Needle Sharing - My Kind Came First (2001)

I don't know why, but this is really hitting the spot right now. Dark drum & bass. Lots of bass clipping and fractured signals. I don't really have anything more to say about it seeing as its an area of music I have no clue about. Enjoy.

Needle Sharing - My Kind Came First

Lay down please.

Nadja / Atavist / Satori - Infernal Procession.....And Then Everything Dies (2008)

I have held off posting anything I actually played on for quite some time but I finally thought "to hell with it" and dug this out. At one point I a few years ago I played bass with Atavist. I think I technically still do but we have done nothing for some time. In the time I spent with them we played a few gigs, recorded a collaboration with Nadja (still one of the most rewarding recordings I have played on) and did a tour with Nadja and Satori. This split CD was released to coincide with said tour. It was a absolute joy watching Nadja every night. A truely hypnotic experience. I mostly remember them turning up in Edinburgh the first night with guitars and suitcases full of pedals. Satori do the whole power electronics thing but there is something much more subtle and creepy about it. Live they had a very unsettling film that accompanied the noise. This was one of only a few things this line up of Atavist recorded. Different to the earlier stuff. Lots more ambience and lots more riffs. It was a awesome tour and after having spent most of my touring life in the company of hardcore and grind bands a very welcome change of pace to tour with such different artists.
This was released on Cold Spring Records, Justin from Satori's label, in a limited run of 1000 ( not sure how limited that makes it tho). It is still available I think.

Nadja/Atavist/Satori - Infernal Procession....

Ambient, doom, noise, drone anyone?

Rick James - Street Songs (1981)

In relation to the Eddie Murphy post below ( for obvious reasons), I present Rick James debut solo album. For no other reason than its just plain cool and look at that cover art. 80's funk/pop about drugs, crazy women and Ricks many adventures in pursuit of crack. God rest his soul.

Sadly Rick won't let us use this one. Its easy enough to find.



I promise there will be some noisy stuff coming soon. Some very noisy stuff.

Eddie Murphy - Love's Alright

At one point Eddie Murphy was untouchable. Beverly Hills Cop, 48 Hours, The Golden Child and some superb stand up Sadly there was a point in the 90's when he decided to gamble his credibility on a musical career. He actually managed to make 3 albums despite the critical and commercial panning he got. Tonight I present his third album, Love's Alright.

I found this in a massive pile of broken CD's when I worked in a record shop back as a young man. I knew about his previous single Party All The Time ("put those phones on man") featuring Rick James, but this album made it quite clear Eddie had gone of track quite a bit. He managed to rope Elton John, Shabba Ranks, Micheal Jackson, Paul McCartney and tons of other folk into helping out on this album. In all honesty the highlight ( in the loosest way possible) is his dragged out cover of Hey Joe. Really does not need to be that long. That said I genuinely like Good Day Sunshine and Flower Child. There pretty good.

Eddie Murphy - Love's Alright

Here we go.....

The Crown - Crowned In Terror (2002)

Awesome Swedish death thrash with one, Thomas Lindberg providing the caustic voice. Probably the most metal thing I have ever posted. Awesome stuff.

The Crown - Crowned In Terror

Lindberg only did this album with them. They cheekily rerecorded the vocals with the original vocalist and then re-released this album as Crowned Unholy in 2004. That was a bit gay really.

Yeah Toto!

Sunny, sunny tunes for the weather.

The Hellacopters - Supershitty To The Max (1996)

The sun is shining in the garden. I have nothing to worry about for a change, so lets have some good times tunes. The Hellacopters kicked ass on this album, the first and best. Nicke Anderson and that tool from The Backyard Babies know a thing or two about riffs.

The Hellacopters - Supershitty To The Max