'We Are Time' is an exploratory version of one of The Pop Group's most anthemic rallying agitations, taken from 'Cabinet Of Curiosities', a nine-track compilation described by Mark Stewart as equivalent to a lost Pop Group album. 

The compilation opens with the fractured future-funk single ‘Where There’s A Will’, originally released as a double A-side shared with The Slits in 1980, and described by Sager [guitarist] as “The group’s best attempt to mix a message with a groove plus some real free playing. If you are really unhinged you may be able to dance to this.” Next up is the unheard, original Andy Mackay (Roxy Music) produced version of ‘She Is Beyond Good And Evil’, probably the band’s most infamous song and famously covered by St Vincent on the Jimmy Fallon show and throughout her Strange Mercy tour.

Cabinet Of Curiosities continues with previously unreleased songs ‘Abstract Heart’ and ‘Karen’s Car’, and other alternative versions. Of ‘Karen’s Car’, recorded in Finland, Sager recalls “appropriately our final stand with just Stewart, Sager, Smith and Waddington left. This is the sound of paranoia, groove and noise at its height. There was nowhere left to go”. 

"No waiting
No running
No searching behind

I will take you time
I will break you mine
Waiting is a crime..."

The Pop Group formed in Bristol in 1977 out of a sense of disenchantment with the increasing conservatism of punk.
Drawing on an eclectic range of influences from free jazz, conscious funk, heavyweight dub to avant-garde experimentalism, alongside contemporaries like Public Image Limited, This Heat and Throbbing Gristle, they were at the forefront of a musical period marked out by its ground-breaking innovation.

Their original missives, which Mark Stewart describes as “an index of possibilities”, still explode with an incandescent spirit and energy, possibilities expanded upon by recent live tours in Japan, America, Australia and the UK and the band's first studio album in 35 years, 'Citizen Zombie'. 

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The Pop Group - We Are Time (John Peel session 1978)

Tuxedomoon - Desire (from "Desire / No Tears")

Imanishi: https://youtube.com/@2no10jo?si=X0lkPX_jnP0bCiFe

イマニシ ／ サマー・レイニーデイ (samaa・reinii・dei) [オフボーカル]
Imanishi ／ Garden of Words (summer rainy day) [off vocal]

[off vocal] サマー・レイニーデイ Garden of Words ／ イマニシ Imanishi

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Vampyr - C1

Your Mind Is At Ease

Between Those Different Ways

Energy

Following a recalibration and consolidation with their recent electronics-inflected album, 2018’s U.E.F., The Oscillation is back with their sixth and most ambitious album to date, Wasted Space. A meditation on the nature of existence in the face of what can be insurmountable odds, Wasted Space finds The Oscillation painting from the darker shades of the kaleidoscopic scale.

“The origins of Wasted Space go back to Monographic in 2016,” muses Demian Castellanos - the mastermind behind The Oscillation. “That was a very bleak and heavy record and I really needed to move out of that mindset. Making U.E.F freed me up to write a coherent collection of narrative songs and compositions. Wasted Space is a partial continuation of a journey started with U.E.F., but one that re-incorporates more song-based ideas again.”

What’s immediately apparent is that Wasted Space sets it stall well away from the prosaic third-eye tropes that have become orthodoxy. Album opener ‘Entity’ establishes the pace with a focus on the dancefloor as much as on the navigation of existence. Fusing muscular grooves with an industrial wall of sound, these are bold steps into wholly new territories.

“There’s an irony at play here,” considers Castellanos. “It’s a twisted party song, albeit a party for one.” But what a party it is. The mutant disco is bolstered by the rhythmic call-and-response of ‘Drop’, a track that eschews conventional methods of dance sensibility for more instinctive and primal urges. This is music that calls out to the suitably attuned. “We’re reaching out on an innate level,” says Castellanos. “It’s a form of wordless communication that transcends the limitations of verbal language and thought processes.”

Wasted Space’s more somatic moments are tempered and balanced by episodes of contemplation and reflection. Fuelled by dreamy, orchestral sweeps and mournful, sustained notes, ‘The Human Shell’ is a deceptive yet redemptive piece that at first glance appears to be resigned to the futility of existence. But look once again and there you’ll find hope. “People will be able to relate to this song,” states Castellanos. “There's a lot of love and empathy in there and it reaches out to say that we’re not alone, that we don’t have to exist independently of each other.”

Bringing Wasted Space to an emphatic conclusion is the epic instrumental ‘Luminous Being’. Ambitious in scope and delivery, it methodically and unequivocally slow releases repressed emotions to throw the wider world into sharper focus. Hedonistic yet reflective, Wasted Space is an album that moves purposely along a high wire as it finds the perfect balance between dealing with life and escaping it. The Oscillation’s finest album yet, Wasted Space is the area to which you’ll return to again and again.

Wasted Space is due for release September 21st.

Wasted Space

The Oscillation - Drop

Play With Fire

L.A. WITCH - Gen-Z

FÖLLAKZOID
Album: II RMX
Song: "9"
Remixed by PSYCHIC ILLS 

DOWNLOAD AT http://follakzoid.bandcamp.com/album/ii-rmx

Pre-order 12" split at FOLLAKZOID@GMAIL.COM

this song is also available at Sacred Bones Records's Todo Muere vol.3 comp.

FÖLLAKZOID - "9" rmx by PSYCHIC ILLS

THE OSCILLATION/MUGSTAR/LISTENING MIRROR/BEN NASH 
"Travel Expop Series #2: Great Britain"
Limited edition of 300 copies on white vinyl 
Co-Release: Hands In The Dark / All Time Low
Release date: 6th August 2013

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com // www.alltimelowproductions.com

The Oscillation - Drop

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