Just one note...

Wish I had time/money to get to these Grimm Robe shows. Interested how many amps SOMA has, since he must still have all these Sunn Model-Ts lying around and now he's playing HiWatt Custom 100s and Fender Twins. Anyway, I'll make do with my one Marshall TSL-100 which incidently is actually playing up.

On my Ipod A-Z I'm up to D finally. Which meant a converge marathon yesterday. Feeling pumped.
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Begin

In thinking of a witty title for this, I typed in 'Begin' into wikipedia, hopeing for some help. However, I got a list of (almost entirely) Israeli and Canadian politicians. I never knew there was such a link between the two countries. Wierd. Anyway, I'm just gonna use this for my reviews of things, what I've been doing and sound manipulation news (whatever that is).

Had some cool news this week, in that a great Belgian label called Consouling Sounds wants to release the follow up to my band's, io, first album. So another part of this blog will be how the writing, demoing etc of that is going. We have 3 songs already, need another 4. Go us.

Just read an amazing review of two records. One by Emeralds on No Fun records which was descrived as:

"manages to soar between the elevated electronics of Tangerine Dream and the religious effect of Popol Vuh in one succinct sweep of synths, rising to a spine melting crescendo after 6 minutes and opening your soul for the rest of the session. 'Damaged Kids' is initially part Wolf Eyes horror ambient and part Delia Derbyshire radiophonics, exploring the outer limits of their gears spooking capabilities before turning into a lush swell of krautrock optimism worthy of Ashra"

Which sounds ace! Also the new record by Mountains on Thrill Jockey looks great.

I'm buying my Moog MF-102 ring modulator this week which I can't wait for. Pedal madness here we come.

This weeks listening: