this is an awesome track! Can you tell what you used for bass sound?

Yeah...so nice that you can find something new that is already 4 years old. Great work!

Karen Gwyer - Free Food / One Men Striper

Pedro Vian -  Dancing Hindus EP 
Madteo & Hieroglyphic Being Remixes

a1. News From Near Future (Original Track)
a2. Dancing Hindus (Hieroglyphic Being Remix)
b1. News From Never Future (No Hay Nada Nuevo En El Futuro Madteo Remix)
c1. Dancing Hindus (Digital Only)

Ilustration by Federico Sancho


Modern Obscure Music
® Barcelona 2014

News From Near Future

Torn Hawk released a statement called  "Through Force of Will" in early 2014. It came out on cassette and digital via Not Not Fun. This is a track from that. The sound helps me get through chores and mundane drudgery with a sense of purpose.

 I am going to re-release "Through Force of Will"  on vinyl one way or another in 2015. 

http://boomkat.com/downloads/931004-torn-hawk-through-force-of-will

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhobVUK-Hg

Torn Hawk-  "Streets On Fire"

Tallesen - Strike Silver Love Green
Grab the album, Stills Lit Through, via

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Amazon: http://smarturl.it/TallesenStillsAZ

Purchase from SFT

Tallesen - Strike Silver, Love Green

Left Blank return from a long hiatus with their first and only release of 2014, from Portland's Best Available Technology.

Kevin Palmer is someone the label has been in touch with and an admirer of for a long time now, and after acclaimed releases for Opal Tapes and Astro:Dynamics amongst others, we're thrilled to finally be able to put out some of his most uncompromising music yet. Headed up by the relentless metallic post punk of title track 'Neon Razer Chain', this EP moves effortlessly through experiments in billowing ambience, dubbed out machine jams and buzz saw techno, to make one of his most diverse releases to date. 

Released on vinyl & digital 17th November 2015.

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Sand Circles - 'Motor City'

Appears on R.A.N.D. MUZIK — RM Picture 01 12"
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Ta Voix, Tes Yeux

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

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A drone whines in the distance; Horoscope jettisons a new 5-track LP titled Misogyny Stone. It has prescient timing: here we sit at the abyss of masculine power. Originally from Miami Florida but living in New York for over a decade, Rene J Nunez-Cabrera produces raw sonic compositions indebted to the visceral experience of performance. The new LP, his second for Wharf Cat Records, expands his palette of sound and exhibits the artist’s range in 5 succinct opi: from paranoid, buzzing headscapes, to meditative, industrial drumming. Washes and other gestures of contemporary noise abound, but the ultimate descriptor for Nunez’ penchant is mood. The title track contains Nunez’ version of a deep club jam, intertwining light and dark, low and high, with Kathryn Undorfer’s spoken word sitting right in the middle, sonically spotlighted. “Narcissist Vague” has a religious breadth despite its relatively short existence; while “Azebache Necklace Bought to Protect My Daughter” is a snare-pegged story of delivering a totem; “New Piece (for Christian Mirande)” starts with an organ’s lament, creepily. Nunez’ distorted, layered vocals then build into a desperate chorus of screams. Horoscope’s sound is embedded in the struggles of personhood. Through modular manipulations and his acute utility of pedals and tapes loops, Nunez’ de- and reconstructs the dynamics of gender relations: look into the misogyny stone; it is opaque and bleak.

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Horoscope - Misogyny Stone (from the Misogyny Stone LP)

Vessel - Order Of Noise LP
Released October 15th on Tri Angle Records
LP, CD & Digital

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Vessel - Court Of Lions

An addendum of sorts to his recent 'Faint Hearted' album, Miles' returns with a half-hour EP more squarely aimed at the floor with four darkened, robust variants. 'Blatant Statement' is up first, slowly emerging from a rough alignment of metallic percussion and abrasive stabs not a million miles removed from the kind of racket you'd most likely associate with Vatican Shadow, before the almost-clipped rub of those super-warm bass stabs shifts the perspective to a different kind of environment altogether. 'Technocracy' delivers an oozing House deconstruction, slowed down and inebriated, while 'Infinite Jest' revolves around an industrial cacophony harnessed into a rhythmic anomaly situated somewhere between a technofied Pete Swanson and a sweaty Kassem Mosse. 'Plutocracy' ends the set with a bleached-out warehouse chug, slowed down and menacing, surrounded by a submerged choral arrangement and more of that toughened hammered-metal sound that runs through the EP.

Plutocracy

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