After cultivating his own sound for over 30 years, de Babalon has continually expanded his sonic trajectory throughout the last few years via a series of noteworthy release on labels such as Alter, A Colorful Storm and AD 93. Now he presents his most encompassing album to date via Vale, an hour long phantasmagoric onslaught showcasing the full spectrum of de Babalon’s radical, menacing and inimitable style.

Vale (Master)

VAK71 | Christoph de Babalon - Denn Sie Sind Hünen

Listen to it or get busted !
https://nottebrigante.bandcamp.com/album/nb04t-dimanche-midi-cond

Chronicles of the wasteland, an ode to those who remain in the shadows, a nod to the wild beauty of 40 rue Marceline. Solo looser project, Dimanche Midi goes fast, you listen to it in one go, at full throttle on your bike. Drum machine, electric bass, synth, guitar, cassette loops, samples, radio archives and dirty cops "CONDé" stories !

A1 - Rap Exotic 03:54
A2 - Blanchisseur de Mémoire 03:22
A3 - Loop Interlude 00:17
A4 - Parabole Mystique 02:05
A5 - Condé 02:58
B1 - Pass Culture 03:30
B2 - Café Jamaicain 03:07
B3 - Un Oeil sur les RG 00:42
B4 - Mystique Parabole 02:12
B5 - Call Up the F.B.I 02:59

C25 CONDé, edition of 30 cassettes

Prison

NB04t - DIMANCHE MIDI - CONDé

Remembrance

A mix of tracks from recently released albums on @constellationtatsu label, for more information visit:

This mix is produced for broadcast on @radiockut 90.3FM on "If you got ears," for the April 10, 2024 edition as well as on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 12h-14h eastern time

Thank you for listening! - Stefan.

Track listing
(artist name / track name)

01. Andy Aquarius - U Lisi
02 Glo Phase - Vista Hermosa
03. Glo Phase - Pearl Around Moss
04. Tarotplane - Aeonium
05. Tarotplane - Auximenes
06. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - The Griot
07. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - Igi
08. Tarotplane - Omayyad
09. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - Baki
10. @rfisher89 & @dexterstory - Eburean Dance
11. @iksremusic - we are soaring
12. IKSRE - tail lights
13. IKSRE - pillars
14. @glophase - The Reflecting Pool
15. Glo Phase - Seaflowers
16. Glo Phase - Blink Reprise
17. @andyaquarius - Kyrie
18. Andy Aquarius - La Force Aquarienne
19. Glo Phase - Ugoki
20. Glo Phase - Rewind The Sim
21. Glo Phase - Transient Shelter
22. IKSRE - intention
23. IKSRE - dawn in a foreign city
24. IKSRE - heartburst

The cover image is “DENKENDER EMBRYO72” (1972), a silkscreen by Gernot Bubenik photographed by the artist specifically for this release, Aeonium by Tarotplane. www.bubenikgernot.com/index-e.html

A Constellation Tatsu mix for CKUT 90.3 FM

OUT NOW, ON LOLIPOP RECORDS!!!
Klypi - "Something To Lose" (DIGI SINGLE)
An alternative electro-pop banger, from Klypi!
www.lolipoprecords.com

KLYPI - "Something To Lose"

A song about looking for the sun, even during the storm.

It started with drone style tunings on a favourite old nylon string guitar and this song popped up almost fully formed immediately.

Solo it started out as an acid-folk thing, but when taken to the band it changed completely into a hybrid psych-shoegaze-funk-rock-madchester banger! It's the kind of full-on up tune we've wanted to do for a while now, with Chris's insistent break beat that got us all jumping - it's one of the most fun things to play.

The final, fuzz-soaked section is a mighty band jam led by Holly's driving bass - an example of the improvised grooves we play during our live sets amongst the songs. Here's to all the Sun Queens...a celebration of warmth, kindness and vitality everywhere.

