Lazer Guided Melodies with Slowness - An Interview

Diretamente da ensolarada São Francisco, California, um EP complementamente intenso e fascinante com canções que de cara te jogam para o inicio da Scene, shoegazer classico com nuances de pos punk assim caminham Black & White, Duck & Cover, Slowboat e Little King as quatro magistrais musicas do debut Hopeless but Otherwise, ah sim já ia me esquecendo, esta maravilha atende pelo nome de Slowness. Geoffrey Scott, guitarras e vocais, Julie Lynn baixo e vocais e Scott Putnam bateria e vocais são os responsaveis pelas viagens envoltas de wall of sound etereo e denso, vocalização menino, menina quase soando como um instrumento a mais no contexto climatico do EP, um deleite indispensavel e artefato primordial para qualquer coleção de amantes de shoegazer, pos punk que se preze.

Aproveitando a ocasião, o TBTCI em contato com Geoffrey viabilizou uma entrevista que desde já torna-se clássica aqui em nossas paginas, delicie-se com Slowness.

***** Interview with Geoffrey Scott - Slowness *****

Q. When did Slowness form, tell us about the beginning…

A. Slowness formed with no name during the summer of 2008 in a house I was house-sitting in, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Julie was encouraging me to turn some guitar sketches into actual songs. And our friend Erik would come up to help me with the yard and the animals, and he brought his drums up and we started doing demos in this great big living room.

Q. What are the band’s influences?

A. There are so many. Aside from the obvious independent-alternative rock, we all love jazz and ambient and some classical and electronic experimental stuff too.

Q. Tell us about the recording process for the debut EP?

A. We shared our demos with our friend Conor and he suggested we record with Monte Vallier. We went in with about 11 songs. "Duck an Cover" we engineered on our own, in our rehearsal space, and did overdubs and vocals in our apartments. In the end, seven seemed to work, but after we mastered and pressed a bunch for a US tour, we came home feeling that only four really represented us well. So we re-mastered with Kramer and did a new pressing with new artwork and all. Now we're finally really happy with it.


Q. Make a list of your top five albums from all time.

1. R.E.M. "Reconstruction of the Fables"
2. The Cure "Disintegration"
3. Stereolab "Mars Audiac Quintet"
4. Spiritualized "Lazer Guided Melodies"
5. The Smiths "The Smiths"

Q. Tell us about playing live.

A. We love it. We don't play much in San Francisco because we don't see ourselves as a local band. We did the tour last year and it was great playing every night for three and a half weeks. You get so much better as a band, and it's the best 40 minutes of your day. We just played in March for the first time in nine months with our new drummer, Scott Putnam, and it felt great. Our best shows tend to be in small, dingy basement-like places full with about 60 people. We'll do a mini-tour in July between New York and Washington, DC.

Q. What do you think about the classic shoegaze era?

A. It's very strange because I started playing the guitar during the height of that era, but I was starting to write songs, you know, cheesy stuff with three chords and the truth. In other words, nothing shoegaze. But somehow something shoegazey started coming out when I started recording demos on a two-track cassette boom-box. But Slowness never sat down and went, "okay, let's be a shoegaze band." Scott and I are metalheads at the core, and Julie is a porch musician.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?

A: I'm not really one to have a pulse on the latest thing. When I buy records, I'm mostly digging into the past and gathering what I missed, you know, like For Against or Spectrum, or even super early Rolling Stones. There is so much great stuff that snuck by me, probably because I was the oldest sibling and didn't have many older friends. Most modern music I hear, that has broken through to indie stardom, as in the latest Pitchfork craze, I'm not crazy about, but then there's so much good stuff out there. It's a bit overwhelming in the new age of digital distribution. Most of what we like are bands we've come to know in San Francisco or while touring, like Foreign Cinema, Dead Leaf Echo, and Moonbeams.


Q. Could you explain the songs from "Hopeless but Otherwise" and your inspirations to compose them?

A. "Black & White" I guess is both personal and political. I guess I just realized at the time that the last eight years of life in the US had been been pretty shitty. Ever since 9/11 things have been weird, and things still don't seem right. But then I suppose it was just a case of me growing up. As if dropping the bomb in 1945, or the Holocaust, or the Rape of Nanking were any lighter. "Duck & Cover" is about someone getting out of your life because of choice or circumstance, and you suddenly realize that the relationship was actually poisoning you at the time. "Slowboat" somehow morphed into something completely different than how it began, basically because of Julie's bass line. Thank heavens for it. I had all these verses, but then we stepped back and thought about repeating just the one phrase, plus a few asides in the second verse. It's about the need to change our entire way of life. To start over, rebuild and, god-forbid, actually take care of each other as a society. But before that we would need to see the footage of all the destruction we've caused up until now. Unfortunately, American public schools generally don't do a good enough job actually educating our youth about what's really gone on in our shared history. Take the details of the Civil Rights Movement and the 100 years of Reconstruction and Jim Crow laws that led up to it. Only a few people get educated on subjects like these growing up, so we have a public that is essentially ignorant, or in denial. "Little King" is about keeping your sense of humor amidst all this dark stuff.

Q. Which songs by other bands would you like to do cover versions of?

A. We've only ever performed two covers, but in my fantasy world we'd have these in our arsenal: "A Short Term Effect" by The Cure, "Silver Rider" by Low, "Kahoutek" by R.E.M., "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle" by the Smiths, "Leave Them All Behind" by Ride-- but we'll probably do none of them since we're just trying to write and arrange new songs, and practice what we have so far.

Q. What are the plans for the future?

A. We are in the studio now working on what was supposed to be a follow-up EP but we think it might be turning into a full-length LP. It's about half finished. We're doing the tour in July and we're all spending the summer months on the East Coast, mainly in New York. Then we'll come back in September and continue working on the record. It should be done by November or December, but who knows with these things. We're also planning to tour Europe and Japan in 2012.

