Post-happymonday post and post-salute to the post-punk lo-fi Maraudeur from Geneva, Switzerland, who were swirling through England last week!

After some tapes and an orange flexidisc this is their first LP released by the Parisian Bruit Direct Disques, the association for brick throwers, worldwide.

The vid of Nothing Will Change was recorded by the Californian Oakland based The Grassy Null Studio on VHS. The recording studio has been supporting such bands like Meat Market, Froth or Charlie Megira through years

If a swimming pool scene had a match and described a band that would be the prime for the Maraudeur: Strange Afternoon In The Swimming Pool + Hesher

more mix and match

Hidden Track (split Maraudeur/Purpur Spytt) + Julie and Franc’s sexually aroused scene from Francois Ozon’s Swimming Pool.
Dust Dries on It’s Rest (Maraudeur) + Hot Rod‘s wacky pool scene in the direction of The Lonely Island trio.
Poor Creatures That We Are (split Maraudeur/Purpur Spytt) + Spielberg’s Jaws opening scene

ACID TECHNO : A WAY OF LIFE NOT A FASHION STATEMENT

A rebel, the founder of the Stay Up Forever record label and collective, which has been going against the mainstream since ’93.

Turning from the punk towards techno raves in the early 90s, started hosting-supporting squat and warehouse parties, thus created their own crowd and party scene in London. Linked up with the Conspiracy and Bedlam Sound System for Chris and his friends it was a forthright move to the Spiral Tribe and its traveller scene. Then they got involved in such free raves as Lechlade and Castlemorton Common Fest in ’92. Now it was really only within a reach to set up a record label which represents their sound and keeps up this network.

As the collective began with spinning some of those German producers’s records like Hardfloor (who can be considered as one of the pioneers of the acid sound) their own way led to the evolution of the acid techno: the fusion of goa, hard trance, techno and acid house which in time became fast and grungy; fine tuned by raw, anarchist vibes.

So this November the label celebrates the 25th anniversary of it’s existence, the never-ending 90’s, the everlasting raves.

#happyanniversary!

Retroflex Presents Liberator 25
11/11/17
Bloc.
London

Prophet and provocateur IAN SVENONIUS, the writer of books THE PSYCHIC SOVIET and CENSORSHIP NOW!!, who runs the cynic rock and roll band CHAIN & THE GANG,

in 1990 he was chosen „the most perfect boyfriend material” and got the title „SASSIEST BOY OF AMERICA” by teen girl mag Sassy, next year his Washington DC hc-punk band THE NATION OF ULYSSES released its debut album 13-POINT PROGRAM TO DESTROY AMERICA.

Later he tried to flee marketing culture with his psychedelic gospel group THE MAKE-UP. During their way they were hunted by mysterious government agencies as you can watch it in their film Blue Is Beautiful.

Now this sassiest boy introduces you to the art of ESCAPE-ISM with his brand new poetic one-man rock and roll show and album. This full show was shot in the Hungarian town Szeged this summer at JAZZ KOCSMA somewhere around Mullholland Drive

The album INTRODUCTION TO ESCAPE-ISM

will be released in November on Merge Records (US)

USA + EU TOUR OCT/NOV/DEC UK, Amsterdam, FRANCE, Munich, ITALY

London 18/11  Manchester 19/11  Glasgow 20/11  Nottingham 21/11

„I like rotten expensive arrogant self-destructive white male culture. Punk was too energetic and positive for me.” Ben Wallers

The Wall is recognized as one of the most famous concept albums of all time. Bass guitarist Roger Waters conceived the album as a rock opera during Pink Floyd’s 1977 In the Flesh Tour, when his frustration with the audience became so acute that he spat on them. Its story, which follows themes of abandonment and personal isolation, explores Pink, a character whom Waters modeled after himself and Syd Barrett who one time was the main songwriter of the band, but was fired owing to psychedelic behaviour in 1968. Later he turned into a silent mad. Well, Pink’s life begins with the loss of his father during the Second World War, and continues with abuse from his schoolteachers, an overprotective mother, and the breakdown of his marriage; all contribute to his eventual self-imposed isolation from society, represented by a metaphorical wall.

