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Recommended by us on 17th September 2010
...according to our Ant on Thu 16 Sep, 2010.
Lets hope this actually makes it onto vinyl!!!! Love this guys style - he makes tunes using cut and paste collage methods sampling old video tapes and he gets some seriously good grooves going. This is "IDM" that is rooted in classic era Skam but feels like a progression in many ways as well as having a feel of nostalgia in terms of the source material. He whips up some fantastic melodies, crunchy beats and all sorts of fucked up sequences. There's some proper Outer Limits Recordings/ James Ferraro style 80's guitar bits which are amusing I'm gonna be total twat and call this hypnogogictronica. It sounds like a hyper channel surf from the future, from way back in time to when the VHS was king. Love it!!!!
New full length album from Blackpool recording artist VHS Head.
A collage of vocals, melodic splatters and stop/start rhythms grind against industrial soundscapes and atmospheric backdrops, while basslines and mutated guitar hooks grab the listener for a very enjoyable ride.
The name 'trademark ribbons of gold' was a reference to the pre-cert era of video tapes . This was the true golden era of home video
A "pre-cert video" is any videotape issued in the UK before the introduction of the 1984 Video Recordings Act. Pre-cert videos were not required by law to be submitted to the BBFC so the era was unregulated, leading to many uncut releases of videos which would have fallen foul of the BBFC's strict guidelines. Some of the smaller independent companies decided to take advantage of this by issuing "strong uncut" versions depicting graphic violence and gore. A whole barrage of titles previously banned by the BBFC from getting a cinema release suddenly ended up uncensored on home video.
Side A: 1. Ident 2. Sunset Everett 3. Trademark Ribbons of Gold 4. Gianasi 5. The Murder Cycles
Side B 6. Franco Zoom to Nowhere 7. Skyline 8. Brain Damaged 9. Set Pieces 10. Seen enough?
Side C 11. Motions. 12. DPP39 13. Remote Control 14. Guinea Pig Film 15. Twitch of the Nerve
Side D 16. The Stuff 17. The Violent Breed 18. Red Lens Effect 19. Movies that never were 20. Heartbeat in the Brain
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