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the Monsters (CH)
„The Monsters" were formed in 1986 in small-town Bern, capital of Switzerland. Their sound is a fuzzedout mix between 60ies garage punk, wild teenage trash rockabilly and primitive rock'n'roll. Its 187% no MTV and top 100 shit! The actual lineup is guitar, bass and Minimal Drum.
Besides the countless shows in Switzerland „The Monsters" played extensive tours through Europe including Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Austria, England, Denmark and Spain. In 2003 the band toured Argentina, Brasil and New York. The Monsters are a kickass live band who will burn every stage down.
Bad Mojos (CH)
BAD MOJOS formed in lovely Bern Switzerland per SMS in 2015, this is 185% Fist in Your Face Pure Punk Rock, no serious Arty Farty Stubborn Trance in the Pants Oldies Bullshit, this is Punk with No Borders, they say their influences are GG Allin and Mahatma Ghandi and they adore the Guy that will shoot Bono of U2, for the Recordings we sent them to the South of France into the hands of Lo Spider of Swamp Land Studios and they came back with the Rawest Punk Record on the marked these days.
Destination Lonely (FR)
what we have here is a Bunch of ULTRA LONERS and GHOULS from the X GENERATION born in Toulouse/Bordeaux in the south of france, they have like zero perspective in a bright future neither enjoyed a happy childhood, they got heart broken like weekly at least once and along with that comes a tremendous fascination in drinking alcohol, the first of the 3 is Marco Fatal who plays the guitar and sings and formed the Legendary NOISE singing-group THE FATALS (as well in: Kung Fu Escelators, Mighty Gogo Players, Complications) in 2001 together with Wlad on the Drums (as well in: the Beach Bitches, Blew up).well the 3rd in the band is Lo Spider of the Jerry Spider Gang (as well in : the Space Beatnicks,Dividers) and Destroys his Guitar and has his own Recording Studio, Swampland where he records Destination Lonely and Countless French and International Acts DESTINATION LONELY formed in 2010 and having several releases on diferent Record Labels such as Nasty Products and Les Disques Steak and shared Stage with the Bassholes, Country Teasers, Oblivians , Cheater Slicks etc
Sloks (IT)
SLOKS !!!! is a Super Raw Power Ultra Primitive Dirty Suicide Destructive Garage Punk No-Wave Trashed out Rock’n’Roll combo from Turin Italy 2015. i saw them on a Local Alternative Festival in Italy for the first time, it was so Destructive and Suicidal Dangerous and amazing eye catching the same time, the Female Singer Ivy Claudy almost killed herself in her act strangling herself with the microphone cable and screamed as loud that she spit blood on the same time Buddy Fuzz wanked constantly his guitar overdosing totally distorting and endless feedback they were so Negative and creative the same time .. i t was defiantly way too much for the audience and most of them left immediately except Us ... and they had to open the festival anyways hahaha .. i was blown away of the energy the band has and the complex personalities of the band members, so i send them To Lo Spider in Toulouse to his Swampland Studios (Destination Lonely, the Monsters, Lame, Roy and the Devils Motorcycle, the Lullies) to record a whole album for Voodoo Rhythm records, and here we go .. this is one Nasty Piece of TRASH !!!!! Enjoy and book them if you wanna experience a Live Madness Massacre!!!!!
Reverend Beat-Man and Izobel Garcia (CH/USA)
Born in BERN SWITZERLAND 1967 founder of VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS, and on Endless World tour as One Man band (Lightning Beat-Man Reverend Beat-Man) or with his Companions the Monsters, die Zorros or the Coronets Played Blues Trash and Dirty Wild Out Of Control NO Top 100 BULLSHIT !!!! Rock'n'roll Weird Garage Trash with such bands as : the Monks, die Einstürzenden Neubauten, Neil Young, the Sonics, the Mummies, Guitar Wolf, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Rammstein, Prince and many many more in Countries such as Europe, Japan, America N+S , Australia New Zealand in Clubs like Reithalle (Bern) CBGB's (NY) Shelter (TOKYO) Jazz Festifal ( MONTREUX) Speedfest ( Holland) Festival Beat (ITALY) etc Reverend Beat-Man is not only a Musician No he is a Apostel of the Bad Taste a True Preacher in Blues and Trash a Restless Soul that Seeks for a Better Much Brighter and Colorful Home and Never-ending Fighter for the Good and on the Endless Mission to WAKE PEOPLE UP !!!!!
