Archive for April, 2009

The origins of Gash: Part 1 – The boy with two faces.

Posted in Bootlegs / Free Downloads, Gash Import on April 25, 2009 by SMW

gash-importMt Echaciona Village Mexico – 1986, a woman cries out in pain as she gives birth for the 13th time, her 12 previous children stand in awe as lightning strikes high above the round hut built of straw and dung. Truly this is an auspicious night.

The next morning as the cockerel crows in the yard all seems peaceful and yet something is not right – a distant rumbling and the high pitched cries of men, swept up in the thrill of banditry. As they approach the tiny village, everyone scatters and heading to safety further up the mountain arming themselves with rocks and sticks. As the bandits draw close the villagers release a volley of missiles causing horses to panic, throwing their riders from their saddles and trampling many in their retreat – unsuspecting of such a vicious attack the bandits head off to regroup and form a new plan.

Returning to her home the mother goes instantly to inspect the safety of her newborn, only to find that he has disappeared. Yelling out a painful wail of angst she falls to her knees, cursing the earth and the sun and the gods that govern it all as her 12 remaining offspring gather round her to give comfort.

12 years later…

A tall heavily set male figure appears on the horizon, this desert is inaccessible to all but the hardiest horserider yet this figure strides on as though walking across soft grassy plains, the heat has not buckled him, nor has the insatiable thirst killed him, he walks slowly yet purposefully towards the village some 5 miles in the distance. Zooming in closer we see the boy is wearing a colourful mask, of the kind favoured by luchadores. A blue background with two headed birds emblazoned in red with gold trim. As he strides closer the crowd gather, generations of famillies stand with baited breath ready to meet this visitor with apprehension and admiration for no other has ever crossed the desert and come to their village on foot.

Walking silently past the gathered crowd he walks directly up to a woman who is shaking and tears are filling her eyes. He reaches out one hand as she flinches, placing it on her shoulder he says “Mother I am your son, but I no longer have the face you gave me. This mask is my face, and my name is Dos Caras”. The woman cries out incoherently and raises her hands to the sky in praise.

Download A Small Selection of Gash Import – Luchador Noise BLAST DUO with A PAST Shrouded In MYSTERY!!!

Screaming Tempest (mp3)

Acid Soldiers (mp3)

The Chinese VS The Chinese (SuperTurboGash REMIX) (mp3)

www.myspace.com/gashimport

May Mutant Music 15/05/09

Posted in Bad Bad Men, Mutant Music, Posters on April 24, 2009 by SMW

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Mutant Music April: “Whack, bang, skingy-ding, scrapety scrapety crack whang”

Posted in Mutant Music on April 20, 2009 by SMW

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This is what you may have heard at Mutant Music last Friday night (17/04/09). Clickclickclick.

01) ‘My Other Voice’ Sparks (No.1 In Heaven)

02) ‘Fade Away And Radiate’ Blondie (Parallel Lines)

03) ‘Folk Ghost’ Douglas Wood (G-Spots:The Spacey Folk Electro-Horror Sounds of the Studio G Library)

04) ‘Not Fade Away’ Arthur Brown & Leon Craig (The Complete Tapes Of Atoya)

05) ‘Escape From NY (Main Title)’ Ass (My Get Up And Go Just Got Up And Went)

06) ‘Black Sabbath’ Combo De La Muerte (Tropical Steel)

07) ‘Rock & Roll Part 2′ Bongwater (Double Bummer)

08) ‘Kaw-Liga (original mix)’ The Residents (Poor Kaw-Liga’s Pain)

09) ‘Eyes In The Centre (extended)’ Chrome (Red Exposure)

10) ‘Gamma Model’ Fitzcarraldo Variations (History Clock)

11) ‘When I Close My Eyes I See Blood’ Madelynn Von Ritz (Cruising OST)

12) ‘Bad To The Bone’ Z-Rock Hawaii (Z-Rock Hawaii)

13) ‘The Last Race’ Jack Nitzsche (Village of the Giants/Death Proof OST)

14) ‘Jenny Take A Ride’ Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (Take A Ride)

15) ‘Theme From “The Warriors”‘ Barry De Vorzon (The Warriors OST)

The Cadillac Coffins live set

16) ‘The Devil Song’ Sparrow and the Workshop (Cry Parrot Compilation 2)

17) ‘Cracula’ Older Lover (Ten Tracks/Optimo)

18) ‘Boo Hoo’ Marvin Rainwater (Missing Links Vol 1: Hillbilly Wolf)

19) ‘Agile Mobile and Hostile’ Andre Williams (Silky)

20) ‘Merry Hell’ Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate Lock Pickers

21) ‘Psychotic Reaction’ Count Five (Psychotic Reaction)

22) ‘Bubblegum’ Kim Fowley (Impossible But True: The Kim Fowley Story)

23) ‘‘Time Has Come Today (edit)’ The Chamber Brothers (Time Has Come: The Best Of)

