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Matt Anniss

Join The Future : Bleep Techno And The Birth Of British Bass Music

    Matt Anniss's critically acclaimed alternative history of UK dance music in the acid house era returns in updated and expanded form. Named by Rolling Stone UK as one of the best books on British music culture, Join The Future puts forward a persuasive new argument about the origins of UK club culture's longrunning love affair with bass. Since the dawn of the 1990s, Britain's dancefloors have moved to a string of styles built around skeletal rhythms and heavy sub-bass, including breakbeat hardcore, jungle, drum & bass, dubstep, UK garage, grime and bassline. Yet another previously overlooked sound pre-dated them all: bleep and bass, or bleep techno, the first distinctly British form of electronic dance music.

    Miles Davis

    Birth Of The Cool - 2024 Reissue

      In the summer of 1948 Miles Davis, in collaboration with the arranger Gil Evans, whom he had met several years earlier, decided to carry out his project by detaching himself from the principles of bebop to participate in a new form of jazz. Installed in New York, he founded a new group, intermediate between the big band and small bebop groups. Cool jazz was born, but it was not an immediate revolution: the nonet was quickly dissolved, and this new music took several years to establish itself among jazz musicians and the public.

      On September 18, 1948, the nonet performed for the first time in public, opening for Count Basie's show at the Royal Roost in New York under the title "Nonet by Miles Davis, arrangement by Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans and John Lewis ". An unusual name which betrays the desire to create music based largely on arrangements.

      This release is part of the New Ermitage collection available from January 2024: 18 jazz and soul titles reissued on yellow vinyl with new codes and renewed graphics.


      TRACK LISTING

      1. Move
      2. Jeru
      3. Moon Dreams
      4. Venus De Milo
      5. Budo
      6. Deception
      7. Godchild
      8. Boplicity
      9. Rocker
      10. Israel
      11. Rouge

      Birthmark

      Birth Of Omni

        On Birthmark’s latest album, Birth of Omni, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Nate Kinsella delivers his most thematically dynamic and experimental album to date. The album highlights the gargantuan shift in perspective that comes along with becoming a parent, including core themes of identity, duality, sexuality, overwhelming responsibility, feminism, and fear of men. Over the course of the album’s ten songs, Kinsella takes the listener on a wild ride, full of emotions and inner thoughts. On “Rodney,” Kinsella enlists Shudder to Think’s Craig Wedren on vocals for a track that explores sexuality and desires, while “Boyfriend” touches on how things change between partners in a relationship while raising children.

        In addition to Kinsella’s work with Birthmark, Nate also plays in two other bands with his cousin Mike Kinsella – American Football and Lies. He’s also collaborated with artists such as Tim Kasher, Joan of Arc, TTNG, and others. Kinsella’s work has been featured in outlets such as Pitchfork, Fader, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, NPR, and many others.



        TRACK LISTING

        1. Snowflake In My Palm (Not For Long)
        2. Butterfly
        3. Birthday (Product Of Our Lust)
        4. Rodney
        5. Baby Woncha Come On Home
        6. Boyfriend
        7. Green Skies
        8. Red Meadow
        9. I’m Awake
        10. Pretty Flowers

        Miles Davis

        Birth Of The Cool - 2022 Reissue

          'Birth of the Cool' by Miles Davis was released 1957 on Capital Records and complies eleven tracks recorded by Davis's nonet for the label over the course of three sessions during 1949 and 1950. Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements influenced by classical music techniques such as polyphony and marked a major development in post- bebop jazz. As the title suggests, these recordings are considered seminal in the history of the Cool Jazz genre.

          TRACK LISTING

          Jeru
          Move
          Godchild
          Budo
          Venus De Milo
          Rouge
          Boplicity 
          Israel
          Deception
          Rocker
          Moondreams
          Darn That Dream

          The Pyramids

          Birth / Speed / Merging

            Strut present 3 separate reissues of the 1970s album trilogy from Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids. As students at Antioch ollege, Ohio, alto saxophonist Idris Ackamoor, flautist Margaux Simmons and bass player Kimathi Asante created three lasting monuments in sound — Lalibela, King of Kings, and Birth / Speed / Merging, a trio of albums produced without any label backing or distribution between 1972 and 1976. Their music is unique among the varied canon of avant-garde and experimental music of 1970s America: high intensity African-styled percussion topped with songs, chants, and horns, laced with African instruments and arranged into long, flowing suites that surge and roll.

