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Monster Bash from Apogee

A wonderfully gory and action packed EGA platformer from 1993 created from Frank Maddin, who would later go on to work at Nintendo on the Metroid Prime games

I grew up playing the shareware chapter on Compaq EGA 286 machine which although meets the system requirements, the game is almost unplayable on a later cave level with the FPS dropping to 1 frame every few seconds at some points...

Anyway, I'm going to install this on my newer ICL 386 VGA machine with the added bonus of an Adlib card for music!

I do miss those old ASCII based installers and watching the decompression happen. Plus check out that beautiful ASCII Apogee logic, fantastic work there!

So what's the game actually like to play?

Your character must free all of the trapped animals before you can exit the level by firing your catapult at the cages to break the locks.

By default you've got unlimited ammo, but you can also upgrade to bigger & multi-shot along with homing sticks.

Thankfully it's not a one hit kill like Keen, so you can take a few knocks before you lose a life.

All the sound effects play through the PC Speaker, which I remember from playing it as a kid. Which leaves the Adlib for playing music at certain points, which I always find a bit strange as it means I've got sounds coming out of two separate speakers on my PC.

Each level is also littered with these funny little skulls. If you hit one you'll be treated to an animation of their eyeballs popping out their sockets as they fly off the screen! Wonderful!

I spent a lot of time with this one as a kid and I'm looking forward to enjoying another play through again now. Thanks Frank

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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)

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TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS (1997), DIR. G. MADDIN

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fave psycho sexual movies??

Off the top of my head: Oedipus Rex (1967, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini) Teorema (1968, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini) Cruising (1980, dir. William Friedkin) Crash (1996, dir. David Cronenberg) The River (1997, dir. Tsai Ming-liang) The Wayward Cloud (2005, dir. Tsai Ming-liang) Brain Damage (1988, dir. Frank Henenlotter) In the Realm of the Senses (1976, dir. Nagisa Ōshima) Videodrome (1983, dir. David Cronenberg) Audition (1999, dir. Takashi Miike) Society (1989, dir. Brian Yuzna) Martin (1977, dir. George A. Romero) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Law of Desire (1987, dir. Pedro Almodóvar) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto) Perfect Blue (1997, dir. Satoshi Kon) Ichi the Killer (2001, dir. Takashi Miike) Careful (1992, dir. Guy Maddin) The 4th Man (1983, Paul Verhoeven) Tokyo Decadence (1992, dir. Ryū Murakami) Muscle (1989, dir. Hisayasu Satō) Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, dir. John Huston) Blue Velvet (1986, dir. David Lynch) Phantom Thread (2017, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) Hellraiser (1987, dir. Clive Barker) The Ornithologist (2016, dir. Alain Guiraudie) O Fantasma (2000, dir. João Pedro Rodrigues) Stranger by the Lake (2013, dir. Alain Guiraudie)

as always I know I am forgetting some but these are some of my favorites.

