KaS Product

French (kiss) coldwave. (=) French Koldwave? Just got their first album 'Try Out' ('82) for $100 on ebay. I said I wasn't going to buy records before I went to America, but fuck that. I'm buying this+ 'By Pass'.
I said I'm not gonna buy records at all when I'm in America, but fuck that too. I'm going to limit what I can buy. Just rare, dark, European music from the early 80's.

 Oh boy, I forgot that this is totally maybe the best music ever and everyone else should just retire.

A Split Second- Flesh/Rigor Mortis

Another fine Belgium band. A Split Second.

Guyer's Connection

Great song with a great title, by a great band, reissued by a great label (Medical Records). Swiss synth scape from the early 80's. Pogo of Techno. Should have thought of that myself. So good. Discoqueen II from their newly reissued s/t record. Mandatory.

Maggi Payne- Flights of Fancy

A very beautiful piece from composer Maggi Payne's computerized music experiments from 1984-87. Trance music. An enTrance into another dimension. Payne was a dancer herself and Composed for a unique dance/video project collaboration with experimental video maker Ed Tannebaum for a series of performances called Technological Feets. See the figure in this figure and go figure

FACTRIX

San Francisco industrial shavings circa 1980.
A sample. tss tss tss Seance psych:

JK FLESH (/GODFLESH)

FLESH!
Say it 10 times. It begins to lose it's meaning and sound weird!
I like Godflesh. I'm not really into Jesu. Justin Broadrick is the common thread between the two, and has a new project called JK Flesh. The record Posthuman just came out and it's huge. Big, crushing, massive drums. Plummeting. Godflesh fans rejoice!



And while we're at it. Streetcleaner.

AMBER LONDON

I was confused when I found out about Amber London. Her EP is called 'The 1994 EP', and it sounds like it's straight out of '94. The video's look like they're from '94. I don't mind. I like '94. It was arguably one of the best years in music history.
This is from 2012. This is some past tense perfection.
Anyways, I don't use the word 'dope' often, but that's what Amber's flow is. Her style, the speed, the chill, it's all dope.
This is G-Funk. Girl Funk, baby

The Lost Weekend- Billy Wilder

Possibly one of the greatest films ever made. Billy Wilder needs no introduction here, when you're in my house. This film is the most brutal film, ever, about alcoholism or any substance abuse for that matter, probably because it doesn't aim to shock, like film nowadays do. A subject that's very close to home for me.
So amazingly good and gripping and full of Wilder magic.

L'Argent- Robert Bresson

There's a sequence from 'Pickpocket' somewhere on this blog. Bresson is one of my favourite filmmakers. Tied with Bergman and Herzog. I recently re watched L'Argent (thanks to Melbourne Cinematheque) and it made me like it even more.

EL-P/AB-SOUL/KILLER MIKE= HIP HOP WINS!

It's been a big couple of weeks for hip hop music. Or at least, the hip hop music that really speaks to me. Don't get me wrong, I love a lot of the myriads of millions of hip hop bubbles floating around the intersphere, but at the end of the day, we spend more time in our heads and hearts than we do in the club.
Terrorist threats' is the best track of Ab-Soul's Control System. And Ab-Soul is the best rapper in the Black Hippy crew. These are just opinions.
Check out the video. Featuring Danny Brown and Jhene Aiko (!) and the killer chorus line of
"IF ALL THE GANGS IN THE WORLD UNIFY/WE STAND A CHANCE AGAINST THE MILITARY TONIGHT"

 EL-P!!!! El Producto. Nuff said. Produced the entirety of his own Cancer For Cure and Killer Mike's
R.A.P Music. Both so good.
  Tougher Colder Killer
  Southern Fried

Shannon-Let the Music Play

Freestyle is a huge love of my life. This started it all

Cindy Crawford /K.D Lang Vanity Fair shoot

The 1993 cover of Vanity Fair. Wowed me. Made me happy. Probably influenced me. I felt like I was both of them.

SIC

I'm loving my copy of Dark Entries reissue of a compilation of songs by 80's Belgium cold wave band SIC. The record is called 'Thought noises' and I highly recommend it.

The Vanishing

I lived in San Francisco in 2002. There were amazing bands and venues on every corner, between there and Oakland. The Coachwhips, Erase Errata, Deerhoof, Oxbow, Tussle, Hella, Numbers,  The Vanishing and many, many more.
I got to see all those bands, lots.
The Vanishing are so hauntingly good. I just came across 'Songs For Psychotic Children' tonight, when I was looking for a record to wash the dishes to, and I stumbled upon it in my collection and, now my hands are all warm and mood is sombre.
I'm very lucky to have seen them.

White walls

Malaria! You You

Malaria! Possibly my most favourite and influential band of all time.
We share the same German blood.