I think no need to write too much about SHIT AND SHINE on this page ’cause everybody know it is an electro-noise-madhouse made by a Texan man. Its every album is a surprise because you never know what you get but you are never disappointed. This time that madhouse is a disciplined one, you can enjoy it on the new double album MANNHEIM HBF. To me it seemed as if would be a German travel diary so I have asked Craig

– Was it born during a Shit & Shine tour in Germany?
– It was indeed but also I lived in that particular region of Germany as a teenager and I loved it there.
– There are some hauptbahnhofs on the album. Why the Mannheim one was chosen as the title track?
– Because I kept ending up there to transfer trains while touring so it seemed fitting.

So I think „Mannheim Hbf” is analogue with Kraftwerk 4th album „Autobahn” which was inspired by driving on motorways. In this case the matter is the German railway, you can listen to its beats on this album where the second station is Kircheim. It is a town in Baden-Württenberg approximately 35 kilometers (22 miles) southeast of Stuttgart. It is located on the small river Lauter in the foothills of the central Swabian Alb:

Double album MANNHEIM HBF will be released on Texan label 12XU RECORDS on 28th of March.

The Hands : Reflections (Broken Arm Records) 2022

Perpignan. Salvador Dali szerint a perpignani vasútállomás az Univerzum közepe, számomra az európai pszichedelik-punk / garage rock legfontosabb városa, na jó még Bordeaux, de az is ott van a közelben. Ebből a közegből jön a The Hands, a harmadik hullámból, ha a ’90-es éveket és a Beach Beaches-t vesszük az elsőnek, a 2000-es éveket a másodiknak (The Mighty Go-Go Players, Jack Of Heart, Sonic Chicken 4 stb.) és a 2010-es évektől számítjuk a harmadikat (Les Crotales, Crank, The Llambs stb.).
A Reflections a harmadik The Hands album és azt hiszem ez a legjobb eddig, jók a dalok és hallatszik, hogy Brian (ének/gitár) sok időt szánt a keverésre, mert nagyon szépen szól minden. Pszichedelikus garage rock ez, jó sok fuzz gitárral és meglehetősen nyers énekkel. A pszichedelikust ne úgy képzeljük, hogy hosszúra nyújtott elszállások, meg ilyenek. A tíz számból hét nem éri el a három perces hosszúságot, kettő még két percet sem. Egyszer azt írtam róluk (és ez tetszett a Hands-es srácoknak) – ősemberek párducgalócán, nem az a finomkodós cucc. Ez koncerten végképp így van. Nagy zajt tudnak csapni.
Nekem sokszor jut eszembe a korai Jack Of Heart róluk (pl. a Seven Years c. dal), ami nem véletlen, mert a zenekarból hárman is játszottak / játszanak a J.O.H.-ban. A Sweet Star- ról a torinoi Movie Star Junkies ugrik be, az akusztikus zárószámról meg Syd Barett.
Érdekes lehet még, hogy a We are so Lame c. dalt a Lame nevű zenekarnak ajánlják, akik a turné partnereik voltak pár éve mikor Budapestet is útba ejtették közösen, sőt még kis falunkat is, ahol a pajtánkban lenyomtak egy teljes koncertet meglepetésként. A The Hands közönsége akkor a három Lame zenész + Márti meg én voltunk.
Nagyon jó album és a borító is ütős, ami szintén Brian munkája!

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Top Down : Backyard Thunder (No Chance Records) 2022