Q. Any important news to tell us…

A. We have Sean Eden (Luna) playing on a couple tracks for the new LP. We're lucky we bumped into him at Maxwell's last summer at a Feelies show. Oh yeah, and I've written two songs with Julie's six year-old daughter. We only need to wait another 15years before she can go on tour with us and play keyboards. Until then, we'll probably use a few magic tricks when we play live.
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Thanks Geoffrey....

http://www.slownessmusic.com/

Transparent Radiation with Starfire Connective Sound

Al Schenkel é a mente por detrás do barulhento Sussuros e Escarros, além de brother e comparsa dos bons agora o cara ataca com seu projeto Starfire Connective Sound, pancada alucinogena e desconcertante que afeta o fundo da alma, os neuronios também sente o impacto, o projeto de um homem só de Al, vem com um electrotrancenoisepsychspace daqueles de dispensar qualquer tipo de psicotropico durante sua audição, mas se você é como eu um cara vivido e pode se dar ao luxo de misturar drogas tão fortes, então meu chapa, vai fundo que o resultado é mais perturbador ainda.

Another Girl Another Planet with Duplodeck

É pessoal, passando o periodo de provas, feriados, tensão no trabalho, estou em divida com uma penca de gente, e sem muito bla bla bla, vamos começar a salda-las uma a uma sem dó nem piedade, e para iniciar, nada mais bacana do que receber email do brother Edu da Pug Records sobre o mais novo petardo dos caras, Duplodeck, um mix bacanerrimo da sonoridade da Elephant com Sterolab trejeitos shoegazer com nuancas de bossa, soa estranho de cara, mas faz todo sentindo, pega Cool Breeze e Francis Bacon sem conta na cover de Another Girl Another Planet do Only Ones, tipo assim do caralho!!!

Para os amigos de fora do pais, vai o release em ingles:

The only unanimity among the members of duplodeck was their admiration for their compatriot singer-songwriter Jorge Ben. The press once called them the “Brazilian Stereolab” – rather narrow title for a band that also resonated Pixies, Comet Gain and Deerhoof, to name a few. Conceived in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, duplodeck existed from 2001 to 2005 – time in which they wrote a huge amount of songs, but recorded only one never released EP. With new mixing, their self-titled debut now resurfaces with guitars louder than originally planned, whilst its four songs remain incredibly fresh. Pug Records has just made the EP available for free download, also compiling an extended version in cassette. The release has encouraged a reunion of the group – they’re preparing a full-length album for the end of the year.

The cassette B-side brings rarities that not even the band members were aware of. In addition to the EP songs, the bonuses encompass live performances, drunken rehearsals and jam sessions. Towards shoegaze noisemaking or bossa nova harmonies and beats, these tracks escape from the EP’s pop format. Such diversity also shows in the two covers: a Beulah-resembling reinvention of Temptations’ My Girl and an appropriation of the post-punk hit Another Girl, Another Planet, from The Only Ones. More than just drafts for the upcoming LP, this material, despite the inappropriate recording, represents a fair sample of the sextet’s great potential.

Duplo Deck - http://www.pugrecords.com/duplodeck/

Magnificent Oblivion by Fleeting Joys - An Interview

Lembro da primeira vez que ouvi Fleeting Joys, um amigo disse o seguinte, "Renato, você que ama MBV, escute urgente Despondent Transponder do Fleeting Joys....você vai ficar impressionado"....dai lá fui eu atrás do album dos caras, e quando The Break Up começou ficou paralisado, chocado, pensei comigo caralho, isso é puro My Bloody Valentine, meu deus, como conseguiram chegar nessa sonoridade, quem são esses caras......e foi indo até chegar em Magnificent Oblivion e os loops, os vocais, as guitarras o andamento da bateria, eu estava entregue naquele momento e fui completamente abduzido por este album, virou discoteca basica e motivo de devoção, passado um tempo veio o segundo Occult Radiance e mais idolatria e mais tesouros vieram, nao a toa o TBTCI idolatra o Fleeting Joys e enfim chegou a hora de sabermos a historia completa de Rorika, John e Cia, diretamente das mentes destes mestres do shoegazer atual, simplesmente essencial para qualquer amante do genero.

*****Interview with Fleeting Joys *****

Q: When did Fleeting Joys starts, tell us about the history...

A. We met through a mutual friend. Rorika was working at a studio and she would practice her engineering skills on whatever project John had going. We spent a year trying to sonically maneuver into each other's pants! When John first met Rorika, he was impressed because she was “the only girl he knew that had Isn’t Anything and Glider as well as Loveless."

Q: Who are your influences?

A. Besides the albums listed, Johnny Marr, also.

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…

A. MBV / Loveless

Velvet Underground & Nico

Sonic Youth / Dirty

Cocteau Twins / Pink Opaque - John

The Beatles / Revolver - John

The Cure / Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - Rorika

Q: Tell us about the Fleeting Joys´ gigs... how do you fell playing alive?

A. It's selfish self-indulgence! Being wrapped in waves of gorgeous chords is such an experience that's hard to describe. It's also impossible to hear yourself sing over it all!

Q. How do you describe FJ´s sounds?

A. We write a lot of songs that are beautiful just on an acoustic guitar, then begin twisting them around, trying different things, flying in parts of other songs until we find it more interesting. It has to convey an emotion first. Then, we begin creating layers of sounds that we'd like to be immersed in onstage.

Q: In your opinion what´s the best FT´s album?

A. Probably the one you haven't heard yet!

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the albuns?

A. We have always had a music room at home where most everything gets recorded. We will go over to Matt's for the drums and do overdubs at home. Our neighbors all hate us! Not really...they find it interesting.

Q. What´s represents the shoegazer classic era to FJ?

A. If you look very closely, you can see a wide-eyed John in the audience of MBV's Austin show at Liberty Lunch (Japanese bootleg video)!

Q. And about the new shoegazer scene all over the world,..which new bands you recommended?

A. So many good things going on..afraid we'll leave someone out!

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?

A. We were asked to do a cover of a "guilty pleasure" recently and that was more fun than you'd think. So many possibilities!! It was a toss up between Evanessence's Bring Me To Life and HIM's Bury Me Deep Inside Your Heart...in the end, we blew it all off.

Q: What´s the plans for future....

A. This week, we are finishing a really beautiful song for a compilation that Thomason and Vinyl Junkie are putting out in Japan to donate to the earthquake victims.

