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Boring? Listen to Black Metal Intros!
Drew Daniel (Matmos) under the name of The Soft Pink Truth has made a very funny album with a bunch of aberrant electronic covers of black metal classics. Now here is a mix of black metal intros/outros by him in order to hype his album.
Intros: Sodom – In the Sign of Evil, Beherit – Tireheb, Blasphemy – Winds of the Black Gods, Celtic Frost – Human, Striborg – Foreboding Silence (Intro 1.), Beherit – The Oath of Black Blood, Blasphemy – Ross Bay, Bathory – Storm of Damnation, Striborg – Black Desolate Winter, Negura Bunget – Ceasuri Rele, Rotting Christ – Ach Golgotha, Striborg – Foreboding Silence (Intro 2), Striborg – Embittered Darkness / Isle De Morts, Mayhem – In Memoriam, Morbid Angel – Blessed Are the Sick
Outros: Sodom – In the Sign of Evil, Sarcofago – INRI, Mortiis – Unreleased, Striborg – Foreboding Silence, Striborg – Black Desolate Winter, Apathia – Sepulcrum, Mayhem – The True Legends in Black, Bathory – The Winds of Mayhem
about the album + original tracks
Mr. Pop Under Torture
„Justin Biber is the future of rock’n’roll” – said Iggy Pop
after an easy chat with specialists of the Amnesty International
„The overall goal of this campaign is to try to influence people’s ideas on the use of torture. According to surveys, a shocking number of people believe that “torture may sometimes be useful” ; more than 36% of people even think that torture is justified in some cases. This is unacceptable, and we illustrate this reality with the message that a man who is tortured will say anything in order to escape this awfulness, using provocative images and statements to attract public attention. We would therefore also like to make it clear that the statement attributed to Iggy Pop that he believes Justin Bieber is the future of rock and roll does not represent Iggy Pop’s personal opinion but was part of the creative process for this campaign and was intended to be ironic. The image has been removed.”
Amnesty International Belgium French speaking section
Dadaist Dance Party with a Little Marsh Fever
Here are the recent RNR666 Party’s pics. There were two great French bands. Badaboum is like a Neue Deutsche Welle band infected with Malaria. Unfortunately their show was very short, because the bass guitar got spoiled on fore-part of their show, and there wasn’t another one.
Bonne Humeur Provisoire is a Dadaist dance band. Their instruments are unseeable on the pics. They have a big table with keyboards and lots of weird gadgets.
pics by gyerage
Keith Moonshine Show
Iggy Pop has made a special cover album 2 years before. His label refused to release it. They would have preferred that he does a rock album with popular punk songs because the money is rather in it, than in these old-fashioned melodies. This is a strange point of view because the original performers of his covers sold vast number of records. Finally the album called Aprés was released by himself in 2012.
Now you can listen to the original songs. There are 5 French chansons by Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, Henri Salvador, George Brassens and Joe Dassin. Originally those were recorded between 1946 and 1975. The oldest one is a Cole Porter song which was recorded in 1929.
Mr. Pop said about his work: “All popular music forms of today get their strength from the beat. The beats imitate the human heartbeat and that is where the power lies. But before the birth of the blues there was another form of popular song, in which the timing comes from the human breath and the feelings are much more about emotion. I’ve always loved this other feeling, one that is intimate, sometimes a little sad, and does not try to beat me on the head.”
1. Iggy Pop – Everybody’s Talkin (2012) 2. Joe Dassin – Et si tu n’existais pas (1975, right corner with newspaper) 3. Serge Gainsbourg – La javanaise (1962, above Dassin) 4. Harry Nilsson – Everybody’s Talkin (1969, sitting on a barrier) 5. Yoko Ono – I’m Going Away Smiling (2009, lying on a piano) 6. Edith Piaf – La vie en rose (1946, with accordeon) 7. George Brassens – Les passantes (1972, on the road) 8. Henri Salvador – Syracuse (1962, with guitar) 9. Cole Porter – What Is This Thing Called Love? (1929, performed by Leslie Hutchinson. Porter is sitting by a piano.) 10. Beatles – Michelle (1965, 4 backs) 11. Frank Sinatra – Only The Lonely (1958, like Jesus)
Not enough punk? Porter, Piaf, Brassens and Gainsbourg are among the greatest punks for ever.
