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10th Of June 2011 Update

10th Of June 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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Afrika Bambaataa      “Looking For The Perfect Beat 1980-1985”
Axemen    “Three Virgins (+ D/L)”
Biafra, Jello And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine    “Enhanced Methods Of Questioning (+ D/L)”
Black Moth Super Rainbow    “Dandelion Gum (PIC Disc)”
Black Pus    “Primordial Pus”
Black Swans, The    “Don’t Blame The Stars”
Bootsy’s Rubber Band    “Stretchin’ Out In”
Clash    “London Calling”
Coathangers, The    “Larceny & Old Lace (+ D/L)”
Dawes    “Nothing Is Wrong (2LP + CD)”
Deftones    “Adrenaline (180 Gram)”
Echo & The Bunnymen    “BBC Radio Tapes ’79-’80”
Esmerine    “La Lechuza (+ CD + Ltd. Ed. Poster)”
Fungus Brains    “Ron Pistos Real World”
Garbes, Ryan    “Sweet Hassle”
Grave Babies    “Death Face”
Guthrie, Woody    “This Machine Kills Fascists”
Husker Du    “Flip Your Wig”
Husker Du    “Zen Arcade”
Johannsson, Johann    “The Miners’ Hymns (+ D/L)”
Junior Boys    “It’s All True (2LP + D/L)”
Karma To Burn    “V”
Land Of Talk    “Some Are Lakes (+ D/L)”
Lifeless    “No Love For The World”
Nadler, Marissa    “Marissa Nadler”
Oneida    “Absolute II (+ D/L)”
Owl City    “All Things Bright And Beautiful (+ D/L)”
Pleasure Leftists    “Six Song EP”
Pollard, Robert    “Lord Of The Birdcage”
Radiohead “Supercollider”
Reatards    “Teenage Hate (First Album Plus Bonus LP Of Early Recordings + D/L)”
Rosebuds, The    “Loud Planes Fly Low (+ D/L)”
Scott-Heron, Gil And Brian Jackson    “From South Africa To South Carolina”
Sonic’s Rendezvous Band    “Too Much Crank!”
Starkweather / Overmars    “Starkweather & Overmars Split”
Urban Waste    “Urban Waste (+ D/L)”
Vetiver    “The Errant Charm (+ D/L)”
Within The Ruins    “Omen (Ltd. Ed. Color + D/L)”
Wonder Years, The     “Present: Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing (+ Poster)”
Yuppicide    “Shinebox (Remastered)”
Yuppicide    “Fear Love (Remastered)”

Electronic 12″s
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Addison Groove    “This Is It”
Aguayo, Matias    “I Don’t Smoke EP”
Basic Channel    “Reshape”
Bicep    “EP1”
Bicep    “EP2”
Blondes    “Lover / Hater”
DJ Yellow     “Night In Tranzylvania (DJ Yellow E.P.)”
Dubkasm    “More Jah”
Joker    “The Vision (White Label)”
Mochipet / Dkon    “Remixes”
MyMy & Emika    “Price Tag EP”
Plastikman    “Consumed”
Plastikman    “Plasticine”
Secret Cinema     “Minerals EP2”
Secret Cinema     “Minerals EP3”
Skream    “Where You Should Be 1”
Skream    “Where You Should Be 2”
Stott, Andy    “Night Jewel”
Stott, Andy    “Tell Me Anything / Love Nothing”
Stott, Andy    “Bad Landing EP”
Stott, Andy    “Brief Encounter”
Teeth of the Sea    “Hypnoticon”
Tejada, John & Leviste, Arian    “Western Starland Remixes 2011”
Tobin, Amon    “Isam (+ D/L)”
Tokimonsta    “Cosmic Intoxication”
Vincenzo    “Wherever I Lay My Head”

10″s
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Floating Points    “Post Suite / Almost in Profile”
Iggy & The Stooges     “Rough Power”
Iggy Pop & James Williamson    “Jesus Loves The Stooges”
The New Christs    “Woe Betide”

7″s
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Choke Up “Spent”
Gaz-66 Intrusion “Power”
Jawbox “Jackpot Plus!”
Kendl Winter “At The Same Time”
Lab
La Dispute / Touche Amore (Yellow & Brown Versions)
Leather “Sterile”
Okkervil River “Rider”
Pygmylush “Cold World / Guilt”
Reviver “Potential”
Rites Of Spring “All”
Soldiers “Hit The Bricks”
Unlearn “When The Reaper”
Warhead “This World Of”