Possibly adding another person for live shows. John has been teaching Rorika some of the second guitar parts and she really enjoys that, so we'll see...she just bought a vintage Jaguar. We've just released Despondent Transponder on vinyl with FTHPR in Norway, so hoping to plan a tour over there sometime this year.

Going to South America is something that we've always wanted to do because there was such huge support coming from there as soon as DT was released. The same was true with Japan. So, when we toured there. It was like visiting old friends because they'd all been with us for years!

Working on an EP of new songs. Thinking about releasing them digitally instead of making CDs. Not sure how everyone feels about that? Rorika likes to be able to download new songs often rather than waiting for an album to be released., But, John feels that an album or ep makes a story/impression when it's presented grouped together...even the order of the songs matters...as well as the artwork.

Q: Any parting words?

A. We feel so lucky to have fans everywhere that really support music and us. All we want to do is keep giving them more to love!

**** Thanks FJ!!!!

http://www.myspace.com/fleetingjoys

Movement with Custom Made Music - An Interview with Dave A.

Com imenso prazer apresento aos leitores do TBTCI uma das novissimas e grandes gravadoras da atualidade, trata-se da bacanerrima Custom Made Music, responsavel por nada mais nada menos do que colocar no mercado gente do cacife de Ceremony, SVI, Dead Leaf Echo, Sky Drops, e inumeras outras preciosidades. Capitaneada por Dave A. e sua esposa Chrischa a CMM segue a trilha de grandiosas gravadoras independentes como Factory, Creation, Beggars Banquet, SST, Sub Pop, 4AD e inumeras outras que fizeram da musica alternativa um novo conceito, quabrando tabus do mainstream e indo contra tudo e todos no mais perfeito estilo do it yourself, por essas e outras o TBTCI cai de cabeça e decupa juntamente com Davi A. a fantastica Custom Made Music, prediletissima por aqui.

***** Interview with Dave A. from Custom Made Music *****

Q. When did Custom Made Music start?

Well I officially started Custom Made Music in Fall of 2007. However I started distributing recordings and working with bands around 1988. In High School I had a band that played Cure and Ramones covers and we wrote our own songs too. We recorded a homemade demo and started selling them and trading them at school and it just evolved from there. I'd make copies of our demo and put other local bands songs on the B side of the tape so that people could hear our friends bands too. Eventually I had friends in all the area high schools and colleges passing these tapes around. I started booking shows too. After meeting a few touring bands I started making comp tapes that had bands from other areas on it. Soon I started helping bands distribute their 7"'s and LP's at shows and around 94 I was able to help put some money towards pressing some records for a few bands. I kept up a steady catalog of stuff that I distributed all the way till around 2004. At that time the music industry really changed a lot as far as how labels and distributing music worked. In 2005 I switched gears and focused on running a few music venues here in Virginia. However in 2007 I realized how much I missed putting out records so I started up Custom Made Music and it's been building ever since. So in a manner of speaking Ive been doing this for a little over 20 years.

Q. Do you consider that Custom Made Music is a shoegazer oriented label? What´s the context behind it.....

Well Custom Made Music certainly work with many bands who have a sound that's rooted and influenced by the original shoegaze sound. We also work with bands like The Static Minds who are a straight up rock n roll band along the lines of The Stooges and The MC5 and we have done other punk & garage rock type releases in the past. I release music from bands that really inspire me and it happens to be that I like a lot of music being made by bands who are heavily influenced by the sounds of My Bloody Valentine, Ride, The Jesus And Mary Chain and others of that era. I however don't limit the music I release on the label to any specific genre or sound.

Q. Who are your influences/heroes?

From a label perspective I'm influenced greatly by Tony Wilson and Factory Records. The attitude and mind set behind that label is pretty much a blue print for any aspiring small label. Other labels that have had a major influence on me would be Too Many Records/Very Small, Creation Records and SST. As far as hero's go I'd have to say my dad George Allison. As a kid I woke up every Saturday morning to music he was playing on the living room turntable and that's what really got me into listening to music all the time.

Q. What´s your opinion about the classic shoegazer era?

I was a huge fan of all of the original shoegaze bands. In high school a friend of mine would tape 120 minutes every Sunday night and Monday after school we'd hang out at his house and watch it. I'll never forget seeing the video for Ride's "Like A Daydream" for the first time. I was definitely hooked at that point and we would anxiously await the next release from each band. That original scene has just been so influential on so much other great music to come out over the years it's unbelievable.

Q. What´s your opinion about the new shoegazer era?

I enjoy listening to many of the new bands out there that have fallen under the shoegaze moniker. Personally I enjoy the bands that put their own spin or add in other influences to their sound besides just borrowing from the bands that where a part of that original time period.

Q. Make a list of your top five records from all time?

Man that's a tough one. How about a list of 10 records that I hold in very high regard.

T Rex "Electric Warrior"

The Stooges "Raw Power"

New York Dolls S/T

David Bowie "Hunky Dory"

The Velvet Underground & Nico

Black Flag "The First Four Years"

My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"

The Jesus And Mary Chain "Psycho Candy"

Brian Eno "Music For Airports"

Roxy Music S/T

Q. Tell us about forthcoming stuff from Custom Made Music...

Well we just released two new E.P.'s one from Ceremony called "Not Tonight" and one from The Sky Drops called "Making Mountains". which are available now. We also just got in some limited edition copies of the Screen Vinyl Image/Rude 66 split 7" which is a release we've been really looking forward to. Then there's a new Screen Vinyl Image 12" single for their song "Too Much Speed" coming out in a couple of weeks. Other new releases include a split 7" from my band Last Remaining Pinnacle & Pan Galactic Straw Boss as well as a new Dead Leaf Echo E.P. called "Verisimilitude" that is a collection of remixes and collaborations. Later in 2012 there will be a new Screen Vinyl Image full length album and a new Dead Leaf Echo single as well as a few other releases.

Q. What´s your favourite Custom Made Music release?

Well they are all favorites and I have different reasons for each one being a favorite. When you put so much time and energy and love into each release, well that release becomes a part of you and that's what happens each time I put out a record. Putting out records is something I'm very passionate about and I honestly can't think of anything else I'd rather do.

