Three Trapped Tigers – Route One Or Die (2011) (FLAC)

Artist: Three Trapped Tigers
Album: Route One Or Die
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: May 30, 2011
Genre: Electronica, Math Rock, Experimental, Noise-Rock
Size: 285 MB

After three ep’s, this is the debut lp by the truly awesome english Three Trapped Tigers  – and is definately one of the strongest debuts I´ve heard in a long time.
The band started out as an improvisational duo that eventually became a trio and made it´s name as an impressive live act.

Soundwise they generally sound like Aphex Twin and Venetian Snares met up with a less dubstep/jungle-oriented jungle Jojo Mayer and a drummachine.
Unlike their early they add…BIG FAT RIFFS THAT MAKE YOU WANT TO DESTROY YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD.

IDM takes turns with breakneck-beats and aggressive noisy walls. And still never sounds out of place, every movement sounds likes the logical conclusion.
You should definately get your hands at this.


Concert from 2008 (!)

BUY THIS!!!!

They´re also going to rerelease remastered versions of their ep’s as can be read (and ordered) at their page.

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Lydia Lunch (2007) (FLAC)

Artist: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Lydia Lunch
Album: Self-Titled
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: October 8, 2007
Genre: Fusion, Spoken Word, Prog-rock
Size: 177 MB

“Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Lydia Lunch is a collaboration between Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group and spoken word artist Lydia Lunch. The EP was released on October 8, 2007 in Europe.
Rodriguez-Lopez had been a fan of Lydia’s work and invited her to the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival when The Mars Volta curated it in December 2005. The meeting eventually resulted in their first recorded collaboration with the intention to record more in the future.
The music was recorded in Amsterdam and New York and Lydia’s vocals were recorded at her own studio in Barcelona.
Cover design is by Sonny Kay. The symbols on the two buckets on the cover are Arabic coca-cola labels.”

Omar’s sexy prog-rock music combined with Lunch’s nihilistic monologues is just pure sex. (strange sex though)

BUY THAT SHIT!

Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker – Fantasma Parastasie (2008) (FLAC)

Artist: Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker
Album: Fantasma Parastasie
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: October 14,  2008
Genre: Abstract, Drone, Noise, Ambient
Size: 205 MB

Alien8:
“Fantasma Parastasie sees the pairing of Aidan Baker, of the Ambient Doom band Nadja, and Tim Hecker, two of Canada’s brightest musicians in the world of abstract electronic music.”

Not quite as calm as I´d expected this album to sound like – it felt like it was neither Hecker’s nor Baker’s touch that could be heard. What we hear instead are noisier landscapes that slowly disintegrate.

BUY!

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Mutations EP

Artist: The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
Album: Mutations EP
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2009
Genre: Electronic, Experimental, Futurejazz
Size: 200 MB

Ad Noiseam:

“A bridge between their first album on Planet Mu and the forthcoming second one on Ad Noiseam, the “Mutations EP” is The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble’s coming of age. Profound and organic but dark and impressive, it is a perfect rendition of the ensemble’s live shows and the proof that there is still something fresh to be done at the meeting point of post-rock, jazz and drones. A deeply emotional and original trip.”

At the moment my favourite piece of theirs.
BUY!!

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Here be Dragons (2009) FLAC

Artist: The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
Album: Here be Dragons
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2009
Genre: Electronic, Downtempo, Futurejazz
Size: 245 MB

Ad Noiseam:

“For their second full length album, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble set their sails towards uncharted territories and unveiled a new symbiosis of warm electronica and dusky yet clear acoustic instrumentation. Familiar yet unsettling, varied yet coherent, dark yet warm, the highly detailled maps of “Here Be Dragons” form TKDE’s most personal and crafted release, a mesmerising combination of traditional and modern sounds, and a highly rewarding album.”

Second that.

BUY!!

Maische – Brand (1992) (FLAC)

Artist: Maische
Album: Brand
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 1992
Genre: Math-Rock, Art-Rock
Size: 222 MB

This was Fennesz first project. Math-rock band Maische.

Baritonsaxophon, Altosaxophon – Max Nagl
Bass – Harald Adrian
Drums, Vocals, Speech – Siegfried Schmid
Guitar, Vocals, Samples – Christian Fennesz

Simply put, it´s an interesting listen you definately should give a shot, if you´re care to find out more about Fennesz work.
Enjoy!

Oneohtrix Point Never – Rifts (2009) (FLAC)

Artist:Oneohtrix Point Never
Album: Rifts
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2009
Genre: New Age, Drone, Noise, Experimental, Ambient
Size:  729 MB

The ‘Rifts’ trilogy comprises of the first three full length records – Betrayed in the Octagon, Zones Without People, and Russian Mind as well as selections from rare and out of print cassette and CD-R releases, with recordings spanning as far back as 2003. Fully re-mastered for digital audio.

Chosen by Animal Collective to perform at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival that it curated in May 2011.

Enjoy!

 

Kayo Dot – Choirs Of The Eyes (2003) (FLAC)

Artist: Kayo Dot
Album: Choirs Of The Eyes
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2003
Genre: Avantgarde-Metal, Post-modern Classical Music, Post-metal
Size:  320 MB

That other review took too much time already..so here´s what you need to know:
Kayot Dot’s  first release, a yet quite maudlin of the Well-esque approach. Hallucinatory, lucid dream astral composition..
Quite aggressive, enjoy.

