Scorn's brand new release remains in the vibe and tempo of modern Illbient. The vibrant sounds of the kit are run thru the filters and dub wizardry of Mick Harris, former drummer of Napalm Death. For 15 years, Mick Harris has not relented with the project's dubbed out beats, film noir atmospheres, and over the top bass compulsions. This is perhaps the angriest and most well articulated of his projects in the last decade, so get it now.June 27, 2010
The dubbing machine is here again (Repost)
Scorn's brand new release remains in the vibe and tempo of modern Illbient. The vibrant sounds of the kit are run thru the filters and dub wizardry of Mick Harris, former drummer of Napalm Death. For 15 years, Mick Harris has not relented with the project's dubbed out beats, film noir atmospheres, and over the top bass compulsions. This is perhaps the angriest and most well articulated of his projects in the last decade, so get it now.
Labels
Electronic,
Illbient
June 26, 2010
The dream comes true, i am dancing with hundreds of slanted-eyes girls!! (Repost)

Here is a cool release celebrating Chinese pop music from the past. Producers Ian Widgery (the same guy of "Shanghai Lounge Divas") and Morton Wilson have reunited to give us these famous movie soundtracks from Shaw Brothers revamped and re-imagined from a bygone era with a 21st century twist. Definitively great!!
Labels
Electronic,
Retro Lounge
Controlling the Darkness (Repost)
Here is the debut album of the great dutch masters of obscuritynow the collection is complete, and the darkness are finally descending.Here
Labels
Tribal
June 22, 2010
Towards red-shift and beyond... (Repost)
Brand new album from darkest mysterious dutch band Geomatic, come to feel and hear the cold outer space.
Labels
Tribal
Following the Earth Rotation (Repost)
Interesting dutch band, is not easy to describe the sounds they are expelling, maybe a fusion between the oldie Dead Can Dance works with a fresh new machine-touch beats, mixed with obscure and forgotten sounds from orient, definitively a pleasure to all the auditive cilliated receptors.
Labels
Tribal
June 18, 2010
June 8, 2010
Shadows of the South II
Second work from Chilean band SCL, a tripcore to space and beyond... (note the tribute to the unforgettable genius A. Tarkovski on Solaris)SCL - Cosmos
Labels
Electronic,
Experimental,
Trip Hop
June 7, 2010
June 6, 2010
May 17, 2010
Misty fog from the autumn shores (Repost)
From the master of obscure machine sounds Justin Broadrick, here is a great album to see the sea following the eternal pulse of universe.Here
Labels
Drone,
Experimental Rock
Jakarta A Go-Go (Repost)

Dara Puspita (Flower Girls) was Indonesia’s most successful girl band of the 1960s. While there were many popular female vocalists in Indonesia at that time, they nearly all relied on the services of a backing band. Dara Puspita was one of the few girl groups who actually played all their own music as well. They hailed from the city of Surabaya in East Java and first formed in 1964 with the line-up of sisters Titiek Adji Rachman (Titiek A.R.) on guitar and Lies Soetisnowati Adji Rachman (Lies A.R.) on bass, along with Susy Nander on drums and Ani Kusuma on rhythm guitar. In April 1965 Lies left the band for a month to finish school and was replaced on bass by Titiek Hamzah. When Lies returned she took the place of Ani on rhythm guitar and Titiek Hamzah stayed on as bass player. It was with this line-up that the band set out to conquer the world.
In 1965 the band relocated to Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, and soon gained a reputation as a sensational live act, bashing away on their instruments, screaming out their songs and jumping up and down. Even though it was often hard to hear the songs through all the mayhem, audiences thought it was great and often joined the band to dance around on the stage. The band’s stage act and the songs they played were clearly influenced by contemporary British bands such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, whose music at the time was banned in Indonesia. The Jakarta band Koes Bersaudara (Koes Brothers) was actually put in gaol for playing rock and roll, but it seems that Dara Puspita was never seriously troubled by the authorities, although they were warned not to perform Beatles’ songs.
Why Dara Puspita was never targeted by the authorities is a bit of a mystery, but was probably due to them being still relatively new on the scene in Jakarta and having not yet released a record. In late 1965 the political situation in Indonesia swung 360 degrees and rock and roll could be played again with impunity, so when Dara Pupita’s first album, Jang Pertama (The First), was released in 1966 they had little to fear. There is no mistaking the influence of other bands’ music on many of the songs here, such as the Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction riff in Mari-Mari (Come On, Come Here) or the Dave Clarke Five’s Glad All Over in Tanah Airku (My Homeland).
Dara Puspita followed up their first album with the self-titled Dara Puspita later in the year and in 1967 put out two albums, Green Green Grass and A Go Go. The title track from the latter album, and the song Believe Me, are good examples of the band’s beat credentials.
The band was a popular attraction in Indonesia and also in the region, playing to enthusiastic crowds in neighbouring countries, such as Thailand and Malaysia. In 1968 they took the almost unprecedented move for an Indonesian band of trying their luck in Europe and spent the next few years touring in England, Holland, France, Belgium, Spain, Germany and Hungary. They even played in Turkey and Iran. While in England they recorded two singles for CBS and recorded another for Philips in Holland. In late 1971 the band returned to Indonesia and played a number of concerts, but enthusiasm was starting to wane and in April 1972 they played their last show. Susy was keen to keep going and together with Titiek Hamzah recorded a number of albums using the Dara Puspita name, but it was really the end.
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April 25, 2010
The New Antique Beats
Labels
Electronic,
Experimental,
Tribal
April 21, 2010
Asian Groovy Attack!! (Repost)
This superb collection of Singaporean 60’s beat, pop, and “off-beat cha-cha” instrumental classics from original vinyl 45’s offers 22 supercharged beat-a-go-go tracks defy a common held belief that the Chinese couldn’t rock, groove, or swing back in the 1960’s. The vocals are sung in the dialects of Mandarin and Hokkien and they soar with catchy hooks atop groovy, clever beats.
There’s plenty of electric guitar, organ, and crazy percussion rocking and twisting behind it all, at times reaching quite a mad and freaky state of affairs. The record’s finale “Happy Lunar New Year” sung by Linda Yong may be the weirdest New Year greeting ever recorded. Every single cut is a winner and it never lets up from start to finish.
Although most of the lyrics focus on love, innocence, and festive atmospherics, there’s an epic vibe to the music that rivals other extremely well-recorded and unique pop styles emanating from the surrounding Southeast Asian scenes during the late 1960’s. Seminal bands of the period like The Stylers and The Silvertones are well represented here too.
Although most of the lyrics focus on love, innocence, and festive atmospherics, there’s an epic vibe to the music that rivals other extremely well-recorded and unique pop styles emanating from the surrounding Southeast Asian scenes during the late 1960’s. Seminal bands of the period like The Stylers and The Silvertones are well represented here too.
Labels
A Go-Go,
Beat,
Retro Lounge
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