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1861 Georges Méliès 1875 D.W. Griffith 1879 Victor Sjöström 1880 Tod Browning 1881 Cecil B. DeMille 1884 Robert Flaherty 1885 Allan Dwan / Sacha Guitry / G.W. Pabst / Erich von Stroheim 1886 Michael Curtiz / Henry King / John Cromwell 1887 Raoul Walsh 1888 F.W. Murnau 1889 Charles Chaplin / Jean Cocteau / Carl Theodor Dreyer / Victor Fleming / Abel Gance / James Whale 1890 Clarence Brown / Fritz Lang 1892 Ernst Lubitsch 1893 William Dieterle 1894 Frank Borzage / John Ford / Jean Renoir / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg 1895 Buster Keaton 1896 Julien Duvivier / Howard Hawks / Leo McCarey / Dziga Vertov / William Wellman 1897 Frank Capra / Douglas Sirk 1898 René Clair / Sergei Eisenstein / Henry Hathaway / Mitchell Leisen / Kenji Mizoguchi / Preston Sturges 1899 George Cukor / Alfred Hitchcock 1900 Luis Buñuel / Mervyn LeRoy / Robert Siodmak 1901 Robert Bresson / Vittorio De Sica 1902 Emeric Pressburger / Max Ophüls / William Wyler 1903 Vincente Minnelli / Yasujiro Ozu 1904 Delmer Daves / Terence Fisher / George Stevens / Jacques Tourneur / Edgar G. Ulmer 1905 Mikio Naruse / Michael Powell / Otto Preminger / Jean Vigo 1906 Jacques Becker / Marcel Carné / John Huston / Anthony Mann / Carol Reed / Roberto Rossellini / Luchino Visconti / Billy Wilder 1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot / Joseph H. Lewis / Jacques Tati / Fred Zinnemann 1908 Tex Avery / Edward Dmytryk / Phil Karlson / David Lean / Manoel de Oliveira 1909 Elia Kazan / Joseph Losey / Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1910 John Sturges / Akira Kurosawa 1911 Jules Dassin / Nicholas Ray 1912 Michelangelo Antonioni / Samuel Fuller / Gene Kelly / Alexander Mackendrick / Don Siegel 1913 André de Toth / Mark Robson / Frank Tashlin 1914 Mario Bava / William Castle / Robert Wise 1915 Orson Welles 1916 Budd Boetticher / Richard Fleischer / George Sidney 1917 Maya Deren / Jean-Pierre Melville 1918 Robert Aldrich / Ingmar Bergman 1920 Federico Fellini / Eric Rohmer 1921 Luis García Berlanga / Miklós Jancsó / Chris Marker / Satyajit Ray 1922 Blake Edwards / Jonas Mekas / Pier Paolo Pasolini / Arthur Penn / Alain Resnais 1923 Ousmane Sembene / Seijun Suzuki 1924 Stanley Donen / Sidney Lumet 1925 Robert Altman / Claude Lanzmann / Sam Peckinpah / Maurice Pialat 1926 Roger Corman / Shohei Imamura / Jerry Lewis / Andrzej Wajda 1927 Kenneth Anger / Ken Russell 1928 Stanley Kubrick / Jacques Rivette / Nicolas Roeg / Agnès Varda / Andy Warhol 1929 Hal Ashby / John Cassavetes / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Sergio Leone 1930 Claude Chabrol / Clint Eastwood / John Frankenheimer / Kinji Fukasaku / Jean-Luc Godard / Frederick Wiseman 1931 Jacques Demy / Mike Nichols / Ermanno Olmi 1932 Milos Forman / Monte Hellman / Louis Malle / Nagisa Oshima / Carlos Saura / Andrei Tarkovsky / François Truffaut 1933 John Boorman / Stan Brakhage / Roman Polanski / Bob Rafelson / Jean-Marie Straub 1934 Sydney Pollack 1935 Woody Allen / Theo Angelopoulos 1936 Hollis Frampton / Danièle Huillet / Ken Loach 1937 Ridley Scott 1938 Paul Verhoeven 1939 Peter Bogdanovich / Francis Ford Coppola / William Friedkin / Glauber Rocha 1940 Dario Argento / Brian De Palma / Victor Erice / Terry Gilliam / Abbas Kiarostami / George A. Romero 1941 Bernardo Bertolucci / Stephen Frears / Patricio Guzmán / Krzysztof Kieslowski / Hayao Miyazaki / Raúl Ruiz / Bertrand Tavernier 1942 Peter Greenaway / Michael Haneke / Werner Herzog / Walter Hill / Martin Scorsese 1943 Roy Andersson / David Cronenberg / Mike Leigh / Terrence Malick / Michael Mann / Alan Rudolph 1944 Charles Burnett / Jonathan Demme / George Lucas / Peter Weir 1945 Terence Davies / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / George Miller / Wim Wenders 1946 Joe Dante / Claire Denis / David Lynch / Paul Schrader / Oliver Stone / John Woo 1947 Hou Hsiao-hsien / Takeshi Kitano / Rob Reiner / Steven Spielberg / Edward Yang 1948 John Carpenter / Philippe Garrel / Errol Morris 1949 Pedro Almodóvar 1950 Chantal Akerman / John Landis / John Sayles 1951 Kathryn Bigelow / Jean-Pierre Dardenne / Abel Ferrara / Aleksandr Sokurov / Robert Zemeckis / Zhang Yimou 1952 Jacques Audiard / Gus Van Sant 1953 Jim Jarmusch 1954 James Cameron / Jane Campion / Joel Coen / Luc Dardenne / Ang Lee / Michael Moore 1955 Olivier Assayas / Béla Tarr / Johnnie To 1956 Danny Boyle / Guy Maddin / Lars von Trier / Wong Kar-wai 1957 Ethan Coen / Aki Kaurismäki / Spike Lee / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Tsai