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January 2010

There was so many animal tracks to to choose from that I needed some kind of theme to filter through them all. Eventually, I came up with this...

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According to Chinese legend, the twelve animals quarreled one day as to who was to head the cycle of years. The gods were asked to decide and they held a contest: whoever was to reach the opposite bank of the river would be first, and the rest of the animals would receive their years according to their finish.

All the twelve animals gathered at the river bank and jumped in. Unknown to the ox, the rat had jumped upon his back. As the ox was about to jump ashore, the rat jumped off the ox's back, and won the race. The pig, who was very lazy, ended up last. That is why the rat is the first year of the animal cycle, the ox second, and the pig last.


1. Rat Race - The Specials
2. Tiny Oxen - The Bronzed Chorus
3. The Tiger - DJ Shadow
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Her recent team-up with AGF has once again brought Gudrun Gut to mind as the legendary doyenne of Germany's experimental music scene. Some thirty years ago Gut was part of an early incarnation of Einstürzende Neubauten and shortly after founded her all-girl new wave group Malaria!, a band whose influence has lasted until this day, with Chicks on Speed turning the Malaria! song Kaltes Klares Wasser' into a top-ten hit in 2001.

Over her entire career Gudrun Gut has been on the look-out for new music styles, famously collaborating with artists like Blixa Bargeld, Klaus Schulze (as part of Din A Testbild), Anita Lane, and founding the open collaboration platform Ocean Club, whose members include Thomas Fehlmann, Sun Electric, Daniel Meteo and Chica Paula.

Since 1997 Gut further runs the productive Monika Enterprise label, successfully promoting a mainly female roster of artists, including Barbara Morgenstern, Masha Qrella and Cobra Killer.
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This week, we give you rocks, you give us sand, we give you water, you stir the concrete. We are building a new city! Scaffolding, plumbers, hammer, anvil, cranes, build and build up the houses, skyscrapers, then populate them with bakers, chimney sweeps, dogs.

Inspiration:
German composer Paul Hindemith’s 1930 play for children “Wir bauen eine Stadt”, as interpreted 50 years later by Holger Hiller and Thomas Fehlmann, both members of Hamburg new wave outfit Palais Schaumburg and released on cassette only by avant-garde funster label Ata Tak.

Gibst Du mir Steine, geb ich Dir Sand. Schau ich dich an!

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# > Australian artist or release
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Bernd Schurer - Vibration Recording Of Aeration
(“Construction Sonor” 2xCD compilation - 2004, Pro Helvetia)

The Nits - Buildings
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Die Goldenen Zitronen – Börsen Crashen
Album: Die Entstehung Der Nacht – Medium: CD – Datum: 16/10/09 – Label: Buback

Die Goldenen Zitronen – Bloß Weil Ich Friere
Album: Die Entstehung Der Nacht – Medium: CD – Datum: 16/10/09 – Label: Buback

Jemina Pearl – So Sick
Album: Break It Up – Medium: CD – Datum: 20/10/09 – Label: ECSTATIC PEACE!

Jemina Pearl – D Is For Danger
Album: Break It Up – Medium: CD – Datum: 20/10/09 – Label: ECSTATIC PEACE!

Cobra Killer – Hang Up The Pin Up (feat. Murph, Phillip Virus, J. Mascis, Thurston Moore)
Album: Uppers & Downers – Medium: CD – Datum: 23/10/09 – Label: Monika Enterprise

Cobra Killer – Schneeball in die Fresse (feat. Die Prinzen, Jon Spencer)
Album: Uppers & Downers – Medium: CD – Datum: 23/10/09 – Label: Monika Enterprise

Wavves – Mickey Mouse (Free Download)
Download – http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Wavves/track/Mickey_Mouse

Bill Wells / Annie Whitehead / Stefan Schneider / Barbara Morgenstern – Brown Recluse
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♫ Power playe:
Psychoformalina - Jak ogień
Cobra Killer - Hello Celebrity
Miss Ueki - Kyoto
♫ Płyty tygodnia:
Spięty - Antyszanty
Breakestra - Dusk Till Dawn

Den vollständigen Artikel und eine Preview des Albums findest du hier

Cobra Killer verstehen sich eindeutig als Band. Dennoch schwankten sie in den Jahren seit ihrem Debüt 1998 erfolgreich uneinsichtig zwischen Elektro und Rock. Mit ihrem neuen Album “Uppers and Downers” kredenzen die beiden Berlinerinnen die vielleicht gelungenste Melange der Stile. Ob die knarzige Bassline aus dem Opener “Hello Celebrity” nun direkt aus dem Computer kommt oder doch mit einer Gitarre fabriziert wurde, ist egal. Was zählt ist die Wirkung: der Sound klingt auch in seinen digitalsten Momenten dreckig und riecht nach dem eingetrockneten Rotwein, mit dem nach Cobra-Killer-Konzerten gewöhnlich der Bühnenboden sowie die Kleider von Gina V. D’Orio und Annika Line Trost getränkt sind. Der Fusel löst die eingetrockneten Aromen längst vergangener Rock-, Punk- und Wave-Konzerte...



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After some sucessful Pre-ordering & CD shopping I've come into the acquisition of 30 new CDs. I don't know if I'll like some of them and with others there's a strong indication that I probably will. Update: While I listen to these I'm putting them all in nice neat little boxes.

Awesome:
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delerious: Awesome album; stylistically varied all on a metal base. My favourite track keeps shifting... the Russain stomp of 'Vodka Inferno', the retirggered vocals floating around in 'Bedlam Sticks' the flat-out greatness of 'A Tapdancer's Dilema'. It's all good.
Skeletonbreath - Eagle's Nest, Devil's Cave: Awesome album; I think they sound a bit like Estradasphere crossed with Deadweight in an instrumental stripped-down kind of sense. Violin + Bass + Drums instrumentalising all over the shop.

Good:
Skindred - Roots Rock Riot: This album's good. At first I thought it was a bit dull as nothing immeadiately grabbed me…

Andrew Morrison:
Dandelion Radio marks the 5th anniversary of John Peel's death with "Peel Legends" month in October. Andy's 3-hour show features brand new sessions from past session guests on John's BBC Radio 1 show. You'll hear exclusive material from Eat Static, Davey MacManus (of The Crimea), The Aphrodisiacs, Decoration and Martin Carr, as well as some classic tracks from Extreme Noise Terror. On top of all this is a "New Legends" session from Atomizer, whom Andy feels John would've approved of. You'll also hear a New Order jukebox track from their 1998 Peel session; Teresa and Scott's monthly selections; and details of the 2009 Festive Fifty.

Jeff Grainger:
Jeff will be featuring two 'New Legends' Sessions for his October Show. First two songs from Clutter (There should have been three but the CD player buggered up!) recorded exclusively for the show. Whilst wolfram wire 'curates' the second exclusive and invites his friends Roj (Broadcast) Kristian Goddard (Woman…