[Random records selection of the Week] part 1

Once a week I'll choose various records from many musical genres, so that you can check them out for yourself... I'll only specify the genre, the band's name and the respective record. If you want to download them, click on the album cover.


Artist: Sun Araw
Record: Beach Head
Label: Not Not Fun
Genre: Hypnagogic Pop
(released in 2008)



Artist: The Tuss
Record: Rushup Edge
Label: Rephlex
Genre: IDM / Breakcore
(released in 2007)



Artist: Melvins
Record: The Maggot
Label: Ipecac
Genre: Sludge Metal
(released in 1999)


Artist: Lunar Abyss Deus Organum
Record: Snovidenie
Label: Vresnit
Genre: Shamanistic Ambient / Ritual Industrial
(released in 2006)


Artist: Merzbow
Record: Metal Acoustic Music
Label: Extreme Records
Genre: Noise
(released in 1981)

...keep promoting music: buy records, go to concerts, etc. It is our advice.

Angerfist "Pissin' Razorbladez"

If you're into hardcore techno or gabber, you might like this. It's heavy, yeah (for some reason it's called "hardcore techno"). Its sound is filled with deep and heavy beats, atonal basses, Eminem's quotes and a nihilistic raver attitude.
Angerfist's mastermind is Danny Masseling, who's also a DJ.

Since Masseling could not handle performing live alone, he enlisted the help of friends to form Angerfist as a bona fide live act. Currently Angerfist consists of three people:

• DJ Angerfist (Danny Masseling)
• DJ Crucifier (Grzegorz Luzynski)
• MC Prozac
  

This is a boxset that consists of 2 cd's (Angerfist's first complete album) and also features a DVD. It was released in 2006. The 2 cd's have in total 31 tracks and the album's lenght is 146 minutes and 46 seconds. Deep brain washing this is, I tell you. My favourite tracks are the following: "Chaos and Evil", "Fuck off", "Nothing but the Darkside" and "Criminally Insane".
The two cd's are here: part 1 and part 2. Hope you like both and don't forget to wash very well your brain with these intense frequencies.

As tradition demands, I'll put some tracks below:

(this one is "Criminally Insane")

(this one is "Nothing but the Darkside")

(this one is "Fuck off")

Aphex Twin "Selected Ambient Works Volume II"

I consider this artist pure genius. "Why?" Because in all the "IDM" environment he can always blend, create and convert new sounds. His music's b.p.m. can be so high because of all the glitch involved with it and at the same time it can have a bass that flushes your ears until you notice one of your kidneys exploded - you don't care, after all it's Aphex Twin you're absorbing.
As a matter of fact, Selected Ambient Works II or S.A.W. II is more soft and relaxing than most of his other albums. Doesn't have all the amount of electricity that you can hear in some tracks in Drukqs; isn't so intense as some beats looped on 26 Remixes for Cash; features some of the ambient elements that can be found along some songs in Selected Ambient Works 85-92.
This album contains 2 cd's. I like both. Like the post I did before with Panda Bear's "Young Prayer", this album's tracks don't have title... In fact, they have, but Richard David James / Aphex Twin didn't want to insert the names on the album. You'll have to view them here. The 3rd song on the 1st disc, Rhubarb Song, I think, is seriously an ambient masterpiece (according to what I can hear with my ears).
If you want to hear this album, which is a good bet, click disc 1 and disc 2 then.

This is the cd's back cover.

I leave you here a song:

Otto Von Schirach "Maxipad Detention"

Imagine a gangster clown on the streets of Huntington Beach boosting sounds with his subwoofs, having a blast. People had their kidnies desintegrated due to the intense frequencies of the mad bass that this music offers us. Yes, I'm speaking of Otto Von Schirach. An amazing breakcore and IDM artist he is.
With this review, my target is his album released on 2006, which is called "Maxipad Detention". Even though I've heard better sounds of him on his myspace for sure, I really enjoy the glitches, the irony, the intense spasms that these waves sent to our ears.
Kind of somewhat dark, agressive in his own way, this album is great for IDM fans. It's like he's a gangster side of Aphex, that can feature more laughable horror in his music. Otto's a great artist, that's what I can assure you. He'll give you as much pleasure as neurotic headaches, that you'll salivate for more.
Let your ears bleed and enjoy this album. Click here.

Watch him below getting dirty