Izobel Carcia (USA)
raised in LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. Daughter of a Mexican lawyer. Classically trained and later classically untrained multi-instrumentalist. Ran away to Bern, Switzerland and met REVEREND BEATMAN
who took her in like a lost poodle. Since age 16 Garcia has performed all over LA with her
screeching Farfisa in short-lived garage punk bands..and in more recent years throughout Europe and New Zealand with her own project Manos del Chango (2014-2017) alongside Voodoo Rhythm’s Delaney Davidson. With a style coined Habanero Blues... she’s known to mix Punk, Blues, and Mexican Ranchera music. A commanding performer, always from the heart.. makes for a unique and powerful yin & yang collaboration with the one and only REVEREND BEAT-MAN.
Trixie and the Trainwrecks (USA/DE)
Wild child, Trixie Trainwreck aka Trinity Sarratt was born in San Francisco and moved to Berlin on a whim when she was 18. She started her musical endeavors in the underground trains back in 1999 and went on to make a name for herself working in and promoting shows in almost every bar in town as well as touring the EU and the USA with a handful of bands (Kamikaze Queens, Cry Babies, Runaway Brides) and most recently with her one woman show as Trixie Trainwreck No Man Band. She’s probably the hardest working girl in showbiz...and a mother, too!!
Degurutieni (JAP)
Alco Degurutieni was born in the Nishinari Ghetto’s of Osaka in the end 60’s (Alco Degurutieni: that time in the 1970s was a rough time for everybody once a month riots in the streets red lights of prostitution parlours and yakuza “mafia” were familiar to us every day. These memories of youthful chaos have been a catalyst for my Peter Pan Syndrome since then) Degurutieni creates harmony through juxtaposition, extracting melody from chaos and decadence from junk. At 13 he got his first boombox and became the best customer at his local rental record shop, working his way through all genres from the Beach Boys to Black Sabbath. From 16 he began to create his own songs using the only things he had access to; junk, altered children's toys, and a beat up right tape recorder. All of these still play an important role in his music production today.
on that album you here ‚Acme in the afternoon‘ a true hit songs Tom Waits blues jazz burlesque then you got ‚Blur Blur Blur‘ super minimalistic lost in space blues or the incredible ‚Midnight Express‘ with a oriental trash flair that gives you the blade runner touch , the Fanfare Rockin tune ‚13th floor city‘ feat Orchestre du Belgistan (from Belgium) or my fave ‚Dreaming party‘ that sounds like a psychedelic horror movie After-Trip
Nestter Donuts (ES)
from Barcelona in Spain comes the most amazing Flamenco Trash one man band.. raised by Gipsy’s and in the dirtiest clubs in and around Spain, he’s deep in wild Trash Rock’n’Roll and on the other hand his roots in Flamenco Music transported by his parents to little Nestter when he still was a baby,
The Sex Organs (NL/CH)
In the year 2013 NASA received a strange signal from the Andromeda galaxy. After several months of study by some of the top linguistics experts on the planet the signal was translated and discovered to be a request to visit the planet Earth by two representatives of a planet inhabited by beings resembling human sexual organs. The message also stated that The Sex Organs had been monitoring human sexual activity for the last several decades and felt that it was time to come to our planet because "Human sexuality has become wrong and un-sexy". The Sex Organs started their tour of Earth at The Funtastic Dracula Carnival in 2014 and plan on holding seminars and "noise therapy sessions" at the hottest rock and roll festivals in Europe this year such as Cosmic Trip Festival in France and Hipsville in Surrey, U.K. The Sex Organs recorded their first Vinyl in the red light district of Amsterdam, Holland and found Voodoo Rhytm in Bern Switzerland to be the sexiest label for their First release. Earlier this year The Sex Organs signed an exclusive recording contract with Voodoo Rhythm Records in Bern, Switzerland to get their message of "good sex" and "loud noises" to the rest of the human race.
Roy and the Devils Motorcycle (CH)
For the past 20 years, Roy and the devil's Motorcycle have been tenaciously and joyously doing their own thing. The 3 brothers picked up guitars and set out on a mission to set their, and our, little worlds on fire. All this time and attitude have given them a raw power, where reverb, distortion and harmonics swirl and boil, lurch and whip in the melting pot. Initially, their influences seem obvious: old, dusty blues records, gospel, dirty garage, Spacemen 3, 13th Floor Elevators, the Velvets, Souled American, Gibson bros; but dig deeper and their love of free-running experimentalists like Lee "Scratch" Perry, Red Krayola and Godz becomes disorientatingly clear. After a few singles on the super-underground Record Junkie label, they unleashed their raging punk-blues FORGOTTEN MILLION SELLERS cult classic l.p. on the Swiss primitive Voodoo Rhythm label in 1998. Some maturing (and only a little mellowing) led to the scorched-earth soundtrack BECAUSE OF WOMEN in 2006. By this time they'd already been regularly touring across the continent, playing with the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Sonic Boom/Spectrum, Black Lips, Disappears, Strange Boys, Psychic TV, and Martin Rev (SUICIDE). Always self-made to the bone, cutting their own path at their home studio in rural Switzerland, the band released their 3rd album in spring 2012, TELL IT TO THE PEOPLE, a knife-cut crystalline transmission from the psychedelic world of Roys.
