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't is weer bijna zover: de Tour!

Mooie tradities zijn er om in ere te houden, dus ook dit jaar weer een ZoeZoe Subleage. Allen welkom!
Btw, het systeem van de pot gaan we laten varen wegen gematigd succes de laatste keren.. We spelen voor de fun en de eer!
Of jullie moeten massaal gaan klagen en de pot absoluut willen, dan zal de democraat in mijzelf dat terug activeren.

Join mijn minicompetitie in de Sporza Wielermanager 🚴‍♂️ Mijn Fantasy ploeg voor de Tour de France is klaar. Doe mee! En dan zullen we eens zien wie zich de beste wielerkenner mag noemen 😎

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Amyl And The Sniffers – U Should Not Be Doing That / Facts (7")

Tristan & Titania – Glyphs & Gods
Lethal Tender – Empire Illusion
These Immortal Souls – Get Lost (Don't Lie!)
These Immortal Souls – I'm Never Gonna Die Again
Beak> – >>>>
RONKER – Fear Is A Funny Thing, Now Smile Like A Big Boy
Can – Live In Aston 1977
Amon Tobin – Permutation
Various – Congo Funk! Sound Madness From The Shores Of The Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa​/​Brazzaville 1969​-​1982)
Ufomammut – Hidden
Setting – Shone A Rainbow Light On
Khanate – Capture & Release
Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul
Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Nathan Salsburg, Tyler Trotter – Hear The Children Sing & The Evidence
Thou – Umbilical
Bert Jansch – The Black Swan
Bert Jansch – Edge Of A Dream
The JD Pinkus Blunderbuss – Grow A Pear
Shane Parish – Repertoire
Big Black – Bulldozer
Big Black - Headache
Big Black – Lungs
Alan Vega – Insurrection
Eric Chenaux Trio – Delights Of My Life
Drew McDowall – A Thread, Silvered And Trembling
Actress – Statik
Jimi Tenor – Is There Love In Outer Space?
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Nell' Ora Blu
Thee Headcoatees – Girlsville
DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess – DJ Marcelle: The Musical
DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess – A Different Fridge For Cheese
Oren Ambarchi / Massimo Pupillo – Subsound Split Series #4
Nurse With Wound – Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella
Zu – Carboniferous
Winter – Into Darkness
Vanishing Twin – The Age Of Immunology
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – That Delicious Vice
Bob Log III – Guitar Party Power
Love S*x Machine – Trve

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Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats // Nell' Ora Blu

Plainly the most radical album of their career to date, 'Nell' Ora Blu' stands out from the sterile desert of rock'n'roll in 2024 like a gore-drenched beacon. What this scintillating detour tells us about the future of Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats remains a mystery, but after enjoying such rich and fruitful artistic indulgence, Starrs' notoriety as one of heavy music's most distinctive voices can only increase. An eccentric tour-de-force, 'Nell' Ora Blu' is the band's magnum opus. You will have nightmares. Trust no one. Watch your back. Let the blood flow...

UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS NELL' ORA BLU LP Vinyl Plainly the most radical album of their career to date, 'Nell' Ora Blu' stands out from the sterile desert of rock'n'roll in 2024 like a gore-drenched beacon. What this scintillating detour tells us about the future of Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats remains a mystery, but after enjoying such rich and fr...

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Can // Live in Aston 1977

CAN LIVE IN ASTON 1977 LP Vinyl Can Live in Aston 1977, the latest in an ongoing series of Can album releases focusing on the band’s live performances, is set for release on vinyl, CD and digitally on 31 May 2024 via Mute and Future Days. Live in Aston 1977 is a whole new lens through which we can view a unique band with seeming...

