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Theologian “A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real” LP out today!

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A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real
Track Listing:

  1. God Comes As A Wall
  2. Surface Of The Real
  3. The Sun Failed To Rise Today
  4. Truthseeker’s Pick

It’s out now!

Check the streaming track 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/earsplit/01-god-comes-as-a-wall

And a video for track 2 here:

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Theologian “A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real” LP Pre-Order

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A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real Track Listing:

  1. God Comes As A Wall
  2. Surface Of The Real
  3. The Sun Failed To Rise Today
  4. Truthseeker’s Pick

We are proud to put up for pre-order our next release by NYC-area-based dark industrial unit, THEOLOGIAN.  A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real LP is officially out on August 28th.

Noisey has a track streaming here too!

$14.98 (+ $4 Media Mail Shipping within the USA)
[International Buyers’ Should Email For Shipping Quote/Invoice]

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Get Hype #1: Shangaan Electro

Get Hype #1: Shangaan Electro
(author: Rick)

I’m going to give a quick dissertation on what I intend “Get Hype” to be as a continued series of posts.  Feel free to skip ahead a couple paragraphs to read about this album. 

Every so often a person will ask me what I’m listening to or if I can recommend them anything.  Fact is, most of the time I don’t feel right recommending things to people I’m not intimately familiar with.  This is not to say I always come up empty with recommendations in person, but usually those recommendations are colored by what I might know of the asker’s tastes.  What if this music that I recommend is way off-base with this person’s personal leanings?  What if that discolors everything I say from that point on?  Well, that’d suck at the very least.  However, I’ve come to realize I don’t mind getting excited in general about anything on the internet (where the reader can instantaneously check these things out and make their own mind up).  In “Get Hype” I’ll spoon feed that information over.

I’ve already seen half-year best-of lists.  I think those are pretty silly.  We’ve had a few reviews up on our site lately too.  I might even do one or many in the future.  This doesn’t quite fit in those categories.  Some things just get me excited about music all over again.  Last year’s Cloaks album did that for me (which was on my year-end best-of 2009 list [yes, still silly]).  “Get Hype” is going to be reserved for albums that get me excited and perhaps even challenge my musical sensibilities (I do enjoy a challenge from time to time).  It won’t be a review so much as a general statement of, “Yo, I think this album is the bees’ knees, yo. I can totally jive to this, my doggies!  It is stupid fresh awesome def cool tubular to the max!”  Get it?  Get hype!

Various Artists “Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa” (Honest Jon’s Records)

So, here is the record that inspired this post.  Enjoy all the cut up reviews and videos and links.

“On the new compilation Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa, you can find 12 songs released by the Nozinja Music Productions studio in Soweto between 2006 and 2009.

Shangaan is dance music. It is electronically music based on the South African traditional music that’s popular in the areas between Johannesburg, Limpopo and Mozambique. It is an extremely fast and energetic hyperactive hybrid of the traditional mbira, or thumb piano, and synthesizers that can reach 180 beats per minute.  This genre is super popular in South Africa and tens of thousands of Shangaan records are sold each year. ” (The Smell Of Music)

“We don’t use the sounds of the hip-hop guys, or the afro-pop, or whatever, we’re using Shangaan sounds. The traditional Shangaan music is fast. You play it slow, they won’t dance.
Firstly it was played with bass and lead guitar. I’m the one revolutionized it, because when I came I didn’t use any guitar or any bass, I just used marimba and the organs. We are not using the live bass, we are using the marimba bass which is played from the organ. A small sample of voices, that’s what I specialize in. We use them in English. Those are the new aspects they never had before. At first people thought I was mad, and now it’s the in-thing” – Richard/Nozinja To Wills Glasspiegel, January 2010. (Honest Jon’s Records)

“The collection – lovingly compiled by Mark Ainley and Mark Ernestus (Rhythm & Sound, Hard Wax) – is hugely entertaining, and a fascinating insight into a musical phenomenon that has, up till now, been little-known outside of South Africa….it’s guaranteed to have you grinning like a loon” (FACT)

(And of course you can find more by clicking on the links in the videos.)

REDSCROLL has this for sale in the store on both LP and CD.

If you’d like to buy it through us online you can buy it on LP here: Shangaan Electro LP. You can buy it on CD from us here: Shangaan Electro CD

31st of August 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks

31st of August 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s:
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Hasil Adkins “Peanut Butter…”
Tony Allen “Homecooking (2xLP)”
A.N.S. “the Pool”
Beezy “Thoughts in Retro (2×12″)”
Andrew Bird “Armchair Apocrypha”
the Business “Saturdays Heroes”
the Business “Welcome to the…”
the Business “Whole Truth”
Calexico “Descamino”
Ceremony “Still, Nothing”
A Certain Ratio “A Certain Ratio (2xLP)”
Choking Victim “No Gods”
Corrupted “Nadie”
Roky Erickson “Don’t Knock…”
Grizzly Bear “Yellow House”
Jaguar Love “Take me to the Sea”
Madvillain “Money Folder”
Off Minor “Some Blood”
Okkervill River “Black Sheep Boy”
Lee Perry & White Belly Rats “Panic… (2xLP)”
T. Raumschmiere “Animal”
Skaters “Physicalities”
Slipknot “Vol. 3: the Subliminal Verses”
Sound Dimension “Soul Shake (2xLP)”
Tommie Sunshine “Limit Rmx”
Tortoise “Standards”
Toxic Holocaust “An Overdose of Death”
U-Roy & Friends “Version (2xLP)”
Various Artists “Psycho on da Bus”
Brian Wilson “That Lucky Old Sun”
XI “G Funk/Lucky”

