V/A "Great Minds" LP (Mind On Fire)

Mind On Fire are a Manchester based label and "Great Minds" is their first vinyl album, a compilation of 8 tracks by 8 acts covering bases like dub, breakbeat, deep house and downbeat. Founded in 2004, Minds On Fire have previously put out 4 compilations on CD-R, and have covered genres as broad as "Future Beats to Japanese Math Rock (and everything else in between)".

“We liked the title “Great Minds” for the compilation as although
the music may vary it encapsulates the feeling within the collective of everyone thinking alike in seeing past constrictive boundaries and sharing a love of creating and listening to music, regardless of genre”.

I was pointed in the way of this compilation by Lee Andrews. one whose tracks appears under the name LA77 - that track ("Cubed") is great, but the quality throughout this project is very high. This is the first time on vinyl for 6 of the 8 acts appearing, and it's probably not the last either. Well known Manc DJ G Kut contributes the excellent "Dance of the Kuttlefish", which combines wobble bass with Arabic chanting, downbeat heads will find much to like in the work of Neko Neko, Zoir and Woli Wols, Pareesa and Grave Architecture contribute forward-thinking/horizontal leaning dub-ambient, while XXXY drops some very solid deep house with "All Over This". But you can check out the tracks for yourself:

LA77 "Cubed"


G Kut "Dance Of The Kuttlefish"


XXXY "All Over This"


Neko Neko "Fast:


You can get "Great Minds" directly from the Mind On Fire website, Boomkat, or from your nearest quality vinyl emporium.

HEADLESS KAMIKAZE B-Sides LP Free Download

So, if you were paying attention back in April, the name Headless Kamikaze should be familiar - he was one of the featured acts on our FUCKNO compilation. Alexander Kibanov is from Russia and makes short, angry spazblip that is only slightly reminiscent of Napalm Death mincing a warehouse full of old Casios. Alexander has almost called it a day on making music, and we are proud to be able to present one of his last ever releases. With nearly 40 tunes, it's a compilation of rare tracks, unreleased material, and as the title would suggest, b-sides. ATR fans should definitely check this out.

1 1984 (1st)
2 Bird (1st Version)
3 Cats (1st Version)
4 Closed Mouth (Instrumental)
5 Digital Hardcore Song (1st, Fn Vrsn)
6 Don't Know (instrumental)
7 Eleonor Rigby (The Beatles) [Instrumental Elecro Midi Jazz Version cover]
8 Everest (Instrumental)
9 Milgram Experiment (Early Version)
10 Fast Song 2009
11 Following The Summon (Instrumental)
12 For What?
13 Individual Dissonance (New Version) (Instrumental)
14 Kanat (cover Tretii Put')
15 La Crise vs. La Macroecomomie (Instrumental)
16 Lusia Spine-Tv (Instrumental)
17 Maniachila (Instrumental)
18 Maniachila (Not Full Version)
19 Medveder'mo (Instrumental)
20 Ne Vedis' Na Provokacii (Instrumental)
21 Propovednii Grifi, Molitvennaya Padal' (Instrumental)
22 Psy-Weapon 2009 (Phonogram 2008)
23 Psycho (instrumental)
24 Rastvorenniy
25 Stop Your Fear 2009
26 The Streets (Demo Version)
27 Untitled 4
28 Untitled 5
29 Time (2009 Version)
30 Waves (1st Version)
31 xCrossed_Imbecilx (Instrumental)
32 Me (Instrumental)
33 Zabei Na Vse Te Chisla (2st Version)
34 Zabei Na Vse Te Chisla
35 Harakiri (Instrumental GrOb Cover, 2008)
36 Untitled (2008)
37 Sid & Nancy (Instrumental Lumen Cover, 1st Version, 2008)
38 Psychocide - Psychadelic Days (lyrics and vox by HK, electronix by schwl, guitar by zifir)


Download it here.

Happy Birthday CRY PARROT!

Last night saw the third birthday bash of one of our favourite local gig promoters, CRY PARROT.

These guys have been putting on DIY gigs for three years and have put on some amazing shows. We could do a list of all the bands they have put on, but they've done that already and you can see it here. It would take all day to list them, but suffice to say that 8 of the acts on FUCKNO have played for them, so you know they've got good taste.

They have not one but TWO free compilation albums available for download through our other local favourites Winning Sperm Party, which you really should get. To make it as easy as possible, here are the direct download links:



Compilation 1



Compilation 2

Happy Birthday guys, and here's to many more years of great gigs!
LRxxx

And ach, seeing as we're such slags for name dropping, here's a list of who's been on the Cry Parrot stages (though I reckon this needs an update): the ex & brass unbound, john maus, lovvers, quack quack, zu, chin up chin up, vars of litchi, gay against you, pocahaunted, sun araw, plaaydoh, triple school, clorinde, cleckhuddersfax, marble valley (feat steve west from pavement), gary war, blue sabbath black fiji, bird names, dam mantle, tattie zones, zun zun egui, sun araw, divorce, ultimate thrush, copy haho, divorce, tickley feather, wounded knee, moha!, cheveu, action beat, poltergroom, stig noise soundsystem, beards, blues control, tropa macaca, household, tiny little hearts, remember remember, viking moses, pvh, katie stelmanis, yoko oh no!, my kappa roots, rm hubbert, nackt insecten, golden ghost, destructo swarmbots, noma, kylie minoise, ballad of mable wong, louts, streets of rage, adebisi shank, mr peppermint, y'all is fantasy island, fox gut daata, trees, an emergency, grozny.

THE NIALLIST Halleluwah Hits Mixtape 6 - Part 1

Cool! THe first part of my mixtape for Halleluwah Hits is up on their Soundcloud page. Part two will be going up on the Little Rock Soundcloud soon, and then whole thing will be available form both our websites next week. Part one is the more indie-tronica part, and part two is more about the techno and disco. Part one tracklist is below.

Mixtape VI (part one) mixed by The Niallist by Halleluwah_Hits