based in Berlin

Music for Parents

Dad Is Painting Again

Ether

Minimal Schlager - Tomorrow Never Knows

Ecstatic Computation

Fantas

Sofia Portanet - Freier Geist

Sofia Portanet - Wanderratte

In this, the EXCITING! pilot episode, Art Brut singer/Indie Living Legend Eddie Argos and journo hanger-on Joe Sparrow chat to the wonderful Berlin garage-punk-indie-awesome band Gurr (https://gurrband.bandcamp.com), who kindly dropped by the plush I Formed A Band studios to tell us about how and why they formed a band, and what it was like doing it.

Gurr are lovely and brilliant - please buy their records on Bandcamp: https://gurrband.bandcamp.com

Ep1 - Gurr formed a band; plus Eddie reminisces on hunting members of Meanswe@r in Camden

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INDEX:Records, a new label of far-flung, left-field electronic experimentation and wizardry, are releasing their latest various-artists compilation, “INDEX: Vol. 3” on November 4th. We at Bolting Bits would like to take the opportunity to invite you to a virtual release listening-party happening on Thursday, October 29th at 4:00pm EDT, hosted by INDEX on Facebook Live. The link to the event with more information is posted below. 

With the fifth track on INDEX:Records’ compilation, King Softy’s “Pump Capacitor” brings a slice of harsh, corrosive abstract electronic in the same vein as Objekt. The obscure Berlin-based artist has yet to release an EP, but if this track is any indication, his sound is fully formed and ready to be deployed in a longer format. 

The opening sub-bass of the track is deep and all-encompassing, making way for an onslaught of stripped-down, mutated drum-n-bass percussion, alien-like synth effects, and a heavily-distorted vocal clip. Softy takes the bare-bones structure of a drum-n-bass song and stretches it to its most extreme permutations until what is left is hardly recognizable, but at the same, completely engrossing. Despite its exercise in experimental electronic acrobatics, the song maintains a robust structure, circling back to its central beat with the same menacing and stealthy energy of an Anaconda wrapping its way around a lifeless victim.

The song gradually loosens its muscular grip, shedding layers of sonic distortion and contorted noise before once again revealing that skeletal drum pattern and ephemeral ambiance. Across four minutes, Softy displays an impressive array of hard-edged, mind-melting sonic tricks that feel right at home on this outre compilation.

PREMIERE: King Softy - Pump Capacitor

Muscle Memory

Let Me Thru

Minimal Schlager - Tomorrow Never Knows

Duchess Box Records

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