Nouveaux Vague Francaise
NEXT RNR666 PARTY
24 JUNE 9PM BUDAPEST TRAFIK KLUB
BADABOUM – French Neue Deutsche Welle infected with Malaria
+ full concert video playlist +
BONNE HUMEUR PROVISOIRE – Residents of Tristan Tzara’s hat from Negativeland, or Neue Dada Welle
Dadaboum
Carcassonne is a beautiful town in the Languedoc region in France whose main attraction is a high wall that prevents Bonne Humeur Provisoire from going into the town. This duo has turned electronic musical DIY into a highly irritating tool among its neighbours, who are more interested in tasting good cheese and paté of the region than finding out how it is possible, even in the country of the grandeur, to spin in only one wash the extravagance of Tic et Tac’s way, llulabies for hiperactive children and a taste for Dadaism that makes Tristan Tzara sane in comparison. Bonne Humeur Provisoire sounds as if a poltergeist phenomenom had taken control of a Martian killer of the 80’s, and sings and swears as Robbie the Robot
When performing, the group likes to externalize their absolute lack of complexes and their still unexplained passion for blue, and they make up for their shortsightedness by pressing all the keys on their synthesizers and modified toys at the same time. The resulting cacophony is excellent and has the vigorous beauty of an automaton that goes too far if it is wind up just a little. And however, in Carcassonne, people don’t even know what’s going on. Mon dieu!
In Budapest with a French Neue Deutsche Welle band, Badaboum on next Tuesday (24 June, 9 pm) at Trafik Klub by RNR666. Ticket: 1000. Facebook
„It’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it”
„when people I know ask me what my band is like I tell them,
‘it’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it.”
Gentle Friendly started when David took some scrapped drums and guitars out of a skip in East-London. Cleaned the instruments and invited Daniel to “come and mess with the stuff” while he played his broken Casio MT-40. Eventually the guitars stayed out of use. Very playful experimental pop. Maybe like the early Animal Collective. or Deerhoof. Full album stream
KAUA’I O’O A’A LP or Digital on Fat Cat Rec
Black Metal in Soft Pink Mood
Extremity on the cube. A gay professor of literature
has made one of the most interesting cover albums ever, titled
Why Do the Heathen Rage?
(Electronic Profanations of Black Metal Classics)
The cover art looks as if it was designed by a Satanist Tom of Finland.
Because of it one of the label main distributors
has refused to carry the record.
Out now on Thrill Jockey Records (US)
The Soft Pink Truth is the solo alter ego of Drew Daniel, one half of Baltimore-based electronic duo Matmos. Mr. Daniel has taught the history of electronic music at the San Francisco Art Institute and a sound art seminar at Harvard. He now teaches in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University. He has written a book about industrial-experimental-electronic band Throbbing Gristle; released a similar album in 2004: Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth?) which consists of house covers of classic hardcore and punk songs; produced remixes for Björk, Herbert, Grizzly Bear, Dat Politics and more. And he is a black metal fan.
Black metal is a very special subgenre of heavy metal. It was born on 1 November 1982 by British band Venom. That day the band’s second album titled Black Metal was released. Strange fact, but Venom’s music was fast, harsh and primitive rock and roll rather than heavy metal at that time. It stood nearer Motörhead or Ramones, than Judas Priest or Iron Maiden. As special features their lyrics had dark, occult and devilish themes. But Venom’s music and texts were refined and gentle compared with the subsequent, more and more extreme bands. Today’s black metal bands’ music is just like a mix of noise of coffee grinders and sounds of a pig-killing. Unfortunately some bands and many fans take the Satanist rubbish seriously. But the blackest black metal bands are adherents of white supremacist and Nazi ideologies. The words beget acts. In this case their fruits: violence, church arson, suicide, murder. All these in welfare states of North-Europe mainly. And they say always: I did it only in self-defence.
