amazing drums and rhythms, weirdly reminds me of gang of four

a compilation of funk rock songs made on sp 404 mk 2 and a novation launch key mini mk 2 and a donner guitar with various effects and plugins ..... 2025 

LIGHTHOUSE - Track 4 - Clear Sky Soundz

demo featured on the cassette store day compilation by Gary Cassettes 2015.

White Poppy - Small Town Mind

Quicksails - Mortal
to be released digitally on 12/9/16 and physically on LP on 1/13/17

for more info:
http://hausumountain.com/?page_id=2856

to purchase:
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Mortal

Quicksails - Valley Voice

"an invigorating journey, the track underpinned by a sense of shadiness that feels all the more compelling as the track rolls on and on and on, the mood dense and foreboding aside, always threatening to suddenly let loose, but staying somewhat static instead, save for the occasional spike in temperature" GoldFlakePaint

"every song effortlessly pieces together a narrative of a trouble, a grungey, slow-core take on American songwriting that never feels like it's anywhere near a cliche" Monorail Music, Glasgow

"Conjuring up sleepy, hazy days... really pull you in with their lyrics" Ravechild

"sulky, angsty and strikingly beautiful in its delivery" Overdrive

"first appear to have a slower, solemn drone, yet their sound disintegrates into loud, melancholic, distorted noise" Indulge Sound

CHUMP are a sulkcore three-piece from Glasgow. “the kind of music you’d heard for last dance at the prom in a ‘90s teen dramedy… before the flames rise up and everyone dies.” It started as the sleepyheaded bedroom project of singer and guitarist (yeah, she knows it’s upside-down) Tara, and soon loudly woke up with the addition of drummer Matt and bass player Tony.

They've played shows with the likes of Chastity Belt, PAWS, and Diet Cig.

In late 2016 they recorded at Green Door Studios. These songs became their first EP, the cassette Treat Me Mean, which they released by themselves as a non-prank on April Fool’s Day. It’s all worked out though because they’ve had to repress that cassette.

Returning to Green Door Studios, they recorded their forthcoming 7” on Gerry Loves Records, ‘At Least We Got a Song Out of It’. A shrugging kiss-off of a song, a diss track for summertime. The b-side ‘Lose Your Life’ features Tony on vocals, calmly offering advice to the listener against a lullaby-esque instrumental.

https://www.facebook.com/whatachump/
https://soundcloud.com/whatachump
https://whatachump.bandcamp.com/

CHUMP - At Least We Got a Song Out of It

From the album Off World 2
Constellation CST127
06 Oct 2017
http://cstrecords.com/cst127

ALBUM TRACKLIST:
1. Wet Max
2. Island Fanfare
3. Scrubdown
4. Memory Drip
5. The Mask
6. Play Room
7. Night Valve
8. Decamp
9. Satellite Beach
10. The Grail 

PLAYERS:
Sandro Perri: bass, drum machine, electronics, guitar, piano (all tracks)
Drew Brown: electronics (tracks 2 & 8)
Eric Chenaux: guitar, percussion (track 10)
Matthew Cooper: electronics (track 8)
Craig Dunsmuir: bass, guitar, percussion (tracks 1, 6 & 7)
Brandon Hocura: electronics (track 7)
Susumu Mukai: drum machine, electronics, guitar (tracks 1, 2 & 8)
Lorenz Peter: drum machine, electronics (tracks 3, 5 & 9)

Off World • "Decamp"

02 Gnoomes - Sword In The Stone

'Step By Step' is taken from Handle's debut album, out now through Upset The Rhythm and Maternal Voice.

www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/

In Threes

Handle - 'Step By Step'

The Strain

KEYS - The Strain

'In The Stone' is taken from Normil Hawaiians' new 7" out September 11th through Upset The Rhythm.

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When Upset The Rhythm released Normil Hawaiians’ lost album ‘Return Of The Ranters’ back in 2015, the band members got back in touch with each other after a 30 year break and starting playing music together again. Out of this the group played a launch show for the album and followed that up with more concerts, including an appearance at Supernormal, a residency at the Edinburgh Festival, gigs at Cafe OTO and supporting Richard Dawson in London too. They even recently toured Greece in support of having all three of their renowned exploratory post-punk albums finally back in print.