The Devils (IT)
FROM NAPLES,ITALY COMES THAT EAR BLEEDING MINIMALISTIC BLASPHEMY GUITAR WALL BLUES ROCKABILLY NOISE TRASH ROCK’N’ROLL TORNADO!! MADE BY ONLY 2 PERSONS
The Devils named themselves after Ken Russel's super B-Movie 'the devils' from 1971, inspired by listening to Blues and Punk and many other Underground Bands (The Cramps, Hound Dog Taylor, The Gories, Jon Spencer, Fugazi, Hasil Adkins, The Oblivians etc) they formed their own band in 2015 in Naples Italy, the Deep South of Italy. Gianni Vessella plays the Guitar and Sings and Erica Toraldo hits the Drums and Screams in the Microphone. In the Beginning they did Countless Shows in Italy DIY and France where they meet up with Jim Diamond from the Dirtbombs who recorded their first Full Length album, the same Day Reverend Beat-Man from Voodoo Rhythm records was in the same town and got their recordings and signed them up on the Label. This is a Huge Wall of Guitar Fuzz and Noise and Vocals as Stupid and Minimalistic as it gets, this is No Bob Dylan poetry thats pure Evil and Lots of Fun !! Chainsaw Massacre Hysteric Ear bleeding Vocals and the Drummer probably Eats Speed and Power Food for Breakfast, they are Dressed up as Preacher and Nun and Destroy every Stage that they can play on, they Are Hot and Wild and Very Loud !!!!!
E.T. - Explore me (NL)
Far Out Mind Expanding Psychedelic Punk from Haarlem in the Netherlands whom Squeeze you into a Organ grinding Fuzz Overdose Fest and Fly you to unknown dimensions
Underground heroes of Haarlemtown in the Netherlands – saving the sewers of garage rock from the same old riff rock 15 years of distorted organ fuzz stripped down snare bare essence boogie thump of a bassline pumped out of mangled monster of an amp. From the gutted churches of the Spanish hillside to the cigarette stench beer belch glorious gutterstreet rock n roll holes of Holland, Germany and France, ET EXPLORE ME has been leaving beer soaked, sweat stained smiling and stinking rock n roll fans begging for more since 2002. Finally deciding to get their shit together and make a full album, ET EXPLORE ME delivers on wax exactly what they do live. Full on FUZZED out Freaks unleashed. You wanna party, you wanna dig deep into the trenches of treble and bass, you wanna – oh I know you wanna just have a good time don’t you! Don’t you now! Of course you do fool. And ET EXPLORE ME has got the rocknroll sniffin glue to get you higher than daylight. So buy this album, see this band, pour a beer over your head and shake your ass, pump your fist and whatever you do, when you get home after the show, don’t fall asleep in a puddle of your own piss.
Honshu Wolves (CH)
From the back alleys in Bern Switzerland, chiseled into the foggy cold mountains Maryanne Shewolf and her pack sing their very own trippy psychedelic Desert Gospel Delta Space Blues
the Dead Brothers (CH)
The Dead Brother's roots fetch far in musical history. They started digging their graves in 1998. Punk rock and country blues are part of their DNA. So are the stage antics of Cab Calloway, Kurt Weill's Three penny opera and the european folklore instrumental excellency. 7 Full lenght Albums where Released on Voodoo Rhythm Records ,and countless Coopertaions with TV And Movie (BBC Documentry (The Genious of Madame Curie - 2013) and theatre (Theater Basel: 3 Penny Opera) etc. Alain Croubalian the Head of the Dead Surrounded many influential musicians around him from the Swiss Underground and Folkloristic Music Scene for ages (Landstrichmusig, Patent Ochsner, Echo, d'Giigemaa), others have a foot in theater, comedy, cinema and Vaudeville (Stadt Theater Hannover, les Trois Suisses, 9 Volt Nelly) some are orchestra directors and some italo crooners, Alain Croubalian Started his Music Career in the early 80’s with the band Les Maniacs (Stop itBaby records) in 1998 the had enough from electric music and formed the Dead Brothers the one and only Funeral Real Heavy Metal band (they had um to 5 Tubas in the band) .. and all acoustic instruments they Created the weirdest mix of Folklore and Modern Music ever came out of Switzerland
I94-BAR (AUS)
A good judge once said that when Voodoo Rhythm releases are good, they’re very good. If you’re applying the label motto, “Music to ruin any party”, this compilation borders on great. Mind you, you’re also inviting the wrong kind of people to your knees-ups. Voodoo Rhythm is resuming its compilation series after a long lay-off and there’s no better place for the uninitiated to dive in. Garage Rock is such an overused term. Voodoo Rhythm trade in it – and then some. If it’s not too ableist, let’s call their catalogue “Helen Keller Mistaking a Vegetable Slicer for a Braille Textbook” and be done with it. The aural output is typically raw, violent and bloody.