CDs
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Alpinist “Lichtlaern..”
Altar Of Plagues “Mammal”
Black September “Forbidden…”
Engineer “Crooked Voices”
Holy Other “With U”
Johannsson, Johann    “The Miners’ Hymns”
Oneida “Absolute II”
Origin “Entity”
People Like Us “Welcome”
Queens Of The Stone Age “QOTSA”
Reatards “Teenage Hate”
SepticFlesh “Great Mass…”
Tyr “Lay Of Thrym”
Various Artists “King Size Dub V. 15”
Vastum “Carnal Law”

Other
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Reviews
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Fastbreak Fast Cars, Fast Women

(Big Wheel Recreation)

When this album came out in 1998, I didn’t like it at all. In the late
90s, I was much more interested in the heavier pissed off CTHC bands
(Hatebreed, Fear Tomorrow, Mans Ruin, Death Threat etc..) and even
less interested in any CT bands defecting to Boston. I was also just
way too angry to be into a youth crew band that shared borders with
pop punk.

Fastbreak for those that don’t know was a Connecticut youth-crew
styled hardcore band. Formed by members of Cornerstone in 1994. These
dudes put out some 7″s, then went on to put out full length releases
on Revelation & Big Wheel. Members were also in In My Eyes, Right
Brigade, & Piebald. Recently we bought a collection of used hardcore
LPs and there were a couple copies of “Fast Cars, Fast Women” in the
mix. I decided to give this another whirl and the verdict is, 26 year
old me thinks this is a solid record.

(check out baby Wes Nelson [Schematic of a Waking Life, Estrogen Highs, other bands] on stage)
[Reviewer: Josh]

Kode9 & The Spaceape Black Sun
(Hyperdub)

Kode9 is Steve Goodman.  Steve Goodman lectures in Music Culture at the School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of East London and is the founder of the record label Hyperdub.  All this information can be verified at his website www.sonicwarfare.org – not so coincidentally he’s also penned a book with the name Sonic Warfare (by his credentials you might suspect that this is not a light read – you’d be right. It is dense with information [read: textbok]).  Kode9 knows how to make bass music.  Add his friend the Spaceape to the mix for some dynamism and you get a very nice future dub record.  At times more dub and at times more bass (nevermind if that doesn’t seem to make sense, just take it like it reads).  These aren’t really dancefloor bangers.  These tracks are headnodders.  Of course, I can go for a good headnodder from time to time on the dancefloor – these tracks just aren’t what you’d call “Killer Kuts.”  Bonus time: It’s a double LP with a gatefold done well/right with lyrics and a short comic on the inner sides.  Keep bouncin’.
[Reviewer: Rick]

Movie: Blank City (Win Free Passes)

Movie: Blank City (Win Free Passes)

 All right, so there is this movie playing at Real Art Ways in Hartford starting tomorrow (Friday, June 10, 2011).  It looks cool.  I have only seen the trailer so far.  I’ll definitely watch it. Perhaps I’ll see you in Hartford.  Perhaps you’ll get one of these pairs of passes I have to give away.  The passes are good for the entire run – so you don’t need to go to a particular showing of it. To get a pair of free passes email redscroll@gmail.com with the subject “Blank City Passes” and answer this simple question: What band was this Mr. Thurston Moore involved with at the tail end of the initial No Wave movement?  Super easy really. The first couple people to email the right answer (I mean, c’mon, really easy) will get these.  
[Some press material for the film follows – check it out y’all.]
Blank City A film by Céline Danhier
USA • 2010 • 94 MINS. • INSURGENT MEDIA

BLANK CITY tells the long-overdue tale of the motley crew of renegade filmmakers that emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous period of New York history that crossed over with the East Village Art Scene and thriving music scene. It’s a fascinating look at the way this misfit cinema used the deserted, bombed-out Lower East Side landscapes to craft daring works that would go on to profoundly influence Independent Film today. Unlike the much-celebrated punk music scene, this era’s thrilling and confrontational underground film movement has never before been chronicled. Directed by French newcomer Celine Danhier, BLANK CITY captures the idiosyncratic, explosive energy of the “No Wave Cinema” and “Cinema of Transgression” movements. Featured players include acclaimed directors Jim Jarmusch and John Waters, actor-writer-director Steve Buscemi, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, Hip Hop legend Fab 5 Freddy, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, artist James Nares, photographer Richard Kern as well as Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, Susan Seidelman, Beth B, Scott B, Charlie Ahearn and Nick Zedd. Fittingly, the soundtrack includes: Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Contortions, The Bush Tetras, Sonic Youth and many more.

