MAXIMUM JOY

Artist / Band: MAXIMUM JOY
Song (MP3): WHITE & GREEN PLACE
Album: Unlimited (1979-1983)
File Under: Post Punk
Label: Crippled Dick Hot Wax!
Info: Crippled Dick is happy to announce a compilation of rare and hard to find 7", 12" and some album tracks of Bristols MAXIMUM JOY!
Formed in 1979, Bristol band, Maximum Joy was originated by Janine Rainforth (singer /violin/clarinet) and Tony Wrafter (saxophonist/trumpeter, previously of another Bristol band, Glaxo Babies) . In the wake of the infamous Pop Group and taking from the hot bed of musical influences driving the Bristol scene at the time – punk, reggae, funk, soul and Jazz- the band developed their own unique version of the post-punk Bristol sound. Sometimes soothing, occasionally challenging, their groove combined funk, punk, soulful jazz and wild impro with daring and, often, panache. Other founder members were Charlie Llewellin (drums, previously of Glaxo Babies) , John Waddington (guitar, previously of Pop Group) and Dan Catsis (bass, previously of Pop Group and Glaxo Babies).
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PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 18 DECEMBER 2005

THE UPTONES - RADIATION BOY / MASTERED
THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND – PUT IN YOUR SPACE
MISTY'S BIG ADVENTURE - EVIL / HEY MAN
THE BRIDGE GANG - LONDON SKY TONIGHT / DEMO CD
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - ANOTHER SUNNY DAY / THE LIFE PURSUIT
KATHLEEN EDWARDS -IN STATE / BACK TO ME
JENNY WILSON - A BRIEF STORY
CLAYTON FARLOW - MS ANONYMOUS / ALL THE WAY
DEERHOOF - WRONG TIME CAPSULE / THE RUNNERS FOUR
BEANGROWERS -THE FAREWELL PARTY/ DANCE DANCE BABY
RUNDFUNK - EAGLE EYE / KINGS & QUEENS EP
AMANDA ROGERS - DAILY NEWS / DAILY NEWS
CAT POWER - THE GREATEST /THE GREATEST
TELLARO -WE'RE GONNA RIDE
THE WHITE BIRCH -YOUR SPAIN / COME UP FOR AIR
EVERYTHING IS FINE - 1000 SECONDS / GHOSTS ARE KNOCKING ON WALLS

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TELLARO

Artist / Band: TELLARO
Song (MP3): WE'RE GONNA RIDE
Album: TELLARO
File Under: Melodic Indie
Label: Second Recordings
Info: In the summer of 2001 Francesco Cantone (Twig Infection), Carmelo Sciuto (Jerica's) and Tazio Iacobacci (Keen Toy, Pola) decided to pool their talents in Tellaro to concentrate on the quieter recesses of their previous musical projects. On their first, selftitled EP the three Sicilians deliberately allow song-writing to take centre stage, with arrangements reduced to the bare minimum of acoustic guitar, bass, drums and Cantone's charismatic voice, only interspersed with the odd electronic snippet or piano section. A subdued, optimistic melancholy suffuses these songs, a broken romanticism that nevertheless allows touches of an unhealthy threat to bubble just underneath the surface. read more from the source...

CAT POWER

Artist / Band: CAT POWER
Song (MP3): THE GREATEST
Album: THE GREATEST
File Under: Indie
Label: matador records
Info: Chan Marshall stops time. She sits at a piano or lays her guitar across her lap, and whether it’s a noisy club overflowing with drunks or a coffee house full of laptoppers, Chan Marshall draws all the attention in the room and makes the world stop spinning. As Cat Power, Marshall’s music seems to rise from nowhere, envelop the room, then vanish; listeners know they’ve been hit by something but they’re not sure what.

AMANDA ROGERS

Artist / Band: AMANDA ROGERS
Song (MP3): DAILY NEWS
Album: DAILY NEWS
File Under: Singer Songwriter
Label: Second Recordings
Info: Amanda grew up in Syracuse, NY. From the age of six she received classical piano training and later went on to explore almost every musical endeavour offered by her school Ð marching bands, musicals, choirs, jazz ensembles...At 15 she decided to start writing her own songs. Amongst the avid fans of her first, self-produced CD are a. o. Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba and Jonah Matranga (Onelinedrawing). Together with these and other emo/hardcore/punk rock bands Amanda has played countless of live shows and attracted the attention of New York-based label Immigrant Sun who went on to release last year's "The Places You Dwell".This year, besides recording "Daily News", she has already toured Canada, Europe and the East Coast of the US. In November Amanda will return to Europe for another extensive tour. read more from the source...

