Blantant plugs for good things produced by our friends;
Matching Head apart from being home to unsung UK noise hero Culver also produces some rather spiffing cassettes. The latest batch I received included a Neil Campbell solo release, a Culver\Hagstrom collab., EtcEtera/Truck Stop Women split tape and Simon DD’s cd/d/b tape. Also, if there are any left, the Culver debut LP ‘Route of Aesthetic’ came out a few months back. A great example of abrasive drone and minimal clatter, something midway between Surface of the Earth and Total. Matching Head, 12 Coanwood Way, Sunniside, Tyne and Wear, NE16 5XR
One of the few really exceptional fanzines coming out of the UK right now is DDDddd. A monthly produced "Drink Fanzine" that stands on no particular fence as far as music goes, apart from their main claim "We like pop". It’s passionately written, the articles often ramble and rant as they’re typed straight off the cuff. They’ll write about anything from Barry White to Culver without a hint of bias. No ego trips in here. Issues tend to appear about once a month, it’s a photocopied on a budget affair. So you get about twenty pages of cut and pasted A4 stapled together and bound with masking tape. It is essentially free but a stamp (an IRC or 2 for non-UK residents) and a contribution/donation of some kind would be warmly received. Ddddd Zine, Marleys, Manor Park, Minstead, Lyndhurst, Southampton S043 7FY, UK
And some top Sites you might like to visit.
This is still very much under construction!
Bands |
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| Check out Martin Newell a top songsmith and poet and Wildman of Wivenhoe. | ||
| Moonlight on Van Vliet - The Captain Beefheart Radar Station Best Beefheart site on the net. | ||
| Preposterous Tales the official I, Ludicrous home page | ||
| For Hood try this rather superb tribute to the boys from Wetherby or the Official Domino site. | ||
| Pere Ubu's information service Ubu Projex | ||
| XTC now have their own official
site which is also home to their idea
records label. The best British site for info is Bungalow but you can also check out Chalkhills, The Official XTC Fans Mailing List |
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| The Official Fall Website | ||
| ninetynine | ||
| Noggin | ||
| Ultrasound | ||
| The Stretchheads About the best site I can find so far dedicated to this bunch of Glaswegian nutters. | ||
Label's |
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| Aquese Recordings Home of Delphium and a label to many others. | ||
| Dropbeat Records The left field dance branch of Slumberland records. | ||
| elsie and jack is there site as good looking as their CDs ? | ||
| Leo Records Top British Jazz/Improv. label with plenty of Sun Ra releases under it's belt too. | ||
| Slumberland Homespun US indie label | ||
| Road Cone Top label that's released a few gems in it's time | ||
| Hausmusik A great German label | ||
| Infinite Chug Home of I'm Being Good, Small Things, 13 Ghosts, etc. as well records by Trumans Water, Supreme Dicks, etc. | ||
| little brother records | ||
| BETLEY WELCOMES CAREFUL DRIVERS | ||
| freedom from... Great tape label | ||
| VHF! | ||
| Mute | ||
| Cherry Red Records | ||
| Shimmy Disc Resurfaced label, has loads of backcatalog vinyl up for auction as well as CD reissues and new releases. | ||
| Squealer | ||
| Flying Nun Records Home of Kiwi Rock and Pop | ||
| Staubgold Experimental, electronic and improvised music, avantgarde, free jazz, krautrock and techno specialists. | ||
| Duckweed Records | ||
| Giardia Recordings Lots of great releases under it's belt from Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Simon Wickham-Smith, Smell & Quim, John Godbert, Paekong Mae, Neil Cambell, Tanaka-Nixon Meeting, Coits, Wham-o, Coffee and Pork Queen. | ||
| fencing flatworm recordings flash website with mp3 snippets | ||
| Guided Missile The Yummy Fur, Donkey, et al. | ||
| Feline Records | ||
| LOUD!:noise.ambient.industrial. | ||
| Aparment Records | ||
| Catsup Plate Records | ||
| Ron Johnson The beginings of something good. A summary of this unique labels output. | ||
| 4AD | ||
Information |
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| P A R A L L E L I S M The Best links site there is. | ||
| freenoise.org - unusual music and arts Cock ESP, Wrong, Sunship, etc. | ||
| Teledu Records - Independent and New Zealand Music Catalogue | ||
| Improvisation scope notes | ||
| Music Database Mainly Idustrial/gothic but a good place to go for Japanese noise and ambient, has over 4000 entries. | ||
| Trouser Press | ||
| King Records Dan Vallors dedicated site that attempts to catalogue every release manufactured at King WW Records | ||
Mail Orders |
Good sources of vinyl, noise, etc. besides us of course! | |
| Midheaven Mailorder, Revolver USA and the Communion label | ||
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Y L I E P R O D U C T I O N S PO BOX 24148, LONDON, SW18 1WU, UK |
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| Shit Tapes | ||
| Anomalous Records Top mail order and distributor. Stocking mainly noise, industrial, ambient and generally difficult music. Run by some decent folks too! | ||
| norman records from tiny acorns grow, a small home run mail order that's now a chain with no name outlet. A good source for new indie/alternate releases as well as secondhand and rare material. Get's the Fisheye thumbs up. | ||
| Forced Exposure The Daddy of all mail orders, superb. | ||
| Eclipse Records Catalog Another US based mailorder with a huge stock list. | ||
| JARMusic Mail Order For all you Martin Newell requirements | ||
| Twisted Village Records | ||
| The Ceiling | ||
Fanzines |
That's right ones printed on paper | |
| Bukowski Zine | ||
| The Ptolemaic Terrascope | ||
e-zines |
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| Yakuza | ||
| Modern Rock Magazine | ||
| Opprobrium | ||
| AUTOreverse | ||
| Muckraker Magazine | ||
| Twee Kitten | ||
| L'entrepot | ||
| EST Web | ||
| Speeder | ||
| Techno
Logic/ Soul Transplant website: unsigned
artist and his concurrent fanzine. If you would like your label's work reviewed then please send to; 6 Headroomgate Road St Annes Lancashire England FY8 3BD |
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| Helicopter | ||
| Judge A Book... By Its Cover, E-Mail Art Gallery & Various Other Nonsense | ||
| Tripod Sardine! | ||
| The Satellite | ||