Ming-liang 1958 Tim Burton 1959 Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Pedro Costa / Sam Raimi 1960 Leos Carax / Atom Egoyan / Hong Sang-soo / Richard Linklater / Takashi Miike / Jafar Panahi 1961 Alfonso Cuarón / Todd Haynes / Peter Jackson / Alexander Payne / Abderrahmane Sissako / Michael Winterbottom 1962 David Fincher / Hirokazu Koreeda / Kenneth Lonergan 1963 Michel Gondry / Alejandro González Iñárritu / Park Chan-wook / Steven Soderbergh / Quentin Tarantino 1964 Guillermo del Toro / Kelly Reichardt / Andrey Zvyagintsev 1965 Jonathan Glazer 1966 Lucrecia Martel 1967 Denis Villeneuve 1969 Wes Anderson / Darren Aronofsky / Noah Baumbach / Bong Joon-ho / James Gray / Spike Jonze / Steve McQueen / Lynne Ramsay 1970 Paul Thomas Anderson / Jia Zhangke / Christopher Nolan / Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1971 Sofia Coppola / Carlos Reygadas Directors listed by key production country (Country of birth, if it differs, is listed in brackets) Argentina Lucrecia Martel Australia Jane Campion (New Zealand) / George Miller Austria Michael Haneke (Germany) Belgium Chantal Akerman / Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne Brazil Glauber Rocha Canada David Cronenberg / Atom Egoyan (Egypt) / Guy Maddin / Denis Villeneuve China Jia Zhangke / Zhang Yimou Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer / Lars von Trier Finland Aki Kaurismäki France Olivier Assayas / Jacques Audiard / Jacques Becker / Robert Bresson / Leos Carax / Marcel Carné / Claude Chabrol / René Clair / Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Cocteau / Jacques Demy / Claire Denis / Julien Duvivier / Abel Gance / Philippe Garrel / Jean-Luc Godard / Sacha Guitry (Russia) / Patricio Guzmán (Chile) / Claude Lanzmann / Louis Malle / Chris Marker / Georges Méliès / Jean-Pierre Melville / Max Ophüls (Germany) / Maurice Pialat / Roman Polanski / Jean Renoir / Alain Resnais / Jacques Rivette / Eric Rohmer / Raúl Ruiz (Chile) / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / Jacques Tati / Bertrand Tavernier / François Truffaut / Agnès Varda (Belgium) / Jean Vigo Germany / West Germany Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Werner Herzog / F.W. 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DeMille / Jonathan Demme / Maya Deren (Ukraine) / William Dieterle (Germany) / Edward Dmytryk (Canada) / Stanley Donen / Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly / Allan Dwan (Canada) USA (E-G) Clint Eastwood / Blake Edwards / Abel Ferrara / David Fincher / Robert Flaherty / Richard Fleischer / Victor Fleming / John Ford / Milos Forman (Czechoslovakia) / Hollis Frampton / John Frankenheimer / William Friedkin / Samuel Fuller / Terry Gilliam / Michel Gondry (France) / Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico) / D.W. Griffith / James Gray USA (H-L) Henry Hathaway / Howard Hawks / Todd Haynes / Monte Hellman / Walter Hill / Alfred Hitchcock (UK) / John Huston / Jim Jarmusch / Spike Jonze / Phil Karlson / Elia Kazan (Turkey) / Buster Keaton / Henry King / Stanley Kubrick / John Landis / Fritz Lang (Austria) / Ang Lee (Taiwan) / Spike Lee / Mitchell Leisen / Mervyn LeRoy / Jerry Lewis / Joseph H. Lewis / Richard Linklater / Kenneth Lonergan / Ernst Lubitsch (Germany) / George Lucas / Sidney Lumet / David Lynch USA (M-R) Terrence Malick / Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Anthony Mann / Michael Mann / Leo McCarey / Jonas Mekas (Lithuania) / Vincente Minnelli / Michael Moore / Errol Morris / Mike Nichols (Germany) / Christopher Nolan (UK) / Alexander Payne / Sam Peckinpah / Arthur Penn / Sydney Pollack / Otto Preminger (Austria-Hungary) / Sam Raimi / Bob Rafelson / Nicholas Ray / Kelly Reichardt / Rob Reiner / Mark Robson (Canada) / George A. Romero / Alan Rudolph USA (S-U) John Sayles / Paul Schrader / Martin Scorsese / Ridley Scott (UK) / George Sidney / Don Siegel / Robert Siodmak (Germany) / Douglas Sirk (Germany) / Steven Soderbergh / Steven Spielberg / George Stevens / Oliver Stone / John Sturges / Preston Sturges / Quentin Tarantino / Frank Tashlin / Jacques Tourneur (France) / Edgar G. Ulmer (Austria-Hungary) USA (V-Z) Gus Van Sant / Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands) / King Vidor / Josef von Sternberg (Austria) / Erich von Stroheim (Austria) / Raoul Walsh / Andy Warhol / Peter Weir (Australia) / Orson Welles / William Wellman / James Whale (UK) / Billy Wilder (Austria-Hungary) / Robert Wise / Frederick Wiseman / William Wyler (Germany) / Robert Zemeckis / Fred Zinnemann (Austria-HungaryJonas Mekas)

