The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari At Dopamine - Mozz Special

Data: 10/03/2012
Local: Dopamine´s Place

with:
Dimitry (The Boss)
Rob Son (The Other Boss)

and
Cicero (Xiita´s Presence)
Marcos (Other Xiita´s Presence)

Motivos essencias para que você não perca esta edição:
Mini especiais dentro das sessions de cada DJ contemplando Smiths e Morrissey afinal no dia 11/03 ou seja um dia após este Dopa teremos o mestre imortal Stephen Patrick Morrissey junto de nós, preciso dizer algo mais ou basta!?!??!?!

Night and the City with Silo Halo - An Interview

Contatos imediatos via web são rotineiros, e o mais novo objeto de adoração do TBTCI atende pela alcunha de Silo Halo, art noise da melhor qualidade que viaja entre o shoegazer psicodelico até as praias mais experimentais do art rock, e a banda chegou até o TBTCI através de sua gravadora a Etxe Records, e o debut Night and The City que saira dia 12 de abril proximo pode ser considerado desde já um dos grandes albuns do ano, este trio de Washington DC impressiona pela qualidade e suas nuances de wall of sound, e o mais impressionante é ao ler a entrevista concedida com exclusidade ao TBTCI que os caras são absolutamente fanaticos por Big Black, daí precisa dizer mais alguma coisa, melhor não, a ser saborear a exclusivissima entrevista já clássica ao TBTCI, amigos guardem este nome, Silo Halo.

***** Interview with Silo Halo *****

Q. When did Silo Halo starts, tell us about the history... and perhaps your influences?

We started playing together not long after meeting one another, a few years ago. We connected easily and almost immediately. We were- and still are- very motivated by a need to write, play, and record as often as possible.

Q: Who are your influences?

We’re influenced by our lives and the lives of people who we know, read about, listen to, and see.

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

Big Black “Lungs”

Big Black “Headache”

Big Black “Songs About Fucking”

Big Black “Atomizer”

Big Black “Racer-X”

Q. How do you fell playing alive?

We love playing live. The ideal live show for us is a communal event involving engagement and stimulation among the people who play and the people who come to the show. We prefer to play shows where the situation lends itself to mutual respect among the people hosting the show as well as the other acts who are on the bill. We like to play with other mixed gender bands whenever possible. We don’t avoid unusual or challenging situations; the wild-card factor is often interesting. But we avoid scenarios where we don’t know where the money from the door is going, or where it’s obvious that the core values of the other artists on the bill don’t jibe with the basic elements of where we come from; fairness, respect, clear motives.

Q. How do you describe Silo Halo sounds?

We use live drums on recordings and a drum machine when we play live, and then some variation of the traditional bass, guitar, and organ configuration. We switch off singing lead and backing vocals. Our approach to songwriting tends to be heavily focused on lyrics and ideas. We use chords, melodies, and arrangements as vehicles for conveying those themes and ideas. The choices that we make in arranging and recording usually involve referring back to the overall concept of the song.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording Night and the City album?

We recorded the album in a series of short bursts. We’d record for a couple of days, and then spend time rehearsing and playing shows, then go back to recording, and then play more shows and work on other songs. We record in one of our homes- where we also practice- to 16-track, so the environment allows for a comfort level that can in turn seep into the recorded versions of those songs. We mixed the album in one of our other houses. We have worked on arrangements and compositions in all three of our homes. The familiarity of home greatly outweighs any concern over not being in a professional studio with fancy equipment. Plus we have ability to work around our various schedules and the demands of our day jobs.

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

In general we don’t really think of times or places as classic, even those that we remember as birthing a lot of music that remains important to us. We’re mostly concerned with the present. Christin didn’t even know what “shoegazer” was when we started the band. She comes from more of a punk and hardcore background.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?

There are loads of new bands who we recommend hearing. Many of our friends and people who we like to play shows with are also our favorite bands- Fangs Out, We Are Hex, Get A Tan, Screen Vinyl Image, Ceremony, The Water, Kohoutek and HotChaCha come to mind. In the broader universe of ‘new’ music, we like Weekend, Skull Defeckts, Disappears, Girl in a Coma, and Dum Dum Girls.

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

The Antiques “I Want A Cat for my Birthday.”

http://dimdigdesign.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/birthday-cats/

Q: What´s the plans for future....

Recording more songs and playing more shows. We all want to make music until we’re old and grey. We hope that will include making music together for a long time. Our record will be available worldwide on April 10th, 2012. You can pre-order it on 180g vinyl (with full MP3 download) or CD at Etxe Records: http://etxerecords.com/store/

Q: Any parting words?

Thank you very much, Renato, for taking the time to talk with us. We appreciate it. We would love to play in Sao Paulo some day.
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Thanks Silo Halo

http://etxerecords.com/bands/
https://www.facebook.com/silohalo

Night and the City with Silo Halo - An Interview

Contatos imediatos via web são rotineiros, e o mais novo objeto de adoração do TBTCI atende pela alcunha de Silo Halo, art noise da melhor qualidade que viaja entre o shoegazer psicodelico até as praias mais experimentais do art rock, e a banda chegou até o TBTCI através de sua gravadora a Etxe Records, e o debut Night and The City que saira dia 12 de abril proximo pode ser considerado desde já um dos grandes albuns do ano, este trio de Washington DC impressiona pela qualidade e suas nuances de wall of sound, e o mais impressionante é ao ler a entrevista concedida com exclusidade ao TBTCI que os caras são absolutamente fanaticos por Big Black, daí precisa dizer mais alguma coisa, melhor não, a ser saborear a exclusivissima entrevista já clássica ao TBTCI, amigos guardem este nome, Silo Halo.

