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WASP FACTORY SPAMBLAST Feb 2004
So. Here we are again, merrily ploughing into the new year with a quartet of bar raising releases, and a surprise TV appearance for our very own Special Uncle Tony who took steps to avoid the ongoing mistaken identity scenario between himself and Eris by getting a makeover on TVs The Salon (and between you and me, he looks pretty good as a result!). Thats us. Never mind the bands, you can`t even avoid the office staff.
And talking of being unable to avoid the bands, without further ado, lets introduce you to our latest offspring :-
-------------------------
WASPFAC018 - ARKAM ASYLUM - Running with Scissors
The Digital Freakshow is in town...
The second album from seminal Cyberpunk mavericks Arkam Asylum is all you'd expect - a head-on collision betwen deathrock, psychobilly and twisted gabba. On paper an unlikely fusion, but stick on the disc and it becomes obvious that this is the ultimate in sleazoid rock. Balls-out polemic, beats and riffery hung together with gaffa tape and the sort of genuine headrush that only pioneers of a distinctly new sound can give. The true sound of "cyber"."punk". Here's 3 breakbeats, now go and make a dystopian future.
"..the bastard offspring of Iggy Pop and Marilyn Manson, conceived whilst both parties were off their faces on crack at an Orb gig.. a psychotic blast of unrestrained nihilism and desperation." - Rock Sound
FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE
http://www.wasp-factory.com/waspfactory/news.htm#rws
BUY HERE
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/artist_store.cfm?a=126
LISTEN TO GUNDAM HIGH FROM THE ALBUM
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/tracks/126/238/1/1/1/ARKASAI__[Arkam_Asylum]_-_GUNDAM_HIGH.m3u
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WASPFAC024 - EARTH LOOP RECALL - Compulsion
Earth Loop Recall plough a very nice line in My Bloody Valentine / Sonic Youth style post punk / alternative rock that doesn`t run scared of moments of towering feedback colliding head on with NIN style electronic trickery, and moments of exquisite beauty lurking in the calm at the eye of the storm.
In the bands own words "Think 'The Holy Bible' By Manic Street Preachers. Add 'The Process' by Skinny Puppy, 'Aenima' by Tool, 'Mezzanine' by Massive Attack, 'Never Mind The Bollocks' by The Sex Pistols and 'In Utero' By Nirvana. And maybe 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley. Then you'll be midway there."
Keep a very close eye on this lot. We`re predicting *very* big things for them.
"Some Industrial music is slave to the technology on which it depends, but some manipulates and perverts the little black boxes to altogether more organic, human and some would say, degenerate ends. Like Nitzer Ebb and Nine Inch Nails sexed up for the post-millenial mire, Earth Loop Recall gleefully spit acrid bile over electronicas clean lines" - Terrorizer
FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE
http://www.wasp-factory.com/waspfactory/news.htm#compulsion
BUY HERE
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/artist_store.cfm?a=129
LISTEN TO RECONNECT FROM THE ALBUM
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/tracks/129/245/1/0/1/Earth_Loop_Recall_Reconnect_[album_version]_p.m3u
LISTEN TO PLEASE STOP HURTING ME FROM THE ALBUM
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/tracks/129/244/1/0/1/Earth_Loop_Recall_Please_Stop_Hurting_Me_[album_version]_p.m3u
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WASPFAC026 - GOTEKI - Goteki O/S Corrupted Files
Excursion on the version from the J Electro stormtroopers. You`ll find your packed dancefloors on here. Chrome plated electro and filtered house a mile wide. Floorfillers? You want `em, you got `em. With names like Icon of Coil and Echo Image on the case, you know it`s going to do the job. But remixing isn`t just about the club is it? Where would the fun be in that, when the remixers job allows them to pull something apart and reassemble it in their own image, as destroyed, as reborn and as wierdly divergent from the original as their whim takes them?
