It's a pity that the photo is crap but here's Thee hypnotics.

They don't cost as much? Are you sure?

I haven't paid more than £ 6 for any of their records.Music Exchange or Cheapo Cheapo are there for something after all.

I was starting to think you had your life insured for £50,000,000 or something. I've been on the lookout for the Heaven's End CD for ages and it always seems to cost 50 quid or more.

I have that on cassette wich i have eventually converted to cd r.I paid 50p for it.

Are they a Billy Childish project, or am I off the mark here?

THEE HYPNOTICS (Buy CDs by this artist)
Live'r Than God! (Sub Pop) 1989
Live'r Than God! EP (UK Situation Two) 1989
Come Down Heavy (Beggars Banquet/RCA) 1990
Soul Glitter & Sin (Beggars Banquet/RCA) 1991
The Very Crystal Speed Machine (American) 1994
Assembling a host of 1967 psychedelic fuzz-guitar stars — Blue Cheer, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, etc. — as primary influences, adding a bit of Pretty Things/Rolling Stones ambience and jamming on a frenzied Stooges/MC5 drive, this quartet from High Wycombe, a town northwest of London, handily re-created the pre-Zeppelin era with more flair than most. Singer James Jones knows all the right moves, as does guitarist Ray Hanson, who pulls off the neat trick of overdubbing several different specific styles in a single song. Thee Hypnotics became a favorite of the fickle British music press with its first single, 1989's "Justice in Freedom," a stunning debut that, in both politics and volume, echoed the MC5, and by length (nearly nine minutes) hearkened back to the very early days of English metal.
The quartet — which also included drummer Mark Thompson and bassist Will Pepper — followed that with the solid "Soul Trader," then released the five-song Live'r Than God! in-concert EP, complete with an even longer version of "Justice in Freedom." Like most young bands with vigorous live reputations — and especially a group with a penchant for extended compositions — Thee Hypnotics' live sound doesn't translate well, nor is the recording quality particularly good.
It might not have mattered, had not Live'r Than God! become half of the band's first US issue, a live/studio summary of work to date. The four live tracks and four single sides make for a swirling carpet ride of electrifying nostalgia, effectively digested and powerfully delivered. For licensing reasons, the live "Justice in Freedom" was used rather than its clean and punchy studio counterpart, and the tapes sent to Sub Pop produced surprisingly tinny sounds. What had seemed full and rambunctious on English vinyl translated onto American CD as thin and more dated than it meant to be.
Though the band also encountered sound problems recording their first full-length studio album, Come Down Heavy (with new drummer Phil Smith) delivers what the title promises. With guest shots by Phil May and Dick Taylor of the Pretty Things (Rolling Stones contemporaries who know a thing or three about old-school grunge), Thee Hypnotics still sound like refugees from early-'70s Detroit — hard between the Stooges and Nugent — who've awoken two decades later with a bad hangover. The songs are tighter (not shorter), and Hanson plays as if he were the long-lost son of Peter Green.
Just as the cylinders seemed to be firing, Thee Hypnotics got into a car wreck while touring the States. In the aftermath, Robert Zyn was added on rhythm guitar. Soul Glitter & Sin (subtitled Tales From the Sonic Underworld) begins with the band's usual bang, but drifts into psychedelic lassitude, either heading off in too many directions at once or simply running out of ideas.
Three years later, with Zyn gone, a new label deal in hand and kindred raunch-rock revivalist Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson in the producer's seat, Thee Hypnotics made The Very Crystal Speed Machine. Ironically, working in a California studio with Americans (guitarist Marc Ford and keyboardist Eddie Harsch of the Crowes pitch in) leads the quartet to sound more like English antecedents (especially Free, Zep and late-'60s Stones) than it ever has. A dubious achievement, to be sure, but the album completes Thee Hypnotics' transition from self-conscious fetishists aping a vintage sound to dedicated retroids ready to join the real things in the road-goes-ever-on trenches. And that's something to grow on.
Jones has most recently been active in a band called Black Moses.
[Grant Alden/Ira Robbins]

High Wycombe? Hardly the most rock and roll of towns!

