Oh yes!

http://smoothassailing.blogspot.com/2009/05/telecult-powers.html

An in-depth one that's definitely worth a read:

Milions - Static & Distance review

Very nice....

"Brothers and Sisters! I wanna see a sea of hands! Skeleton Warrior are the bastard children of the MC5 and maybe OM, if a bite more sludgy. 'Pornographic Hologram' is one dark and grimy slabbath of sound. This one cassette that deserves better than its small pressing, but hopefully good taste will prevail and both band and label will get some much needed cash from this along with press.

A Florida trio of guitar, drums and synth, skeleton Warrior basically play noise with slimy layers of stoner industrial riffs blended into the peanut butter. A joyful mess ensues on 'Falcon Spirit,' 'Star Clit' and 'Rotten Shadow,' along with the obscene and illegal mess that is 'Live on Space Coffin' which, don’t you know, was recorded live (on WNYU).

For lovers who like their rock over-amped, chimpanzee simple but with wisdom and guts, look no further. Skeleton Warrior have arrived as the latest thing to remind you that life is well. For lovers of tame rock that is more boast than burst---well, hey, Billy Corgan’s new VISA commercial is cool, huh? 8/10" - Foxy Digitalis

Some excellent write-ups of Wet Fur's Chimeric tape and Yellow Crystal Star's 777 CD-R in Animal Psi and Foxy Digitalis respectively.

On Chimeric: "Leaping entirely into the noise realm...sans a traditional musical jump-off of any sort, Rosenberg breaks for the busted oscillations of Rehberg and Menche in full, high-definition production...I'd say it's time for a long-player."

On 777: "They return me to the unsettling nights I spent huddled in darkness with music that seemed to announce to me for the first time the strangeness of a familiar world, as though it had come to that particular darkness the same way neutrinos from some distant extinguished star go careening through unsuspecting bodies."

Yes, I'm still alive. Slow summer, but getting my shit together and hoping to boost the Obsolete Units web presence and such. Some projects are finishing up, and I can verify that the Skeleton Warrior CD-R will see the light of day in the coming months.



In the meantime.....

I'd like a logo for my label, and since I lack significant visual art talents, if anyone would like to submit a design for consideration, I'd love it. If I choose your logo, I can offer you a pack of free recordings, and I'll be sure to send you all future releases. If interested, hit me up on here or at obsolete.
units [at] gmail. com

On a similar token, if anybody is good at web design, I'm interested in starting a real website and will take all help/advice I can get. Get in touch.

Good write-up on Blastitude of Totally Dad's Two Hearts CD. Nice!

TOTALLY DAD: Ttwwoo Hearts CD (OBSOLETE UNITS) I've been seeing the name of this Brooklyn act around.....in fact I even think they've sent me previous albums, but this new CD Ttwwoo Hearts has really made me take notice. It's partly because it's in my all-time favorite CD packaging, the good ol' GATEFOLD DIGIPAK, nicely printed with B&W graphics, but it's mostly just the basic fact that it features two electric guitars that sound real good and hot, playing distorted rock chords and broken no wavey splinters against each other in hot rock rhythms. In other words this is fine Trout Mask Maple guitar clash and scribblage, played in a casual style, with no rhythm section or lead singer to potentially ground it or normalize it.

The Hells Hills cassette Little Matter Of Death was reviewed over the weekend on Animal Psi.

You can read what they have to say here or below:

"Two years in the making, the debut recording from New York five-piece Hells Hills, 'Little Matter of Death' is a C30 of no minor proportions. The geocentric adventures of the band commence with "Corridor Beneath the Waves", a title and sound suggesting similarities to Growing, Tunnels, and White Rainbow at times, the band build slowly and densely with shimmering guitars and a droning bass smog, as little squiggles of electricity running over the surface. The sound isn't tight, but the ample blur employed keeps improprieties to a minimum. All parts appear for "Mountain on Top of a Mountain", the definite highlight: broad, swinging percussion keeping a steady tread, crackling electronics and wide sweeps of guitar, a wall of drone like a darkened frieze from which buried voice echoes like a throaty animal. The darkness of Sunn O))) set to the frequencies of Growing. On the reverse, side-long live track "Into a Skull Dream" begins with a longer run-to of post-rock colors, a bright synthesis dabbling under the chirping scratches and punches of amplification, growing in volume; having overwhelmed the details (to return later as a ticking pulse), the guitar sound swells into a noxious cloud of drones, where a peeled whammy retreating in crawling notes over and again. Whirring oscillations of noise break the monotone as stringed metal repeatedly dissolves into the amorphous fold, sustaining the crisis of labeling which will not afford these ugly/beautiful transgressions an easy title. I definitely look forward to more from this lot. On spray-painted tapes with color J-card. Limited to 100 copies."

