STREAMING // (Album) Power Trip – “Live In Seattle 05.28.2018”
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Recorded, Mixed, + Mastered By: Zachary Rippy of Sound Signal Audio
Art By: Nicky Rat
Track List: Drown, Divine Apprehension, Suffer No Fool, Sould Sacrifice, Executioner’s Tax, Crucifixiation, Heretic’s Fork, Conditioned To Death, Firing Squad, Manifest Decimation, Crossbreaker
Misc. Day – Synthetic Hell
Machine Girl is the musical equivalent of smashing your dome into the shatterproof plexiglass walls that stands as freedom beyond the inside minds of chaos. Every second on U-Void Synthesizer is loud and bombastic, but a belligerent mess that becomes grimier with each dissection.
Like the nine circles of Hell, U-Void Synthesizer attacks different fronts and techniques of torture. The beauty of crisp synth work that collides over warped samples and screams becomes a safe haven for the sadomasochist who can grip an audience and force them into a digital dungeon. Opening with “The Fortress (The Blood Inside…),” Machine Girl is a charismatic monster that can somehow combine the catchy work of frantic dance tunes and a deeper-rooted love for hardcore and punk that sees a fresh coat of paint. The entire production is crisp here and a perfect leaping point for a new fan to dive into headfirst into a cyber-city where disorder is key.
The first two tracks take such a large array of twists and manipulations that they feel as if they were 10 tracks in one. By the time that the second track, “Blood Magic” hits, Machine Girl has changed beats and form at least four times. Almost as if they were the auditory space monster from The Thing, this foe has no actual distinguishable face. U-Void Synthesizer shifts almost effortlessly it seems and can do so quick enough to always have the listener playing catch up.
Especially shown on “Kill All Borders (2020 Worldwide Fucker)” where the gates of sound are blown off by this rapid-fire automatic carbine of drum and bass with clashing hi-hats and disfigured synths. These are the makings of pure noise barriers that crush the audience. Lyrically, Machine Girl etches to match their punch drunk motion and layers some sense over the constant confusion. They describe, “Imperial demise, 2020 worldwide fucker. Let them in… Kill all borders kill all borders.”
The final motion is “Batsu Forever” where the Unreal Tournament arcade sounding percussion claps to create the introduction, then, rolls of drums are the highlight of the piece that stands against some strong-willed lyrics. The display describes, “My skin is flush and feels so warm, temptations such a fucking war. I numb myself so I’ll ignore, thoughts that cut through me like a sword.” As soon as the chorus ends however, the track takes a corkscrew-turn into another beat that was even more wired than before. The production erupts as if it was a volcano that cannot handle the intensity any longer and bursts to cover the frame in a burning blast.
When the guillotine drops and this life comes to an end, Machine Girl stands like a proud effigy to whatever genre they want. They transpose the sound barrier and become addictive with U-Void Synthesizer, even if the addiction is as bad as it is melting your brain.
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STREAMING // (Video) Tyler, The Creator – “2020 Grammy Performance”
Listen/Watch Here – Youtube
Featuring: Charlie Wilson + Boyz II Men
Performing: EARFQUAKE + NEW MAGIC WAND
STREAMING // (Album) Dua Saleh – “ROSETTA”
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Executive Produced By: Psymun
Mixed + Mastered By: Alec Ness
Creative + Art Direction: Braden Lee
Track List: cat scratch, umbrellar, smut, windhymn, hellbound bankrupt
New Music – Indefinite Power
There is something fascinating about a New York narrator as he stands among the walls of a concrete jungle with iron horses and sounds of steel crunching around him. The grind of dusk hours to the smells of street life that erupt from the ground pour-over and bleed into the pen where Medhane can successfully capture a Scorsese-esque parallel where the gritty and grime surrounds his work, but never implicates onto it. Instead, the filth is like a barrier that boosts the beauty of his newest piece, Cold Water into the heavens of sound.
Medhane’s production through his records becomes more and more similar to a dream where the gentle piano chords or the stoned apparition phases in-between reality and fiction. The land that exists beyond the mind and awoken consciousness that begins to blur and eventually, leads into the opening track, “Off Tha Strength.” Before the layers of tar and foundation are laid, Medhane fiddles to fit these moving poetic displays of musical athleticism in the same way that a hurdler can transcend tracks.
He takes a leap into shortened pieces like ”No Cap” or “Late” that are shuffled into drained delivery where deeper waters create a sink or swim style of flow. Instead of having a finesse of surfing over these waves, Medhane is oftentimes wading in the water and flowing that way, describing, “Fuck the pigs free my niggas out the chains, just the other day that I couldn’t feel, nothing real. Took a minute for them cuts to heal, scarred still.” This stream of consciousness writing performance is what makes Medhane such an impactful and charismatic narrator. From his first introduction Ba Suba, Ak Jamm to Own Pace, then FULL CIRCLE and now finally Cold Water, the progression is unmistakable but follows a theme.
