we did a cover of 'ride ride ride' by the amazing half japanese.  it's up on the page.  tell jad fair or someone that cares...

i told jad.  he said it was 'wild'!!!

Easily the most potent parcel of John Zorn bait assembled so far this century, Pre's Epic Fits marries precision and abandon with unabashed glee and more than a little sadistic intent. The London-based, neuro-skronk quintet is mightily concise: most of the 20-minute album's 14 songs last around a minute. Even its briefest paroxysms find bassists Kevin Hendrix and Matthew Warburton as well as guitarist John Webb fashioning monumental edifices out of prickly harmonic tangles. Drummer Richard Bennett consistently shuns cliché in favor of efficiency, displacing just enough air to keep the band crashing through whatever walls it encounters. But the mint on Pre's pillow is Akiko Matsuura. Just a bit more demure than Made Out Of Babies' Julie Christmas, vocalist Matsuura is a cornucopia of considered caterwauling, with an apparently unlimited vocabulary of shrieks, wails, howls and hollers. Her default mode is "pleasantly inchoate." Still, trying to unpack her phoneme streams is one of the album's many pleasures—at their CMJ show, she had to explain that she was singing "I want your feelings" in "Dude Fuk," not "I want your penis." Nowhere is this more engaging than on the longish (3:50) "Popping Showers." After a single strike of the cowbell, the track jerks into punk-rock roller-coaster gridlock topped by Matsura's apparent infant wishlist. "I want to walk," she squeals, "I'm tryin' to talk." After verse number one, the band drops briefly into a half-tempo instrumental interlude that suggests marching music for robotic toy triceratopses, surfaces for a second verse, then returns to the parade. Matsura doesn't even mess with words, initially sighing and moaning with disarming innocence. But as guitars and basses gain dissonance and girth, she gets more and more poltergeisty, until the proceedings come to sound the way a fire in a plastic bottle factory inhabited by giant triceratopses and several formidable demons looks. Careful as always to present its conflagrations nicely, the band adorns a dead-cold ending with a tiny feedback bow. - ROD SMITH

Frighteningly good (and sometimes just frightening) debut from AIDS Wolf and Bardo Pond associates.

This is chaos. And as we all know, there's a fine line between chaos and creation - remember what Macca told us. PRE though, they've not just blurred the line, they've snapped it up into so many little pieces it might as well be dust, then blown it in old Paul Mc's face. What the hell am I going on about? To be honest I'm not quite sure. It's just that when you've taken the aural beating that PRE dish out, rational thinking kind of disappears. Y'see in just 26 minutes the London based 5 piece swing wildly and violently from Liars esque drone rock to the kind of funked up, screamo barrage of noise only previously available from The Blood Brothers. And all this played with a kind of intensity and fervour that'd make a Black Flag-era Henry Rollins seem placid.

In amongst the thrash and the fury there are distinguishable tunes; albeit buried deep beneath not one but two growling bass guitars (at times reminding of the uncompromising Lightning Bolt). On 'Dude Fuk' the rabid chant of what I'm pretty sure is, "I want your feelings/I want your love" carries a giddy, underlying melody and throughout 'Popping Showers" there's the feeling that the song might break out into a proper chorus to match Sleater-Kinney at their finest - of course it doesn't; it actually descends into an undulating metallic screech for a couple of minutes, which is just as satisfying. As 'Epic Fits' only just tops the twenty minute mark, there are few tracks stretching beyond the magical 3 minute point, and 'Scenes From A 1963 Los Angeles Love-In' is one of them. A pounding proto-metal riff backs the urgent and primal vocals of lead singer Akiko to begin with, only for the song to lurch into a tribal, drum heavy jam; which is both enthralling and slightly eerie. For those unsure about diving straight into the chaos, search this track out first.

Rarely has an album title been so apt in describing it's contents, get in early for the limited edition metal box version, a suitably sturdy vehicle for this explosive record.


By: Liam McGrady

And interview:

http://subba-cultcha.spyre-media.com/article_feature.php?id=5212

PRE
Kevin (1 of 2 Bass)
Our new most favourite mind-fucking noise bandits get to grips with our Q&A, before spitting out Sting's rotten corpse…

Born in a basement, based in London, the first outing of PRE had the entire audience locked outside, watching through barred windows from above. To the assemblage up top, it was clear that these five noise sprinkled nu-wavers had already figured it out - sound moves quicker in high pressure. In the months that followed, PRE's rhythmically infectious skip-alongs were demonstrated on a flurry of releases. The band's debut 7" EP "Treasure Trails" caught ears by surprise and wouldn't let go. A rash of vinyl came in quick succession, pairing the band up with acts like AIDS Wolf, Dmonstrations, Bardo Pond, and Comanechi. And now, weighing 14 songs and coming in just over 20 minutes tall, "Epic Fits" will be born on September 18th. Recorded in a chilly pizza storage unit with Westminster Brown at the controls, PRE's full length is cold sweat caught on two inch tape. Those initial moonbeams shining through the barred basement windows have been caught - meticulously sliced and diced - and reflected back in a brilliant, buoyant strobelight. Guitar, bass, bass, drum and moon shriek: PRE make the noise jump.