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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs and The Heart of the World

Guy Maddin’s TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS (1997) is strange even for that queerest of film directors, possibly because he was forced by his producers to make changes that later led him to partly disown the film. That included redubbing leading man Nigel Whitmey, who then had his name removed from the credits. The film is a fairy tale maudit. Peter (Whitmey) falls in love with the mysterious Juliana (Pascale Bussieres) while sailing from prison to his family’s ostrich farm in a land where the sun never sets. At home, he finds his sister (Shelley Duvall) infatuated with the local doctor (R.H. Thomson) and feuding with their handyman (Frank Gorhin). After a fling with a fisherman’s pregnant wife (Alice Krige), Whitmey discovers Bussieres is Thomson’s mistress. This is played out in a fantasy world entirely created within an abandoned Winnipeg factory. The use of color is both fascinating and oddly reminiscent of Mel Ferrer’s GREEN MANSIONS (1959). There are marvelous surrealistic touches like the constant presence of ostrich’s in the farmhouse and the use of garishly lit cycs as backdrops. John McCulloch’s score adds to the film’s hallucinatory power, and although Peter’s dubbed line readings are appallingly flat, Gorshin and Duvall are quite magical. Included in the disc is Maddin’s short “The Heart of the World,” a brilliant six-minute tribute to Soviet Constructivism crammed with more cinematic inventiveness (and fast cuts) than most filmmakers can achieve in a lifetime of work. State scientist Leslie Bais manages to view the center of the Earth only to discover its heart is about to die. Is the answer the love of a mortician, his brother, who plays Jesus in the local passion play, or a corrupt businessman trying to buy her. As he often does, Maddin transforms the conventions of silent cinema into something utterly new and completely his own.

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I just stayed up all night making a list of 100 Movies I Wish Everyone Would Watch because this is what I do with my life now. If anyone is curious I’m putting them below the cut.  I have very good taste. That last part is a lie. 

DISCLAIMER: This is not a list of 100 movies that I think are the best examples of the craft (although some of them certainly are). This is a list of 100 personal favourites that have moved me personally, deeply influenced me, or I just plain wish more people would see them (for good or for ill). Sorry for including 1 Roman Polanski film, rest assured I’m praying he dies a horrible and painful death asap (and he can take Woody Allen with him).

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari - Robert Wiene (1920)

M - Fritz Lang (1931)

Frankenstein - James Whale (1931)

Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder (1944)

It’s a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra (1946)

Rope - Alfred Hitchcock (1948)

Un Chant D’Amour - Jean Genet (1950)

The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (1955)

Throne of Blood - Akira Kurosawa (1957)

Touch of Evil - Orson Welles (1958)

Some Like it Hot - Billy Wilder (1959)

La Jetee - Chris Marker (1962)

Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean (1962)

Lord of the Flies - Peter Brook (1963)

Rosemary’s Baby - Roman Polanski (1968)

Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger (1969)

Cabaret - Bob Fosse (1972)

Jesus Christ Superstar - Norman Jewison (1973)

The Exorcist - William Friedkin (1973)

Phantom of the Paradise - Brian de Palma (1974)

The Omen - Richard Donner (1976)

