Inside The Noise Floor: Schlüsselchrist — Key Of Christ (VVR016)
For Düsseldorf’s Schlüsselchrist, a decade of global angst curdled into libertarian doctrine: eight brutal tracks warning of technocracy, engineered belief, and our manipulated future.
Inside The Noise Floor: Flux Hound —Grindstone Lullabies (VVR008)
True to form, Flux Hound’s latest release pulls the thread on 1850s workmanship, soundtracking a system of toil, decay, and the romance of manual labor.
Action Time Vision: How Alternative TV Shattered the Punk Image
In a 1970’s punk culture obsessed with image and aggression, Alternative TV brought something more fragile, more fractured, and more frighteningly real.
Inside The Noise Floor: Nox Civitas — Puño Sin Pulso (VVR007)
Nox Civita’s hometown Tijuana is a city of contradictions where neon lights flicker against walls built to divide — an apt backdrop for a punk rebellion.
Would Ornette Coleman Have Liked The Spoof Maggots?
With the Spoof Maggots nod to jazz icon Ornette Coleman on ‘The Shape of Spunk to Cum’, one question comes to mind: would he have liked them?
Inside The Noise floor: The Pink Slip Daddies — Meth Test (VVR006)
Despite the pink suits and questionable shades, Phoenix’s Pink Slip Daddies have tapped into the zeitgeist of the working class, evoking the rockabilly gods of yore.
Inside The Noise Floor: Flux Hound — Blood Tuning (vVR005)
Flux Hound’s third LP, the brooding Blood Tuning, functions as an open-ended interpretation of the human blood flow — a bleak, darkened world underpinned by a heavy jazz soundtrack.
feedtime: Treacle Rock Renegades to Grunge overlords
Certain pundits are of the belief the slide guitar is a restrictive medium, limited within the confines of a sepia stereotype; boy, are they mistaken.
Inside The Noise Floor: Flux hound — the numb sermon (VVR004)
Jazzster freaks Flux Hound have suffered their fair share of adversity, none expressed quite so eloquently as on their second LP The Numb Sermon.
Weekly Earhole: King Snake Roost — From Barbarism to Christian Manhood (1987)
Mutating from the addled ashes of Grong Grong, King Snake Roost breached earholes with a perverse blend of jazz, punk, and mind-altering barbarism.
Inside The Noise Floor: Johnny Achtung — Towel Down (VVR003)
Berlin has a culture of holding onto certain voices long after a scene collapses — one of those voices is Johnny Achtung, Berlin’s synth upsetter.
The MC5: How the City of Detroit Spawned a Rock & Roll Revolution
The story of Detroit’s White Panther movement, MC5, and how John Lennon helped free leader John Sinclair is as pertinent now as it was in the 1960s.
Inside The Noise Floor: Flux Hound —Demolished Man (VVR002)
Punk-ish jazzster weirdos Flux Hound have strayed onto the dark side, the Melbourne sextet re-releasing their complete discography on Substatik.
Inside The Noise Floor: Schlüsselchrist — Cathedral of Files (VVR001)
Black papal metallists Schlüsselchrist have re-released their astonishing debut EP, the first dispatch from the Substatik catalogue.