Category Archives: Breaks

Ghostband | Grime Synthesis

Got that little scamp! Ghostband is not a band! It's a kid in a candy store smearing his tunes with glittering melodies and evil plans to put you on one leg. And before you know it you are in the middle of a breakcore massacre.

Ghostband is throwing out self released recordings since 2011 but came first into my consciousness with his Tape Release Acid Deco which got some promotion via the legendary Bleep Store (Which is an offshoot from Warp Records as far as I'm aware). It had "Acid" in it's name, so what could you do wrong by grabbing it. But it sure wasn't an Acid Album. It reminded me somehow of Venetian Snare's early sample based Breakcore mayhems, that always contained this errant wicked humor. But it wasn't a Breakcore Album by definition. Instead it took all these ingredients and tossed them around with a very playful attitude.

Grime Synthesis takes this musical diversity even further (let alone that it's not a Grime Album). It feels like AFXs Donkey Rhubarb on heavy rotation. Rhythmically it feels like a bouncing ball that refuses to listen to the laws of gravitation and while the melodies always start kinda fluttering around friendly, you know that this ain't gonna end in peace.

Various Vegetables Radio #58 | Zanderhythm Tape Label Special

Yay, weekend is near. Time to dance on your couch to the warm beats of your tapedeck. That’s why we just pick up all the old tapes from Vodor L. Zeck’s back catalog and make a little Zanderhythm Tape Label Special. And then there’s also the “Tape Summit” tape label market on Sunday where Zeck gonna have his big sell out.

Check the Zeck at www.zanderhythm.bandcamp.com


TRACKLIST:

1. songsaboutsexism: drunknsquirrels
2. vodor l zeck:berg: arboctamoz
3. philops:excelsior pils: The Great Escape
4. Acid druid: Winter_Acid_Dreamland_Side-B_excerpt
5. vodor l zeck: drone006
6. Kevin Polzer:Deaer: Im not playing
7. Acid Druid: Womb_to_Tomb
8. Missqulater: Twinky
9. Goblin Shaman: Wisdom_Keef
10. Acid Druid: Taranaki Mountain
11. Acid Druid: Mead Odyssey
12. Missqulater: About Aventure
13. Machine Mask: jack burton
14. Kennel Rick: hereupon
15. Acid druid: Emerald Forest Of The Gnomes
16. Beatwife: Doorkisser
17. Die BLutige Hand : 1
18. The Coloured Chaos: Dawn (with Manic Mailman)
19. Eutechnik: I9
20. End of Growth: Population
21. vodor l zeck: springacid_6
22. Die Blutige Hand: Greater
23. ZeckDBH: AAATake3
24. Kinskop: Klaubstaade
25. ZeckDBH: 060_02
26. Kurihara/vodor l zeck: System Of Moabit
27. Premium Bananen: KarlshorstRichtungHauptstrasse
28. Premium Bananen: Urwelcome


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Various Vegetables Radio # 57 | May I disturb you?

Autumn is here and it is raining cats, dogs and fresh releases. Thus, we continue to follow the red path of our last show and continue to hurl brand new stuff around your ears. And to extend our and your ear canals even further we gonna act a bit more brutal this time. Between noisy Kraut-Ambient, Oldschool-Future-Breaks and catchy Braindance, we keep all knobs up to eleven. So stop collecting autumn leaves, It’s time to dig in the mud.

Featuring hot new tunes by: Zombie Zombie, James Holden and The Animal Spirit, Gajek, Locust Toybox, Aleksi Perälä and many more…


TRACKLIST:

Roberto Auser: Theme from Another World Pt 1 [Bear Funk]
Zombie Zombie: Hippocampe
James Holden and The Animal Spirits: Thunder Moon Gathering [Border Community]
Holden : ||: a Circle Inside a Circle Inside :|| [Border Community]
Gajek: Trage Es Weit [Monkeytown Records]
Locust Toybox: Saptiro [Brainfeeder]
Forest Drive West: Jinx [Livity Sound Recordings]
Mosca: Don’t Take This The Wrong Way [Livity Sound Recordings]
Matthew Herbert feta. Zilla: Brand New Love (Original Mix) [Hypercolour]
Denial of Service: Aka Manto [FILM]
Tornado Horr: Tornado Marsch
Clark: Honey Badger [Warp Records]
Akkord: Rcvr [Houndstooth]
Special Request: Brainstorm [Houndstooth]
DMX Krew: The Wiggly Worm [Super Rhythm Trax]
Volruptus: Alien Transmission [bbbbbb]
Claro Intelecto: Contact [Delsin Records]
Orbe: Unexpected Dream’s Rave [Hivern Discs]
Aleksi Perälä: NLL561606939 [Clone Basement Series]
B12: Ecliptic [Warp Records]
The 7th Plain: The Super 8 [A-TON]


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Batfinks “Mosisac” out on Caoutchou Records

Earthy, tricky and yet impulsive. Batfinks release on Caoutchou Records is a sick mosaic of sound called Mosisac. So much grown potential which will sadly not be able to grow on, as he passed away last year.

His Mates from Caoutchou say:

Batfinks became part of the Caoutchou fam since he contributed the track 'Shamalaalaa' for the second Rubber Beats compilation back in '09. 5 years later we released 'Bibobleyboo' on our label and early 2016 he sent us new material; an album named 'Mosisac'. Later that year we heard the sad news that Ste had passed away.

Batfinks was a mysterious character on whom we never really got a hold. When we talked, our conversations ended up in neologistic gibberish and laughter which was simultaneously amazing and funny. When we asked about his background to compose a promo text for his album this is what he wrote to us:

"Learnt my first chords when I was 4 on a Casio MT-65 on the toilet which was very satisfying I must say. Learnt how to play 808 State and Sonz of Da Loop Era tunes when I was 7 with a mate of mine, Jim Noir. Spent a lot of time with my dad and brother going to bluegrass gigs and old folks homes. Influences were mainly old school rave music when I was younger but then got into Gong, The Orb, Orbital, Autechre and that. A lot of jazz and world music stuff which was through my brother and his mates."

Mosisac shows us a side of Batfinks which we haven't heard before. Instead of the usual Batfinksesque sound we are now introduced to a collection of grim and gloom-ridden tracks although his typical sound is still imminent. In his dad's words: 'The musical version of Hieronymus Bosch paintings... it's a profound vision of someone on a path'

We love you, Batfinks. Forever in our hearts and ears.