make something that more closely reflects my DJing. This is an album for DJs. I thought, ‘why separate my LP and 12” approaches? My only rule for this album was ‘you have to be able to play each track in your own sets’. My DJ sets are varied and go through different styles. I would play every track on this LP at some point in a club night or at a festival. I named it Work In Progress, because I am a work in progress. And I am frequently in a situation where I must improve. So it references self-improvement, the concept and the action of.”

DJs and home listening fans of Levon will find a lot to love in the new collection. From the hi-nrg 80s proto-disco through a gray scale gauze of Regarding Love, with an emotional mood continued through Longing, the skipping NY House drum programming of Strut Beats filtered through a submarine Berliner filter. Even a track which promises such an uncomplicated confection as The Funk is complicated by Levon’s gritty vision, made tougher and more metallic. Sunday Mornings echo’s the most feel good of 90s piano, but with a shifting modal centre, as befits a musician who has taught himself to play with and use nonstandard harmonic intervals. Again, Levon is exploring and composing in real time, pursuing his muse across an industrial grid of his own construction.

see safari free music

making a few beds / trying out some different sounds in Ableton free or name your price, keen to hear any feedback or just send a message and if you have some music you want to share here happy to share it x

Sentics – finally on Bandcamp !

yay hurrah, my good friend Markus has finally uploaded his music as Sentics and its full of nice Peter Hook baselines and ethereal synths, I’ve come back to it to give it a proper listen as it was released back in late Feb

His far away, woozy hypnotic voice has the duality of being somewhat soothing then snarling . Lofi production that is “distant” if you like Young Marble Giants you’re gonna like Sentics. There’s something jarring and slightly robotic and I like that about them. iIs it lazy journalism to say Teutonic ? After all they are from Austria, they are informed by a lot of great post punk but Sentics stand out from the crowd of fey Indie poppers by being somewhat dark in tone – spacey Metronomic rhythms and I can see Markus doing a David Byrne like dance to the music in a vessel floating in space

Winter Ambient Mix – Quarantine Arts

some music from Artiststs featured here on this blog inc Kerrie Robinson, Sumatran Black the incredible DJ Python featured visual and sound artist seb patane as Fog School with Scanner Muslimgauze Residual Energy Boss Chris Mears ( with peddley on keys ) myself and longterm partner in noodles and seinpeaks genius Markus ( sentics ) and last but not least the North London pysche folk god that is Pete Kosanovich

Sumatran Black – This Loving presence

Of course i’m going to write about Peter as I know him, to know him is to love him,

let me count the ways

The soft pads, the subtle beats, the use of samples from tv and Film ( his Rohmer influenced side project Camomile Dawn is a lofi 120 house techno melancholic project that demands you process now and add to your mixes )

This new Sumatran Black Album was written in the hours of darkness and in the wee small hours with abnormal sleep patterns, and at these hours the best work is often made, and what work it is

Deep sensations and images flood the mind. Nighthawks who work with zoom all day and barely see anyone. These are the strange days and emotions are fraught and we are RAW. Permit me to dream but I think we will see a huge return to clubs and live music and a third summer of Love. (this has been talked about a lot in the excellent faith fanzine, which as you know is the continuation of the BOYS OWN fanzine a HOUSE magazine Hopefully an end to business techno TM and with a real grassroots movement of collective conscientious party promoters with a sense of History regarding club culture and redressing that the origins are black, gay, inclusive and respectful of cultures. Peter is well aware of the origins of club culture as a fanatic and lover of all types of music he’s part of the second wave of acid house babies that were raised in the 80s and 90s we were both lucky to come from inclusive backgrounds and were lucky to experience mass gatherings and concerts, I’m going off on a tangent here but this album is about dislocation and drifting away from the self. I worry for the youth of today who are missing out on essential identity building and memory making experiences. I feel as though sometimes the only thing that keeps me going now is nostalgia and I feel that there will be a generation who feel lost. Amongst manifold loss

