▲NGST - Still Grim Up North!

A few days ago I got sent an email promoting an album called "Still Grim Up North" by an artist called ▲NGST. Now as a big KLF fan this really caught my eye and I quickly downloaded the complimentary free Bandcamp download of the album and set about researching the band.. Hoping beyond hope that this could be a new KLF project in secret!
After a few Google-ings and click throughs I still haven't got much to go on. ▲NGST hails from "Rotterdoom" in the Netherlands and is an artist creating long ambient, doomy, claustrophobic dance music that he labels "Witch house, spirit tech, doomcore and doomgaze"

Still Grim Up north is the "first release (under this alias) by ▲NGST". (So, you know, this is still feeding my KLF fantasies! - first release under this "alias"!)
Just released on the 26th November as limited cassette edition on the now restarted 90's cassette label Orange Socks its also available to buy for €5 from the wreckhavoc shop online here or as a download for €2 from Bandcamp here.

This album is up close and intense, slow and Witch Housey like ✝ DE△D VIRGIN ✝, Untitled ___N___ or ✝ NO VIRGIN ✝, ambient and evil and trip hop like, if trip hop was all about huffing glue and shooting babies. And at points it goes in a slight Breakcore direction with some intense Gabba-esque drum shots. The ▲NGST Myspace is sparse but has all the top Witch House bands like Salem, Mater Suspiria Vision, White Ring etc, as top friends to show (I guess) the angle this project is coming from.

Now after some careful observation I feel that this could be the new project by someone like Dutch jungelist FFF, or someone similar, like its a break away side project or some such.

It's all good intriguing stuff! It is still grim up north and this is a soundtrack to that reality, face the cold winds down and warm the ears in giant headphones as this album wrenches you from any warmth and comfort to a land of ultimate doom.

High Parks November Love Story mixtape.

High Park released a mixtape a month ago that I totally missed, called November Love Story it's a great Goth R&B mix that covers everything from Drake and Lady Gaga to Salem and Bring Me the Horizon and manages to make it all seem seamless and totally listen-able and hey you maybe even be able to dance to it! dragged and screwed and twisted just enough!

Check out the High Park Tumblr blog here.

Download it by from mediafire here.
NOVEMBER LOVE STORY ~ DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?8snkbm3mku038wr by High Park

TRACKLIST:

ALICIA KEYS - UNTHINKABLE (PHYSICAL THERAPY REAL HEAVY VIBE)
o F F/GR†LLGR†LL - EmoDancers.
High Park - loveghost
Jamie Foxx ft. Drake - Fall For Your Type (High Park Blueberry Mix)
How To Dress Well - My Body
zxz - getoveryou
GuMMy†Be▲R! - Ic3Cre▲M MaNyE
Salem - pig fucker (High Park Bacon Mix)
Bring Me The Horizon - No Need For Introductions, I've Read About Girls Like You On The Backs Of Toilet Doors (High Park Washroom Grind Mix)
Lady Gaga - Monster (High Park Mix)
Waka Flocka Flame - Hard In Da Paint (High Park Too Much Benelyn Mix)
Lil Wayne Feat. Drake - Right Above It (High Park Weezy's Free Mix)

oFF & GR†LLGR†LL did it LIVE..

oFF & GR†LLGR†LL just played a gig together in Berlin it was the début gig for GR†LLGR†LL and the two of them did a collaborative set sat together in bed! It seems like it was a pretty awesome event with Gay Mormon Kissing Club feat Butterclock Djs and loads of other stuff including a "Special Altar Installation" by Blaike Herzig.

Their collaborative set is an interesting and novel performance that moves from auto tuned R&B vocals over buzzing noise to feedback and chanting, from doomy drones and quiet piano movements to anthemic choral drag samples and back to static hiss.

Check out the video below of part of the GR†LLGR†LL and oFF set.

Asian Women On The Telephone

Asian Women On The Telephone are a brilliant Moscow based psychedelic art-punk noise band that I've been meaning to write about for ages but then I lost the edge on the situation and Meatbreak wrote them up over on the NFR blog.

Read all about them there.

They remind a little of Brightons very own P For Persia but with Dada-ist approach and weird ass helmets!

Download a bunch of Asian Women On The Telephones tracks over on the Free Music Archive.

Super Heroes Of BMX this saturday.

This is Saturday in Brighton.. I'll be there if the snow allows it!

Nattymari: Original Game Music

With a split tape with GuMMy†Be▲R hopefully out in December and a mix dropping on Tundra this week called THE INFLUENCE OF DECADENCE Nattymari is busy. This mix from a few weeks ago called Original Game Music is described as a.. "slowed up and dubbed mix of music that influences me." Download it from Soundcloud here.

By Fire
By Gun
By Knife
By Rope

4-Teen:

Nattymari presents Original Game Music by Nattymari

The //Tense// videos for "The Chain" and the remix!

//TENSE// - The Chain [Music Video] from Мишка Bloglin on Vimeo.

//TENSE// - The Chain (Mater Suspiria Vision Witch House Remix) from Мишка Bloglin on Vimeo.

(From the //Tense// 7" Turn It Off, released by Мишка.

Video by Tommyboy. Remix by Mater Suspiria Vision with remix video by Cosmotropia De Xam)

Go buy it and the t.shirt here.

Check the t.shirt on the left!! Who wouldn't want that!!