Spotlight: Snake Oil

Spotlight: Snake Oil
[Self-Released]
Snake Oil is a mysterious outfit consisting of ten members from the north eastern region of America (NY/CT/MA).  At least some of these people have done time in Connecticut bands Titles & The Weigh Down. Instrumental psychedelic-pop. Breezy guitars. A little funk.  At times it gets to feeling like some jazzy improv, but I can definitely see how it could be reproduced live.  They then can reel it in rather quickly.  Railroad driving drum beats with walking bass lines and floating guitar parts and occasional improvisations.  Is this the same Snake Oil that did a track on the 3xCD “Gold Leaf Branches” compilation (which included folks I would easily call contemporaries like Charalambides, Marissa Nadler, Six Organs of Admittance…) back in 2005 on Digitalis?  The mystery may never be solved.

“I Was A Total Pyro” is the soundtrack to walking down deserted streets in the industrial part of town on a hot summer day, wearing corduroys & kicking every piece of scrap metal that crosses your path. The mellow pacing and electronics used on,”Jung Greezy” transport me to a space ship where I’ve woken up and realized I was an alien, but everything is going to be okay cause I’m not alone. These sondgs are great because they make you feel warm and fuzzy.  Do you remember loving the music on the Muppet Babies?  I do.  What if Neil Young did the soundtrack and they were often in space (or y’ know, pretending really vividly)?

The record was released today officially. Its mysteriousness is built upon by the minimalist packaging with a night and day front and back cover with just the band name in the bottom corner and on the side of the sleeve (really, that’s it, nothing else).  Inside you’ll find a download code (which will be helpful for identifying song titles).  There is also a sticker with a scanner code (for use on your portable communication smart device – we live in the future). 

Snake Oil is playing (woah, will they wear masks?) a release show for this record with Atrina and DJ Shaki on June 17th at Cafe 9.  ||Facebook Event Page||

Reviews: Johann Johannsson & Esmerine (NEW REVIEWER!)

Reviews: Johann Johannsson & Esmerine
(NEW REVIEWER!)
(Both of these albums arrived today, by the by.)
Hey all, we have a new reviewer on board.  Let’s welcome him.  In the future his reviews may show up with the update with the reviews the few of us already do (Josh, Rick & Sean). Mark is an aspiring writer who enjoys creative writing and independent music.  He has a blog of his own you can check out here.  Thanks Mark and welcome.  We look forward to more of these well thought out reviews.
Jóhann Jóhannsson The Miners’ Hymns
[Fat Cat Records]

A truly successful film score does not merely complement a film’s visuals; it also
radiates with an aura of the film, managing to stand independently in its own
right. Iceland-born composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’ s score for The Miners’ Hymns
fits this description well. The film in question, according to the description on Fat
Cat Records’ website, focuses on an “ill-fated mining community in North East
England” and the Miners’ Gala that celebrates their lives. Despite the fact that
I have not yet watched the film, I seriously want to check it out now, thanks to
the poignant atmosphere painted by the predominantly brass and organ-based
ensemble. I’m amazed by how heartrending and sentimental a film score about a
coal mining community can be. Each piece’s title was carefully selected from actual
slogans printed on trade union banners, providing very fascinating descriptions.
A somber mood blankets the overall experience, from the emotional ten-and-a-
half minute opener “They Being Dead yet Speaketh” to the triumphant, swelling
conclusion of “The Cause of Labour is the Hope of the World.” A particular standout
to me was “An Injury To One Is The Concern of All,” which explores a particularly
ominous, treacherous wasteland of orchestral spikes that soar like walls of fire
in a suffocating, dense landscape. Jóhannsson adds his share of subtle electronics to
complete the mood, giving an almost otherworldly essence to set it apart from most film
scores.

