Set One

Cubaboliviavenezuela

Lyrics:

Look to breakthrough 

Where you going? 
You do not know 
Look around, dear 
Or you'll be lost 
Can't you see we all have our own to be told? 

Look to breakthrough 

Wait a while then you will all see 
We are all just puzzle pieces 
Up in the air, gathering, 
Never knowing who we'll meet 

Look to breakthrough 

I look back 
I look back to move on to new days

Look Around

Zweizz and Joey Hopkins is already over. It used to be the cooperation project of two musicians on different sides of the Atlantic, and their eponymous debut album is also their final.
Joseph Daniel Hopkins was an immensely talented and hard working musician whom many expected to have a great career in music when he died in 2008, only 26 years old. He had made a solid name for himself in the underground through his project Joey Hopkins' Midget Factory as well as numerous others.
Zweizz is the current pseudonym of Svein Egil Hatlevik. His musical career spans two decades and began with the experimental black metal band Fleurety. He has since then been the synthesizer player of another black metal band known for their unorthodox mode of expression - DHG (Dødheimsgard) - as well as being the vocalist of the black metal band Umoral and for making sinister soundscapes through constellations like Pronounced "SEX" and Aphrodisiac.
Zweizz &amp; Joey Hopkins began working together in 2007. They met through the Internet short after Hopkins had heard Zweizz' debut solo album "The Yawn of the New Age". This was a release combining quirky electonica, harsh noise and black metal in a way that is verifiable as interesting, seeing it was met with everything from panegyric praise to outright threats. Pitchfork metal columnist Brandon Stosuy summarized the album - and Zweizz - in the following way: "...one of the most compelling musicians (and minds) in this realm today ... check it out." Other reviewers felt the urge to take a shower after hearing the album to "cleanse myself of the filth", or thought that experimental music had been taken to a whole new level "where no intelligence or backbone is displayed".
The end result of the cooperation is released more than two years after Hopkins' death. Zweizz has tried to complete the album in the spirit of his deceased partner. In a statement from May 2010, Zweizz wrote: "I only spoke with [Joey] on the telephone once, and we were discussing meeting IRL, but somehow we didn't feel like there was any hurry. Then suddenly he was gone. I have tried to make an abum that both his mother and the rest of his family can remember him by - as well as being a statement that lives up to my somewhat idiosyncratic artistic standards. And of course, I can just assume that Joey would have approved of the songs in their respective final states. It can be difficult to kill the darlings of a friend who has already went onwards."
The album is first released in vinyl format, and a CD version will follow later in 2011. The CD contains two remixes not featured on the vinyl as well as one song that was only available to Zweizz as an mp3 sketch from Hopkins' computer, and which was not possible to retrieve in high resolution format. Both versions include extensive liner notes, describing the process that led to the finished album. From these liner notes we quote the following: "[The music] had a lot more of a palpable rhythm that most of Zweizz’s solo stuff, and even something like melody, but mostly it had a real sense of velocity on top of the sense of mass always present in Zweizz’s work. It was as if Joey Hopkins had taken something vague and ominous and huge and made into a projectile. Or maybe it was the other way around."
According to the statment from Zweizz quoted earlier, the music on the album may be described as "electronic, hectic like a can of worms, some pop surfaces, distorted, melodic most of the time, some black metal influences, some IDM influences. IT'S LIKE A GOLEM." But it's more than that, some songs, like the opener "Eternal Puberty" is hypnotic and melancolic. Others, like "No Clue", range from sadness to sarcasm. But most of all, this is music that demands an attached - not detached - listener. It is cerebral and witty, and it works best as music for the attentive listener rather than the partying hipster.


Zweizz & Joey Hopkins album montage

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An excerpt of the lyric is coming soon!!!



The DSI Collective-Quietly Narcissistic Draft

4th track of the Stalemate 10" | 2011
www.facebook.com/pages/Protestant/178498548862758

Released by: Apocaplexy Records
Release/catalogue number: APO013

order here: http://apocaplexy.bigcartel.com/product/protestant-stalemate-10

Protestant - Corners

Spad

Mark Carney's Biryani

From Meinhof - 'Under The Burning Sky of Future Events' (Meinhof 2009)
Mixed by Matt Jarman at the Dissident Sound Industry

Band Website:
http://meinhofband.com

Meinhof - 'A.A.C.A.'

DON'T PANIC

1st track of Planks from the Split LP w/ Lentic Waters | 2012

Planks - It Fell To The Snakes

track #2 of the split with LENTIC WATERS

-instrumental-

The Mask Is Genuine

track #3 of the split with LENTIC WATERS

lyrics:
The evil in my mind searches until it finds.
Left nothing you could keep, so you kept me down.
I feast upon the night in you, 
You steal away the light from me.
Can't honestly tell you there is another way.
This was always about finding repentance
now I know there's none to have.
The evil in our minds searches until it finds.
Our days filled with complacency,
they don't end, they never end. 
Please leave and never come back.

Leave And Never Come Back

Back in 2008 I was exchanging mails with Matt Jarman aka OCD from Void, as a fan (especially the first demo). One day, he sent me "Ego Tranquilizer" with rerecorded guitars. I kinda forced myself in by recording some fretless basstracks over it, HAHA! He liked it but wanted to turn it into the uberawesome live band Void is by now and I wasnt able to live in London. So yeah, its on the original Czral drum recordings from 2000. Fucking love it.

Matt Jarman - Guitars
Camille Giraudeau - Fretless bass
Carl Michael Eide - Drums

2008 - Void "Ego Tranquilizer" rerecording

FUNERAL MOUTH
Night has fallen cold and hard,
Left to ruins as suns deteriorate.
With hands on shoulders and perverted necks
The sons of the sun are left to ruins abide by morrow.
A pact is broken as trust is lost
Blood draws blank, to live in hell
These stones are covered with the keepsakes of the lost and sallow
Where mothers sob and fathers famish
Go on and look for the marrow in this paragon
Just to find answers carved in flesh.

Funeral Mouth

Written and produced by Dan Warburton, Rich Keeble & Hovdler Schmitt
Mastered by Hovdler Schmitt @ The Dissident Sound Industry

Meinhof - 'A.A.C.A.'

Dissident Sound Industry

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