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Ka Baird // Bearings: Soundtack for the Bardos

Ka Baird’s Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos intertwines elements of the New York based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer’s ecstatic live performances within minimalistic, visceral compositions that expand in scope and sound through collaboration. The album’s eleven movements manifest as shapeshifting invocations defined by their own multiplicity; the emotional outcome of circumstance and grief, played against rigorous conceptualism and musical craft. Featuring a cast of contributors from all corners of the contemporary avant garde community and mixing depth and dimension from Randall Dunn, Bearings is a work of profound abstraction and focus, within which sonorous elements, structure, and meaning reach a single, unified form.

BAIRD, KA BEARINGS: SOUNDTRACK FOR THE BARDOS LP Vinyl Ka Baird’s Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos intertwines elements of the New York based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer’s ecstatic live performances within minimalistic, visceral compositions that expand in scope and sound through collaboration. The album’s eleven movements ma...

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Keeley Forsyth // The Hollow

The bleak and foreboding landscape surrounding Keeley's North Yorkshire home seems to inhabit her third LP, 'The Hollow'. The moors, visible from her studio window, impact upon a music that feels made of these places: windswept, rain-soaked and blinking through the low-lit landscape. The album's title derives from discovering a long-abandoned mining shaft whilst out walking - the past lurking within and haunting the present we now occupy. A connection to time that places us within it, facing what is gone and what may come. But also, perhaps that time has no concern as to whether we're here or not.

FORSYTH, KEELEY THE HOLLOW LP Vinyl The bleak and foreboding landscape surrounding Keeley's North Yorkshire home seems to inhabit her third LP, 'The Hollow'. The moors, visible from her studio window, impact upon a music that feels made of these places: windswept, rain-soaked and blinking through the low-lit landscape. The album's tit...

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Tristan & Titania // Glyphs & Gods

Glyphs & Gods’ is a “record that came to be through a channeling of sound in which Tristan & Titania were merely the vessels.” Enigmatic Belgian producer Tristan Vloeberghs (Ohm Meta, WAVradio, Friendship Tapes, Modus Operandi/ Out Innerspace) and Eva Van Deuren (Orphan Fairytale) allure listeners by way of illuminating drone and guiding harmonies that harkens in movements of shimmering reverberation, bent horns of hallowed chambers, animal breaths, and voice echos coming together into blissful sounding hazy nights like the the cicadas warming calls. Mother’s lullabies on the child being beckons for lifts & sparse piano riffs into disintegrating tones. Bubbling metallic bowl pangs, talons tapping over bongos of time, and creaking doorways sway in unison to show us a glimpse of their experience. It all has a sense of being a dangerous & soothing expedition simultaneously. So lay back, and let Tristan and Titania dial it in!

TRISTAN & TITANIA GLYPHS & GODS LP Vinyl Glyphs & Gods’ is a “record that came to be through a channeling of sound in which Tristan & Titania were merely the vessels.” Enigmatic Belgian producer Tristan Vloeberghs (Ohm Meta, WAVradio, Friendship Tapes, Modus Operandi/ Out Innerspace) and Eva Van Deuren (Orphan Fairytale) allure liste...

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MELTNET – 2Exite. (TAPE)
Identicube - Central Fiction (TAPE)
Boreal Painter - Width Of This Farewell (TAPE)
Ancient Fan Death Studios - Death Vault (TAPE)
Ｄ３Ｊ△ Ｒ３▽３ＲＩ３Ｓ - Dwindling Haze of a Dream (TAPE)
Zer0 Rei - OST (TAPE)
Sad Reflections - 會​​​議​​​總​​​理 (TAPE)
Eternity Devil - Eternity's Endless Haze (TAPE)µ
Sand! - エッジ・オヴ・ヘヴン (TAPE)
Sand! - ザ・ファイナル (TAPE)
Yourdiscovery - Feeding Frenzy (TAPE)