***** Interview with Silo Halo *****

Q. When did Silo Halo starts, tell us about the history... and perhaps your influences?

We started playing together not long after meeting one another, a few years ago. We connected easily and almost immediately. We were- and still are- very motivated by a need to write, play, and record as often as possible.

Q: Who are your influences?

We’re influenced by our lives and the lives of people who we know, read about, listen to, and see.

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

Big Black “Lungs”

Big Black “Headache”

Big Black “Songs About Fucking”

Big Black “Atomizer”

Big Black “Racer-X”

Q. How do you fell playing alive?

We love playing live. The ideal live show for us is a communal event involving engagement and stimulation among the people who play and the people who come to the show. We prefer to play shows where the situation lends itself to mutual respect among the people hosting the show as well as the other acts who are on the bill. We like to play with other mixed gender bands whenever possible. We don’t avoid unusual or challenging situations; the wild-card factor is often interesting. But we avoid scenarios where we don’t know where the money from the door is going, or where it’s obvious that the core values of the other artists on the bill don’t jibe with the basic elements of where we come from; fairness, respect, clear motives.

Q. How do you describe Silo Halo sounds?

We use live drums on recordings and a drum machine when we play live, and then some variation of the traditional bass, guitar, and organ configuration. We switch off singing lead and backing vocals. Our approach to songwriting tends to be heavily focused on lyrics and ideas. We use chords, melodies, and arrangements as vehicles for conveying those themes and ideas. The choices that we make in arranging and recording usually involve referring back to the overall concept of the song.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording Night and the City album?

We recorded the album in a series of short bursts. We’d record for a couple of days, and then spend time rehearsing and playing shows, then go back to recording, and then play more shows and work on other songs. We record in one of our homes- where we also practice- to 16-track, so the environment allows for a comfort level that can in turn seep into the recorded versions of those songs. We mixed the album in one of our other houses. We have worked on arrangements and compositions in all three of our homes. The familiarity of home greatly outweighs any concern over not being in a professional studio with fancy equipment. Plus we have ability to work around our various schedules and the demands of our day jobs.

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

In general we don’t really think of times or places as classic, even those that we remember as birthing a lot of music that remains important to us. We’re mostly concerned with the present. Christin didn’t even know what “shoegazer” was when we started the band. She comes from more of a punk and hardcore background.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?

There are loads of new bands who we recommend hearing. Many of our friends and people who we like to play shows with are also our favorite bands- Fangs Out, We Are Hex, Get A Tan, Screen Vinyl Image, Ceremony, The Water, Kohoutek and HotChaCha come to mind. In the broader universe of ‘new’ music, we like Weekend, Skull Defeckts, Disappears, Girl in a Coma, and Dum Dum Girls.

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

The Antiques “I Want A Cat for my Birthday.”

http://dimdigdesign.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/birthday-cats/

Q: What´s the plans for future....

Recording more songs and playing more shows. We all want to make music until we’re old and grey. We hope that will include making music together for a long time. Our record will be available worldwide on April 10th, 2012. You can pre-order it on 180g vinyl (with full MP3 download) or CD at Etxe Records: http://etxerecords.com/store/

Q: Any parting words?

Thank you very much, Renato, for taking the time to talk with us. We appreciate it. We would love to play in Sao Paulo some day.
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Thanks Silo Halo

http://etxerecords.com/bands/
https://www.facebook.com/silohalo

No Love Lost with Lautmusik - An Interview

Amigos, amigos, depois de um periodo de ressaca aqui no TBTCI a tendencia é retornar com todas as pedradas possiveis e imaginaveis para me redimir da ausência e para iniciar ataco logo de cara com uma das melhores bandas brasileiras atuais os gauchos da Lautmusik que simplesmente jogaram na nossa cara um dos melhores albuns do ano passado o debut Lost In Tropics, uma cacetada nos timpanos sem tempo para respirar, também pudera as influências são calcadas nos classicos do post punk, art noise e shoegazer, simplesmente basta dizer que se você ainda não ouvi Lost In Tropics deveria fazer um favor a si próprio e correr atrás urgente, desta pequena obra prima do underground nacional, e para melhor explicar o porque, como, quando e quais as reais intenções da Lautmusik nada mais perfeito do que saber dos caras o que eles tem a dizer, Srs e Sras, Lautmusik no TBTCI com a maior honra.

**** Interview with Lautmusik *****

Q Quando tudo começou? Porque Lautmusik?

A. Tudo começou em abril de 2006, quando o Prati (nosso baterista) e o Richard (nosso ex-guitarrista, hoje na Loomer), que trabalhavam na mesma empresa, começaram a falar sobre música e decidiram se juntar pra tocar. Chamaram a Marina (nossa ex-baixista, hoje na Electric Mind), que era amiga do Prati de um chat sobre o The Cure no mIRC (ou ICQ, não lembro agora). Eu não conhecia nenhum deles, mas disse pra um amigo em comum "ah, que legal, sempre quis cantar", apresentações foram feitas e, depois de ser devidamente sabatinada quanto ao meu gosto musical, acabei entrando na banda logo em seguida, em maio. Lautmusik significa "música alta" em alemão, e achamos que era um nome bem descritivo de como a gente soa. Também gostamos da sonoridade do idioma: temos duas músicas em alemão, "Zeitgeist", do segundo EP (2008), e "Mai", do álbum (2011).