The Dirt live set

24) ‘The Model’ Big Black (Songs About Fucking)

25) ‘Freddie Laker (Concorde and Airbus)’ JJ Burnel (Euroman Cometh)

26) ‘Who Can Say’ The Horrors (Primary Colours)

27) ‘TV As Eyes’ Chrome (Anthology 1979-1983)

28) ‘Smoke Machine’ Welcome Stranger (Not Wave compilation)

Das Filth live set

29) ‘Lipp Service’ Lazer Crystal (EP 1)

30) ‘Lay It Down’ Peter Bjorn & John (Living Thing)

31) ‘Hairy Candy’ Tobacco (Fucked Up Friends)

32) ‘Who Is It (Vitalic remix)’ Bjork (Who Is It single)

33) ‘Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)’ Beyonce (I Am…Sasha Fierce)

34) ‘Pyramid Of Sun In The Heavens’ Peace In (Feather & Electric Mountain)

35) ‘Dancing Choose’ TV On The Radio (Dear Science)

36) ‘Filth And Dirt Go Ahead (Vitalic Garage Remix)’ Vitalic (V Live)

37) ‘Doctorin’ The Tardis’ The Timelords (Doctorin’ The Tardis single)

38) ‘International Feel’ Todd Rundgren (A Wizard, A True Star)

39) ‘The End (Disco mix)’ The Splash Band (The Music of John Carpenter)

40) ‘Big Trouble In Little China’ John Carpenter (Big Trouble in Little China OST)

41) ‘Pardon Me (I’ve Got Someone To Kill)’ Andre Williams (Red Dirt)

42) ‘Is That All There Is?’ Cristina (Doll In The Box)

Mutant Music returns on 15/05/09 at The Flying Duck, Glasgow with Big Ned, Louise McVey & Cracks In The Concrete and Bad Bad Men’s Acoustic Carnival.

Meet The Dirt

Posted in Bootlegs / Free Downloads, The Dirt on April 10, 2009 by SMW

Photo by Garry MacLennan

The Dirt, photographed by Garry MacLennan

Everybody loves The Dirt. But how much do we really know about them? In advance of next Friday’s Mutant Music at The Flying Duck (17/04/09) where they will be performing alongside Das Filth and The Cadillac Coffins, we offer to you a glimpse into the mouth of madness in the form of a short Q & A session (with apologies for the quality of questions). Also, The Dirt send you an exclusive free download of the original demo for their song…

Glue (mp3).

OK. Steady yourself for revelations:

How do you describe what you do to strangers?

Graeme: Country

Jen: Graeme does all the talking

How long have you been making music, individually?

G: When I was about four I stood on a chair in a hotel and sang the theme song for ‘Calum’s Ceilidh’, a popular TV show of the time.

J: When I was three someone stuck me on a bar and made me sing Good Ship Lollipop

How did the two of you meet and how did The Dirt get started?

We were raised by the same pack of wolves.

Why no drums or bass?

We’re minimalists. We never want to add anything unless it’s really enhancing the song. If you have more people in the band they probably want to be doing something all the time. But I think we could benefit from a bit of drumming. Ideally we’d have a third person to play the drums, piano, accordion, banjo or whatever takes our fancy, but we haven’t found them yet. Don’t think we’d ever have a bass player. From a practical point of view, there’s a lot to be said for being able to turn up at gigs with one guitar and bagful of harmonicas and tambourines.

What inspires you, musically and lyrically?

Musically, rhythms like bum-chick or bum-bum-chick or bum-chick-chick, or a nice chord sequence. Lyric-wise, a good word or phrase gets me started. I write little notes to myself when I’m out because I’m so forgetful.

What is your song-writing process?

Some are done in half an hour, others gestate for years. I think for the time you’re writing the song you’ve got to believe it’s the best song you’ve ever written, even if in the cold light of morning you realise it’s shite.

What song(s) of yours are you most satisfied and why?

Bury Me Tomorrow, Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel, Flowers, I Saw You. I don’t think there’s anything glaringly wrong with them.

Who would be your ideal collaborator(s) (living)

G: Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse.

J: Nick Cave

Who would be your ideal collaborator(s) (dead)

G: Got to be Johnny Cash

J: Shirley Temple

Who would you most like to cover your songs?

G: Nick Cave. Or the Bad Bad Men

J: Leona Lewis

What does the future hold for The Dirt?

Play more gigs outside Glasgow and do some more recording.

There is a zombie apocalypse and you have to choose five things to take into the bunker to rebuild human culture – what do you take?

G: A guitar, a good supply of Guinness, pens, paper and a toothbrush.

J: Tobacco, liquorice papers, extra-slim filter tips, a lighter and a bottle of Queen Margot from Lidl.

More of The Dirt at www.myspace.com/thedirtmusic

The Dirt play live at Mutant Music at The Flying Duck, Friday 17/04/09, 7pm – 11pm, £4 on the door.

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