Yuri Landman is an builder of experimental musical instruments. For bands like Sonic Youth, Enon, The Dodos, Liars, Half Japanese, The Veils, Liam Finn, The Luyas, Lou Barlow, Blood Red Shoes, The Luyas, The Moi Non Plus. Zoppo was his first band, afterwards he made 1 album with Avec Aisance aka Avec-A. Guest appearances on the debut album of The Moi Non Plus.
Modal funk-metal band from South Wales. Songs tend to include a million sections and time signatures. Promising.
Dark Times is a punk band from Oslo, Norway. Member of the Black Hole Crew, together with Okkultokrati, Haust, White Juice and Blackest Woods. Releases:
Demo-tape on Ormeyngel Records and Sacred Tapes, January 2011.
Self-titled 7-inch on Sheep Chase Records, November 29th, 2011.
Girl Hate 7-inch on Fysisk Format, 2012 Bandcamp (free download)
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Dawson were a Glasgow punk band in the 90's. Fast and dischordant punk mixed often with electronic drum beats in a reggae or african style at times. Their double album cheese market, which is a CD compilation of the first two albums originally vinyl only releases, is available from monorail in glasgow.
The Intelligence is a lo-fi indie post punk rock band from Seattle, founded by Lars Finberg, drummer of the A-Frames. Finberg played since the late '90s in other bands with vocalist/guitarist Erin Sullivan, and bassist Min Yee: the Dipers, and the Un-Natural Helpers. A Frames and the Intelligence started in 1999. Both acts released singles on Dragnet Records, the indie label Finberg runs with A Frames members Erin Sullivan and Min Yee.
Being able to operate completely outside the typical machinations of music - independent or otherwise Senator are going to carve out a sizeable niche in the sewage-infested gutters of underground rock & roll. After sending a demo tape to the infamous engineer and guitarist Steve Albini (ex-Just Ducky, Big Black, Rapeman) the legendary Nirvana producer invited the Scottish trio (Nick Middlemiss vocals/guitar, Tom Lee Bass, & Ross McLennan Drums) to his US electrical audio studios to produce their debut album "United Wire".
Mile me Deaf started in 2002 as a solo-project of Wolfgang of "Killed by 9V Batteries", and after a number of self released CD-Rs and about 4 different live line-ups, it's now a two-piece noise-rock band with a guitar and Florian of "Picture Eyes" on drums. Mile Me Deaf MySpace
Noise rock band from Melbourne. Self titled full length released in 2012 on CD by OSCL and limited edition LP by FTU. cocksarquette.bandcamp.com
www.oscl.com.au
Gymnastics or (later) Laka Gimnastika is originally from a small town of Ruma, in Srem region, province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Ruma, although a small town with about 30.000 inhabitants, was always a place with a strong underground scene that has it roots in the music and visual arts groups that existed in the late 70's and early 80's. During the 1990's there were numerous active indie and punk bands in Ruma, with quite a strong scene with regular concerts, several zines, radio shows, etc.
South Wales, UK based experimental metal band.