Loss of self and loss of Life, as Louis Theroux recently put it in his excellent podcast with FKA twigs we are in a mental Health crisis Peter is dealing with emotions like we all are in Lockdown, in some ways we are both lucky in that we are both not burdened by children but at the same time we feel apart from society in that we are not convential breeders, if you will,

I read something really scary /interesting about a group called the voluntary human extinction movement..and another friend Angelo pointed out to me that if we as a species were not so reliant on Flesh none of this shit would be happening, Our lust to devour and have whatever we want and unsafe practices have brought us slaughter, I’m not going to use Morrissey here but I will because he has made intellignet points (though he has shown to be on the brink of madness as well.. re facism) well… Meat Is Murder

to conclude … Your Loving Presence is needed, however it is, be it a digital reproduction ( JOI Blade runner 2 ) zoom love story telling and reaching out to your family ( both Pete and I are away from our close families )

please buy his music it is from the heart and heartwrenching as I have said before his melodies are heart renderingly beautiful.

Anti Anxiety bliss out Trackz – Sunplus -Casually Here- Algebra Records – Gemcutter – Emma Kate Mathews – Sentics & Seasafari – Talk Talk – notes and spaces

In this crazy time Ive found its best to go over old emails and videos and memories and reconnect with people, I found a great one of Nic Nell at The Lock Tavern, his electronic hyperactive nature and sense of melody and fun where what made me want to put him on the tiny sticky floor of that great disco pub, sadly writing disco Pub just feels sad and the thought of going to a pub now feels like a distant memory …. another was Campari Safari Lock Tavern memory was of the shambolic Wreckless Iraqi who were terrible but lovely people, this is in the last days of Myspace and finding gems in the filth and crap was a full time job! Sadly Wreckless Iraqi are untraceable but I know I just know somewhere in a box of glowsticks and purple hoodies from am app ( dodgy owner sex pest ) their spirit Lives on

back to Nic Nell …

Now he is sharing music on his own label Algebra and its wildly different to his beginnings but with the same attention to detail , novel sounds and wild changes that made his tunes stand out recording as Casually Here

I listened to the Daniel Lopatin- esque in more melodic mode tracks

and was reminded of Gemtree – an artist I was lucky enough to get to know through my work as a Teacher online – Gemtree from Moscow, his productions are crammed with different and abbrasive sounds , some parralels with ARCA as well

go and check out the label, very blissful, like this track here a remix of Sunplus / Rob Shields. This really is a masterwork and broadens the mind, I listened to this cycling along the prom to work in the faded late Corona light past the Chiringuitos and the Palm trees hardly anyone on the prom apart from the crazy cross fit people and other walkers, I saw the father and son I always see at Carihuela and the track seemed to click perfectly, we are all together just trying to keep to routines and living slow life at the moment. rocks r slow life

and here on PELT

and up to date with this colaborative album with lawrence heart on Hotflush, its not really my cup of tea but on slower ambient tracks he shines

stand out material ( for me ) from Algebra is Emma Kate Mathews which shares some DNA coding with aquatic / eco / spacial sounds with Gemcutter and similar in mine and Petes work in Haram Tapes with using field recordings of places visited or passed through , theres also the theme of space between notes (Mark Hollis RIP)

and sounds from around the world, dreaming of spaces and places we would all like to visit … “music is reflected in the EP through the use of spatial recording techniques, binaural panning and the simulation of reflected sound. This forms a virtual sense of depth which subtly expands, contracts and morphs around the listener, creating a spatial narrative from beginning to end.”

it will take you to another space if not another plateu

this is full of good stuff go spend and spend some time with it – boards of canada levels of introspection and wonder will await or whatever youre doing to pass the days

https://soundcloud.com/algebrarecords/sets/sunplus-more-re-colour

and remeber BOP Je !

