spiders spin sick webs

Alternative Version due to Copy Right Restrictions on Spotify etc.
Full Compilation Out via Club Paradiso 
@club_paradiso
https://clubparadiso.bandcamp.com/

Artwork by Maria Cozma

Obstacle Under The Sun (Alternative Version)

Ama Nesciri

Flood

Quit Life - Flood

Burnt Black Cars

Resurrection Blues

my most famous song lol
feat jonathan bree

The Cigarette Duet

Billy Bultheel - Two Cycles
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 138
Release Date: 08 March 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/TwoCycles

Billy Bultheel's debut solo album is an ambitious distillation of the composer's,' sprawling litany of influences and his unique approach to site-specific composition. A compilation of pieces created between 2016 and 2023, the album is a forceful testament to Bultheel's expansive performance practice and collaborations with cutting-edge visual artists like Anne Imhof and James Richards.

Drawing inspiration from industrial music and metal as well as medieval and baroque polyphony, Bultheel devised a way to present this collection of works side-by-side. The record is split into two distinct cycles: the Snow Cycle, which collects Bultheel's electro-acoustic and compositional work, and the Game Cycle, which assembles his electronic productions. These two suites have unmistakable symmetry; Bultheel's traditional compositions are bolstered by his understanding of electronic production, while his electronic pieces are moulded by his knowledge of classical and traditional music. "Two Cycles" is an album that exhibits duality, embodying the dichotomy of Bultheel's roles as both an ensemble composer and an electronic producer.

The haunting opening track of the 'Snow Cycle', 'The Arcades Project', — named after the unfinished compendium of architectural contemplations penned by the eminent German philosopher, Walter Benjamin - places four tubas in strategic towers surrounding the audience, creating an immersive auditory experience. Conversely, 'The Snows of Venice' — named after Alexander Kluge and Ben Lerner collection of short stories and poems — was conceived for two flautists directed to intertwine their melodies as they traversed through knee-high water.

The 'Game Cycle' meanwhile places a strong emphasis on rhythm, crafting a sonic landscape that resonates with overdriven metallic clanks and sharp stabs. Drawing upon his extensive experience in composing for choreography, Bultheel envisions a series of jittery dances that purposefully deviate from conventional timelines. 'Decreation' infuses techno with the visceral qualities of noise music and 'Game Theory' offers an unsettling skeletal barrage of saturated, precisely tuned percussive hits. Bultheel brings 'Two Cycles' to a close with 'Gigue,' a reference to the 6/8 baroque court dance that traditionally marked the conclusion of a dance suite; by merging marching rhythms performed by two percussionists on a single drum set with chaotic and evocative synth leads, he establishes a tantalizing counterpoint.

'Two Cycles' is a musical compilation that explores the themes of locale and landscape, elucidating the intricate dynamics that arise between the musicians and their audience, the ears and the architecture. Considering timbre, density and the psycho-acoustic qualities of communal spaces, from the warehouse to the cathedral, Bultheel draws indelible lines between seemingly distant concepts, merging the celestial with the terrestrial.

The double album cover, one for each side and cycle on the record, features a collage created by the Welsh video artist James Richards that merges medieval iconography with snippets of queer memorabilia.

All tracks written by Billy Bultheel
Mixed by James Ginsburg
Mastered by Enyang Urbicks

Billy Bultheel - Game Theory (Game Cycle) (PAN 138)

Perfectly Blue

Sundown

Renee ig @just_renee_nee conducted a group chat interview with the artists behind Open Secret sharing the concepts and ideas generated by Open Secret so far

Renee from KDVS Radio x Open Secret Artists 29 October 24

Recorded & Mastered by John Hannon, 2014

Taken from a forthcoming Split LP with SECONDS released by Soft Power Records on 1st August 2015

Artwork by Chaos vs Cosmos

AVENUE

4TRAX composes in quiet defiance—“Sonata for Shadows” is a whispered reckoning, a duet between the one who builds and the one who watches. Structured like a classical sonata but dripping in ambient dread and spectral warmth, this track moves through grief, reflection, and eventual reconciliation. The ghost doesn’t haunt—it advises. The beat doesn’t drop—it exhales.

Operatic samples float like memories, while dub swells anchor the truths left unsaid. This is music for the in-between: between failure and forgiveness, intention and execution, past and possibility. It’s not about defeating darkness. It’s about giving it a desk, a voice, a seat at the boardroom of your becoming.

