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A collection of ten tracks by Belgium’s most exciting garage, psych and shoegaze bands of the moment. Featuring Mountain Bike, Double Veterans, YAWNS, Tubelight, The Glücks, Alpha Whale, The Future Dead, The Tubs, Teen Creeps and Mind Rays. Ten great bands, ten great songs, one great record. Featuring previously unreleased material by several bands.

12" LP out on Oddie Records July 25th!
www.oddierecords.be


6. YAWNS - Lucid Dream

Marie Davidson - L'Espoir Est Mon Sentiment Le Plus Noir

This is my cover version of the amazing song ' I Need You ' by The Underground Youth - thank u Craig!

Philipp Läufer - I Need You (The Underground Youth Cover)

Taken from FUNAI available now digital/cassette

German Army - Bloody Saga

Τhe Rattler Proxy - X - Ray

In collaboration with Black Verb Records we unveil the A-Side of their latest release "Live Split EP", with DYN and Bleib Modern. Recorded live at Badehaus in Berlin on the 14th of May.

You can check out the release over here: https://blackverbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-split-ep

Tracklist:

A1 Two Times
A2 Day In Life
A3 Just A Little Bit
A4 I Can Handle This
A5 Love Of Mine 

Black Verb Records: https://www.facebook.com/blackverbrecords/
Repartiseraren: https://www.facebook.com/repartiseraren

Live Split EP

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Exclusive Premiere: DYN & Bleib Modern - Live Split EP (A-Side - DYN)

Live recording // album release show may 14, 2017 @ Badehaus Berlin 
All songs mixed at Black Verb Rec. Berlin by PL.

live split tape w/ Bleib Modern released by Black Verb Rec. Berlin:
--> www.blackverbrecords.bandcamp.com/merch

DYN - Love Of Mine ( Live @ Badehaus Berlin )

First track off upcoming LP by Tel Aviv based Bonjour Machines!

Bonjour Machines - Mamlacha Begodel Golgolet

Second track off upcoming LP by Tel Aviv based Bonjour Machines!

Levad Beyahad Lanetzah

Bonjour Machines - Geroosh Shedim (Ein Sof)

Captain My Captain

Team Dresch - Uncle Phranc

Artist: Kill Me Tomorrow
Song: Liason
Album: Chrome Yellow

Kill Me Tomorrow- Liason

San Diego‘s Secret Fun Club has been the longstanding musical outlet for drummer and engineer Sal Gallegos (Some Girls, Three One G) and bassist John Rieder. An ongoing collaboration that formerly included guitarist Nathan Joyner (Hot Nerds, Some Girls, All Leather), the band has been making odd, challenging, and relentlessly heavy music on its own terms since 2000.
A duo of bass and drums since 2007, Sal and John began writing, demoing, and performing brutal new arrangements for two solid years, finally recording what would become the Three One G LP Skull With Antlers during the first half of 2009. With drums that call to mind Bonham (if he had preferred meth to booze) playing sides of beef and bass tones that alternate between motorcycle rumble and insectoid modulation and filtering, the band has mastered doomy, frenetic noise with occasional forays into quiet minimalism and copy-and-paste sound sculpture. W.T. Nelson (Geronimo, Bastard Noise) has collaborated with his brood of Trogotronic outboard gear to contribute painful frequencies across the range of human hearing. The newest album enlists his assistance again, along with equally brutal noisemakers Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, The Locust, Retox, Planet B), Sam Lopez and Esteban Flores.

Secret Fun Club sees itself fundamentally as a live band: 700 tube watts pushing apocalyptic bass wave-forms through sixteen ten-inch speakers—paired with some of the loudest, most punishing drumming imaginable. The band’s sets are indulgences in volume and repetition, abrupt turns and uncomfortable silences.
 
Art design by Noelle Mason.
Sculpture: Extra Curricular Object #1 [2017]
 
