Animal Collective - ODDSAC (2010)

Director: Danny Perez
Producer: Gary Hustwit
Music: Animal Collective (Josh Dibb, Noah Lennox, David Portner, Brian Weitz)
Cinematography: Ryan Samul
Editor: Danny Perez
Distributor: Swiss Dots
Released: January 26, 2010 (Sundance)
Running time: 53 minutes Size: 3 GB


Time for something different now.
This Animal Collective visual album, directed by Danny Perez who has been performing live projections with musicians such as Black Dice and Panda Bear.

They will not release a separate sound-track since the video and audio "are intended to be seen and heard in tandem."(hence the term "visual album")
Also it's only going to be released as a DVD.

I suggest you read the interview with Danny Perez over at the The Creator's Project.

Personally I sometimes I couldn't help but feel reminded of Gaspar Noé's "Enter The Void" - speaking of the quick editing.
Out of stock. Anyway..enjoy!

ZA! - Megaflow (2011) (FLAC)

Artist: ZA!
Album: Megaflow
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: March 25, 2011
Genre: Experimental, Afronoise, World, Math-Rock
Label:  Acuarela Discos, Discorporate Records
Size: 109 MB

So this is another band that has been released over at Discorporate Records, like Broken.Heart.Collector..
It´s also been released at Acuarela, since they´re originating from Spain.

This is a very interesting project that consists of weird, happy, hippiesque seemingly meaningless vocal loops, math-rockiesque intervalls and rythms mixed with african beats and low-frequency stoner-riffs.
If you´re patient, you might actually really enjoy this!
When the guitar kicks in at 2:05 in "Calonge Terrassa, Kalon-Jah! Tewra-ssah!" the songs becomes just..DOPE.

Bandcamp:
"A traveling circus from Barcelona. Two guys and a dozen instruments.

ZA! are: PAPA DUPAU (guitar, trumpet, kalimba, perc, voc) and SPAZZFRICA EHD (dr, perc, keys, fx, clarinet, voc)

This multilayer supersonic-orchestra combines African beats, noise, math rock, vocal-loops, free jazz, analogue electronics, sounds from the shepherds of Tuva, Balinese polyrhythms, Mauritanian trip hop, Dadaism, distortion, dance and drones – “POST WORLDMUSIC” may be the name of this danceable hybrid.

ZA! – that means countless shows on the highest energetic level, including international festivals (SXSW, Primavera Sound, Sonar Festival), art performances, tours in UK, USA, Spain, Portugal and Germany. They played with noisebands (Lightning Bolt, ZU, Yellow Swans), rockbands (El Guincho, Delorean, Agent Robbons, Mark Eitzel) or freejazz artists (Peter Brötzmann, Paal Nilssen Love), because they love sharing stages with other musicians and creating new music altogether. PAPA DUPAU and SPAZZFRICA EHD have performed improvised and unique shows along with DAMO SUZUKI (Can), Angel Deradoorian (DIRTY PROJECTORS), Les Aus or Nisei. When the audience didn’t stare stunned at the stage or had their faces clenched in joy, they just danced. Live the ZA!-protagonists are connected through their music, they become one body. The physical is neither surface nor underground – it is scope, structure and instrument. A perfect balance between control of gestures and uncontrolled emotions.

The two Catalans have released two albums so far – their last genre blending record “Macumba o Muerte” (Acuarela) was rated as one of the best albums of the century by ROCKDELUX, the main Spanish indie magazine, and was awarded by the “Spanish Independent Label Union”. ZA!’s third album MEGAFLOW will be released by DISCORPORATE RECORDS, Acuarela and Gandula."

An incredible live band.
Sadly I only found a few videos that don´t do them justice:




But I highly urge you to look for live performances at Primavera for instance.

This is only the free Release, not the full album.
The full album comes with the Vynil, I suppose.