Q. Quais as Influencias da banda?

A. Nossas influências são extremamente variadas - dá pra ter uma noção delas lendo um recente post nosso no Floga-se em que cada um dos integrantes citou seus 5 "discos da vida" (http://www.botequimdeideias.com.br/flogase/os-discos-da-vida-lautmusik/). Acho que o que mais transparece diretamente na sonoridade da banda é um misto de pós-punk dos 80, shoegaze/guitar rock dos 90 e punk dos 70, com uma pitadas de stoner e até de metal aqui e ali, mas ouso dizer que acho que o nosso som é atual. Como eu sempre gosto de frisar, não gostamos de revival, nem queremos emular algum movimento ou banda específicos. Claro que é inevitável que tudo aquilo que a gente ouve seja de alguma forma traduzido na nossa música, mas não é intencional. Uma coisa que eu vejo bastante são bandas sendo assimiladas a alguma outra, algo como "o (insira aqui o nome da banda) brasileiro", e também movimentos de resgate de um determinado período ou gênero musical. Acho isso até certo ponto natural, porque o ouvinte (e às vezes o próprio músico) quer se identificar com algo que conheça, mas não penso que isso acrescente muita coisa.

Q. Na opinião de vocês a cena inicial das guitar bands nacionais como brincando de deus, Pin ups, Secod Come, Low Dream entre outras tiveram influência no trabalho de vocês?

A. Pode-se dizer que sim, indiretamente. Eu só conheci a maioria dessas depois de a Laut ter sido formada, através do Richard (nosso ex-guitarrista), que é fã. São grandes bandas (também gosto bastante de Sonic Disruptor).

Q. E sobre a atual cena nacional, parece que nasce uma banda nova e boa a cada semana em cada esquina, quais bandas vocês recomendam atualmente?

A. De fato, muitas bandas excelentes têm aparecido no Brasil, provavelmente porque o "faça você mesmo", no atual estágio da tecnologia, ficou bastante simplificado. Hoje dá pra gravar material de qualidade bastante boa gastando pouco e os meios de divulgação estão ao alcance da mão. O problema é que, com esse volume de informações, é preciso filtrar bastante, mas no fim das contas ainda se sai ganhando, acho eu. Cada integrante da banda tem suas preferidas, mas gosto muito de Violeta de Outono, The Tamborines (que é 2/3 brasileira, mas vale), FireFriend, Damn Laser Vampires (conto que eles voltem, como prometeram!), Macaco Bong, Walverdes e ouvi muitas coisas interessantíssimas em 2011 (Starfire Connective Sound, Team.Radio, Labirinto, This Lonely Crowd, Lavalsa e mais uns tantos). Tem também um "levante" relativamente recente de bandas de ótima qualidade aqui no Rio Grande do Sul que não dá pra deixar de citar (Loomer, Hangovers, Medialunas e Badhoneys - todas com integrantes em comum - metroidE, Monstro Motor, Telecines e Dating Robots, por exemplo).

Q. Como foi o processo de gravação do Lost in Tropics?

A. Foi dividido em duas etapas: gravamos quatro faixas que seriam lançadas como EP, mas no meio do processo saíram várias composições novas e fizemos um esforço concentrado e gravamos mais 7 pra integrar o álbum. Apesar disso, acho que o álbum ficou coeso, apesar de variado. Sempre procuramos fazer músicas diferentes entre si mas que ao mesmo tempo sejam bem características nossas. O processo de gravação foi também bastante divertido, porque gravar com o Japa (Eduardo Suwa, nosso produtor) é sempre muito bacana, e um aprendizado.

Q. Qual a sensação de tocar ao vivo? Como foram os shows no ano passado?

A. Poucas sensações se comparam à de estar em um palco. É excepcionalmente divertido. A Laut não toca com muita frequência: no ano passado, como estávamos compondo e gravando álbum e clipe, fizemos só dois shows, no fim do ano - um pra lançar o clipe e outro pra lançar o álbum. Neste ano faremos mais shows, pra divulgar o disco.

Q. Quais bandas gringas da atualidade vocês recomendam?

A. Os guris certamente teriam várias recomendações, mas vou falar aqui do que tenho ouvido: sou muito fã do A Place to Bury Strangers, que eu acho que se destaca das outras bandas noisy porque o barulho serve a um propósito e a melodia não fica em segundo plano. Vi um show deles em 2009 e achei sensacional. Gosto de viajar pra ver shows, e outro que achei excepcional foi o do Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (não consigo entender por que eles são subestimados por tanta gente). No fim do mês vou ver o Kasabian, outra banda que eu recomendo muitíssimo (sem contar que "Velociraptor!" é um baita título de disco). Ouço bastante o Darker My Love, que me foi apresentado pelo Murilo, nosso guitarrista, The Vandelles, gostei bastante dos últimos dos Arctic Monkeys (que vou ver em abril) e do The Kills e, no momento, aguardo ansiosamente o novo do Garbage.

Q. Quais os 5 melhores álbuns de todos os tempos para a Lautmusik?

A. Bah, essa pergunta é praticamente impossível de responder! Já sofremos pra indicar 5 cada um. Falando só por mim, na matéria do Floga-se citei os que mais marcaram momentos da minha vida - não necessariamente os que acho melhores: Ramones - Rocket to Russia (embora prefira o primeiro), Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Cocteau Twins - Treasure, The Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic (embora prefira o Psychocandy) e Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures.

Q. Quais os próximos passos para a Lautmusik?

A. Queremos continuar compondo pra lançar um segundo álbum (estamos em férias agora, mas em dezembro já compusemos mais uma música nova), talvez gravar mais um clipe e fazer uns shows por aí, mas o principal, mesmo, é continuar tendo nosso momento semanal de diversão nos ensaios e botando a criatividade a funcionar.