and Everything you do is a baloon, like Nic told me on an email on the subject of finishing tracks , let it go and dont be precious about making something perfect, let it go or release it , once its mastered its done ! Write record release

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if youd like to work on a track , please have this beat https://wsi.li/dl/pauZnHm4KZSRSbsDi/

and email me campari0safari at gmail .com

heres some tracks I made with Markus Sentics with his crunchy guitar lines under the Chessil Beach theme, Im missing the Juraissic coast alot, I watched Broadchurch recently, Dorset people ‘aint like that, Markus is a great musician I hope he puts out some tapes soon ! I miss all my friends and family I cant wait for the new year like everyone elese so I can visit people and places, peace and love if you made it this far through ramblings xxx

Valencia Brutal: Jorge Socarras + Fill Lex Recs Valencia Brutal

Musical loops link Valencia to Sydney to Hull, Detroit, seismic shifts in society ( from Franco to Democracy ) and freedom of expression and through music Valencia should be better known and more prominenent in the narrative of clubs / raves / club culture. Albeit linked partly or placed in the context of the explosion and development of spanish youth culture stemming from the Movida Madrille where post punks found their voice in Madrid . But how did Valencia play a part in shaping the Techno sound in europe in the mid 90s and form the club or rave culture, it wasnt just Ibiza first then the UK club explosion. Things were already in place for a perfect storm in the form of a new drug, Mescalina ;MDA + caffeine in capsule form and the new beats from Belgium, Germany and further afield in Severed Heads from Sydney … Valencia with its CV-500, a coastal highway that connects to the A7 that runs along the whole spanish coast came to be a super highway to paradise for clubbers who could attend Barraca, Chocolate, Spook Factory and Puzzle. Acording to Bill Brewster Alfredo had told him about this scene but still there are only a few articles in English , a great article on Spook and the early roots of Valencia nightlife can be found here

and the most comprehensive article is Carlos Hawthorn’s article on Resident Advisor

The best books on the scene are Luis Costa’s Bacalao! and Joan M. Oleaque, En Éxtasis

I was first pointed to the existence through Manuel Dolp digger , friend and co promoter for Everybodies Darling our party in vienna, I wanted to know more so I got in touch with Valencian resident and music legend Jorge Socarras from being lucky enough to put on events and DJ with him , I knew he had moved to Valencia a few years ago , I got to know Jorge one night thanks to mutual friends Stav and Jon in the Razzamataz in Barcelona ( where Luis Costa holds nights himself and handles Press ) the one night Fab mayday and I got to play to wild barcelona jovenes thanks to Jeff Automatic a man who knows the discotecas y fiestas brilliante y oscura … Jeff often playing in spain on the peninsular and Ibiza and promoting with Colin Peters a DJ who is integral to Ibiza Lore and … my first experience of a really ear opening dj set was Colin Peters at Manumaison at Privelege where he dropped this bomba to bemused pastilla freeks, a DJ who wasnt and doesnt just serve up regular sets and who could drop a record like this from another era…

Grauzone – Eisbaer is such an important record for more exciting dancefloors as I mentioned in yesterdays post on Spook club and the Ruta bacalao for Fran Lenaears a DJ in touch with many scenes and sounds emerging from all over europe like Gene Loves Jezebel (yes ) , The Woodentops ( the balearic touch stone ) Ministry, Severed Heads and other gothic rock , NDW , industrial, New Beat and early electronic records that powered the dancefloor at Spook

Fran and Rafa, Rafa Pastor Serra at Spook, Carlos Simo from Barraca who feels so strongly “I don’t recognise ‘La Ruta del Bakalao,'” “They tell me, ‘Ruta del Bakalao’ and I don’t know what that is. It’s idiotic, frankly. An invention of the press.” they should be more well known for spearheading and being way ahead of the capital and possibly way ahead of cities like London and Manchester in terms of gathering huge groups of different tribes together and inducing mass frantic sweaty dancing