            Birth/Speed/Merging was recorded in 1976 after the band's move to San Francisco. The album closes the Pyramids' 70s trilogy and makes more use of studio technology: adding overdubs and other effects, a marked departure from the previous two releases, though at no cost to the urgent message and energy of their earlier works.


            TRACK LISTING

            1. Aomawa
            2. Birth / Speed / Merging - Part 1
            3. Birth / Speed / Merging - Part 2
            4. Birth / Speed / Merging - Part 3
            5. Birth / Speed / Merging - Part 4
            6. Reaffirmation - Part 1
            7. Reaffirmation - Part 2
            8. Reaffirmation - Part 3
            9. Reaffirmation - Part 4
            10. Jamaican Carnival - Part 1
            11. Jamaican Carnival — Part 2
            12. Black Man And Woman Of The Nile

            Jessica Pratt

            Jessica Pratt - 2022 Repress

              Review from 2012:
              The new folk sensation from the States on Tim (White Fence) Presley's new label Birth Records.

              “I never wanted to ever start a record label. Ever. But there is something about her voice I couldn't let go of. It's an actual voice. An actual beautiful voice. This ones a classic sounding voice. Not to mention her song writing, recording and guitar playing. Jessica Pratt's music feels like I have found a lost LP of an old forgotten mystical folk singer, that feeling of discovering a record all by myself: Without the help of friends or the Internet. Like Stevie Nicks singing over David Crosby demos, with the intimacy of a Sibylle Baier. I am in love with it. So much, that I saved up and threw all my money to get it into this world. I actually care about it, no matter which way the winds blow.” - Tim Presley, White Fence.

              TRACK LISTING

              1. Night Faces
              2. Hollywood
              3. Bushel Hyde
              4. Mountain’r Lower
              5. Half Twain The Jesse
              6. Casper
              7. Midnight Wheels
              8. Mother Big River
              9. Streets Of Mine
              10. Titles Under Pressure
              11. Dreams

              Birth Control

              Here And Now - 2022 Reissue

                The German progressive / hard rock legend's last studio album (2016) with Bernd "Nossi" Noske - released posthumously in 2016 two years after the sudden death of the band's mastermind, singer and drummer.

                Birth Control

                Open Up

                  A new studio album by the German progressive / hard rock legends. In the 1970s, Birth Control were one of the most internationally successful German rock bands . Since their spectacular album debut in 1970 on the cult label Ohr, the band has released more than thirty long players, including timeless classics such as "Operation", "Hoodoo Man" (which includes the disco hit "Gamma Ray") and "Plastic People".

                  Their 21st regular album is the first since the death of the band mastermind, singer and drummer Bernd Noske. Birth Control has always had a completely unique sound, showing the creativity and range of the current line-up on this album and gets to the heart of their wealth of ideas in 54 minutes, bringing 8 new studio tracks to the turntable, including a reworking of the 1972 hit Gamma Ray. Furthermore, seven new songs from the compositional pen of their songwriter duo Kühn/Ettrich, a brilliant mix of progressive/hard rock, blues and funk.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. Gamma Ray 2.0
                  2.The Last Word
                  3. Wrestling Mama
                  4. Open Sesame
                  5. I Don't Mind
                  6. Wannabe
                  7. Plans Get Lost
                  8. These Are The Days

                  Martin James

                  French Connections : From Discotheque To Daft Punk - The Birth Of French Touch

                    Revised reissue of the acclaimed first-ever book-length investigation into French Touch.

                    "Updated version features previously unpublished interviews with Daft Punk, Laurent Garnier, Cerrone, Jean Jacques Perrey, Motorbass, Chris Le Friant (aka Bob Sinclar), Air, Etienne de Crecy, La Funk Mob, Cassius, The Micronauts, Stardust, Benjamin Diamond, Modjo, DJ GilbR, i-Cube, DJ Cam and many more...

                    During the second half of the 1990s, Paris experienced a dance music revolution thanks to groundbreaking artists like Daft Punk, Air, Super Discount, Motorbass, Cassius, Dimitri from Paris, Bob Sinclar and many, many more. It was a scene that became known as French Touch and was heralded throughout the world as the epitome of dance music cool, forever placing Paris on the dance culture map.

                    Journalist and author Martin James was there right from the start, documenting the scene from its inspirations to its earliest moments and onto its global breakthrough. In the process, he inadvertently provided the French Touch moniker that became adopted throughout the world.

