Peanut Butter Wolf: Boiler Room Set

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TUNES IX

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loaded gun won't set you free

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Brutalismus 3000. One of our favorite Berlin projects returns with a new track on the upcoming DURCH v/a compilation: Solidarity 002 - A Love Letter To The Queer Community. DURCH is a queer collective with a clear vision of solidarity and community building. DURCH operates in Tel Aviv and Berlin trying to bring queer people together, building a culture of inclusion, diversity and tolerance. In the tradition of original raves DURCH organizes solidarity events ranging from parties, to art and community events, with the strong belief that raves are a much needed place for people to come together, celebrate their diversity and learn to respect each other.

After releasing their first v/a earlier in the year, The are back with their second solidarity release of the year: Bolder, queerer and definitely more fun than ever. Take a bit of everything, mix it together and then burn it all down. Building on our previous release DURCH [digital] Solidarity 002 features some well established artists alongside some exciting, well-kept secrets of the electronic dance music scene. You’re in for a bumpy ride and a couple of pretty nasty surprises on the way. Today we bring you the nu gabber post techno punk of "Satan Was a BabyBoomer". 

As always, the proceeds from the release go to Queer causes and this release will benefit TransInterQueer e.V. (TrIQ) and Casa Kuà. Out on April 16th and you can get yours on BANDCAMP. 

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PREMIERE: Brutalismus 3000 - Satan Was A Baby Boomer (DURCH)

Atmosféra

Joy Division - Love Will Tear us Apart (original)

Romantika

Good Looking

Joy Division - Insight

Brutalismus 3000 - JE N'EXISTE PAS

Lady Gaga - Love Game (Matt W Remix)

People talk about anarchy
And taking up a fight
Well I'm afraid of things like that
I lock my doors at night
I don't rape, and I don't pillage
Other peoples' lives
I don't practice what you preach
And I won't see through your eyes

You want to change the world
By breaking rules and laws
People don't do things like that
In the real world at all
You're not a cop, or a politician
You're a person too
You can sing any song you want
But you're still the same

I can't think of anything
That makes me more upset
People talk all this rhetoric
Forgive but not forget
I don't rape, and I don't pillage
Other peoples' lives
I don't practice what you preach
And I won't see through your eyes

Hüsker Dü - Real World

奇迹 Miracles

Most likely the final version of the cover of one of my favourite Joy Division songs.

New Dawn Fades (Joy Division)

Live On Tour In Europe

Almustafa the Beloved

Rhapsodies

March Of The Gladiators

Basic Language was primarily a covers band that worked the high school party scene in the late 80s in Corpus Christi. However, the band did write a batch of original songs and managed to track about five songs at Appelcrate Studios in 1989. "If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another" was written by Cory Moore (music) and Thomas Escalante (lyrics). I played bass on the track and so go ahead and let me know if you think the bass track works with the song or if I was just  a "bass player at the wrong gig." 

"If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another" By BASIC LANGUAGE

'Maureen' is taken from the new Scott & Charlene's Wedding album 'Mid Thirties Single Scene' due out 2nd September on Fire Records

Scott & Charlene's Wedding -  Maureen

This Old Dog

For the First Time

No Pocky for Kitty (Remastered)

Punch Me Harder

Red Barked Tree

Adapt

Read & Burn 01

Comet

The Black Session - Paris, 10 May 2011

Two People in a Room

Disorder (Joy Division)

The Golden Boys - Dirty Fingernails

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Show me how you care, 
Tell me how you were loved before 
Show me how you smile, 
Tell me why your hands are cold 

I’m turning around, 
I’m having visions of you 
But then I understand 
The friend I’m dreaming of is far away 
But I’m here... I’m here 

Show me how you’re proud, 
Tell me how you reach the moon 

My thoughts err away tonight 
My heart fell to love again 

I’m turning around I’m having visions of you ( 
But then I understand 
The friend I’m dreaming of is far away 
And doesn’t feel my love 
But I do... I do

Men I Trust - Show Me How

Farad: The Electric Voice

Incantation

NOBUNNY - Mess Me Up

Joy Division- Shadowplay (unreleased album session)

Track One from the forthcoming Wire album "Change Becomes Us"

Change Becomes Us

Doubles & Trebles

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WIRE – CHANGE BECOMES US – pinkflag (pf20)

“Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time…,” laughs Colin Newman when asked to explain Wire’s original motivation for Change Becomes Us. While that might sound like the kind of feeble excuse you’d offer in mitigation when a drunken escapade goes horribly wrong, not only was it a good idea, it actually turned into a superlative one. 

