First discovered and reissued by the legendary Rockadelic label in 1990, the album has gained a cult status among new fans of ’70s proto-doom and hard rock sounds since then. Hailing from Florida, Bolder Damn boasted an ultra-heavy, “raw-in-your-face” sound with devastating fuzzed-out guitar, a solid rhythm section, and manic vocals. Artwork by Andreas Diefenbach.īolder Damn’s 1971 album Mourning is an absolute monster among U.S. Richter’s dusty, unique sound has never sounded so well-honed and pointed, and it’s a patchwork of ideas and fragments that only improves over time. Black To Comm is a deeper, more challenging record than its predecessor, but one which repays the patient listener. The centerpiece is undoubtedly “Is Nowhere,” which builds slowly over 20 minutes with rumbling organ sounds and buzzing filters, never losing the listener’s attention for a second. Richter’s material has always been characterized by an air of surrealism, but it’s never been more obvious than on the pulsing, chattering opener “Human Gidrah” or in the delirious, fractured pop of “Hands.” There are real songs hidden in here somewhere, but they’re disintegrated by Richter’s sound manipulation techniques and dissolved into soupy, extended drone marathons. Now Richter is back with Alphabet 1968’s proper follow-up, a self-titled double album pieced together from crumbling samples, vocal snippets, and an arsenal of noise generators and filters. Aside from helming the prolific Dekorder imprint, he’s put out a number of musical curios, including 2012’s excellent film soundtrack EARTH. Hamburg’s Marc Richter has been busy with his Black To Comm project since his last appearance under that name on Type, 2009’s genre-bending and critically acclaimed Alphabet 1968. Back in print on 180-gram LP courtesy of the exotica enthusiasts at So Far Out. Featuring Les Baxter’s signature percussion sound and moody arrangements, Barbarian is one of Baxter’s finest titles of the late ’50s/early ’60s.
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The soundtrack to the 1959 Italian peplum/sword-and-sandal film Goliath and the Barbarians starring American bodybuilder and mega-star in Europe at the time, Steve Reeves, Barbarian is about a million times better than the movie it was made to accompany. “However, it’s common knowledge now that the first couple of tracks recorded by White Noise were actually recorded at the BBC, so I think it’s safe to come clean!”įile Under: Electronic, Library Pop, Essential Grooves, Delia Derbyshire Initial recording work was undertaken by Vorhaus, Derbyshire and Hodgson at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale during the night after staff had gone home. “It was all very unofficial and the BBC was unaware of us using the studio and equipment for our own ends,” recalls Vorhaus. The album was equally surprising in that two of the three members of White Noise were not long haired rock musicians, but were respected pioneers of electronic music who worked at the BBC’s legendary Radiophonic Workshop. Of these companies, Island was undoubtedly the biggest player. Of all the albums released that year by Island, White Noise’s An Electric Storm was by far the most experimental and ground breaking. It was also a year in which independent record labels began to make their commercial mark in Britain.
Musical freedom was the watchword and experimentation was welcomed by an ever increasing underground audience who were eager to feed their heads with ambitious albums by acts who embraced the worlds of rock and the avant garde. Cited as an influence by Aphex Twin and Chemical Brothers, An Electric Storm was the work of American-born David Vorhaus, Delia Derbyshire (who had created the electronic version of the Doctor Who theme for the BBC) and Brian Hodgson. 1969 was a year which saw the world of popular music blossom. Originally issued in 1969 on Island Records, An Electric Storm is the ambitious debut album from electronic music groupWhite Noise. White Noise: An Electric Storm (Island) LP Meanwhile, here’s some stuff that came in late last year, mostly while I was out of the shop so it’s just hitting the shelves today, enjoy…. It was absolutely bonkers here, so THANK YOU! Anyway, now hopefully we’ll have some time to breathe and tidy up a bit. We here would like to thank all of you who chose to shop locally last month and made December our best month ever, by a long shot. Well Happy New Year to all our fine friends out there! Hopefully you survived the holiday season and had some time off to spend with family and friends and your turntable.