And now about Last Remaining Pinnacle:

Q. About your personal band, Last Remaining Pinnacle, when the band starts?

Last Remaining Pinnacle started in 1995 as a solo project.I focused mainly on harsh noise and ambient soundtrack type recordings. Making these recordings was a great outlet for me for a good number of years. I loved seeing how intense I could make each recording. From 1995-2001 I recorded many cassette releases and was featured on a bunch of different compilations from various labels that were released on vinyl, CD and cassette formats alongside bands that ranged from Merzbow and The Locust to Less Than Jake and J Church. Over the years I started doing demos for more "Song Like" material while continuing to do an ambient/soundtrack type cassette release from time to time. In 2009 I got the chance to do a live show and I that's when my wife Chrischa joined me as the other member of Last Remaining Pinnacle. The sounds has shifted to a more dark psych rock/drone guitar based sound since she joined and our most recent song "Students Of The V.U." that's on the upcoming split 7" with Pan Galactic Straw Boss is a reflection of that.

Q. Who are the influences from the band?

Oh there are so many. Chrischa and I just love so much stuff and it all plays in to the music we make. A few that stand out would be Dinosaur Jr, The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, MBV, NON, Joan Jett, Van Halen, Replacements, JAMC, The Ramones, The Cure, Def Leppard, Brian Eno, T Rex, The Woven Hand, New Order, The Stooges, The Ventures Arcade Fire, The Shins and so many more.

Q. Tell us about the process of recording the split 7´´?

Our song for the split 7" was recorded by Steven Jordan who is also the guitar player in Pan Galactic Straw Boss. We recorded it all in our house. I had written the basic idea and done a demo of the song a few months earlier an played it for Chrischa. Once we started practicing it for a live show we decided to incorporate more experimental sounds into the basic riff. When we went to record the track with Steven everything just flowed together well and we are really happy with how it turned out.

Q. Describe Last Remaining Pinnacle sounds?

I'd say dark psychedelic atmospheric sounds led by fuzzed out guitar's and almost tribal like drumming. There's also a great amount of experimental sounds going along with the guitars and drums including droning synths and samples that we use to add to the dynamics of the songs. I think we both look at the band as a way to channel out a lot of aggression. It's also a really great thing to be able to do together and I know I wouldn't want to play with anyone else.

Q. When the album comes?

The split 7" with Pan Galactic Straw Boss has an official release date of Tuesday April 26th. There will be a couple of limited versions that will only be available through the Custom Made Music site and at our shows that will come out before the official release date.

Q. What´s the plans for future?

We plan on playing as many shows as possible this Spring and Summer. We are also going to be releasing a split 7" with Cult Of Dom Keller around July of this year. Cult Of Dom Keller are an amazing Psych Rock band from the U.K. We're also planning a couple of other 7" releases and then an E.P. that will feature all the 7" tracks by the end of 2011.

Q. Any Final Words?

Thank you Renato for all your support of Custom Made Music and Last Remaining Pinnacle. We appreciate it very much and thanks to all the bands that work with Custom Made Music and to those that enjoy the records we release.

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Thanks Dave, It´s a pleasure to me....best Renato

http://www.custommademusicva.com/

Special One with Sunshower Orphans

Diretamente de NY e mais precisamente via diretamente da rede, outro contato imediatao chegou via email diretamente de Mike, desta vez informando que o recem lançado Avenue Abyss é o debut do Sunshower Orphans, composto pelo proprio Mike G. somando-se a Rob A., Travis F. e Brian A.. e de cara temos um do it yourself que os caras disponilizaram na integra e gratuitamente em seu site, para deleite dos amantes de dreampop moderno cito, Radio Dept. Depreciation Guild o Sunshower Orphans é dessas preciosidades que viciam a cada audição do album, perolas em forma de musca como Sunspots, Kaleidoscope Plan, Manic Flaneur e tantas outras misturadas dentre as 14 maravilhas sonhadoras contidas nesta obra lindissima do mais belo dreampop da atualidade que atende pelo singelo nome de Avenue Abyss, não esqueça Sunshower Orphans, sua mais nova banda predileta.

http://sunshowerorphans.bandcamp.com/

Love Kills Slowly by Teenage Sin Taste

Contatos imediatos via rede acontecem quase que diariamente graças ao TBTCI e as bandas que por aqui passam outras obscuridades belissimas e que dificilmente eu teria acesso rapidamente acabam chegando em altissima velocidade, é o caso do Teenage Sin Taste, projeto frances de um homem só, no caso Wil Garcia que também é guitarrista do cultuado Curl banda que conta na formação com ex membros do cultuadissimo Cranes, o TST ja desponta com uma extensa discografia e um curriculo impressionante. Aqui é a vez do novissimo EP Love Kills Slowly, electro dark shoegazer em alta rotação, a semelhança com os prediletos SVI é automatica, todavia fica claro, Jake & Kim de certa forma aparecem no TST vide remixes e outras coisas, voltando ao EP a abertura caotica com Adrenalin deixa claro beats, loops, um electro dark shoegazer de quebrar a espinha, a sequencia com Some Girls are Darker than Others remete pelo titulo diretamente a Morrissey & Marr em Some Girls are Bigger than Others mas aqui a coincidencia para por aqui, o clima fica mais tenso ainda, algo como se o Sisters of Mercy mixassem o SVI ou se o NIN gravasse com o Alcian Blue, dai chega a vez de Love Kills Slowly e o clima dark vem de uma vez só um esporro sonoro de electro noise shoegazer post punk assustadoramente perfeito e brutal, não acaba por ai ainda temos a demencia de Japanese Pleasures e o remix do proprio SVI para Love Kills Slowly além de outro remix de Stolearm para 12 Stories. Love Kills Slowly credencia o TST para se seguir os passos do proprio SVI e de outro grande esporro electro dark gazer o Bloody Knives. Recomendadissimo.

Teenage Sin Taste - Love Kills Slowly

"Rock Back for Japan" - Disaster Relief Fund compilation series update!

