2016: A Year In Fuzz

‘A Lo-fi Cinematic Landscape’ is a collection of primarily instrumental recordings that would form the soundtrack to an unfinished short film I began work on back in 2013. Although the script was never fully conceived and no footage was filmed, these recordings accompany the story as I imagined it would be told.

You can PRE-ORDER 'A Lo-fi Cinematic Landscape' EP by The Underground Youth on Limited Edition Cassette now -> http://www.fnordtapes.com/?p=2089

FN002 - The Underground Youth - Scarlet Room (taken from ‘A Lo-fi Cinematic Landscape’)

“Never In My Mind” starts off like a call to arms full of violence and energy, and continues its rampage pace like an adrenaline shot to the heart. The marching snare drum is overlaid with fuzz-heavy guitars and dark distorted vocals to produce a sound that is distinctly Sonic Jesus.

Released on 7" and digital 20th November 2015.   

“Never In My Mind” is the B side to the band's Locomotive EP. Side A features a remix of “Locomotive” by Sonic Boom aka Pete Kember from Spacemen 3 and Spectrum. Sonic Boom's remix maintains the track’s beautiful abstract vocals which evoke some kind of religious ritual or perhaps a lonely lament. The song is then propelled into the heavens as the band crashes in and Sonic Boom’s psychedelic treatment takes effect.  

FUZZ CLUB RECORDS

Fuzz Club Records is an independent label, online store and production company that focuses on raw, experimental rock and roll, influenced by psychedelia, shoegaze, noise, garage, blues, folk and experimentation.
 
Established in rural Norway during the 24 hour darkness of the Arctic winter, Fuzz Club entered the scene in 2012 with their compilation The Reverb Conspiracy – made in collaboration with Austin Psych Fest – a now annual release capturing the essence of the underground scene as it is today.
 
Today Fuzz Club has around 20 artists and over 40 releases featuring names like Anton Newcombe, Goat, Alan Vega, The Black Angels, Dead Skeletons, A Place to Bury Strangers and The Underground Youth.

Sonic Jesus - Never In My Mind

Formed in 2007, Aarhus-based Tales of Murder and Dust plays a dark, experimental mixture of psychedelic rock and shoegaze wrapped in a cinematic sound merging noisy guitars, violin, organ and sitar. 

Tales of Murder and Dust - Sisters

No. 8 in the Fuzz Club 10" split single series. 

Radar Men From The Moon - Decadence
White Hills - As You Pass By

Split Single 8 - White Hills - As You Pass By

The latest offering from the experimental noise masters is a collaboration between the three core band members and 20 of their contemporaries, who each designed a piece of music inspired by a single riff.

Much like the process of continuous recreation that its namesake symbolises, the West London group’s third LP, Hoopsnake, devours the seemingly eternal riff and constantly reinvents it to form a series of parallel iterations to the original composition.

The riff was born from a repetitious loop originating from the sessions for their previous LP, the Sonic Boom mastered Aether. The band then recorded two versions of it (one a loud, guitar-driven take, the second a softer synth passage) and shared it with friends and collaborators, inviting each artist to create a corresponding sonic interpretation, which have all been mixed into four separate 10 minute long tracks. 

The result is a seamless meshing of ideas from some of the best minds in the underground music scene - including The Oscillation’s Demian Castellanos and Steven Lawrie of The Telescopes - whose recordings span the weird and wonderful, ranging from ‘home made noise box’ to  ‘Godin Artisan ST II recorded on solar power in a caravan’, to simply ‘lime green guitar.’ The roster of musicians and their various tools and instruments has been documented on the vinyl edition’s printed inner sleeve, and reads like a cross between a tech catalogue and a fantasy novel.

One Unique Signal - HS04

Founded by Icelandic frontman, Hakon Aðalsteinsson - an ex-member of Singapore Sling who are often hailed as founding members of the new psych sound - The Third Sound came into being in Rome in 2010 and have since relocated to Berlin.

Since forming, The Third Sound have enjoyed the support of Anton Newcombe, who released their self-titled first album, on his label A Recordings, and chose the group to support his band The Brian Jonestown Massacre on tour in Europe. He also provided the studio for recording their second album The Third Sound of Destruction and Creation which was released on Fuzz Club in 2013. Most recently they’ve shared members with Anton Newcombe and Tess Parks’ band, which led to Parks’ appearance on the single “You Are Not Here” from the group's third album, Gospels of Degeneration, to be released April 2016 on Fuzz Club.

The have also taken part in the Fuzz Club Split Single series, partnering with The Underground Youth on Split Single No. 2.

What began as somewhat of a solo project by Aðalsteinsson, the new album sees The Third Sound stretching its definition with deeper levels of collaboration between band members and the influence of a new character in its story, the city of Berlin.

The Third Sound is Hakon Aðalsteinsson, who creates the concept for each song and writes the lyrics, guitarist Robin Hughes who develops the guitar parts, Leo Kaage on drums. The trio co-produced Gospels of Degeneration, which was recorded in Berlin in Kaage’s homebuilt studio with gear that was begged, borrowed and stolen from friends and collaborators.

The group’s sound has been described as “ebbing between light and dark, dream and reality, pop and experimentalism” and “ranging from hypnotic soundscapes to tweaked out and fuzzed up numbers.” In a recent premiere on Clash Music they were described as "lynchpins of the psychedelic underground."

The Third Sound (Featuring Tess Parks) - You Are Not Here

We are very happy to announce Dead Skeletons Live In Berlin. The album captures a performance at Berlin's iconic SO36 club in 2013.
Available on vinyl, CD, cassette, silk screened poster, and an exclusive collection of merch featuring Dead Skeletons logos by Nonni Dead. More details on the album will be released very soon! Albums will be shipped mid March.

Dead Skeletons - When The Sun

Split Single 8 - RMFTM  - Decadence

RMFTM (Radar Men from The Moon) is a Dutch art collective who approach music as avant-garde exploration. The second LP in the Subversive trilogy is almost upon us. Throughout the series the group is looking to explore, deconstruct and subvert their creative process and themselves as a band. In doing so the immense head-on collision between psych and acid house stretches the definitions of noise, space and time. “

Pre-order

RMFTM - Masked Disobedience

The Cult Of Dom Keller - Broken Arm Of God

My Invisible Friend - Sleepless

Dead Rabbits - Get Me Over There

Fuzz Club Split Single No 9: The Oscillation / 10000 Russos

10000 Russos - Ashkenasi

The Oscillation - Almost See

The Reverb Conspiracy - Volume 4

The track "Sund Spectre" can be found on the album magnifier released on Sulatron records / CD and LP / www.sulatron.com