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ANTIPAN review from morphine and icecream
ANTIPAN(one sided pink vinyl LP with etching by Rizilli,Pulled Out PULLLP
01,ltd ed 275,Syd.,new release)
Featuring members of xNoBBQx,Moseissly,Low Resistance Group & The White
Petunias amng numerous other things.This quartet whips up an almighty
skronkfest which sounds like a bunch of hoods throwing standard rock
instrumentation around the room willy nilly with a Tibetan monk popping in
for a short time to deliver a chant & promptly getting out of there before
any harm comes to his person.Playing from the centre to the edge you'll
want to listen to this aural trepanning again & again til your neighbours'
sanity snaps.Avaliable for $25(2) from http://www.halftheory.com with all
proceeds going to Nick Dan. Or if you're lazy copies will soon be avaliable
at Rocking Horse & The Cell(The Whitehouse,every Fri.11AM-6PM)
"He's a product of the Lester... Read more
Added by joel on 7 September 2006
Steve Irwin RIP Festival Line-up
MUSICAL ACTS
Heart
Billy Ocean
Ray Off
Sting
The Cruel Sea
Ray Davies
Ray Charles
Billy Ray Cyrus
SONGS
"Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy RAY Cyrus
"Sister Ray" - The Velvet Underground
"Manta Ray" by The Pixies
"Listen To Your Heart" - Roxette
"Crocodile Rock" - Elton John
"Shallow Heart" - Dizzygotheca
"It's A Shame About Ray" - The Lemonheads
"Camouflage" - Stan Ridgway
"Wooden Heart" - Elvis Presley
"A Little Ray Of Sunshine" - Glenn Shorrock
"Straight Through My Heart" - The Bats
DIRECTORS
Spike Lee
Nicholas Ray
FILMS
"Ray of Light" by Bruce Connor
"Ray Gun Virus" by Paul Sharits
"The Heart of the World" by Guy Maddin
BON JOVI QUOTE
"Shot through the heart and you're to blame"
ARTIST
Man Ray
THUNDERBIRDS... Read more
Added by joel on 7 September 2006
and why the fuck not!
crikey! this fellas huge!!!
Greetings. Apologies & typical excuses for radio silence from this department.
To make up for this, here is a large update concerning all things half/theory.
Firstly, there is much entertaining new produce available to the discerning consumer via the shop, including the new half/theory compilation "Stove Goats (a tribute of sorts to Burzum)", featuring Secret Killer Of Names, Company Fuck & Urblooten. Behold its ravishing grimness here http://www.halftheory.com/index.php?go=shop&id=93
also now available are the 1st 2 lp releases from Pulled Out, namely the Unaustralians lp, and the 1-sided/ etched (by rizili!!!) hot pink lp by antipan. they're sexy, they're limited, they're fucking vinyl!!! check out... Read more
Added by jpeatt on 7 September 2006
lader's drum
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LADER!!
rin healy, amrap correspondent and family twig member in exile strikes again.....
this time with a feature on post-idm-pre-historic-pawn-shop-knob-twiddler lader.
listen to it here.....
Added by joel on 7 September 2006
NMATAPE 7 features Keith Humble, Ron Nagorcka, Ernie Althoff and more
Australian experimental music of note
Shame File Music continues in the reissue of the seminal NMATAPES series, the 7th installment now available for download from the Shame File website.
NMATAPE 7 features some of the very early pioneers in Australian experimental music, including Percy Grainger, a controlled improvisation from Keith Humble, Ron Nagorcka, Ernie Althoff & Graeme Davis. Two tracks of particular interest are from former Teletopa and AZ Music member, Ernie Gallagher, who is working with mulitple off-centre records.
NMATAPES 1-7 are available for free downloads, complete with cover art and liner notes, from ShameFileMusic.com.
Related to the history of Experimental music, Shame File now has copies of the Five Fold Galactic Bells "Omni-Viola!" CD fo a couple of years back. Five Fold featured custom-made 1970s synthesisers salvaged from the dumpster by Robin Fox and Michael... Read more
Added by shamefile on 2 September 2006
sourced from this highly amusing link http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1753.cfm
Forget Myspace...
...here's Youtube... soon to be the music video show par-excellence once they finally get rid of the stupid video blogs and the lame porn teasers.
But wait... some halftheorist types seemed to have jumped on the bandwagon!
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=andrewkettle
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=2pants
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=schmelfhelp
and let's not forget...
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=halftheory
If I've missed any half/theorist types email me - skon at half/theory dot com - i will add them in here
chrs
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Added by skon on 31 August 2006
I decided against a picture of a roasted dog being devoured by a hungry Vietnamese family as being bait for unrelated discourse
Audiopollen 23/08/06
Tonight I soloed with a bunch of recent releases from Last Visible Dog - a fantastic label who provide quality AND quantity!
Aside from releasing the epic Invisible Pyramid set (a requiem to the extinction of a variety of animal life) they have continued to pump out multi-volume sets of interesting clatter and drone.
For this broadcast we focused specifically on:
Peter Wright - Pariahs Sing Om - a reissue of the original release adding the Catch a Spear as it Flys album, extended tracks and a 3rd disc of unreleased material. Peter to me is 50% into the Jonathan Colelough / Andrew Chalk style of drone while the other 50% is firmly embedded in the New Zealand lo-fi scene providing thick droning walls of ambience that aren't content to be smug or wallpaper pretty but constantly flickering, shifting and evolving. If Mirror is a glistening lake then Peter Wright is the campfire. I played "5mins, 3seconds" and "Catch a Spear as it Flys"
... Read more
Added by skon on 29 August 2006
BLACK PETAL on HALF/THEORY
Black Petal releases are now available for purchase on Half/Theory (thanks to a little help from Mr Joel Stern).
Black Petal exists to release folk, rock and other psychedelic musics. The label is run from Tokyo by Anthony Guerra. Please see http://www.blackpetal.com for slightly more info.. Currently available releases are by Anthony Guerra, Muura, Mattin and Antony Milton.
...and coming soon on Black Petal - Ray Off. Vodka Sparrows (Anthony Guerra/Mark Leacy). DJWhitePimpernell. Muura. Matt Earle. Clay Man in the Well.
Bye for now.
Added by anthony on 25 August 2006
Sunshine Has Blown review in Bagatellen
musicyourmindwillloveyou
mymwly0048
Crowd sounds, an insistent ratchet, harsh metallic rubbing. Still, the initial impression one gets from the opening track here is one of tonality. Roundabout, perhaps, but you're pretty sure it's going to get there—except that it doesn't, not quite. It teeters, giddily if not drunkenly, on a thin edge between repeated, backwards tape loops and a low thrum of possibly guitar-ish origin on the one side and blithely diffident noise on the other. The listener is almost forced to imagine a physical location, maybe some strange arcade, where the host of simultaneous and contradictory sounds can be reconciled, Fascinating, unbalancing music, this.
Sunshine Has Blown is an initiative led by Joel Stern along with Adam Park. The latter supplies the almost omnipresent tape manipulation while Stern divides time between electronics, guitar,... Read more
Added by joel on 22 August 2006
Digitalis feature on Brissy noisemaker
http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/feature_detail.php?id=188
For most people, travel involves collecting artifacts and happy snaps as an obligatory part of a "cheap holiday in other peoples' misery." Sound artist Joel Stern does something similar. He spends his travels amassing what one could call 'sound artifacts.'.........
Added by joel on 22 August 2006
