I do like a good list. Here's my most listened to bands of 2010 according to last.fm. Obviously it doesn't include vinyl. Not even I'm sad enough to make a log of all the records I listen to. And my ipod isn't scrobbled either so no work related listening is down.
1 - The Lord Weird Slough Feg
2 - Naked Raygun
3 - Deerhunter
4 - Fucked Up
5 - Moon Wiring Club
6 - Autopsy
7 - Helmet
8 - Death
9 - Dazzling Killmen
10 - Today Is the Day
11 - Bolt Thrower
12 - Andrew Thomas
13 - Drexciya
14 - Bastro
15 - At the Gates
16 - Paintbox
17 - Torche
18 - Deadguy
19 - Systral
20 - Fudge Tunnel
21 - Keelhaul
22 - Bear in Heaven
23 - Cop Shoot Cop
24 - Walls
25 - Deathspell Omega
26 - The Carter Family
27 - Man or Astro-man?
28 - Frédéric Chopin
29 - Morbid Angel
30 - Karp
31 - Kiss It Goodbye
32 - Alice Cooper
33 - Overcast
34 - Syphilitic Vaginas
35 - Zeni Geva
36 - Starkweather
37 - DRY-ROT
38 - Belbury Poly
39 - Entombed
40 - Brian Eno
41 - Saccharine Trust
42 - Darkthrone
43 - Broadcast and The Focus Group
44 - Oneohtrix Point Never
45 - Melvins
46 - The Swarm
47 - Social Unrest
48 - NoMeansNo
49 - James Pants
50 - Bad Brains
51 - Unruh
52 - Elvis Presley
53 - Funkadelic
54 - Guided by Voices
55 - Thoughts of Ionesco
56 - Haymaker
57 - MGMT
58 - Swans
59 - Left for Dead
60 - John Fahey
61 - Poison Idea
62 - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
63 -Men's Interest
64 - Snuff
65 - Woven Hand
66 - Wolfgang Voigt
67 - Rorschach
68 - Earthmover
69 - Gui Boratto
70 - Jeff Mills
71 - Gehenna
72 -Dismember
73 - Killdozer
74 - Demilich
75 -The Ventures
76 - Enewetak
77 - Unsane
78 - Atheist
79 - Acrid
80 - Hard to Swallow
81 - Bloodlet
82 - Slices
83 - Gorguts
84 - Jean-Jacques Perrey
85 - The Future Sound of London
86 - Swiz
87 - Gauze
88 - Beach House
89 - Coalesce
90 - Botch
91 - Crossed Out
92 - Actress
93 - Neurosis
94 - Sun City Girls
95 - His Hero Is Gone
96 - Arthur Russell
97 - Sagor & Swing
98 - Torch Runner
99 - Coil
100 - Acme
Wednesday 29 December 2010
Orgone Accumulators update
A quick update on Orgone Accumulators:
- work has begun on the next EP
- couple of gigs getting sorted in February/beginning of March for Brighton & London. Might be some Nacht Und Nebel action at these as well.
- booking a short UK tour in April
- work has begun on the next EP
- couple of gigs getting sorted in February/beginning of March for Brighton & London. Might be some Nacht Und Nebel action at these as well.
- booking a short UK tour in April
State Icons in Brighton
State Icons world tour is continuing. Haven't played in Brighton in months so get down. Also, put 21st June 2011 in your diary - Drainland and State Icons at a venue tbc in London town.
Brighton's Hardcore presents
Pain Runs Deep - heavy, straight edge riffs via Poland (featuring adopted London edgeman, Adam Malik). Inspired by Conviction and Burn.
www.myspace.com/painrunsdeep
Lightbringer - Thrash Metal meets Clevo HC from the SRH
www.myspace.com/thisislightbringer
State Icons - Heavy and chaotic stuff - a bastard child of the best the 90s had to offer.
http://www.myspace.com/stateicons
STAB! - New London Punk. X-Claim sound, socio-political lyrics
http://stabnationrising.blogspot.com/
It'll cost you £5 and it'll start at 8pm.
FB: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=125987577464989
Brighton's Hardcore presents
Pain Runs Deep - heavy, straight edge riffs via Poland (featuring adopted London edgeman, Adam Malik). Inspired by Conviction and Burn.
www.myspace.com/painrunsdeep
Lightbringer - Thrash Metal meets Clevo HC from the SRH
www.myspace.com/thisislightbringer
State Icons - Heavy and chaotic stuff - a bastard child of the best the 90s had to offer.
http://www.myspace.com/stateicons
STAB! - New London Punk. X-Claim sound, socio-political lyrics
http://stabnationrising.blogspot.com/
It'll cost you £5 and it'll start at 8pm.
FB: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=125987577464989
Tuesday 21 December 2010
Immortal vs Benny Hill
Immortal are a neverending source of amusement. Benny Hill theme tune is genius.
DADA takeaway
I was walking through Sutton a few days ago when I spied this ludicrously named Chinese restaurant. A takeaway readymade if you will. Dada? I dread to think what they might serve up. Oh, and watch out for your overcoat.
Tuesday 14 December 2010
STATE ICONS - live in London this Saturday
Get some STATE ICONS action down you - http://www.myspace.com/stateicons - 90s bremen metalcore worship.
*** FREE ***
Line Up in no particular order:
War All The Time
Hello Bastards (First UK gig since May!)
Stab
State Icons
Koresh
Lich
FTS
Cthulhu Youth
First band starts at 5 PM.
