The Present Moment need your help!

Help The Present Moment come over to Europe and tour for two weeks in May, they are about two thirds of the way there on the money needed on their KickStarter project so go pledge some cash and hopefully they can do it. This band are awesome and are easily worgth seeing, also the rewards for pledging money are pretty great so go check them out. The video above tells the whole story from the mouths of the band and below you can here some of their tracks, just as a reminder of how great they are.

You Are Listening To Los Angeles

Thanks to "Milton Scott" of The Present Moment for spamming Facebook with this and making my week! I never new this website existed until I clicked through and was presented with You Are Listening To Los Angeles. The premise of the site is that it live streams the city's police radio alongside ambient tracks plucked from Soundcloud. Its totally like being in Bladerunner. The best thing ever to fall asleep to, all the crimes and crazyness of the city constantly crackling and distorting coupled with some great ambient tracks. And then if you are bored with LA you can hang out listening to the police frequency and more great music in four other great cities: New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Montreal. I could have this website streaming in the background of my life forever!

The Present Moment: Vinyl picture disc 12" released.

The debut album of LA based The Present Moment is finally avaliable on a limited edition 12" vinyl picture disc complete with a download coupon from Desire Records. The album is called The High Road and The Present Moment are ace so go check the two song from it below and then go spend your cash on some sexy ass vinyl!

THE HIGH ROAD by ThePresentMoment

SEASON OF THE WITCH by ThePresentMoment

The Present Moment.

The Present Moment - Feast On Fire ​-​BRIGHT FUTURE REMIX

Free to download from Bandcamp.

Blogging for the Mishka Bloglin.

In case you hadn't noticed I'm also blogging once a week for the New York streetwear brand and all round lover of great new music Mishka. Seriously as well as making some awesome clothes they're also really pushing some great new music, from the whole Witch House scene to the chillwave surfer garage of bands like Puro Instinct.

My column for them "Sounds From the Other Side" is out every Sunday on their blog (the Bloglin) and covers all the kind of stuff I blog about here but I make sure to write it in a bit more detail and don't rush it out as much as I can do here on the Fokkawolfe blog.

This is the link to all the posts I've done for them so far. Where I've written about The Present Moment, Butterclock, §, Drugs For Drunks, Teeth Of The Sea, Scout Klas and Maria Minerva.

(to get an idea of how great some of the Mishka t.shirts are click here!)

The sounds of industry marching ever onwards. Gatekeeper, //Tense//, The Present Moment and Valis.

There's a great few bands about at the moment gaining some ground up the foothills of recognition that are sporting that 80s influenced, dark industrial electro sound, all brooding yet funky, throbbing, sexual and dancey yet filled with drone and noise!

The principle bands that are on my radar are all from the United States and I've written about most of them already so here I'll just be posting their stuff for you to listen to. Lots of it can be downloaded form their Soundcloud or Fairtilizer pages.

The Present Moment are from LA and have a CD out on Disaro. Most of their songs can be downloaded from their Soundcloud page but they're in wav format not mp3. I love the cover they've done here on the 2nd track!

Times Like This by ThePresentMoment
SEASON OF THE WITCH by ThePresentMoment

//Tense// I have already written about as well. And are pretty much my favourites of this bunch.

From Houston,Texas they have an album out on Desire Records, one pending on Disaro and are just about to play their first New York gig on the 16th June. More tracks to listen to, or buy here.

Facebook here.

Valis are from Chicago, a bit of a hub for this sound, they again are a two piece and create a sound so meaty and bass filled that it just funks the club out when you play it loud.

Awesome, un-stopable and relentless!!
Exigesis by V A L I S

The final one of these four is the longest running and maybe most well known, GATEKEEPER is also from Chicago and gets up and runs with the Industrial electro sound making horror club hits that march all over everything!

I cant find any embedable players for GATEKEEPERS stuff so YouTube vids will have to suffice.

First is from the vinyl EP available to buy from the myspace and the second is from a very recent live gig in Brooklyn!

The Present Moment -The Damage Is Loved video

The Damage Is Loved from The Present Moment on Vimeo.

LA industrial EBMists The Present Moment have a new video out for their song The Damage Is Loved which goes all black metal in that its set in the woods, its also great to see a band like this do what's close to being a home made 'high rotation' video.

They have a cd out via Disaro. Go get it now, be the first amongst your friends!