Various – Jah Children Invasion Vol. 6: Digital Dawn
Death Is Not The End - Bristol Pirates
Plus Instruments – 79/80
Dorothy Carter – Waillee Waillee
Mad Professor – Dub Me Crazy Part 4 (Escape To The Asylum Of Dub)
Mad Professor - Beyond The Realms of Dub (Dub Me Crazy Part 2)
Mad Professor – Dub Me Crazy Part Five: Who Knows The Secret Of The Master Tape?
Mad Professor – Dub Me Crazy Vol. 6: Schizophrenic Dub
Mad Professor – Science And The Witch Doctor (Dub Me Crazy Part 9)
Scientist – Scientist Meets The Space Invaders
Scientist – Heavyweight Dub Champion
Use Knife – Peace Carnival
Kinzua – Purest State Confusion
Archetype – The Ick
Valentina Magaletti – A Q***r Anthology Of Drums
Catherine Graindorge – Songs For The Dead
Lee Perry – Skanking With The Upsetter - Rare Dubs 1971-1974
Lustmord – Much Unseen Is Also Here
Melvins – Tarantula Heart
The Ballistic Brothers – London Hooligan Soul
DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo – Ki-Oku
Nag – Boys of Europe
Keeley Forsyth – The Hollow
Kim Myhr & Kitchen Orchestra – Hereafter
Anne Gillis, Jac Berrocal, Vincent Epplay, Timo Van Luijk – "Si​(​)​six"
Mark Glynne And Bart Zwier – Home Comfort
Ameel Brecht – 8-Infinities
Brannten Schnüre – Aprilnacht
Amalie Dahl's Dafnie – Står Op Med Solen

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Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet // Four Guitars Live

"As Bill Orcutt’s most mature and exhilarating LP to date, Music for Four Guitars was a slab of undeniable Apollonian beauty. Its approachability and obvious novelty landed it not only on the year- end lists of every key-pushing codger in the underground in 2022, but also on NPR in the form of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, an ensemble assembled to perform this music and featuring Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish. But while their Tiny Desk Concert gave a whiff of the quartet’s easy intimacy, the sterile confines of the virtual recital medium still left a puzzle unsolved: how might these brutally mannered bricks of minimalist counterpoint sound on a stage in front of actual breathing bodies?

BILL ORCUTT GUITAR QUARTET FOUR GUITARS LIVE LP Vinyl "As Bill Orcutt’s most mature and exhilarating LP to date, Music for Four Guitars was a slab of undeniable Apollonian beauty. Its approachability and obvious novelty landed it not only on the year- end lists of every key-pushing codger in the underground in 2022, but also on NPR in the form of the...

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Medium Medium // Hungry, So Angry

You probably heard it before, several times. The opening number ‘Hungry, So Angry’ is to be considered one of the most infectious white funk anthem of the era. The Glitterhouse was released in 1981 on british imprint Cherry Red and soon was hailed as an instant classic for the post-punk generation close to dancefloor. In the same league of A Certain Ratio and newyorkers Bush Tetras the band originally from Nottingham moved behind obscure numbers and twisted grooves showing a revolutionary take on the up and coming new wave scenario. Here’s an unmissable collection with tracks from their three singles, sole studio album, live recordings but also unreleased tracks from an October 1982 demo tape.

MEDIUM MEDIUM HUNGRY, SO ANGRY LP Vinyl You probably heard it before, several times. The opening number ‘Hungry, So Angry’ is to be considered one of the most infectious white funk anthem of the era. The Glitterhouse was released in 1981 on british imprint Cherry Red and soon was hailed as an instant classic for the post-punk generati...

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Archetype // The Ick

The Ick — a sense of sanity amidst the storm of information. This album by Archetype is an abstract scream for something quite fragile — a polarizing society, disruptive isolation, and the fading collective experience. Utilizing dramatic vocals, industrial trip-hop, and post-punk-leaning electronics, Archetype marks the new moniker by the ever-versatile Viennese Rotterdammer, Leonard Prochazka. Following his manifold of concept-driven, instinctive musical output, Archetype's "The Ick" releases in 2024, following "Strapazen und Genesung" as Geier Aus Stahl on Knekelhuis in 2022.