"Bowel-loosening basslines and shrooming melodies combine with icy, androgynous vocals to transport the listener into the alternate realities of The Matrix, eXistenZ and Blade Runner. Though the familial line encompasses Electroclash, J-Pop and Digital Hardcore, Goteki aren’t so much siblings as the oddly behaved second cousin that no-one talks about, but everyone wants to meet. If Gary Numan had been captured by The Borg and assimilated with Alec Empire this, we suspect, would be the result." LOGO Magazine
READ FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE
http://www.wasp-factory.com/waspfactory/news.htm#corrupted
BUY HERE
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/artist_store.cfm?a=125
LISTEN TO STEAM VIRUS (YENDRI MIX) FROM THE ALBUM
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/tracks/125/254/1/0/1/Goteki_STEAM_VIRUS_-_YENDRI_MIX_p.m3u
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WASPFAC028 - LEECHWOMAN - Uncertainty Device #26573
The UKs finest hardcore / industrial crossover band bar none. Reduced to a raging ghost in the machine. White hot anger dropped from a great height and reassembled by a broken machine with delusions of sentience. Shards of dark ambient, electro, noise & drill and bass, stitched together by masters of the genres. Fuck your cartoon college punk bands, this is what happens when a band true to the punk ethos embraces the digital age.
A remix album that eschews the generic dancefloor filler that seems mandatory for these releases, and embraces the more destructive and wilfully caustic side of the form as embodied on albums like Nine Inch Nails' 'Fixed', and Scorn's 'Ellipsis'. We see no reason to file this one anywhere but with these greats.
Mood Music for people who should clearly be locked away.
"Influenced as much by the brutal pounding of Neubaten and Evil Mothers as they are the ferocity of Extreme Noise Terror and the electronic affectations of Optimum Wound Profile, Leechwoman are the ideal alternative to the anodyne and mundane; the bitterest pill to even the most hardened junkie, an impenetrable wall of white noise for those that don't understand or just can't be bothered to make the effort. Their f**king loss! 4.5/5" - ROCK SOUND
READ FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE
http://www.wasp-factory.com/waspfactory/news.htm#uncertainty
BUY HERE
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/artist_store.cfm?a=142
LISTEN TO TOOL (TARANTELLA SERPENTINE MIX) FROM THE ALBUM
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/tracks/142/255/1/0/1/Leechwoman_TOOL_-_TARANTELLA_SERPENTINE_REMIX_p.m3u
-------------------------
COMING IN 2004?
Psychophile, Deathboy and Freudstein are all ensconced in the studio working on their new albums, provisionally titled "Vodka Milk", "Project Scorpio" and "Yes, yes, it`ll be finished soon, we know we said it would be done last year".
Meanwhile, we`ve received the following disturbing crayon scrawled note in the mail accompanied by a selection of surveilance photos of our families
"Oh yes. Setting fire to dublin venues was just the beginning. The c**t had it coming anyway. And yes, it was fun violating the Joneses in Slimelight, I think on reflection I preferred Aled to Tom, so much mure purity to turn sour. Oh, the taste. It amuses me that even without a release others have been playing recordings of the event. I know who they all are and I`m planning some....... heh ........very "special" recordings for each and every one of them in the near future. I`ve currently got one of my minions, I like to call him Poodle, set to change the copyright laws so expect to take delivery of my masterwork as soon as it goes through. Meanwhile, please find attached the demos of my working of the Electric 6 "classic", which I`m calling "Ga Ba". Payment in the usual method will be acceptable, though no more from the council estates please. eXitboy"
-------------------------
WASP FACTORY AT THE BRIT AWARDS
Well, not quite. But proving yet again that anyone who views electronica as somehow not made by "real" musicians is shortly due a good hard slapping (particularly if they then articulate their viewpoint by referring to all forms of electronica as "Bleep"), Jo Q responsible for synths and programming for Earth Loop Recall will be appearing at this years Brit Awards playing Cello for Black Eyed Peas. We`re all fiercely proud of this incredibly talented young lady here at WFHQ and wish her all the best as she hob nobs with the industries A list.
-------------------------
FlYING, STABBING, FLIPPING OUT AND KILLING EVERYONE, WAILING ON THEIR GUITARS
Goteki are looking for Ninjas, be they ones who make a living as agents of stealthy death or actually rather crap ones, to feature in their forthcoming video for Ninja Grrl. Interested?
Full details here
http://www.goteki.com/indexx.html
-------------------------
SO. WHAT EXACTLY *IS* GOING ON WITH THE CHAOS ENGINE THEN?
