Hugo Hochstein is a producer and wholesaler for exclusive genuine leather as well as for synthetic leather based in Wermelskirchen in western Germany.
His company trades with skins from very interesting, creative and sort of extravagant agencies with likewise ideas: customized cowskin sidetables, fake tigerskins, zebraskins or funky looking canteen furniture and many other crazy ideas. Quite trippy in some ways. See if you can find the salmon skin.
But have a look by yourself and enjoy the stylish world and exquisite choice of Hugo Hochstein - where animal protection act simply doesn't seem to exist.
We Butter The Bread With Butter (Grindcore/ Electro/ Lullabies)
This actually is an insider for all german readers of rotw. It is doubtful that other people might understand what this german duo from the Spree forest near Berlin sing about. Even the german audience often has problems understanding the grunted lyrics of shouter Tobi. Though the songs are so easy to understand and so simple to singalong - that's the reason why they've been written in the first place.
We Butter The Bread With Butter are some sort of coverband. Only that the alltime classics that they do cover have indeed been covered by many other bands - but not in this genre. And not in this way.
The band consisting of mentioned shouter Tobi and guitarist and programmer Marci set their whole musical mind in giving german children's songs a electronic-sounding grindcore touch. And for this they now have been signed by near Düsseldorf based label Redfield Records, home of bands like Fire In The Attic, Trip Fontaine or the shortly splitting Fidget.
They cover these so peaceful and innocent singalongs in such a brutal, hard and blasting way that one is absolutely surprised as a listener. Especially regarding to the fact, that some of these songs already are more than a hundred years old.
Who would have thought that a band still could get so much out of such an old song? In a way this is very innovative. Besides that the epiphany is incredible: after you got the joke you either immediately start to laugh or you are shocked.
Discography
Das Monster Aus Dem Schrank:::2008:::Redfield Records
Youtube
We Butter The Bread With Butter - Alle Meine Entchen
We Butter The Bread With Butter - Backe Backe Kuchen
We Butter The Bread With Butter - Schlaf Kindlein Schlaf (Live)
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São Paulo's craziestCANSEI DE SER SEXY in Colgne's Stadtgarten on monday, november 11th. Balloons and six people on stage (thanks to an extra drummer), Lovefoxxx dancing with the crowd off stage, Ana acting like Jesus, Adriano with a Jokerface and besides that a very jolly band.
A short one hour set was apparently enough to make everybody go wild.
The guitar-player and main songwriter of drum & bass-punk-banghra-electronic-rap-conglomerate ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION, Steve Chandra Savale, most of you better known by the name of Chandrasonic.
rotw met him before the concert in Cologne's Essigfabrik, last thursday on november 6th.
The Number Twelve Looks Like You (Grindcore/ Metal/ Jazz)
Heavy, stodgy, complex, loud, artistically minded, intelligent, violent, complicated, dangerous, eclectic, virtuoso – just a few words to describe the music of a band from New Jersey called The Number Twelve Looks Like You.
Formed in 2003 and named after an episode of David Lynch's world-famous „Twin Peaks“-series, these five guys have decided to make arduous music for an arduous world.
It's quite amazing how precise they know how to play their instruments. This fact already lets #12, how they're also often called (or written), be much different in comparisom to many other bands of their genre, whose music usually doesn't go much further than beating the hell out of their instruments, sometimes accompanied by some boring gruntig.
#12's interpretation of grindcore is very individual: it is also very fast and even has a fewborrowings out of good old metal, but it is by no means trashy.
This band prefers a professional way of making music, which also might be a reason why they enthuse so many people outside some possible genre-boundaries.
Their music's frame reminds a bit of the structure in Jazz-music, though it's infiltrated with all important stuff that makes music be grindcore.
It might be the numerous breaks, the wide range of different facets or the quick and to the point changes into other musical styles amidst their songs that make them be so out of the common, so special.
Besides this, the music of The Number Twelve Looks Like You has a very high level of complexity, with occasionally very intricate beats and rhythms, what would let a few people make call their music „math rock“. But „math grind“?
But, in spite of all this experimental approach to their music, it still remains being aggressive, ferocious and really rough rockmusic.
Discography
Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses EP:::2003:::Brutal Records
An Inch Of Gold For An Inch Of Time:::2005:::Eyeball Records
Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear:::2005:::Eyeball Records
Hot Topic EP:::2007:::Eyeball Records
Mongrel:::2007:::Eyeball Records
Here At The End Of All Things (DVD):::2008:::Eyeball Records
The Remixes (7"):::2008:::Eyeball Records
Youtube
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Like A Cat
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Grandfather
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Here At The End Of All Things (DVD Trailer)
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My intention is trying to show you new music I found that I like and that you might like, too. Here it doesn't make a difference if the music I recommend is the latest release of some artist or just good music from some time ago. Neither it is bound to genres or styles. Here we go.
Rock'n'Roll music from France actually always has been something quite rare. Especially in english language. But Perpignan's finest, the Hushpuppies, showed Europe, and especially England, how it can work and suddenly there is a french band singing in broken english with a heavy brit-pop influence. And everybody likes it!
Plasticinesfrom Paris are less poppy. Their english defenitely isn't much better than the Hushpuppies', but therefore they prefer to kick your butt with their own version of dirty punkrock with some sort of poppy elements. After all, they're just girls. No, but let's get serious again: it's exactly the mensioned poppy elements that make their music so receivable. It's too hard for superficial Girlie-Pop-Punk à la Avril Lavigne and, on the other hand, it's not rough enough to be called something like Riot Grrrl, with bands like Le Tigre or Bikini Kill. Plasticines' badly recorded, dirty sounding garage punkrock is just in-between. Which won't mean, that the four girl band doesn't know how to scream, shout and squeal.
