For the Resurrected legendary Atonal Festival, Richard H. Kirk resurrected Cabaret Voltaire for the first time as sole live performer; see an excerpt and drop me a note if the full show appears .. a full review of the Festival can be found at Electronic Beats.
The Pop Group – Will They All Come Back ?
After the recent Reunion Tour and Rarites Collections issues & Reissue of “We Are Time” The Pop Group (i.e. Mark Stewart, Gareth Sager, Dan Catsis, Bruce Smith) announced a new Album for February 2015 recorded during the last two years and a batch of live dates in Japan, Australia and the States for the coming spring.
The title track “Citizen Zombie” can listened to here, the pledge is already on………….
David J : Book Advertisment
An in-depth interview/review/feature can be found here……….
Style Scott R.I.P.
Recently and suddenly gone is the semi-legendary Dub Syndicate mainforce & long-time On-U Collaborator Style Scott. October 11th the news reached me that these gentle percussive force which actually played on 41 releases I own and 27 I want (according to discogs stats) among countless others died.
Lincoln “Style” Scott 1955 – 2014 by Freak Ass E on Mixcloud
Style Scott was maybe best know for playing with The Dub Syndicate but he was also an integral part of nearly all early On-U Bands and projects i.e. Creation Rebel, Singers & Players, New Age Steppers and Playgroup and worked with nearly everyone centred around Adrian Sherwood’s Label one way or another in a supportive and non-egocentric way which shows due to the only Album actually featuring his name upfront is a collaborative one with Bill Laswell from 1997. Needless to say I gave it another spin while realizing what a untimely loss his death means.
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“An unnoticed revolution: In the last two decades of the twentieth century, music has been socially liberated from the grip of musicians and composers.”
Quoted from Francisco López; Towards The Blur (November 2011), originally published in the highly recommend Antibothis – Occultural Anthology Vol.4, pg. 101, December 2013.
ex / plastikman
Taken from the Plastikman live performance at Sonar, Barcelona June 2014.
Original version appears on the album ‘EX’ Digital/CD/LP & limited bundle.
See the Video here.
Nash The Slash “So Long and Thanks for all the Fish”
Canadian born Nash The Slash retired a few years ago, on May 10th, aged 66 (!) this senior of independent category crushing left completely.
For a personal sum-up of his career visit nashtheslash.com, his documented output can be found here……………..
Honour him if in need for a great evening & don’t miss out on his 1980’s “Children Of The Night” as a solid starting point.
SevCom 2014 : Babs Returning
Multi Pop Produktion : No sleep ’til Cottbus
There’s a new blog about the hilarious Frank Weghardt, probably best known as inspiration for the Weber & Schuster EP from 1990. This was released back in the day just after they won the Scharfrichter Price for their musicial cabaret.
Ralf Schuster meanwhile is still also otherwise active solo and in various formations…
Warum ist das Akkordeon Salon Orchester so wie es ist? Vier Lieder mit Erläuterung! from ralf schuster on Vimeo.
More songs and noises can be discovered at soundcloud …
Lo-Fi Semi Nostalgia for free… Unpaid Work
Some stuff I intended to mention (and praise) earlier comes in form of free downloadable releases. This should have been the the first one;
In March 2012 Jim Avignon released some more of charming minimal electro pop odes as in the truest meaning of the word: Unpaid Work.
Get it while it’s up and look around there’s quite a few more to find, nearly all self-published in true DIY spirits like back in the day..