Label honcho Beat-Man started releasing his own records out of home country Switzerland in the last century because nobody else would, and has been making an art form out of being a cottage industry ever since, touring extensively on the smell of an oily rag. He’s also perfected working with the weird and wonderful from around the globe.
Naturally, Beat-Man figures prominently. His band the Monsters play scuzzy garage rock and open the collection with “Smell My Tongue”, a confronting assault on the ears. As Reverend Beat-Man, the label’s main-man contorts his vocal chords and shoves them into places they don’t belong, pairing with Isobel Garcia for the warped blues plod of “Black Metal”.
The gals rock too: Garcia is an LA-based chica who contributes her own swampy cocktail shaker, “Baby OK”. Loose and spirited with some ambling, rambling keys and big on the reverb. Greasy harmonica and riffing guitar sit behind the vocal as Trixie and the Trainwrecks deliver “Too Good To Be True”, and it’s ultimately a conventional Chicago blues stomp.
Honshu Wolves are led by Maryanne Shewolf and “Tell Me” is the most radio-friendly song here. The label calls them a “Delta Blues Desert Gospel Space Punk Sensation” and there’s a strange and brooding edge to their contribution that’s heightened by some smoky guitar-work. Evocative.
Want the hard stuff? Destination Lonely brings it by the barrel-load with their distorted Troggs desecration, “I Want You”. The MC5 cover pales. Bad Mojos really do what they say on “Crash and Burn”, approaching the sound of feedtime, while “No Make Up” from Slorks sounds like it was recorded in a toilet, with a cacophony of distortion (instead of a flush), to take it out. No shame in that.
Roy and the Devil’s Motorcycle (“Learn to Lose”) and The Devils (“Coitus Interruptus From a Priest”) take mutual pleasure in de-volving the blues in their own way. The former has been at this for 20 years and formed in rural Switzerland. They have a psychedelic twist. Listen to their music long enough and you won’t need drugs. “Learn to Lose” is a good example.
The Devils are altogether more straight-up, choosing to put the blues through a blender. “Coitus…” pins itself to a relentless rhythm and soprano vocals and powers long like a runaway train.
Degurutieni is from Japan and weave a weird musical spell of exotica-meets-cocktail-music that works to a tee on “Acme in the Afternoon”. Percussion and a melodious bass-line propel Alec Degurutieni’s beguiling, other-worldy vocal before a synthesised (toy?) horn takes it out.
A self-described Flamenco trash one-man band from Spain, Nesttler Donuts, makes a mark with the short and emphatic “Infeccion”. The Sex Organs (who hail from Amsterdam via Zurich) just leave a wet patch with “Lubrication”, an apparent ode to the joys of rubbing one out.
Oddness continues with ET Explore Me’s “Drvolume 5ug Me”, a funk-tinged ode to mood altering marked by distorted fuzz organ and a boogie thump-and-rumble bottom-end. Oh that the rest of the Netherlands was this strange.
The Dead Brothers swiped “Mean Blue Spirit” from the Kinks circa “Something Else” which is some kinda compliment. Strings add to the air of oddness. Alas, they are now defunct following the passing of key member Alain Croubalian last month.
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REVIEWS:
the Vinyl District (USA)
NEW RELEASE PICK: V/A, Voodoo Rhythm Label Compilation Vol. 5 (Voodoo Rhythm) This Swiss label is run by Beat Zeller, aka The Beat-Man, aka The Reverend Beat-Man, aka a beautifully twisted cat if ever one was (though we’ve never met). Burrowing into a stylistic zone that’s not far from the great Billy Childish, except it’s swampier and more bluesy (and with flashes of strangeness that are almost Beefheartian), The Beat-Man has been cranking out steaming hot hunks of rant and distortion since the 1980s, with the Voodoo Rhythm label commencing operations in 1992 to document his own prolificacy plus records by those of a similar temperament. The discography now runs well into the hundreds. As I’ve only been soaking up Voodoo Rhythm’s wares for the last 5-6 years, I haven’t heard it all, but it’s still been long enough to have gotten acquainted with a sizable percentage of what’s on this comp. Chances are you haven’t, so let’s give it a rundown.