Gong (don't know where to start)
Supersilent
Kazuki Tomokawa
Iannis Xenakis
Circle
Kemialliset Ystävät
Gal Costa

I now want to check out Kemialliset Ystavat and Gal Costa, because I can safely say that the rest of the people mentioned in this post are toppermost quality.

Supersilent 4 or 6 are the best places to start. 1-3 is an excellent collection, it's like Jaki Leibzeit of Can in some kind of mescaline induced breakdown... fucking blinding band, one of the better live bands out there today.

Circle are playing near me soon, second time seeing them. Tres bien.

But you have to hear them boy.I think they played with Loop a few times as well but i'm not totally sure.

that's what i keep hearing. i'm prolly gonna pickup supersilent 6 today.

any gong recommendations?

You've got me intrigued about Circle. Is this the Kosmiche show at Corsica Studios? I could be tempted to go to this one.

when's that?


as for gal costa i recommend her two self titled albums, i think they were both recorded in 1969

LONDON KOSMISCHE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS @ CORSICA STUDIOS
FRIDAY 21ST JULY, 2006 8pm

Kosmische Club 10th Birthday Party!
with CIRCLE + SALVATORE + MIASMA
also a superstar guest TBA

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/10972

Gong:
Camembert Electrique and the trilogy of:
Flying Teapot
Angels Egg
You

Floating Anarchy live 77 is great too!

Thee Hypnotics ruled, but their last LP sucks ass.
I saw them once and it completely slayed.

UK CIRCLE-TOUR

19.07. Bristol / Thelka (UK)
20.07. Brighton / The Hanbury Ballroom (UK)
21.07. London / Kosmische 10th Birthday Party (UK) *****(with Salvatore)
22.07. Birmingham / Supersonic Festival @ Custard Factory (UK)

21st of next month I guess.

I might try and get along to the Bristol show perhaps. Also, I wonder who Salvatore are?? Not K Salvatore surely?

Oh, beat me to it

fuck you savage clone for beating me to it!!!! yes camembert electrique is ace!

so i've heard pissed jeans already and they are ok i guess, might give it another try, sounds kinda like generic amphetamine reptile records (and i've seen reviews comparing them to flipper and no trend).

Thanks to you britons circle only play (probably) one gig in finland this year (and it already happened, but I couldn't afford the £68 train tickets to helsinki and back, later heard it was amazing though).
So cheers a fuckin lot!

Copper and the Bloody Nose

why is that our fault?

It's also the fault of the nation of Ireland, because of the band's minitour in that country earlier this year.
Somebody's paying the band too generously and giving them opportunities to tour foreign countries which leads to a situation where I'm not able to see ´em.

But seriously, based on their touring schedule of the last few years, you have better chances to witness them live if you live in the UK or the states.

I'm also blaming the finnish gig organizers for being such pussies.

(yes, you can sense that this is written during a fit of bitterness)

Btw, here's an recent interview for anyone who cares:
http://www.monkeyclaus.org/?p=49

I am also interested in checking out Acid Mothers Temple. I heard them at a friend's/Inhuman's house and I thought they were really interesting.

HA! Well I'll be seeing their London show, FOR SURE.

AMT are pretty cool but they have like 10 million different releases, most collaborating with other bands. But for the most part, they do some cool noise with a bunch of psychadelic stuff.

In case that's an attempt to exasperate me, then you fail because my friends who've seen them a couple of times have been viciously doing that for a period of time already. I can cope with it.

But I strongly advise you to go and maybe get a couple of their albums, and speaking of which, I'm sure I own more circle albums than anyone else here.

i'm going to hazard a guess that i own more fushitsusha records than anyone here, although i doubt anyone is envious of that

my two pence:

mouthus - their slow globes LP is very good and grew on me a lot, if you can't find it then download it because it came out in a limited quantity

high rise - superb, like a spazzed out Band of Gypsys meets motorhead, get whatever records you can

comets on fire - these guys are similar to high rise in a way, although not so much motorhead more of a spaced out blue cheer, field recordings from the sun is a great record.