Broken.Heart.Collector – Broken.Heart.Collector (2011) (FLAC)

Artist: Broken.Heart.Collector
Album: Self-titled
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2011
Genre: Experimental, Free Improvisation, Noise, Jazz
Size: 320MB

Maja Osojnik – vox, bass recorder, gadgets
Susanna Gartmayer – bass clarinet, contra alto clarinet
Derhunt – e-bass, vox
Raumschiff Engelmayr – e-guitar, vox
DDKern – drums, percussion

Looks like I finally won´t come around somewhat of a “review”.
Well it´s going to be much less of a review but more of a plain info output.

What we have here is nothing less than an Austrian underground-supergroup consisting of members of noise-rock trio BULBUL (Raumschiff Engelmayr, Derhunt, DDKern), Maja Osojnik ((Rdeča Raketa, Maja Osojnik Band) and Susanna Gartmayr.

Bulbul is a pretty well known noiserock-outfit that has been around for slightly more than 10 years now and is itself somewhat of an Austrian supergroup.. Drummer DDKern is known from various projects, notable Fuckhead and KernQuehenberger – and by the by is easily one of the best live drummers I´ve ever seen. Anyway.

Usually when people state that a specific band totally defies genres, this is usually not quite the truth. With Broken.Heart.Collector this is definately not the case. You truly can´t push them into any scheme.
With most of the members sporting influences ranging from free jazz to noise improvisations as well as any hard hitting style their output is as diverse as can be.
Drony soundscapes, jazzy rythms, math-rockesque beats, noisy walls, psychedelic realms, danceable kicks, there´s everything.
Maja vocals can be a salivating crunching, a black-metalesque grunting or frigid like a bird’s chanting. Her lyrics are..sometimes reflective, sometimes surrealistic.

The whole album has been recorded as a live-recording in little more than one week.
To me it is one of the most rewarding albums of this year and I can only recommend to you to check out this incredibly tight (live-)band.

Favourite track: Another One Bites The Dust.
Released at Interstellar Records, a label one or the other album here will be coming from too

BUY VYNIL AT ROCKISHELL

BUY CD AT DISCORPORATE RECORDS

Chelsea Wolfe – Apokalypsis (2011) (FLAC)

Artist: Chelsea Wolfe
Album: Ἀποκάλυfafψις
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2011
Genre: Drone, Folk
Size: 206 MB


This is one epic combination of drony, low-frequency music and angelic vocals…doom-folk?

Favourite track (you might recognise the beginning..)

Expect a little “poseur”.

U.S. concert stalkers stay tuned, she´s touring with Wolves In The Throneroom and Black Heart Procession at the moment!

Isis – SGNL>05 (2001) (FLAC)

Artist: Isis
Album: SGNL>05
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2001
Genre: Post-Metal, Sludge
Size: 328 MB

Follow up of Celestial.

“Celestial and SGNL>05 reintroduce the control tower and female character themes; specifically, a central “mother” tower (“Celestial (The Tower)”, “Divine Mother”), which is built (“Constructing Towers”), decayed (“Deconstructing Towers”), and finally crumbles (“Divine Mother (The Tower Crumbles)” which isn’t featured until their SGNL>05 EP). As well, the SGNL theme is introduced (“SGNL>01” through “SGNL>05 (Final Transmission)”), and the mosquito (Mosquito Control) is linked through the artwork on both releases.”

Mhhhh…

Isis – Celestial (2000) (FLAC)

Artist: Isis
Album: Celestial
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2001
Genre: Post-Metal, Sludge
Size: 519 MB

Isis’ first full-length.

Wiki:

“Celestial and SGNL>05 reintroduce the control tower and female character themes; specifically, a central “mother” tower (“Celestial (The Tower)”, “Divine Mother”), which is built (“Constructing Towers”), decayed (“Deconstructing Towers”), and finally crumbles (“Divine Mother (The Tower Crumbles)” which isn’t featured until their SGNL>05 EP). As well, the SGNL theme is introduced (“SGNL>01” through “SGNL>05 (Final Transmission)”), and the mosquito (Mosquito Control) is linked through the artwork on both releases.”

Enjoy!

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My apologies to everyone glancing at this blog for putting out all those gems completely commentless, but at the moment I just don´t have the time to write thoughtful reviews..
I do hope to get back to them some time, but for the moment this will have to do.

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William Basinki – The Disintegration Loops I – IV (2002-2003) (FLAC)


Artist: William Basinski
Album: The Disintegration Loops
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2002-2003
Genre: Abstract, Ambient, Minimal
Size: 1070 MB

After having left his recordings on tape to rot for more than 20 years, Basinski finally reused them..the result: a more and more distorted, minimalistic, epic loop, taking the listener to a journy far outside their body..
This may be interpreted as metaphor for men’s life – hundreds and hundreds of the same loop over and over, slowly dissolving – wether you feel or not feel to see it that way is up to you.
Either way: enjoy!

I
II
III
IV

I will soon be adding one single file including all four pieces packed together, for those prefering it that way.

Hello fellow musiclover.

So this is my turn on a starting or being part of a countermovement to all the blogs vanishing since that recent…incident.
If you feel to, call it a “post filesharing age”-blog..whatever it is, I want this scene to stay.
It may be little more than a gesture right now – but here it is.

I will be sharing music in FLAC and probably will add an mp3 option too.
Nice to meet you!