Throughout this time, Normil Hawaiians revisited their original songs for these live performances. However for a group always so interested in evolving their sound and seeking nuance, it comes as no surprise that they shirked the idea of a faithful retread of old material in favour of reimagining their songs. The group experimented by pushing their songs into new inventive dimensions, still progressive at heart, but now imbued with a cosmic uncanny. A cinematic, even pastoral approach that was always quietly present has come to the fore. The quaint weirdness of folk song, the humanity of communal practice and the group’s ecological mindedness have all found a place in Normil Hawaiians’ current sound world. With this conducive atmosphere brewing, the band’s first new songs in decades started to emerge.

Being far-flung across the UK, the Family Hawaii encamped to Tayinloan, a small village on the west coast of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland with the intention of recording new music. They set up their own studio in an isolated, windswept house overlooking the sea and started the tape rolling. Noel Blanden from the band explains how the spirit of the location was such an inspiration to the group during this initial recording session: “Our time immersed in the place and the unique energy it generated in us allowed us to write ‘In The Stone’. It goes right back to our first album, this need to document experience before it passes over and eludes us. We were grabbing at the musical ether and letting it shape itself through the band.” From loose, improvised sessions and reflective periods of listening in Tayinloan, Normil Hawaiians captured the moment. ‘In The Stone’ is a motorik thrill of distorted guitars, locked rhythms and morphic resonance. Guy Smith is joined by Zinta Egle on vocals, skilfully sharing lyrics informed by Alan Garner and Nigel Kneale’s ideas around recurring events being linked to place and historical artefact;  a kind of residual haunting known as ‘Stone Tape’ theory. In keeping with the context of the song, sounds from several previous live recordings of the track were woven into its present being. Flipside ‘Where is Living?’ is a decidedly more delicate affair of questioning lyrics and eerie traces, droning strings and impressions smudged. This resultant 7” is a tantalising glimpse of Normil Hawaiians now, an echo from the past, an echo from the future.
 
Website: https://normilhawaiians.com/

'In The Stone / Where Is Living?'

Normil Hawaiians - 'In The Stone' 7"

'Reach Out' is taken from Sleeper & Snake's forthcoming album 'Fresco Shed', out Sept 25th through Upset The Rhythm & LuLu's Sonic Discs!

Available to pre-order here: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Fresco Shed

Sleeper & Snake - 'Reach Out'

Track is taken from the upcoming album 'All' (out November 6, 2020)

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It has been nine years since Urlaub in Polen announced they were disbanding with the release of their fifth album Boldstriker. However, drummer Jan Philipp Janzen and multi-instrumentalist and singer Georg Brenner have always made up one of those rare and highly unlikely bands who, despite market laws to the contrary, have put the context of their own work above fads and opportunity without ever denying that they inhabit a particular historical moment. On All, their unexpected sixth album, it becomes immediately clear that the term »reunion«, at least in the sense we’ve gotten used to, does not do justice to this particular ocurance. All is light years away from offering a lukewarm rehashing of ancient recipes for success - the album is highly ambitious and sounds fresh in its concentrated performance—not unlike a debut. This is because the considerable advantages of a long-term musical relationship are at display throughout the record. Not only with regards to the tightness of performance, which was and is every bit as unbelievable as everyone says, particularly those who have been privy to their ecstatic live performances, but also regarding a level of musical familiarity withone another; a rare feat that has always carried the band’s musical explorations, and which balances the dynamics and structures of All as a whole. This interplay is accentuated by the record’s production, for which Janzen (among others a founding member part of Von Spar, current drummer of Die Sterne and producer of Die Sterne, The Field, PTTRNS, Albrecht Schrader etc.) and Brenner are also responsible.

Urlaub in Polen have also always been a band that defies categorization. All is probably their most formally coherent album so far, but it is nevertheless anything but a work of genre: What the songs on All have in common is an architecture evoking Krautrock, developing sprawling synthesizer and guitar workouts on the foundations of finely woven rhythm arrangements. The echoes of West Coast Pop (the harmonies and the bass!), of Rhineland Tech House and of early Dire Straits (the vocals and the guitar production!) make All a characteristically versatile and international affair. The album shares with their previous efforts the interest and attention for sonic textures and contrasts, but showcases more constraint and focus. In place of noise, details and the enormous joy of playing between Brenner and Janzen come to the fore, equally in the stoic Desert Kraut hits »Impulse Response« and »THDT,« the polyrhythmic »Overall«, or the discoid »Proxy Music.« All as a musical statement thus bears witness to the fact that Urlaub in Polen’s artistic vision is not centred by musical niche or content, but by formal considerations and the ever new presence of playing together: All, in this sense, stands for nothing more and nothing less than the latest expansion of their oeuvre.

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https://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/urlaub-in-polen/

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Urlaub in Polen - Impulse Response

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