New from Post-Materialization Music, St. Petersburg: Various – My Home Is My Castle This Post-Materialization Music edition is a re-release of a cassette dedicated to the first generation of post-soviet hometapers. The original cassette was released and distributed through Elephantboy zine in 1998. This re-issue – of which only 50 copies were made from the…
New from Slowscan: herman de vries – the music of sound 3 Herman de Vries (1931), who prefers to have his name spelled ‘herman de vries’ to avoid hierarchy in capital and lower case letters, was trained as a gardener in the early 1950s. After a spell as an agricultural worker in France, De…
Smegma (a pun on the French band Magma) started in Pasadena in 1973. A couple of friends – none of them having had any formal musical training – got together and formed an experimental band on November 23rd of that year. Influenced by artists, thinkers and musicians as varied as John Cage, Harry Partch, Sun Ra and Buckminster Fuller and drawing from their own creativity, Smegma soon developed a distinct experimental and anarchist sound, which they labeled ‘primitive suburban folk’…
The Futurians are a radical noise rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand. They were formed in 2001 and currently consist of Ducklingmonster (Beth Dawson), CJA the Pirate (Clayton Noone), ISO-12 (Jason Aldridge) and Rocko Mandroid (Sean Norling). Sometimes coined a ‘lo-fi rock nightmare’, The Futurians play distorted rock covers plus their own compositions that bear…