Ben Wallers said about: – I don’t find Roger’s lyrics embarrassing if I listen to The Wall with my Mom; but if I listen to Animals with my Dad, I get embarrassed and have to go to the toilet, sorry I mean bathroom.

Anyway Waters is the really interesting character for me. A hopeless case, an utter shit-head. Brilliant character actor and composer. But I have to confess it was burnt into me at age 11/12/13 when I got into ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, ‘A Collection of Great Dance Songs’, ‘The Final Cut’ and ‘The Wall’. I loved them unquestioningly.

So much so that he and Alastair Mackinven also from Country Teasers now show you THE DARK SIDE OF THE WALL on their song for song interpretation triple album under name of THE STALLION.

Apropos of their work they quote inaccurately the cop who shuts the jailcell gate on Woody Allen’s character in „Deconstructing Harry”: – Let me give you some advice: YOU’RE IN DEEP SHIT.

It will release soon on IN THE RED RECORDS (US)

GREAT BUY, CRUEL WORLD!

South Italian wild garage rock and roll band THE DEVILS

where the drummer shows herself as a nun and the guitarist as a priest

in these video they make occult, violent and cruel acts like did the Holy Inquisition

but that dog was fed with so pointed fork that was dangerous like their new album

IRON BUTT will be soon on VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS (CH)

French psych garage rock and roll band JACK OF HEART and Canadian country rock and roll band STRAWBERRY SUN in BUDAPEST at RNR666 PARTY 17/9/2017 > CLICK

AND THE EURO TOUR VIDEO

Not trivilal that Piero Ilov (JOH) and Jeff Clarke (SS) are members of Canadaian garage rock band DEMON’S CLAWS.

Ha azt gondolod, hogy az UH FEST 2017 csak és kizárólag a Zefyr-szerű zene-gourméknak érdekes, akkor kábé ugyanazt gondolod, amit én magam is gondoltam: egészen tegnapig. Fogtam ugyanis magamat, felültem a csepeli hévre, ahol az első velem szembe jövő koszos punkgyerek kezébe adtam a vasárnap induló UH Fest részletes programfüzetét. Kiváncsi voltam, hogy lesz-e az idei UH fellépők között olyan, akire felcsillan majd a szeme. Az alábbi cikkben a csepeli punkkal lefolyt beszélgetésem olvasható.

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Makoto Kawabata évtizedek óta él a német és angolszász hard-rock / prog-rock bűvöletében. A hetvenes évek végén Osakában már a punk és a new wave uralta a zenei színteret és ugyan Makoto ekkoriban vágott bele a zenekar- és hangszerépítésbe (szó szerint), de nem nagyon bánta, hogy a kedvenc nyugati zenéi hatására írt zenéi a barátain kívül aligha fognak mást érdekelni a környezetében. Azóta megszámolhatatlan kollaboráció (például egy kevésbé híres együttműködés az Afrirampóval) és albumhossznyi zenei meditáció nyélbe ütése után a mai formájában nagyjából húsz éve működő Acid Mothers Temple bárhova megy, megtalálja a barátait. Sőt, ha úgy tetszik, akkor az Acid Mothers Temple esetében zenekart és közönséget egyaránt a kontextustól és a zenei műfajtól független élmény hajtja egymás felé, azaz a legtisztább értelemben vett pszichedelikus élmény.

Nem is nagyon lehet meglepődni Makoto Kawabata turnénaplóján, melyben többszörösen felbukkanó motívumok például: lemezboltozás, pénz híján szállodai vízforralóban való főzés, bolhapiacozás, gitárgyújtogatás és kölcsönös tisztelet a közönséggel. Érdemes megnézni egyébként az Amoeba által készített Acid Mothers Temple epizódot, ha eddig még nem jött volna meg a kedv zeneboltozni a zenekarral. Szóval egy biztos: pénteken az A38 hajón jófej audiofilek játszanak jóej audiofileknek, csalódás kizárt!