ARCHETYPE THE ICK LP Vinyl The Ick — a sense of sanity amidst the storm of information. This album by Archetype is an abstract scream for something quite fragile — a polarizing society, disruptive isolation, and the fading collective experience. Utilizing dramatic vocals, industrial trip-hop, and post-punk-leaning electro...

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The Myrrors // Live At Exploded View

This half hour improvisation was recorded live at Exploded View Microcinema on occupied Tohono O'odham land on April 1st, 2015 around the time that our album Arena Negra was released. This was a short lived live lineup of the band that was nonetheless incredibly active over the course of that year, and was that which also performed for the band's one (technically frustrated) appearance at Austin's now famous Levitation Festival.

MYRRORS Live at Exploded View LP Vinyl This half hour improvisation was recorded live at Exploded View Microcinema on occupied Tohono O'odham land on April 1st, 2015 around the time that our album Arena Negra was released. This was a short lived live lineup of the band that was nonetheless incredibly active over the course of that year,....

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Royal Trux // Royal Trux

Smackcore.

ROYAL TRUX ROYAL TRUX LP Vinyl

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Karen Willems // Juju

Everything is connected. Not just in the grand scheme of things, but also in the colorful universe of Karen Willems. A lifelong quest for profound experiences through organizing sound led to the crucial Terre Sol-series of tapes in 2020. Out of that fertile well, Grichte (2022) was born. A double LP that presented Willems as an original explorer as well as a committed bandleader, it was her boldest statement to date.

Juju continues the work done on the second half of that album, with Terre Sol Four: Willems’voice, drums, percussion objects, keyboards and field recordings accompanied by the saxes of Marc De Maeseneer, Vincent Brijs and John Snauwaert. It was already something to behold on Grichte, swerving from introspective exploration to expressionist riff rock and semi-Dadaist avant-garde. On Juju, the four-piece digs even deeper and the results are utterly spellbinding.

Willems’ recent work combines relentless artistic experimentation with a commitment to broader socio-political issues. In essence, she tries to set up a discussion with her surroundings, reminding ourselves of responsibilities in these hectic, self-centered times. The refugee crisis is
one theme, ecology awareness another, and it’s hard not to consider “Voor De Stranden Verdrinken” (“Before The Beaches Drown”) a caustic warning.

The music on Juju remains as adventurous as before, but this time around, the playing feels even more confident, diverse and punchy. There are rich vocal arrangements, roaring saxes and sweeping melodies. Eccentricity and playfulness go hand in hand with exercises in tension and release, and calls for connection in antisocial times.
Juju fits perfectly in Willems’ output and it is perhaps her most consistent release yet. It’s infectious as hell, carefully crafted, packs a punch and more accessible than ever before. It’s the sound of an artist at the peak of her powers, not just expanding her range, but digging deeper with obvious glee. It’s not just intriguing; it’s inspiring to witness.

WILLEMS, KAREN JUJU LP Vinyl Everything is connected. Not just in the grand scheme of things, but also in the colorful universe of Karen Willems. A lifelong quest for profound experiences through organizing sound led to the crucial Terre Sol-series of tapes in 2020. Out of that fertile well, Grichte (2022) was born. A double LP...

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ʙɪʟʟʏ ꜱᴛʀɪɴɢꜱ // ᴍᴇ / ᴀɴᴅ / ᴅᴀᴅ

Recorded with his father Terry, Me / and / Dad finds Billy exploring the songs that inspired him to become the breakout musician he is today, including songs popularized by Mac Weisman and Doc Watson. The record was produced by Billy and Gary Paczosa and features playing from Bluegrass stalwarts Ronnie and Rob McCoury, Michael Cleveland, and Mike Bub, along with special guest Jerry Douglas.

STRINGS, BILLY ME / AND / DAD LP Vinyl Recorded with his father Terry, Me / and / Dad finds Billy exploring the songs that inspired him to become the breakout musician he is today, including songs popularized by Mac Weisman and Doc Watson. The record was produced by Billy and Gary Paczosa and features playing from Bluegrass stalwarts Ron...

