Monthly Archives: March 2009

Enveloped in a Deep Fog (TSP Radio 13/03/09)

March 13, 2009

Drifting mix using overlapping and cross-fading Nil announce for vox Sum Of R, ‘Basics of Sleep’ From Sum Of R, USA UTECH RECORDS URCD025 (2008) Emeralds, ‘Damaged Kids’ From What Happened, USA NO FUN PRODUCTIONS NFP-35 CD (2008) Jasper TX, ‘Stillness’ From Singing Stones, SWEDEN FANG BOMB FB010 CD (2009) Mats Gustafsson, ‘I have...

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Silent CDs

March 8, 2009
Silent CDs

Italian record label A Silent Place specialises in producing picture disc LPs of underground music, presented as limited edition fine art objects, but they also release CDs. ARC is a side project of Aidan Baker (Nadja), where he plays restrained guitar music and percussion along with two other percussionists, Richard Baker and Christopher Kukiel....

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Earth Horns / All Records Collapse

March 7, 2009
Earth Horns / All Records Collapse

Quite an intriguing burst of dark electronic and sample noise from Violet, whose Violet Ray Gas and The Playback Singers (ZEROMOON zero008 / SENTIENT RECOGNITION ARCHIVE SRA 10) is released in a digipack covered with Futurist-inspired monochrome images full of harsh diagonals and fuzzy dreams of the machine age. Jeff Surak arrives here from...

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1970s UK Power Pop (TSP radio 06/03/09)

March 6, 2009

Sparks, ‘At Home At Work At Play’ (1974) From Propaganda, UNIVERSAL-ISLAND 984 341 0 CD (2006) Rezillos, ‘Flying Saucer Attack’ From Can’t Stand The Rezillos, UK SIRE RECORDS K6530 LP (1978) 10cc, ‘Lazy Ways’ (1976) From How Dare You!, UK MERCURY 534 975-2 CD (1997) 10cc, ‘The Sacro-Iliac’ From Sheet Music, UK UK RECORDS...

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Calls from a rusty cage

March 1, 2009
Calls from a rusty cage

Pianist Tonino Miano sent a copy of Ulysses (IMPRESSUS RECORDS NO NUMBER), a record of improvised music he made with viola player Frantz Loriot; the two of them met in cyberspace and from there proceeded to develop their own brand of musical communication. Both of these conservatoire players come from an extensive academic background,...

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Skippy Reunion Doom

March 1, 2009
Skippy Reunion Doom

From Rhode Island’s mudboy we received the envelope decorated with a blue line drawing of a flying cat. This arrived last October. Inside there’s a really nice seven-incher pressed in blue vinyl and housed in a silk-screened cover by mudboy which shows off his Ukiyo-e influence with its large and bold blocks of colours....

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