Itt a harmadik Top Down nagylemez, van három kislemezük, a zenekarban is hárman vannak, úgyhogy minden három.
Velük kapcsolatban mindig, felmerül a Dead Moon (űbermegakultikus, mindenki által tisztelt garage-rock-punk zk.) párhuzam. Ami nem meglepő hisz a Top Down ezer szállal kötődik Fred Cole, Toody Cole és Andrew Loomis zenekarához:
Charlie (basszus/ének) akár, csak a Dead Moon Portland-ből származik, a felállás is klasszik ‘power trio’ váltott férfi-női énekkel, lemezkiadás saját kiadónál (a D.M.-nál a Tombstone Rec. a T.D.-nál a No Chance Rec.), Fred Cole haláláig minden felvételt vele rögzítettek, szigorúan mono-ban (akár a Dead Moon) sőt a kettes lemezre egy dalt is írt nekik a Down The Road-ot. Tournéztak együtt a Fred&Toody-val Európában és az USA-ban is. Szim (gitár/ének) adta ki a Dead Moon könyv európai változatát és még folytathatnám, de legyen elég ennyi.
Megemlítenék még két zenekart akik bár nem annyira erőteljesen mint a Dead Moon, de érezhetők a Top Down zenéjében, az egyik a portlandi Wipers, a másik pedig a Paul Caporino által 40 éve vezetett M.O.T.O.. Ütős riff, egyszerű zenei szerkezet, fogós dallam, a Top Down esetében mindez kibaszott feszesen elővezetve és semmi torzítgatás, effektezgetés. Püff, kész is egy Top Down dal.
A 10 dal közül nem nagyon emelnék ki egyet sem én úgy vagyok velük, hogy meghallgatok egy lemezüket általában kétszer egymás után aztán meg a többit ami még van. Rám nézve elég addiktív a zenéjük.
A lemezborító grafikája is nagyon jó, Phillip Janta munkája >> https://www.instagram.com/janta.island/ << Az összetört autó rendszáma 54-40, az üzenet egyértelmű! Az iserten ott vannak a dalszövegek és a másik oldalon egy fametszet nyomat a zenekarról. Az első 50 példányhoz járt még egy eredeti arany színű nyomat! Ezt pedig Gabriela Jolowitcz készítette. Fantasztikus dolgai vannak >> https://www.instagram.com/gabrielajolowicz/ << érdemes ránézni!

Jó hír: 2023 -ban harmadjára is visszatérnek Magyarországra, május 6.-án Budapesten, május-7. én Miskolcon fognak játszani.

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CC and the Hairy Area : CC and the Hairy Area (Popular Affliction Rec.) 2022

Fúbazmeg ez aztán tényleg ritka genyó egy valami! Mint valami elbaszott Suicide, csak punkabb és NAGYON Low-Fi. Ez mondjuk az első két számra lehet(?) igaz a másik kettő kicsit másabb. Az egyik olyasmi mint a Mononegatives (róluk >> ITT << írtunk nemrég) a másik meg mondjuk…fogjuk rá mint az ausztrál Gee Tee, de itt az ének olyan dallamos meg tán még tiszta is, hogy elsőre kurvára nem is tetszett, aztán azon vettem észre magam, hogy ezt dúdolgatom órákkal később is. Lehet ez a legjobb dal a négy közül.
Kevés az infó: Egy Chris nevű kaliforniai srác játszotta és vette fel az egészet.

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Lafff Box : Lafff Box (Turbo Discos) 2022

Kurvajó négy számos 7″ a német Turbo Discos kiadótól akik idén igen aktívak voltak és nagyon fasza dolgokat adtak ki (Ex-White, Lassie,theGobs,). A Lafff Box is német banda, jófajta gyors, tekerős punk brutál ritmusszekcióval, brutáljó hangzással és kurvajó dalokkal. Az egész annyira feszes, hogy van egy ilyen robot szerű, mechanikus hatása, kábé mint a The Spits-nek, vagy Rich Crook bizonyos dolgainak, mint a LOVER! vagy a Thing. És dögöljek meg, én belehallok egy kis Daily Void-ot meg Functional Blackouts-t is. Nagy örömömre! De a kedvencem számom egyértelműen a Weird Punch, arról meg egy másik német punk banda a Modern Pets jut az eszembe, amit imádok! Szóval engem levettek a lábamról, bármikor jöhetnének RNR666 Buliba Budapestre!
A Lefff Box tagjai más bandákban is játszanak: Ex-White, Lassie (na, ők majdnem jöttek RNR666 Buliba, de az egész túrnét hidegre tette a covid első hulláma).A dobosnak van egy solo izéje a Dee Bee Rich az is jó!

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“I got a right to say FUCK YOU!!!” is how the new album from guitarist Marc Ribot’s trio Ceramic Dog starts off, with Ribot howling in anger at corruption, tyranny, life in general, and nothing in particular. YRU Still Here? just in time to remind us that now is a moment when anger is necessary and unavoidable. Musically it continues the lineage of his earlier experimental no-wave/punk/noise groups Rootless Cosmopolitans and Shrek:

Beside Ribot you can find Shahzad Ismaily (Secret Chiefs 3, Will Oldham, Ben Frost) on bass and drummer Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3, Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant).

