MARIACHI EL BRONX - 'S/T'

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• SWA139 - LP

  823777013918

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VINYL VERSION EXCLUSIVELY VIA FORTE, Los Angeles-based punk band The Bronx-aptly named after the Left Coast borough-has for the last six years redefined what punk means, sounds, and doesn't look like. After three self-titled full-lengths, countless tours all over the world, and more singles and EPs than one can count, they return with their latest offering inspired by the inescapable Mariachi music that celebrates Mexican-American culture. Mariachi El Bronx features the grammy-awardwinning artist David Hidalgo from Los Lobos and Latin Playboys, as well as Alfredo Ortiz (Beastie Boys) and various members of Los Tigres Del Norte. The self-titled album was produced by John Avila in Los Angeles. The band has a loyal fanbase of over 20,000 and is set to perform select US dates with The Hold Steady and to hit the UK on the main stages of the Reading and Leeds Festivals.

Tracks

1. Cell Mates
2. Litigation
3. Despredetador
4. Quinceniera
5. Sleepwalking
6. Silver or Lead
7. Slave Labor
8. Clown Powder
9. Holy
10. My Brother the Gun
11. My Love

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YOGA - 'MEGAFAUNA'

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• HOLY771947 - LP

  N/A

• HOLY771947CD - CD

  655035694726

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Understand this: Yoga dispenses a sinister frailty of howling swells in hissing static that combusts into crawling shock heaps, to the effect of Mayhem performing Twin Peaks incidentals in a prairie recorded by The KLF. A brief description casts them as black metal's answer to Throbbing Gristle. The texture-based rendering of their compositions sails them on a strange sea between song and sound effect as it bobs along the waves like a dead man's bottled message. Aspects of Goblin rehearsals in dead hills is interrupted as Monster Zero carves mountain sides with lightning breath. Oscillating leads pummel into churning riffs as if "Caledonia" was performed in an echo chamber near Lodi, New Jersey. The extrinsic properties of this work may result in disambiguation. Aquarius Records said the follow about their last CD (which was only an EP): "The sound of Yoga takes the lo-fi practice space recordings of grimmest of the black metal outfits and combines it with the murky, muddy, noise-drenched blur of bands like Wold... even further, rendering their sound so muted and lo-fidelity that even when they're blasting furiously, it still sounds like a busted music box or an old black metal 78. And then there's the fact that Yoga spends a good amount of their time not blasting blackly, but instead, crafting synth-heavy Goblin-style film music, all throbbing bass and buzzing synths, creepy minor key melodies, and tons of haunting ambience. Those songs too are wreathed in a foggy night-on-the-moors sort of murk [that] ties those closely to the more blackened ones. "The strange combination of grim and Goblin; the tripped-out, fucked-up recording quality; the damaged arrangements; and the looped, hypnotic quality turn Yoga into something totally out there, most likely way too abstract and psychedelic and deliriously lo-fi to appeal to folks looking for grim, buzzing blackness, but for the rest of you, if you can try to imagine some impossible mix of Philip Jeck, Wold, Goblin, the Skaters, and some of the super weird EEE unblack bands, all produced by John Maus and Ariel Pink, then you will flip for this."

Tracks

1. Seventh Mind
2. Flying Witch
3. Encante
4. Wagion
5. The Hidden People
6. Dreamcast
7. Fourth Eye
8. Black Obelisk
9. Treeman
10. Warrior
11. Haunted Brain
12. Chupacabra?s Rotting Flesh

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VARIOUS - 'CLAP YOUR HANDS AND STAMP YOUR FEET'

Formats

• EXCEL96173 - CD

  8714374961738

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Ever heard of Nederglam? What about early 70s Dutch Glam Rocks stompers & crunchers by acts like Booby Trap, The Heavy Dwarfs, Dump, Zingara, Pantherman or Plastic Feet, huh? If your haven't ... boy, you have missed out on some KILLER boot stomping material from the old days! Among somewhat better known acts like Bonnie St Claire And Unit Gloria, Left Side, Cherrie Vangelder-Smith, Catapult and Lemming, you will discover a multitude of Glam era obscurities here that will blow your socks off and open your mind to some great sounds and beats. With The Netherlands being the main country in continmental Europe to boast a Glam Rock scene, a compilation of this stuff was way overdue. Yep, now for the first time in history all these great records have been brought together on one unique cd. Not that many of these tunes received any form of national or international recognition... In fact most of the songs on this cd remained completely unnoticed when they were initialy released. But now, some 35 years later, it'll strike you that this stuff is still so goddamn fresh., it literary SCREAMS to finally get heard!! So what do we have here? A cd with 24 songs by 23 acts, plus 52 page full colour booklet crammed with cool pics, plus the incredible stories behind all bands and songs! Also included are reprints of all original sleeves, whether Dutch or foreign. In other words: it's time to clap your hands and stamp your feet (clogg-ed or boot-ed) to the great stomping rhythms of these Nederglam crunchers. Enjoy!

Tracks

01. BOODY TRAP ? Kelly, Grace and Sally
02. CATAPULT ? Let your Hair hang down
03. LEMMING ? Father John
04. HEART ? Lovemaker
05. DUMP ? Annabelle
06. LONG TALL ERNIE AND THE SHAKERS ? Motor Man
07. AMSTERDAM ? Mary Lou
08. BONNIE ST. CLAIRE AND UNIT GLORIA ? clap your Hands and stamp your Feet
09. THE HEAVY DWARFS ? Moeder Natuur
10. LEFT SIDE ? (like a) Locomotion
11. BLACK FIRE ? do it
12. SMYLE ? she means a lot to me
13. THE ROCKETS ? Rock ?n Roll Drummer(part 1)
14. PLASTIC FEET ? big blond Baby
15. CARDINAL POINT ? I?m the grand Pretender
16. MELODY ? Steppin? Stone
17. BZN ? sweet silver Anny
18. CHERRIE VANGELDER-SMITH ? goodbye (Guitarmen)
19. HANK THE KNIFE AND THE JETS ? Guitar King
20. ZINGARA ? Girl Girl Girl
21. SERPENTINE ? powerful Jim
22. HANS VAN HEMERT ? becasue of the Cats
23. PANTHERMAN ? Pantherman

NEDERGLAM bonustrack
24. BONNIE ST. CLAIRE AND UNIT GLORIA ? the Rock goes on

Press

?This stuff is insane! Either A: Buy this comp, or B: Spend five years going through Dutch fleamarkets locating some of the crunchiest pre-punk thud this side of Spunky Spider or Iran Virgin.? - Johan Kugelberg - Ugly Things Magazine, USA

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