Right up front, there’s the garage-punk stomp of the Beat-Man’s band The Monsters, followed by the drum-box punk thud of the Bad Mojos, and then some trash dumpster Troggs action from Destination Lonely. There’s the reverb drenched punk-blues throb of Sloks, a zonked busker-billy Venom cover by Rev. Beat-Man and Izobel Garcia, the demented retro-pop of Garcia’s own track, and then a strong dose of Chess Records-inspired punk pound by Trixie and the Trainwrecks. And with the Tom Waits vibes of Degurutieni, things get even more interesting. There’s the decidedly KBD-like track by Nestter Donuts, an ode to well-lubed onanism by Sex Organs, the acid-bent Gibson Bros. fumes of Roy and the Devil’s Motorcycle, a fuzz-punk rave-up by The Devils, the twisted trio chug of E.T. Explore Me, the moody, dare I say goth blues of Honshu Wolves, and a Jimbo Mathus-like closer by The Dead Brothers. And it’s all grooved into a picture disc. My normal reaction to picture discs is to stick those fuckers on the roof, but this one looks pretty cool. It sounds even better. A-
Radio Falš (CRO)
30 godina Voodoo Rhythm Recordsa i kompilacija za “upropastiti svaki party”
Voodoo Rhythm Records svoju priču započeo je prije trideset godina! Ovog mjeseca obljetnica se slavi sa kompilacijom petnaest kompletno otkačenih sastava s kojima su kroz povijest kuće imali čast surađivati. Riječ je o kompilaciji, kako kažu, za “upropastiti svaki party”. Flamenco i Blues u kombinaciji sa Space Garage Rock ‘n’ Rollom, sve dobro pokrivenom Punkom i Synthom. Tko može poželjeti više? Tko je mogao očekivati drugačije? LP verzija kompilacije dolazi u vješto animiranoj omotnici dizajniranoj od strane Andy “Sinboy” Lukea, no kompilaciju možete naći i u obliku CD-a ili, najjednostavnije, u digitalnoj formi. Za mastering ove legendarne ploče zaslužan je Lo’Spider te njegov Toulužanski Swamp Land Studio.
Kompilacija Voodoo Rhythm Records-a “Voodoo Rhythm Label Compilation Vol.5” uvrstila je najbolje od najboljih na svoju listu –the Monsters, Bad Mojos, Destination Lonely, Sloks, Reverend Beat-Man, Izobel Carcia, Trixie and the Trainwrecks, Degurutieni, Nestter Donuts, the Sex Organs, Roy and the Devils Motorcycle, The Devils, E.T. – Explore me, i the Dead Brothers sudjeluju na ovom fantastičnom mixu koji pršti prljavom pravom Rock ‘n’ Roll energijom.
Voodoo Rhythm Records je osnovan u Bernu, Švicarskoj, 1992. godine kao prijeko potrebna platforma za nekontroliranu i kaotičnu anti-mainstream scenu koja nije tražila konformizam u nad-popularnim diskografskim “tvorničkim label trakama”, što je, sve očitije svim čitateljima, nešto što Radio Falš cijeni više od ičega. Stoga i mi slavimo ročkas naših dragih prijatelja iz Voodoo-a, jer ova velika obljetnica predstavlja mnogo više od underground projekta. Voodoo je postao simbol undergrounda i prilike predstavljanja svoje umjetnosti bez ikakvog kompromisa i uvjeta. Više nego pohvalno, već trideset godina unaprjeđuju umjetnost, a što je najbitnije, u tome samo sve više i uspijevaju. Kompilacija koju danas predstavljamo dokaz je fantastičnog uspjeha neafirmiranih anti-mainstream umjetnika cijelog umjetničkog nam svijeta.