Q. Alguma coisa a mais para nos contar?

A. Leitores do blog, em julho tocaremos em SP - apareçam!

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https://www.facebook.com/Lautmusik
http://www.myspace.com/lautmusik
http://soundcloud.com/lautmusik

Dead Flowers or As Flores do Mal At Dopamine

Where: Dopamine´s Place
When: 25/02/2012
With:
Dimitry Uziel (The Boss)
Rob Son (The Other Boss)
and

Special Xiita Guest: Plinio Cesar
with
Mr. Blue (The Eternal)

não indicado a indiekids!!!

Touched By The Hand of Xiita At Dopamine´s

Data: 11/02/2012
Local: Dopamine´s Place

With:
Dimitry (The Boss)
Rob Son (The Other Boss)
and
Renato Malizia (The Passenger)
and
Mr. Blue (Ethereal Presence)

preparem os protetores auriculares...

Venus in Furs At Dopamine 28/01/2012

Especialissima edição da melhor festa underground de São Paulo, com os seguintes atrativos:

Dimitry Uziel (The Boss) - Bday

Rob Son (The Other Boss ) - Returns

Presença Xiita da Noite - Adriano Ravon soltando pedradas musicais....

IMPERDIVEL

Lazer Guided Melodies with Thee Piatcions - An Interview

Há mais ou menos 1 mes ou pouco mais ou pouco menos do que isso, em um domingo ensolarado de manha estava lendo vendo minhas coisas pessoais na internet e de repente um de meus amigos altamente psych soltou um post sobre uma banda intitulada The Piatcions, fiquei curioso já pela capa, psych total, dai o termo druggy sounds, iiiiih dai fodeu, procedencia dos caras Italia, na hora que começou a rolar o album Senseless Sense, foi amor a primeira audição, doses cavalares de Spacemen 3, VU, Spiritualized, Brian Jonestown Massacre, dai é covardia, os italianos são demais, simplesmente peguei e postei o bandcamp dos caras e veio o contato imediato Dave Piatcions Cocks o cara da banda fazendo contato com este que vos escreve dai, trocamos ideiais, gostos pessoais similares e a proposta de rolar uma entrevista foi aceita de cara, sem contar outros projetos que serão divulgados brevemente, o fato é que TBTCI e Piatcions tem como religião Spacemen 3, dai virou amizade e a entrevista esta na sequencia, ah o album, poxa é indispensavel, só isso que eu posso dizer!!!

***** Interview with Thee Piatcions *****

Q. When did Piatcions starts, tell us about the history...

A. Piatcions started few years ago when I and Dave found the drummer we where looking for, Dario. Born as a more garage oriented band we changed line up a couple of times (Dario T., Skaio) before find the right feelings as a 3 man band. During this time our music grew with us till it becomes what it is now.

Q: Who are your influences?

A. We have so many different influences; the principal inspiration comes from all the phsyc/space scene: stuff like my bloody valentine, jesus and mary chain, spacemen 3.. but there are many nuances that come from much more bands.

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

• Beatles / Sgt Peppers

• Rolling Stones / 12x5

• Velvet Underground / The Velvet Underground & Nico

• Primal Scream / Vanishing Point

• Spiritualized / Ladies & Gentlemen we’re floating in the space

Q. How do you fell playing alive?

A. It's so exciting and funny! When we play live we do our best, regardless of how much people is watching us, but if you see a lot of people jumping and dancing your music you feel a strong charge and it affects your feelings about playing, as well as the upshot of the show. In addition we play that kind of music that enable you to clear your mind and just think about feelings, while you're playing.

Q. How do you describe Piatcions sounds?

A. We've always looked for a great combination between catchy melodies, wall-of-sound ambients and unconventional sound textures. If I have to use adjectives I'd say Loud, Fat and Intense.

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

A. Our latest album has been recorded in so much time; A. we put a lot of work in it and it gave us satisfaction. When we record, tracks are constantly changing, from the first record to the last mix, and this helps us to make songs like they are in our minds.

Q.What does the shoegazer classic era represent to the band?

A. Shoegaze has been a turning point for us. When we began discovering the classic shoegaze scene we were a garage band; since then we kept finding out new stuff and acquiring more and more influences. The basic sounds are so similiar to then, but the end product has been

strongly influenced.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?francy

A. Underground scene is full of new interesting bands I realize it everytime we tour Europe. In England they have Tamborines, Eat light become light, Koolaid Electric Company, One unique signal. France has Zombie Zombie, Dalai Lama Rama Fafafa and Moloko Velocet and even Iceland has bands like Singapore Sling, the, Dead Skeletons and Go-Go Darkness. New-Psych scene has become bigger and bigger during these last years.

Q: What´s the plans for future...

A. For the near future we're planning a couple of tours in Europe; we'll go in UK in the third week of February for some gigs and in April

we'll go in Scandinavia. Then we hope we could arrange a tour in USA. It would be wonderful! For the farer future we can just wait and see what happens!

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http://www.piatcions.org/
http://iblametheparentsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/piatcions-senseless-sense
https://www.facebook.com/Piatcions

White Cross with Megaphonic Thrift - An Interview

Depois do estardalhaço do debut Decay Decoy os noruegueses alucinados do Megaphonic Thrift anunciaram via Club AC30 a pré venda do próximo petardo homonimo que estara disponiel dia 06 de fevereiro proximo, ansiedade por aqui não falta, e como é de praxe o capricho da produção com selo de qualidade Club AC30 já avisa no site, vinil branco, coisa finissima, para uma banda que é altamente alucinante, barulheira com pés e cabeças enfurnados em SY, Serena Maneesh e afins, ou seja noise shoegazer rock altamente qualificado, e o TBTCI aproveitando o ensejo encabeça a primeira entrevista pré novo album, e isso não é para quem quer é só para quem pode!!!!Srs Megaphonic Thrift!!!