Logan’s Run - Michael Anderson (1976)

Carrie - Brian de Palma (1976)

Suspiria - Dario Argentino (1977)

Watership Down - Martin Rosen (1978)

Possession - Andrzej Żuławski (1981)

An American Werewolf in London - John Landis (1981)

The Thing - John Carpenter (1982)

First Blood - Ted Kotcheff (1982)

The Dark Crystal - Jim Henson, Frank Oz (1982)

A Nightmare on Elm Street - Wes Craven (1984)

Fright Night - Tom Holland (1985)

Re-Animator - Stuart Gordon (1985)

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge - Jack Sholder (1985)

The Fly - David Cronenberg (1986)

Night of the Creeps - Fred Dekker (1986)

Withnail & I - Bruce Robinson (1987)

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing - Patricia Rozema (1987)

The Lost Boys - Joel Schumacher (1987)

Maurice - James Ivory (1987)

Hellraiser - Clive Barker (1987)

Willow - Ron Howard (1988)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Robert Zemeckis (1988)

Akira - Katsuhiro Otomo (1988)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Terry Gilliam (1988)

Archangel - Guy Maddin (1990)

Misery - Rob Reiner (1990)

Thelma & Louise - Ridley Scott (1991)

Terminator 2: Judgement Day - James Cameron (1991)

Fried Green Tomatoes - Jon Avnet (1991)

The Crying Game - Neil Jordan (1992)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - Stephan Elliott (1994)

Interview With the Vampire - Neil Jordan (1994)

In the Mouth of Madness - John Carpenter (1994)

Cold Comfort Farm - John Schlesinger (1995)

Sense and Sensibility - Ang Lee (1995)

Matilda - Danny DeVito (1996)

Lilies - John Greyson (1996)

Romeo + Juliet - Baz Luhrmann (1996)

The Hanging Garden - Thom Fitzgerald (1997)

Dark City - Alex Proyas (1998)

EverAfter - Andy Tennat (1998)

The Prince of Egypt - Brenda Chapman Steve Hickner Simon Wells (1998)

Following -  Christopher Nolan (1998)

The Blair Witch Project - Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez (1999)

The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella (1999)

American Psycho - Mary Harron (2000)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee (2000)

But I’m a Cheerleader - Jamie Babbit (2000)

Ginger Snaps - John Fawcett (2000)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Joel Coen (2000)

Battle Royale - Kinji Fukasaku (2000)

The Devil’s Backbone - Guillermo Del Toro (2001)

Bend it like Beckham - Gurinder Chadha (2002)

Far From Heaven - Todd Haynes (2002)

Hero - Zang Yimou (2002)

Holes - Andrew Davis (2003)

American Splendor - Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini (2003)

Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World - Peter Weir (2003)

Mysterious Skin - Gregg Araki (2004)

Hard Candy - David Slade (2005)

Brick - Rian Johnson (2005)

Little Miss Sunshine - Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (2006)

The Orphanage - Juan Antonio Bayona (2007)

There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)

Pontypool -  Bruce McDonald (2008)

Doubt - John Patrick Shanley (2008)

The Loved Ones - Sean Byrne (2009)

Precious - Lee Daniels (2009)

Attack the Block - Joe Cornish (2011)

Stoker - Park Chan-Wook (2013)

Coherence - James Ward Byrkit (2013)

The Babadook - Jennifer Kent (2014)

The Invitation - Karyn Kusama (2015)

10 Cloverfield Lane - Dan Trachtenberg (2016)

Train to Busan - Yeon Sang-Ho (2016)

Get Out - Jordan Peele (2017)

Disobedience - Sebastian Lelio (2017)

Hereditary - Ari Aster (2018)

A Quiet Place - John Krasinski (2018)

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Preview: Dead End Kids: The Suburban Job #1 (of 4)

Dead End Kids: The Suburban Job #1 preview. Seven years after the deadly events of September 11th, three teens struggle with the long-term fallout of that tragic day. #Comics #ComicBooks

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Top 133 Films recap Sa-Si

2004  The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)

1989  Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)

1932  Scarface (Howard Hawks)

1956  The Searchers (John Ford)

1966  Seconds (John Frankenheimer)

1958  Separate Tables (Delbert Mann)

1954  Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)

1943  Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)

