DJ Slippery Eeel - The Tapes

DJ Slippery Eeel
Rap/Hip Hop

Track list: 
1. Liver Quiver             9. Rawkbells     
2. Ruckus                    10. Teenbeet
3. Thin Line                 11. Boomboxatron
4. Did I Stutter?          12. The Quantize Kid
5. Breakdown              13. Which is Brew?
                                                  6. Gutter Drum            14. Stabs
                                                 7. Clack                        15. Tintabulate
                                                 8. Dazedream              16. 3k
                                                                                      17. Dedication


Essentially this is a 'beats album'. Those unfamiliar with the terminology of the get-hoe, that means focus here is on the creation of the beats more than the meaning or structure of the song. It's a good thing then that DJ Slippery Eeel has made for us some fantastic hip hop beats, as well as some decent songs (song songs). 


The beats found on The Tapes are super chill, and make you feel nothing like a jive turkey. Some where between gangsta rap, trip hop and garage you'll find that spot that makes you feel like a you're wearing sunglasses at night, surrounded by women, in a bombed out den on the side of town your mother doesn't want you to be on - and that's what this album makes me feel like. 

You'll hear some create mash ups that'll leave you in familiar territory, as well as some more obscure raps coming in and out, and have a massive party all the while. Sippin' on champagne, here's to Slippery Eeel.  

Click here to download DJ Slippery Eeel - The Tapes from Bandcamp 
http://djeeel.bandcamp.com/

Man At Home - Expect a Fire

Man At Home
Math Rock

Expect a Fire (Track) 





New Orleans' Man At Home is enchanting. There's not a lot to say about the soft, progressive trio apart from that. Like a lot of math rock you can expect entangling, angular guitar licks and rhythms, and just an overwhelmingly polite yet rocking performance. 

As their myspace says: They sound like Drew Bees meets Bach.  

Click here to download Man At Home "Expect a Fire" from Bandcamp
http://www.myspace.com/manathomeband

Various Artists - Throatruiner Records - Hate/Life

Throatruiner Records
Various artists
Metalcore

Track list: 
1. Huata - Alchemist Reborn 
2. Pigeon - Anchorite
3. Elitist - Back to the Funeral 
4. Bone Dance - Birds Singing (Wolves Licking Blood) 
                                                 5. Danishmendt - Chutes
                                                 6. Quartier Rouge - Douche Dorèe  
                                                 7. Stuntman - Draw the Portrait
                                                 8. Celeste - Il y a bien des porcs que ça ferait bander de t'étouffer
                                                 9. Reno - Is This a Turning Point or Just the End? 

If anyone dares even question why these artists are signed to a label called Throatruiner I'm going to slap a bitch. If anyone further dares question why this album is simply tagged "violence" I'm going to huff and puff and slap a bitch down. If anyone then dares question whether or not this sampler is awesome, I'm going to be mildly upset. Maybe love tap a bitch on the shoulder. Not because this sampler isn't awesome (trust me, it is), but simply because it's not for everyone. 

Variably through out the album you're going to be pummeled with deafening bass, harsh screams, and a good selection of slash-hardcore genres. From doom-metal crossovers like Huata, to no-bullshit-taken rhythmic hardcore like Bone Dance, to the gut-defying vengeance of black metal tinged screamo like Celeste (who, FYI, were the reason I looked into this sampler in the first place), and even a bit of noise in Quartier Rouge.

So if you like your music feeling like your being hit with hammers (awesome Thor hammers of awesome) get this. 

Click here to download Throatruiner Records - Hate/Life Sampler from Bandcamp 
(requires email)
http://throatruinerrecords.bandcamp.com     

 UPDATE: 
The Hate/Life sampler has just been extended to include tracks from sister label Swarm of Nails! New tracks include: 

Anorak - Some Skirts
Arms of Ra - Pyramids 
Art of Burning Water - Only Choking
As We Draw - Way Down 
Birds in Row - Orange Disease 
Bloodkitt - Void Woods, Skin Roads 
Chère Catastrophe - Party Time 
Dreams of the Drowned - Liquids of Apathy
Exilym - Back to the Funeral 
HKY - Monument Inversion 
Mygirlfriendisawatermelon - You Should Try
Nesseria - Par Pertes Et Profits 
Plebeian Grandstand - Ordo Ab Chao 
Pretty Mary Dies - To the Bomb
RQTN - N3
Sickbag - Scar Manifesto 
Totorro - My Bob's Blue Eyes 
Xnoybis - Picardian Fight Song  

