…or like the whispers of a new race’s first*.

Yep.

We have decided to begin the year with a super fun post, lots of pop for you inhabitants of die 2006. I didn’t know about three of the bands I’m writing about until a couple of days ago. The underground is fun and all those people who moan about the dearth of exciting beautiful music these days should crawl over to that corner and die.

The archives of some blogs we have read over 2005 show it: our top 10, not in order…

Banana Nutrament
Molars
Fluxblog
To Here Knows When
Daughters of Invention
Music for Robots
Bumrocks
Are You Familiar
Prancehall
Kid Shirt

(Razorblade Runner was going to be up there but seems to be down, what’s up?)

nuff respect and happy 2006.

Now our two pence.

Let us begin with a blast from and for the past, Baby 63 was one Karen Fletcher who used to record post punk industrial stuff in the mid 80s in cassettes (ah, what a format), the track we are posting today is included in a 7” (ah, what a format) released last year by the lovely folks at SS records, it reminds us very much of the abrassive industrial dirge of Liars via Flux Information Sciences and even sum Crass, it sounds evil and now in the best possible way and makes you wanna die, which is not a bad idea to start the year.

Baby 63- Shark Watch Maker

BTW go to Playlouder to read a story Angus Liar wrote when he was 12, together with some rather awwwsome drawings, god, you could see where he was going since he was small eh?

I just mentioned Flux Information Sciences, well, they disappeared but from the ashes of their toxic fire arose Services , who are to A.R.E. Weapons what Nitzer Ebb are to Suicide, their album ‘your Business is my Pleasure’, released last year by A Touch of Class, is a barrage of electroEBMetal that makes me twitch like that girl in L’Anticristo after a holy water shower, very fun.

I saw them live last Primavera and can’t remember shit because I was totally wrecked, save for the fact that at the end of the gig they threw one of their towels at the public and it hit me in the face. I kept it and used it for my showers for the rest of the weekend. Hey, it seemed super-clean and it was a weird weekend anyway. I’d rather have had one of their lovely horse heads but hey!

Services- Figure it Out

Let us follow with Drugs, some of you’ll probably say no, no more, no more please! No, I’m talking about Drugs, a band I found out about when doing some ‘research’ on Genders, all I know about them is there is some sort of shared membership between both bands, they have songs with titles such as ‘Brain of Cocaine’ or ‘LSD tree’ you can listen to at their myspace site, and they have released a limited CD-R in Liberation Musicale which includes this bassy lo-fi stompin’ killer.

Any more info about them would be greatly appreciated.

Drugs- Trouble

Let us finish with a track from the album the lovely folks at Cock Rock Disco are giving away for free as a downloadable zip archive in their website, how nice of them. Well, wait till Drumcorps kicks your ass into your face from here to Alphabet City NY to say thanks with a teethless bloody mouth.

The one we are posting today is however by About, nom de guerre of a dutch guy called Rutger Hoedemaekers who happens to make Pop Music and is to release an album called Bongo in March of this year, Bongo is the name of my beloved siamese cat so it makes me happy someone has recorded a concept album about him, I always thought Syd Barrett had seen the future while wasted and Lucifer Sam was dedicated to Bongo anyway.

But I’m ranting, and Think Niles Drink is actually rather lush indie pop covered with synth distortion, a bit like if the Tyde were Bender gone on a killer rampage in a shoegazing revival gig circa 3240 AD (haven’t checked the date, you Futurama geeks about to complain, you).

About- Think Niles Drink

So yeah, that was our pop, wasn’t it pop and fun and pop? no? urm, oh well. Anyway, this will be this week’s post, 20JFG will normalise its situation after the weekend when the two geeks who run it are back in Brighton, till then, have a happy beginning of January (good luck), we hope our pop helps and makes you happy…

But before saying bye, an important reminder, this friday 6th January it’s the DO in Brighton

6th day of 2006 its like NEW YEAR, kind of. Celebrate without physical violence at the Core Club for 4 quid (bring a flyer), 11 til super-late with drink promos, the Do Gang and guests you know bringing the freshest funnest party music from the likes of

SILVER APPLES DIE MONITR BATSS LES GEORGES LENINGRAD LETHAL BIZZLE NINJA HIGH SCHOOL PERE UBU BEAT HAPPENING DEERHOOF COUGHS USAISAMONSTER HELP SHE CAN’T SWIM ERASE ERRATA MAKE UP LIGHTNING BOLT GOSSIP GLASS CANDY KIOSK POLYSICS DEVO STEREO TOTAL FALL LIARS ADD N TO X KRAFTWERK GRAVY TRAIN!!! COACHWHIPS THE MONKS M.I.A. DAFT PUNK BOREDOMS MELT BANANA CLAP YR HANDS SAY YEAH

and many more

NEAT!!

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* The title is borrowed from the Jehova Contract by Victor Koman, this is the book I’m currently reading you see, and is about this contract killer who is hired to waste erm, God. It’s real good and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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