Noiserock and heavy psychedelic music
Its the middle of the summer and their has been another peak in corona cases, there have been floods and heat waves, species are going extinct, the rich are getting richer, forest fires and the climate is still changing and stuff like that but fear not! I have a list of the best music of this July that can take away all your troubles. Tune in and blow all your misery away.
PRO TIP: press play on more then one bandcamp for your own mix of hellish noise
Mong Tong 夢東 are the Taiwan Brothers Hom Yu and Jiun Chi who also play in Prairie WWWW (落差草原 WWWW) and Dope Purple. They released their album ‘Mystery’ on Guruguru Brain a while ago and it became one of my favourite albums of the year 2020 and you will find them high on my end of the year list as well. They create magical, dreamlike soundscapes with kraut and psych influences. The vintage vibe combines with catchy basslines, samples and traditional Taiwanese music. A litte bit later they released ‘Corps of Light’ wich is a more meditive album. They also released ‘Music from Taiwan Mystery II’ wich is an OST for their artwork book about Taiwan’s cultural mystic attractions, including special places, Taiwan’s Believe It Or Not, unusual buildings and phallic worships. They released a new track called ‘Nakasi Pop’ a while ago too.
Now they will release a new album on the mystical label WV Sorcerer Productions.This new album is called ‘Orientations 向位’ and will be released September 23 and it is again a different approach on their cosmic music style, this time it is a more ambient and fragile. The first two tracks are out and show a soft, trancelike and careful sound made by the brothers. I strongly suggest you buy the vinyl, these are always made with careful love by the label. Check out the first two tracks now.
This month got some absolute new banger, I am exceptionally happy with the new Alexis Marshall track and the announcement of the collab between the body and Big Brave. Soem really great stuff in here, ranging from almost metal to destructive noiserock and some really fine psychedelia too. Check out what June had to offer.
Mong Tong 夢東 are a trio from Taiwan with the Brothers Hom Yu and Jiun Chi who also play in Prairie WWWW (落差草原 WWWW) and Dope Purple. They released their album ‘Mystery’ on Guruguru Brain a while ago and it became one of my favourite albums of the year 2020 and you will find them high on my end of the year list as well. They create magical, dreamlike soundscapes with kraut and psych influences. The vintage vibe combines with catchy basslines, samples and traditional Taiwanese music. A litte bit later they released ‘Corps of Light’ wich is a more meditive album. They also released ‘Music from Taiwan Mystery II’ wich is an OST for their artwork book about Taiwan’s cultural mystic attractions, including special places, Taiwan’s Believe It Or Not, unusual buildings and phallic worships. You can also buy theyr work on the mystical label WV Sorcerer Productions.
Now the brothers return with a new track called ‘Nakasi Pop’ and I really hope this is a track from an album that will soon be released. Again very cool sounds!
WV Sorcerer Productions is a music label based in Paris, France and Nanjing, China. I came across this label only recently through an album that is also being released on Riot Season Records. The band is Dope Purple, from Taipei and they make this gorgeous cosmic music with raging guitar solos and it all sounds quite epic. It is much in the style of the Japanoise/psych/doom I really dig (check out The Cosmic Side of Japan) so I fell in love with this band on first listen.
https://www.facebook.com/dopepurple
So Dope Purple is rereleasing this ‘Grateful End’ album on LP through both WV Sorcerer Productions and Riot Season Records. It is magnificent, so check it out and order it while it is still possible.
So Since I am blown away by this band and never heard of WV Sorcerer Productions I immediatly went digging in to their catalogue. And it is quite some experimental stuff you can find on there, it goes from noise to industrial to psych and lot of other weird stuff. And in this post I wanted to highlight some of the stuff i really dig. Their is a lot more ofcourse on their bandcamp so be sure to check it out.
in 2016 there is a release by 若潭 ruò tán & 王子衡 Wang Ziheng. An accidental collaboration between Wang Ziheng and ruò tán, an “improvisation in distance” project. Two persons in two different cities, recorded sounds from Beijing and Paris. Drone and Sax give this album a very eerie and occult feeling.
https://www.facebook.com/ruo.tan
https://www.facebook.com/wangzihengcn/
怨 Enmity first released ‘Wu Yuan’ as a CD in 2005, this solo project of Li Chao (Zaliva-D, ex-Harrfluss, ex-Evilthorn) has delivered an unique sound of Chinese ritual dark ambient and metal. Again a very dark album.
