Some Bizzare

History of the Future...
Some Bizzare Records is a British independent record label founded by Stevø. Beginning as a DJ in London, Stevø’s philosophy was "to play the most original music possible, to completely assault the senses -whether the audience liked it or not." He launched the label in 1981 with the groundbreaking LP entitled "Some Bizzare Album" which included such acts as: Soft Cell, Blancmange, Depeche Mode, B.Movie, and The The.
Some Bizzare Records has introduced the public to some of the most interesting, cutting edge and innovative music. Early bands included B-Movie, The The and Soft Cell. Followed shortly by the signing of Cabaret Voltaire and Psychic TV, Test Department, Einstürzende Neubauten, Coil, Swans, and Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel. In October 2006, "Redefining the Prologue" was released on Some Bizzare Universal to mark the label's 25th anniversary. This compilation album was designed to blend the History with the Future- intertwining tracks recorded in the 80’s with those of the 21st century.
Now we find ourselves at the dawn of a new era. 2008 heralds the release of a 37 track double album filled with all new artists along with the long awaited re-release of the 1981 "Some Bizzare Album". In the creation of the double album entitled: "The Only Failure is to Cease to Try", Some Bizzare set out to explore the vast, untapped creative potential of MySpace, through this virtual frontier with the intent of unearthing acts that may have otherwise escaped notice.
Dim the lights, sit back, and take a deep breath.
The first duo of electro pop Soft Cell release a remix album entitled ‘Heat : The Remixes’ through Some Bizzare/Universal on 28th January 2008.The double album includes brand new interpretations of many classic Soft Cell singles, plus key album tracks, b-sides and rarities. All the remixes featured on the album have been reworked by genuine fans of the band, resulting in the respectful updating of a seminal electronic era.An expanded digital edition, featuring additional bonus remixes not on the CD will also be available, and some of the key club mixes/dubs will also be released on DJ-only vinyl.Although final tracklisting and sequencing has not yet been confirmed.
The Grid formed after Richard Norris met Dave Ball in 1987 during the recording of 'Jack The Tab', one of the UK's first Acid House albums. The album was co-produced by Norris and Genesis P.Orridge. The Grid released 10 singles from 1988 - 1995, all of which made the UK charts, including 'Floatation', 'Crystal Clear', 'Texas Cowboys', 'Figure Of 8', 'Rollercoaster' and the million-selling 'Swamp Thing'. They released three albums ('Electric Head', '456' and 'Evolver')
pedroINF
RELEASE : 2008.
SBZ079CD
PEDRO INF is tired of the current output of the electronic and post industrial music scenes, whose innovation has regressed to pre conceived ideas about music production, PEDRO INF is taking lead from the pioneers such as Kandinsky , Miro ,Coil , Test Department, Richard D James (Aphex Twin) & mu-ziq. Designing and building his own effects, computers and programs PEDRO INF has created his own self styled ""sonar paintings" ,he believes that ART does not need humans at all to exist, in his own words "there is no need for a receptor and the need of a receptor is only because we cannot escape the human condition of egocentrism" ticking the boxes that this enigmatic producer has the madness to pull of his unique brand of electronica "The first goal of Pedro INF is to see the painting and not remember how it was done."
RELEASE : 2008
ZGA/FIGS
Release date scheduled for 31st March 2008
ZGA is a unique phenomenon in Russian post-rock music. There’s never been a band that would for so long, so consistently and with such dogged perseverance and dedication pursue the non-compromised approach to music.
ZGA pretty much equals Nick Sudnick. Throughout countless personnel changes Nick has always been there - the mind, the heart, the soul, the creator and inventor of this unparalleled music.
We first met in the early 80s. The newly born Russian rock strived for lyrical freedom and new spirit, music hardly mattered and in most cases remained quite simple. I, however, craved for weirder and stranger textures. Sudnick was a connoisseur and avid collector of Rock in Opposition and industrial: Henry Cow, This Heat, Test Department, Universe Zero. That was the shape of sound ZGA was aiming at.
“Zga” is a very obsolete, obscure and peculiar Russian word. It means something really miniscule and in the contemporary language it survived only as a part of an expression ni zgi ne vidno - “pitch dark”. ZGA’s music when I first heard it was by no means sounded obsolete but obscure it very well was: asymmetrical rhythms, hardly any melody, distorted guitar paired with Nick’s homemade instruments. They lived in Riga, and in 1986 I was proud to bring this unusual band for their first ever gig in Leningrad, then capital of Russian rock.