A catastrofe recem ocorrido no Japão gereou ao redor do mundo todo inumeras manifestações de solidariedade dentre outros atos que pessoas do bem e que querem o bem ao mundo fazem muitas vezes de forma anonima de outras através de grandes manifestações culturais, não importa, se o objetivo é auxiliar um povo é mais do que justificavel.

E simplesmente o mundo alternativo da nova geração ou nem tão nova assim, voltado as raizes shoegazers, ou experimentais, ou noise, ou electro, ou post rock, ou que se fodam os rotulos, o que vale é que nada mais nada menos do que 6 volumes estão prestes a serem lançados pela espetacular Patetico Records capitaneada pelo genial Tom Lugo responsavel dentre outras coisas pelo fundamental Stellarscope e o novissimo Panophonic, ou seja o que Mr. Tom Lugo conseguiu reunir nestes 6 volumes é a nata da musica com toques shoegazers da atualidade, temos desde SVI a Purple Bloom, de Ceremony a Anji Cheung passando por Insect Guide, Dead Leaf Echo, SPC ECO, Spotlight Kid, 93MMFTS, Anything After, Oblisk, Stellarium, Bloody Knives, Deep Cut, sinceramente a lista é interminavel de coisas finissimas e essenciais, o que se tem nesses volumes é absolutamente indispensavel, então faça um favor a você mesmo e colabore com a causa, adquira este artefato que é uma verdadeira reliquia da musica alternativa.

Segue Release:

PATETICO RECORDINGS will be releasing the "Rock Back for Japan"-Disaster Relief Fund compilation series over the next couple of weeks. It will be released for digital download, a couple of weeks later the hard copy CDs will be available through Amazon. Please become a member of the site at:

http://www.patetico-recordings.com/apps/auth/signup?next=apps%2Fprofile%2F as we will send updates through it. Artists involved:

Rock Back for Japan Vol. 1 01. Purple Bloom- kisses bloomed 02. Apple Orchard- Half steps towards bright skies 03. SPC ECO- Silo Too High 04. Tahaki Miyaki- Somethin is better than nothing 05. Insect Guide- 06. Black Swan Lane- Age end 07. Un.Real- Angel 75 08. Spotlight Kid- All is real 09. Tally Ho!- Rainbow 10. Counterfeit i- Atlantis 11. Panophonic- Disappear into the night 12. Spell 336- Silence 13. Orangenoise- Trust 14. The DeFog- A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing Rock Back for Japan Vol. 2 01. Stellarium- Chocolate & Strawberry 02. Absence of Ocean- Open Heart (Open Fire) 03. Hemming- Swinging at Ghosts 04. Slowness- Slowboat 05. Dead Leaf Echo- Baby Eyes 06. The Ludvico Treatment- Enter secondary character 07. Wavvement- The Girl in the Denim Vest 08. Anthing After- Disconnected 09. The Bavarian Druglords- WorldofSound 10. Ten Pound Troy- Unchained 11. Boy Party- July 12. Pilot Cloud- Meridian 13. Short to the Ground- No Time 14. This Scarlet Mourning- Shine

Rock Back for Japan Vol. 3 01.Ceremony- Control 02.Golden Gardens- The High Priestess 2 03.Bosques- Dorstein Rejse 04.Oblisk- Around the sound 05.Stone Darling- All I wanna Do 06.Resplandor- Twilight 07.Ludwyg- Phantom 08.Dirty Pulp Theatre- Excessive Noise 09. Hope- Wolfredt 10.After Sun- Walking Through This Door Again 11.Wavefield- Automatic Electronic Machines 12.Neorev-The Stars Above Us 13.Jesus Deluxe- No Middle Ground 14.Sway-Thirty Seven Miles Beside the Ocean

Rock Back for Japan Vol. 4 01.Plumerai- Empty Graves 02.Leaving Richmod- Your personal infinity 03.Jazzblaster- Dream 04.93millionmilesfromthesun-Sorrow Song 05.Anne- Perfect teeth 06.The Psychocandies- High Love 07.Periscope- Freak Beat 08.Music For Headphones- Life inside a parka 09.Anji Cheung-Vessel of the Earth 10.Last Remaining Pinnacles- Students of V.U. 11.Phantom Vibrations- Burlington 12.Bloody Knives- Let me out 13.The Sunshine Factory- Sugar Sister 14. Chatham Rise- Air Feat (Featuring EJ Hagen) Rock Back for Japan Vol. 5 01.Screen Vinyl Image- Too much speed 02.Tone Rodent- These Blues 03.Deep Cut- Decision 04.The Tweeds- Christmas Time 05.Victorie & Hyde- Fire we were 06.Presents for Sally- Three 07. SER.ES- Satélite 08. The Hope Slide- The Survivor 09. The High Violets- The Orchard 10.Whirl- Leave 11. FRACTAL - Niña Flor 12.Westkust- Falling through the floor 13.The Telewire- Silence 14. Stellarscope- You always know

Rock Back for Japan Vol. 6 (Still waiting on some tracks) 01.The Lost Patrol- Justine 02.Niels Nielson- Step Aside! 03.Isabela Music Club- What were you thinking? 04.Thrushes- Crystals 05.Elika- Seam 06.Patrik Torsson- Summary 07.The Second Floor- More science than soul 08.Mechanism for People- The taste of a sweet life 09.Starry Saints- The Long Fade 10.Her Vanished Grace- Blue 11.Ill-iteracy- Inside ya mind 12.C’est la Mort- Paper Ships 13.One Unique Signal- Bishops (what does it mean) Please support this cause!

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Club AC30, Because Why The Fuck Not - An Interview with Robin Allport

Selo referencia para a cena shoegazer atual e dos grandes responsaveis pela atual efervescente renascença da Scene That Celebrates Itself, o Club AC30 é simplesmente lar de bandas como Air Formation, Exit Calm, Ringo Deathstarr, Zephyrs, Deep Cut e outros mais, além de perpetuar grandiosas festas e conseguir colocar nestas grandes nomes da classic era como Chapterhouse, Telescopes, Cranes, Swervedriver, Primitives lado a lado com toda a nova cena em verdadeiros shows antologicos.