And then this man resolved to make a peculiar electronic black metal tribute album. And who was the first man whom he invited to cooperate in this? Antony Hegarty (Antony and the Johnsons). By the way, the others: Jenn Wasner from indie-folk rock duo Wye Oak, Terrance Hannum from drone-metal band Locrian, his Matmos partner M.C. Schmidt, Irish composer and vocalist Jennifer Walshe and more.
And the music? Well, it’s not an easy pop album. A Mix of electro-industrial, drum’n’bass, trip hop, house and EBM. It came Kraftwerk, Björk, Madonna and Leather Strip to my mind. Some covers are spiced with samples of house hits. The album requires a good piece of sense of humour. At first it was very strange, but as I listen to it repeatedly, so like it increasingly. But „Who in the world wants to hear this?” Nobody, basically. Black metal people aren’t going to like it because it’s faggoty disco, but actual dance music people aren’t going to like it because it’s weird people screaming about Satan.” (Drew said this in a Pitchfork interview.)
Venom + Sarcofago covers
The album not requires know of the original songs, but you can listen to those here. There you can read about some words about the bands: Venom, Beherit, Sarcofago, Sargeist, Darkthrone, AN, Mayhem, Hellhammer and Impaled Northern Moonforest.
Keith Moonshine Show
Black Originals of Soft Pink Covers
The Soft Pink Truth has made a peculiar electronic cover album of black metal classics. Here are the originals with two covers.
Tracklist and some words about the bands >
Total Punk News
„Give up your dreams. Commit suicide.”
LIFE STINKS – Portraits 7″ on Total Punk Records (US)
San Francisco’s kings of misanthropy are back with two drummers.
When the band formed all members selected instruments they had never played before.
In the manner of Flipper, Stooges, Germs and Velvet Undergound.
But what were the first steps on this way?
– Chad (singer, also in Outdoorsmen): I heard “Beat On The Brat” on the radio
when was fourteen or so and went, “Whoa!”
– Vinnie (drums): I was hanging in my friend’s garage one evening smoking pot
and drinking 40s, and my friend at the time, Jon Scott, brought in this tape
he had dubbed off his brother and we listened to it about thirty times in a row.
It was Minor Threat’s discography.
Later that night when we were done hanging out
I broke into the garage and stole the tape.
LUMPY & THE DUMPERS – Bat 7″ also on Total Punk
St.Louis Blues Trash in D-Beat, 1-2-fuck-u
Astral Gunk Soupcans With Double Crosss
CROSSS is a Canadian proto-metal/psych garage hard rock band. And they are really great! Their two split vinyls, a 7″ with garage punk band Astral Gunk
and an 8″ with garage punk band Soupcans, (but in this case their song is like an early Hellhammer track)
were released recently. The first on Pleasence, the second one on Bruised Tongue Records.
A Little Big Man Died
Jazz singer Little Jimmy Scott died at his age of 88. His most famous performance was in the last episode of Twin Peaks, where he has sung Sycamore Trees. Lyrics: David Lynch, Music: Angelo Badalamenti
He suffered from Kallmann’s syndrome, a rare hereditary condition, that preventing him from reaching puberty, he stopped growing, and his voice never changed from a boy soprano’s. He got his start singing in the church choir. He first rose to fame when he sang lead in the Lionel Hampton Band for 1950’s hit „Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool.” He went in solo in 1951. Along the way, he gained the praise of such peers as Ray Charles, Billie Holiday and Nancy Wilson. His career faded by the late 1960s and he returned to his native Cleveland to work as a hospital orderly, shipping clerk and as an elevator operator in a hotel. He came back in the limelight in the 1990s through Lou Reed, who recruited him to sing back-up vocals on his song „Power and Glory” on his album Magic and Loss. Throughout his six-decade-plus career, Scott also performed with the likes of Michael Stipe, Antony & the Johnsons, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus and Quincy Jones, among many others.