Interview by Klaus Q Hedegaard This Saturday Extremely Rotten Productions hosts a death metal summit at the Mayhem venue in Copenhagen, with a lineup of some of the most vile and forceful danish bands ruling the death metal underground right now. A second infestation will take place at Pumpehuset in May! Full info below the interview. Founder of Extremely Rotten Productions, David “Torturdød” Mikkelsen, is also a founding member ...

Interview by Mathias Ruthner Though having existed for more than 15 years, the forthcoming album, “Low Distance”, is only Deaf Center’s third full-length release. Since the Norwegian duo released their first EP, “Neon City”, their output has been somewhat sparse due to the geographical distance between its two members and their wide range of other collaborative and solo outputs. Since the start of their ...

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Hvis du kan lide Neil Young, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys eller kender til Phil Spectors produktioner, så har du sikkert også hørt et eller flere af Jack Nitzsches arrangementer.

Jack Nitzsche (1937, Chicago – 2000, Los Angeles) var en vigtig baggrundsfigur i den amerikanske pop- og rockmusik særligt op gennem 60’erne, og han har arrangeret eller bidraget til store populære hits, som bl.a: “Be My Baby” indspillet af the Ronettes, “Needles and Pins” skrevet med Sonny Bono, “Up Where We Belong” fra “An Officer and A Gentleman”, som han vandt en Oscar for. Nitzsche har desuden spillet keyboards på og har skrevet arrangementer til flere af Rolling Stones hits, bl.a. “Play with Fire,” “Paint It, Black,” og “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. Herudover har han samarbejdet med Neil Young op igennem 60’erne og 70’erne, som både medproducer tangentspiller på flere af hans plader.

Udover hans virke som arrangør har Jack Nitzsche også stået bag nogle i mine øjne rigtigt spændende soundtracks. Mine personlige favoritter er Miloš Formans “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” fra 1975 og den stemningsmættede musik i William Friedkins “Cruising” fra 1980. Læs resten

Essay by Macon Holt “Critique is so limiting and emotionally draining. I have always wanted to do something long form, beyond opinion; dip my toe into an exploration of origin and essence; the metamorphosis of spirit into reality.” — Morf Vanderwalt, “Velvet Buzzsaw” These New Puritans are a British band, formerly on Domino records, who initially garnered attention in 2006/7 as the arty-ist members of ...

Raquin “Dance of the Peacock” & Ryong “s/t” (Janushoved, 2019) – anmeldelse af Alexander Julin Mortensen Mens januar ebbede mod sin ende, blev tre nye titler tilføjet til Janushoveds fortsat ekspanderende katalog af båndudgivelser. Ud over “One Shot, One Life” af Internazionale, Mikkel Valentins 20. (!) udgivelse under aliasset, udkom der bånd fra to af de aktører, der senest er blevet tilføjet Janushoveds særegne ...

DJ Lag Body2Body, March 16th & 22nd @ TAPE, Aarhus – live preview by Ivna Franic Aarhus is in for two pretty sickening events this month – headlined by Lee Gamble and DJ Lag, respectively, and organized by Body2Body, a local club night promoting genre-bending music, pairing cutting edge international acts with leading local talent, and putting a focus on the visuals. Body2Body has so far put ...

Triad God “Triad” (Presto!?, 2019) – anmeldelse af Alexander Julin Mortensen Triad God debuterede tilbage i 2012 med “NXB” på Hippos in Tanks (RIP), der ligeledes udgav Nguzunguzu, Gatekeeper, Games, Grimes og flere andre i årrækken 2010-13. Syv år senere udgiver italienske Lorenzo Sennis label, Presto!?, Triad Gods opfølger, albummet “Triad”. Albummet virker på trods af de mange år, der er gået, som en naturlig forlængelse af det stilistiske udtryk og stemningen på debuten.

Article by Laura Juncker and Astrid Hald Today is International Women’s Day, which gives us a chance to reflect on the state of things in our immediate surroundings. To look at the workings of what we might be working with. At first glance, we might ask what do the obvious, hard-fact, explicit numbers and ratios tell us? For example, how many female names have ...

Nyredolk “s/t” (Caligari Records 2018/Strange Aeons 2019) – Anmeldelse af Klaus Q Hedegaard Nielsen Kassettebåndscentalen for undergrundsfarlig musik, Caligari Records fra Tampa, udgav oktober 2018 danske Nyredolks demodebut på… ja, kassettebånd, og udgivelsen fik en overraskende god modtagelse. Ikke mindst fordi det toneangivende CVLT Nation gav dem en flot anbefaling og en årslisteplads i blackmetal-kategorien med på vejen. Nu er selvsamme debutudgivelse endelig ude på 7” vinyl via ...