***** Interview with Megaphonic Thrift *****

Q. When did Megaphonic Thrift e starts, tell us about the history...
A. Richard formed The Megaphonic Thrift after his former band, Stereo21, came to an end. He first asked Feddi, singer and guitarist from Casiokids, to play the drums, and later keyboardist and singer Linn joined on bass. The idea was to get a rawer expression, by combining people with different musical backgrounds and have them play instruments they normally didn't. When we needed someone to be on the more stabil side of guitar playing (in contrast to Richards madness), we asked Njål to join to fulfill our soundscape.

Q: Who are your influences?
A. We get influenced by movies, books, food, art, people, cities and music. Its especially inspiring to lissten to our friends making music. We often work together with different people - helping eachother out in the studio and stuff - and when other people make such great music, it kind of drives you to wanna go do it too.

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Motorpsycho - little lucid moments

Spiritualized- Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

Beck - sea change
Tortoise - tnt

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
A. Playing live is a great kick for us. Its the best thing we do. We are known for beeing facemelting and blowing people's heads off. In a good way off course! We love sound, and want to bring as much of it as we can out to the audience. We really like to record music, and play with crazy ideas in the studio, but it is while playing live we truly have the total control ourselves. The lisstener don't get to choose the volume, the order of the songs - and the songs differ and develop every time we play them live.

Q. How do you describe Megaphonic Thrift sounds?
A. Loud, noisy, melodic, intense, psychedelic, rhythmic, strange.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the new album?
A. We actually made all the songs on the new album together. On our first album, Decay Decoy, Richard did most of the song writing. This time it just became naturally for us to make it all together by jamming. Thats kind of the reason why we decided to just call the album The Megaphonic Thrift. Cause it's 100% us as a band.

Q. What´s represents the shoegazer classic era to the band?
A. We wouldn't really describe ourselves as a shoegaze band, but we use some elements in our music. For us I guess the most important influences in the shoegaze music is bands like My bloody valentine and off course Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized. With Loveless, MBV revolutionized music. And the way Jason Pierce has made such great music by making songs so simple and minimalistic - yet so powerful and unique - is admirable and inspiring.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. Would like to recommend some bands from our home city Bergen, Nowray:

Check out Hypertext, Lovecult, Syntax TerrOrkester, Young Dreams and Electric Eye.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A. We actually never played any cover songs this far. Would love to noise up some good old Neil Young songs.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. 2012 is all about our new album. Touring as much as we can, play as many festivals as possible and spread good music to people. We also hope to get the chance to go to Japan next fall.

Q: Any parting words?
A. Check out our new album! Released worldwide the 11th of februray.

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https://www.facebook.com/megaphonicthrift
http://www.myspace.com/megaphonicthrift

Disorder with Karate Free Stylers

Primeiro post de 2012, retornando com força total o TBTCI inicia o ano com muita ambição e inumeros projetos a serem tocados no desenrolar do ano e para inicia-lo em grande estilo apresentando em primeirissima mão o combo polones Karate Free Stylers dica mais do perfeita do amigo Tom Lugo, socio de carteirinha qui do TBTCI e para os mais desavisados dono da Patetico Records, casa do Karate Free Stylers e mentor do patrimonio Stellarscope. Por inumeros motivos a estreia de uma banda da Patetico tem a ver com os projetos do ano, mas isso é outra historia, e aqui é hora e vez do KFS, poloneses pos punkers com um teor de agressividade absurdo, para tirar o folego de quem estiver pela frente, o clima esfumaçado mesclado com o noise abrasivo de um APTBS é latente, as guitarras gritam, clamam por atenção, o clima gelido das canções vão se estendendo por todo o debut At Least We Are Able To Breathe, é isso pos punk gelido e frio, leia The Sound, Joy Division envolvo a area noiser do APTBS sem tirar nem por, uma metralhadora ensandecida atirando para todos sem qualquer tipo de piedade. E como de praxe a primeira entrevista do ano com total apoio de Tom Lugo, Sras e Srs Karate Free Stylers.

***** Interview with Karate Free Stylers *****

Q. When did Karate Free Stylers starts, tell us about the history...

Originally, KFS started about 5 years ago, when we were at school. I met my band mates, because with one I was going to to the same class for 6 years and with the other one we both had a meeting at our first rehearsal, because we were looking for a drummer. At first we were playing some cover songs, but then we started writing our own material. So we always say that "professionally" we started about 3 years ago.

Q: Who are your influences?

Our influences are very varied. Our bass player's probably favourite band is The Clash and he's rather into this type of music. But he also loves The Jesus And Mary Chain Me and the drummer are very into Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine. Bu personally I am also into Deerhunter and Atlas Sound and noise rocky type of music. I also love classic rock, blues (Robert Johnson is my god :D).

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

My personal list:

1. Nirvana- Nevermind

2. Sonic Youth- Goo

3. My Bloody Valentine- Loveless

4. The Jesus and Mary Chain- Psychocandy

5. Deerhunter- Microcastle

This list refers to albums that were inspiring me through years. But for me best from the best band in the world is Led Zeppelin! I also love The Beatles, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones. You should have asked me about top ten...or 50...or 100 albums

Q. How do you fell playing alive?

When I play at home I rather play acoustic than electric guitar and I prefer blues or classic rock songs. Why? For every type of music you have to get to know some basics and for me these classic songs develop skills, they show you how guitar reacts to your playing, to your type of sound. I play electric mostly on rehearsals and there I'm trying out some effects (delays, choruses, fuzzes etc.), but when I'm at home I love to play some oldschool Missisipi blues with a slide and open E tuning. These two types of my inspirations have different effects on me,but I'm always extremely happy. Music and guitars are my whole world. When I'm on stage, I forget about any problems, I'm free and I can do whatever I want. This is my place on earth.