                    Drawing on a dazzling array of exclusive interviews with the biggest names in French electronic music history, French Connections explores France’s significant contribution to dance music culture that paved the way for the French Touch explosion."

                    Chelsea Wolfe

                    Birth Of Violence

                      Chelsea Wolfe has always been a conduit for a powerful energy, and while she has demonstrated a capacity to channel that somber beauty into a variety of forms, her gift as a songwriter is never more apparent than when she strips her songs down to a few key components. As a result, her solemn majesty and ominous elegance are more potent than ever on Birth of Violence.

                      There is a core element to Chelsea Wolfe’s music—a kind of urgent spin on America’s desolation blues—that’s existed throughout the entirety of her career. At the center, there has always been Wolfe’s woeful longing and beguiling gravity, though the framework for compositions has continuously evolved based on whatever resources were available. Her austere beginnings were gradually bolstered by electronics and filled out with full-band arrangements. The music became increasingly dense and more centered around live performances. Her latest album, Birth of Violence, is a return to the reclusive nature of her earlier recordings

                      “I’ve been in a state of constant motion for the past eight years or so; touring, moving, playing new stages, exploring new places and meeting new people—an incredible time of learning and growing as a musician and performer,” Wolfe says of the era leading up to Birth of Violence. “But after awhile, I was beginning to lose a part of myself. I needed to take some time away from the road to get my head straight, to learn to take better care of myself, and to write and record as much as I can while I have ‘Mercury in my hands,’ as a wise friend put it.“ Birth of Violence is the result of this step out of the limelight. The songs stem from humble beginnings—little more than Wolfe’s voice and her Taylor acoustic guitar. Her longtime musical collaborator Ben Chisholm recorded the songs on a makeshift studio and helped fill them out with his modern production treatments and the occasional auxiliary flourish from ongoing contributors Jess Gowrie (drums) and Ezra Buchla (viola).

                      The album opens with “The Mother Road,” a harrowing ode to Route 66 that immediately addresses Wolfe’s metaphoric white line fever. It explains the nature of the record—the impact of countless miles and perpetual exhaustion—and the desire to find the road back home, back to one’s roots. Songs like “Deranged for Rock & Roll” and “Highway” offers parallel examinations on the trials and tribulations of her journeys while the ghostly “When Anger Turns to Honey” serves as a rebuttal to self-appointed judges.

                      While the record touches upon tradition, it also exists in the present, addressing modern tragedies such as school shootings in the minor-key lullaby “Little Grave” and the poisoning of the planet on the dark wind-swept ballad “Erde.” But the record is at its most poignant when Wolfe withdraws into her own world of enigmatic and elusive autobiography. Much like Alan Ginsberg’s hallucinatory long-form poem Howl, the tracks “Dirt Universe” and “Birth of Violence” weave together specific references from her past into an esoteric overview of the state of mankind. Though the lyrical minutiae remain secret, the overall power of the language and delivery is bound to haunt the listener with both its grace and tension.

                      “These songs came to me in a whirlwind and I knew I needed to record them soon, and also really needed a break from the road,” Wolfe says. “I’ve spent the past few years looking for the feeling of home; looking for places that felt like home. The result of that humble approach yields Wolfe’s most devastating work to date.

                      STAFF COMMENTS

                      Barry says: I've been a big fan of Chelsea Wolfe for a while now, and it's absolutely true that the beauty of these compositions really shines when stripped back to Wolfe's haunting vox and an acoustic guitar. Pieces like 'American Darkness' certainly harbour more than a nod to classic folk psychedelia of the late 60's but imbued with a gothic gloom and echoic spookiness that is uniquely hers.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      1 The Mother Road
                      2 American Darkness
                      3 Birth Of Violence
                      4 Deranged For Rock & Roll
                      5 Be All Things
                      6 Erde
                      7 When Anger Turns To Honey
                      8 Dirt Universe
                      9 Little Grave
                      10 Preface To A Dream Play
                      11 Highway
                      12 The Storm

                      Birth

                      Live In Tucson

                        Cardinal Fuzz are proud to present to you Birth – Live In Tucson. Birth is the project of Grant Beyachau and Nik Rayne from The Myrrors who performed as Birth for this live improvisational performance in Tucson (USA). The performance was captured onto a handheld recorder (you can hear instrument leads buzz and cut out for a second here and there as things start up) as Birth, seated on the floor, journey towards a state of transcendence in front of a small but appreciative audience.