In spring 2012, Wire’s plan had been to convene at Rockfield Studios in Wales to review the rudimentary blueprints of songs that had never made it beyond a few live performances in 1979 and 1980 – a time when the band-members were in creative overdrive yet the band was disintegrating. The aim wasn’t simply to resuscitate and record old songs – in fact, many of them hadn’t become proper songs in the first place, existing only as basic ideas or undeveloped parts. Rather, the objective was to approach that unrealised work as an oblique strategy, a potential springboard for Wire’s contemporary, forward-looking processes, a possible point of departure for new compositions.

This took place with Wire firing on all cylinders, as a four-piece studio entity again, the core line-up of Newman, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey now enhanced by guitarist Matthew Simms. Simms had played a key role in helping the band to cultivate and shape its new sonic landscape throughout the preceding year’s live work. Out of the exploratory Rockfield session and subsequent, extensive development and production at Newman’s Swim Studio, the ostensible source material became, in the classic Wire tradition, something quite other than what it may have once been or what it might have become if it had been pursued in 1980. 

“Love Bends” is a case in point. Its roots lie in “Piano Tuner” -- the raucous, octave-hopping number performed in February 1980 at the Electric Ballroom in Camden and preserved on Document and Eyewitness -- but it’s now morphed, improbably, into an irresistible, totally modern pop song. “It had to be turned into something else,” explains Lewis, “because it only really had one bit.” Just as improbably, the gently lilting “Re-invent Your Second Wheel” is tangentially connected to the notorious “Zegk Hoqp,” which was more of a one-time happening than a song at the Camden gig -- mostly shouting and banging, executed by a stage-full of Wire cronies in funny hats. “It was written for performance, around people with newspaper headdresses; not with music in mind,” Lewis emphasizes. Similarly transformed, “& Much Besides” is a six-minute oneiric-melodic interlude that gives no hint of its putative origins in “Eastern Standard” --  a dreary, obtuse three-minute geography lesson delivered with former manager Mick Collins at the Electric Ballroom concert.

Newman’s writing and production reimagines the past in ways that ultimately break any substantive connection with it, making entirely new pieces; and these songs themselves enact Wire’s restless drive to become other, often thriving on a fundamental tension between opposing sonic characteristics. With its stop-start, soft-hard, quiet-loud structure, “Adore Your Island” veers between what Newman describes as “prog and unhinged punk rock,” never quite resolving itself; the drama of “Attractive Space” hinges on a progressive splitting of the song’s personality, between its calm expansive, anthemic orientation and an increasing sense of intensity and claustrophobia. 

Change Becomes Us encapsulates the paradoxical essence of Wire’s creativity. The tendency of these new songs to refuse a single, settled identity is emblematic of the band’s ever-evolving aesthetic -- one that’s always hinged on sustained tensions and oppositions: between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the comfortable and the unsettling, the melodic and the brutal, the cerebral and the visceral, the smart and the moronic, the obvious and the inscrutable, the rational and the absurd. This intrinsic, core ambivalence generates the essential otherness that has characterized Wire’s most memorable, distinctive work -- from the epochal innovations of Chairs Missing and 154 to the electronic-pop deconstructions of A Bell Is A Cup to Send’s postmodern-punk expressionism and the widescreen lyricism of Red Barked Tree.

Change Becomes Us is an undeniable part of that illustrious lineage. Definitely more than just a good idea at the time.

Wilson Neate


Keep Exhaling

Adore Your island

Re-Invent Your Second Wheel

Stealth of a Stork

Time Lock Fog

Red Barked Tree is the new album by Wire
It is released in the UK on January 10th

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Available Everywhere May 7th 



Out of My League

Ich hab meine Tage im Berghain

Since their formation in London in 1976, the members of Wire have maintained and advanced a musical project which treats the creative potential of a rock band as a fluid, amorphous medium. As removed from self-conscious intellectualism as they are from the inherent conservatism of much rock music, Wire employ their unique, endlessly restless and risk-taking creativity to question every aspect of songwriting, recording and performance. They delight and disturb in equal measure, troubleshooting the circuitry of perfect pop, or patrolling the limits of focused experimentalism. In terms of working together as Wire, the group's members disbanded in 1980, reformed in 1985, disbanded in 1992 and reformed for the second time in 2000. Such sabbaticals from their career as Wire have served to sharpen the group's edge and focus, updating the tactics with which they pursue this shared project.

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Two People in a Room

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