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Lair // Ngelar
[Guruguru Brain]

Ngélar—the sextet’s sophomore LP—deeper social narratives and more intimate subject matters are more apparent. In which they speak a lot about ‘tanah’ or ‘land/soil,’ owing a lot to the fact that their hometown, Jatiwangi’s history of being the country’s largest producer of clay/terracotta-based products. The people in Jatiwangi’s intertwining relationship with ‘tanah’ is simply unparalleled—even their instruments are mostly made of terracotta.

From the reimagining of their hometown’s past glories, LAIR, along with singer/songwriter Monica Hapsari (who co-wrote and co-composed three songs in the album) and Go Kurosawa (Kikagaku Moyo) helming the project as the producer, sings about the rituals and traditions of harvest, to sending off prayers towards their once-prospering land and the ruins of what was once a dense forest in Jatiwangi, which they are currently trying to reclaim while racing with the massive wave of industrialisation. It is a contextually-sorrowful album as much as it is a candid, cheery commemoration of the band members’ everyday life in today’s northern shores of Java, Indonesia.

LAIR NGELAR LP Vinyl n Ngélar—the sextet’s sophomore LP—deeper social narratives and more intimate subject matters are more apparent. In which they speak a lot about ‘tanah’ or ‘land/soil,’ owing a lot to the fact that their hometown, Jatiwangi’s history of being the country’s largest producer of clay...

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Zer0 れい – Hellveterra (TAPE)
Distorted Pony - Punishment Room
Farm - Farm
Tim Hecker – Harmony In Ultraviolet
Buscemi – Who D'You Think You're Talking To? Mixed And Reworked (Musical Boundaries Are For Pretentious As****es Volume 1)
Xmal Deutschland – Early Singles (1981 - 1988)
JFK – Avalanche Zone
Backback - Duke
Frederik Leroux – This Here Empty Room
Various - Les Belgicains - Na Tango Ya Covadia 1964​-​70
The Mudgang – Mudgang - E.P
Needle And The Pain Reaction – No Borders
Hitch – Trails Are Ablaze!
Rook - I
Dead High Wire – Wasteland Shadows
Molly Nilsson _– The Travels
Veik – Surrounding Structures
The Eye Of Time – Myth I : A Last Dance For The Things We Love
Shellac – To All Trains
Big Black – Atomizer
Big Black - Songs About Fucing
Kee Avil – Spine
Machiavellian Art – Population Control
Universal Order Of Armageddon – Universal Order Of Armageddon
Shabazz Palaces – Robed In Rareness
Shabazz Palaces – Exotic Birds of Prey
Myriam Gendron – Mayday
Amen Dunes – Death Jokes
Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers – Izigqinamba
Jim White And Marisa Anderson – Swallowtail
Ka Baird – Bearings: Soundtracks For The Bardos
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies – Lost Themes IV: Noir
Orbital – Orbital (The Green Album Expanded)
Various – Harde Smart Volume 2: Flemish & Dutch Grooves From The 80's
Ottla – Vogel
Karen Willems - JUJU
De Beren Gieren – What Eludes Us
Nah – Totally Recalled
Fotocopia – Fotocopia
Lander & Adriaan - Millennial Breeze

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Kee Avil // Spine

Kee Avil’s music is both adventurous and intimate, intellectually challenging and emotionally resonant. The Montréal guitarist and producer’s 2022 debut LP Crease garnered plaudits from outlets like The Wire, The Quietus, Mojo and Foxy Digitalis, picking up a Canadian Juno Award nomination and Bandcamp Album Of The Day and Albums Of The Year along the way. Its intricate construction, unnerving atmospheres, and knife-edge take on avant-pop prompted comparisons to early PJ Harvey, This Heat, and Gazelle Twin. A remix EP with work by claire rousay, Ami Dang, Cecile Believe, and Pelada brought collaborative perspectives to four Crease tracks, offering new pathways within those songs.

