Killorgiveup EP album - sideproject of Laura (Spice Mouse) - for free download →
Estonian songstress Spice Mouse from the recently launched Prague label alice mange son coeur has a new side project and a free EP out.
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Brno’s electronic underground has plunged into a sort of hiatus after “years of glory” when the artists/promoter’s collective/netlabel Chernobyl Musick organised the legendary Heavy Mental parties, and the Fleda Club was one of the leading venues for cutting edge music in the Czech Republic.
The recent personal changes in Fleda, as well as several key players entering “real life” or moving away from Brno made it look like the ‘scene’ has been terminated. However under the surface the things are still happening: Chernobyl Musick crew is still active, and a new generation of musicians and collectives like ABBA or electronica nights such as Usi & Vitr - is expanding their operations.
A recent newcomer to the scene is Jacques Kustod, a musical alter-ego of the 24-years old Andrej Kabal. His debut First Year EP out on Chernobyl Musick is a concept-album turned personal. Jacques Kustod embarks on an escapist sonic journey - leaving earthly matters behind, he dissolves into a complex cosmos of frequencies that slowly build up into rhythmical composition owing much to the EBM, minimal techno and early industrial sound.
Jacques Kustod - Jacques Tames Comet by easterndaze
However, most notable are the two Diary Loop interludes. Here the First Year EP reaches its most personal level - in the first Loop Jacques Kustod encounters love, and guides us through the nostalgic memories full of recordings of Debussy hidden under an aural fog of reverbs, lush soundscapes and voices that evoke an intimate but perplexing atmosphere that ends abruptly. In the second Loop, we are put straight into a hauntological field-recording of an Antifascist blockade in Brno, through which CIA’s voice recognition algorithms are cutting their way identifying left-wing extremists.
Jacques Kustod - Diary Loop #2 by easterndaze
Listen to the whole EP: http://jacqueskustod.bandcamp.com/
Two off-kilter illustrated videos by two of the most idiosyncratic Czech bands at the moment. I Love 69 Popgeju are art graduates from Moravia’s “Sheffield” - the industrial Ostrava which has a sprawling music and arts scene. The other video is by Čokovoko, also from Moravia. The girl duo is renowned for their witty existential texts infused by an obligatory ironic smirk. (such as: Štěstí mě míjí oklikou/ Hypotéku i prdel mám velikou—-Luck evades me by miles/My mortgage and bum are large..)
July shizz by Easterndaze on Mixcloud
We have a new social gizmo on Mixcloud (you can find us here), this time to upload podcasts, mixes and more concise sets. To kickstart our feature, we put together a selection of the finest tunes we found in July (partly played in our Habitat show).
Slovak dj/turnablist duo Biomat (member of the Bratislava’s BWO collective) and 3ck (godfather of the first .sk turntablism compilation Audio Graffiti) have just released their “100% scratch” Biotrick EP. Check out the stunningly evocative atmospheres, beats & wordcuts on this dark and heavy, bass oriented EP on the Ajlávmjuzik netlabel operated by the slovak hiphop culture netmag Artattack.sk.