And Ribot? For me he is known about his works with John Zorn, The Lounge Lizard and Tom Waits, but he played together such musicians as Solomon Burke, Beth Orton, Marianne Faithful, Caetano Veloso, Laurie Anderson, Cibo Matto, Vinicio Capposella, Auktyon (Russia), Alain Bashung, Madeleine Peyroux, Sam Phillips, Norah Jones, The Black Keys, Robert Plant, Elvis Costello and many others. And of course he has released lots of album under his own name. He has also worked for decades as a tenant union and artist rights activist, where he mastered the agit-prop skills used to such dazzling effect on hits such as “Fuck La Migra” and “Muslim/Jewish Resistance”.

The album „YRU Still Here?” will release soon on Northern-Spy (US), Yellowbird (Europe) and P-Vine Records (Japan). It’s my favorite album since I’ve got it.

For twenty years API UIZ was a polyrhythmic multicolored punky math rock-like trio from Bordeaux. They have influenced an entire generation of French musicians by the ferociously independent way they play and produce „raw, unworked, but structured music” which was the title of their debut album: Musique brute et non travaillée mais structurée.

Since 2015 API UIZ is a quintet. „Peplum”, their first album with the extended line up released now on 12″ vinyl on Kythibong, Les Potagers Natures, Mon Cul C’est Du Tofu, La République Des Granges, Attila Tralala (Belgium) and Red Wig Records (Germany):

“I would believe only in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity – through him all things fall.”

Hello everyone. On the pic is Europ Europ, and here’s the 4th historical KILLBONOCLUB broadcast

just a colorful mix of songs from the best new records

with some notes about the songs and some quotations from German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nitzsche’s work Thus Spoke Zarathustra because of Laibach’s new album is based on that book – instead of they would have made their own version of Hair.

“The creator seeks companions, not corpses – and not herds or believers either.
 The creator seeks fellow-creators – those who grave new values on new law-tablets.”

punk punk punk. for the lovers of axemen, butthole surfers, fall, country teasers, fat white family. büdösök, i love 69 popgeju, csermanek ltp and this kind of shit. original sound!!! nothin fuckin remastering!!! with extra tracks, e.g:
ERRATIC (US) – from EAT HOT LEAD 1980 album reissue – Black Gladiator Records (US)

“They have something of which they are proud. What do they call it, that which makes them proud? Culture, they call it; it distinguishes them from the goatherds.”

i dont know why miranda sex garden comes to my mind, but it is totally different
BAMBOO (UK) – THE DARGON FLIES AWAY album – Upset The Rhythm (UK)

scotch psychedelic horseshit
LUSH PURR (UK) – CUCKOO WALTZ album – Song by Toad (UK)

“O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!” “Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies.”

punk blues soul rock and roll noise by lamont thomas, drummer of bassholes
OBNOX (US) – NIGGATIVE APPROACH album – 12XU (US)

good ol andre willimas, pure genius, just fine songs about fucking
ANDRE WILLIAMS (US) – DONT EVER GIVE UP purple vinyl LP – Pravda Records (US)

“The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good and the bad: the state, where the slow suicide of all — is called „life.” Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft — and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them! Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves.”

shit and shine + butthole surfers + drain. csühes said „i cant find words…”, hercule poirot said „terrible”
USA/MEXICO (US) – LAREDO album on 12XU (US) and Riot Season (UK)

new wave electro disco and other noises in the Aussie 80s
ASPHIXIATION –  WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED  DISCO? – 1981 album reissue – Chapter Music (AUS)

free will is a bullshit – cynic rock and roll by
CHAIN AND THE GANG (US) – THE BEST OF CRIME ROCK album – In The Red Records (US)