                        Taking cues from Terry Riley, LaMonte Young as well as Spacemen 3 (Dreamweapon) – minimalist artists who offer no concessions to the listener except to surrender yourself to the drone. Grant creates swirling cyclic passages via analogue synthesizer and tape machine loops as Nik conjures subliminal notes via guitar and space echo. Over 25 minutes they create an experience of devotional music influenced by Middle Eastern and Sufism cultures – as notes bleed and swirl together in a lysergic haze. Its fluidity is its greatest strength as the piece offers no navigation points – all they ask is that through a mixture of drone, repetition and simple melodies that you surrender yourself to the trance-like and hallucinatory delirium created. It is captivating.

                        Live in Tucson is a one off 300 pressing – all black vinyl. Housed in a 350gsm sleeve and given a private press like presentation via the sleeve and labels. Download Code Included.



                        Various Artists

                        Birth Of A Nation - Inevitable Records: An Independent Liverpool 1979-1986

                          In the late 1970s and 1980s, Jeremy Lewis established and ran Liverpool’s Inevitable Records, and in doing so provided what he calls an “incubator” for an impressive selection of the talent emerging from the city at that time. From Pete Burns and Dead Or Alive to China Crisis, Wah! Heat and others, Inevitable provided the launchpad for many successful careers. Operating initially out of Lewis’ Amazon Studios, and mutating as the years passed from an outlet for the city’s spiky post-punk sounds to a synth-pop, commercially minded imprint with major label backing, Inevitable proved popular with John Peel and found admirers from across the ‘80s musical spectrum. Presented here for the first time is an overview of the label, including a disc of contemporary Peel Sessions from key artists and a 3,000 word account of its story by Jeremey Lewis himself. Of particular interest to many will be never-before-heard (or re-issued) work by a young Pete Burns – his first Nightmares In Wax sPeel sessions are included. A further look at the wonderful music explored in ‘Revolutionary Spirit’ this is an indepth look at the roots of several special careers, produced with input from Inevitable founder Jeremey Lewis.

                          TRACK LISTING

                          Disc 1
                          1. Better Scream - Wah! Heat
                          2. Joe - Wah! Heat
                          3. Black Leather – - Nightmares In Wax
                          4. Shangri-La - Nightmares In Wax
                          5. Girl Song - Nightmares In Wax
                          6. Euthenics - Modern Eon
                          7. Waiting For The Cavalry - Modern Eon
                          8. Seven Minutes To Midnight… To Be Continued - Wah! Heat
                          9. Don't Step On The Cracks - Wah! Heat
                          10. I’m Falling - Dead Or Alive
                          11. Flowers - Dead Or Alive
                          12. Faction - Faction
                          13. Wrong Again - Faction
                          14. Number Eleven - Dead Or Alive
                          15. Namegame (Live Version) - Dead Or Alive
                          16. A Giant Raft - It's Immaterial
                          17. No Place For A Prompter - It's Immaterial
                          18. African And White - China Crisis
                          19. Be Suspicious - China Crisis

                          Disc 2
                          1. Your Voice - Freeze Frame
                          2. Conversation Piece - Freeze Frame
                          3. I'm Thinking Of You Now - Box Of Toys
                          4. Old Man Rome - Box Of Toys
                          5. Foxhole - Freeze Frame
                          6. Furnished Heart - Freeze Frame
                          7. Precious Is The Pearl - Box Of Toys
                          8. It Goes Without Saying - Box Of Toys
                          9. Seeking Professional Advice - Freeze Frame
                          10. My 10,000 Mile Home - Freeze Frame
                          11. Touch - Freeze Frame
                          12. Personal Touch - Freeze Frame
                          13. Jimmy’s Grin - Margox
                          14. Daytime Assassins - The Builders
                          15. Burning Arrows - Venus Adore
                          16. Contrasting Strangers - The Light
                          17. Monument - The Light
                          18. Today, Tomorrow - Freeze Frame
                          19. Only A Boy - Freeze Frame
                          20. Pride Of Winning - The Light
                          21. Ten Million Years - The Light

