The Jesus And Mary Chain - Reverence [12"]

The first single taken from THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN's Honey's Dead album in 1992 was REVERENCE. Especially the heavily distorted Radio Mix is totally worth purchasing this maxi, if you'd ever come across it. A Place To Bury Strangers eat your heart out.

Label: Blanco Y Negro
Cat.nr.: NEG 55T
Year of release: 1992

SIDE A:
01. Reverence
02. Heat

SIDE B:
01. Reverence (Radio Mix)
02. Guitarman

Botch - Unifying Themes Redux [12", 2LP]

UNIFYING THEMES REDUX is a compilation of demo recordings and songs taken from 7"es and compilation albums. BOTCH was a great mathcore band  that existed until 2002, and was a clear influence to later bands such as Norma Jean. Originally the album was released on CD in 1997 on the Excursion label under the name The Unifying Themes of Sex, Death and Religion, compiling tracks from the Faction and the John Birch Conspiracy Theory EP's, but in 2002 bonus tracks were added and it was reissued on the same label with a new name: Unifying Themes Redux. In that form, Hydra Head re-released it in 2006 on CD and the awesome Garden Of Exile label did the vinyl edition a year later. So this version is like a reissue of a reissue. They did two pressings and the copy i have is from the second pressing (450 in total, of which 200 on grey vinyl). Brutal stuff. Especially their version of B-52's Rock Lobster (C3) is something worth checking out.

Label: Garden Of Exile Records
Year of release: 2007
Cat.nr.: GOE11

SIDE A:
01. God Vs. Science
02. Third Part In A Tragedy
03. Inch By Inch
04. O Fortuna (The Opera Song)
05. Closure

SIDE B:
01. Contradiction
02. Ebb
03. Stupid Me
04. In Spite Of This
05. End Of Discussion
06. Wounded

SIDE C:
01. Liquoured Up And Laid
02. Leavers Take On Genesis
03. Rock Lobster
04. Frequent Mass Transit
05. Sudam

SIDE D:
Live set from WFMU
01.Third Part In A Tragedy
02. God V.s Science
03. Ebb
04. Baseless Spine
05. Closure
06. Stupid Me
07. Dead For A Minute

The Knife - Silent Shout [12"]

THE KNIFE will be touring again this spring/summer and in April their new album Shaking The Habitual will be out. Can't wait for that. The Knife is one of the most innovative electronic acts these days. SILENT SHOUT is of course the title track of their previous album, if i don't count the Tomorrow, In A Year release that they did with Mt.Sims and Planningtorock and which disappointed me quite a bit to be honest. There are 3 remixes plus the original version on this 12". The first remix is the best one, to my personal taste.

Label: Rabid Records
Cat.nr.: VVR5038146
Year of release: 2006

SIDE A:
01. Silent Shout (Williams Acidic Circuits Remix)
02. Silent Shout (Original Version)

SIDE B:
01. Silent Shout (Troy Pierce Barado En Locombia Mix)
02. Silent Shout (Shinedoe Remix)

Mogwai - Les Revenants EP [10"]

In little less than a month from now, MOGWAI will be releasing the full length soundtrack to LES REVENANTS, a French tv series about a mountain village that's visited by deceased inhabitants. This 4 track EP is a taste of what to come and i must say i'm pretty curious now to hear the whole album. Wizard Motor is a typical Mogwai song and at the same time the loudest of the 4:  Soup is an ambient piece, The Huts a spheric and spooky piano-based theme and This Messiah Needs Watching a quiet beauty. Apparently the band first created the score (based on script fragments) and the crew used that while shooting the film. Interesting!

Label: Rock Action
Cat.nr.: ROCKACT73
Year of release: 2013

SIDE A:
01. Wizard Motor
02. Soup

SIDE B:
01. The Huts (Version)
02. This Messiah Needs Watching (Version)

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine [12", LP, Picture Disc]

Don't know really what to write about this classic KRAFTWERK album. Everything's been written about THE MAN MACHINE a thousand times already. An album way ahead of its time (like all Kraftwerk albums of course). The version i have is a picture disc, and not an official one as it turned out after doing some research. The label is apparently El Grande Oro Casa De Musica (although i couldn't find it mentioned anywhere on the album), a UK-based bootleg label specialized in picture discs.

Label: El Grande Oro Casa De Musica
Cat.nr.: CGO 164/1994
Year of release: ? (originally: 1978)

SIDE A:
01. The Robots
02. Spacelab
03. Metropolis

SIDE B:
01. The Model
02. Neon Lights
03. The Man Machine

School Of Seven Bells - My Cabal [12"]

MY CABAL is a 12" by SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS from a few years ago. Besides the title song that's taken from their debut album Alpinisms, there are some pretty good remixes (by Justin Broadrick a.k.a. Jesu and Mark Clifford of Seefeel fame) and an ambient instrumental track called My Camarilla on this EP.

Label: Ghostly International
Cat.nr.: GI-86
Year of release: 2009

SIDE A:
01. My Cabal
02. My Camarilla

SIDE B:
01. Chain (Seefeel Extraction)
02. Face To Face On High Places (Jesu Remix)
03. Face To Face On High Places (Jesu Remix - Instrumental Version)

Fever Ray - When I Grow Up [12"]

One of the singles taken from FEVER RAY's debut album. WHEN I GROW UP is presented here in a barely recognisable house version (A1), a laid back tropical remix (A2) and an ambient piece of over 16 minutes (B1). The D. Lissvik version is obviously my favourite one, but i had expected a little more to be honest of this maxi of my favourite track of the album.

Label: Rabid Records
Cat.nr.: RABID040T
Year of release: 2009

SIDE A:
01. When I Grow Up (Van Rivers Dark Sails On The Horizon Mix)
02. When I Grow Up (D. Lissvik)

SIDE B:
01. Memories From When I Grow Up (Remembered By The Subliminal Kid)