7″s:
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Bitter End “Bitter End”
Coliseum “Goddamage” (2×7″)
Creatures “Creatures”
Harms Way “Harms Way”
Noosebomb “Noosebomb (Pic7″)”

CDs:
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Aughra “Proof of Dark Matter”
Averett Brothers “Second Gleam”
Averett Brothers “Gleam EP”
Ceremony “Still, Nothing”
Chrome “Chrome Box (3xCD Deluxe Edition)”
Cobalt “Eater of Birds”
Disgust “War Deterrent”
Dragonforce “Ultra Beatdown (Special Edition)”
Alec Empire “Golden Foretaste of Heaven”
Faun Fables “Table Forgotten”
Forfeit “Visions”
Gaslight Anthem “59 Sound”
Grouper “Dragging a Dead…”
Hail of Bullets “Of Frost…”
Heavy Heavy Low Low “Turtle Nipple and the Toxic…”
Jaguar Love “Take me to the Sea”
Liturgy “Dawn of Ash”
Medeski, Martin & Wood “Zaebos”
New Lows “New Lows”
Nouvelle Vague “Nouvelle Vague”
Racebannon “Acid or Blood”
Rocket From the Crypt “All Systems Go 3”
Rotten Sound “Cycles”
slipknot “All Hope is Gone”
Toxic Holocaust “An Overdose of Death”
Various Artists “Slimewave Series”
Venom “Hell”
Winds of Plague “Decimate…”

DVDs:
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924 Gilman Street: Lets Talk…
Bad (Andy Warhol)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Directors Cut)
Cannibal Holocaust (Deluxe Edition)
Delicatessen
Dr. Who Collection (the Movies)
Home Sick (Soundtrack by Zombi)
Nightmare Before Christmas (Collector’s Edition)
Spaced (Collector’s Edition; TV Show from the Shaun of the Dead dudes)

17th of August 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks

17th of August 2008 Update of New and Key Restocks
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s:
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2AM/FM “Electronic Justice”
Ellen Allien “Out Remixes”
Annihilation Time “II”
A Wilhelm Scream “Career…”
Bad Religion “Recipe for Hate”
Bad Religion “Process of…”
Choking Victim “No Gods”
Cockpunch “Attack”
Cross Examination “Menace II Sobriety”
Cure “Three Imaginary Boys (PicLP)”
Bob Dylan “Highway 61”
Everytime I Die “Last…”
Fleet Foxes “Fleet Foxes (+Sun Giant EP)”
Hot Water Music “Forever…”
Ida “My Fair My Dark EP”
L’anteitam “Arthur Carr”
Motion City Soundtrack “Even”
Nine Inch Nails “The Slip (180 Gram + 24pg booklet)”
Oneida “Wedding”
Off with Their Heads “From the Bottom”
Paintbox “Earth Ball Sports”
Paintbox “Screaming, Shout…”
Ragga Twins “Step Out! Part 1 (2LP)”
Ragga Twins “Step Out! Part 2 (2LP)”
Refused “Shape of Punk to Come”
Don Rimini “Kick ‘n’ Run”
Warcry “Not So Distant Future”
Wolves in the Throne Room “Two Hunters”
Tappa Zukie “Dub Em”

CDs:
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Aerovons “Resurrection (+4 Bonus Tracks)”
Ceremony “Still, Nothing”
Chemlab “Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar”
Cockpunch “Attack”
Cross Examination “Menace II Sobriety”
Dr. Acula “Below Me”
TS Geisel “5000 Fingers”
Kids Like Us “80’s Are Dead”
Ennio Morricone “Trippier”
My Epic “I am Undone”
New Lows “New Lows”
Off with Their Heads “From the Bottom”
Pocahaunted “Island Diamonds”
Raspberries “Very Best of”
Red House Painters “Ocean Beach”
Red House Painters “Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)”
Red House Painters “Songs for a Blue Guitar”
Stoner Kebab “Imber Vulgi”
Zozobra “Bird of Prey”

7″s:
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Cheap Tragedies “Cheap Tragedies”
Colin of Arabia “Snitch”
Convicted “Unconquered”
Double Negative “Raw Energy”
HeWhoCorrupts “Microeconomics”
Logic Problem “Logic Problem”
Low Vision “Touch the Truth”
New Lows “New Lows”
Sex Vid “Nests”

DVDs:
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Caddyshack/Blazing Saddles/Strange Brew (3-Pack)
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Escape from Sobibor
Rancid: Music Videos 1993-2003
Legends of the Shadowless Sword
This is the Lower Class Brats

Periodicals & Miscellaneous:
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Arthur #30 July 2008 (FREE Magazine)
Straight Edge License Frame (Yes, it is exactly that.)