Recon
The BongoleerosKogumazaSuper HagmanPluralsOnehotrix Point NeverCut HandsHelmRecon FestivalHoward Assembly Rooms, Leeds, 26th SeptemberSuper HagmanPluralsKogumazaThe BongoleerosVibracathedral...
View ArticleKing Kong Records Osaka
My research into Osaka’s record shops amounted to a quick Google search whilst simultaneously throwing a few shirts into a suitcase. Organization has never been my strong point and once again it would...
View ArticleArtificial Memory Trace - Tidal/Electric Blue/Being Born
Artificial Memory Trace - TidalAufabwegenCD. 300 Copies.Artificial Memory Trace - Electric Blue/Being BornTentacles of Perception Recordings. 3” CDMore from Slavek Kwi’s Artificial Memory Trace project...
View ArticleTJ Cuckoo, Ashtray Navigtions, YOL, Murder Cult, Stuart Chalmers, Nick Edwards
T J Cuckoo - Too Tired To Eat, Too Hungry To SleepMatching Head. MH198. C10 Cassette.Ashtray Navigations - Axe Attack in 3D/Unfuck YouCrater Lake. Cassette.Yol - Four Live Pieces[no label] 30 Copies....
View ArticleSPON 34 + 35
SPON 34SPON 35Issues 34 and 35 of Dr Steg’s ongoing SPON mission to make misanthropy a household word came with all manner of effluvia including a homemade postcard [reproduced above], an instant...
View ArticlePanelak
Panelak - PanelakAngurosakuson CDRAnguro 004During many a drunken three day noise festival two artists names usually crop up, one is Whitehouse and the other is Nurse With Wound. Whitehouse because...
View ArticleConfessions of Faith : 30 Years of Purgatory
I'm glad that my badge containing the ashes of the artist John Bailey has turned up. If indeed that's what they are, for there appears to be no end of John Bailey the artist via an internet search...
View ArticleThe Curfew Recordings
The Curfew RecordingsHarbinger Sound. Harbinger 110 CDIn 1984 two people under a police curfew entered a bitumen storage tank measuring 26 meters wide and 10 meters tall with various musical...
View ArticleConfessions of Faith : 30 Years of Purgatory / Live Review
SlogunSicknessCON-DOMSudden InfantThe Grey WolvesBrutIrohaW.I.P.The Wagon and Horses, Birmingham, November 16th, 2013 I have to admit it came as a bit of a shock to discover that this gig was taking...
View ArticleTom Carter benefit album
Many thanks to the bearded wonder over at RFM for highlighting this 99 track compilation download benefit album put together to raise funds for Tom Carter. Carter fell ill during a recent European tour...
View ArticleGamelan, John Cage and Terry Riley
Sanggar Ceraken of Bali - Gamelan Cage [John Cage’s Prepared Piano Pieces on Balinese Gamelan]Sargasso. SCD 28075Gamelan Semara Raith of Bali - Returning MinimalismSargasso. SCD 28074The man behind...
View ArticlePaul Fretwell & Ambrose Field - Northern Loop
Paul Fretwell/Ambrose Field - Northern LoopSargasso. SCD 28072‘Loop based structures are commonplace in music created with technology. Our collaborative aim was to challenge the loop by using it as the...
View ArticleVarropas
VarropasHyster Tapes [Hyster 16]/Ikuisuus IKU-039]. Split LPI first listened to this LP back in September after returning from the Cleckheaton Beer Festival. It was one of those perfect late summer...
View ArticleVehikel & Gefgäss / Debt of Nature / Spoils & Relics
‘Don’t call for help advises Säure flashing his phony acid bottle, ‘or that pretty face goes flowing off its bones like vanilla pudding.’ But Minne calls his bluff, starts hollering for help to all the...
View ArticleVile Plumage / Worm Lion
Vile Plumage - Plays The Burslem Crypt Sound3” CDRWorm Lion - Sunshine Is Moonshine3” CDRBurslem comes across as some kind of nether world where the Styx meets purgatory at 9 a.m. every morning outside...
View ArticleSPON 36 - The Dead Issue.
SPON 36 - The Dead IssueDVD [10 mins approx]With this DVD came a small button badge which Dr. Steg casually stated had the ashes of the dead artist John Bailey glued upon them. Ha ha, oh yes, of...
View ArticleSleaford Mods - Blackpool
Sleaford ModsFather StoneScrooges, Blackpool, December 15th 2013Dr. Steg was saying that it is only during the ‘off season’ that Blackpool’s surreal side becomes fully apparent. In the middle of...
View ArticleAlice Kemp + Schimpfluch Gruppe
Alice Kemp - Decay and PersistenceFragment Factory. FRAG28. CDr. 100 copies.Schimpfluch Gruppe - NigredoFragment Factory. FRAG29. C46The last time we saw Alice Kemp was in Bristol for the Extreme...
View ArticleSPON 38, 2013 and 2014
SPON 38, 2013 and 2014. The last time we saw Dr. Steg was in Blackpool at the Sleaford Mods gig. He handed me SPON 38 which is [was] several sheets of A4 sized card and paper with the Idwal Fisher...
View ArticleDaz Roro
DAZ ROROCassetteWhat better way to see the year out than with a bit of Filthy Turd. Or is it? The clues are all there; the spray panted J-card insert, the hand painted cassette, the dried leaves in the...
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