Q. How do you describe Karate Free Stylers sounds?

I think that KFS plays rock'n'roll music heavily inspired by punk rock and first indie bands like Pixies. We mix it with wall of sound inspired by MBV. When people ask me what kind of genre we are, I always say: "We play noise rock". And I think that it is the best term.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the new ep?

Recording process...I think it was very simple. All songs were previously prepared during the rehearsals. Only "Another Dawn Fades" was finished in the studio. I recorded all guitar parts on my Epiphone Supernova Cherry Red, bunch of effects and borrowed Sunn Model T (probably 120 watts) and Marshall JCM900 cab. Our bass player was recording with his Ashdown 180 watt amp and Squier P bass and MXR bass Di +. Our drummer used his old green Yamaha Stage Custom with Mapex snare drum and Zildjan plates. We've done it in probably 4/5 days. Marcin Klimczak, who was our producer and owner of the Mustache Ministry Studio, didn't want our material to be overproduced. We wanted it to be more crude but also full in sound.

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

From this shoegazer classic era I think we only have this wall of sound in some moments of our songs. I think that this part of shoegaze inspires me the most.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?

Huh, I know many new bands that are awesome. I love No Age, Japandroids, Male Bonding and Deerhunter, but from these less known I adore Slowness, 93MilesFromTheSun. I can also recommend some polish bands: Kiev Office, The Spouds, The Black Tapes, Teenagers, Lora Lie. These all band are great!

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

I think that I would like to cover No Age's "Everybody's Down" and The Beatles' "I want You (She's So Heavy)". But that's my opinion. I don't know if my band mates would like to cover any song

Q: What´s the plans for future....

We want to make a Polish tour. We are planning it now with our manager. Probably we will go with our friends from The Spouds. We would als like to make some gigs abroad but unfortunaely know we can't afford that. We also think about recording our first full-lenght, but I think that we have time for that. And we want to be famous

Q: Any parting words?

Listen to music, buy CD's, watch gigs!!!
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Karate-Free-Stylers/133569190024298
http://karatefreestylers.bandcamp.com/album/weird-nightmares-sp

2012 HERE WE GO

The TBTCI wishes all friends, and all the bands that make this place something really important for all of us music lovers.

2012 here we go

Renato Malizia

HE WHO FEARS DEATH CANNOT ENJOY LIFE

Strange Behavior by Screen Vinyl Image

É fato que o SVI é unanimidade aqui no TBTCI, desde os aureos tempos do grandioso Alcian Blue Jake e Kim Reid veem se recriando a cada single, ep, album lançado. E para alegria de todos finalmente chega o segundo album do SVI, Strange Behavior, uma pancada supersonica movida a sintetizadores doentios e darks, doses cavalares do post punk, shoegaze frio, e psicodelismo, não há limites para o SVI, Revival é um grande exemplo do que Strange Behavior ter de melhor todos os estilos condensados dentro deste brutal exemplo de como se fazer soar atual mesmo com todas as influências retro.

O TBTCI aguardou ansiosamente o lançamento de Strange Behavior antes de soltar a famosa lista dos melhores do ano, e logicamente que foi a melhor opção a ser feita porque Strange Behavior é facil um dos melhores do ano, aos que soltaram suas listas antes de escutar a perola meus pesames porque quando ouvirem certamente mudarão de ideia.

Para melhor elucidar o album, nada melhor do que o proprio SVI para um track by track especialissimo, enjoy it!!!

Track by Track by SVI

We Don't Belong

This is a song about technology taking over human interactions and two people feeling like they can no longer exist in this "real" world.

Revival
This track is based off a old blues song we saw in a movie. Instead of being a religious tune like in the film, we changed it to being about going off to watch the world end.

Stay AsleepPart science fiction and part contemplative, the first half follows a dream state and the end falls into a nightmare.

My Confession
We wrote this song around the time of Interceptors, but we never quite got the lyrics down. The song is influenced from an old noir film called Double Indemnity. When we were mixing it we had been listening to Shadow of a Doubt by Sonic Youth and tried to keep in the spirit of that.

Station 4
Another older track, it's a song about having to leave someone behind. We pushed our reverb and delays to their limits in the process of this recording.

Rx
This is a song about prescription drugs.

New Visions
We wrote this off of a loop we came up with from a sound generator we built. The lyrics are some thoughts on passing through life.

Night Trip
We lost our cat to cancer this year, she was really awesome and loved to hang out when we worked on music. We wrote this song about losing a friend. The song title is from a film our friend Matt did, it just seemed to fit the mood of the song.
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https://www.facebook.com/screenvinylimage

www.screenvinylimage.com

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Lay Back in the Sun with Music for Headphones - An Interview

Music for Headphones, sugere algo extremamente viajante para se ouvir atentamente, certo? Certissimo, lisergia psicodelica ciclica exalando kraut para todos os lados, layers e layers sobrepostos, sintetizadores comandam a festa, guitarras em loop por vezes cristalinas em outras sombrias, a temática é elevar o ouvinte a algum lugar inexplorado, o poder da elevação da mente por meio da repetição e dos loops dão a impressionante sensação de estarmos sendo sugados para dentro do album, aliás o nome da perola, Life in Mono, lançado no já distante inicio desse ano, se sua praia é kraut, shoegazer, psicodelismo e considera Flying Saucer Attack o maximo, coloque seu headphone e deixe o poder dos delays, sintetizadores e das jazzmasters do Music for Headphone de abduzirem, e melhor ainda de play no seu Life in Mono na faixa de abertura a sugestiva Open e deleite-se com a entrevista abaixo.

