* Two great playlists by the team at Motel de Moka. First playlist selected by the might Bubbachups including heavy & experimental stuff by Nadja, LSD Pond and the greatest guitar tone from Skullflower. Second one by Moka herself, including a magnifique cover of Talking Heads’ Cross Eyed & Painless by NY’s Brazilian Girls.
* Charalambides - Uncloudy Day on This Women Coil
* Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars - Soda Soap on Red Blondehead
* Dead Meadow - Down Here on Raven Sings the Blues
* An exceptional 126 min. noise retrospective from 1913 to 2007 by Marolo on Spannered From Cage and Varese to AMM, Alvin Lucier to Merzbow and in chronological order. Outstanding find by Cenk Akyol.
* Test Industries interviews Ben Sims. There’s a frank quote about the sad state of dance music right now.

“Whenever any formula is repeated endlessly and bastardised, it becomes soulless. Styles get popular and people jump on bandwagons, it’s the nature of the beast and I wouldn’t try and defend the hundreds of loopy nothing records I receive because obviously there’s shite in every genre of dance music and a lot of people missed the point with the whole tribal/loop thing. For me, it was about sampling records from my youth, bringing elements of music that I loved into my tracks or digging hard for samples from 70s and 80s raw percussion or drum heavy disco records, not just using a fucking sample CD. That’s just lazy and for people without heritage. As soon as that sound became popular, people jumped on it and most of these artists are now doing minimal because that’s what’s in now. If country and western became the new thing then they’d make that too, idiots!