Total - Exploded Star Sad Servant

Another ripper from Mr. Bower.

Michal Majewski!

I was shocked and saddened tonight to learn of Michal Majewski's death over the past weekend, while hiking in Squamish, BC.
This news report has more details.

Michal was a really great guy & a lot of fun to be with, as well as being extremely talented artistically & a major asset to Oshawa's music scene. We've featured his poster work here before, and I would encourage anyone not familiar with his art to check out some highlights here.

M.J. Harris & Bill Laswell - Somnific Flux

For those into drones and dark ambient, this 1995 collaboration should do the trick.

Two long tracks. Perfect for lonely nights. Play loud.

M.J. Harris & Bill Laswell - Somnific Flux

Terminal Cheesecake - Pearlesque Kings of the Jewmost

Re-upped @ 320

The album sharity thing is not going so well here, I'm afraid.

The problem, such as it is, is that every album I consider including here - and I've gone through a good 12 or so in the last few weeks - winds up being available online somewhere else (and sometimes in better quality too).

It's a nice problem to have I guess, and it speaks to the wonderful times music fans live in these days, but it also means I've 'wasted' a lot of time looking into these records and finding links, only to toss them out as posts because I find a site already offering them.

With Terminal Cheesecake's "Pearlesque Kings of the Jewmost" (originally released on World Serpent in 1992) though, I may have finally cracked that elusive nut - the record is available at Sickness Abounds --

but in 128kps to my 192 320. Ha ha!

Oft compared to the Butthole Surfers, but with more of an ear to the dancefloor, these guys always came with mind-melting tunes & an all-or-nothing approach, but never quite as successfully IMHO as here. It's a real shame it's so hard to find.

I recommend clearing your plate & getting comfy before putting this on. You may even want to lie down.

From their MySpace page -

...the band were then back in 1991 with the heavy-heavy sound of 'Pearlesque Kings Of The Jewmost'. This album finally saw the band letting out all of their dub tendencies and tracks like 'Coils' and 'Drug' were pinned down by solid dub B-lines and grooves whilst the sample mayhem continued with tracks such 'Neu Seeland', a fine re-working of the Krautrock number (Neu! Seeland / New Zealand - geddit???!!!??), which saw Gordon's passion for late night talk-radio phone-in casualties being sampled and dispatched to vinyl for evermore.

The album also saw a more rocked-out side to the band as well, with tracks like 'Obscured' (another Pink Floyd cover - being a combination of two tracks from Obscured by Clouds) showing that Gordon (as Russ before him) certainly didn't fuck around when it came to playing the six-string. This album was put out on the reputedly dark surrounds of World Serpent (more known for it's EBM tendencies, Current 93, Sol Invictus, Nurse With Wound, etc than psychedelic drugged-out cockney dub fans) and this to this day is quite a rare find. Get the CD - it has an extra track.

I hope you enjoy.

Terminal Cheesecake - Pearlesque Kings of the Jewmost

Pruane2Forever Vs. 50Cent!

You may remember Pruane2Forever, who appeared here last November? Well, believe it or not, someone has finally responded to the Sexman's criticisms and the responder is none other than 50Cent!

Children of the Atomic Bomb!

I saw this the other day, linked on Metafilter, and the pictures just aren't leaving my head.

Survivors - in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the time the U.S. dropped atom bombs on their cities - drawing and painting their memories of that experience, part of a project by UCLA Professor, Dr. James N. Yamazaki (who has a book by the same name). Simply put, these pictures, and their brief explanations, convey the horror of those days in August 1945 better than any photos or written descriptions I have ever encountered.

Truly, this is the art therapy of atrocity, taken to a far extreme. You are warned.