O mentor de toda essa sensacional tematica chama-se Robin Allport, grande personalidade e grande amigo, que concede ao TBTCI uma exclusiva entrevista recheada de historias e dissecando o porque Club AC30, Because Why The Fuck Not.

***** Interview with Robin Allport (Club AC30) *****

Q. When did Club AC30 start?
A. Club AC30 was born out of frustration with the London live music scene in April 2004.

Q. Do you consider that Club AC30 is a shoegazer oriented label?What´s the context behind it.....
A. It's just about whatever music we happen to like. We just so happen to like a lot of shoegaze style music!

Q. About the gig´s....some classic ones like Chapterhouse, Primitives, Cranes, Swervedriver made part of it.......tell us about this celebrations parties..
A. This has mainly been me trying to do shows for bands that I loved when I was growing up in the late 80s / early 90s. Connecting with these bands, and working with them for AC30 has been a real pleasure. Hopefully the people that attended the shows think so too.

Q. Who are your influences/heroes?
A. Mainly music that I grew up with - so stuff my parents listened to (Bread, The Beatles, The Kinks etc), and then stuff my brother listened to and worked on for his label Cheree and Che Records (The Telescopes, Disco Inferno, Bark Psychosis etc).

Q. What´s your opinion about the classic shoegazer era?
A. I was between 16 and 19 years old when that all kicked off, and at that age when I got into something I *really* got into something. So it was a bit of an obsession for me.

I worshipped The Telescopes, and then grew to love most of the bands that they played with (all the Creation lot, The Belltower, Revolver, Moose, Chapterhouse etc).

Q. What´s your opinion about the new shoegazer era ?
A. It's taken a while for it to really kick in, but now there's so many new bands in the genre that I can't keep up. It really takes something to be incredibly good to stand out from the crowd now.


Q. Made a list of your top five records from all time?
A. 1. Bark Psychosis - Hex
2. Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
3. Swervedriver - Mescal Head
4. Disco Inferno - In Debt
5. New Order - Technique

Q. Tell us about forthcoming stuff from Club AC30...
A. Lots!

Ringo Deathstarr are back in the studio recording an EP.
Exit Calm are busily writing their second album, and will be recording it very soon.
Deep Cut have finished their second album (it's superb), and that'll be out in the summer.
Air Formation are just finishing writing their next album, they'll be going in the studio in the summer.
Daniel Land & The Modern Painters are also starting to record their second album too.


Q. What´s your favourite Club AC30 realese?
A. 57 Octaves Below by Air Formation. It's the perfect EP.

Q. Any parting words...
A. Buying a record really makes a difference. Even if it's just a 7" single. Even if it's just one MP3 on iTunes. If you like labels like AC30, and you like the artists on our labels, please buy something - it helps more than you think!

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Power, Corruption and Lies with Screen Vinyl Image

Prediletissimos do TBTCI o Screen Vinyl Image ou SVI para os intimos retorna com material novo, e não poderia ser em melhor estilo o 7" Too Much Speed/Stay Asleep é duplamente fantastico e já demonstra o que vem pela frente, Jake & Kim demonstram em altissimo estilo o que acontece quando New Order e J&MC são postos no mesmo caldeirão e em doses cavalares de criatividade e bom gosto, diga-se de passagem o que é obvio no que se diz respeito ao padrão de qualidade de Jake & Kim desde os tempos do Alcian Blue, Too Much Speed é um mix atualizado e com roupagem atualissima de duas obras intituladas Power Curruption and Lies e Automatic, mas não se engane nas referencias, o genialidade de Jake & Kim dão o tempero especial para este indispensavel 7", corra atras do seu urgentemente.

Para melhor exemplificar a grandiosidade das duas canções, nada mais nada menos do o proprio Jake, aproveitem.

Too Much Speed
This song is partially inspired by this great movie called Two Lane Blacktop and also came about during a really shitty period of time we were going through. You know, just a lot of bad stuff kept happening to us and we ended up watching this movie for the first time and it all sort of clicked to have a song loosely about both things.

Stay Asleep

This song is kind of a lot of different things put together. The title comes from this really cool cult movie They Live, but the lyrics are actually inspired by a number of different things we were reading and listening to at the time. The noisy ending was Kim's idea as a way to pay homage to the mighty Ciccone Youth which we had gotten back into over the summer.

by Jake Reid

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A Kiss in the Dreamhouse with Evi Vine - An Interview

O que é necessario para fazer de um album atemporal ou ser considerado objeto e culto e devoção?! Acima de tudo é fazer com que o ouvinte adentre ao universo da obra, fazer com que as canções tornem-se por completo parte da vida do ouvinte, não há como prever como e quando um artista ou banda conseguira realmente atingir este resultado. O fato é que a introdução aqui colocada serve perfeitamente para descrever o que Evi Vine conseguiu realizar com seu belissimo ...and so the morning comes a candura eterea acustica das canções do album recheiam a obra quase que por completo, acresça a esta atmosfera fantasmas de Mazzy Star, Siouxsie Sioux, Robert Smith, PJ Harvey e Nick Cave, dando um ar denso, escuro as vezes, iluminado em outras é fato que Evi Vine chega proximo as portas do paraiso e leva seus ouvintes junto consigo, mas cuidado nem sempre os anjos são bons a musica que fecha o album All The Beauty vem encharcada em uma atmosfera shoegazer a´la Avalyn do Slowdive e só por este motivo já fica claro o poder de criação de Evi Vine, ou se o ceú e o inferno convivessem em plena harmonia certamente a trilha sonora seria ...and so the morning comes.

Aproveitando o lançamento do album, o TBTCI atraves do grande amigo Matt Wyatt ex Club AC30 e atual White Label Music, viabilizou uma entrevista especialissima com a já musa Evi Vine, só posso dizer obrigado Matt e meus amigos deleitem-se.

***** Interview with Evi Vine *****

Q. When you star to play music? tell us the beginning...
A. Musical early memories are more visual, The Cure, Siouxsie Soux...i loved the idea that there was this subculture living in the shadows creating all this great sounding music.