Charalambides - these guys are one of my favourite bands around at the moment, joy shapes is an easily obtainable and great record, most of their releases are very limited though. their siltbreeze releases from the 90s, market square, union and houston (out of print, and sometimes a little pricey) are quite different to the later stuff, more song based but excellent too. then there's all the side projects & solo stuff....

Bardo Pond - amanita, lapsed & on the ellipse are my 3 favourites, but they're a difficult band to go wrong with. big laughing jym isn't so good. make sure you see them live before you die.

roy montgomery - check out hash jar tempo, his super-group with bardo pond. i have a split 7" by him and the azusa plane which is really really wonderful too, i got it for about £1 on ebay. and temple IV is lovely album.

merzbow - rainbow electronics (the first one) is pretty much the best noise record i've ever heard, there's so much detail. it's probably quite difficult to find outside japan so soulseek might be the best option.

Redman - muddy waters is supposed to be the best redman album although i haven't heard it, he's a good rapper and everything, but the albums i've heard from him have been a bit patchy, but he's done some great tracks for sure.

the shadow ring - you can get their 7"s cheap on ebay, and they're all very good and weird. otherwise i'd recommend Hold On To I.D. or Lighthouse as they're very good and probably not impossible to track down. their last record I'm Some Songs was shit though.

Fushitsusha - get anything they put out up to the year 2000, avoid everything after that. PSF 50 "pathetique" is a good one to start with.


Yoshimi & Yuka - really nice and unique
The For Carnation - what porkmarras said
Kites - rubbish
God Is My Co-Pilot - rubbish
Chrome - half machine lip moves!
Archie Shepp - i've never really got the appeal with shepp
Third Eye Foundation - what pork said
Experimental Audio Research - from what i've listened to/seen live you aren't missing much
Tangerine Dream - Zeit, Alpha Centauri
Windy And Carl - instrospection, depths, conciousness, terrastock 6 live set too
the Incredible String Band - the hangman's beautiful daughter, layers of the onion.

Khanate - i don't get it with this band at all, i'd just say listen to early swans instead

I am way envious of that, i have a copy of the first double life album and its amazing. I would like to get some but the only store in Sydney who had them closed down and they cost $33 each on CD. Damn Australian dollar being worth so little!!

Really? I have heard good things about it. What's so bad about it?

You can get their quite easily. You can get them direct from the Swill Radio site although it seems to be down at the moment.

Can i also mention that E.A.R. had Eddie Prevost in their ranks and he is one to be revered?

the EAR record i have also has kevin shields on.

Iain, i'm some songs is just noodling inept keyboard improv. no songs, no lyrics and none of the music sounds like it was made by them banging things in a garden shed on a rainy day. anyway, 3 of their albums are out of print and tend to go for at least £25 on ebay

Yeah Kevin Shields.

At one point i'll up 'California Nocturne',wich has Kevin Shields,Eddie Prevost and Sonic Boom playing together.

Which ones are OOP may I ask?

i'm also envious of that!! in fact, i haven't downloaded any fushit albums since i want to get the ones that are in print and then download and burn everything that's not...might do it the other way around if i have enough disc space and when i get more cd-rs.

the new charalambides, a vintage burden, is very fucking awesome. i definitely like what i heard; tom and christina carter solo are pretty cool also (those i heard before charalam).

as for acid mothers temple, i say start with univers zen ou de zero a zero and then go from there. some albums are more quiet (minstrel in the galaxy) or louder/heavier (pretty much everything done as the cosmic inferno).

i'll give some insight on others later on when i have more time.

Thinking? Boy, you best get on that.

waxwork echos
city lights
put the music in its coffin


plus the LPs on swill radio are limited to 500 copies hundred i believe


get the 7"s if you can, mouth on mouse, tiny creatures and some of us/wallet of wasps are all superb

im not really interested in hearing in any new bands at the moment.

There literally are no places where I live to look for anything new, interesting or on vinyl. I only have fucking Best Buy and WalMart. And even in the city you cant find shit...

That type of predicament invariably leads to nihilism, or so I've heard.

heheh