WIRED 274: "earlier this year jazkamer, hegre's duo with lasse marhaug, released metal music machine, a fine collection of black-boned hymnals and pulverising thrash metal. these rockist tendencies spill over into hegre's latest solo album, for which he returns to his original instrument, the electric guitar. it begins with a field of highly processed pastoral glich and sine tone that recalls the work of fennesz, or oren ambarchi at his simplest and most bucolic, and gradually shifts onto a more meandering path. joined by jorgen traen and david aasheim on bass and drums respectively, hegre summons up swathes of magnificent free noise, seamlessly cut and spliced with classical and countryesque picking at a stately and controlled pace that never jars." MP3: JOHN HEGRE - DON'T
wikipedia.org: "Erase Errata is a band from San Francisco, California. Their music draws inspiration from experimentalists such as Captain Beefheart and The Fall, as well as bands like The Minutemen. The possess improvisational tendencies, claiming that they could improvise a whole set if they wanted to. Since forming in 1999, the band has released three albums as well as a number split singles with various other bands including Black Dice, The Need, Numbers and Sonic Youth. They began their career by touring in 2000 with electro grrl band Le Tigre and Japanese noise rockers Melt Banana." Read on
importantrecords.com: "Hototogisu is Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Sunroof!) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards). They've been laying down billowing sheets of tetonic guitar drone-noise since 2003 with the thickest possible helpings of vocals and electronics. Some Blood Will Stick is a collection of tracks from their ultra-limited self produced label Heavy Blossom." More
dazeddigital: "Leigh Bowery, Marina Abramovic, Antony and the Johnsons, Merce Cunningham, John Kelly, Michael Clark and Yvonne Rainer are just a few of the legendary names that have benefited from working with video artist Charles Atlas.
Starting originally with super8, Atlas moved over onto video in the early seventies when he worked on a 'video dance' piece with Merce Cunningham, getting to grips with the then new technology to produce a short film documenting and manipulating a performance from Cunningham's dance troupe." More
community-library.net: "From the vaults of Portland's underground we bring you Reanimator, one of the city's most unusual electronic music groups ever.
With a handful of mismatched drum machines, test-tone oscillators, budget samplers, and delay pedals, and improvising directly to ¼” tape, they created a huge body of work, ranging from the pacific, chord-backed “Phase Constellation” to the polyrhythmic thump of “Special Powers". More
Nick Southgate, The Wire: "These [songs] could be the whispers of lovers, the reassurances of parents to sleeping children, the prayers of the lost and lonely, or the tremulous breaths of the finally redeemed. It is heady and intoxicating stuff." More
allmusic.com: "The Melvins were the first post-punk band to revel in the slow, sludgy sounds of Black Sabbath. Their music is oppressively slow and heavy, only without any of the silly mystical lyrics or the indulgent guitar solos -- it's just one massive, oozing pile of dark slime. The Melvins' first record was released in 1987; they've released several albums since then, but it wasn't until 1993 that they went to a major label, thanks to their protégé, Kurt Cobain." More
allmusic.com: "The Melvins were the first post-punk band to revel in the slow, sludgy sounds of Black Sabbath. Their music is oppressively slow and heavy, only without any of the silly mystical lyrics or the indulgent guitar solos -- it's just one massive, oozing pile of dark slime. The Melvins' first record was released in 1987; they've released several albums since then, but it wasn't until 1993 that they went to a major label, thanks to their protégé, Kurt Cobain." 