Q. What’s your best remembrance about Eden House?
A. I had an existing relationship with jungle records through Bob White from the band 'NFD', i was contacted midway recording an album with Peter Yates when Tony Petit called me...it seemed like a wonderful opportunity and one not to miss - performing live with Amandeen was an amazing experience.

Q. What´s your personal influences?
A. We all came from very different backgrounds and I have actually been writing and performing for nearly 10 years so i think we brought alot of experience to each other...into the melting pot collectively

Q. How you describe your sounds?
A. The premier EP Human Remains from 2006 felt very raw and sorrowful with no way out, suffocating but it felt like there had been a shift somehow and working with Steven, producing the music together felt more like sunshine and change suddenly - as opposed to suffocating.


Q How was the experience to work with great names of music like Dave Allen, Stephen Street for example?
A. Dave Allen worked with the Cure who are one of our favourite bands so it was an amazing experience, full of wise tales…then he painted our lightbulbs purple…. Stephen Street equally amazing in a totally different manner, again have to appreciated the bands these guys have worked with….I was lucky of the chance.

Q. How was the process to recording the debut album?
A. As always the recording process was amazing i cant fault it - it was a major learning experience for us both but we enjoyed every minute including production which we have never done before, not on this level. we got stung on the mixing however and lost too much money and too much time...you know who you are. after that we decided to go alone and mix the record ourselves as we own this music and felt like we knew how it should be.

Q. About gig´s, what´s the feeling to playing alive...
A. I kind of close myself and just focus on my guitar and my hands..the silence...what i have to do as well as make sure the band are happy, with steven playing electirc/sonic guitars and sometimes drums, ruban bass plays bass, al richardson on drums, hannah gillett, ben roberts on Cello and i will be on vocals and guitar...

Q. Made a list of your top 5 albuns of all time...
A. Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium
PJ Harve - Dry
NIN - Downwars Spiral
Arvo Part - Speguil
Sisters of Mercy - First And Last And Always

Q. Which new bands do you recommend? A. Warpaint are amazing, Bon Iver set the scene for beautiful home recordings again, Noah and the whale, Laura Marling…anything new by Massive attack and Mogwai…

Q. About the future, what are your plans?
A. The next record!


Q. Any parting words...
A. Thank you so much
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Degausser by Between The Cities Are Stars

Kyle and Heather ou se preferirem Between the Cities are Stars novamente atacam com seu supersonico e avassalador modo de destruição de timpanos, através de ruido branco em decibeis quase que inigualaveis, o novissimo EP Degausser é exatamente isso, um brutal ataque sonoro, corrompido dentre noise, punk, shoegazer e tudo que possa se imaginar do mais puro e caótico mundo das parades de guitarras e vocais soterrados, a trilha sonora do caos é composta por Crystal´s Not Clear, Drown, Kiss e Tabitha.

Maiores detalhes, peguem diretamente com a fonte, Mr. Kyle nos direciona ao caótico mundo do BTCAS.

"Well How do I start this one???? These songs are the hardest yet simplest to define. Heather and I wanted to record some new riffs we had been working on. We thought of them while jamming alone in the studio, oddly enough, the four songs ended up sounding as if it was done by one person. Heather wrote Kiss and Crystals Not Clear, and I did Tabitha and Drown. It was recorded here at our house during the late night hours and nights off.

Once basic structures were formed, we began to merge vocals with fuzzed out distortion and noise. With the help of a drum machine, Heather and I decided to take to the old Dr 202 for some rhythm to make tracks to. I've always been a really big fan of underground punk, hardcore, and metal bands that don't use lots of tracking techniques and keep it very minimal. It got kind of hard with just the two of us so we played the songs for months before we recorded.

We started recording in late November and spent about 2 weeks tracking. Heather and I both work, so like most people, we had to make time rather than find it, which can actually be the hardest part. Trying to balance going to work and then putting you're self on a timeline to get a creative project done can be a difficult task. In this day in age, that is a full time job. I have a lot of respect for people that do it. We don't want the bill collectors calling us so music tends to be more of a reward for us. A way for us to make sense of life and enjoy the things that naturally feel right and its the only thing I've liked to do since I was 11, so its all I know and its something I can't quit.. I've tried.

We are both very DIY when it comes to making and creating music, the EP was done using basics. BASICS, BASICS, BASICS!! We used under 10 tracks and just had a lot of fun with the whole process. Spending time mixing. With as little production as possible to keep that old feel. Not leaning on one direction but making a concoction of sounds and ideas. Neither of us have conquered the art of mastering and after looking around awhile, we found Kramer. He also had worked with Bloody Knives which is how he first caught my attention, cause I love their sound. So we sent the mixed songs out to Kramer for mastering, who is just amazingly AWESOME! He took the songs and created a better flow and sense of completeness.

Preston with Bloody Knives was nice enough to put out our record for free on Kill Red Rocket, which worked out great since we did "Decadence" with them featuring Bloody Knives, Stellarium, Was She A Vampire, and Suicide Party. Plus, as music fans, we can also appreciate a free Ep or compilation from time to time. All in all, Degausser came out of more of a need to play music and enjoying the process.

Thanks again Renato!!!! You are a great friend with a rad blog!!

Kyle "

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BTCAS - Degausser

Eurotrain by Ceremony

Com absoluta exclusividade, logicamente com total apoio e parceira em TBTCI e Custom Made Music, nos brindou com a audução o novissimo EP do predileto Ceremony que já nos concedeu talvez com a melhor entrevista feita no TBTCI que você reler aqui, o fato é que os mestres da distorção John Fedowitz e Paul Baker jogarão brevemente no mercado atraves da Custom Made Music o EP Not Tonight aproveitando para impulsionar sua turne européia, 4 canções com a distorção em estado bruto sendo lapidada pelos escultores Paul e John, diluindo o noise dentre romantismo com o lado eletronico caminhando lado a lado, o Ceremony condensa J&MC e New Order na faixa de abertura Not Tonight com fantasmas de Skywave rondando os poucos mais de 3 minutos da canção, simplesmente padrão de qualidade Ceremony. A sequencia com Leaves Me Cold deixa o clima mais pos punk e dark sem deixar de lado o barulho ciclico e constante, Dreams Stripped Away é a mais eletronica do album com sua bateria eletronica e andamento escuro evoca Sisters of Mercy até a medula sem deixar o noise caracteristico do Ceremony de lado, um verdadeiro espetaculo e fechando Take You Down é algo como se o Paul e John chamassem Olier Ackerman para fazer uma participação especial na música absolutamente a mais Skywave do EP. Recomendadissimo e mais do que obrigatorio.