Facepalm a Piñata - Infected

Facepalm a Piñata

Electronica/House/Metalcore

Track list: 

1. In The Beginning        7. SR388

2. Infected                        8. FML

3. >U                                9. Less Than Grateful

4. Dirt and Sky               10. In the End

5. All Spark                    11. Warp 1.9 (Bloody Beetroots cover
6. Call Me on Sunday     12. Milk Lizard (Dillinger Escape Plan cover)

                                            

I don't think the perfect blend of electronica and hardcore or metalcore exists, to be perfectly honest - but this comes pretty damn close. Ipswich, Australia's Facepalm a Piñata have created ten solid genderbending tracks that are going to confuse pure moral hardcore kids and pill popping clubbing peeps all the same. 

The idea isn't entirely original, and some would argue that you couldn't go past the sensation that is Enter Shikari when it comes to electronica-enfused hardcore, but go back six years and that main contender to the mash up genre were The Axe That Chopped the Cherry Tree (anybody remember them? No?), so that doesn't stop this being fucking good and a decent sized contender to the crown. 

Word to the hardcore kids, try not to be put off by the first track - it's definately worth it. 

And with covers of Bloody Beetroots and Dillinger Escape Plan? Bazinga! 

Click here to download Facepalm a Pinata - Infected from Last.fm

www.myspace.com/facepalmapinata

Tras la Sangre - Mas Alla

Tras la Sangre

Hardcore

Track list: 
1. Sin Mirar Atras 
2. Mas Alla
3. Nuestro Llamado 
4. Mis Principios 


 I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I love foreign hardcore - or, hardcore sung in other languages. While girls will forever look at French as the language of love, I'll look at it as the language of epic screamo, hardcore and harsh, cut up vocals. It's not just French, though, as Colombia's Tras la Sangre have just proven to me.

I can't say I know many Colombian bands (in fact, none come to mind), but if there's a scene that's anything like this over there, then I might have to don my camo shorts and take a trip just to get my mosh on. Mas Alla is fast, furious, melodic, and strained beyond belief. Fill your head with thoughts of early Comeback Kid, make them flirt with Have Heart and add a dash of Pro-Team, and then listen to this...

Click here to download Tras la Sangre - Mas Alla at Bandcamp
http://traslasangre.bandcamp.com

Friendship Moves - Eli Sunday

Friendship Moves
Post hardcore

Track list: 
1. Plainview
2. Living With Brucie
3. I Like It, I Do. But I'm Really Concerned About Dying in the Fire
4. Banging in Little Rock
5. Flannel Shirt Blues

Friendship Moves are not cool metal dudes (thank God), although I don't think anyone would be fooled into thinking they are. This debut release by Colchester, Essex's loose post hardcore band starts with a slow clean section that wouldn't sound out of place in a post rock setting (as most their songs start, with the exception of Banging in Little Rock, which starts with feedback. I love feedback), before going into a shouting frenzy amongst smooth tempos and shoegazingly thunderous guitars. So, really, it's hard to imagine that they could be cool metal dudes at all.

It's hard to find words, and I'm not sure why, but I enjoy this. A lot.

Click here to download Friendship Moves - Eli Sunday at Bandcamp
http://friendshipmoves.bandcamp.com/

All Torn Up! - Songs from Split w/ (A) Truth

All Torn Up! 

Hardcore punk

Track list: 
1. Subversive
2. Incite Violence
3. Nine

There's not much to say about NYC hardcore act All Torn Up! that you probably couldn't already tell about any band whose logo would look at home patched to the back of an all torn up, piss stained denim jacket (excuse the pun). 

This is hardcore punk as hardcore punk should be: nasty, a little bit fun, politically aware, and like it's straight from the early eighties. Their myspace tells us that their hard, fast tunes are liberating ears from the oppressors, and has subtle hints of neckbeards and piss-spasms without being hip at all.

This album fits nicely into any hardcore collection - so download it, put your boots on and stomp! 

Click here to download All Torn Up! - Songs from Split w/ (A) Truth at Bandcamp

http://alltornup.bandcamp.com