Kako sam vlasnik labela, Beat Zeller, kaže: “Stay Trash”. Pa ostanimo pri tome. “Voodoo Rhythm Label Compilation Vol.5” postoji kako bi otvorili vrata unutarnjeg svemira te oslobodili sve unutarnje demone da se suoče s našim, kime drugim nego, vanjskim demonima! Suočavanje demona s Rock ‘n’ Rollom je točno što ovih 15 umjetnika na kompilaciji i rade, kaže neosporivo Rock propovjednik Beat Zeller. Švicarski the Monsters singlom “smell my tongue” suptilno najavljuju i svoj novodolazeći album “You’re Class I’m Trash” dok Degurutieni iz Japana svojom “Acme in The Afternoon” napada sve obožavatelje koji uživaju “sick groove” singlove snimljene aparaturama iz prošlog stoljeća. Ovom kompilacijom predstavlja se i novo pojačanje Voodoo labela – Nestter Donuts sa singlom “infeccion“. Kao da je za cijeli život znao da spada u kuću Zellerovih nepripadajućih, predstavlja nam se kao “One Man Band” u Flamenco Trash stilu.
Nitko ovdje nije za izostaviti, većina se već dugo vremena vrti na Falšu, i svakog od njih smo predstavljali preko svih nam dostupnih platforma. Nešto za istaknuti je da kompilacija nevjerojatno utapa svakog od Voodoo petnaestorice u genijalnu simbiozu, iliti skraćeno, za istaknuti je cijeli album. Labela iz Berna nastavlja u svom ritmu, obećavši nam nova izdanja i ganc nove albume – uskoro! Do tada, nabavite kompilaciju ovdje
INDIE ROCKS (MEX)
El sello donde caben desde el punk ruidoso hasta el melancólico blues.
Desde su fundación en 1992 quedó claro que el sello Voodoo Rhythm Records no sería como los demás. Tan solo por el hecho de que su creador es el extrovertido Reverend Beat-Man, punk de nacimiento y líder de The Monsters, entre otros proyectos. Pero si eso no fuera suficiente, el lema del sello es “music to ruin any party” y así queda claro que no hay lugar para bandas exitosas o en búsqueda de fama pasajera.A punto de cumplir su trigésimo aniversario, la disquera suiza presenta su nuevo lanzamiento y se trata de una compilación que tiene una doble función. Para los que apenas empiezan a conocerla es un perfecto punto de partida para adentrarse en sus propuestas. Mientras que para los fanáticos de antaño no hay sorpresas y tan solo hay que subir el volumen hasta hacer retumbar las bocinas.Aunque el sello es conocido por su apoyo incondicional al punk y garage en realidad su catálogo es mucho más extenso. Eso se puede apreciar en los 15 temas que conforman este nuevo material. La selección va desde cumbia psicodélica y blues hasta sonidos exóticos y flamenco. Lo que tienen todos en común es que se trata de música que se baila como tú quieras.
La canción que abre el LP es un adelanto del nuevo álbum de The Monsters que está a punto de ser publicado. Con un título simple y directo como “Smell My Tongue” no se pueden esperar buenos modales ni sonidos refinados. En su lugar hay un festín para los amantes del garage-punk gracias a sus gritos aulladores y un riff de guitarra que hace que Ramones suene complejo.La dosis de fuzz continúa con el trío suizo Bad Mojos y su pasión por la música estridente y sudorosa. La reacción inmediata es azotar el cuerpo contra la pared más cercana y beber una cerveza helada para congelar la sangre (no necesariamente en ese orden). Pero de la rapidez se pasa a la lentitud de Sloks con su versión de “I Want You” de The Troggs. Respeta la base y el único cambio es que suena igual de ruidosa que un camión que no pasó la verificación.Mientras que del lado estrafalario se encuentra el dueto E.T. Explore Me con una pieza que parece salida de un videojuego. Por su parte, Honshu Wolves logra un matrimonio entre el blues y la psicodelia que representa una caricia para los oídos. La exploración de estilo continúa con Degurutieni y una oscura composición que transporta a los clubes de jazz de principios del Siglo 20.Dentro de todos los participantes el premio a la combinación más extraña es para Nestter Donuts al lograr una unión entre punk y flamenco. Pero aunque podrían parecer géneros antagonistas al final se consigue un punto de equilibrio en el que cada uno tiene su momento para brillar.A pesar de todas las adversidades Voodoo Rhythm Records se mantiene de pie. Aunque los sonidos sean tan distintos al final todas las bandas que forman parte del sello destacan por su honestidad y congruencia. Y a pesar de su slogan en realidad se trata de música que podría quitarle la solemnidad a cualquier fiesta.