                          Disc 3
                          1. Nowhere To Nowhere - Dead Or Alive
                          2. Running Wild - Dead Or Alive
                          3. Number Eleven - Dead Or Alive
                          4. Flowers - Dead Or Alive
                          5. A Gigantic Raft - It's Immaterial
                          6. Imitate The Worm - It's Immaterial
                          7. White Man's Hut - It's Immaterial
                          8. Rake - It's Immaterial
                          9. Number Twelve - Dead Or Alive
                          10. Untitled - Dead Or Alive
                          11. Misty Circles - Dead Or Alive
                          12. Misty Circles Pt 2 - Dead Or Alive
                          13. Fox Hole - Freeze Frame
                          14. Personal Touch - Freeze Frame
                          15. Your Voice - Freeze Frame
                          16. Today Tomorrow - Freeze Frame
                          17. Precious In The Pearl - Box Of Toys
                          18. When Daylight Is Over (Sunset) - Box Of Toys
                          19. Time Takes Me Back - Box Of Toys
                          20. Thinking Of You Now - Box Of Toys

                          World's Experience Orchestra

                          The Beginning Of A New Birth / As Time Flows On

                          The essence of Underground, Spiritual Jazz, figuratively and literally: their first album was recorded in a Boston, Mass. church’s basement. Both World’s Experience Orchestras albums were recorded in and around Boston, Massachusetts in the mid to late 1970s and committed to vinyl in miniscule press runs by a visionary, bassist / composer / arranger John Jamyll Jones. Jones is a magical type, who communicates with his instrument, his ensembles, and jazz’s ancient lineage in a manner so profound that his late-‘70s album are out of time with jazz’s trajectory, but timeless when presented today. By the late ’90s the music of World’s Experience Orchestra was circulating throughout the collections of esoteric jazz fans, the likes of Gerald “Jazzman” Short and Gilles Peterson, who played “The Prayer” for those, the Coltrane-enthralled searching for something new, something different. Something spiritual and honest. Peterson first offered to reissue “The Prayer,” as part of an anthology he was putting together with Los Angeles reissue label Ubiquity Records and that, to date, is the only official issue of any of Jones’ music. This set is the definitive catalog of Jones’ ensembles’ released work. “I knew it was going to happen, but I didn’t know when,” says Jones of the road to seeing his music re-issued. “It’s 35 years or more now, and I’ve been waiting for this, and I’m quite sure I’m not the only one.”

                          TRACK LISTING

                          Disc One: The Beginning Of A New Birth:
                          1. The Beginning Of A New Birth
                          2. The Prayer

                          Disc Two: As Time Flows On
                          1. Rain
                          2. Nine Degrees And Cold
                          3. Intro
                          4. Black Woman
                          5. To Do Nothing
                          6. The Mind

                          Following their 2012 mini-album on Jigsaw and hot on the heels of a 7" on Dufflecoat Records, Manchester's Amida have given us a full-length (finally!), with 13 songs in under half an hour. The band has managed to follow-up on the promise that their previous releases have made, with a collection of songs that are as biting as they are melodic. Sounding like a mix between the Wolfhounds, the Monochrome Set and even a little Big Flame (and similarly noisy bands on the "other" side of C86), the speedy/jangly guitars seem to be fighting the propelling bass guitar for control, giving us some very compelling music in the process!

                          STAFF COMMENTS

                          Ryan says: I've been following Amida for a while now, I've loved everything they've done and now there's this. Packed full of short and precise Flying Nun-esque jangly masterpieces. You need this!

                          Orb

                          Birth

                            The skies have opened and dropped a trio of kids from Geelong, Australia, packing some seriously futuristic sludge: ORB.

                            A heaping helping of proto-metal chops meets paranoid sci-fi fantastical ravings, replete with some tasty synthesizer werk that breaks it up just so. Close-mic’d to perfection by Total Control’s own Mikey Young, these epics swing with demonic swagger and crackle with the static of a menacing future, twisting and churning through loose-limbed riffery, all punctuated by a wail that sounds as if it’s coming from every hidden camera outside the Ministry of Love. A proggy but in-the-pocket head-trip hard rock record for the table, and hopefully these Aussies will be bringing their dystopian groove your way soon.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            1. Iron Mountain
                            2. Reflection
                            3. New Moon
                            4. First And Last Men
                            5. Electric Blanket

                            Masaaki Hirao And His All Stars Wagon

                            Nippon Rock'n'Roll - The Birth Of Japanese Rokabirii

                            “Nippon Rock’n’Roll” documents the rise of Masaaki Hirao. Dubbed “The Japanese Elvis”, Hirao was one of the famed Rokabirii Sannin Otoko (Three Rockabillies), alongside singers Mickey Curtis and “Kei-chan”, Keijiro Yamashita. In early 1958, the rokabirii buumu (rockabilly boom) was born, the first youth music tribe in the Land Of The Rising Sun.