Song for the Sun Queen is the first of a series of singles the band are releasing, leading to an EP coming out in February 2025. Released on all major digital and streaming services by Lincolnshire record label Old Tin Box Recordings. The song will be soundtracking an independent film to be released in 2025.

lyrics
I am here for you my Sun Queen
I’ll do anything you ask
As each day you rise
Wonder fills my eyes
All doubt is left behind

I need your warmth each day
The message you relay

High, hang high
Come light
My sky…

releases August 9, 2024
Chris Lody – Keys, synths and beats
Holly Hall – The bass and backing vocals
Esme Dodsworth – Effected vocals
Mark Merrifield – Guitar, vox and things
Jimmy Osborne – Processed guitars, fx and backing vocals

Produced and mixed by the band
Mastered by Tom Milner, The Pump House Recording Studio, Lincolnshire
Artwork by Lee Conybeare
Video by Esme Dodsworth

Song For The Sun Queen

Goldfish

Félicia Atkinson - Ma Langue La Premiere (Love Means Taking Action Mix)

Teen Babes From Monsanto

Saviour Machine

Redd Kross have always been too good, too perfect, too true, to believe. Mythic. Could this tuneful hardcore punk EP really be the work of a brother band with the 15-year-old on vocals and guitar and the 11-year-old on bass? Did Redd Kross really open for Black Flag? Could Jeff and Steve really have been born and raised in the Beach Boys’ hometown of Hawthorne, California, and did Jeff really see the Beatles live in 1966? Did one of them, dressed in Gene Simmons makeup, really kill a Bruce Springsteen impersonator onstage? Is that really their hair? Could Researching the Blues, their first studio album in 15 years, be not just the hottest thing since Cher went solo but the best start-to-finish Redd Kross record ever?

Somehow, the answer to all the above is improbably, wonderfully, beautifully YES. Long have Redd Kross rocked, and long have critics, devoted fans, Rodney Bingenheimer and fellow musicians from Seattle (Nirvana) to New York (Sonic Youth) to Driftwood, Texas (Butthole Surfers) to Hollywood (everybody) bowed before the Kross and their self-aware pre-spandex Glam bubblegum garage psychedelic Cheap Trick/Kiss/Revolver post-Kim Fowley rock and roll. Degenerate, sweet: tongues in cheek, song-long winks.

Commercial success may never have been theirs (if time and space had been aligned correctly, they’d have been blitzing ballrooms in the early ’70s instead of opening for Stone Temple Pilots in the early ’90s), but Redd Kross have endured and endeared because they’ve always had the best possible attitude: smarts, smiles, and total commitment to live hair-spinning showmanship.

Like fellow legendary Great American John Waters, they’ve devoted their career to making subversive entertainment in a high pop celebrity style, reintroducing in their especially golden late ’80s/early-’90s period such forbidden classic-rock tropes as melodies, harmonies, ripping musicianship, and primary colors-stuff that had (largely) been ditched in the underground rock’s post-punk, No Wave, hardcore, and sensitive-egghead scenes. Redd Kross then spent the ’90s making one great misunderstood record after another until enough shit had caked the fan that in 1997 they pretty much called it quits.

But you never quit being brothers. And so here’s the next Redd Kross album-produced and mixed by younger brother Steve earlier this year after it was mostly written by older brother Jeff in 2007-08, and recorded in that same period with the band’s current lineup, who’ve re-engaged in live performance since being lured back into action by an excitable Spanish promoter.

They’re too nice to say so themselves, but attention must be paid to this band, to this great album, Researching the Blues, which, like a pair of great pants, is tight and the perfect length. By the time you’re two minutes and 51 seconds into the second song, “Stay Away From Downtown,” and the band is breaking into the sha-la-las, you will be running around the room with your hands in the air. As the fourth song, the Brian Wilsonian “Dracula’s Daughters,” ends and the dynamic mid-’60s Beatles jingle “Meet Frankenstein” launches into its first chorus, you will be mass-texting all of your friends with the good news. By the final four songs-”The Nu Temptations” (Stooges-worthy riffs! Cowsills counter-harmonies! And more!), the “Surrender”/Noel ‘n’ Liam rockers “Choose to Play” and “Winter Blues,” and the stunning summer psychedelic power pop that is the closing “Hazel Eyes”-you will know the truth. You tried the rest-but now you’ve had the best. The McDonalds were educated at Rock ‘n’ Roll High, and they’ve stayed true to their school. Here’s to their beautiful reunion! Redd Kross Forever!

Saviour Machine

ReddKross