7. SONATA FOR SHADOWS

Progressive rock avec fondements blues, influences celtiques/orientales

Legendary Battles

Australia's Bloodhounds On My Trail sign to UK label Raphalite Records, Release 'Jolly' Single

"This EP is an out of body experience that I will continue to tap into again & again & again" - Primal Music Blog

"I will be shocked if I come across an EP in 2015 that is better than Escape EP by Bloodhounds On My Trail" – Love Sound Magazine

"A sparkling debut record" - This Is That Song 

"Something so sweet about this thing, it’s optimism... just kind of unassumingly soars" - Don't Need No Melody 

FOR LOVERS OF: Lowtide, Flyying Colours, Ride, Chapterhouse, Slowdive, The Church
LEAD TRACKS: Jolly, Jolly (Ummagma Remix), She's In My Plans, Dreamless


It's no secret that Australia has a burgeoning shoegaze scene. From within the burgeoning Melbourne shoegaze community, Bloodhounds On My Trail are set to release ‘Escape II’ internationally through UK-based label Raphalite Records. This deluxe edition of their debut EP ‘Escape’ will also feature additional tracks ‘She’s In My Plans’ and a remix of ‘Jolly’ by celebrated dreampop duo Ummagma.

'Jolly' is the first single off this EP. "Jolly is about having a good moment when you've been having a bit of a difficult time and wanting to not let it go to waste. Happy for people to enjoy our music and take what they want out of it. How it makes them feel. The message is in the ears of the listener," explains Bloodhounds guitarist Chris Donaldson. 

With a love of shoegaze bands of the late 1980s to early 90s, Bloodhounds On My Trail seek to fuse the rhythmic underpinnings of bands like the Velvet Underground and the Stooges with the infectious stylings of shoegaze luminaries such as Cocteau Twins and Slowdive. 

Since playing their first show in February 2014, the band has been blossoming through a whirlwind combination of live shows, festivals and recording sessions. Their music was met with positive reactions, encouraging press, and invitations to play with notable Australian artists such as Lowtide, Contrast, and White Walls.

Thanks to Tonedeaf and Gabe Lewis from Lowtide, one of the foremost shoegaze acts in Australia, Bloodhounds on My Trail began to be known as one of the best Aussie shoegaze acts around. "They sound like how I want my guitars to sound," Gabe explains. "Needless to say, I was immediately hooked. Really languid, cascading washes, and wearing their pastoral shoegaze influences on their sleeves.”

All of this prompted the band to formally commit their hazy tones to tape at Birdland Studios with renowned engineer Matt Hosking, who was the perfect match for the band - also being deeply immersed in shoegaze music and having a record of outstanding work with fellow shoegazers Lowtide, Contrast, Parading and Hideous Towns. This year has also seen the band gain momentum with appearances at local gaze festivals alongside Flyying Colours, Immigrant Union, Black Cab and Day Ravies.

"I hope for people to enjoy it and get a buzz off our tunes. We ain't preaching anything, just making music we find exciting and want to record and play live," says Johnny Green. 

Bloodhounds are Johnny Green (guitar, vocals), Chris Donaldson (guitar), Nik Donaldson (drums) and Ché Walden (bass). In 2014, Shoegazemania named 'Escape' the year's number 2 EP, which also ranked high in DKFM's top EPs of 2014. Both Custom Made Music and Terapija.net included ‘She’s In My Plans’ at #6 in their top songs of 2014.

Bloodhounds On My Trail - Jolly

From the forthcoming EP 'The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur" (2015, Leonard Skully Records)

FOR FANS OF: A.R. Kane, Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Jesus & Mary Chain, Dif Juz

Daniel and Danny Chavis are natives of Raleigh/ Chapel Hill, North Carolina, East Village residents for the past 28 years, and co-founders of the groundbreakers The Veldt, whose named derived from a Ray Bradbury sci-fi story. Musically reared in the church and juke-joints, the twins have been performing since they were children, listening to music that included gospel, Motown and Pink Floyd. In March, they return to their roots with The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation Mixtape EP.  
 
The first single is Sanctified, a ballad that perfectly captures the lush sound of Danny’s screeching decibel-breaking guitar distortion, Daniel’s soulful wail and Hayato Nakao’s deep bass grooves and guitar feedback. This is a perfect re-introduction. The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur was named from an E.E. Cummings poem. Its raging sound is influenced equally by the emotional soul of Marvin Gaye, free jazz warriors Sun Ra and Pharaoh Sanders, various Drake hip-hop tracks, and their own fertile electric imagination. 
 
The Chavis brothers initially made a name for themselves playing throughout the south at a time when fellow southerners REM and Superchunk were securing major label deals. As more black rock bands (Living Colour, 24/7 Spyz) sold more records and gigged worldwide, The Veldt was courted by various labels, including IRS Records and Capitol. 
 
Initially signed to Capitol Records in 1989, they were in the studio with dream-gaze guru Robin Guthrie working on their initial recordings, playing American concert halls with Cocteau Twins and The Jesus and Mary Chain, and recording Marigolds with Lincoln Fong (Moose).