Esmerine La Lechuza
 [Constellation Records]
Imagine river rafting across an unfamiliar land, absorbing the beauty of both natural
and man-made sights without another care in your mind. Using only instruments
such as cello, harp, percussion and occasional vocals, the four-piece Esmerine make
La Lechuza an emotional, ornate experience. The river comparison is especially
well justified with mellow-yet-compelling songs such as “A Dog River” and “Little
Streams Make Big Rivers.” Personally, I’m feeling a strong, rich East Asian vibe from
the lively percussion and flowing strings, despite this band’s Montreal origin (its
members have contributed to several fellow local acts, such as Godspeed You! Black
Emperor (percussionist Bruce Cawdron) and Thee Silver Mt. Zion (cellist Beckie
Foon.)) The closer “Fish On Land” is particularly engrossing, as it was written and
sung by the late Lhasa de Sela, recorded with Cawdron and Foon in 2009, the year
before she lost her battle with cancer.
[Reviewer: Mark]

3rd Of June 2011 Update and Reviews

3rd Of June 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items & Reviews
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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5.6.7.8’S, The    “The 5.6.7.8’s 10-22-2010 (Third Man Live)”
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O    “Pink Lady Lemonade You’re From Inner Space”
Akitsa    “Au Crepuscule De L’Esperance”
Altars    “Live On Pure Hate”
Appleseed Cast, The    “Middle States (+ D/L)”
Bazan, David    “Strange Negotiations”
Bear Hands    “Burning Bush Supper Club”
Black Lips    “Arabia Mountain (+ D/L)”
Boris    “Heavy Rocks”
Bowie, David    “Space Oddity (40th Anniversary Limited Edition)”
Boy King Islands    “Fall “
Bush, Kate    “Director’s Cut”
Caretaker    “Empty Bliss”
Cave In    “White Silence”
Cola Freaks    “Cola Freaks (+ D/L)”
Coltrane, John    “Coltrane Plays the Blues”
Cramps, The    “Songs The Lord Taught Us (180 Gram Repress)”
Cramps, The    “Psychedelic Jungle (180 Gram Repress)”
Cults    “Cults (+ D/L)”
D.O.A.    “Hardcore 81 (30th Anniversary Ltd. Ed. /1000 Blue Vinyl + Poster)”
D.O.A.    “Something Better Change (30th Anniversary Ltd. Ed. /1000 Green Vinyl + Poster)”
Death Cab For Cutie    “Codes and Keys”
Delay, Vladislav Quartet (Vladislav Delay Quartet)    “Vladislav Delay Quartet”
Deskonocidos    “En La Oscuridad”
Devil Wears Prada, The    “Plagues”
Fire & Ice    “Collections”
Fireworks    “Gospel. “
Flogging Molly    “Speed of Darkness”
Ford & Lopatin (Formerly Known As Games)    “Channel Pressure (/2500)”
Foster The People    “Torches (+ D/L)”
Friendly Fires    “Pala (+ D/L)”
Fucked Up    “David Comes To Life (+ D/L)”
Ilsa    “Tutti Il Colori Del Buio”
Ilsa / Hooded Menace    “Hooded Menace / Ilsa”
Kids On A Crime Spree    “We Love You So Bad (+ D/L)”
Lady Gaga    “Born This Way (2LP 180 Gram)”
Late Nite Wars    “Who’s Going To Miss You If You Go?”
Ludicra    “Ludicra”
Masakari    “The Prophet Feeds”
Misfits    “Shocking Return”
Misfits    “If You Don’t Know This Song… Beware”
Monks, The    “Black Time”
Morning Teleportation    “Expanding Anyway (+ D/L)”
My Morning Jacket    “Circuital”
Negative Plane    “Stained Glass Revelations”
Obsessed, The    “Lunar Womb”
One Master    “The Quiet Eye Of Eternity”
O’Rourke, Jim     “Old News #5 (Green Cover, 2xLP)”
Pagliara, Massimiliano    “Focus For Infinity”
Phenomenal Handclap Band, The    “Tears (Remix)”
Possessed    “World War III”
Prurient    “Black Vase”
Ritual    “Paper Skin”
Sarcofago    “DeathThrash (Unofficial)”
Scapegoat     “Scapegoat”
Serpent Throne    “Ride Satan Ride”
Snake Oil    “Snake Oil”
Touche Amore    “Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me”
Turner, Frank    “England Keep My Bones (+ CD)”
Various Artists    “El Sonido De Tupac Amaru (LP+7″)”
Various Artists    “Brazilian Nuggets”
Various Artists    “The Rhythms Of Black Peru: Classic Afro-Peruvian Recordings (+ D/L)”
Vicious, Sid    “My Way”
Watain    “Lawless Darkness (Die-cut)”
Woods    “Sun And Shade”