In short Chaos Engine are back after the gig of their life at Whitby. Lee Chaos says "We decided to stop doing Chaos Engine gigs if they stopped being fun, and to be honest, they had. Conversely, our show at Whitby was possibly the best we've ever done, and the enthusiasm the crowd showed at the gig itself and after the show have given us enough enthusiasm to explode back out of retirement. We promise not to scare you like that again. We have no intention of becomingthe industrial Status Quo." So there you go. We will of course be having words with the man to the effect that doing a "last ever gig" on a yearly basis since 1985 hasn`t really harmed The Cure's popularity or sales.......
The band will be keeping that retirement very much prefixed by the word "semi" as main support to Haujobb at Londons Metro club on 5th March. Because it`s been a while since there was a London assault, and, well, it`s Haujobb, innit? There's a possibility of some UK tour dates and festivals for 2004, so get those offers rolling in.
Whilst Lee Choas is keeping tight lipped about the possibility of new Chaos Engine material, we can confirm that there is an uncharacteristic absence of other bands booked into Parental Advisory Studios for the first half of 2004, and that the live set may contain a few surprises.
Meanwhile, anyone who needs an urgent dose of Chaos, can find the man going head to head in a DJ Clash with Alex B from Leechwoman at the infamous club Judder on 20th February - Full details at www.wasp-factory.com/judder
-------------------------
INCOMING GIGS
Fri 20th Feb 2004 - Lee Chaos (Chaos Engine) vs Alex B (Leechwoman) at Judder, Cheltenham.
Fri 27th Feb 2004 - The Water Rats, Kings Cross, London
DeathBoy + Devilish Presley + Earth Loop Recall + Faetal
Fri 5th Mar 2004 - Metro, Oxford Street, London
Haujobb + The Chaos Engine + OVNI
Sat 6th Mar 2004 - The Morecambe Goth Festival, Morecambe, Lancashire
Goteki + Mechanical Cabaret + The Last Cry
Thur 25th Mar 2004 - Gloominati, The Casbah, Sheffield
Psychophile
Fri 23rd Apr 2004 - Whitby Gothic Weekend, North Yorkshire
featuring Earth Loop Recall
Sat 15th May 2004 - The Calling, The Man in the Moon, Cambridge
Psychophile + Rome Burns
Plucky little www.wasp-factory.com . Giving the Industrial Underground a taste of Great British Spunk.
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WASP FACTORY SPAMBLAST Feb 2004
So. Here we are again, merrily ploughing into the new year with a quartet of bar raising releases, and a surprise TV appearance for our very own Special Uncle Tony who took steps to avoid the ongoing mistaken identity scenario between himself and Eris by getting a makeover on TVs The Salon (and between you and me, he looks pretty good as a result!). Thats us. Never mind the bands, you can`t even avoid the office staff.
And talking of being unable to avoid the bands, without further ado, lets introduce you to our latest offspring :-
-------------------------
WASPFAC018 - ARKAM ASYLUM - Running with Scissors
The Digital Freakshow is in town...
The second album from seminal Cyberpunk mavericks Arkam Asylum is all you'd expect - a head-on collision betwen deathrock, psychobilly and twisted gabba. On paper an unlikely fusion, but stick on the disc and it becomes obvious that this is the ultimate in sleazoid rock. Balls-out polemic, beats and riffery hung together with gaffa tape and the sort of genuine headrush that only pioneers of a distinctly new sound can give. The true sound of "cyber"."punk". Here's 3 breakbeats, now go and make a dystopian future.
"..the bastard offspring of Iggy Pop and Marilyn Manson, conceived whilst both parties were off their faces on crack at an Orb gig.. a psychotic blast of unrestrained nihilism and desperation." - Rock Sound
FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE
http://www.wasp-factory.com/waspfactory/news.htm#rws
BUY HERE
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/artist_store.cfm?a=126
LISTEN TO GUNDAM HIGH FROM THE ALBUM
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/tracks/126/238/1/1/1/ARKASAI__[Arkam_Asylum]_-_GUNDAM_HIGH.m3u
-------------------------
WASPFAC024 - EARTH LOOP RECALL - Compulsion
Earth Loop Recall plough a very nice line in My Bloody Valentine / Sonic Youth style post punk / alternative rock that doesn`t run scared of moments of towering feedback colliding head on with NIN style electronic trickery, and moments of exquisite beauty lurking in the calm at the eye of the storm.
In the bands own words "Think 'The Holy Bible' By Manic Street Preachers. Add 'The Process' by Skinny Puppy, 'Aenima' by Tool, 'Mezzanine' by Massive Attack, 'Never Mind The Bollocks' by The Sex Pistols and 'In Utero' By Nirvana. And maybe 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley. Then you'll be midway there."
