Beautiful & heavy. One of the albums of the yr - easy.

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Live in Cologne 1981

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Pulled To Bits

"Bela Lugosi's Dead" is a gothic rock song written by the band Bauhaus. The song was the band's first single, released in August 1979, and is often considered to be the first gothic rock record to be released.[1][2] It did not enter the UK charts. The B-side featured the song "Boys" and some versions also include a portion of an early demo recording of what would be their next single, "Dark Entries". It was released on CD in 1988[3] and was compiled on the 1998 album, Crackle - The Best of Bauhaus. The original sleeve art was taken from a still of the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.[2] The authors listed on the single are David Haskins, Kevin Haskins, Peter Murphy and Daniel Ash.[4]

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Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (Original)

Cocteau Twins - Persephone (slowed + Reverb)

From the astounding debut album on Aurora Borealis.  Available from the Southern Web Shop £10 on CD. Vinyl come soon.  http://bit.ly/kF0yIy

The Haxan Cloak - Raven's Lament

The Cramps - Like a bad girl should
From their album Big Beat From Badsville

The Cramps - Like a bad girl should

Cut The With The Cake Knife was recorded by Rose McDowall in 1988/89 following the break up of her group Strawberry Switchblade. Produced with the aid of several musicians in several studios, the album features songs written for the fabled second Strawberry Switchblade album. More importantly perhaps it showcases the honest, direct and life-affirming songs of one of the greatest unsung songwriters of the modern pop era at a tumultuous time in her career.

Tibet opens the set and could be one of the best pop songs you’ve never heard. The innate sadness of the songs’ content – the loss of a friendship, impending sorrow – is heightened to heart-melting level by McDowall’s pop nous and melodic sensibility. Choruses and hooks are everywhere on Cake Knife, from the outsider take on stadium 80s pop in Wings Of Heaven to the spiraling, ecstatic So Vicious, a glorious anthem that highlights the human fragility in McDowall’s vocal performance, an instrument that has never lost the naïve purity it first exemplified in Strawberry Switchblade’s early 80s recordings. The centerpiece of the album, the title-track, is the greatest Switchblade pop chart hit that never was. Like the veiled melancholy of her former group’s hits, Cut With The Cake Knife hints at a darkness beneath the gloss, a darkness that saw McDowall delve into more esoteric territory with her subsequent recordings and collaborations. Cut With The Cake Knife serves as the bridge between the pop music McDowall had been making with her friends Jill Bryson, Lawrence from Felt and Primal Scream to what became a more extreme, deep sound informed by neo-folk and post industrial music.

Rose McDowall’s role in the canon has always been one of an outsider. Beginning in Glasgow’s East End in the avant proto-noise group The Poems, achieving fame briefly in the 80s and then disappearing into counter-cultural folklore, the emphasis in the internet-age has been skewed towards her image and cultural significance. Unseen to many, her solo work, her groups Sorrow and Spell and her collaborations with a whole host of underground luminaries have still touched lives. As McDowall elucidates: “They're real sad songs, about real life. I've had people come up to me to say I'd connected with them and helped them. I remember a gig in America when we made a whole room cry. It was bizarre. A couple at the front of the stage started crying and then these two boys beside and  suddenly everyone was crying. And I thought, "that's power."

Night School’s issue of Cut With The Cake Knife includes unpublished photographs, extensive sleeve notes from Rose McDowall and 2 bonus tracks culled from the bootleg 7” “Don’t Fear The Reaper.”


ROSE MCDOWALL - Tibet (from Cut With The Cake Knife LSSN027)

Veruca Salt - Used To Know Her

Art Burrios - Vocals, Tony Leach - Guitar, Joe Silva - Drums

Art and Tony are in a band called 'Indian School'.  Joe plays drums for Still Getaway.  They decided to start a side project consisting of old, cool jams.  Enjoy.

Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

The Cramps - What's Inside a Girl

I met Isa on Soundcloud where she posts songs from her solo project, Skymarines. I instantly fell in love with her voice and left her a message for collaboration purely on impulse. She quickly responded and was excited about my proposal. From there I sent her the early stages of this song: a few bars of verses and a chorus. We then went back and forth and worked on the melody and the lyrics, editing and re-recording parts as needed. It was an enjoyable process and I was always excited whenever she came back with a new part. The final stages of mixing and mastering had me on the edge of my seat. I was thrilled at how the song sounded and how it all took shape.

I feel like this song really encapsulates that "young love" feeling-- reckless, with no care in the world. It's really hard to explain that feeling in words sometimes and I feel like this song, to me, has done that in a groovy, alluring way.

In terms of production, I'm very happy with how everything sounds. I'm particularly proud of the percussion parts; all of them were home made. I used everything from drumsticks, light switches, to glassware to produce these sounds. The vocals were recorded by Isa through her iPhone and then sent to me for processing. Everything was mixed and mastered by yours truly. 

Making this song was such a fun experience for me. I'm really happy to share it with you guys. Hope you all enjoy!

Skymarines' soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/skymarines


Candy Flavored Lips (feat. Skymarines)

OUT NOW on Skint, a brand new remix of Praise You from Maribou State!

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Fatboy Slim - Praise You (Maribou State Remix)

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