Track from forthcoming Stained Afro / Bomi Seo collaboration e.p.

Stained Afro was recently welcomed into the 'British Library - Sound Archive';  have been featured on BBC, local and international radio stations; and also featured in the renowned avant garde music magazine 'The Wire' (including the Wire Tapper cover disc - April 2013). 

South Korean artist and performance artist Bomi Seo is currently on a expedition around Europe and Russia. The trip is funded by the 'Ilhyeon gallery' in South Korea in preparation for her forthcoming show and book.  Her work brings focus to the effect of encroaching industry on the natural world, raises questions about the addiction of city life and challenges the increasingly grey world we inhabit.

"Sae Daehwa" - Stained Afro featuring Bomi Seo

Latest soundscape from Stained Afro - from forthcoming release on Must Die Records

Handfull Of Bees by Stained Afro

Full Stained Afro E.P. including this track available free to download at http://www.mustdierecords.co.uk
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"Premature Delerium"- Stained Afro CD Available NOW!

Taken from Good Good Things cassette release on Must Die

Touch em up by Good Good Things

Fuck Love is taken from The Drop Out Wives album 'Voting for Gloss' available on Must Die Records

Fuck Love by the Drop OutWives

Spy Dolphin by Tirikilatops

Maria Maze and Herb Diamante - On My Windowsill

Free download track from  "Stained Afro". CD forthcoming on Must Die Records
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"Jericho Buttons" - Stained Afro

Free download track from "Stained Afro". CD forthcoming on Must Die Records
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"Mov Horro" - Stained Afro

Early mix version of new Ceramic Hobs track, "Hong Kong Goolagong", taken from forthcoming long playing vinyl release on Must Die Records
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"The Hobs have somehow managed to release some of the most important music coming out of the country....after years of teetering on the edge of psychedelic experimental rock it would appear that the Hobs have finally fallen in dragging with them the corpses of The Butthole Surfers, The Gerogerigegege, Wild Man Fischer and more bizarrely Deep Purple" - Idwal Fisher, 2011

Hong Kong Goolagong - Ceramic Hobs

From the new release by Mad Tyrant - The Execution of William Kemmler available now on Must Die Records.


“I have a theory, which only the Mad Tyrant himself can confirm or refute — though why you’d trust him I don’t know, he spends his time creating sounds designed to make humans recoil in disgust and pain.  The theory is this: Mad Tyrant’s extended work “The Execution of William Kemmler” does NOT mean to replicate the turmoil occurring inside the brain of the first convicted murderer claimed by The Chair.  Rather, it takes us inside the brains of those luckless motherfuckers who supervised, invented and powered the whole thing — them who witnessed Kemmler’s contorting body and could only imagine the sights it saw; who noticed that, even after the first jolt had flowed through it, the body continued to breathe.  What dreams did THEY dream? To see a human cooked like a lump of meat and find your own hand holding the pot: that’s gotta fill your dreams with crackling torment, from which you wake screaming if you’re lucky.  “The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face,” is what Bob Dylan called it.  George Westinghouse, bard of the alternating current and witness to Kemmler’s singe and stench, was less poetic: “They would have done better using an axe.”
Mad Tyrant’s godawful racket describes a profound empathy.  It’s the empathy of torturer with tortured, of a kid lighting magnified ants afire because he’s not allowed to do much else.  Remember, empathy isn’t just love-thy-neighbor stuff; sometimes it’s loathing yourself as you loathe others, self-immolation.  When Tyrant booms low frequencies over and over like a heartbeat on the snuff, are we hearing Kemmler’s heart or the blood pounding inside his executioners’ temples, or are we simply hearing a signal of exquisite pain, Morse code from one sicko to another?  Yes yes yes.  As much as the Tyrant likes to paint a pretty picture — sparks flying, the ping pong of eyeballs inside a skull, lightning bolts jumping between semiconductors or some shit — his main concern is forcing fellow meat lumps to hear the unhearable, the heretofore unheard, the sound that doesn’t equal a word.  So, BOOM — it’s The Execution of William Kemmler because you gotta call it something, but also because Mad Tyrant realizes both death and noise obliterate human differences like few other phenomena.  (Well, there’s sex; we eagerly await his noise-terrorist soundtrack to Last Tango In Paris.)
Cunning!  We hear the sheets of white squawl and think, yes, this hurts my ears, but then we regress from that torture to something more closely resembling cogent human expression — rhythms, metrical shots and thuds that seem to have a purpose apart from causing us pain — and it’s not a respite, it just ADDS to our anxiety because we don’t know when the pure unfiltered hurt will return.  (“Whaddya mean ‘we’, motherfucker?” — Tonto to the Lone Ranger.)  The jackhammer that climaxes “The War of Currents”, whoa nelly, is sort of relaxing because at least we know this is as bad as it gets.  But it’s not; it never is.  There’s always the next track or the repeat button.  There’s always the tedious agony of real life waiting, stretching, its forlorn unfathomability a harsher noise than Mad Tyrant, for all his cunning, will ever conjure.  But Tyrant’s in good company.  NOBODY can conjure it.  As Mr. Westinghouse said, ears bloody and face a blank mask after a double bill of terrible godawful racket (I think it was Merzbow opening for Tesla):  They would have done better using an axe.  -  Josh Langhoff“
Josh Langhoff is a musician & writer and has
written for The Village Voice and PopMatters.com

Mad Tyrant - War of Currents

Stained Afro - Reading the Sign

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