RUNDFUNK

Artist / Band: RUNDFUNK
Song (MP3): EAGLE EYE
Album: Kings & Queens EP
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: west side fabrication
Info: Stockholm-based four-piece Rundfunk is a recent addition to the West Side family. Rundfunk are Petri Laukka (drums percussion), Stefan Olsson (vocals), Daniel Sefbom (bass guitar) and Per Wilhelmsson (guitar, piano and backing vocals). They have played together since about 1998 and they have previously released a single and album on tiny Stockholm label Moonkrack. 2004 sees the release of a new single and album, both entitled "Kings Queens". Rundfunk play electronic pop music, making use of synthesizers, beat boxes, samplers, but also of old-school equipment such as guitars and drums. Their songs always have great melodies, intriguing lyrics and great rhythms. Rundfunk make no attempt to categorize their own music, but a couple of names that other people have mentioned are The Stone Roses, Missy Elliott and Magnetic Fields. Rundfunk are also a whopping live act that can not quite decide whether to be noisy, loud and punky or an all-out funk outfit. Therefore they attempt to do both things at the same time, with great results. read more from the source...

BEANGROWERS

Artist / Band: BEANGROWERS
Song (MP3): THE FAREWELL PARTY
Album: DANCE DANCE BABY
File Under: Indie
Label: Zomba
Info: Beangrowers are from Malta. Most American listeners, who have a hard time acknowledging the existence of bands from anywhere other than the US, Canada or the UK, will smile and nod upon receiving this information, primarily because only one in five Americans under the age of thirty knows that Malta is a country. And I'm being charitable there.
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DEERHOOF

Artist / Band: DEERHOOF
Song (MP3): WRONG TIME CAPSULE
Album: THE RUNNERS FOUR
File Under: Indie Rock
Label: Kill Rock Stars

Info: The first thing you notice about The Runners Four is its simplicity - an unadorned recording of the acclaimed quartet in their Oakland practice room. Without the layers of production heard on Milk Man and Green Cosmos, you start to understand the mania that follows their live shows: Deerhoof is a shockingly good rock band. They play with a primal abandon and molten group chemistry that remains untamed since the band's early days. Still, at nearly twice the length of any of their previous albums, The Runners Four is more complex and challenging than anything they've ever recorded. After a few listens it dawns on you: This is more than rock, this is a wholesale rewrite of the rock and roll dictionary, a massive, sweeping totality, the product of a seemingly endless collective imagination. The Runners Four: a quartet of racers, chasers, messengers, even smugglers, gleefully smashing through outmoded boundaries, bearing gifts of sonic contraband. Deerhoof is poised yet again to surprise their fans and divide the critics. Historians of the future who will want to investigate music of the early 21st century may find that Deerhoof was the most iconoclastic band of this generation.
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CLAYTON FARLOW

Artist / Band: CLAYTON FARLOW
Song (MP3): MS ANONYMOUS
Album: ALL THE WAY
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: Parapop

JENNY WILSON

Artist / Band: JENNY WILSON
Song (MP3): A BRIEF STORY
Album: LET MY SHOES LEAD ME FORWARD
File Under: Minimal Pop
Label: Rabid Records
Info: 1975. Was born. Grew up in a small village in the south part of sweden.1997. Started up the band First Floor Power together with Karl-Jonas Winqvist. Pretty soon Sara Wilson and Per Lager joined us.
1998. FFP's first vinyl 7", a split single, was released in a very limited edition.2001. Spring; FFP's debut album "There is hope" was released. Fall; gave birth to my son.read more from the source...

KATHLEEN EDWARDS

Artist / Band: KATHLEEN EDWARDS
Song (MP3): IN STATE
Album: BACK TO ME
File Under: Rock
Label: Zoe Records
Info: Kathleen Edwards was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1979, the daughter of foreign service parents who played piano and guitar in their spare time. At five, Edwards began to study classical violin, which continued through her early teens. At that point, the Edwards family moved overseas. Removed from the influence of mainstream North American pop music, Edwards delved into her older brother's collection of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and early Tom Petty records. After high school, Edwards landed back in Ottawa, singing and playing her guitar in local clubs and networking with other musicians in the scene. read more from the source...

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

Artist / Band: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
Song (MP3): ANOTHER SUNNY DAY
Album: THE LIFE PURSUIT
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: matador records
Info: A band that takes its name from a French children's television series about a boy and his dog would almost have to be precious, and to be certain, Belle & Sebastian are precious. But precious can be a damning word, and Belle & Sebastian don't have the negative qualities that the word connotes -- they are private but not insular, pretty but not wimpy; they make gorgeous, delicate melodies sound full-bodied. Led by guitarist/vocalist Stuart Murdoch, the seven-piece band has an intimate, majestic sound that is equal parts folk-rock and '60s pop, but Murdoch's gift for not only whimsy and surrealism, but also for odd, unsettling lyrical detail keeps the songs grounded in a tangible reality. read more from the source...

