Trailblazer - (2015) Guyonetics CS

Recorded in Treviso, Italy and has plenty of Euro synth sound for that information to add some flavor to the overall image of the release. Still present is the vibrant but minimal electronic Kraut rock sound of previous releases but perhaps refined a bit further is the sense of space in the music the minimalism refined to create subtlety developing tension and release that allows these tracks to breath and drift in an almost infinite combination of repetitions, music that feels like it could go on forever always turning back into itself recreating evolving and returning without becoming tiresome. 

David West - (2015) Drop Out Of Collage CS

Weird atmospheric washy tape and electronics experiments intersect with shimmering jangly post punk pop. The recording is really something special being concerned with a high level of detail in terms of the stereo sonic output. 

Moon Dice - (2015) My Motel Room CS

A new Melbourne AU quartet with connections to other long running bands Ancients and Love of Diagrams etc. Moon Dice are another excellent addition to the already great crop of Melbourne jangly rock and pop bands. Moon Dice have a distinctive sound built around soft vocals, subtle psychedelic guitar flourishes and driving but not heavy drumming.

 

Unhappybirthday - (2015) Kraken CS

From Wismar Germany and offer something very nice in their approach to minimalist synth pop/melodic post punk. They have that upbeat sad song thing going that always feels so good. We can't help but think if Jeurgen Gleue and the 39 Clocks had made soundtracks for those early John Hughes films this is what it might sound like.

VA - (2015) Blasting Voice 2xLP

Double LP compilation with 18 unreleased tracks from 17 artist.
Compiled by Ashland Mines aka Total Freedom. 

Exclusive tracks:
A1 Dentist - Stacks   
A2 Dutch E Germ - Becoming Chaina   
A3 Black Hearted Diamond Boy - Nigerian Hair   
A4 E+E - Elysian Dream   
A5 DJ Yung Tellem - Soundlink   
B1 Dane Chadwick - 1   
B2 Unknown Artist - Witches Sunset   
B3 Jaws - Plastic Cup   
C1 Massacooramaan - Zapotecan Foster Care   
C2 Ryan Trecartin - Horn-Sex   
C3 Felix Lee - National Grid   
C4 Nguzunguzu - Harp Bell   
C5 Gum-Shoe - Got Paid   
D1 TF - Beat To Death (Burned Copy)   
D2 Ryan Trecartin - Songerpa   
D3 Bodyguard - Black And Red   
D4 Eruption Team - One In A Million   
D5 Violence - The Idea Of It Is More Potent300 pressed. 
So savage.

So, what’s happening now?

I just played a show the other night with my friend Why Be. We’ve done some stuff before, and we were talking about doing a remix for the first Night Slugs/Fade To Mind joint release. That’s planned for later this year. I really enjoy collaborating. Last year I put out a compilation with this punk label Teenage Teardrops. They wanted to do something outside of their normal game, and came to me because they thought I was some kind of voice in the dance music world—or the aspect of that world that they’re interested in anyway. We ended up releasing a double-LP called Blasting Voice. I took tracks from friends like Jaws, Massacoormaan, Diamond Black Hearted Boy… some old but a lot of new stuff too. As far as a dance record goes it’s a minor failure because there’s only like three songs that are danceable on it. A lot of it is more on the experimental side. It’s still a beautiful record, and it’s sold out anyway so don’t try to get it.

Bisybackson - (1997) B.S.C. Deth 7''

Bisybackson started around 1994, when Dan de Vriend met Curtis Freitag in downtown Sacramento. Although Curtis was a guitar player, he immediately took to the bass. They recruited another guitar player, Jason Racine (Razen) for the drums, and were off… a couple seven inches later, a couple of tours found them moved to Portland. Curtis’s drug problems were getting unmanageable, and Bisybackson took a break, not to come back. Curtis died of an overdose in 1999, and this band without his intuitive bass playing is nothing.