FEAR AND LOATHING (USA)
From the label run by the infamous Reverend Beat Man and subtitled ‘A Label Compilation to Ruin Any Party’, you should already know that this album is going to contain some pretty incendiary sounds. Well, from the very beginning it delivers the goods! Kicking-off with ‘Smell My Tongue’ by The Monsters, we’re faced with some of the most raucous garage-punk since The Mummies, quickly followed by Bad Mojos and their aptly entitled ‘Crash & Burn’ which keeps the energy levels right off the scale… After an upbeat start like this you might be expecting more of the same, but the album also offers a varied selection of styles. Reverend Beat Man himself appears alongside Izobel Garcia with a truly inspired cover of the Venom classic ‘Black Metal’, stripped down to a Voodoo-inspired swampy-blues style… (Izobel also offers some exotica-tinged blues of her own…) Trixie & The Trainwrecks deliver the insanely catchy ‘Too Good to be Blue’, somewhere inbetween the Headcoatees and Detroit Cobras while Degurutieni delve into the kind of territory often covered by Tom Waits. Nestter Donuts and The Devils take us back to full-throttle garage-sounds, followed by The Sex Organs and their entertaining bad taste ditty, ‘Lubrication’. Honshu Wolves are represented by the excellent ‘Tell Me’ from their recent album ‘Cosmic Creature Capture’ (one of the best records released this year!) and the compilation comes to a close with The Dead Brothers with their lounge-jazz styling ‘Mean Blue Spirit’. I haven’t mentioned every band included on this album, but you can trust me, there isn’t a bad track on here. If you want to check out this label and discover a whole new selection of great bands, this is the ideal place to start. Buy it soon and play it loud! (Collectors beware – this album is also available as a snazzy picture disk!)
FUZE, OX (DE)
Das schweizer Plattenlabel präsentiert THE MONSTERS, BAD MOJOS und mehr.
Beat „Beat-Man“ Zeller ist der einzige echte Rock’n’Roller, den die Schweiz zu bieten hat. Seine MONSTERS waren vor 30 Jahren eine der ersten europäischen LoFi-Garage-Trashpunk-Bands, er war als Wrestler und als Prediger unterwegs, bereiste Nord- und Südamerika, Europa und Japan, um den Eingeborenen zu vermitteln, dass es nicht mehr braucht als eine alte Gitarre, ein Mikrofon und eine kleine Bühne, um eine teuflisch mitreißende Show abzuziehen. Mit Voodoo Rhythm betreibt Beat-Man im heimischen Bern überdies ein feines, kleines Label mit einem großen Herz für Vinyl, auf dem er neben den eigenen Platten die befreundeter Bands veröffentlicht. Jüngst erschien mit „A Label Compilation To Ruin Any Party Volume 5“ zum fünften Mal eine umfassende Labelcompilation.
15 Songs zwischen Garage, Beat und Punk
Neben unseren aktuellen Coverhelden THE MONSTERS sind unter anderem BAD MOJOS, THE DEAD BROTHERS, Reverend Beat-Man and Izobel Garcia, THE DEVILS und Nestter Donuts auf der Compilation vertreten. „A Label Compilation To Ruin Any Party Volume 5“ erscheint auf Vinyl, CD und digital.
Oscar Garcia (KOTJ) (ES)
En unas pocas semanas el sello suizo cumple 30 años en los cuales nos ha ido infectado las neuronas con cada disco que ha ido viendo la luz a lo largo de esta andadura. Lo que en principio era un trampolín para la banda de su creador, el chalado del beat man y su banda The Monsters, el sello ha ido creciendo y quitándonos prejuicios tocando los más inverosímiles estilos, desde electro punk a polkas alocadas, de música para funerales a sobredosis de feedback que te estallaban el cerebro, pasando por el country rock mascado por europeos que jamás han pisado la tierra de John Ford y sin dejar de lado, por supuesto, los sonidos de garaje que tanto nos enloquecen. Hay que recordar que este sello fué el responsable de poner en órbita a nuestros queridos Wau y los Arrrghs prácticamente a principios de siglo. A lo largo de estos años el ritmo Voodoo tiene estantería propia en esta cueva y este recopilatorio donde nos muestra y deja claro que es un sello que sigue arriesgando y aun así tiene personalidad propia. El disco lo abre el puto jefe junto los apabullantes Monster que ya mismo estrenan nuevo álbum con un título tan clarificador como “You’re class, I’m trash” por si te quedaba alguna duda acerca de sus principios. El tema que incluyen es un adelanto de ese nuevo disco, “Smell my tongue” que como no podía ser de otra manera, es una