It wasn’t too long ago that I was introduced to the Canadian-based Unit Structure Sound Recordings (a thousand high-fives for the USSR abbreviation) label, but digesting their various offerings in these last few months has been eye-opening. The label operates out of Calgary and Vancouver and has released loads of projects (generally based in...
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By sheer coincidence, as soon as I got around to buying Type’s double-LP vinyl reissue of Porter Ricks’ 1996 classic Biokinetics, a CD promo of the reissue ended up on my doorstep.
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I was first attracted to BLKHRTS by their use of ‘In Heaven’, the uneasy chanson from David Lynch’s Eraserhead, on ‘N HVN VRYTHNG S BLK’ from their vowel-free, all-caps first mixtape BLK S BTFL.
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A trio with a relatively regular-sounding name, Sonore actually consists of three of the highest-energy saxophonists in the world – Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, and Mats Gustafsson.
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Contrary to the name of his project, St. Louis Missouri’s Rick Weaver does not create ‘dinner music.’
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Moscow-born Slava drops the beats from his current home of NYC.
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Unicorn Hard-On practices scorched electro-house tunes bent on psychedelic destruction.
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You probably know people for whom the career of Jim O’Rourke begins and ends with his 1990s Drag City albums (Eureka and Insignificance, mainly).
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Mad space noise on Teen Action, in typically flimsy but somehow endearing Teen Action packaging.
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Here’s one of Panabrite’s (Norm Chambers) firsts, getting a proper reissue on Aguirre.
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