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35 minutes of musical goodness.

Birthday download closed

You can't get birthday presents every day.
What was the download? Three rough mixes from nazca's "years in the making" third album "Out". For those who managed to snag it, I hope you liked it.

Nazca 10 years

On thursday the 1st of April, 1998, Nazca played its first gig at Wanha Werneri, Oulu.
As a little birthday gift, go here.

Nazca on Facebook

Just put up the Nazca artist page at Facebook.

Nazca joins the mindless minions of faceless corporate devilry or just a fun way to show what we are up to?

You decide here.

For more Nazca online community fun, go to the at the moment dormant website here, or the Youtube channel here or the Myspace profile here.

Have you got Have You Got It Yet? yet?

Fans of early Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett will be glad to know that internet group the Laughing Madcaps just released volume 1 and 2 of Syd Barrett compilation Have You Got It Yet. It's great, it's chock-full of mind-melting sonics, fractured lyrics and it's free. Including gems like the Peel session of Scream Thy Last Scream, unavailable anywhere else.

Go here to torrent.

Monday night brilliance

This is just so fine.

Phil Minton - Cenotaph

This sample is taken from Grey suit 7 a brief solo performance recorded in a Cardiff pedestrian underpass.

As Kenneth Goldsmith put it:

Minton's range on this disc [A Doughnut in One Hand, FMP] runs from the sounds of a man choking on his own vomit to the sounds that grandpa makes when you finally decide to pull the plug on his respirator. Minton's like a little kid who's contact-miked himself playing yo-yo with his saliva; he's a baby drooling through his cries; he's mastered the art of the multiple burp; he's perfected the craft of goobering all over his finger and then running it over his lips while moaning. I'd hate to see what his mic looked like after he was done with it. ... Minton ... forces us to ponder the musical qualities of noises that we'd rather not deal with and for that fact alone, makes this an important recording.

More on Phil here.

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