REVIEW: THE ERNIE 4 - "One Baskervoid Frottage - 30 Minutes With The Ernie 4" - stream - 2012

One Baskervoid Frottage

THE ERNIE FOUR
"One Baskervoid Frottage: 30 Minutes With The Ernie 4" Bandcamp stream
http://thecheshiredragon.bandcamp.com/track/one-baskervoid-frottage
Soulful echoes from distant times and spaces, layered and sliced like bisecting the universe itself. This piece is thirty minutes of continuous feelings, the inner tentacles of the mind feeding back on itself. Cross sections of fear enfolding themselves and each other. There are moments. Echoes that sound like trains colliding and collating? The synth? drones throughout and toward the end taunt you, teasing you with what could've been! This could've been a lost Cyberaktif b-side after all. But no, it couldn't. It wasn't, it didn't. This overarching crescendo comes home, the end. What, do it again? Okay. Let's go one more time.
Ian C Stewart

REVIEW: RUSS STEDMAN - "Blowing Chunks Of Theory" - 2012

RUSS STEDMAN
"Blowing Chunks Of Theory" CD album thing
http://www.russstedman.com/album-pages/056/056.htm
Mostly? entirely? instrumental? Fun musical and sonic puns about music, like "Diamonds & Pears." "One Mile High" is slow and spacey, like a Prince song played at 20 BPM? This album is not like symphonic dubstep dirge digeridoo glitch-witch or anything out of left field, Russ is giving ya/me what ya/I want, which is great songs, great production, great performances, great fuckin' guitar tone that makes me wanna pick up a guitar myself, and drumming that sounds like a live drummer, except better. It ain't fuckin' rocket science. "Vitreous Humour" is another favorite, it's like rocked-out MIDI files of a Marilion song or something. Hah. "Eat The Sun" contains some symphonic elements, don't get me wrong, some cool phrasing, fiddly bits, cool shit to go around. Also, "A Tin Teardrop" which is bulbous, also tapered? No, but it does sound like a fitting tribute to Dr. Beefheart & His Electric Teeth. "Insomnia," god DAMN those drums are cool! "Try Eating That (In Stereo)" and "Leaping Stink Snow" are an humorous pair of homages maybe to the "Zoot Allures" era, and to Frank's Synclavier years respectively. Or I could be totally wrong, fuck if I know. "Stale Trident" brings the proceedings to a close, in grand, lighters in the air, fog machine, laser finale fashion. Get it now, stop reading this. Shut up.
Ian C Stewart

REVIEW: PEER GROUP - "Manscaping" MP3 download 2012

PEER GROUP
Manscaping MP3 2012
http://www.controlvalve.net
What it's not: music, fun. What it IS is is.... layers of feedback and noise to tickle and delight your inner ear demon. Twenty one minutes of what in the holy crap is that supposed to be? Feedback, effects. That type of thing. There are different elements, it's not just one continuous drone. It's like, let's layer the biggest pile we can possibly do, all at once, till it kind of peters out toward the end. Why not. It's not bad but it's also not very enjoyable to listen to. If given the choice between Peer Group and Lynyrd Skynyrd, I would still choose Peer Group. I hope that never happens.
Ian C Stewart

NEWS: NEW Stedmusik Podcast - Two Year Anniversary Episode

It's RANDOM.

http://russstedman.podomatic.com/entry/2011-09-16T09_32_50-07_00

INTERVIEW with Daniel Prendiville

Daniel Prendiville

AUTOreverse #14, summer 2011
Daniel Prendiville
interviewed by
Ian C Stewart

SO......DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
I did for sure. It was a real eye-opener for me. I had no real idea what was going on in the underground scene. Didn't even know there was one, to be honest. AUTOreverse was always highly entertaining and provocative. Down in the main to your own personality...

INTERVIEW with John Gore of Cohort Records, 'kirchenkampf', etc.

John Gore

AUTOreverse #14, summer 2011
John Gore
Cohort Records
'kirchenkampf'
interviewed by
Ian C Stewart

John, thanks for answering a few questions. Let's start with that old chestnut, influences. Who are your biggest musical influences and why?
If you mean who do I think I want to sound like, that depends on when the release came out. My style has changed a couple of times since I started in 1986.

My earliest experiences with electronic music were Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. I was crazy about anything with synthesizers in it.

INTERVIEW with Mike Cosma aka XoloStar Warrior, Anixas, etc.

Mike Cosma

AUTOreverse #14, summer 2011
Mike Cosma
aka Xolostar Warrior
aka  Anixas
aka Black Acid Development
interviewed by
Ian C Stewart 

Mike, hello. Is there anything you're feeling particularly mouthy about at the moment?
You know, I want to say things and shake people up and slap them silly and say "what are you thinking?"