TAURUS

http://taurusisdust.bandcamp.com/

Maria And The Mirrors - Travelsex

Not to everyone's taste, but nevertheless a well executed slab of hallucinomorphic noise with a  video to match. Or as user gerrdaa puts it on youtube; "you are terrible. i am so sorry for myself that i had to listen to you while at work.. stop doing this.


Out last year on Parlour Records, I found it via Astral Social Club's post on Bang the Bore.

Com Truise - Polyhurt (Free Download)

Polyhurt
To celebrate the release of Com Truise's debut album, Galactic Melt, Ghostly International are giving away Polyhurt, a slice of loping, aquatic electro-psychedelia that swoops and smashes over the listener. Com Truise (aka Seth Haley) has been making music for over a decade now under various monikers, and this particular creation produces heavy, somnambulist shoegaze, channelled through walls or distortion and heavy analogue synth sounds - kinda like the Cocteaus Twins given an arsenal of Roland kit and forced to listen to acid techno perpetually.

Galactic Melt is available on CD and double pack vinyl from the 4th of July.

Trish Keenan: 'Mind Bending Motorway Mix'

I posted this on Dangerous Minds last week, but it deserves to be shared again. Trish Keenan was the singer in the indie/electronica band Broadcast, who died last week of pneumonia.



Image via Bobo Epileptic.

Just before the recent trip to Australia on which she contracted swine flu, Broadcast singer Trish Keenan compiled some experimental music and psyche-pop for a friend, and called it the “Mind Bending Motorway Mix.” The mix (which has no track list), has been uploaded as a tribute to the late musician, with a view to being shared with as many people as possible. Joe Muggs at The Arts Desk writes:

“A friend in Birmingham who had become good friends with Keenan in recent years has passed me THIS LINK for a “mixtape” she gave him very recently. It’s the most wonderful collection of psychedelic rarities, film music and synthesiser experiments, and perfectly illustrates Keenan’s constant mission to turn people on to exquisite and unusual sounds - but also, as the tracks are not titled, shows the sense of mystery and incentive to investigate with which she imbued all her work.”

Gigs tonight November 5th.

There's plenty of aural fireworks happening in Glasgow tonight - ho ho - though I would mention a few. So if you're looking for somewhere to go, you could check one of these out:




Remember Remember EP Launch at Stereo.

Local post-rock legend Graeme Ronald's ace bong-pop outfit release a new EP, and also celebrate Graeme 30th birthday, with support from North American War, and Mogwai Djs.



Numbers with Joker, James Blake and Girl Unit.

The big guns are out in force for tonight's Numbers at the Sub Club. This one is gonns be busy. To get you in the mood here's a mix by Girl Unit:

A Mix by Girl Unit (Night Slugs) by Numbers




Jelly Roll Soul pres Space Dimension Controller at La Cheetah.

And this is my pic of the bunch, the Glasgow debut of 19 year old Jack Hamill from Belfast, who makes lush disco-tronica as Space Dimension Controller. Here's another mix, by Jelly Roll Soul resident Jamie:

Emotions Electric Mix 311010 by JellyRollSoul

DJ Goatface Killah Presents... "Ave Satanas"

DJ Goatface Killah made a name for himself at the Satanic Toga Party a few months back by supplying the devil-worshipping revellers with a soundtrack of non-stop Dark Lord-themed hits. This being the witching season, we asked him to do a Satanic mix for Shallow Rave, and here it is. It's rather bloody good too, and surprisingly features nothing from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (no, that's a different Iron Maiden). HAIL SATAN! \m/


01. ANTON SZANDOR LAVEY (USA) / THE SATANIC MASS (EDIT) (1968)
02. ANTONIUS REX (ITALY) / NON FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA (1974)
03. BLACK WIDOW (UK) / IN ANCIENT DAYS (1969)
04. COVEN (USA) / BLACK SABBATH (1969)
05. BULBOUS CREATION (UK) / SATAN (1969)
06. THE RATTLES (GERMANY) / THE WITCH (1968)
07. THE GHOST (UK) / NOW YOU’RE DEAD (1970)
08. THE GUN (UK) / RACE WITH THE DEVIL (1968)
09. THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN (UK) / FIRE (1968)
10. ROKY ERICKSON & THE ALIENS (USA) / WHITE FACES (1977)
11. LOLLIPOP SHOPPE (USA) / YOU MUST BE A WITCH (1967)
12. DUFFY (UK) / JUDGEMENT DAY (1971)
13. BEDEMON (USA) / CHILD OF DARKNESS (1973)
14. LUCIFER’S FRIEND (UK / GERMANY) / LUCIFER’S FRIEND (1970)
15. IRON MAIDEN (UK) / GOD OF DARKNESS (1969)
16. AFFINITY (UK) / THREE SISTERS (1970)
17. SAM GOPAL (UK) / THE DARK LORD (1969)
18. BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL (USA) / LUCIFER RISING PART II (1972)

Download "Ave Satanas" from this link.

Teh Weapons

I mentioned this a while back, via Iamus' own blog, but it's finally gone up as Weaponizer's front page, as well as guarantee from Texture that there will be one new fiction piece per weekday uploaded from now on.I'm also really enjoying Peter Morrison's Parlimentary Candidate #1, also from Weaponizer - a speculative / satirical fiction with unsurprising relevance these days

PROSPECTIVE PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE NO. 1 by PETER MORRISON

When the Prime Minister himself phoned me to tell me I’d been selected as Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for [CENSORED] I was thrilled – the Prime Minister himself, phoning me! On reflection I should have been suspicious; it should have been the first alarm bell that something was wrong. The fact that my mother burst into tears should have been the second alarm bell – I mean real distraught sobs, not tears of happiness. But I was keen, I was eager, I was naive.... (Read More)

Iamus Creative

Paul McCann, friend of Team Little Rock and member of The Evil Eye, creates psychedelic, acid inflected comic book art. So cool. He's just posted up this bad boy on his blog iamus-creative.blogspot.com. Some gorgeous artwork and short comics on there.

"Dream On" Mixtape

Some free music for you my dearies - Happy Christmas! This is a mix with a very dreamy / spacey atmosphere, with some vintage and modern electronica, and a splash of psych-pop for good measure. Enjoy!



http://www.littlerockrecords.com/promo/DREAMONMixtape.zip

BEN BUTLER & MOUSE PAD - E-Ship
TODD RUNDGREN - International Feel
TODD RUNDGREN - Never Never Land
FRANZ FERDINAND - Ulysses (FoxGut Reshuffle)
BJORN TORSKE - Brus
BRUCE HAACK - National Anthem To The Moon
NITE JEWEL - Kamera Songs
EYES - Clown Lady
LOUTS - The Bubbles
THE BEACH BOYS - Fall Breaks and Back To Winter
SYNTHESIZERS UNLIMITED - Luxury Life Styles
MIAOUX MIAOUX - Hrvatski
CHROMATICS - In The City
DAFT PUNK - Night Vision
JOHN MAUS - Do Your Best
DESIRE - Under Your Spell
PHANTOM BAND - Island
FLEET FOXES - He Doesn't Know Why

Bruno B. Dicolla's 'Return as an Animal'

Bruno B. Dicolla's artwork reminds me of Shallow Rave favourite, Brendan Mccarthy
(brendanmccarthy.co.uk appears to be down)
While the two artists are very different and work in quite different media, they both have a sense of colour and texture that, while often jarring and bizarre, holds a psychaedelic magic that draws me in and soothes my tired brain.




(Found via Marissa.)