Minggu, 20 Januari 2013

ca509 - Red Cosmos - There And Back

Artist: Red Cosmos
Title: There And Back
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Date: 2013-01-21
Keywords: psychedelic; indie; dream-pop; electronic; choraldelia; post-pop; pop
(320 kbps)
Tracklist:
01 - St Albans Colour Explosion (5.26)
02 - Cross Your Heart And Hope To Die (4.49)
03 - You Said You Loved Me (4.59)
04 - I Am The Local DJ (4.15)
05 - England's Glory (5.35)
06 - Staring Downwards (6.04)
07 - Do Geese See God? (3.22)
08 - The Song Has Changed (5.46)
09 - Iron Rush (4.55)
10 - I Decided To Love You (4.10)
11 - Parting Shot (4.48)
12 - Nothing Is Happening (6.00)
13 - Mrs Jones (5.39)

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Based in York (UK), Red Cosmos is the solo project of Kim Tortoise. Kim was previously a member of The Gods Themselves with Art Moran. They made two super-limited cassettes of novelty tunes and five-minute fade-outs.

The very first Red Cosmos track (The Chicken Song) consisted of looped samples of Kim Tortoise Junior and friends talking about chickens, backed by a playful electronic beat. This set the mould for most of Kim�s early output. However, the track Son of Morris, a cut-and-paste shoegaze number (featuring vocals by Art Moran) changed direction somewhat and garnered airplay on WFMU and Dandelion Radio. A prolific output in demo mode ensued, and a Red Cosmos re-mix cum mash-up of the Gwilly Edmondez sound-poem Balls Roll Everywhere was described as �possibly one of the daftest tunes I�ve ever played� by Andrew Morrison (Dandelion Radio).

This is Red Cosmos' first long-player There And Back. It includes (amongst others) a choraldelic ode to the legendary Psych re-issue label Bam Caruso Records (St.Albans Colour Explosion), a high-voiced love song sung by a kidnapper (You Said You Loved Me), and a track featuring Kim Tortoise's father-in-law reciting a poem about the fate of Iron Stone Miners in Yorkshire (Iron Rush).      

There And Back seems to have pleased and perplexed in equal measure. One reviewer wrote that he was �forced to throw my headphones across the room and slap my own ears� during the chorus of England�s Glory.

Contact:
kimtortoise@hotmail.com
http://redcosmos.bandcamp.com
http://www.last.fm/music/Red+Cosmos

Francisco L�pez ?� Untitled Single Piece 4 (7", Povertech Industries ?PAT 80, 1996)


Merzbow ?� Happenings 1000 Years Time Ago (7", iDEAL Recordings ?iDEAL004, 2001)



50% Tape Hiss/50% Noise (tape, Vec Audio Exchange, 1996)


The tape cover say all I know.

Not on discogs, but more info on Rod Summers here
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Senin, 14 Januari 2013

Em - B-Movies (tape, Top Tape, 1986)


I got this directly from Menko Konings, the man who was Em, after a brief career with S.M. Nurse. I posted some of his great electronic pop music before. This one is not on discogs. You can find more information here and here

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Jumat, 11 Januari 2013

Katacombe Vol. 3 (tape, Schrei Records/Korm Plastics KP 3, 1984)


Someone asked me to post this, as this week Marien van Oers died. He was known as Het Zweet and appears with two pieces on this excellent compilation of Dutch industrial music, which oddly I enough I never put here. He was 54 years old, and been out of the industrial music scene for a long time. He had an unique distinct approach to industrial music with great tribal beat material. I re-upped his cassettes Forced Run, Fase and Massive Trance for this occasion. He was quite unique in his music, I always thought.