Unseen are the mysterious group of UK players who have made it a point to adopt as low a profile
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The Reverse Alphabet
GX Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters, Survival Research Laboratories) started to issue his Zelphabet series around September this year – we received
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Plenty goodies arriving from the ESP-Disk’ label this season, the recent batches containing an unusual mixture of free jazz, be-bop
Continue readingFour Vinyl Voltroons
These four Vinyl Voltroons certainly pack quite a few heavy electronic punches as they step up to the collective megaphone.
Continue readingA Zappa / MOI Christmas Special (TSP radio 19/12/08)
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: ‘Plastic People’ ‘The Duke Of Prunes’ ‘Amnesia Vivace’ ‘The Duke Regains His Chops’
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Nikos Veliotis is the Greek emperor of the restrained cello – he can fill churches and cathedrals with his gut-tuned
Continue readingLast out, first played (TSP radio 12/12/08)
Matmos, ‘Last Delicious Cigarette’ From The West, USA AUTOFACT FACT06CD (2008) Hans Grüsel’s Kränkenkabinet, ‘Blue Door Openings’ From Blaue Blooded
Continue readingExploitable Rift and Suge Arrosa
The combination of improvised sax with electronic music is usually a winning combination for me personally. If you’re of a
Continue readingProgressive rock III: Vertigo (TSP radio 05/12/08)
May Blitz, ‘For Mad Men Only’ From The 2nd of May, UK VERTIGO 6360 037 LP (1971) Cressida, ‘Lisa’ From
Continue readingTheir Hearts were full of Pain
Salute the oncoming winter solstice with Menace Ruine, that’s my advice…the latest release from this Canadian black metal project is
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