<i>New York has the rhythm, L.A. has the rhythm, Detroit has the rhythm, Paris has the rhythm, 
Miami has the rhythm, Seattle has the rhythm, Hong Kong has the rhythm, and London has the rhythm 
Atlanta has the rhythm, Chicago has the rhythm, Honolulu has the rhythm, Portland has the rhythm, 
Phoenix has the rhythm, Dallas has the rhythm, Shanghai has the rhythm, and Dublin has the rhythm 
Denver has the rhythm, Toronto has the rhythm, Eugene has the rhythm, Berlin has the rhythm, 
Cambridge has the rhythm, New Delhi has the rhythm, Beijing has the rhythm, and Austin has the rhythm 
St. Paul has the rhythm, Las Vegas has the rhythm, Sydney has the rhythm, Des Moines has the rhythm 
I've got the rhythm 
You've got the rhythm 
We've got the rhythm, yes we've got the rhythm 

What's that lousy sound I hear? 
It could only be one thing and that is music 
Don't let that music get to you 
First it takes your mind and then your soul 
Copper strings and bows comprised of horsehair 
Don't let that music... 

I hate music 
(Rock) 
(Jazz) 
I hate music 
(Classical) 
I hate music 
(Folk) 

Octaves will rise, higher and higher 
Until they break my heart in two 
Singers will sing, making my head ring 

I admit 
That only the angels (only the angels) 
Yes, only the angels heralding the trumpets of doom 
can make music sweet enough for me to hear 
Yes, I admit 
What's that lousy sound I hear? 
It could only be one thing and that is music 
Don't let that music get to you 
First it takes your mind and then your soul 
Copper strings and bows comprised of horsehair 
Don't let that music...</i>

John Maus - I Hate Music

John Maus - My Whole Worlds Coming Apart

Medio Mutante - Another Land

Bal Paré - Palais D'Amour (1985)

i wish you would tell me things
we kiss and then you go your own way
you pull me in,
still want an apology
i don't know why
but i did it, to make you happy

so i'm back here again  
and i already know  
that i should go

i text you i'm leaving
and i drive myself home 
if I go, will you promise not to hate me

running low on sympathy
you say that you're too good for me

apology

leave me alone #allday #pills #^_^

A rare remix by Stones Throw's Vex Ruffin of Anika's debut single, 'Yang Yang'.

Taken from Anika's self titled debut album, which was released on Invada UK and Stones Throw US in late 2010.

The track is a cover version of Yoko Ono's 'Yang Yang'.

All Rights Reserved 2011 Anika and Beak&gt;

YANG YANG (Vex Ruffin remix) MP3

Coil - careful what you wish for

Coil - All the Pretty Little Horses

Coil - Sex with Sun Ra (Part I - Saturnalia)

Coil - Broccoli

Coil - Where Are You

Pre-order: http://anotherdarkage.bigcartel.com/product/exek-biased-advice-another-dark-age

Another Dark Age is proud to release Exek's debut LP, Biased Advice, which follows one self-titled cassette EP (2014) and a single contribution to a split cassette (2015). The album collects rerecorded and past material, which together stands as the fullest realisation of an Exek identity, honed during two years of haunting Melbourne’s live gig circuit. 

Before forming as a four-piece band in 2014, Exek remained an abstract concept in the mind of front man-to-be, Albert Wolski. With songs written but no musicians to perform them he enlisted Andrew Brocchi (synthesiser), Henry Wilson (bass) and Sam Dixon (drums) and together they began recording material according to Wolski 's vision.

"Then they were there, on my arms, on my legs, everywhere." - 'Foregin Lesions'

The addition of Nell Grant on saxophone made previously murky reference points plainly obvious: Exek are the progeny of a Melbourne scene that established itself around Dave Chesworth and Philip Brophy’s Innocent record label of the 1980s and its greatest offering,  Essendon Airport’s Palimpsest LP (1981). But Exek  dared to abandon the pop and funk tropes of the early Australian new wave scene reaching out to  German post-punk of the same era. Wolski’s songwriting is akin to that of the records put out by Hannover’s No Fun Records and Hamburg’s Zickzack, channeling the droll lyricism of The 39 Clocks and saturated with self-deprecating Attitude. 

"New friends, new influence, new ring around the finger, a hedonist who finds regret.”  - ‘A Hedonist’

Exek are messengers for today’s young, unemployed, immobile, self-obsessed middle-class.  The themes of societal isolation, heartbreak, consumerism are all funnelled through metaphors of terminal illness, monsters and bondage. Their vision mirrors Tuxedomoon’s ‘Holiday for Plywood’ but crucially Biased Advice is a sermon that Exek preach to themselves. The band pit themselves as both victims and saviours living in a world that’s trying to extinguish them, or worse still, mould them into boring automatons. 

“Spitting image, two legged, stick figured, adolescent, disinfectant, replicant.”  - ‘Replicate’

The conceptual weight carried in Wolski’s lyrics follows on from process. Dub and other studio techniques are used throughout Biased Advice and are no better evidenced in the 16-minute modern (and instant) classic, ‘Baby Giant Squid.’ This song remains unchanged from it’s cassette release on Melbourne’s Resistance/Restraint label but spread out over one side of a record it lays bare its perfection. Basslines that stand out one moment give way to dubbed out percussion, hissing tape delay and reverb drenched vocals. Simply, this post-kraut-dub-psyche-punk excursion looks back over it’s shoulder as it leaves ‘Bella Lugosi’s Dead’ for dead. It’s a sublime balance of improvisation and cold calculation. 

“Excitement entails the probability of murder to eliminate stress.”  - ‘Baby Giant Squid’

It’s the tension between this teetering psychotic nihilism and arrangement with studio-like precision that gives Biased Advice the tone of a forewarning. But of what?

“Listen well.”  - ‘Submitted’

Exek - A Hedonist

Soft Cell cover from The End Of All Things (Downwards 2011) 

http://boomkat.com/cds/461820-tropic-of-cancer-the-end-of-all-things


L.O.V.E. Feelings

Carola Baer "The Story of Valerie" coming soon on Concentric Circles.

Coil - All the Pretty Little Horses

Franck Christmas

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