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!

Download

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

Hahn kvlt

Introducing one of the most interesting and promising Danish acts these days - Hahn Kult. A definite pcib-favourite. These two kids from Northern Jylland make their own kind of ambitious experimental black/doom metal and dark atmospheres/bad vibrations. While we wait for their debut album to be released (check myspace for samples), here are their two earlier demo releases:


. Odes for the sea . Bone structure 2007 . cd-r ltd. to 100 . download
Pretty much a black-noise-release rather than an actual bm-release. If the 90's was recording on answering-machines, this must be the 0's. Trashy, but it does just about everything a demo should do for an experimental bm-act. Very troo.

. Faces trilogy part II (split) . Bone structure 2007 . cd-r ltd. to 50 . download
Their second release - a semi-demo. Split with wicked messenger and ov korps. Here, HK has moved away from the noisy early recordings, and further towards structure, making their songs seem more 'focused'. They even make use of distinguishable riffs (!).

Caves

The Caves-project is many things; psych, industrial, classical music, drone, metal etc. This is the first proper tape-release.

.Caves - The dry, heavy shape reaches out . pcib 2007 . one-sided C60 ltd. to 50 . download
Noise-rock = noise + a drummer. This is noise-rock. Distorted waves of organ-drones on top of minimalistic drumming. Layer upon layer of trashy tape-recordings. Very crushed and dusty sounds. The inlay says 'play loud'.

Obscurity

What is this? To be honest, I don't know, but it truly is obscure. Supposedly these are recordings made by one Carl Weismann in 1966 and 1952, documenting the incredible musical capacities of sanglærken (the lark - the bird).

The text roughly says, that the whistle of the lark only lasts 0,6 seconds, but when shifted 3 octaves down, it shows to contain 23 changing pitches. Listen for yourself: download

The original source for the files is here

In addition to that, the Danish no-fi-trashcore / germanistic death industrial / shitnoise act Samenrasse just released their second demo. Idealistically as low-quality mp3. This time it's acoustic. That makes it acoustic germanistic death-industrialistic trashcore. "This is our system!" - these guys keep the scene alive. Download it here

Noisejihad

Noisejihad is a booker-team closely connected to Det Jyske Kunstakademi (The Jylland Art Academy) focused on bringing noise-music to Århus (and Ålborg) since 1997.

Noisejihad also runs the net-label Noisejihad Live concerned with recordings of these concerts. Here are a couple of Danish highlights, all of which are primarily computerbased noise-ambient acts:

NJ002 - Danny Kreutzfeldt (and Ryfylke) . download . download cover . download Ryfylke part
Computer-noise-ambient. One 55-minute-long soundscape.

NJL015 - Danny Kreutzfeldt (and Zbigniew Karlowski) . download . download cover . download Zbigniew Karkowski part
Like the above, but shorter and generally a bit more dense.

NJL005 - Wäldchengarten . download . download cover
Gloomy, gloomy ambience and horror-noise the wäldchengarten way.

NJL013 - Wäldchengarten and Respirator . download Wäldchengarten . download Respirator . download cover
The wäldchengarten track is almost the same as the above, but 4 seconds shorter. A bit less moody, a bit more noisy. The track by Respirator is a relatively short one of melodic glitch-ambient. Dreamy.

NJL006 - Sound of impact . download . download cover
One long unfriendly piece of shrieks and screams recorded back in 05.

NJL014 - Lisbeth Og Bent and Jens Robot . download Lisbent . download Jens Robot . download cover
Two of Denmarks premier breakcore/trashcore/danceable cutup-acts in one place. Worth the while.

NJL018 - Noisejihad Does Rumstativ . downloads: Pol Mod Pol vs Skamstøtten . Dennis H . Svenning Og Fuglekongen . Katorga . Leonid Kulik . Ultimate Combat Noise . cover
Five obscure Danish ambient/noise/noise-ambient acts and an ultimate combat noise video (kung fu-blast-noise).

In addition to that, their website www.noisejihad.dk also has free recordings by mag necro, zbigniew karlowski, kouhei, skull defekts, cock esp and other greats.

Exquisite russian brides part two

.Exquisite russian brides - skylight . cat box corp. 2004 . cd-r . unlimited (but currently oop) . download
The second release by erb. If you liked 'exquisite russian brides', you will like this one too. Still creepy ambience, friendly blissnoise, holy drones, and dreamscapes, though more diverse than the first release.

Marc Gade

A true gemm from the more obscure side of Århusian underground. This is an unreleased private recording of a set by Marc Gade recorded at a music festival in Århus Kunstbygning, 2007. One half hour of hypnotic collage/soundscape and dreamlike sound-images.

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And an advertisement: The new Danish imprint 'relax with nature' just released three new Dreamers Cloth cassettes. If you liked the first tape, you want to get a hold of these. Faded and slightly distorted polaroids of a soundtrack for gathering crystals off the ocean floor, assisted by dolphins, breathing in the azure water.

Relax with nature

Shiggajon - fire sange i gul og rød

The newest Shiggajon semi-demo tape officially released on the 5th of March, but already sold out.

