Thursday, March 24, 2005  2:57 pm 

Add (forests) to (machines)

K, I’ve done lotsa machine dance modern music for r****s lately, and the nature spirits have got angry, the leaves that caress my window pane have whispered an ultimatum in my ears, ’some forest music or we pull a Poltergeist on you’.

I’m weak and small so I’ve given up to their demands with the guilty pleasure of the museum curator in Ghostbusters 2 (who looks like the singer of the Faint) when surrendering to the paranormal powers of Count Vigo (who actually looks a bit like good ole Jack in the lovely photo below)…

Shining named themselves after the movie, I think (actually one of their best songs is called REDRUM), but this sounds more like a jingle for James Bond if only James Bond was a druid and hung out with Slaine or something. It is like Goblins doing super-heavy epic rock and roll, winds of storm coming all the way from the vaults of Rune Grammofon in Norway.

The Shining- Goretex Weather Report

‘In the kingdom of kitsch you will be a monster’ (some title!), the album it kickstarts with a loud bang, is a magnificently sprawling affair that reminds me a bit of last year’s ‘Hypnotic Underworld’ by Ghost only with less folk and more jazz as well as some Fantomas sounding chants that give me the good shits.

So there you go leaves, there’s your sacrifice! leave me alone now…

But…

NOO!

The wires of the old TV that sometimes iluminates the darkness of my room have started their own little dance, grabbing the legs of my bed and pulling, ‘give us some machine music or we pull a poltergeist on you’…I cover myself with the duvet and draw a pentagram with cigarrette ash but the damned thing won’t stop, so with the kind of reluctance you find in the farmer’s daughter in a teenage AD&D game (erm, none), I relinquish to the wires’ demands…

Add (n) to (x) are one of the coolest bands ever, I mean, Barry 7 formed a club called the Supremacists (not white) that had the aim of achieving control over society through absolute politeness (they disbanded after a couple of meetings as they never got around to do anything), is the guy behind one of our favourite labels, Horseglue Records and has compiled two issues of french and italian library music with the Connectors series out in Lo Recordings.

Anne Shenton hangs out with biker gangs, drinks lots of sider, goes around in the merry-go-round (like old skool Cobra Killer, he-he-he, will post that someday), released a rather ace album as Large Number some time ago and was one of the compilers/artists included in the Electronic Bible (ask Spoilt Victorian Child about it), plus she’s a synth lady and she’s well sexy.

Steve Claydon is a visual art who likes to ‘interrogate how errors in textual information, the badly inscribed mark, and the misperception can be viewed as phenomena which initiate a kind of unhindered production’ which is actually situationist drift on artistic term (ok, I’m simplifying, sorry members of the S.I.). He has also collaborated with Relaxed Muscle and released stuff as Prinz Bambi.

Add (n) to (x)- FYUZ

This is included in Avant Hard, arguably Add (n) to (x)’s finest effort, and summarises as well as it is machinely possible what the band are about: an unholy hybrid of motorik rythms, synthetic Ballardian car-crashes, bizarre exotica and a passion for (brown?) noise that would get less talented people commited to say the least.

It demolishes you very elegantly, my dear.

And now can I go to bed, you wires?

PS- On Good friday don’t forget to go to the Sidewinder in Kemp Town (from 8 til 12) for some drinks as Russell, one of our best friends and closest associates, is going to be djing, playing his ‘100 favourite records’ which include, in his own words (and typeset) ‘LILLIPUT, AU PAIRS, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, THE MARVELETTES, THE WAITRESSES, DELTA 5, LIFE WITHOUT BUIDINGS, ESG, STEREOLAB, THE PLASTICS, TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, THE RONETTES, THE FALL, NEU, CAN, CLUSTER, HARMONIA, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, XTC, NINA SIMONE, JOSEF K, ALTER EGO…’, and one of the 20jazzfunkgreatsters will be celebrating his birthday there…bring him those Daft Punk toys and make him happy! You bastards forgot in xmas!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STUART!!!

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