The Veldt were a sensation from the start as they became a part of a movement of innovators who came of musical age at a time when rhythmic rebels were reflective, gritty and wild. Their sound inspired future generations of alternative artists, including TV On the Radio. 
 
They switched labels and Mercury Records released Afrodisiac in 1994, produced by Ray Shulman (The Sundays, Bjork, Sugarcubes). Their single Soul in a Jar was an underground hit.
 
The Veldt expanded their musical language, fusing more electronics into their soundscape. They retired the “Veldt” name and began recording and touring under under the name Apollo Heights. In 1999, the Chavis brothers were joined by bassist Hayato Nakao. Their music was loud, exploring color, space, sensuality and beat driven melodies with rhythmic and dynamic tension. Daniel's falsetto vocals contrasted with Danny's rock dreamscape guitar and Hayato's pounding beats.
 
Although The Veldt had signed to two major labels after leaving Mercury Records in 1995, the brothers decided to self-release their 2008 album White Music for Black People. They eventually changed their name back to The Veldt.
 
Apart from Robin Guthrie and A.R. Kane, they’ve collaborated with TV On The Radio, Mos Def and Lady Miss Kier (Deee-Lite), and have shared the stage with My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies, Echo & The Bunnymen, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Manic Street Preachers, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Oasis, Living Colour and TV on the Radio, among others.
 
The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur marks the band's re-emergence, released via UK label Leonard Skully Records on March 18, 2016. The Resurrection Hymns LP releases later this year (via SonaBLAST! Records).

All tracks written, produced and performed by Danny C. Chavis, Daniel Chavis, Hayato Nakao
Tracks 1,4  Add vocals by Marie Cochrane
Tracks 2, 4 Add. guitar by Andrew Prinz
Track 5  Produced by Rudy Tambala / A.R. Kane
Tracks 2, 3, 4 Mastered at Engine Room Audio NYC by Mark Christiansen and Jeet Suresh Paul
Tracks 1, 5 mastered by Alexander Kretov at Ummagma Studio
Cover artwork by Andrew Prinz and Danny Chavis


Sanctified

Recorded for BTR Live - Studio on location in Austin, TX. 
Engineered and mixed by Hansdale Hsu.  www.btrtoday.com

Colorise European Tour :

10/05--Mojo Club, Hamburg GER 
11/05--Eskulap, Poznan, PL 
12/05--Shakespeare Theater, Gdansk, PL 
13/05--Progresja, Warsaw, PL 
14/05--Kody Festival, Lublin, PL 
15/05--Stary Klasztor, Wroclaw, PL 
16/05--Archa Theater, Prague, CZ 
17/05--Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim, GER 
18/05--Cirque Royal, Brussels, BEL 
21/05--Le Vigean, Bordeaux, FR 
22/05--Bikini, Toulouse, FR 
23/05--Le Radiant, Lyon, FR
24/05--Espace Julien, Marseille, FR
26/05--Sala Apolo, Barcelona, ESP 
27/05--Teatro Barcelo, Madrid, ESP
28/05--Sala Albeniz, Gijon, ESP
29/05--Bombo y Platillo, Zaragoza, ESP 

Tim and Tina (Live In The Backyard)

Produced as Opiate for the 1%  Compilation in 1999
Also used in the song "Undo" by Bjørk. Part of the Vespertine album release 2001
Also part of the Opiate album "While you were sleeping" via April Records 2002

1% in 2/3 speed

After releasing her first tape “Fugue: Some Temporal Patterns Other Than the Forward March” on Genot Centre in 2017, artist and musician Johanna Odersky returns with another full-length album. The Städelschule sudent, who works primarily with sculptures,  continues to explore the silhouettes separating internal and external worlds and the mechanisms of inclusion, exclusion and domestication they reveal, on her self-titled album ‘Iku’. Her audio work can be described as a mishmash of associative samples, which Iku carefully weaves into a complex entanglement of emotionally charged sounds. While her first album relies heavily on blissfully arranged ambient pieces, the artist began to involve her own voice as a center piece in the “Body Horror” EP, which was released by berlin-based Creamcake last year.
The self-titled album feels like a sophisticated continuation of tracks like “À Tes Yeux” and her early work on Fugue, combining french pop vibes with classical instruments and gloomy spoken-word snippets, forming sonic material, which arises from sketches of Iku’s inner. Odersky takes us on a travel through a hypnagogic realm, which is full of contrasts and uncertain atmospheres.

Iku’s self-titled album ‘Iku’ will be released on May 17th, 2019 and will be premiered at Hyperreality 2019.

Mastered by Hari Stojan.
Cover by Iku.

Tim and Tina (Live In The Backyard)

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