“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”

pale pink disco queen of sweden
MOLLY NILLSON – IMAGINATIONS album – Night School Records (UK)

fine stupid primitive synth punk                                      
11. TONY PRICE (CAN) – I PREFER COCA-COLA cassette – Burger Records (US)

little frenchy psych rock and roll, swiss, just not from the voodoo rhythm, if you are lucky enough to know roy and the devil’s motorcylcle then you know what i say
HARVEY RUSHMORE & THE OCTOPUS – A NIGHT album – A Tree In A Field (CH)

“The greatest events – they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the inventors of new values; it revolves inaudibly.”

indie pop hit song of the day
COURTNEY BARNETT (AUS) – HOW TO BOIL AN EGG 7″ – Milk! / Bedroom Suck  Records (AUS)

“You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!”

hyper normalization by
IAN MARTIN (NL) – RITES OF PASSAGE 12″ EP – Goiland Elektro (NL)

punk punk punk. for the lovers of axemen, buttholesurfers, fall, country teasers, fat white family. büdösök, i love 69 popgeju, csermanek ltp and this kind of shit. with extra tracks – original sound!!! nothin fuckin remastering!!!
PUKE SPIT & GUTS (US) – EAT HOT LEAD 1980 album reissue – Black Gladiator (US)

sardinia rockers
THE RIPPERS (ITA) – A GUT FEELING album – Slovenly Recordings (US)

“Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.”

experimental industrial noise block

“The man looked up distrustfully. „If you speak the truth,” said he, „I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food.”

SONGS FROM THE HEART
album by EUROP EUROP (Norway) – Enfant Terrible (NL)

APROPOS OF THE WET SNOW
album by ZOSIMA (Austria) – Enfant Terrible (NL)

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.”

the dark side of the earth
LAIBACH (Slovenia) – ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA album – Mute (UK)

“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”

the western side of the wall
DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS (German) – „DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS” 1982 album reissue – Superior Viaduct (US)

just drum’n’organ
ARCHIE AND THE BUNKERS (US) – free song form the next album on Dirty Water Records (UK)

A date with Elvis by Giovanni Ripper

„Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”

and /or listen to KILLBONOCLUB # 3

new releases by CLAN DESTINE RECORDS Scotland, UK

DJ LOSER from Greece, he has two projects as minimal techno maximum noise Body Snatchers with Raw Ambassador, and industrial ambient Magdalena’s Apathy with Penelope’s Fiance. Cassette and digital album.

MARC ASH – aka Plovdiv – is a Berlin base Italian, drawing his inspirations from electro pioneers, early new wave and „dirty industrial” (esp. mining industrial). He is the founder of Blacksilk Records. Ostracism cassette and digital album.

„existing is useless. life is pointless. throw it away. be free” is the motto of the existentialist American DJ/producer COLLIN STRANGE, founder of the early American power electronics act Intrinsic Action which started in 1984. How I Creep cassette and digital album out now.

It was a time full of adrenaline and rapid changes.

The second half of the ’80s. This was a decade marked by the rise in tension between the American and Russian blocks in the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thirty years have passed since the historical events which dramatically changed the cultural scene of the Soviet Union forever.

A team of filmmakers decided to carry out their own investigation into the change that was started by one man: Indulis Bilzens. He stood by the birth of rave culture in Germany and successfully has brought it on the other side of Iron Curtain in the second half of the ’80s.

Techno first appeared in the Baltics in 1986.

Bilzens was born in Riga in 1940, in the last year of the first independent Latvian Republic. In this year happened the first Soviet invasion, and his father was deported to Siberia. Between 1941 and 44 the country was occupied by the Germans. His mother fled the country with him into West Germany because of the second Soviet invasion in 1944.

Bilzens studied English in Cambridge – and was involved in the British peace movement -, medical informatics in Bonn and Stuttgart, and electronic composition at the University of Düsseldorf. Worked for a number of German newspapers and organized avant-garde music events and exhibitions. He began to visit his homeland in the late ’70s (then part of Communist Russian Empire i.e. the Soviet Union).

His friendship with the German DJ Maximilian Lenz (WestBam) led to an interest in the new electronic music coming out of the US. He was involved in the founding of Low Spirit label, Love Parade, and Mayday parties. Bilzens and Lenz made repeated visits to Riga in the late ’80s, introducing DJ culture.

ERA OF DANCE

a film about the first techno beats in the USSR.

More videos from the film.