Secret Fun Club’s latest release, the wild-eyed brainchild of Sal Gallegos and John Rieder, once again show that these two have mastered the art of auditory experimentation.  Fluctuating between moments of scientific static worthy of alien airwaves on “Billy Joel Osteen,” to seemingly straightforward jazz punctuated by soothing vibraphone and just-slightly-off time signatures that feel like a calm descent into madness on “Ted Nugent Was Goth in High School," Secret Fun Club proves repeatedly that their creativity is vast and unrestricted by any one musical direction. Throbbing wails and air raid siren assaults accompanied by punishing, repetitive rhythms give way to supremely sinister howls and collaborative noise from the likes of W.T. Nelson, Justin Pearson, Sam Lopez, and Esteban Flores on the eleven and a half minute track, Black Metal to English Dictionary.”
Which brings us to the tracklist.
Never taking themselves too seriously, the duo has a penchant for titling their songs with pun-filled monikers like “Pat Minotaur”, “Scott Baiowülf” and “Pariah Carey”-- amusing juxtapositions of classic history/literature and tabloid-prone celebrities that would leave you rolling your eyes were the jokes to come from your dad, but smirking in the context of its use for doomy, sludgy, experimental metal such as this. And in a way, the meeting of highbrow and lowbrow in Secret Fun Club’s tracklisting seems like the perfect metaphor for the band’s music: impressively composed pieces highly calculated in musical structure, and yet simultaneously confrontational, gritty, and unrefined in tone.
 
101 LP:
Digital  Version:
1.     Mastodon Rickles
2.     Scott Baiowulf
3.     Sabre Drama
4.     Black Metal To English Dictionary
5.     Pariah Carey
6.     Pinche Harmonix
7.     Upright Brigade
8.     Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark Throne
9.     Billy Joel Osteen
10. Ted Nugent Was Goth In High School
11. Pat Minotaur

Vinyl Version:
Side A
1.     Mastodon Rickles
2.     Scott Baiowulf
3.     Black Metal To English Dictionary

Side B
1.     Pariah Carey
2.     Pinche Harmonix
3.     Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark Throne
4.     Ted Nugent Was Goth In High School
5.     Pat Minotaur

SECRET FUN CLUB "Black Metal to English Dictionary"

Artist: Automelodi
Song: Les Métros disparus
Album: Mirages au futur verre-brisé
Label: Holodeck
Bandcamp: https://automelodi.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/automelodi
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3GqUVPQmaNutfxWfakfEvx
Facebook: @automelodimusic
Instagram: @automelodi
Label Website: https://holodeckrecords.com/
Label Bandcamp: https://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/
Label Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/holodeck-records
Label Facebook: @holodeckrecords
Label Instagram: @holodeckrecords
Label Twitter: @holodeckrecords

Xavier Paradis: vocals, electronics, percussion
Dillon Steele: guitar
Featuring Liz Wendelbo: vocals

LYRICS:
Dans les ruines enchantées
Désenchantiers
Démobilisé dans
Un chaos d’après-guerre
Les mensonges sont si neufs
Qu’ils peuvent nous faire
Danser sur nos galères,
Nos erreurs de transfert

Dans les stations vaincues

Te souviens-tu?

Les métros disparus
Ne repassent plus
Les virages défendus ne 
Négocient plus

Au lendemain passaient
Dans les rues pâmées de vapeur…

Un ballet de fontaines
T’éclaboussait
Jusques aux souterraines
Suite à les voir courir
Les danseurs, de la rame
Ultimes sourires
Puis, rideaux de métal
Le music-hall fugace
S’invite chez le souffleur
Te souviens-tu?

(Aux voyageurs
Des voies sans échangeurs
Les préposés
Aux stations condamnées)

Brilliantly combining the art of sound design with unforgettable songwriting, Montréal-based synth-pop duo Automelodi is back with their third full-length Mirages au futur verre-brisé out May 3, 2019. As an established and respected staple of the international community of underground hardware enthusiasts, Automelodi is led by the inspiring studio engineering and magnetic persona of singer/producer Xavier Paradis. Showcasing his master ability to design infectious rhythms, rich bass lines, and brooding hooks, Automelodi expertly crafts a listlessly romantic aesthetic embodied by Paradis’ dynamic voice and eloquent French lyrics. Automelodi’s focus on color and arrangement converges taste and technique, making Mirages au futur verre-brisé deeply engaging for both party-goers and analog synth connoisseurs alike.