THE DEVILS - live in Newcastle 2003
Here's two videos of The Devils set from Newcastle in 2003 on our tour with UNHOLY GRAVE and TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION. If you want to have a listen to the demo and album go here - http://thedevils.bandcamp.com
Beavis And Butthead...dubbed in Russian: Pantera - This Love
Beavis And Butthead mocking Pantera is funny enough without the addition of Russian overdubs.
My best records of 2010
At some point I might get around to writing about the records. In the meantime in no particular alphabetical order:-
Actress - splazsh
ANBB - Mimikry
Andrew Thomas - Between Buildings and Trees
Autopsy - the tomb within
Bastard Noise - a culture of monsters
Beach House - teen dream
Charanjit Singh - ten ragas to a disco beat
Darkthrone - circle the wagons
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Deerhunter - halcyon digest
Drainland/Grinding Halt - split
Lord Weird Slough Feg - animal spirits
MGMT - congratulations
Mob Rules - the donor
moon wiring club - a spare tabby at the cat's wedding
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - live in new york
Prins Thomas - s/t
Rangda - false flag
Robert Hood - omega
Scorn - refuse start fires
Senking - pong
Sistol - on the bright side
Starkweather - this sheltering night
Swans - my father will guide me up a rope to the sky
Torche - songs for singles
Torchrunner - locust swarm
Triclops - on the other side
Walls - s/t
Wolfgang Voigt- freiland klaviermusik
Woven Hand - the threshing floor
V/A - E.M.A.K.- A Synthetic History Of E.M.A.K 1982-88
V/A - the minimal wave tapes
V/A - Pop Ambient 2010
Actress - splazsh
ANBB - Mimikry
Andrew Thomas - Between Buildings and Trees
Autopsy - the tomb within
Bastard Noise - a culture of monsters
Beach House - teen dream
Charanjit Singh - ten ragas to a disco beat
Darkthrone - circle the wagons
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Deerhunter - halcyon digest
Drainland/Grinding Halt - split
Lord Weird Slough Feg - animal spirits
MGMT - congratulations
Mob Rules - the donor
moon wiring club - a spare tabby at the cat's wedding
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - live in new york
Prins Thomas - s/t
Rangda - false flag
Robert Hood - omega
Scorn - refuse start fires
Senking - pong
Sistol - on the bright side
Starkweather - this sheltering night
Swans - my father will guide me up a rope to the sky
Torche - songs for singles
Torchrunner - locust swarm
Triclops - on the other side
Walls - s/t
Wolfgang Voigt- freiland klaviermusik
Woven Hand - the threshing floor
V/A - E.M.A.K.- A Synthetic History Of E.M.A.K 1982-88
V/A - the minimal wave tapes
V/A - Pop Ambient 2010
Merzbow's Top Ten of 2010 from Art Forum
Being an extremely cultured individual I bought a highbrow art magazine from Tate Modern on my lunchbreak today. Like all magazines at this time of year it's filled with top tens. Loads of art ones in this magazine and people like John Waters doing film top tens. Not overly surprising or particularly out of the ordinary that Masami Akita (aka Merzbow) is asked to give a music rundown of 2010. I can't wait to check out these bands he's talking about like Bring Me The Horizon and Trigger The Bloodshed.
"This past year, I've only listened to and bought music that would be considered deathcore or metalcore"
"This past year, I've only listened to and bought music that would be considered deathcore or metalcore"
Here's the list in full:-
1. Maroon - at ACB Hall
2. Maroon - Order
3. The Red Shore - Unconsecrated
4. Trigger The Bloodshed - The Great Depression
5. Veil Of Maya - [Id]
6. Chelsea Grin - Desolation of Eden
7. Son Of Aurelius - The Farthest Reaches
8. Burning The Masses - Offspring Of Time
9. Wrath and Rapture - Wrath and Rapture
10. Bring Me The Horizon - at Studio Coast, Tokyo
1. Maroon - at ACB Hall
2. Maroon - Order
3. The Red Shore - Unconsecrated
4. Trigger The Bloodshed - The Great Depression
5. Veil Of Maya - [Id]
6. Chelsea Grin - Desolation of Eden
7. Son Of Aurelius - The Farthest Reaches
8. Burning The Masses - Offspring Of Time
9. Wrath and Rapture - Wrath and Rapture
10. Bring Me The Horizon - at Studio Coast, Tokyo
Orgone Accumulators - Cryptogalactic Nessthetics
ORGONE ACCUMULATORS - CRYPTOGALACTIC NESSTHETICS EP
A brand new EP of synth/techno surf rock from Orgone Accumulators.
It's taken longer than expected for new set of Orgone Accumulators recordings to be released from the Fifth Neuro Orgone Research Department. New discoveries have been made in their building on the shores of Loch Ness. They have been busy translating alien communications from Sirius into a musical form that humans can understand for a while now. The two Orgone Accumulators EPs that have been published so far are the only publicly available examples. Since then there has been an increasing amount of unexplainable interference in the signals. Whilst out diving in the Loch one day Professor De Selby chanced upon the answer coming face to face with a giant waterborn reptile known as Nessie (or rather unfairly, the Loch Ness Monster). Professor De Selby understood that the interference being recorded wasn't interference at all but rather Nessie responding to the millions of years old communications of the Ancient Astronauts from Sirius. Reconstituting the recent recordings through some pieces of extremely hi-tech equipment was a revelation. The 'guitar' sound being emitted had become more twangy and surf rock sounding. The research team demanded a celebration and Professor De Selby got busy making up a batch of his legendary 'mature in a week' Whisky. They were all a bit too sloshed to bother about getting these new recordings into the public domain but finally they're hear and ready for you to listen to - 14.5 minutes of communications between Nessie and Ancient Astronauts from Sirius rendered into a sound suitable for the human palette - synthy/techno surf rock.
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