KEE AVIL SPINE LP Vinyl Kee Avil’s music is both adventurous and intimate, intellectually challenging and emotionally resonant. The Montréal guitarist and producer’s 2022 debut LP Crease garnered plaudits from outlets like The Wire, The Quietus, Mojo and Foxy Digitalis, picking up a Canadian Juno Award nomination and ...

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universal order of armageddon // universal order of armageddon

Peerless 1990s post-hardcore band Universal Order Of Armageddon complete recordings 2xLP is available for pre-order now. Remixed from the original multi track analog tapes by acclaimed 2000s producer/mixer Chris Coady, and meticulously mastered by Jessica Thompson. From the ashes of Moss Icon, Universal Order of Armageddon blasted forth out of Annapolis, MD in a combustive maelstrom of mystifying riffs, syncopated beats, and commanding vocal delivery. Compiled here are the band's Gravity, Vermin Scum, and Kill Rock Stars recordings, housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket with a comprehensive 24-page book packed with photos, notes, and iconography from their 1993-’94 run. Armageddon IS now.

UNIVERSAL ORDER OF ARMAGEDDON UNIVERSAL ORDER OF ARMAGEDDON LP Vinyl Peerless 1990s post-hardcore band Universal Order Of Armageddon complete recordings 2xLP is available for pre-order now. Remixed from the original multi track analog tapes by acclaimed 2000s producer/mixer Chris Coady, and meticulously mastered by Jessica Thompson. From the ashes of Moss Icon, Unive...

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Vox Low // Vox Low

Vox Low delivers the record nobody expected anymore, one that captures the spirit of the world in motion, for the attention of a crowd of social rejects who have one knee in the gutter but refuse to surrender to the prevailing cynicism. A dark, poisonous, nihilist and erudite piece of work for those who worship Primal Scream’s “Screamadelica” and Gary Numan, who stand in line at the Berghaim with their pockets empty but their heads full of ideals.
Paris is a moveable feast.

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Shellac // To All Trains

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Fleur – Tu Es Un Être Parfait (7")
Dikke Dennis & De Røckers – Achter Het Station (7")

Big|Brave – A Chaos Of Flowers
Tara Clerkin Trio – In Spring
Come – Eleven : Eleven
Container - Yacker
Cyril Cyril – Le Futur Ça Marche Pas
Dez Dare – A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin.
Distorted Pony – Punishment Room
Dopethrone - Transcanadian Anger
Dopethrone – Hochelaga
Einstürzende Neubauten – Rampen - APM Alien Pop Music
Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band – Anda Jaleo
Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band – Perlas
Girls In Synthesis – Sublimation
Goat – World Music
Half Japanese – Our Solar System
Hayseed Dixie – Let There Be Rockgrass
Thee Headcoats - I Am The Object Of Your Desire
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
Lair – Ngélar
Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet – Four Guitars Live
Vanishing Twin – The Age Of Immunology
Lora Logic – Pedigree Charm (Deluxe)
Loscil // Lawrence English – Colours Of Air
The Jesus And Mary Chain – Peel Sessions 84/86
Kikagaku Moyo – Kikagaku Moyo
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Mienakunaru – Strato Arcology
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu – Dub Housing
Muslimgauze – United States Of Islam
U.K. Subs – Endangered Species
Markos Vamvakaris – Είναι Πικρός Ο Θάνατος = Death Is Bitter
Royal Trux – Royal Trux
Ruins – Brain Flakes
Soundtracks & Head – Daga Daga Daga
Spacemen 3 – Forged Prescriptions
Tool – 10,000 Days
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. – A Dream Of Strange Desires Wrapped Inside A Noise

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Anyway, shop gesloten de komende dagen, vrijdag terug open. Toet toene!