                            Rokabirii may resemble US rockabilly, but this Nipponese version is a more varied dish. Hirao and his band’s covers of Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley and Little Richard are not kitsch renditions, but raw, desperate rockers. Hear a Paul Anka makeover, but put through a rocking mangle; a smattering of jazz; a twist of New Orleans; and some Japanese folk songs with a greased-down quiff. American occupation a distant memory, these boys wanted to party.

                            Country and hillbilly music was a mainstay of young Japanese musicians working the GI base and jazz café circuit of the 1950s. Following the runaway success of a Japanese cover of ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ (Hirao’s version here has dynamite in its teeth), demand grew for more of this strange, new music. The need was met with a huge gala, the Nichigeki Western Carnival, which showcased the new rokabirii groups to thousands of screaming Japanese teenagers. Wild footage of the concerts, alongside that of burgeoning radical student movements, put fear of a wave of delinquency into the heart of the establishment.

                            The studio numbers here are hardboiled, with unkempt live recordings that really rock. Tough drums back up honking sax, in a pedal steel pandemonium with slap bass. In the words of Elvis: these guys “get real gone”.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            01. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Live)
                            02. Itsuki No Komoriuta Rock
                            03. Hoshi Wa Nandemo Shiteru 2 (Live)
                            04. Crazy Love (Live)
                            05. Jailhouse Rock

                            Side 2
                            01. Jenny Jenny (Live)
                            02. Ooh My Soul (Live)
                            03. One Way Ticket
                            04. Miyo-chan
                            05. Blues De Memphis

                            Various Artists

                            The Blue Beat Explosion! The Birth Of Ska

                            Classic collection of early Prince Buster related material - a 23 track CD and 16 track LP compilation of early Blue Beat tracks featuring Prince Buster, Buster's Group, or other Prince Buster groups, The Blue Beats, The All Stars, The Torchlighters and Voice Of The People amongst others.

                            Various Artists

                            Dirty Water 2 - More Birth Of Punk Attitude

                            Such was the response from press and public to "Dirty Water - The Birth of Punk Attitude" that Kris Needs has been filling the bathtub again with another riotous selection of proto-punk scorchers, garage band delights and seminal figures who either revolutionised a movement or upset their chosen apple-cart; all filling the arteries which would explode in 1976 and change the world.

                            The new set casts its net even wider than the first, corralling sonic marauders such as Germany’s Faust, New York’s wilfully shambolic Godz, George Clinton’s barrier-trampling Parliament, original folk activist Woody Guthrie and deathly 60s electronic trailblazers United States Of America. The set stretches back to primitive rock‘n‘roll‘s early salvos, including Bo Diddley and Johnny Thunders’ favourite Eddie Cochran, plus the hot-wired tremors of UK outfits such as Kilburn and the High Roads, Doctors Of Madness, Stack Waddy, Hammersmith Gorillas and the Edgar Broughton Band. New York City is represented by Patti Smith, Blondie, the mighty Jayne County, demented Holy Modal Rounders and Dizzy Gillespie representing the bebop movement which flame-blasted cool jazz’s rigid trouser-seat, leaving a wide open orifice for the raw, spiritual anarchy of Albert Ayler.

                            Needs also exercises his long-standing fixation with obscure, unhinged 60s US garage-psych with the Misunderstood, Zachary Thaks, Human Expression and high-energy Detroit garage bands Unrelated Segments and Tidal Waves.

                            Akron/Family

                            S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT

                              This album was written in a cabin built into the side of Mount Meakan, an active volcano in Akan National Park, on the island of Hokkaido, Japan. It was recorded in an abandoned train station in Detroit with Chris Koltay (Liars, Women, Deerhunter, Holy Fuck, No Age).

                              Akron/Family spent the end of 2009 and half of 2010 exploring the future of sound through bent acid punk diamond fuzz and underground Japanese noise cassettes, lowercase micro tone poems and emotional Cagean field recordings, rebuilding electronic drums from the 70s and playing them with sticks they carved themselves.

                              Andrew Makin

                              So Long After Birth

                                Born in Northern Ireland and growing up in South Wales before settling in Manchester, Andrew Makin has been writing and playing music for almost a decade. His influences range from Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin and Early Aerosmith to Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle and Velvet Revolver. "So Long After Birth" is a dynamic rock track with a solid bass line and heavy guitar riff.


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