patada de rock and roll en la boca del estómago que te quita la tontería de golpe y deja que los Bad Mojos te esputen un “Crash and Burn” con actitud punk al igual que su sonido. Destination Lonely agarran el “I want you” de los Troggs y hacen la versión más alucinante que he escuchado de este clásico en mi medio siglo largo de vida. Los Sloks te machacan el cerebro con un esquizofrénico y repetitivo “No wake up”, el incombustible Reverendo junto a Izobel te meten de lleno en los oscuros ambientes donde se mueven los Peaky Blinders con ese “Black metal” que encaja perfectamente en la banda sonora de tan alabada serie. Izobel García tiene protagonismo propio cuando interpreta “Baby Ok” que te transporta musicalmente a mediados del siglo pasado y a esos grupos vocales de chicas en época de guerra, pero quedando la orquesta reducida a la mínima expresión pero con resultado alucinante. El blues mas aplastante llega de la mano de Trixie and the Trainwrecks con “Too good to be blue” que da paso a Dugurutieni, un japonés que mezcla sonidos fantasmagóricos con cabaret y exótica y que me tiene totalmente atrapado con “Acme in the afternoon”. Cuando comienza a sonar “Infeccion” me llegan los ecos del barrio que me vió nacer puestos al día por Nestter Donuts un One Gipsy Man Band desde Alicante que ha rubricado su firma con el baldeo en el contrato que le ha puesto VR ante los ojos, Flamenco Trash que seguramente dará que hablar. Los pesos pesados del sello van dejando su aportación como Sex Organs y ese “Lubrication” robado a los mismísimos Monks, Roy and the Devils Motorcycle con una pasaje de psicodelia cósmica titulado “Learn to loose” realmente magistral, The Devils con el fuzz a punto de reventar en ese “Coitus Interruptus (From a Priets)”. El chute de electro punk marciano llega de la mano de ET Explore Me en ese “Drug me” poseído por Alan Vega. Honsu Wolves unos veteranos tan desconocidos como la inmensa clase que se gastan, busca este “Tell Me” en los canales digitales y cae rendido a sus pies. Cerrando, una de mis debilidades en este sello como son Dead Brothers que ponen la tapa a este artefacto con su buen hacer del que dejan constancia en este “Mean Blue Spirit”. En definitiva, 15 temas que a mí no me han arruinado la fiesta, sino todo lo contrario, me hacen creer en esta locura que se llama Voodoo Rhythm por mucho mucho tiempo.
DRESDNER KULTUR MAGAZIN (DE)
30 Jahre Voodoo Rhythm Records wollen gefeiert werden! Dazu haut crazy Beat-Man, der Schweizer Labelbetreiber, Musiker und Frontprediger des meist überzerrten Trash-Rock'n'Rolls, die fünfte Label-Compilation heraus. Diese folgt erfreulicher Weise nicht nur dem Motto »A Label Compilation To Ruin Any Party« und schmeißt uns auf dieser nur unkontrollierten Gargepunk-Trash oder sogenannten Chainsaw-Voodoo-Punk um die Ohren, sondern bietet auch ein paar gemäßigte Listening-Tracks. Das Label, das sich mit einer besonderen Moving-Picture-Vinyl (wirkt bewegt, wie ein psychedlischer Comic-Film) und CD feiert, wurde 1992 in Bern gegründet, um wirklich abwegigen Bands eine Plattform zu bieten, die selbst für den Rock'n'Roll-Musikmarkt zu wild und und zu sehr vom Teufel besessen sind. Hört man sich die übersteuerten und verzerrten Songbomben von Bands wie Monsters, Bad Mojos, Destination Lonely, Sloks oder Nestter Donuts an, war es eine wirklich sinnstiftende Idee, den Aussätzigen unter den Aussätzigen eine eigene Plattform zu bieten. Auf der Compilation sind aber zum Glück neben der Overdose Gargepunk auch Songs vertreten, die man getrost als düstere Barmusik laufen lassen kann, wie etwa Izobel Garcia mit »baby OK« oder Degurutienti (»Acme In The Afternoon«) aus Japan, der allerdings schon etwas zu sehr in die Kerbe von Tom Waits schlägt. Da will man doch sofort lieber das Original hören. Der letzte Track der Compilation stammt von den Dead Brothers, die eine in Dresden gern gesehene Begräbniskappelle waren. Leider verstarb deren Sänger Alain Croubalian im September mit 57 Jahren viel zu früh. Dem Reverend Beat-Man, der in Dresden schon Heerscharen seiner Jünger in der GrooveStation zum Kniefall bewegte, gelingt zum eigenen Label-Geburtstag eine Compilation, die Partygäste derart scharfkantig in Flüchtende und Bleibende spaltet, wie es sonst nur die Politik schafft. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! DJ Cramér
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