王嘯 Wang Xiao makes folk like tribal music from the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. Very unique and quite trippy. Be sure to read the bandcamp page about him too! ‘黑馬河的兒子 The Son of Black Horse River’ was recorded by Wu Weiyi in Beijing, China, winter 2007, previously self-released in 2010
(Except bonus track “Refugee of Faith on the Ancient River Bank” recorded in 2016)
Remastered by Cyril Meysson in Saint-Étienne, France, January 2019.
Hangzhou based free psychedelic project Dolphy Kick Bebop 海豚踢 released released ‘Briefvisit’ in September 28, 2020 and it is a gorgeous experimental psych fest. Tune in now.
李劍鴻 Li Jianhong makes noisy epic guitarmusic in the style of the Japanoise bands. 山霧 Mountain Fog is just out and is epic.
https://www.facebook.com/li.jianhong.5
And now the last one, and I am very happy to come across this band on WV sorcerer because the Taiwan band ended really high on my 2020 end of the year list with their album ‘Mystery’. The brothers Hom Yu, Jiun Chi (they also play in Prairie WWWW 落差草原 WWWW & Dope Purple) and 仝. They listened to what they describe as “Dianziqin music 電子琴音樂” along with video game soundtracks, vintage Asian movie samples and psychedelic music.
Mong Tong 夢東 are a trio from Taiwan with the Brothers Hom Yu and Jiun Chi who also play in Prairie WWWW (落差草原 WWWW) and Dope Purple. They released their album ‘Mystery’ on Guruguru Brain a while ago and it became one of my favourite albums of the year 2020 and you will find them high on my end of the year list as well. They create magical, dreamlike soundscapes with kraut and psych influences. The vintage vibe combines with catchy basslines, samples and traditional Taiwanese music. A litte bit later they released ‘Corps of Light’ wich is a more meditive album.
Now they have released ‘Music from Taiwan Mystery II’ wich is an OST for their artwork book about Taiwan’s cultural mystic attractions, including special places, Taiwan’s Believe It Or Not, unusual buildings and phallic worships.
Mong Tong 夢東 are a trio from Taiwan with the Brothers Hom Yu and Jiun Chi who also play in Prairie WWWW (落差草原 WWWW) and Dope Purple. They released their new album ‘Mystery’ on Guruguru Brain a while ago and it became one of my favourite albums of the year and you will fins them high on my end of the year list in a couple of days as well. They create magical, dreamlike soundscapes with kraut and psych influences. The vintage vibe combines with catchy basslines, samples and traditional Taiwanese music. And absolutely gorgeous album so you can guess how happy I am to find a new EP on their bandcamp.
The EP is called ‘Corps of Light’ and has a slower, more meditative atmosphere. Again highly hypnotic but this time more calming. Again a beauty that shows this trio is capable of making a wide range of musical styles. Tune in, buy the casette and let the magic overflow you.
Mong Tong 夢東 are a trio from Taiwan with the Brothers Hom Yu and Jiun Chi who also play in Prairie WWWW (落差草原 WWWW) and Dope Purple. And now they released their new album ‘Mystery’ on Guruguru Brain.
This band may very wel be one of my favourite discoveries of 2020. There is something absolutely magical in their sound, you can just feel the dreamlike soundscapes, the vintage samples in combination with the krautrock and psych. Combine this with the traditional Taiwanese music and the original approach of this band you get something truly hypnotic and magical. catchy basslines, futuristic synth sounds, vintage samples, they combine it all and the whole sounds sooo good together.
Easily one of the most refreshing releases of the year so far. This should still the hunger of every music fan, does not matter what kind of music they like.
Mong Tong makes magic with sounds.
Fuzzy Sun 