In their songs it's all quite about having fun while performing the music, which actually means that the lyrics aren't that important. One song for example is about their former drummer Zazie Tavitian riding bycicle ("Zazie fait de la bicyclette" - one of their few french songs). Right.
To this day they only released one single album, their well accepted debut album LP1, which was released in 2007 at the french division of major label Virgin. And though Plasticines yet do not seem to be that well known, they also had a slot at this years edition of american Coachella Festival. So you better keep your eyes open for four young pretty french girls playing kickassrocknroll in english with a huge french accent. Everybody loves english with french accent...
Discography
LP1:::Virgin France/ EMI:::2007
Youtube
Plasticines - These Boots Were Made For Walking
Plasticines - Loser
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My intention is trying to show you new music I found that I like and that you might like, too. Here it doesn't make a difference if the music I recommend is the latest release of some artist or just good music from some time ago. Neither it is bound to genres or styles. Here we go.
No, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are not an absoulte rarity from the rockin' 1950's I have found lately. This London based threesome released their self titled debut album in July this year.
The three siblings do not only impress with the fact that they do original, traditional, down to earth rock'n'roll, which easily could have kept pace with stars of that time, such as Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly or Fats Domino. No, it is more amazing that they're still so young (15, 17 and 20 years of age is goddamn young for such an antiquated style of music) and yet apparently unaffected by any hypes and trends in the current music scene.
It feels good to listen to their handmade music, amongst all this laptop-produced music, no matter if pop, electro or rap. These three hotspurs just grab their guitar, drum, harmonica, contrabass, piano, banjo and accordion (all their analogue instruments!) and serve to you some of the finest rockabilly and rock'n'roll you might have heard in years. Thumbs up for no displays!
Their debut LP "Kitty, Daisy & Lewis" has been released on Rob Da Bank's Label Sunday Best, which is actually a bit more orientated in electronics and rap music (not very surprising with artists like the legendary Dub Pistols, The Cuban Brothers or Max Sedgley), but on the other hand this release would have seemed as disconcerting on any other label. For these days Kitty, Daisy & Lewis simply aren't an ordinary band. They're extraordinary!
My intention is trying to show you new music I found that I like and that you might like, too. Here it doesn't make a difference if the music I recommend is the latest release of some artist or just good music from some time ago. Neither it is bound to genres or styles.
Here we go.
Probably the most people, that have already heard of "Munich Machine", think of DJ Hell.
But here's where Hell got the name for his fabulous second album:
Munich Machine is a german funk and disco band, which existed in the late 70's from 1976 to 1979. Obviously, they came from Munich and were known to make a special type of disco-funk, so called spacefunk.
Interestingly enough, Munich Machine was a side project of legendary italian producer and composer Giorgio Moroder, who is responsible for unforgettable milestones in pop music, for example such as the comparatively electronical
"I Feel Love" or "Love To Love You, Baby" from disco legend Donna Summer.
He also made it possible that a californian DJ called Josh Davis, to the most better known as DJ Shadow, was able to gain worldwide attention with his "Organ Donor", which is heavily based on Moroder's song "Tears".
Munich Machine though standed out for mixing straight forward uptempo disco-funk with a few hardrock-guitar elements and synthesizer-samples, for example laser-gun noises, which made their music sound so outta space. Their speedy eclectic instrumental songs faced midtempo high vocal tracks and were all done for the floor to make the people shake. Especially the instrumental tracks remind more of electronic music in it's beginnings (though it wasn't really existing, yet) than of disco-funk. Listening to Munich Machine you'll might start to understand where Daft Punk got all their ideas from.
Discography:
Disco Symphony:::Ariston:::1977
Munich Machine:::Casablanca Records:::1977
Introducing The Midnite Ladies:::Oasis:::1977
A Whiter Shade Of Pale:::Casablanca Records:::1978
Body Shine:::Casablanca Records:::1979
My intention is trying to show you new music I found that I like and that you might like, too. Here it doesn't make a difference if the music I recommend is the latest release of some artist or just good music from some time ago. Neither it is bound to genres or styles.
Here we go.
2562 is a dj and producer from The Hague in the Netherlands. Dave Huismans, how his real name is, is part of the quite manageable dubstep scene in Holland, which finds it's small centrum in the mensioned city set by the sea, The Hague.
Before producing Dubstep though, Huismans was quite well known in the dutch Techno scene.
Know, as a Dubstep-DJ, 2562 knows very well how to combine the best of both worlds, though using technoid sounds only in a very tender way.
Like this 2562 became a Dubstep-DJ which is very well accepted in the big UK-scene and already played gigs with Kode9 or Modeselektor.
Also has 2562 already been privileged to be featured on Tempa's opinion-forming Dubstep Mix-compilation "Dupstep Allstars", whose sixth edition was mixed by Laurie "Appleblim" Osborne and Shackleton and was released in june this year.
His this years' debut album "Aerial", which was released on Bristol based record label Tectonic, opens a hard to indentify world to the listener, full of strange and mystic songs whose repetitivity and laid back, though not chilly, atmosphere can make you calm down and relax or move you to the floor to shake your body. Like this, 2562 resembles a bit of Burial or the mensioned Kode9.
21.11.2008