A long article about the movie on Deep Baltic

NEW RELEASES BY DUTCH ELECTRONIC LABEL

ENFANT TERRIBLE

ADOLF FILTER or Schwedisch Deutsche Freundschaft. 7″ on sublabel Petit Enfant.

UNRUHE (ie Restless), a compilation all about acid: spacey and trippy by ZARKOFF (Croatia); distorted and freaked out by ROBERTO AUSER (Holland); industrial by FOQL (Poland); and uncompromising analog terror by THE UNTITLED (Netherlands). 12″ EP on sublabel Gooiland Elektro.

BRANNTEN SCHNÜRE, German psychedelic dark folk duo, inspired by Nico, Novy Svet and David Jackman. LP on sublabel Vrystaete.

Adolf Filter + FOQL + Zarkoff + Adolf Filter + Brannten Schnüre + The Untitled >

„election got us feeling a certain type of way, so we moded out a chaos UK style anarchy punk romp” from Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia: Trump: 51.3%; Clinton: 45.6%; Johnson: 3.1%

I do not know about the Atlanta’s results, but in Fulton County whose seat is Atlanta the state capital: Clinton: 69.2%; Trump: 27.1%; Johnson: 3.7%

The song is illustrated with the burning Reichstag. „It’s about a changing of the guards for the worse, nothing else don’t get panties in a bunch.”

Great Depression. About 5 million Germans without job (25-30%).

NSDAP was on top in June 1932 (37.27%), on the next voting same year November it fell (33.09%), but there was a deadlock after the election.

After long tug of war Hitler was asked to be next chancellor by President Hindenburg in January 1933.

On 27 February, six days before the next election, fire broke out in the Reichstag chambers.

Next day Hitler asked for and received from President Hindenburg the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State.

§ 1 „Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property are permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.”

On the spot a lunatic Dutch communist was arrested.

Later 1 German and 3 Bulgarian communists also were arrested, but against every effort finally they were acquitted during the trial but later

Georgi Dimitrov became Stalinist boss of Bulgaria. After his death in 1949 he was embalmed and got a mausoleum;

Ernst Torgler became a Gestapo agent and worked for the Propaganda Ministry;

Vasily Tanev was killed during a secret party mission in Bulgaria in 1941;

Blagoy Popov spent 17 years on GULAG from 1937;

Lunatic Dutch communist Van der Lubbe was beheaded.

So funny:=)

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Anyway my favorite parties from Germany 1932:

For Hindenberg and Pope: 27,752 votes (0.08%)
Radical Middle Class: 8,637 (0.02%)
German Reich Against Interest Rate Movement: 97
German Social Monarchist Party: 66
German Reform Party: 59

Berlin based Israeli musician Charlie Megira is dead.

It is total unbelievable for me. No, that is just a bad joke. He is so young, and need to play at RNR666 Party.

But it seems the whisper is real.

Charlie Megira was an exceptional musician, a guitar virtuoso. On the picture above with his last band The Bet-She’an Valley Hillbillies. „Surf, Poetry, Rockabilly” was the slogan

but the formula is not so simple.

When I met his music at first he played wispy almost ethereal surf rock and roll on guitar, piano and castanets. But after he made a Joy Division- , Cure-, Sisters of Mercy like dark wave album with his girlfriend as Charlie Megira & Hefker Girl. After Charlie Megira and The Modern Dance Club was founded, where every mentioned style merged into high energy garage rock. And finally he went back to the beach with The Bet-She’an Valley Hillbillies. The last album.

And a free download live show on WFMU radio with covers of Joy Division’s Heart And Soul and TV Personalities’ Diary Of A Young Man.

And an interview with almost all of his music, and a „best of” playlist on RNR666 mag.

A fragment from it:

„I also used to hang out with my older cousin that introduced me to some rock music like Whitesnake, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, and more. I remember I once asked him why all those bands are wearing dirty and ripped cloths, I thought they were poor and maybe could not afford to buy nice cloths… Anyway I really got into this heavy rock and also liked Bob Marley a lot. (…) I had a roommate that played The Smiths on a tape and for me it sounded horrible so I punched him in the face and broke the cassette and put on the Scorpions’ gold ballads.”

Hey Charlie, just one more song, please!