Smittekilde and Raphael Gimenes

Smittekilde is the mothership of primarily graphics-wizard Zven Balslev. Situated in Copenhagen, Smittekilde spreads out good taste all over Denmark (as well as other parts of the world), releasing, pressing, and distributing books, graphical art, and music by Danish as well as international artists. It's a really great thing, running for 10+ years now, that you should really check out if you haven't already done so. Go to the website:

http://smittekilde.blogspot.com

Back in 2005, a compilation LP of more and less serious music by more and less obscure Danish (and a few just as obscure non-Danish) acts was released on smittekilde as "Smittekilde #9", 'replacing' the smittekilde zine. It is now available for free download here; link further down. The original pressing also included a "big fat silkscreened book by several artist". It sold out fast and was later reissued with different artwork and without the book. The original cover followed by the re-print:

And so, the tracklist was (artist . track name):

01: Roopeeronen . cortex wolf
02: Zoffmann . transmitter for sygdom
03: Porkchoco . turn it around and use it again
04: 36 invisibles . jodorowsky
05: Ormelarsen . banquee worms
06: Dok2ren . hva så din tjaller
07: Porkchoco . maatjes with guacomolo
08: Magtværk . dinorider
09: Bultrum oswalf . ?
10: Crash tes couilles . crash tes couilles!
11: Tango for thor . psysick thor
12: Vinyl terror & horror . short story
13: Dennis tyfush . ?
14: Blood stereo . a dry drunk problem
15: Spastic mama . don't care
16: O.d. dødsprinsen . touch you & kill you & fuck you & screw you
17: Dead pet society . not that shit
18: Infinite livez . fuck powa
19: Tape salad . spread 'em like disease
20: Fifty foot spiders . liquid surface
21: Devastate of mind . there is no asshole wide enough for my cock
22: Family underground . feather of the sun
23: Pumice . king korny remains
24: Devastate of mind . there is no cock wide enough for my asshole
25: The michael sardou . my cigarettes ain't no fags
26: Bimbo sons . do the ocean motion
27: Røjters byro . mic
28: Broxe . adios testicle burger

DOWNLOAD

(it's a large file, so it's on megaupload. Sorry about the women, gambling etc.)

Besides, I recently made quite some discovery, that I hope more people would also come to make. I don't know much about this guy other than this: He is seemingly Brazilian-Danish, his name is Raphael Gimenes, and he makes the most wonderful psychedelic folk tunes straight out of Borup, Sjælland (close to Roskilde). I have only been able to find two myspace-pages containing 9 different songs:

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Amazing stuff. 'light' acid-folk like it should be. Unpretentious folk-tunes, obviously beatles-inspired, soaked in etheral reverb, mildly psychedelic mind-tricks, and occasionally the usual indian acid-folk instrumentation. It's authentic and well-produced. Track names like "toys turned into rhapsodies", "sunfair", "the canticle of the sun", and "vor frelsers kirke" might be an inciation of the sound. All the songs are highlights. If you know anything about this guy, that I don't, you are very welcome to write me an email. Address further up and right.

Update

A short update to bring to your attention, that the new geiger-magazine is out, this time bearing a review of a couple of the tapes on this blog. They got the name wrong, but all in all it's a quite pleasant review.

Besides that, it looks like we're going to see a lot of new releases from nwd-acts this summer. Just to mention some:

Dreamers cloth:
>New tape just out on sloow tapes
>Split tape with shiggajon on Ikuisuus cirka June
>Much new and old stuff on relax with nature

BM:
>Cd on battlecruiser cirka June
>Very limited 3xcs on pcib

Hahn kult:
>Debut album (cd or vinyl) hopefully out late summer
>Split lp with exex on smittekilde
>Split tape with pneumas on blossom rust tapes

Shiggajon
>Split tape with dreamers cloth on Ikuisuus cirka June
>Appearance on the exciting bsbta 'vinyl beards' comp.
>More old demos surfacing

Looking forward

Claus Haxholm pt. 2 . Old stuff

So this time we have come to the past.
two records. released via the bsbta label in 2004.
in the summer of 2004 i was asked to play at spot festival, but i had only released a track on a bsbta sampler from the year before.

So Christian Kann (BSBTA labelboss) asked me to release more songs- which was gathered as "very small pieces of music and sound". I only had a crappy computer and the 60 secs recorder from windows. but still to this day i think i've got some good songs out of it. it consists of songs from 10-60 seconds(with one except- the last song, from when i discovered some "tricks"(naah not really) in the recording program). The sound on this record is more folky and guitarbased in contrary to the second EP i released, it's also far more critic and serious in it's sound than #2; Tyst Ep- eventhough the recordings of Tyst was made in the winter-spring of '03 it was first released a year later. i don't know why. perhaps i was'nt as sure of the recording's "quality" as with the Small Song EP.

The Tyst Ep is more light-hearted, spasmodic, and i mostly used keyboards, though the guitar as a "baseinstrument" appear in two tracks.

The sound was later (in the summer of 2005,re-made/produced/mixed till autum of 2006, i think) continued in a session with goodieparl van deer 2xsteen (voice and sounds) and the jazzdrummer kresten osgood (voice, beatboxing, and childrens keyboard), but was never released, and will not be, since i'd come to the conclusion that one disc of that music (though it might be considered "darker") should be more than enough.

But what these two lack in commoness of instrumentation, they both share the fact that everything is improvised, a thing i have continued to explore ever since- with one execption, my third Ep (which won't be uploaded here) - that had elements of impro, but most of it was composed and rehearsed (at least once). Now that should be enough of that;
here we go.

Download "tyst"

Download "small pieces of music and sound"

thank you.
claus haxholm

Claus Haxholm pt. 1 . words and music from me

I am Claus Haxholm, making music as the doom riot, dead black arms, bhhwtasss and many other names. I've promised Mikkel to take a bit care of the blog, with another very friendly Mikkel.
I will write two sections presentin my music. This one will contain a set of "newer" things, the other one will be the two very first discs i ever released. funny times!

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the tracks are:
Inverted Mountain Tent
Giants and Titans
The Third Mind
Salt the Bread Burn The Time

no special order. the third mind and salt the bread... is to be released on rural faune sometime this year. The other two are from different sessions, hopefully both to be released some fine day. All recorded under The Doom Riot tag, and leaving the Dead Black Arms name out this time.


all for now, next week I'll get up with the old old discs(released on BSBTA years back (2003,2004??))

claus haxholm