How did the recording sessions for your new release go? Cold. Hot. Cold. Really Cold. BOLING HOT. Westminster Brown has fur-like warmth, WB was at the controls and punched the crap out of the tape machine. It was all quick.

What goals did you set yourself before you started recording? 18 songs in two days. We achieved.

What do you feel are your own limitations when it comes to creating/writing music? There are no limitations, just turning on burns the limits away. No limits when you making the very thing up.

Tell us 3 of your favourite songs from your career and the inspiration behind them? There is no career.

'I Met Her in the Bin' is mentalcore love. Bringing fame theories from the world of punk culture and lesser known asylum culture together. Legs McNeill wrote it.

'Nope Fun' is the wiring of the dark circus' all fizzing out and running away to wherever people that have ran to the circus run to when they run away from the circus.

'Scenes from a 1963 Los Angeles Love In' is where everyone is naked and with all their clothes on their heads and tequila fires burn coyotes and in the middle we make the biggest human pyramid until we collapse on top of each other nude and back at the beginning.

Tell us about your worst live show yet? It was the last one but by the time this interview is published it may be the next one.

What are the bands plans for the rest of the year? America East Coast. More limitless music making.

How would you describe your own/bands sound? The Junk.

Who is currently moving you musically at the moment? Hand Jobs from New York. Silver Daggers from Los Angeles. Jan and Dean from Malibu. Male Bonding from London.

What album changed your life and why? Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours' it is the template.

What are your requirements for a great show? Close chaos.

Your proudest achievement so far? Breaking the World Record for the amount of different formats available from one release.

If you could erase one single/album from history (your own or someone else's) which would it be and why? Are you insane? Not a single one, I need to hate. I need to hate The Jam and The Police and The Clash.

How do you see yourself altering the band and your sound in the future? is there anything you wish to attempt in the future that's inspiring you right now? It's all change. Accapella is inspiring me right now, and chanting, we could drop the bass and go vocal. I'd like to make a record that is an audio story with an electric bolt through it. Crying narrators and varying hums landscaping. Wanna put hurt on tape and make it hurt nice. Want to make static rain that will rain down and we can all dance in it.

A rumour you'd like to start about yourself, or one you'd like stopped? I had sex with Ben from Fuck Buttons.

What drives you & What are your fears? Fuck Buttons shows. Fuck buttons.

The revolution comes, who would you like to be first against the wall (and if you're feeling particularly bitchy, a second, third, fourth and so on...)? 1. Sting.

2. Trudi Styler

3. Sting's son

4. Gordon Sumner

Best piece of advice you'd give to aspiring musicians, or the best piece of advice you were given when you started? Don't aspire.

If you're in a car going at the speed of light, and someone turns the headlamps on, would they do anything? When light is above a certain angle of incidence on an interface between two materials-say, at the face of a prism-it can be totally reflected, provided it is arriving at this interface from the higher refractive index material. However, near the boundary, something called an evanescent wave forms that does not propagate like normal light (technically it does not propagate at all) and quickly decays away to nothing. If you take a second prism and place it very close to the interface where total internal reflection occurred, then some light from this evanescent wave will leak across the interface and exit the second prism. The prisms have to be no further than the wavelength of light involved for this to work.

Now the interesting questions are: where did the energy in the car headlamp light come from? How fast did it travel across the boundary? The first question is interesting because the evanescent field has no energy in it. This is because the electric and magnetic fields that make up the field are phased in such a way that the product is always zero. The second question is interesting because the speed of light is not defined in a way that is intuitive to non-physicists. Suffice it to say that for the evanescent wave, the speed of light is zero, and therefore any measurable speed is faster than the speed of light.

TOP 5 IPOD TUNES

1.Foot village - Narc Party (Lets Make it Fucked Up) - 2008 is drum geography year. 2008 will belong to Foot Village

2. Damned - Fan Club - the best band of 76.

3.Chromatics - Left Shoulder - It was near the top of the pile it's still hot from play. So it's still hot.

4. Squeeze - Up the Junction - Best song ever.

5. GG Allin - I Wanna Fuck Myself - you do too.

'Epic Fits' is out now on Skingraft records

Check Our Review: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=5916

Thanks to Maria @ Blueghost…


By: Jeremy Chick Editor-In-Chief

read: http://wc03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:anftxztgldje

it's a review of epic fits. a 'kind' one.

lands September 18th, 2007.

check here for the truth:

www.skingraftrecords.com/pre.html