Bob Tilton - (1994) ...Wake Me When It's Springtime Again 7''

During 1993, before the musical genre that would become known as “emo” had started to trickle through to the UK’s fledgling hardcore scene, a little-known band from Nottingham, England called bob tilton (named after an American evangelist television star) recorded a 7 inch EP for Subjugation that would come to define the label’s identity and distinction.

Boys Club - (2007) Girls Of Today 7''

The second single by these Minneapolis garage poppers. The A side has girl back up vocals that remind me alot of The Lids. The B side was almost a ballad but came off as a really catchy pop song. There's plenty of grit in each song to balance the pop. If you liked the first single, you definitely want this. 

It's funny that Steve here doesn't dig The Fingers, because they sound what I think the Fingers were trying to go for at times. Excepting the fact that Boys Club are probably far more polite than Ralph and the Brothers White were. While "Girls of Today" is not the smash hit that "This Is My Face" was, it has an awkward charm all its own. In fact, Boys Club probably has the market cornered in lo-fi awkward white guy powerpoprock. That's not a bad thing, mind you. They're a classic example of the if-these-guys-can-do-it-anyone-can likability theory. You're honestly rooting for them, to get the girl, hit that note, finish that solo, get through the song in one piece...it's vicarious listening. Anyway, the Club add some female back-ups this time that I like quite a bit. This tune's OK with me. On the B-Side they up the raunch to GG levels with some nasty scuzz guitar...nah, I'm just kidding. They do a song about wanting to get a girl on the flip side. A little bit less charming but a little more awkward than "Girls of Today". I can't decide if that means I like it more or less right now...Overall, good record if youre into the Raspberries and Supercharger at the same time.

Bullets For Pussy - (1990) Penetration Boulevard EP 7''

Pre Drunks With Guns.

Danielson - (2006) LazyShip/ Goodyship 7''

Danielson is an American rock band from Clarksboro in East Greenwich Township, New Jersey, that plays indie pop gospel music. The band is known for Smith's squeaky, falsetto vocals, innovative musical arrangements, and matching nurse uniforms, "that act, according to Daniel, as 'visual reminders of the spiritual and emotional healing taking place' within audience members." During some performances Smith has "worn a nine-foot tall, hand-made nine-fruit tree to 'bear the good fruit,'" in reference to the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Danielson - (2006) Powership/ Smokeship 7''

"This was the year I stopped running away from home, picked up my acoustic guitar again and changed from being Dan back to Daniel. I woke up to the fact that I have an amazing family, an amazing childhood and I began to relate everything I was thinking and doing with this in mind... I began reading the Bible and praying again and songs and art started flowing. I would meet with my dad and talk philosophy and theology and I became a child again."

Dead Meat - (2010) The King 7''

The band's name suggests hostility, while signifying mortality, and rightly so: This is not happy music. Droning heavy psych-rock with sociopathic undertones might describe their sound as they seem to dwell in the dark recesses of the mind. For those of you with some demons to exorcise, Dead Meat might be your go-to shaman.

Dee Rangers - (1997) I Just Wanna Rock 'N' Roll 7''

Swedish Garage Rock band from Stockholm formed in 1995.

E.T. Habit - (2012) Venomous 7''

Who would have thought that our interplanetary invasion would happen when we were least expecting it, and with such an extensively fancy percussion unit? Chicago’s protozoic cellular mass of prog/psych outer space noise, E.T. HABIT has been inhabiting our secular sphere for many moons now, and we’re palpitating wildly in anticipation of their maiden vinyl forging on this debut 7” single. A nightmarish explosion of glitter and blood, culminating into their gut-wrenching, earth-moving early ‘70s je ne sais quoi, that can’t clearly be quantified with its Alice Cooper Band/Hawkwind comparisons so much as it’s theatrical ambiance.