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Moor Mother // The Great Bailout

Moor Mother pulls no punches on her knockout ninth LP highlighting Britain’s role in the slave trade, starring guests Lonnie Holley, Mary Lattimore, Alya Al Sultani Kyle Kidd and more

‘The Great Bailout’ is a scalding, multi-layered reminder of how the British establishment passed the buck to taxpayers - including the Windrush generation, and their descendants - in their compensation of slave owners following the 1835 Slavery Abolition Act, whilst not a single penny went to the enslaved. Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother draws upon her broadest range of styles and textures, from free jazz to bone cutting computer music, concrète collage and folk, to tell an arresting story that implicitly hits at the roots of capitalism and the political chicanery of the American and European ruling classes.

Poetically parsing history thru a heavily researched and richly imaginative musical prism, Ayewa skillfully highlights the ongoing PTSD of her people and a systemic violence toward them over generations. The music is notably arranged with more space than usual, staging her sound designs in a more theatrical or radioplay style between the beatless, elegiac rumination of ‘Guilty’ featuring a poignant Lonnie Holley performance, thru a noir-jazz subversion of the UK national anthem, to the mighty drone traction of ‘Compensated Emancipation’, an almost Ronce-like twist of grotesque ASMR in ‘Death by Longitude’, and the phosphorous burn of ‘Liverpool Wins’, before returning to avant-jazz-blues-folk in ‘South Sea’ ft. Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty. An extraordinary album from any perspective, it can perhaps also be taken as warning that the UK’ ruling classes have covertly turned their colonial strategies inward post-Brexit. The artist’s text is below so we don’t get it twisted.

““Research is a major part of my work, and researching history - particularly African history, philosophy and time - is a major interest,” Moor Mother explained. “Europe and Africa have a very intimate and brutal relationship throughout time. I’m interested in exploring that relationship of colonialism and liberation, in this case in Great Britain.”

So what is the terrain we are invited to navigate?

Think: two Acts of Parliament: the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act that established a four-year period of ‘apprenticeship’ during which the enslaved in the British Caribbean would transition from being ‘slaves’ to being free. And the 1835 Slavery Abolition Act – a loan that allowed the British Government to borrow £20 million [£17 billion in today’s money] with which to ‘compensate’ 46,000 slave owners who were losing their ‘property’ because of the legal abolition of slavery. A loan that was one of the largest in history. A loan that equaled 40% of the Treasury’s annual income. A loan that was only finally paid off in 2015. A loan that all payers of tax in the UK helped to pay off — which means that all those descendants of the once enslaved, including the so-called Windrush Generation, also helped to pay off.

Think: British Government hubris and historical inaccuracy. “Here’s today’s surprising . Millions of you helped end the Slave Trade through your taxes,” announced The Treasury in a Tweet on February 9th, 2018. It wasn’t for the ending of the trade; it was for the ending of ownership of black life that taxpayers helped pay for. Think: Not one of the enslaved received a penny in the form of compensation.

Think: two British Prime Ministers – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister on four occasions between 1868 – 1894, and David Cameron 2010 – 2016, both of whose ancestors received ‘compensation’.

Think: all of this through the prism of two Acts and the histories they encode, and you know the terrain of ‘The Great Bailout’. “Displacement and its effects are not discussed enough,” Moor Mother says. “The PTSD of displacement should be a focus, and as we have the opportunity to learn about things happening in the world, we also have the opportunity to learn about ourselves. We’ve been through so many different acts of systematic violence.”

Evocative of the multiple echoes on Bailout, there’s one here. Speaking on the release of her 2017 debut album Fe**sh Bones, Ayewa, said: “We have yet to truly understand what enslavement means, what it does to people. It’s programmed within us, there’s no way to escape it.”

In thinking about that reckoning with haunting and material indebtedness, with truth searching, she made it clear that her vision stretched far and wide, not restricted to the USA alone because she doesn’t see the people of the African diaspora as separate, just dispersed. As she told me, “I have a hunger to meet each other all over the world,” with London being among the key stopping points. But first where to find people. “I’d been to London a few times and couldn’t find things — like where were all the people?” She said. It is an invisibility that is an effect of the “taxpayers of erasure,” until she headed south to Brixton and she saw one of the places where we are.

Now we are oriented, travelers, let’s enter the portal.”

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