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Makoto Kawabata's psychedelic 'community'. With loads of CD-R releases on his own label. Excellent French noise label, home to Ron Andersons Molecules, amongst others. Also a brilliant online shop for hard to find, unusual stuff. Also a recording studio and bookshop. You can buy 4tRECk there too....Check it!! Instrumental 3-piece who make monumental mad metal-jazz-punk mayhem. New album out! French label, who will release a compilation of groups from across europe. Includes 4tRECk. Fanzine, connected to a radio show and possibly a label soon. Based, I think, in Nantes (France) but spreads itself from Bordeaux to Lille. Full length 4tRECk MP3s there too. Weirdo U.S. magazine, comes with a free CD sometimes. BETLEY WELCOMES CAREFUL DRIVERS Distribution for far-out stuff, CD-Rs, tapes and the very scary genius of Reynols. The wide ranging catalogue includes Merzbow, Anna Planeta, 4tRECk (Hi there), LodeRunner (garden shed improv), Aube.... Promoters and gig organisers. All good stuff (Oxes, cLOUDEAD, much more). If the gig's got their name on it you're in for some some good listenin'. Shop in Paris (5 Passage St Antoine to be exact) selling prodominantly a lot of Japanese related toys, music and films. They sell 4tRECk aswell. French gospel / band for hire, available for weddings, and any other such occasion. BRITISH UNDERGROUND / CIRCUIT MAGAZINE An Arts Council of England funded initiative which aims to promote genuinely independent and emerging UK labels and their acts to international audiences and music professionals abroad. Swedish new music magazine (in English). Edited by Mats Gusstafson. The folk who distribute the 4tRECk 7". Jesus, their warehouse is a mess! Label and graphic design from Chicago run by American Heritage's Andrei Cabanban. With A.H. releases and a great sounding vinyl compilation to look out for. Quarterly magazine that always features a free CD. Lots of alt.rock features and interviews and is nicely compact. U.S. independent magazine from Chicago. His (Stephen Tunney a.k.a. Dogbowl) home-made 'official' site, with artwork, lyrics and shop with a new self made album out on CDR. Chicago label includes Gastr del Sol, Grubbs etc.. Jazz Fudge label's leftfield offshoot imprint, putting out mostly 7"s. U.K. label known for their generous claim to give away their always interesting records. (releases by Gag, The Fall....and a compilation, featuring 4tRECk) Ex- Geiger Counter members new group (now playing as a trio). On listening to the Real Audio track on their site this new group will be a very exciting live prospect indeed. Chunky rhythm section, fluid guitar, monster rock moments and buckets of creativity. GAG / FREE FRENCH CD-R and cassette label from New Zealand. Collaborative releases and solo work from John Kennedy who plays reprocessed drum kit/machine music. Lots of MP3 samples to hear. Nice line in off the wall beats, funk and soul 45's. Home to the deepest and dirtiest funk-maestros, the Soul Destroyers. Soulful slow-core. Belgian online fanzine, with good range of reviews. Also encourages good interaction and 'community spirit' allowing people to submit top 10 favourite records..etc. Hi-end noise-pop-punk. Very,very good live. From Tokyo. M.C. is an indie site by Dan Chinn, very nicely written. He contributes to the Organ aswell. Hosted by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall every Sunday night (11-12) on Radio 3. Eclectic mix of music, softly spoken and enthusiastic banter before and after each track. Guaranteed to hear something of interest. They played 4tRECk once....nice. Great MP3 site situated in San Diego, home to Pinback, Thingy, B.H.P, etc.. A load of interesting MP3s to download. Also a news service and much more. Avant-prog, free rock and creative music radio show broadcasts on Thursdays at 7.30 pm and only on RCV 99FM around Lille, northern France. Webzine from New Zealand headed by Nick Cain. Indepth interviews and well written reviews .They cover all sorts of great things your never likley to read about elsewhere. Highly impressive and detailed discography. OVERDUB Excellent A5 magazine crammed full of reviews and articles from Greece. It comes with a CD of exclusive tracks for the artists they feature in each issue. They've no website, it seems, but contact the editor through : overdub@otenet.gr . Based in Marseille this label houses noise merchants Guapo, Spaceheads, Camp Blackfoot, Flying Luttenbachers a very nice site too. Label and home to Rroselicoer based in Reims, France - AND ME NOW!! JOHN PEEL (RADIO 1) R.I.P. John Peels famous thrice weekly show playing an eclectic mix of all music including 4tRECk twice. Good English label, featuring Volcano the Bear, Bablicon and Daniel Johnston....and 4tRECk soon. French label releasing tapes and CD-Rs of experimental home-craft and live improvised performance. Online fanzine and free music paper that can be found in you local independent record shop,...very worth your while checking it out. Chris Cutlers label and shop. Go there for yr Faust box sets, Henry Cow, Magma.....you might see 4tRECk somewhere there too. ROBOTS AND ELECTRONIC BRAINS / JIMMY POSSESSION Projet Cyclo is the name for the home recordings of Benoit Chartron who also plays in a group called Rogojine, located in Poitiers, France. Both very nice 'n' noisy. Check the samples on his/their site. Project of Mark Beazley. Once was a bass trio now expanded to a 9-piece band. Dreamy and melodious instrumental music. Real life and on-line shop. You can buy 4tRECk there! Yoshida Tatsuya + Sasaki Hisashi. Ruins play prog-punk operatic noise at a breakneck speed. Their label Magaibutsu is home to Koenji-Hyakkei, Akaten and themselves. From Tokyo. Based in Paris this label puts out predominantly split 7" records from artists such as Cheval De Frise, GordZ, Ulan Bator.... Very useful news service/links etc for underground releases /gigs /interviews /sound clips. Anyone can contribute. One of the best labels ever, with a new and informative site up and running. Bands include DazzlingKillmen, U.S. Maple, Ruins, Yona-Kit, You Fantastic!, Cheer Accident, Zeni-Geva, Arab On Radar.......... they do comics too! Recomended fanzine and news service, keeping a nice little community informed on up-coming gigs, new musical developments and releases. Based in and around London. Excellent Bordeaux based label whoose roster include Ruins, Hoppy Kamiyama, SledeZiveSlede, Hauts De Plafond and the astonishing Cheval De Frise........and much more. Covers Japanese noise, Folk, Improvisation, Avnt Grd, lo-fi cassette noise...and a bit of chart-pop and swingbeat! Edited by Ed Pinsent. 4 - piece band, in an alt.country, space-rock kind of vein. I played drums and accordion in the group. Prog-rock-mag from Norway. TRENTE OISEAUX AND BERNHARD GUENTER Minimalist electrician Benhard Guenter. New site designed and co-run by Ricky (a.k.a. Sky Destroys Dog), featuring plenty of lo-fi bedroom haunters, mini-sites, reviews and radio (just starting out). Indie/lo-fi fanzine located somewhere in Portsmouth. They organise events/gigs where you can also obtain their well written 'zine. Issue #3 features a 4tRECk interview. Amercan radio station based in New Jersey run by Brian Turner. I couldn`t recommend this station enough. Catering for wide ranging tastes you can listen to many of their past shows online. 4tRECk played at least 6 times. Official web site by Mr Null himself (or should I say 'Sir'...or even 'Lord'?), keeping everyone up to date on Zeni-Geva's (and related projects) activities. N.B. this page is nowhere near completed yet , if you would like to exchange links please e-mail me at s.callow@virgin.net. |