Fran lenaers brought beat matching to the decks and the New Beat experimenting with long intros , orchestral records and strange ambience ( here a similarity to Danielle Baldelli with Cosmic must be noted ) and panning and long mixes and a residency that meant he controlled the decks for up to 20 hours or more, Toni Vidal or Toni El Gitano at Chocolate who brought live performances ( employing a 2 sets a night policy !) from Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Art of Noise, Throbbing Gristle, 400 Blows, Cabaret Voltaire, Anne Clark, fostered the love of darker goth bands and

these DJs and promoters of great note, definetly, their influence is felt on the generations of Valencians that continue to hold up the influence of Industrial , EBM, and darker synthetic sounds, the early roots of the scene is where Valencia lead and broke new ground and those harder dark sounds influence one such label is Fill Lex Records through Jorges introduction I have got to chat to Alex Orc the owner who is someone really interested in the early beginning of the Bacalao story or La ruta story or lets just call it Valencian clubs and their attitude to djing. The years after 91 92 there’s no need to talk about Chimo Bayo , Ecsta si ? Ecsta NO ! and Makina and the dissolution of a once great scene thanks to over exposure both national and from police presssure, there’s already enough written about it how a once vibrant scene influenced by the new european dance music became in a word ….cheesy ….

But what about the roots and linking up to todays brutalist music Well Fill Lex is doing a great job of releasing some artists round the world, a release that really caught my ear for its punishing quality is Disco Morato & Gegen Man from Moscow

by Fill-Lex Records

 

In their own words ” Disco Morato and Gegen Mann are Moscow based DJs and sound producers. By playing their music they try to touch the darkest aspects of human emotion expressing an atmosphere of body-control. Apart from DJing they produce music and signed to UK-based NEIN Records. And as a collaboration, they founded imprint “MAXIMA CULPA RECORDS” to develop their specific sound and vision of music. This release is also the result of their collaboration.”

total body control, the EBM sound is to the fore here, a recent mix by Disco Morato also shows a brilliant concept in this time of distance and frustration, the abandoned structure of Zelenograd Collider Zelenograd Collider is an informatics and electronics center that was not completed during the Soviet era. The object got its name because of its similarity to the collider: a ring-shaped and paired tunnels 3×3 meters – the remains of an unfinished ring heat-cable projector. A relic from the Cold war now we are in the Bio material war ….what we reaped from our nature to destroy nature … its fitting that EBM and dark synth music is now being recognised as the music of our time, manipulation , anxiety, fear and mistrust, are we living in the hellscape Front 242, Einsturzende Neubaten and other greats talked about ?

One, you lock the target
Two, you bait the line
Three, you slowly spread the net
And four, you catch the man (catch the man)

The next release im really connecting with is 99% Fiel a split tape from Thissperso & Yozy

Particulary enthralling is the wildly oscillating claustrophobic metallic cries from a metal box, peak time EBM dark music from Thisspero but in particular the track that grabbed me was Yozy’s ‘Dont Smash The Cat’ it is a prowling low end thumping low bpm club track , the track Macumba for your broken heart hints at their interest in the dark magick of Macumba practiced in some rural areas of Argentina and Uruguay, deep Jungle electro darkness awaits thee on listen, que interesante, BLIPs and harsh rolling slow tempos are an interesting take on Electro with speech samples creating a void of emotion

which reminds me as we are still in the month region for remebering our the pagan and macabre stories Severed Heads Dead Eyes Opened, my first time coming across it was in Ivan Smagghes’ legendary mix for bugged out

Check in with his and Nathan Gregory Wilsons radio show on NTS it is always chock a block with weird and wonderful records some of which go boof boof in the night but are few and far between the pyschedelic gems stones , strange records which would clear any dancefloor,