Keep a very close eye on this lot. We`re predicting *very* big things for them.
"Some Industrial music is slave to the technology on which it depends, but some manipulates and perverts the little black boxes to altogether more organic, human and some would say, degenerate ends. Like Nitzer Ebb and Nine Inch Nails sexed up for the post-millenial mire, Earth Loop Recall gleefully spit acrid bile over electronicas clean lines" - Terrorizer
FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE
http://www.wasp-factory.com/waspfactory/news.htm#compulsion
BUY HERE
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/artist_store.cfm?a=129
LISTEN TO RECONNECT FROM THE ALBUM
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/tracks/129/245/1/0/1/Earth_Loop_Recall_Reconnect_[album_version]_p.m3u
LISTEN TO PLEASE STOP HURTING ME FROM THE ALBUM
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/tracks/129/244/1/0/1/Earth_Loop_Recall_Please_Stop_Hurting_Me_[album_version]_p.m3u
-------------------------
WASPFAC026 - GOTEKI - Goteki O/S Corrupted Files
Excursion on the version from the J Electro stormtroopers. You`ll find your packed dancefloors on here. Chrome plated electro and filtered house a mile wide. Floorfillers? You want `em, you got `em. With names like Icon of Coil and Echo Image on the case, you know it`s going to do the job. But remixing isn`t just about the club is it? Where would the fun be in that, when the remixers job allows them to pull something apart and reassemble it in their own image, as destroyed, as reborn and as wierdly divergent from the original as their whim takes them?
"Bowel-loosening basslines and shrooming melodies combine with icy, androgynous vocals to transport the listener into the alternate realities of The Matrix, eXistenZ and Blade Runner. Though the familial line encompasses Electroclash, J-Pop and Digital Hardcore, Goteki aren’t so much siblings as the oddly behaved second cousin that no-one talks about, but everyone wants to meet. If Gary Numan had been captured by The Borg and assimilated with Alec Empire this, we suspect, would be the result." LOGO Magazine
READ FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE
http://www.wasp-factory.com/waspfactory/news.htm#corrupted
BUY HERE
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/artist_store.cfm?a=125
LISTEN TO STEAM VIRUS (YENDRI MIX) FROM THE ALBUM
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/tracks/125/254/1/0/1/Goteki_STEAM_VIRUS_-_YENDRI_MIX_p.m3u
-------------------------
WASPFAC028 - LEECHWOMAN - Uncertainty Device #26573
The UKs finest hardcore / industrial crossover band bar none. Reduced to a raging ghost in the machine. White hot anger dropped from a great height and reassembled by a broken machine with delusions of sentience. Shards of dark ambient, electro, noise & drill and bass, stitched together by masters of the genres. Fuck your cartoon college punk bands, this is what happens when a band true to the punk ethos embraces the digital age.
A remix album that eschews the generic dancefloor filler that seems mandatory for these releases, and embraces the more destructive and wilfully caustic side of the form as embodied on albums like Nine Inch Nails' 'Fixed', and Scorn's 'Ellipsis'. We see no reason to file this one anywhere but with these greats.
Mood Music for people who should clearly be locked away.
"Influenced as much by the brutal pounding of Neubaten and Evil Mothers as they are the ferocity of Extreme Noise Terror and the electronic affectations of Optimum Wound Profile, Leechwoman are the ideal alternative to the anodyne and mundane; the bitterest pill to even the most hardened junkie, an impenetrable wall of white noise for those that don't understand or just can't be bothered to make the effort. Their f**king loss! 4.5/5" - ROCK SOUND
READ FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE
http://www.wasp-factory.com/waspfactory/news.htm#uncertainty
BUY HERE
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/artist_store.cfm?a=142
LISTEN TO TOOL (TARANTELLA SERPENTINE MIX) FROM THE ALBUM
http://www.darkcelldigitalmusic.net/tracks/142/255/1/0/1/Leechwoman_TOOL_-_TARANTELLA_SERPENTINE_REMIX_p.m3u
-------------------------
COMING IN 2004?
Psychophile, Deathboy and Freudstein are all ensconced in the studio working on their new albums, provisionally titled "Vodka Milk", "Project Scorpio" and "Yes, yes, it`ll be finished soon, we know we said it would be done last year".