Ceremony European Tour Dates:

April 8th King Kong Club-Berlin, Germany
April 9th Gruner Jager-Hamberg, Germany
April 11th Koln, Germany
April 12th Exhaus-Trier, Germany
April 13th Sonnenkeller-Balingen, Baden-Wurt Germany
April 14th Zwolfzehn-Stuttgart, Germany
April 15th Kranhalle-Munich, Germany
April 16th Deposito Giordani-Pordenone, Italy

Dave A. da Custom Made Music autorizou o TBTCI a deixa Not Tonight disponivel para a satisfação de todos.

Ceremony - Not Tonight (from forthcoming EP Not Tonight)

Losing Touch With the Mind with Two Step Horror - An Interview

Reykjavík, Islândia, lar dos seminais Singapore Sling e que vem crescentemente incorporando prediletos atrás de prediletos aqui no TBTCI, vide Go-Go Darkness, Third Sound e agora a mais nova adoração atende pela alcunha de Two Step Horror, um duo composto por Thordur Grímsson e Anna Margrét Björnsson formando em 2008 que vem criando verdadeiras trips hipnoticas, climáticas e densas, algo como se ouvir o Spacemen 3 em 33 RPM. O debut esta prestes a ser lançado e aproveitando a oportunidade o TBTCI através do amigo Mark do espertissimo selo Outlier Records fechou mais uma já classica entrevista dessa vez com os responsaveis pela criação de canções como King Bee, Ambeth, Mental Arithmetic, Hrepressed e a colossal Motel 613, por sugestão do Two Step Horror o aperitivo do album sera King Bee que vocÊ pode pegar no final do post, amigos apresento-lhes Two Step Horror.

***** Interview with Two Step Horror *****

1. When did the band start?
A. It started out in November 2008 shortly after we got together. Our musical tastes fit together like a fisted glove and we kind of just started spending evenings churning out some tunes. That’s how Two Step Horror started.

2. What are the bands influences?
A. Sixties music, shoegaze, Kraut, psychedelic rock. We share a passion for bands like The Cramps, BJM, Suicide, Neu!, Düsseldorf, Kraftwerk, Broadcast, Alan Vega, July, The Spacemen 3, Link Wray & All of the Vebeth organization.

3. Tell us about the Two Step Horror gigs, how is it?
A. Limited to our studio as we focus not so heavily on performing as to creating good music. I guess you could say TSH is more of a music project than a band. Also there's a very limited crowd here who likes or care about what we are doing. but hopefully in the spring we may have a show or two and they will of course be dark, smokey and astounding.


4. Tell us about the process of recording the album.
A. Well it's really just a matter of sitting down with a bottle of red wine and try to be honest.

We try to say something about our life and hopefully that will speak to someone and their life.

5. Describe Two Step Horror sounds
A. Like a mogodon fulled skiffle ache, straight outta twin peaks, like an hypnotic bullet... a bullet of quietly bewitching, creepy loveliness...or lovely creepiness. Or that's what one guy said.

6. Made a list of your personal top five records for all time.
A. Spectrum - Sonic Boom
Singapore Sling - Life is Killing my Rock 'n' Roll
Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gate's of Dawn
Neu! - Neu!

7. Which bands would you like to do a cover version of?
A. Evil Madness, the one and only.

8. Which new bands would you recommend?
A. Death and Vanilla, The Go-Go Darkness, The Third Sound, The Dead Skeletons, Blanket of Death & The Dandelion Seeds.


9. What are your plans for the future?
A. Keep making music and art, it's the only possible way.

It would be really cool if we could have a Vebeth night at some point.
Vebeth is a kind of collaborate between like-minded people including The Meek,
DJ- Musician & The Go-Go Darkness to name a few.

That would be a night to remember.

10. Any parting words?
A. Just above all things try to be honest and the rest will come easy.

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www.myspace.com/thetwostephorror

Two Step Horror - King Bee

Interstellar Overdrive with Last Remaining Pinnacle

Carissimos amigos, depois de um pequeno hiato, devido a forças maiores novamente estamos na area, muita coisa boa vem por ai, posso garantir!!!!

Vamos ao que interessa, e simplesmente uma exclusividade daquelas de tirar o folego, uma paulada nos ouvidos sem haver tempo para respirar, diretamente do bacanerrimo Custom Made Music, lar de bandas como Ceremony, SVI, The Sky Drops, Stellarium dentre outras aqui apresento com total satisfação o fantastico 7´´ Split contendo o colossal Last Remaining Pinnacle e o não menos denso Pan Galactic Straw Boss, essa preciosidade intitulado Last Remaining Pinnacle é um projeto do dono da gravadora Dave A. e sua esposa Chrischa, um mix entorpecente e caótico tendo suas diretrizes calcadas no minimalismo do kraut condensando-se com doses insanas e cavalares de Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3 e Piper Gates of Dawn leia-se Syd Barret, e a canção que abre esse 7´´ é exatamente isso e muito mais Students of the V.U. é um assombrosso e destruidor cruzamento entre Revolution do Spacemen 3, Interstellar Overdrive do Pink Floyd e Hallogallo do Neu! ou algo proximo disso, simplesmente essencial, caotica e viciante. O ouro lado do disquinho vem Pan Galactic Straw Boss e a hipnotica Sleepless, prepara-se porque a viagem contida em seus poucos mais de 6 minutos estende-se da mente para a alma e da alma para o universo.

Só um conselho, anote muito bem esses dois nomes e não perca os proximos passos dessas pequenas perolas do underground da Virginia.

Mais um aviso, logo mais rola entrevista com o proprio Dave A. falando sobre a historia da Custom Made Music e logicamente do proprio Last Remaining Pinnacle.

Last Remaining Pinnacle - Students of the V.U.