Great review of the Boy + Girl CD-R courtesy of Foxy Digitalis. An 8 out of 10! Full text below:

"Boy + Girl, led by artist and musician AG Davis are a gabber, hardcore, and noise eclectic mashup hailing from Jacksonville, Florida. After all these years, since first hearing ATR, Lesser, Venetian Snares, and Sissy Spacek, I have just never completely tired of the chaotic, earsplitting, glitched-out, maximalized and totally fucked sounds of electronically manipulated facemelting, blown-out gabber. Boy + Girl are no slackers, and they totally kill it on this release. Hard, heavy, and brutally disgusting…seriously. They have their own thing going, but to put them in the company of above names is fully justified and because of that, it's unfortunate that there are only 75 copies of this cd-r to go around. At 15 minutes, this is an aural assault that is invigorating like a New England Polar Bear swim in January. An insane idea to some, but refreshing to others. Not to pigeon-hole the band though, there's a lot more going on here than gabber… that's too narrow and convenient. Screamed distorted vocals rise above trashed guitar tunings and blast beats floating somewhere between dissonant and indistinguishable. The tracks are first recorded live as a 4-piece band and then reprocessed for maximum fuckedupness resulting in a disastrously distorted, screwed-up, and helplessly addictive recording to listen to. They switch it up on a couple of tracks, bringing the heavy-hitting down a bit halfway through the cd, giving the listener a chance to regain consciousness, before the pummeling resumes. They complete the collection with a weird distorted 8-bit-techno track, exhibiting a sense of humor, psychotic as it may be. Definitely grab one if there are any left! 8/10 -- Todd Brooks"

Straight from Animal Psi, we have some pretty kind words written our way regarding the Blastula CD-R by the Towering Heroic Dudes. Artwork and packaging still causing controversy, this time in the name of good!

"And with 'Blastula', Towering Heroic Dudes hit a new low in renegade CDr publishing, blighting the disc and its respective sleeve with sharpie scrawl, and stuffing it with a quartered liner sheet of Xerox in a mini manila envelope onto which more Xeroxed labels have been artlessly arranged (and which the cat has been chewing on, adding to the crusty appeal). Kudos! This rough presentation fits well the destroyed electronics within, moving through the contact clatter of intro "Frontis" into crackled mess of "Everything Happens at Once", 9 and ½ minutes of oscillating distortion, moaning bass vibrations, tossed wrenches, and treble - lots of treble. It's a lot like Skaters or Axolotl, but much uglier. The last strands of the latter create the punchy rhythm of live piece "Sikel" (or possibly "Sike!"), a raw jam ala recent Horse Head of garbage can percussion, strangled guitar, and non-committal vocals. Ten minutes of manipulated recordings separate the wayward Eagle Rock brut-folkism "Jersey Don, A Plea", a non-sequitor, should've-been-hidden track of Kool Thing story-telling over tourist click-clack percussion and flute, with a sing-along refrain. Truly a motley affair..."

Hey everyone, it's time for an Obsolete Units-curated jam at Cake Shop in Manhattan. It happens Wednesday the 23rd of January, and features Slasher Risk, Nonhorse, Slaughterhouse Percussion, and Towering Heroic Dudes (with guest help from Alex of WetCement). $6. 21+. 8 p.m.

The show was also selected as a Critic's Pick in Time Out NY.

Hosted By: Obsolete Units
When: Wednesday Jan 23, 2008
at 8:00 PM
Where: Cake Shop
152 Ludlow St.
New York, NY 10002
United States
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