STORM unleash their long-anticipated new studio offering: Nations to Flames.
Following De Stijl’s Zoned retrospective and a Bureau B issue of Pain It Dark on CD, this reissue marks the first availability of 39 Clocks’ music on vinyl in over 25 years!įile Under: Psycho Beat, Kraut Punk, New WaveĪ Storm of Light: Nations to Flames (Southern Lord) LP
Amongst the outsourcing, one can nevertheless detect a native Kraut heritage peeking through in the robotic beats and icy demeanor of “Twisted & Shouts” – as Dada and nihilistic an oldies cover as can be imagined. The pair’s most obvious touchstones are Suicide’s crusted synths and the ragged stumble of Loaded-era Velvets – if fed through a particularly British lens of Swell Maps/basement-DIY whack-job-ism. Oozing out shock waves of bad acid trips, decayed guitar, and the dull stomp of a tiny beatbox, Pain It Dark is American garage and proto-punk filtered through some shadow-filled masterpiece of German expressionism. 39) put 11 tracks to tape in 1981 for what would become their debut album. Evolving from a confrontational art-punk experiment, known for playing vacuum cleaners and saws and terrifying audiences with brute volume, Christian Henjes (C.H. Germany’s self-crowned “Psycho Beat” combo, 39 Clocks were a low-lit shadow unit operating in a sparsely inhabited contrarian counter-culture all their own. Grab it now!įile Under: Ambient, New Age, PINA, Chill, Boxsetsģ9 Clocks: Pain it Dark (Luxury Products) LP Remastered from original sources at 24 bit/96 kHz.” All our copies are on the limited clear vinyl. Notes by Douglas McGowan featuring interviews with artists. Double CD housed in deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket with 44-page book. Lovingly conceived and lavishly presented, I Am the Center features stunning paintings by the legendary visual artist Gilbert Williams, and liner notes by producer Douglas Mcgowan, who weaves the words and images of the wizards and sorceresses of new age into a prismatic portrait of music that can finally be recognized for what it is: great American folk art. Call it what you will - before it was anything else, it was new age. Many of the biggest names are present - Iasos, inter-dimentional channeler of ‘paradise music’ Laraaji, discovered by Brian Eno playing for spare change in Washington Square Park and the recently famous JD Emmanuel, icon to a new generation of drone, ambient, noise musicians. (Did you know, for instance, that a track from the first modern private press new age album is featured on the Blade Runner soundtrack? It’s called ‘Pompeii, 76 A.D.’ and we’ve got it here.) I Am the Center is a knowing, but never cynical overview that invites listeners at last to the mainspring of a misunderstood genre’s greatest lights. From mathematical musical algorithms to airport murder mysteries to Henry Mancini and Bugs Bunny, the connections to mainstream culture run in curious directions. Before it became big business and devolved into the spaced out elevator music we know and loathe today, this was the real thing. This is analog, handmade music communicating soul and spirit, often done on limited means and without commercial potential, self-published and self-distributed. For new age, at its best, is a reverberation of psychedelic music, and great by any standard. I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age In America, 1950-1990 is the first major anthology to survey the golden age of new age and reveal the unbelievable truth about the genre. “Forget everything you know, or think you know, about new age, a genre that has become one of the defining musical-archaeological explorations of the past decade. Various: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1980 (Light in the Attic) 3LP/2CD Anyway, dig in, stop by, grab some wax from Matt, I’m going trick or treating. Retail/commercial audio material available on this site is limited to a duration of one minute and a half.Yikes! I think this might be one of the biggest news letters yet, but you know what that means? TONS of killer new wax! Gotta say, this week’s pick is epic! Our pals at Light in the Attic have been working on this one for years and it shows. If you are a copyright holder that wishes us to remove, to include or alter attribution, or to modify the manner in which any materials in which you own the copyright are displayed, please contact us, we will react and comply as quickly as possible.International Disco Records shopping guide.
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