1994  The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)

1949  She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)

1952  Singin in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)

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2018-03-19 22 MOVIE now

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Bearsuit Records V/A : “The Invisible & Divided Sea” This economic label sampler features 17 tracks from 16 international artists clocking in at one hour. In typical Bearsuit fashion, the artists and selections run an eclectic gamut from the “electro ambient trance fusion” of Belgian composer Alexander Stordiau’s contemplatively cinematic ‘Fulfilling Eclipse’, wonderfully reminiscent of Tangerine Dream’s soundtrack work to the funky schizophrenic psychosis of Hamburg’s Martin Pozdrowicz and his PoProPo (aka Pop ProjektPozdrowicz), which sounds like Medium Medium and Liquid Liquid wrestling with Talking Heads while out of their heads on amphetamines! Martian Subculture’s ‘Chewing Gum’ is what Evan O’Malley imagines distorted pop music sounds like on Mars – I think it sounds like a lost Yoko Ono Chill Out tape.

More Martian shenanigans follows courtesy Bearsuit regular Bunny and The Invalid Singers, whose glitchy, schizophrenic ‘Eamon The Destroyer’ continues to confound and entertain. His third Bearsuit full length is out next year – you’ve been warned! I was also left scratching my bald spots over France’s unpronounceable Yponomeutaneko, who are awarded two tracks, the mysteriously confrontational ‘Tous Les Rochers’, which sounds like a fight broke out in the recording studio, and ‘Jour 1191’. If outrageously weird anti-pop No Wave like The Residents, Zappa, Faust, James Chance, DNA, et. al. is your cup of tea, drink up.

Bearsuit has always delivered some of the most interesting and experimental music to come out of Japan and ShinnosukeSugata is no exception. His ‘World Travel of The Piano Tuner’ sounds like it lost something on its way to an English translation, but the jolly tune sounds like a surreal parade down Main Street U.S.A. accompanied by a marching band playing oblique vaudeville music that would give John Phillip Sousa nightmares. Tossing the banjo in at the end is pure, insane genius – like Stephen Foster on acid! He returns with a children’s chorus gaily jaunting through ‘Wednesday (January 1992)’, but I’m not quite sure how much of this is a put-on and how much is an animated adventure that fell out of a Manga.

The Moth Poets’ ‘The Shabby Gentlemen’ could have soundtracked one of Guy Maddin’s anachronistic recreations of cinema’s early silent era, while fans of esoteric electronica will find much to like in the mysterious Swords Reversed’s even more mysterious ‘Looking For A Perfect Connection With An Imperfect Person’. There’s an hallucinogenic, Steve Reichian groove flowing throughout that carry’s the track, the set’s longest at over five minutes.

Thor Maillet sounds like a pseudonym if ever I heard one, and this American electronic artist records under the equally punny name Petridisch. He uses the Vocaloid to sound like Peter Frampton imitating Diamanda Galas, yet ‘Small Train Song Home’ is magnetically appealing, if more for its alluring melody than its inherent weirdness. Ageing Children are just that – Frank and Chuck Children, and the Edinburgh’s ominous ‘Sick Puppy’ is as perfectly titled as their nom de group. Anny similarities to like-minded pant-shitters, Skinny Puppy may be unintentional…but maybe not!

The second half of the disc is no less invigorating, beginning with the challenging glitch cut-ups of the Scottish-Japanese duo Kirameki, whose ‘Ha-Happy App’ really does sound like the “chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella”. It will astonish and infuriate the listener in equal measure. Perhaps Chris Manga (aka Manga Brothers)’ ‘Stoma’ will be more accessible – a dirgy, dreamy concoction that begins softly with an anonymous Bjork impersonator and ends majestically with a choral ‘Huzzah”!

Edinburgh’s Charles Dren records as Steeples For People, and his melodic electronic tone poem ‘Nocturnal’ will frighten more than soothe, but it will certainly not bore you as you wait for what surprises he has in store around the corner. Finally, Glaswegian Chas “Annie” Kinnis (aka Annie & The Station Orchestra) pulls out an accordion, some Christmas bells, and washboard to revisit his smile-inducing ‘Song For The Invalid Divers’ via an ‘Ullapul Remix’ that seems to have left a radio on in the background, which only slightly disturbs our enjoyment of this delightful little ditty. Jeff Penczak

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