Hip-Hop LPs & 12″s
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!llmind    “Behind The Curta!n (Ltd. Ed. W/ D/L W/ Bonus Material)”
Atmosphere    “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (Ltd. Yellow Vinyl)”
Blitz The Ambassador    “Native Sun”
DangerDoom    “The Mouse And The Mask”
DJ Premier    “Beats That Collected Dust Volume 2”
Kool G Rap    “Riches, Royalty & Respect”
Roc Marciano    “Marcberg”
Vast Aire    “Ox 2010: A Street Odyssey (Feat. A Ton Of Guests)”

Electronic 12″s
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Addison Groove    “This Is It”
Blondes    “Lover / Hater”
DJ Yellow     “Night In Tranzylvania (DJ Yellow E.P.)”
Dubkasm    “More Jah”
Joker    “The Vision (White Label)”
Mochipet / Dkon    “Remixes”
Orphx    “Apparition”
Secret Cinema     “Minerals EP1”
Skream    “Where You Should Be 1”
Skream    “Where You Should Be 2”
Stott, Andy    “Night Jewel”
Stott, Andy    “Tell Me Anything / Love Nothing”
Stott, Andy    “Bad Landing EP”
Stott, Andy    “Brief Encounter”
Teeth of the Sea    “Hypnoticon”
Tejada, John & Leviste, Arian    “Western Starland Remixes 2011”
Tobin, Amon    “Isam (+ D/L)”
Tokimonsta    “Creature Dreams EP”
Vincenzo    “Wherever I Lay My Head”

10″s
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Floating Points    “Post Suite / Almost in Profile”

7″s
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Banana Splits “Doin’ The…”
Baptists
Cold Showers “Highlands”
Dance Gavin Dance “People…”
Incendiary / Unrestrained
Kill Life / 33
Monks “Pretty Suzanne”
Most Precious Blood “Demo”

CDs
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African Head Charge “Off The…”
Creation Rebel “Starship”
Dark Castle “Surrender To All Life”
Fucked Up “David Comes To Life”
Ipsissimus “Way Of Descent” (Local Black Metal gone big on Metal Blade)
Kuti, Fela “Lagos Baby (2xCD)”
Loss “Despond”
LV “Routes”
New Age Steppers “New Age Steppers”
Om “God Is Good”
Touche Amore “Parting The…”
USX (U.S. Christmas) “Valley Path”
Various Artists “Dutch Electronic Music V.3 (2xCD)”
Woe “Quietly Undramatically”
Woods “Sun And Shade”
Wormrot “Dirge”

Cassette Tape
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Woods “Sun And Shade”

Review
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Deafheaven Roads To Judah LP/CD
(Deathwish Music)
Hailing from San Fransisco, Deafheaven is a five piece genre-bending band. They’ve got elements of shoegaze, black metal, & hardcore (read: screamo). It’s no shocker that the band sites My Bloody Valentine, Burzum, & Orchid as influences. It’s also no surprise that these guys are on Deathwish; one of my favorite labels. While Deathwish does have a stacked roster of legendary bands, they also have plenty of new acts that push the limits of what can be shoved under the massive umbrella terms of, “hardcore” or “punk”. Deafheaven fits in beautifully. They’re also playing CT in a couple weeks: FB Event Page. (FFO: Wolves In The Throne Room, Liturgy, Envy) 
[Reviewer: Josh]
Hooded Menace / Ilsa LP
 (Contagion Records)
I’m not even going to pretend like this is a review.  This is just a recommendation.  Death doom gutter music.  Ilsa is a little more doom than punk (like Coffins, but with less d-beat).  Hooded Menace is just evil gutteral death metal drawn out and slowly beating on your body (from the ear holes first, duh).  It’s limited to 500 copies so just get it while you can.  We have a couple.  It seems we haven’t had enough metal – even after a full weekend of it in Baltimore at Maryland Death Fest (both Josh and I and a few friends attended).
[Recommend-er: Rick]