***** Interview with Music for Headphones *****

Q. When did Music for Headphone starts, tell us about the history...

A. I first used the name in 200 while living and recording in Athens, GA. My drummer at the time and I recorded a sprawling seventy minute space rock opus titled "Dreaming This Coma Life" and Music for Headphones seemed like the obvious choice for the name. After the record was completed we moved to Portland, OR with the intention of setting up a live band, but I lost interest in the project after a few auditions and decided to take some time off. I ended up playing with The Upsidedown for most of 2002 before shifting my focus to only music production.

Fast forward to 2005; I found myself in Philadelphia, PA ending a six year relationship. It was a dark and terrible time and I started recording my own music again. Somehow I had wandered back into a shoegazey, space rock realm and decided to revive the name.

Over the past nearly seven years many people have come and gone from the group (but the last two years have been a steady line up) and I've charted a lot of sonic territory making shoegaze, neopsych, trip hop, experimental and most recently krautrock records, but hopefully have retained my own identity through out it all.

Q: Who are your influences?

A. Sonic Boom/Spectrum/Spacemen 3/Spiritualized, Jesus and Marychain, The Ronnettes/Phil Spector, The Cure, early Mercury Rev, Galaxie 500/Luna, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Neil Young, the Warlocks, David Roback/Opal/Mazzy Star, Sonic Youth, Joy Division/New Order, SWANS, Neu!, La Dusseldorf, Faust, Massive Attack, Stereolab.... the list goes on and on...

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

A. Introducing The Ronnettes by the Ronnettes

Perfect Prescription by Spacemen 3

Power, Corruption and Lies by New Order

Pure Phase by Spiritualized

Head on the Door by The Cure

Q. How do you fell playing alive?

A. I honestly used to hate it other than the moments of complete sonic chaos because I could get lost in the feeback and noise, but now I am really starting to enjoy it. It probably mostly has to do with growing into my voice, feeling more comfortable.

Q. How do you describe Music for Headphones sounds?

A. I don't think there is a simple way to do that. All of us come from different backgrounds and I/we are constantly trying to push sound in a new and different direction. I can tell you the record we are working on now is huge, spacey and epic. There will be elements of shoegaze, space rock, electro, and 60's psychedelia in it. And a whole lot more!

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the new album?

A. This album is being done very differently than the past records. We've been demoing out ideas live in the studio, take after take of the same idea. Then we all go home and listen, come back to the next session with refreshed ideas. The actual recording will start in the next few weeks and some of it will be done mostly live, others will start with the drums and be built upon. After all the basic tracking is done, most of it will be cut up into new arrangements then parts will either be added or replaced. We are approaching the recording process more like it is a remix, using the technology we have to do something new. Its the most ambitious record we've worked on and I honestly think it will be the best.

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

A. Well, I think the classic era has to be defined by England in the early 90's. My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Chapterhouse, Lush, Slowdive, Swearvedriver... but those bands didn't get there on their own... Spacemen 3, Jesus and Marychain, Sonic Youth... They were making similar noise ten years before.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?

A. Bloody Knives, bliss.city.east, Morpheme, Drowner, SPC ECO, Her Vanished Grace, the December Sound, the Badhoneys, Haunted Leather, Wooden Shijps, Screen Vinyl Image, Dead Leaf Echo... There are a ton I am missing, there's just so much good stuff going on right now.

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

A. Spacemen 3, Luna, Depeche Mode, The Cure

Q: What´s the plans for future....

A. Our last album, Life in Mono, is getting reissued on cassette through our new label, XD Records (www.xdrecords.net) and they'll also be putting out our new album next spring. In March we are doing a ten date tour through the southern US to South By Southwest and back. Tentitive plans to go back out to the Chicago area in May as well as a number of mini-tours in the northeastern US. Most likely we will be recording another record in the fall of 2012.

Q: Any parting words?

A. There's a revolution happening. Everybody just needs to open their ears.

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Thanks Jonathan...

http://www.myspace.com/musicforheadphones
https://www.facebook.com/musicforheadphones

Dopalovers

But first, are you experienced?

Have you ever been experienced?

Well, I have........
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2011´s The Last Party

Sweetness and the Light with Drowner - An Interview

Nos primeiros acordes de Point Dume, faixa de abertura do Ep homonimo dos americanos do Drowner meus sentimentos retornam a duas obras belissimas, Heaven or Las Vegas e Gala, respectivamente de dois patrimonios dos bons sons Cocteau Twins e Lush, a palavra etereo nunca esteve tao bem ilustrada atualmente como nesta maravilha de canção, Never Go Away começa e os sonhos caminham lado a lado com a realidade, ouvir isso depois de pegar um transito infernal cai como um calmante para a alma. Anna Bouchard, vocais, Darren Emanuel, guitarras, Sean Evans, guitarras e Mike Brewer, baixo, nos conduzem a um imaginario mundo de sonhos cintilantes e etereos com direito a passeios fascinantes recheados de delays espaciais, susteianers aconchegantes e pedacinhos do paraiso acabam por fazer parte de nossas vidas pelo menos durante os quase 30 minutos de sedução plena que o ep homonimo nos oferta.