Meanwhile, we`ve received the following disturbing crayon scrawled note in the mail accompanied by a selection of surveilance photos of our families
"Oh yes. Setting fire to dublin venues was just the beginning. The c**t had it coming anyway. And yes, it was fun violating the Joneses in Slimelight, I think on reflection I preferred Aled to Tom, so much mure purity to turn sour. Oh, the taste. It amuses me that even without a release others have been playing recordings of the event. I know who they all are and I`m planning some....... heh ........very "special" recordings for each and every one of them in the near future. I`ve currently got one of my minions, I like to call him Poodle, set to change the copyright laws so expect to take delivery of my masterwork as soon as it goes through. Meanwhile, please find attached the demos of my working of the Electric 6 "classic", which I`m calling "Ga Ba". Payment in the usual method will be acceptable, though no more from the council estates please. eXitboy"
-------------------------
WASP FACTORY AT THE BRIT AWARDS
Well, not quite. But proving yet again that anyone who views electronica as somehow not made by "real" musicians is shortly due a good hard slapping (particularly if they then articulate their viewpoint by referring to all forms of electronica as "Bleep"), Jo Q responsible for synths and programming for Earth Loop Recall will be appearing at this years Brit Awards playing Cello for Black Eyed Peas. We`re all fiercely proud of this incredibly talented young lady here at WFHQ and wish her all the best as she hob nobs with the industries A list.
-------------------------
FlYING, STABBING, FLIPPING OUT AND KILLING EVERYONE, WAILING ON THEIR GUITARS
Goteki are looking for Ninjas, be they ones who make a living as agents of stealthy death or actually rather crap ones, to feature in their forthcoming video for Ninja Grrl. Interested?
Full details here
http://www.goteki.com/indexx.html
-------------------------
SO. WHAT EXACTLY *IS* GOING ON WITH THE CHAOS ENGINE THEN?
In short Chaos Engine are back after the gig of their life at Whitby. Lee Chaos says "We decided to stop doing Chaos Engine gigs if they stopped being fun, and to be honest, they had. Conversely, our show at Whitby was possibly the best we've ever done, and the enthusiasm the crowd showed at the gig itself and after the show have given us enough enthusiasm to explode back out of retirement. We promise not to scare you like that again. We have no intention of becomingthe industrial Status Quo." So there you go. We will of course be having words with the man to the effect that doing a "last ever gig" on a yearly basis since 1985 hasn`t really harmed The Cure's popularity or sales.......
The band will be keeping that retirement very much prefixed by the word "semi" as main support to Haujobb at Londons Metro club on 5th March. Because it`s been a while since there was a London assault, and, well, it`s Haujobb, innit? There's a possibility of some UK tour dates and festivals for 2004, so get those offers rolling in.
Whilst Lee Choas is keeping tight lipped about the possibility of new Chaos Engine material, we can confirm that there is an uncharacteristic absence of other bands booked into Parental Advisory Studios for the first half of 2004, and that the live set may contain a few surprises.
Meanwhile, anyone who needs an urgent dose of Chaos, can find the man going head to head in a DJ Clash with Alex B from Leechwoman at the infamous club Judder on 20th February - Full details at www.wasp-factory.com/judder
-------------------------
INCOMING GIGS
Fri 20th Feb 2004 - Lee Chaos (Chaos Engine) vs Alex B (Leechwoman) at Judder, Cheltenham.
Fri 27th Feb 2004 - The Water Rats, Kings Cross, London
DeathBoy + Devilish Presley + Earth Loop Recall + Faetal
Fri 5th Mar 2004 - Metro, Oxford Street, London
Haujobb + The Chaos Engine + OVNI
Sat 6th Mar 2004 - The Morecambe Goth Festival, Morecambe, Lancashire
Goteki + Mechanical Cabaret + The Last Cry
Thur 25th Mar 2004 - Gloominati, The Casbah, Sheffield
Psychophile
Fri 23rd Apr 2004 - Whitby Gothic Weekend, North Yorkshire
featuring Earth Loop Recall
Sat 15th May 2004 - The Calling, The Man in the Moon, Cambridge
Psychophile + Rome Burns
Plucky little www.wasp-factory.com . Giving the Industrial Underground a taste of Great British Spunk.
-----------------------------
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