Far-Out Fangtooth - (2012) The Thorns 7''

"Some of Far-Out Fangtooth’s early explorations with extensive noise jams and jangly pop are still apparent in their current output, although they’ve undeniably set out on a much darker path. They flirt with bleak goth-like sounds and imagery, while the hazy psychedelic undertone of 2013’s Borrowed Time LP provides the listener with an unexpected drone-like buzz." 

Ground Round - (1993) Confused And Unknown 7''

"Ground Round, what a horrible name. We constantly tried to change it but no one would let us.
We existed from 1991 to 1996. We put out four records, went on three tours across the United States, and played whenever we could in and around Santa Rosa, CA.
We acquired our first record deal when Gabe ran naked through Sonoma Coffee Company, therefore scoring 1,200 points in the “Win A Record Deal” scavenger hunt hosted by Kirbdog Records."

Ground Round - (1994) Lakeport 7''

Ground Round were sonically on par with Crimpshrine, Soup, and Unfun-era Jawbreaker.  As far as their subject matter of choice, GR hovered around similar terrain as the aforementioned, venting on relationships and everyman socio-political concerns, though nothing particularly heady.

Ground Round - (1995) Painting Your Vulgar Dreams 7''

Santa Rosa's Ground Round throws about every Bay Area influence into a blender. You can hear elements of Jawbreaker, J Church, The Potatomen and Pansy Division. Not surprising since bassist/vocalist Gabe Meline played in Tilt and the Mr. T Experience and drummer Adam Labelle played in the Potatomen.

Infinite Body & No Age - (2010) Bored Fortress - Year Four 7''

West coast light-breather Infinite Body emits a dense harmonic sound cloud that condenses in yr ear before evaporating into the ether. California DIY heroes No Age go minimal with “Wintry KK,” burrowing into tom-rolls and melodic distortion. Artwork by Cody De Franco.

Jennifer Herrema, Kurt Vile, Wino - (2012) Jennifer Herrema, Kurt Vile, Wino 7''

Jennifer Herrema from Black Bananas (and of Royal Trux/ RTX notoriety) teams with indie darling Kurt Vile and heavy music lifer Scott "Wino" Weinrich to interpret two classic "Stones jams".

Killer & Japanische Kampfhorspiele - (2006) Japanische Kampfhorspiele Vs. Killer 7''

Side-project of Junge, singer of legendary german punk band EA80! This time under his pseudonym KILLER, a split-7" with german Grind-Death-Punk Kult-Band JAPANISCHE KAMPFHÖRSPIELE!
...And what's the difference then between KILLER and KILLERLADY? Easy enough: As KILLERLADY he's using (or abusing) the lyrics of songs from other bands/artists, and writing new music to it. But as KILLER it's all from himself, lyrics and music. With his song "Dis-something" the KILLER fuses Discharge with a swinging Jazzbrush in an exothermic reaction. Distorted and pissed in less than 2 minutes.
While JAKA celebrate on their side with "Die Zombies Kommen" nothing less than the first socio-critical GRINDMUSICAL. Or the deconstruction of the whole metal scene? More than five minutes playing-time of absurd.

Lazy Magnet & Ren Schofield - (2005) Minopond 7''

"LAZY MAGNET, aka Jeremy Harris, American born in Sèvres same (!!!), is a veritable musical chameleon eating. Nobody can predict what will come out in record or play in concert: the noise of the dance, folk, pop, music room, the hard core, drone, the cold wave of doom , the electro-acoustic, metal, punk, the trash, etc.. In his first real album "He Sought For That Magic By Which All The Glory And Mystic Chivalry Were Made To Shine - or - Is Music Even Good?" he mixes all those genres even. LAZY MAGNET deserves that invented a genre name, like SGF (without fixed type) ... In a world more just and perfect LAZY MAGNET and his comrades as unsung Providence Work / Death, Noise Nomads or Geoff Mullen, play alongside their fellow Lightning Bolt in parks for outdoor concerts free to an audience of excited fans who know by heart their work."