The track Dead eyes opened is not actually about voodoo minuture heads opening their eyes as I lazily presumed many years ago but is a record from the past sounding like the techno future but from 1983 Sydney and not really industrial music which Tom Ellard points out is industrial folk music from the blackened cities of England music such as Throbbing Gristle HULL/LONDON or Caberet Voltaire SHEFFIELD interesting tangent to go on is that many industrial groups are so varied in their actual sound but all share the same DNA and of course from the heartland of industrial germany Kraftwerk with their roots as a Kosmische or Krautrock band das original roboter , unser vaters immer liebt .. ….hear him Tom Ellard in his own words explain what industrial means to him the importance of not fitting everything into boxes and what it meant to have artists like Derrick May In detroit cite him as influencing the creation of Techno and why “We should never ever pre-organise ourselves into categories that fit nicely in museums, journals and repositories. That’s like pinning yourself into a display case.” great article here https://thequietus.com/articles/21144-tom-ellard-severed-heads-interview

With its sample of from a BBC play about the murder of 38-year-old Emily Kaye, who was murdered by her lover, Patrick Mahon. The track can be heard being cained by Fran Lenaers at spook ….time is a loop and time is just time I keep telling myself …..i’m dying for a dance

back to the focus on FILL LEX records and ‘m happy to discover from the brilliance of Bandcamps feature of who supports releases (on that there is a vienna based DJ who has played at Sameheads and with Cem Herrensauna Misonica she has an impressive number of dates and new release coming up , this mix is a particulary good head bath of slow and darker music her set starts at 33 in, shes bought music by LEX OR boss of FILL lex Alex Orc

and strange coincidence that the mix comes from Fluc the club that held many Vanity Vague and Cellophan Club Hot Shit and Disco Frisco events and which is where I first got to talk to Jorge properly along with mutual friend and disco legend Severino both at the excellent Fluc (going back in history i see Moodymann played in their first year for Enix !)

he performed Soon and other songs from Catholic ( the recent reissue on Dark Entries is an essential purchase!

his project with Nico Nightingale/ Neud Photo has a lovely authentic vintage synth feel- no plug ins here !

I just stumbled across this amazing recreation

si me gusta esta frio duro ritmo

label boss Alex or Orco has a style very close to my heart and his djing is also something close to the very heart of what Fran Lenaers ( the Valencian Larry Levan ! ) was doing bringing the new european sounds together mixing and blending difficult music to dancefloors and you can hear this in his own tracks on Futuro Pasado

The tracks on the Album that stand out for me include Alma Neurotica

The wraith like synth pads and jarring beats and the sample of a prerecoreded answer phone message evoke a hostile atmosphere like Spice Lab – A Day On Our Planet, a track that melt can walls

cold scary electro doesnt come much scarier and brooding than Applehead – Rat Arsed Woman in which a heavily processed sample from a rat arsed woman promises she’ll do permanent damage to our most sacred entry point !

Fill Lex is just one of a slew of small specialist labels that are going through this hard time make sure you drop in and purchase trax on bandcamp

Sentics / Sumatran Black corona colab demo

sentics has been plowing away making music and sitting on a load of demos for years

when will he release his music ? its annoyingly catchy post punk with very clever and sometimes quite dark lyrics that are buoyed up by his great melodies

 

he seems happy to release these great songs on youtube but I think he should take the plunge and release something on bandcamp !

 

I like Markus and his vocal style, its very authentic and anti glossy, anti polished,

Im a bit biased though, hes a great friend and we have been through thick and thin times, hes often given me shelter ( and a blanket )  and often listened to me in times of need, what a friend ! when im with him I find total SERENITY NOW AND ALWAYS !  and what a talented friendo he is , I hope 2020 is the year that Sentics releases a tape or even some wavs !  He should totally start  vanderlay industries records!

 

hopefully he will release some drones with me and Pete !

 

He sent some crunchy droney guitar and Me and pete set to work on it, I hope I can be a bit more proactive and pull my finger out and make 4-5 more tracks and also so we can finish our chesil beach project !