THE BRIDGE GANG

Artist / Band: THE BRIDGE GANG /
Song (MP3): LONDON SKY TONIGHT
Album: DEMO CD
File Under:
Label: http://www.brillerecords.com/

MISTY'S BIG ADVENTURE

Artist / Band: MISTY'S BIG ADVENTURE
Song (MP3): EVIL
Album: HEY MAN
File Under: Mini Pop
Label: SL Records
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THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND

Artist / Band: THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND
Song (MP3): PUT IN YOUR SPACE
Album:
File Under:
Label: City Rockers

THE UPTONES

Artist / Band: THE UPTONES
Song (MP3): RADIATION BOY
Album: MASTERED
File Under: Ska

PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 11 DECEMBER 2005

TOM VEK - C C (YOU SET THE FIRE IN ME) / WE HAVE SOUND
SKAGEN - NEVER-ENDING TIME / SORRY, SUN!
DAKAR & GRINSER - WILD ROMANCE / TRIUMPH OF FLESH
BAUMER -TAKE WHAT'S MINE / COME ON, FEEL IT
MOMMY AND DADDY - PRETTY LOSER / DUEL AT DAWN
DECORATION - INTERCOM
ELEFANT-THE CLOWN / THE BLACK MAGIC SHOW
JASON DOVE - GIRL, MY LOVE IS LIKE KENO / PRONTO
METAL HEARTS – SOCIALIZE / SOCIALIZE
THE FRICTION BROTHERS -DON’T LEAVE ME ALONE TONIGHT
BEAR QUARTET - I'M STILL HER
VEGA - THE LOVE SONG OF HAROLD AND MARION / SOLE LOVE
JOSE GONZALES - STAY IN THE SHADE / VENEER
MIA DOI TODD - PLANTING / THE EWE AND THE EYE
TELLARO – 1985 / SETBACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK

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TELLARO

Artist / Band: TELLARO
Song (MP3): 1985
Album: SETBACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK
File Under: Indie
Label: 2nd Rec
Info: In the summer of 2001 Francesco Cantone (Twig Infection), Carmelo Sciuto (Jerica's) and Tazio Iacobacci (Keen Toy, Pola) decide to pool their talents in Tellaro to concentrate on the quieter recesses of their previous musical projects. The band rehearses at home during merry weekends made of 4 course dinners and hectolitres of beer. Tazio tries to elaborate the speedy "nervous" KT drums, Francesco to learn how to sing in tune, and Carmelo to skip his compulsive obsession for 6/8. In march 04 2nd rec puts out their debut CDep "Tellaro". Nobody knows why they still call it "Greatest hits".
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MIA DOI TODD

Artist / Band: MIA DOI TODD
Song (MP3): PLANTING
Album: THE EWE AND THE EYE
File Under: Singer Songwriter
Label: Zen City
Info: Mia Doi Todd is from Los Angeles. She has released four albums of her own genre-defying music. The first three, the ewe and the eye (1997), come out of your mine (1999), and zeroone (2001) were solo acoustic recordings. Her last album, The Golden State on Columbia Records (2002), was produced by Mitchell Froom and explored a wider sonic landscape. Mia has also collaborated with many rock/electronica/hip-hop musicians, contributing her unique voice to the tunes of Dntel, Beachwood Sparks, DJ Nobody, Adventure Time, Frausdots, Folk Implosion, The Mission, Saul Williams, Prefuse 73 and more. read more from the source...

JOSE GONZALES

Artist / Band: JOSE GONZALES
Song (MP3): STAY IN THE SHADE
Album: VENEER
File Under: Singer Songwriter
Label: Imperial Recordings
Info: Veneer is the debut album by Swedish-born minstrel José González…already a certified quiet-is-the-new-loud legend in his native Sweden. Who needs bells and whistles (outside of a forlorn trumpet and some subliminal percussion) when songs are this strong and the voice is this perfect? When all that you need to hold an audience in blissful rapture is what you can balance on a barstool? Jose’s sensual, sensitive, powerful vocals and supernaturally gifted guitar playing truly recalls artists like Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Hayden, and Mark Kozelek. He’s earned the accolades by writing incredible songs and staying true to his heart, keeping the songs barebones simple.
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