One Medhane track can be placed within another and has a similar emotional draw, but then also can continue on to progress his timeline. When he reaches the very stuttered stance of “Watch My Step,” his strong displays of production choice boosts this immaculate punch with a feature coming from Jadasea. Also the longest track on Cold Water, “Watch My Step” has this bounce to it that is more lively than usual for Medhane but becomes welcome territory where he can control the pawns and push a hand that displays strength over pestilence. Balancing on an edge, Medhane describes, “Burnin rubber on the road, I learned that letting go leave some feelings to be told. Running to the goal, y’all was in my way … Watch my step, know I got my strength. Had to decompress, for some peace again.”
Cold Water comes off as a very authentic offering to an audience that is finally making their rounds to respecting Medhane for the narrator he is. While he follows a sound and style, he set the walls himself and is able to scale them for each release before opening the mountain top-up for a lookout place over the sprawling animal that embodies New York City.
Listen To Cold Water Here!!! – BandCamp/Spotify/Amazon/iTunes
STREAMING // (VIDEO) CODE ORANGE – “YOU AND YOU ALONE: 007”
Listen/Watch Here – Twitch
Classic Day – Plan 9 From New Jersey
While the third official grouping of recordings from the Lodi, New Jersey Martians, the Misfits were able to push a label debut with Walk Among Us. Spanning 13 tracks over 24 minutes. The songwriting is a refined call to the B-horror movies with the likes of Ed Wood or Roger Corman where large creatures in UFO’s attack, but instead of movie sets, the Misfits occupied radio waves.
Walk Among Us is a special piece of history not just because it is the technical debut of one of the most popularized and iconic figures in punk rock, but because of its history and eventual full-release notch to the belt. The Misfits at the time had worked on two separate albums, both 12 Hits From Hell and Static Age which remains a testament to the power of storytelling and references of a now digital hell that was predicted early on. The writing on Walk Among Us reflects that growth and is both a mix of devilishly catchy with the cutting-slash of a switchblade, able to be holstered and reserved at a moment’s notice.
The line-up which consisted of a revolving door overtime was a bounce of Glenn Danzig on the lead vocals and rhythm guitar on select tracks, Doyle on the lead guitar, and backing vocals which in turn, shifts to Jerry Only on bass and backing shouts. The odd man out is Arthur Googy who was featured here on Walk Among Us, on the 3 Hits From Hell EP, the 12 Hits From Hell which released in 2001, and some of the singles and early features before the Misfits would finalize with a continuous carousel of players in the game.
As Walk Among Us begins to push open the wax museum doors, the Misfits are in a frantic rush to destroy with “20 Eyes” that is both easy to move along to and easy to be crushed under. The rapid-fire Cei-Rigotti machine gun has Walk Among Us ripping through guitar chords and percussive cracks while vocals and choruses harmonize together as much that a punk record can harmonize. Where Misfits can collect and attack together is through the onslaught of horrific lyrics that match their eyeliner and cartilage gloves.
The track “Skulls” should put the narrator on a watch-list, instead, the crowd is encouraged to join along as Danzig describes, “Demon I am and face I peel, see your skin turned inside out. Cause I’ve gotta have you on my wall, gotta have you on my wall…” which transitions into the chorus. The group describes, “I want your skull, I need your skulls, I want your skull, I need your skulls.” Then as the guitar riffs and bass grooves begin to ramp up, the lyrics get more intense, illustrating, “Collect the heads of little girls and put ‘em on my wall. Hack the heads off little girls and put ‘em on my wall.” The overarching theme of being as shocking and grotesque as possible leads the listener through a hall of horrors where the scariest thing is the reflection of the audience at the end of the record.
And when the Crimson Ghost turns to the audience and ushers out of the mosh pit, the Misfits stand as effigies to punk rock and heresy. In the end, the horror nerds create catchy tracks that reflect the blood-soaked film reels of yesteryear.
Listen To Walk Among Us Here!!! – Spotify/Amazon/iTunes
STREAMING // (Album) Armand Hammer – “Shrines”
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Featuring: Pink Siifu, KeiyaA, Curly Castro, Nosaj, Quelle Chris, Fielded, R.A.P. Ferreira, Akai Solo, Moor Mother, Earl Sweatshirt
Production: Navy Blue, Andrew Broder, Messiah Muzik, Kenny Segal, Nicholas Craven, Steel Tipped Dove, Fat Albert Einstein
Track List: Bitter Cassava, Solarium, Charms, Pommelhorse, Leopards, King Tubby, Frida, Slewfoot, War Stories, Flavor Flav, Dead Cars, Parables, Ramses II, The Eucharist
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