Anna e Darren são leitores do TBTCI e gentilmente concederam não somente ao TBTCI mas a todos nós uma entrevista repleta de revelações e grandes novidades que estão por vir. Esqueçam dos problemas e deem espaço ao Drowner....

***** Interview with Drowner *****

Q. When did Drowner starts, tell us about the history...

Darren: After releasing Swimming In in 2008, I became more interested in guitar textures, especially a kind of distorted, reverb sound I was experimenting with, and I wanted to expand on that and write songs with it. They naturally had a sort of shoegaze/postrock sound, because of that effect, mainly, and I wrote probably ten or fifteen songs that way, just playing with it. At some point in 2009 or early 2010, I'd added drums and bass, and I started thinking about finding a singer. After some failed Craigslist sourcing, I mentioned to Anna (who was working with me on some video color correction) that I was having a lot of trouble finding the right singer for the project. I kind of threw it out there: Would she like to take a crack at it? And, she said yes. She turned around a first draft of one song, and I heard a lot of potential in it, and so asked her if she wanted to be in a band.

Anna: Yeah, everything just seemed to come together. We sent files back and forth via the internet and collaborated on a handful of songs, and finally they started to really mesh, and it looked like a release was possible. We'd progressed, at that point, to writing few new songs together. Mixing began in the spring of 2011, and by June, we had an EP ready for self-release via iTunes, etc. The response to the EP was really positive, and so we decided to keep the momentum going and track a couple of songs for another release, this time a single and B-side. In September, another longtime friend of Darren's, Sean Evans, joined the band on 2nd guitar, and not long after that, Mike Brewer stepped in on bass. Around this time, a few labels were expressing interest in signing Drowner, as we had dubbed ourselves (after the title of a song that we were working on), and SMR seemed like a great fit. We have been really, really happy with that choice.

Q: Who are your influences?

Darren: For me, I'm interested in texture and connecting that with dynamics and emotion, so I appreciate a lot of bands like Hammock, Explosions in the Sky and This Will Destroy You. There are a few bands from the late 80's and early 90's that figure in, as well, and often for the same reasons. The first Verve album, the last two Talk Talk albums and Distintegration by the Cure all share a kind of dynamism, emotion and grandeur.

Anna: “Dynamism, emotion and grandeur” is exactly what moves me, as well, and so I would add to the bands that Darren mentions Mogwai and Sigur Ros, and also the work of Siouxie Sioux, Bjork and Kate Bush. I also find I have a subtler and down-to-earth side that gravitates toward bands like R.E.M.

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

1. Spirit of Eden-Talk Talk

2. Disintegration-The Cure

3. Astral Weeks-Van Morrison

4. Ágætis byrjun-Sigur Ros

5. Velvet Underground and Nico

Q. How do you fell playing alive?

A. We both agree that we feel very alive in those moments.

Q. How do you describe Drowner sounds?

A. Almost indescribably big. Enveloping, delicate, thunderous, layered, inarticulate or ineffable, overwhelming, shimmering.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the debut album?

Darren: Most of the songs start with a sound on guitar. I’m always listening for a new sound as I'm experimenting with different effects and signal routings. A lot of times, the guitar signal is split into two or three to run separate paths through the gear. I use a rack amp and the speaker cabinet from my Rhodes along with a Space Echo for a lot of it, and then route a mic signal from that through pedals. Another signal might pass through a computer running a series of delays, reverbs and distortions, and then another signal through a grain delay or through the V-synth and vocoder. Sometimes it all goes to tape, and sometimes it gets put back through the chain again with a different configuration. For the newest material I'm using more layered chorus pedals and tremolo, so there's a more distinct, drier channel on top, but the background wall of noise is always there. Luckily by splitting the signals we can pretty much duplicate the sound live.

Anna: Typically, Darren will send chord progressions and demo arrangements to me to listen to. I write lyrics for them and compose the initial vocal melodies. Then, Darren takes what I have written and makes adjustments to the guitar parts and the arrangement to reflect my choices. One area in which we have entered into a lot of collaboration is that of my vox harmonies. It used to be that I would send one or two harmony lines with my initial vox melodies. If we needed additional lines, they were often improvised in the final recording. That led to the two of us sorting out some really effective vox harmonies in the studio, on the dais. And so now, we like to write them more progressively from the outset and in tandem, sorting out what fits most tightly into the final arrangement, while still reflecting how I feel I should sound in the blend. A lot can be said for writing spontaneously together in the room – we do work in that way, sometimes – but we like the results we get from working dynamically in stages, too. So it seems that the one ends up feeding the other, most often.

Darren: By this time, Sean and Mike are listening to the demos and figuring out their parts, and I'll record them. Eventually, the vocals are rerecorded, and overdubs, if needed, are done, and then it's mixed. We're using a hybrid method of mixing this record, with stems being done in the PC, and then the stems are mixed down to two tracks on a Topaz desk to tape. In this way, we get a little of both worlds. I like the bigger sound of hardware, and the EQs on the Topaz are nice, and I think we're achieving a nice wide sound.

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

A. Ride-Nowhere probably best exemplifies the classic era to us.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?

A. We're really into Exitmusic, The Fauns and SPC ECO right now.

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

A. We would love to cover Straitjacket Fits, R.E.M., Talk Talk, The Cure. We hope there will be some great covers in our future.

Q: What´s the plans for future....

A. An all-new LP for Saint Marie Records in Spring 2012, the release of an expanded, deluxe version of our debut EP, more cool videos, and some surprise, secret stuff.

Q: Any parting words?

A. Look for us in 2012. It's going to be a big year for Drowner.

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Thanks Anna & Darren.....

http://www.drownerband.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Drowner/182014378508957