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Kayo Dot - Coyote (2010) (FLAC)

Artist: Kayo Dot
Album: Coyote
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: April 20, 2010
Genre: Avantgarde, Experimental, Prog Rock
Label: Hydra Head
Size: 231 MB

Wiki:
"Coyote is the fourth studio album by Kayo Dot, released April 20 on Hydra Head. The album was written, according to frontman Toby Driver, as a single, narrative-driven, long-form composition written with story and text provided by a close, terminally-ill friend of the band, Yuko Sueta, in the final stage of her life. Coyote was once again engineered by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Six Organs of Admittance, Wolves in the Throne Room) in Seattle, Washington, forging a new genre of "goth fusion" which combines elements of early Cure, Faith and the Muse, and Bauhaus with Herbie Hancock's psychedelic album, Sextant, and Scott Walker's recent album, The Drift. The lyrics and story were constructed with deliberate melodrama to pay homage as well to the intended gothic vibe, expressing the protagonist's loneliness and longing to be in a better place, and her journey through her own personal looking-glass through a hallucinatory world of fear and wonder."

A much calmer album of awesome Kayo Dot.

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Ground-Zero - Consume Red (1997) (FLAC)

Artist: Ground Zero
Album: Consume Red
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: January 15, 1997
Genre: Electronia, Experimental, Noise, Free Jazz, Rock
Label: Creativeman Disc., ReR Megacorp

Size: 441,6 MB

"Consume Red might be second to Scott Walker's The Drift for most intense listening experience ever. Continuing "The Drift" comparison, aesthetically only, its what Ground Zero does with space contrasted again the noise and buildup that makes this record so intense. It doesn't bludgeon your face off, it just makes your knuckles go white. Its certainly a draining experience, as the more it goes on, the more you wonder what's next. This is "The Night of the Hunter" rebirthed in musical form."
- Simeon88

Yap, this shit is INTENSE. The first 15 minutes might be a bit repetitive/exhausting, but it's worth it. This album will kick you out of space.

You should probably buy it

Walker's The Drift and some other Otomo Yoshihide (sort of Ground Zero's brain) will probably appear on this blog as well.

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
Label: Blood And Biscuits
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 young 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.

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Mutations EP

Artist: The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
Album: Mutations EP
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2009
Genre: Electronic, Experimental, Futurejazz
Label: Ad Noiseam
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.

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Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts (2009) (FLAC)

Artist:Oneohtrix Point Never
Album: Rifts
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2009
Genre: New Age, Drone, Noise, Experimental, Ambient
Label: No Fun Productions
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.


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Broken.Heart.Collector - s/t (2011) (FLAC)

Artist: Broken.Heart.Collector
Album: Self-titled
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2011
Genre: Experimental, Free Improvisation, Noise, Jazz
Label: Interstellar Records, Rock Is Hell, Discorporate Records

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. 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

DIGITAL RELEASE AT BANDCAMP

Fennesz - Venice (2004) (FLAC)

Artist: Fennesz
Album: Venice
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: May 2004
Genre: Experimental, Ambient
Label: Digital Narcis Corporation, Touch

Size: 285 MB

Fennesz - Endless Summer (2006 Remaster) (FLAC)

Artist: Fennesz
Album: Endless Summer
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2001/2006 Remaster
Genre:  Glitch, Experimental, Ambient
Label: Mego/Editions Mego
Size: 309 MB

Mego Edition Remaster from 2006.

Fennesz - Hotel Paral.el (2008 Remaster) (FLAC)

Artist: Fennesz
Album: Hotel Paral.el
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 1997/2008 Remaster
Genre:  Glitch, Noise, Experimental
Label: Mego/Editions Mego
Size: 349 MB

Fennesz first full album from 1997 down at Mego...let´s bow.

Editions Mego Remaster from 2007.

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.1 (2009) (FLAC)

Artist: Colin Stetson
Album: New History Warfare Vol.1
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 2009
Genre:  Experimental, Drone, Free Improvisation
Label: Aagoo Records
Size: 223 MB

First, but underrated part of the New History Warfare series.
Less drone, more impro!

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Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres (2011)(FLAC)

Artist: Matana Roberts
Album: Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: May 10, 2011
Genre: Experimental, Freejazz
Label: Constellation
Size: 337 MB

I totally agree.

One of the most interesting releases of 2011.

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Kayo Dot - Gamma Knife (2012) (FLAC)

Artist: Kayo Dot
Album: Gamma Knife
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: January 4, 2012
Genre: Experimental, Avantgarde-Metal
Label: Self-Released
Size: 348 MB

Mhh..tasty, I tell you.

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