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Think Joy Division as remade by Chromatics – ah, but its so much more than that! Twisted Wires are a raging storm reflected in the retina of a solemn shoegazing guitarist, coiling a mournful down-tuned motif from his spidery guitar strings. In the 80s.
With The Horrors making like the spectral shadows cast by The Jesus & Mary Chain on new LP, “Primary Colours”, shoegaze is set to become the nu-rave of 2009 (please stop calling it nu-gaze though), and we are all for it, as we never stopped listening to “Psychocandy” and “Loveless” anyway, and, as any regular reader will know, we are all about thee darkside.
Eschewing the disco landscapes generally favoured by Italians Do It Better (even new 12″, “One Night at the Raw Deal”, is Johnny Jewel possessed by Jim Reid), Twisted Wires are a digital representation of the air surrounding The Cocteau Twins – all cobalt greys, bruised blues and slickly pitch blacks spiralling into a void of omniscient light where a wave of sweaty terror awaits you and a guitar is calling like a melted klaxon from the mountain top.
“Oh Hell” (a working title) is a rolling juggernaut of wailing goth guitars, organic versions of Front 242′s punishing syndrums and Dave Gahan’s evil locked-up-in-solitary-confinement-for-20-years brother, pouring black bile vocals out from the speakers, which if your listening to this in the right physical space, are on fire in a post apocalyptic landscape where a dirty-faced child is watching and crying.
Death from Abroad bring the far-Eastern doom from Yura Yura Teikoku, a crack team of Japanese kraut-terrorists made up of hungry ghosts that channel the malevolently maniacal spirit of Damo Suzuki circa 1971. The “Dekinai” marbled/limited 12″ is available now, with full-length forthcoming. “Dekinai” is a stomping psychedelic jam from the racoon jamboree held in secret in the dark shadow of Mt. Fuji, but its “Sweet Surrender” that packs the meanest punch:
Yura Yura Teikoku – Sweet Surrender (Remix)
If “Paperhouse” was about a senseless slow-motion giallo kill-rampage it would have sounded like this – murky dirge bass and La Düsseldorf drums recorded in a shanty town with samurai spirit vocals whispering in and out of the miasma of narcotics smoke hanging in the studio.
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Its the first of an ongoing series of mixtapes! Professor Genius delivers a super mellow and droney mix recorded live:
Professor Genius – 2OJFG Mixtape 2OO9
Tracklist:::
The Pipes of Pan
Yves + Alan Laurent: Arc en Ciel
Duermo: Canoas
Para One: Sunless
Professor Genius: Piramide
Terry Riley: M Music
Dave Ball: Sincerity
Professor Genius + Speculator: No Title One
Liaisons Dangereuses: Peu etre Pas
Rudy: Just Take My Body
Chris Craft: Discosmic Dancer
Squallor: I love My Disco Baby
Azoto: Exalt Exalt
Harlequins 4: Set It Off
Bim Marx: Don’t Fall
Sparque: Music Turns Me On
Professor Genius: Down There
loverly postings… looking forward to more of these guest mixes! great start with the professor!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:03 ambcr
twisted wires track is sooooooo good!!!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:29 amSteven Phillips
Twisted Wires is great!
And you guys mentioned Front 242! I never see their name anymore. One of the lost underrated greats these days it seems.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:03 pmZak
i hope to god that the ‘nu-gaze’ tag doesn’t work.
i cannot deal with anymore ‘nu’. But man, MBV coming back has started something, hasn’t it?
Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:41 amMatthew Britton
that was one hell of a post Steven
Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:04 pmJ
20jazzfunkgreats
Yura Yura Teikoku deserve to be heard more – “Sweet Spot” from last year is a beautiful thing and their live album is ferocious!
Friday, May 1, 2009 12:23 amThx for the Twisted Wires – excellent!
david n.
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Monday, May 4, 2009 11:32 pmJustin Cakes
I saw twisted wires in san francisco a couple weeks ago. They were great live. They opened for Desire who was absolutely beautiful. Anyone know how i can get the Desire lp? I left my copy in the cab :(
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 1:17 amjessica lewis
big thanx and much love to you all. jessica – hit us up on the myspace and we’ll send you another desire disk.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 4:04 pmtwisted wires
Wow, nice.
Thursday, May 7, 2009 7:56 pmIs that Gennesis P-oridge on
Dave Ball: Sincerity, sounds like him. <3
Daredevillive
just wanted to say that I just stumbled upon this site…and I absolutely adore the hypnotizing beats and meloncholy vocals***MS
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 3:37 ammaniacalspirit
hmm
Friday, September 4, 2009 6:27 amTheodore Wheeland