Showing posts with label fe-mail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fe-mail. Show all posts

Sunday, January 11, 2009

unaccompanied voice accompanied by some news...


ok, starting with the post for tonight, here's Maja Ratkje's cd entitled "Voice." you may remember Maja from her project Fe-mail. this is her "a capella" cd of just her incredible voice and vocal chords. Mike Patton, eat your fucking heart out. Maja can do some INSANE shit with those chords. this is a really interesting listen, very different but really only for the adventurous listener as there is really nothing but jarring and strange vocals. she uses no electronics, no post production, and nothing else but those lungs. it's amazing, really. worth a listen cause you will never hear anything else like it.

Maja Ratkje - Voice
http://www.mediafire.com/?fi5y04qudjm

and here's the sadder news: i'm slowing down posting. i'll still try to put up something every day, or at least some youtube stuff, but my computer has been crashing every time i upload more than one file at a time, and since i am not the only user on this computer i can't sit here and spend hours uploading stuff. so it's one thing per day for a while. sorry guys, untill i figure what the problem is then that's the way it has to be. the quality will not drop, however. as a compensation i'm gonna put a few more mixes up soon. no one really cares about those, but you should. they are all really good and full of weirdo bands from all over. so download them mofos!

top 3 downloaded stuff on this site btw:

1. homosexuals cd
2. gamelan son of lion 2xcd
3. conrad schnitzler lp

keep it up! thanks for the support! i've got loads more goodies to come, and some extra rare shit too!

Saturday, December 6, 2008

a softer side of noise.... not really

so my roommate and i went to see wolf eyes a few years back and we had no idea who was openning for them. these two nordic goddesses wearing neckties and dress pants walked out onto stage and set up a table of ridiculous amounts of cords, knobs, clattery shit, and even a broken french horn and proceeded to shatter everyone in the building's mind with one of the most intense display's of harsh noise i have ever seen (and i've seen most of the "greats" many times, most being disappointing). truly, maja rattke has an uncanny ability with her bellows and shreiks, and sofie tafjord can twiddle some knobs like no other. their 10" is brilliant, and maja's solo vocal cd is amazing (i'll post it when i find it... it's in a box somewhere). in any case, they blew minds that night and my roomie and i didn't even stay for more than 5 minutes of wolf eyes... they were doing that billy bass shit and then connelly pulled out a guitar. wolf eyes doesn't have a guitar.

if you like harsh sounds a la wolf eyes, merzbow, emil beaulieu, prurient, or panicsville this'll be up your alley, but there are some industrial/power electronic moments that remind me of bands like bloodyminded or even nurse with wound at times (they shift in other songs and there is a strange stapleton-esque feeling at times... though fleeting).

don't listen to this if you have a headache.


fe-mail featuring lasse marhaug: all men are pigs
http://www.mediafire.com/?zkjot02odmy