In 1991 Sudnick and ZGA moved to St. Petersburg. His studio in the legendary artists commune at Pushkinskaya 10 is a mix between a scrap metal warehouse, where he builds, solders, puts together his countless homemade instruments, and a makeshift recording studio. He’s also a curator of GEZ 21 - Gallery of Experimental Sound, the hub for noise and industrial projects.
Living in Pushkinskaya 10 and working at GEZ exposed reclusive Sudnik to a whole new range of people and ideas. He works on a number of side projects, one is producing an all female band IvaNova. Its drummer Katya Fedorova became a full-fledged ZGA member and brought more accessible and less austere timbres of female vocals, violin and accordion of her fellow band members into ZGA’s later albums.
Katya Fedorova is also a member FIGS, another very special project that is featured on this compilation. FIGS is an acronym that stands for the names of four musicians: apart from Sudnick and Fedorova there are two drummers: Alexei Ivanov and Marcus Godwyn, a Brit who has lived in St. Petersburg for many years now. The resulting band - three percussionists and ever noisy Sudnick with his homemade instruments - is an apotheosis of rhythmic industrial sound.
ZGA/FIGSRelease date scheduled for 31st March 08
ZZONKED UPDATE FOR SOME BIZARRE
Zga/Figs ‘Who Has Stolen The Air’
To be release 31st March 08
“Zga” is a very obscure, obsolete, and peculiar Russian word. It means something really miniscule and in the contemporary language it survived only as a part of an expression ni zgi ne vidno - “pitch dark”.
PLAN B & Q
Plan B Dec 07 “It’s Nasty” is populated by a malodorous urban hybrid of Tom Waits and the shrieking telly-demon out of Aphex’s”
Q Jan 08 "An extreme form of avant garde dance, imagine Tom Waits fronting Einsturzine neubauten and your close"
NEW MAGAZINE CHART PLACES these reaction are club promotion of three tracks taken from the Album.
CLUB PROMO
Chasing Chart Compilers…
COMMENTS
Wow, this has got to be one of the releases of the year in the left field selection. I’ve actually played at the venue mentioned in St Petersburg. Far out and some bizarre indeed. reactionspersonal: nine reactionsaudience: five favouritetrack: a2 use: Warm Up chartplace: 3 (Jon Tye – Lo Recordings/Various – UK)
GL1TCHG0R3
RELEASE DATE 2008
GL1TCHG0R3 is unusual in that they are primarily a “virtual’ band formed by Ted Bell and Patrick Chauncey, conceived, executed, marketed, discovered and signed before the two band members ever actually met in person. They formed in June of 2007, and within a few weeks developed a large underground following.
GL1TCHG0R3 (glitch - gore) was born out of an experiment to create a new fusion of sound somewhere between hip-hop, improvisational jazz fusion, noise, IDM and glitch. Stumped at how to proceed with this task, they invoked Eris the goddess of chaos through song, art, insanity and an organ donation. The Mother of mechanized music was indeed pleased - so pleased that she plucked out her right eye, and created the most terrifying weapon of mass destruction in the universe to take its place among us. Thus Gearball, also known affectionately as Mister Twinkles, came to become the band's whimsical cyclopean mascot. Travel with Mister Twinkles and his friends through a wild acoustic romp into the depths of cosmic chaos. And if you listen closely, betwixt the screams of the undead and alien tribal rhythms, you'll hear the dancing laughter of Eris grinding away at the humming rotors of creation.
Gary Lucas Vs The Dark Poets "Beyond The Pale".
SBZ082CD Release 2008 -
Gary Lucas, New York Guitar Legend (Captain Beefheart/Jeff Buckley/Gods and Monsters - to name but a few) Teams up with shy British eccentric electro-genius James R. Hunter of 'The Dark Poets' (Cradle of Fear/Borderline etc) For an album that truly pushes the listener to the limits of beauty, horror and aural abstraction.
This meaning “Beyond the Pale” outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour came much later, as did good manners (the absence continues,) now with the etiquette - the one aspect (don’t bend over in a chicken run) decorum , the expectations of social behaviour on the side walk of entrapment, pavement face to face as opposed to safeguarding to shield - some bizarre protection. There is no avoiding the dirt of cart wheels. For the Mothboy who’s windows are bricked up, was it just that he placed himself beyond the pale of society ? So, the only failure is to cease to try - as if he could not please himself, how was he to please his soul ? To be 'beyond the pale' was to be outside the area accepted as 'home', Step to the curb hand reached out, to only stand and deliver, with one for the road, as disgraceful as was day light robbery. Sip slow through the thru lips, as to ease the strain of execution.
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
Gary Lucas...
...The Dark Poets...