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Faction & Fandom - various artists (compilation)

1. I Got A Bad - SJ Esau
2. Glasses In Rock - Bucky *Previously unreleased*
3. No Reason - The V.Cs
4. On Reflection - The Girl From Headquarters
5. Brought Home Cold - Jeremy Smoking Jacket
6. This Man Ruined My Life - 3Hostwomexicansandatinofspanners
7. Brand New Loafers - Suitable Case For Treatment
8. Cosmic Lightning - Hunting Lodge
9. Does Anybody Like Madonna? - White Trash Ambition
10. We Speak Modal - An Emergency
11. Pearl St Raga - Babel
12. Aileen Wuornos - North Sea Navigator
13. Walking - Male *previously unreleased*
14. Kick It Up - Rose Kemp
15. Bitches - Max Milton
16. The Bird Song - François & the Atlas Mountains Ensemble
17. Heaven Heaven Earth - Blanket
18. Untitled - Annette Buckley
19. On My Way Home - Caroline Martin
20. Say What You Like - Jar *previosuly unreleased*
21. My My - Rozi Plain
22. Dog Song (live at The Cube) - Men Diamler *previously unreleased*
23. Ships - Rachael Dadd *previously unreleased*
24. Credits Roll - Cajita *previously unreleased*
25. Monster Path - Id Lab

 £5.50
Recently we released a 25 Track Compilation CD entitled FACTION & FANDOM featuring music by some of the artists who have graced the stage at our nights. Needless to say there wasn't room to fit on all the awesome bands who have played, but the tracklisting is still pretty damn special. Also available from Jumbo Records (Leeds) and Rounder Records (Brighton)

Mustard Allegro - The Swindon Oasis EP

Mustard Allegro are not from California. Perhaps, then, the office blocks, docks and cranes of their native Bristol explain the angular portwards list of their peculiar brand of Surf music. The sense of humour is certainly British: named after an iconically awful 1970s car, and sporting track titles like 'At the Mount of the Chocolate Fountain, At the Fount of the Chocolate Mountain (Hyperdrive!)', the Mustards inhabit a world in which King Crimson write energetic two-minute micro-epics with Joe Meek at the controls, then dash down to the beach, boards in arms, only to find half a mile of mud between them and the Severn Estuary.

For fans of Dick Dale, Link Wray, The Ventures, Man Or Astro-Man? and Bambi Molesters as well as those of The Fall, Marc Ribot, Ivory Springer and Slint.

The CD (five tracks in a little over eight minutes) is available from Fact Fans or from the band for just 50p. Alternatively, you can download the MP3s and printable cover from mustardallegro.co.uk and make your own.

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1. Great White // 2. Screamer // 3. Sidewinder // 4. Wave Machine // 5. Theme from Mustard Allegro

Jeremy Smoking Jacket - Now We Are Dead (And Other Stories)

 

“Haunting vocals turn a military march into an aching anti-war anthem; a coughing fit becomes a drum sample; radio static turns a sweet lullaby into an insomniac’s nightmare; trumpets echo the wail of traffic; tribal beats roger your eardrum while a violin is sawn half to death. A sonic gumbo with everything from post-rock and drum and bass to folk and jazz mashed in: mind-blowingly inventive.” The Fly
 
"pig-fuckingly brilliant... something like a transistor full of white noise being drowned in treacle while a splashy stamp electro buzz centre rides shotgun for a clear, strong, controlled and rather beautiful female lead vocal." Unpeeled

 

listen to tracks here

£5.50
 1. Brought Home Cold // 2. No One Knows I'm Gone // 3. East October // 4. Follows // 5. Woman Hits Traffic // 6. Sleepy Sheep. NB: Joint Release with Enormous Corpse

Id Lab - The Monster Path

 

"On the first listen, I thought, “Hmm, this needs serious editing” but after a couple more attempts, it was clear that something quite wonderful is going on here. Full of inventive samples, fantastic edits, great pacing, and really off the wall production, it might be a little on the dark side but make no mistake this is an imaginative electronic release. In places it does fall into the old trap of “fucking up sound for the sake of it”, but this is a tiny criticism - an essential release for those looking for evocative avant-garde electronica. Beautiful." Decode

 

 

listen to tracks here

£9
1. Not Rocket // 2. Ov Vovel // 3. One Note // 4. Night of the Flavigator // 5. Monster Path // 6. Outsider // 7. Time Lapse Clouds // 8. Don't Interrupt // 9. Bluescreen Histamine // 10. Lost Chord 2 // 11. Lover Come Kill Me // 12. Mutech 7

Cajita - Product mk.1

"Despite its clinical title Cajita's mini album contains a myriad of emotions over its seven tracks. 'Don't Panic' is the aural equivalent of skimming stones in the sea, rippling sounds and atmospheric vocals. 'First' is a fragile little tune, with some angelic vocals and a mournful blast of trumpet near the end to put the seal on it. On 'Your Own Death And How To Cope With It' a shuffling rhythm track gently ushers along strung out vocals and a shimmering piano, gently asserting itself as the stand out track.. Things pick up for the finale, a lovely plain keyboard led ballad by the name of 'Monster'. Cajita strike you as a band with plenty of ideas. They may not all come off but when they do it's worth the wait." www.russellsreviews.co.uk

listen to tracks here

1. Don't Panic // 2. First // 3. Your Own Death (and how to cope with it) // 4. If I Were You // 5. Lachrymose // 6. Breather // 7. Monster