Wednesday 24 September 2014

Club Sound Witches - FREE DOWNLOADS

If you are a fan of the Uprok Video.. the extended recording of that session is available as a free download or cassette from Melbourne label, Junk Mnemonic


Fraans De Waard from Vital Weekly says CLUB SOUND WITCHES - UPROK (CDR by Junk Mnemonic)
Australia's JM reports again, and now I learned it stands for Junk Mnemonic, which means I now also have a website address for them. Behind Club Sound Witches (nice name! Makes you hungry, right?) we find Nicola Morton & Matt Earle and I am not sure if I ever heard of them before. Like the previous releases on this label, the cover indicates an A-side and a B-side, and again it's two pieces of ten minutes. Maybe there is a conceptual edge to this, which I miss out upon? The music is a kinda of vaguely industrial, rhythmic, revolving in loops of synthesized sounds, distorted radio sounds and all of that sounds bit formless. It moves and it moves but not necessarily has heads or tails. 'Uprok (B)' seems of the two the more coherent piece, with a stricter form of beats on top and noise below the decks. Maybe a bit like Astral Social Club once sounded. A kind of demented techno music at work here and it works quite well, better than the noisier and more chaotic  'Uprik (A)'. It had a
head nod groove, which was all right. I wouldn't mind a bit more of that… (FdW)
Address: https://junkmnemonic.bandcamp.com/


Here is the video to jog your memory..


Clubsound Witches "Uprok" from nicola morton on Vimeo.

Saturday 20 September 2014

USA Tour Xwave

Since the beginning of this year I have been playing in former Blue Mountains band, x-wave.




We will be touring the USA over September/October. Here are our dates and some tour photos. yay for xwave!! xwave xwave and sun of the seventh sister











September
Sun 21st - New York @ Death by Audio, confirmed, xNoBBQx, X Wave,  with Degreaser, Apache Dropout http://www.entertainment4every1.net/shows/

Tues 23rd - Baltimore @ guerilla show, confirmed xNoBBQx, X Wave + locals TBA


Wed 24th - Providence @ 95 Empire, confirmed xNoBBQx, X Wave, Dawn Raid, Ukiah Drag https://www.facebook.com/events/587834371339667/590258994430538

Thursday 25th - Boston@ Deep Thoughts JP, xNoBBQx, X Wave 


Friday 26th - Philadelphia@ Bourbon & Branch, Taiwan Housing Project, xNoBBQx, Proexibitors, X Wave https://www.facebook.com/events/428438180630915/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Sat 27th - New York @ Issue project room xNoBBQx and X Wave supporting Keiji Haino - not confirmed yet but should be cool http://issueprojectroom.org/event/keiji-haino-xnobbqx-x-wave

Sun 28th Columbus @ Bourbon St, confirmed xNoBBQx, X Wave w/ Matt Horseshit.. sorry can’t find rest of details right now

Monday 29th - Detroit @ Donovan’s Pub, confirmed xNoBBQx , X Wave

October
Wednesday 1st - Lafayette @ The Spot, confirmed, xNoBBQx , X Wave, Doverman, some modular synth dude

Thursday 2nd - Chicago @ The Burlington w/ Dick Diver. Noise in My Head Book launch put on by Hozac records. We also have a radio recording session at WZRD in the afternoon as SSS.

Friday 3rd -Asheville @ Toy Boat with Mendocino

Saturday 4th Atlanta @ Big House, Gage Gilmore


Sunday 5th New Orleans -New Orleans Park

Monday 6th - Houston @ Super Happy Fun land, confirmed xNoBBQx, X Wave, Badwacky, Cop Warmth; Houston @Mangoes


Tuesday 7th - Austin @ Beerland, confirmed, xNoBBQx, X Wave, Trailblazer, SEPHHEIM, Air Traffic Controllers, Gym Mat Nap, and SSBT https://www.facebook.com/events/660850717337047/?fref=ts

Wednesday 8th  Dallas @ Taqueria Pedritos

Sat 11th - Denver @ Rhinoceropolis w/ Depaysment (Japan), Cop Circles -

Tuesday 14th- Salt Lake City, Diabolical Records

Wednesday 15th - San Francisco @ Knockout S.F. confirmed xNoBBQx, X Wave, Andy Human and
 the Reptoids

 Fri 17th - Oakland - LCM

Sat 18th - LA, - Hollywood Hills house party

Thursday 11 September 2014

MANTRA KARAOKE

Nicola Morton loves karaoke. There I said it, but apart from afflicting my loud vocals on you, here is a karaoke video for you to sing along too.. Think you don't have time for mantras?

Believe in change? Om Namo Shiva ya Om.

Australia is a weird place, join me on a drive from the pastures to the rainforest as we chant.. Its just like those beach karaoke videos but real transcendental nihilist.




Sunday 7 September 2014

Equalizer 24K Cassette in Volcanic Tongue

“Heart attack music” from the solo project of Nicola Morton of Australian underground cells Bad Intentions and Club Sound Witches: using re-jacked electronics, formless noise and sludgy bedroom bass, Nicola performs a crude DIY séance where mutated almost-vocals are narrating some kind of weird cosmo text which is being simultaneously deformed by bombards of insane shortwave and tape destruct, coming over like EVP recordings of a small child being held captive by minds from other realities until the whole deal explodes into the kind of crude beatbox pop that push the techno of Club Sound Witches into the kind of occult stylings of a P.A.R.A w/a more disobedient Silicon Teens>Instant Automatons style. Yeah!

Copyright 2014 David Keanan/Volcanic Tongue

Monday 1 September 2014

NAKED SMOKING CONES DJ

I've been invited to DJ at Club Purple. An installation by Stuart Ringholt, currently at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. If you wanna come in, you gotta take your clothes off too.

I will be playing mixes of Smoking Cones releases. You may have heard some Smoking Cones releases on my Transcendental Nihilist MeditationVideos


Here's a recording of the mix I played:

DJ Nicola Morton at Stuart Ringholt's Club Purple by Nicola Morton on Mixcloud


Image Credits
Nicola Morton DJ Performance for Dan Rees’ Mid Afternoons and Evenings (2009). Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin. Courtesy Tanya Leighton Gallery. Photo by Yoko Kimura.