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| Mind expanding stuff from this Midlands trio who exist somewhere in the space between Led Zep and Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Their track "No. 7" appeared on Bearos040, a free CD given to people on our e mailing list. Details are on the Bearos website. |
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| Turquoise has a lengthy history of noise disruption since involvement with Godflesh, Torque, Cable Regime and more recently Grover.
The two tracks from KlusterB's split single, Jungle Jim & Sing Sang Sung (Bearos019) have been sampled, mashed and spliced with ferocious drum 'n' bass rhythms down in the depths of Rumble Arch Studios. |
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| Veterans of the Oxford music scene present a track from their long deleted "Stoichkov EP" (Bearos016) that was released in September 2000.
Three years on the band are about to release their new album, "The end of the pier" (Bearos041)This track is not on the album.
Think Chameleons meets Interpol in The Kitchens of Distinction. |
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| Grandscope share the musical out look of contemporary electronic and underground dance music, effortlessly combining analogue sounds, lo-fi drum loops and live instruments. They are as happy producing the gentle pop vibes of Air and The Orb as they are the full-on grandeur of Tortoise, Kraftwerk or Radiohead.
Their debut single, "Tricolere" is released by Bearos Records in May 2003 |
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| Saloon really should need no introduction.
When this single was released in July 2000 (Bearos013) I said "If I told you that this is the most beautiful record I will ever release, would you believe me? The band weave a dreamy lullaby suffused with gentle electronica; Imagine Broadcast dozing in a hammock on a sunny summer's day."
It's this sort of style and quality that have taken them to the top of John Peel's 2002 Festive Fifty, national and international tours. |
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| This tall, thin twenty-something lad's post-folk paints a world of eternal autumn, a world of limbo and change. Nico and Nick Drake are your travelling companions on a mournful misty morning journey.
His debut in 2001 (Bearos020) was well received and played by John Peel on BBC Radio 1.
This exclusive track sees him in more whimsical mode!
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Credits: Written by Ben Calvert and Chris Sims |
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| An exclusive remix from Grover's debut album "Husk".
Grover are a three-piece band from the West Midlands who combine introspective post-rock with powerful songwriting.
They have just released their second album, "Tiny Blue Sparks" (Bearos032) and a 17-track retrospective, "Past" (Bearos038) covering the years 1993-2000. |
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| Ghost Train - pure pop from a fantasy Scooby Doo soundtrack!
SuperA formed out of the ashes of Jameson, Birmingham's self-proclaimed "Heroes of Hi-Fi" and one of the hottest acts on the local scene.
There's still that backbone of Pavement/Pixies' twisted Americana but it's now complimented with shades of Beck and The Monkeys delivering a powerful pop treat.
The band's profile has been heightened by the joining of Steve Perkins, originally of Broadcast and more recently a member of Pram. |
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| Papa November takes Baragon Flag's 2002 aural horror-sculpture and inflicts beats and rhythms. |
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| The Starries split in December 2002 and this is a kind of tribute to them. "Sunbeam" was an example of the band's quieter moments and the one the crowd always shouted for.
I often felt that beneath the noise and chaos that Richard and Geordie were the Lennon and McCartney of the Birmingham Lo-fi scene. I wish them lusk in their future projects. |
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| Dr Kif loves his remixes! Here's a dub version of the Bearos single released in October 2002 (Bearos029) |
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| Johnny Kane described Meets Guitar as "a kind of London Pastoral." A beautiful acoustic track from Gavin Baker to accompany the Bearos release of a Meets Guitar/Taunus split 7" (Bearos030)
This is another exclusive track |
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| Sparce and clinical rhythms.
You've had a minor operation and you're given 10mg of morphine for the pain.
What if it interacts with the anaesthetic still in your body?
Justin Wiggan explores his intensive care experience in the first of two exclusive DOTB tracks. |
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| Actually called "White box on fire". The second exclusive track from Dreams of Tall Buildings who have just released a single on Static Caravan Records.Darren Joyce explains the story behind the song. |
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| This was going to be the debut single along with "The Reckoning of Boromir" (which found it's way onto "Journey without maps - a tribute to The Lord of the Rings)
The track was recorded in the kitchen! |
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CD: mp3 volume 1 - Bearos042
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| Silverado was Bearos001 back in June 1998 so we thought this would be a good place to start. The track remained in the live set, with the occasional reworking, right up to the band's demise earlier this year.
Unfortunately all the masters of the vinyl have been lost but this live recording should please the lucky people with the original and the uncultured few who've not heard the track before. The gig was on the huge outdoor stage at our yearly free festival in the centre of Birmingham. Those of you who were there will remember the infamous headbands and the impromptu stage antics of Greg and Russ from Baxxter!
One of the many high spots in the career of the much missed god fathers of the local lo-fi scene
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