.Shiggajon - Fire sange i gul og rød . pcib 2008 . C45 . ltd. to 12 . download
A rather hazy raagish acidfolk tape from Jutlandish Shiggajon.

*the download has been taken down, as the tape will be (re-)released as cd on singing knives

exquisite russian brides

.Exquisite russian brides - exquisite russian brides . cat box corp. 2003 . cd-r . unlimited (but currently oop) . download
The first erb-release, consisting of one 31-minute-long drone piece. Flowing fields of friendly blissnoise.

Distro

Merged with the Golem-distro

shiggajon / soyc split

. Shiggajon / SOYC - split tape . pcib 2007 . c60 ltd. to 75 . download
Neo raag-folk / ethnopsych / soul-jazz / 'drone'. Two pieces of more and less religious chanting from both ends of the country
*There are still some of these left. Get in touch if you want one. 5$ each

yoyooyoy

If you haven't heard of yoyooyoy, then this should make up a good introduction.
In their own words:

yoyooyoy is an art collective, free of generes and artforms
yoyooyoy is about finding new conections
yoyooyoy is one expression in different forms
yoyooyoy is your best friend

In other words - a Danish/German/probably more art-collective with quite some discography.
Here are a few (8) highlights:


. va - yoyooyoy compilations #3 and #2 . yoyooyoy 2004 + 2005 . cd-r . ltd. to ??? . download comp #2 . download comp #3 .
These two should act as a fine audible introduction to the whole thing

. forkert - live på copenhagen jazz festival . yoyooyoy 2003 . cd-r . ltd. to ??? . download
Somewhat edgy jazz - some times with a march-feel to it. 12 people - one band.




. Slutspurt - dyrene tager over . yoyooyoy 2005 . cd-r . ltd. to ??? . download
Hairdryers, feedback, bells, walls of noise-psychedelia, and the occasional acid flash back. Charmingly unpretentious.




. slutspurt - fotoalbum . yoyooyoy 2005 . cd-r . ltd to ??? . download
Noise, loops, saxophones, and a recipe for mead, but still there's a chance it will make you smile.




. yoke & yohs - 7" . yoyooyoy 2007 . 7" . ltd to ??? . download
A Danish team in the global lightning bolt lookalike contest. And probably the only one with a discography.




. Johns lunds - lp . yoyooyoy 2006 . lp . almost unlimited . download
Very diverse, yet consistent. Strange instrumentals and noise-compositions.




. va - yoyooyoy comp. #1 . yoyooyoy 2003 . cd-r . ltd. to ??? . download
you want to download this one primarily because of the magnificent 34-minute slutspurt-freejazz-track 'en stor halv time i solen, indenfor'




More info and more downloads available on their website: www.yoyooyoy.dk

Something new

And then something new.

Raphèl maì amecchè zabì almì - black tape . pcib 2006 . c90 ltd. to 75 . download
Århusian Riff-drone. 90 minutes of titan-rock and repetitive psychedelia.
*There are still some of these left. Get in touch if you want one. 5$ each

getting started

Here we go. This first post will feature the releases from the old website.
But first a tip. The music from this blog will also be available on last.fm.
You can keep track of what's happening on that front by joining the group 'weird new denmark'.
Go to: http://www.last.fm/group/New+Weird+Denmark
The group is administered by a guy named Simon who is himself involved in a lot of projects, that you might want to check out. Some of them:

own road . http://www.myspace.com/ownroad
black star sapphire . http://www.myspace.com/backstabsapphire
Simon & Simonkel . http://www.myspace.com/simonsimonkel


And then the old tracks. They are:

. SOYC - an hour before the worshipped sun . beyond repair 2006 . cd-r . 36 ex . download
ahbtws is early udm/nwd. Neo-cavemanraag. loft-hippiepsych. Their second release.

. SOYC - soyc . beyond repair 2005 . C15 . ltd to very few . download
The cassette-brother of the above - in many different ways.

. BM - mind control . beyond repair 2006 . C15 . ltd to 50 . download
br writes: "no-fi hallucinative waves of broken skies and scorched earth. pure analog hell." The non-harsh-noise-version, that is.

. Siya Sar - nihåndsraga for patanjali . beyond repair 2006 . cd-r . ltd to 50 . download
Possibly the most pure example of udm. Trashy tape-jam-psych from the west. The siya sar.

. Sarah's Charity - houston 66 infinity . beyond repair 2006 . C15 . ltd to 35 . download
Early nwd - monotonous stonerdrones from this Selandian hippienoise-act

. Sawaadiyja - three circles and a haruspex . ruralfaune 2006 . cdr . ltd to few . download
Rural acidfolk. Ethnopsych. Has a ritualistic edge.

. Dreamers cloth - a bamboo dream . self-released . 2007 . C10 . ltd to very few . download
An udm-extreme. Swimming-with-dolphins-keyboard-music.

. Mørkheim - danske hymner til mørket . nothingness records 2007 . cdr . ltd to 111 . download
heathen black metal

. Mørkheim - 2004 - 2006 . unreleased . 2006 . mp3 . unlimited . download
more heathen black metal