featured: German post-punk & synth-punk The explosion of creativity opened up by affordable recording gear, electronic instruments and DIY distribution at the dawn of the 1980s has been well documented by now. I’ve long been intere…

… not a complete list (of course), but here’s some relatively obscure German post punk and new wave on Bandcamp. I love this stuff! If I missed anything, leave a link in the comments.

some recent #Bandcamp tunes… great stuff by Roel Meelkop, Rita Revell, Closing…

Turntable Tapes, by Happy Halloween 17 track album

Guess I should have posted this yesterday, heh. Early homemade noise by a young Roel Meelkop, initially released on cassette in the mid-1980s.

Totally Brazen. Comically Corrupt. Painfully Dumb. Trump’s mask-off economic doctrine is on full display: Riches for friends, pain for enemies. Is it any wonder business leaders are falling in line?

… words I never imagined myself saying: Bill Kristol writes a very good newsletter! It’s true.

SPRING DOCH, by Der künftige Musikant 15 track album

Amazing #Bandcamp reissue of a 1982 obscure #synthpunk cassette! Directly from the artist! So good to be able to hear this in higher quality than the crappy tape rips that have been floating around online.

… nearly done composing my collaborative album with tac (aka Tom A Cox), a musical hero of mine since high school. We’ve been batting this around for more than a year. I think it sounds damn good so far.

Five Thousand Pretenders Who Passed the Test By Luck Alone, by Howard Stelzer 4 track album

… I’m now selling the CD and download of my new album at my Bandcamp page. Not sure how many are left?

III, by +D:A+ 4 track album

Oooh! New album of blistering #noise by the duo of Diagram: A and Steve/+DOG+! So damn good, two giants of Massachusetts noise. #Bandcamp

SHE THINKS SHE'S THE STATE DEPARTMENT, by PBK & Howard Stelzer 5 track album

The new album by PBK & me is now available at PBK’s Bandcamp page! The physical CD can be had for $7 postpaid to anywhere in the world (yes really!!) directly from the label - loveearthmusic.com

Trump Renews Threat to Invade Chicago, Governor Pritzker Vows to Fight Back Read more here.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) swiftly pushed back, saying Illinois never asked for federal troops and that Trump has no legal authority to unilaterally seize control of the Illinois National Guard. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

while you’re there, you can grab my previous LEM CDs if they’re still around: “The Flemish Giants”, Extra “Spiral/Athletics” and HS/Richard Youngs “This Is It” if they’re still available, all just $7 postpaid. And CDs by +DOG+, Modelbau, Astro, Incapacitants, T. Mikawa, Reiko A., Carl Kruger etc.

PBK/HS “She Thinks She’s the State Department” CDr out NOW from Love Earth Music! Every CD from LEM costs just $7 postpaid anywhere in the world, which is amazing. Grab one while they last! loveearthmusic.com #noise #drone #ambient #cassette

call it fascism. that’s where we are now.

🌐🌐 Zentai Vol. III is out today! 🌐🌐

The third and final volume of our compendium by cult Japanese musician K. Yoshimatsu collects 3 more rare albums from the early 1980's.

New interview:
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Zentai Vols I-III:
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what a good thing you’ve done, making this music available again in such a thoughtful way. thank you for doing it!

what a cool idea!

Interior Sounding II, by Miguel A. García & Frans de Waard 5 track album

Miguel A. García & Frans de Waard - Interior Sounding II

A swansong of sorts.
Manipulated electromagnetic recordings and household minutiae.
Intimate, immersive and dynamic. A calculated drama and sense of stark menace kept at bay...

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2 new tapes!

• Ross Scott-Buccleuch, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson & Andrew Sharpley - Recollections May Vary

More interesting woes from the ghosts of dAdA...
Condensed detritus & expansive vistas in which to dry out your daydreams on the clothes maiden.

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… a friend took me to Tree House Brewing the other day, and I finally understand the #NEIPA style. For years, I just didn’t get it… but now I definitely do.

Rejection Sensitive, by Marc Benner 4 track album

awesome new album of tactile crumble, filthy metallic rumble and jostling clouds of corroded trash by the guy behind the Oxidation label… #noise #drone

Some #ambient #noise #drone heavy rotation here at Chez Stelzer’s #Bandcamp stream. Good stuff if you like warped tapes, I suppose.

summer music update: art for the PBK/HS CD is all done! new collaborative albums with Dang. (aka Danielle Jakubiak) and TAC (aka Tom A. Cox) are progressing nicely. A new EP by EXTRA (aka me + Brian Grainger) sounds good so far, and will come out as part of a secret (!!) project this December…

Oooh! Any chance Volume 3 of K. Yoshimatsu will be available at your Bandcamp by then? I just bought the first two and they’re incredible.

Cool! Yeah I can imagine these would be fun to mess with.

Zentai: The Collected Works of K. Yoshimatsu [volume I], by K. Yoshimatsu 15 track album

Exciting news: Phantom Limb Label has released 3 volumes that collect early 80s tapes by K.Yoshimatsu! This (and anything on DD.Records) ought to be on the radar of all obscure cassette-culture and Japanese noise fans. I haven’t bought these yet but I plan to. #minimal #noise #japan

ambulation, by kevin corcoran 2 track album

This new tape is terrific. Two slow walks through back roads, dragging hydrophones over rocks and picking up radio signals.

Empty Can Street Orchestra, by Nobuo Yamada 2 track album

… steady-density sound of clanking, churning empty cans (duh) being dragged through reverb-heavy underground tunnels with a backdrop of floaty ambient bloop. Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Over Low Trees..., by Young Scientist 6 track album

The 1979 Seattle answer to Berlin School synth voyages… they beat Emeralds to it by decades. Low-fi homemade analog zonk and drift. Members of Sequencer People & Savant, if that means anything to you.

Mathematic Sun, by HS + ABH 6 track album

recorded last summer, out now on Halifax’ finest label, Buried In Slag and Debris… a collaborative double tape by me and Nobuo Yamada/Artbreakhotel! If you like clanking metal junk and melted cassette glorp, here’s yr new favorite album.

What Every Democrat, Everywhere, Should Take from Zohran Mamdani’s Upset Five lessons for anyone running for office anywhere in the country.

While much of the Democratic establishment is panicking about Zohran Mamdani’s victory, there are lessons from his campaign that can help every Democrat, even those in the reddest districts in America. Here are five key lessons. www.messageboxnews.com/p/what-every...