Mirages au futur verre-brisé

Les Métros Disparus

Automelodi - Mirages au futur verre - brisé - 02 Les Métros disparus

Artist: Automelodi
Song: La Poussière
Album: Mirages au futur verre-brisé
Label: Holodeck
Bandcamp: https://automelodi.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/automelodi
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3GqUVPQmaNutfxWfakfEvx
Facebook: @automelodimusic
Instagram: @automelodi
Label Website: https://holodeckrecords.com/
Label Bandcamp: https://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/
Label Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/holodeck-records
Label Facebook: @holodeckrecords
Label Instagram: @holodeckrecords
Label Twitter: @holodeckrecords

Xavier Paradis: vocals, electronics, percussion
Dillon Steele: guitar

LYRICS:
Les fossiles de mirages 
Vous saluent d’un geste trop fier
De leurs fibrilles
La poussière vous connaît

Retouchant ses motifs d’un vent mauvais
Sur le chemin de vos regrets
La poussière vous concerne

Elle vous suit dans les
Moindres ruelles, jusqu’à
Vos médiocres hôtels
La poussière particulière

Et telle une sérénade
Par la fenêtre vient
Dormir sur vos effets
La poussière sans frontières

Sans frontières
Le désert égalitaire

Faute d’apocalypse

Un autre été arrive porté par les nuages
Et soudain vous rappelle l’Exode
… et le passage des sauterelles
(La poussière vous prévient)

Et si la langue indifférente du sirocco
Étouffe une à une les chandelles
Et même passée l’heure bleue
Du matin gris, aigri du rose
Purgé du ciel
La poussière vous déteint

Observerez figé
Au milieu d’une rue ensablée
Ce qui devient
Le crépuscule... réitère

Le sac de l’aventure toujours vide
Traîne telle une peau morte
Sur votre flanc
Mais déjà votre peau 
Est bien morte

À l’aube, Vengeur Marseille
Quittera le port 
Avec ou sans votre épiderme

Quelle différence
Ça peut bien faire?
De la poussière

Brilliantly combining the art of sound design with unforgettable songwriting, Montréal-based synth-pop duo Automelodi is back with their third full-length Mirages au futur verre-brisé out May 3, 2019. As an established and respected staple of the international community of underground hardware enthusiasts, Automelodi is led by the inspiring studio engineering and magnetic persona of singer/producer Xavier Paradis. Showcasing his master ability to design infectious rhythms, rich bass lines, and brooding hooks, Automelodi expertly crafts a listlessly romantic aesthetic embodied by Paradis’ dynamic voice and eloquent French lyrics. Automelodi’s focus on color and arrangement converges taste and technique, making Mirages au futur verre-brisé deeply engaging for both party-goers and analog synth connoisseurs alike.

La Poussière

Automelodi - Mirages au futur verre - brisé - 01 La Poussière

Sauna - Waiting

Sauna is a brand new Toronto based band featuring Zach Bines (Weaves), Braeden Craig (Greys), and Michael le Riche (Fake Palms).

With synths in bright focus, which le Riche both plays and builds, this project marks a departure from the electric guitar-driven sound of Fake Palms. Bines (bass) and Craig (drums), meanwhile, provide a tough and tight complement to this new approach. Minimalist one minute and maximalist the next, the music is rich with suspense and satisfying subversions of expectation.

"Felt" is second single from their forthcoming EP and features the B-side "Waiting".

Felt

Anoyo

tim hecker 'you never were'

A side of 'Speleocombo speelt VU' single (Ultra Eczema 252)

Speleocombo : Daar Gaat Zij

Artist: Tropic of Cancer
Track: Temporal Vessels
Album: The Sorrow of Two Blooms

Tropic of Cancer - Temporal Vessels

PRE-ORDER LP - http://toughloverecords.bigcartel.com/product/tlv061-the-soft-walls-the-soft-walls-lp-pre-order

On 3rd December Tough Love will release the self-titled debut album from Brighton’s The Soft Walls.

Recorded over the space of nine months, The Soft Walls is the product of time spent in solitude by Cold Pumas member and Faux Discx overseer, Dan Reeves. Incorporating a broad palette of sonic textures that include psychedelic folk, ambient & found sounds, lo-fidelity garage, disjointed krautrock, and the more inward-looking mutations of house, the diverse range of influences on show ultimately forge what is a very singular and unique vision.

Thick with the fog of tape static, claustrophobic ambience and the cavernous effect applied to Reeves’ vocal, The Soft Walls conjures a similar turn-of-the-century anxiety as that of peers Women and Liars. However, there remains something suitably European in The Soft Walls’ unease, at once close heat, then slanting rain. It’s increasingly rare to find music of this type made in Britain and it’s the Otherness of The Soft Walls noise and invention that allows it to stand-alone.

Previously released via Reeves’ Bandcamp page and as a limited edition cassette on Suplex, Tough Love are now making the record available on limited edition vinyl (100 copies only) as well as through all the usual digital services.

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