DOWNLOAD: King Kong Ding Dong - Youth Culture Index

King Kong Ding Dong
Youth Culture Index
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Tracklist:

1. Jample
2. A Violent Light
3. (You're the) Drone Machine
4. Here We Rest
5. Hot Train
6. The Tiniest Anything
7. Evil
8. Crisis Cycle
9. Distant Drums
10. Repetition, Flares
11. This is Not a Parade

King Kong Ding Dong are a US based electronics/live instruments freefalling rhythm machine in a similar vein to Black Dice or early Animal Collective and they've just released their debut album on Dekorder, or totally free to download from their website. A track like (You're the) Drone Machine really does echo a lot of the vocal harmonising, call and response and...echoing...of Animal Collective, plus it piles up some of the layered melodic noisy instrumentation too, which is really no bad thing - the Collective are starting to lose me and a band like KKDD is picking up where they left me. Following that in the album is Here We Rest, which illustrated my Black Dice reference nicely, kicking off with a distorted clang of a drum beat and panning metallic gonging noise where a beat should be. The Tiniest Anything features a similar overdriven bit-crunched effect on the beat with plain crazy noises blaring and buzzing and chirruping all over the place.  All in all a pretty great listen if you want some breezy experimentalism with a healthy sense of fun enhancing anything potentially po-faced (as I am finding Animal Collective's sense of 'fun' these days).  As you can see from the picture below, these guys may not take themselves all that seriously.

"The Drexciya security blanket"

I've been reading the Konx-Om-Pax interview in Wire magazine - Tom Scholefield of the Display Copy blog/design house responsible for Oneohtrix Point Never album covers and Hudson Mohawke videos.  He mentioned this track as one of his ultimate post-rave comedown mental reset switch flickers. And you know what?  It's pretty nice.

PREVIEW: Dre▲ms In †he Wi†ch House

Coming soon! The debut Witch House DJ night in Brighton - in the UK - possibly even the world! From the hands and mind of FokkaWolfe:

Dre▲ms In †he Wi†ch House

An audio visual hex of Witch House/Zombie Rave/EBM/Tech Noir & Ghost Drone.

With LIVE Witch House remixing of classic 90s rave tunes

and a small smattering of classic goth for those who need to mourn the past.

20th July @The Penthouse.

Above the world famous Freebutt,

Brighton.

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Three film projectors throwing Witch House videos against the walls with backup from

David Lynch, Dario Argento and Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Free.

OMBMBW X - Burzum

Burzum - from 1996's Filosofem.

OMBMBW IX - The Ruins of Beverast

The Ruins of Beverast is a German industrial tinged outfit by a man named Alexander von Meilenwal.  The main themes he pursues are Anti-Christianity and War.  The Ruins has three full album releases; 2004's Unlock the Shrine, 2006's Rain Upon The Impure and 2009's Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite - what a title that is. See how those album titles progress from an initial, literal, unlocking of forces to the empowered and overbearing entity than can pour scorn and sarcasm onto the scene.  

Thee's some standard hallmarks of sheer OMBMB excellence here - the guitar tones, drum sounds, curtains of ambience. It's all there, yet with a certain, massive sense of something extra that is, to emply another cliche, indefineable.  It is not for insignificant reasons that the three albums score an average of 95% over on the Metal Archives.

The track I've decided to post is from 2004's debut; The Clockhand's Groaning Circles conveys the dank, dark atmospheres and background of ancient forces that can be heard continuing through the other albums.  There's an elegance to the execution of this track that in some respects has never been bettered, and in others has been built up upon in subsequent releases, though what has been added to increase weight/aggression/impiety, has served to mask the subtlety and teutonic Satanic sensuality this track might convey.

Enough cryptic Metal rhetoric. Press play and lower your heads.

OMBMBW VIII - Satanic Warmaster

Satanic Warmaster - From the 2005 album Carelian Satanist Madness

OMBMBW VII - Static Goat

Static Goat is Goat Serpent from Enbilulugugal.  Thought I'd break things down even further into some hideous abyss of sludgy Satatnic distortion for you. No mpfrees, no videos. Head over to the myspazz and play Slimebucket. That's my pick of the 6 demo tracks he put out last year. More industrial supersonic horrortronics than black metal, but still steeped in enough of the ancient mystic and magick that powers some of the tr00 kvlt BM, with a will to fuck it up as disrespectfully as the footnotes of those ancient laws should allow.

OMBMBW VI - Bathory

Hail Quorthon! RIP the instigator and progenitor of an entire genre.

Bathory - From 1987's Under the Sign of the Black Mark

OMBMBW V - Black Anal Goat Vomit

Brisbane Australian Black Metal one man band Black Anal Goat Vomit fucking slays. There's not much else to it - in a Wrath of the Weak kind of way.  Australia is pretty uncompromising when it comes to metal, and this fiercly linear noise wash of a band is no different.  Single minded and a bit barbaric,it is still atmospheric as is the preserve of one-man bands  As he says on his MySpace page: "If Ian Curtis did Black Metal"

You've got to admire the purity of a track simply titled Dead Bird that goes on to blast itself into a vortex of 240bpm drummachine with double tracked growl/shrieking vokkils that;s so ferocious it blows itself out in 2 minutes.

Download the first album Heaven for free, from the artist: HERE

And above all that, his immense demonic Satanic well ov energy spilleth over to such an extent that, as you can see, copying a tiny bit of text from his page has totally fucked my formatting.

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Read more: http://www.myspace.com/blackanalgoatvomit#ixzz0rD36MdyG

OMBMBW IV - Leviathan

Leviathan: From the Krankheit CDr / Verräter best of compilation.