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Grindverk - Gesundheit Von K - 27-Mar-08 01:52 AM
Gesundheit Von K is Grindverk's only release, well, sadly I would say since the project offers some real cool experimental music.

There's no singing on the record what we get are four instrumental tracks full of driving percussions, eerie soundscapes and some electronic loops quite weird stuff for unexperienced listeners.

The first three tracks are very percussive, you can also hear some industrial sounding noises and a "tortured" trumpet. Karato, the last track, is quite different, a musical saw is the basemment of this track, high-pitched voice loops and a glockenspiel go along with a real drum kit which gives it that certain jazz-appeal.

For fans of experimental music, strongly recommended!

Ornamental - No Pain - 09-Oct-07 10:03 AM
No Pain is a typical 80s dance track, Dave Ball's arrangement is very accesible and Rose McDowalls additional vocals give it that certain pop-appeal and Einar Örn contributes some sophisticated lyrics in his very unique off-key style.

The other mixes of No Pain sound all more or less the same.

The other track on side B - Le Sacré D'Hiver, is entirely sung by Einar Örn who also contributes some annoying trumpet, I still cannot make out in which language this song was sung, the tiltle suggests French but I cannot detect any French in it.

Þeyr - Life Transmission - 02-Oct-07 10:05 AM
After the release of their first album Þagað I Hel which wasn't supposed to be a new wave record at all, the band released their first single "Life Transmission" , showing the band's new direction in music.

Side A: Life Transmission - a mid-tempo post-punk song, sung in English, which has some great guitar riffs and a bass chord which sounds quite similar to the one in the Stranglers' song Toiler on the Sea. But the most remarkable thing about this song is the fact that the singer's voice does very much sound like David Bowie. There are also some distorted quitars in the middle section and the song ends with a beautiful coda.

Side B: Heima Er Bezt - is very different from Side A, sung in Icelandic, it starts very slowly with a punk bass chord - then a voice whispers something - drums and leading guitar start playing, the low-key voice is chanting something quite mystically, this chanting is repeated several times during the song. In the middle section there's kind of a jam session between the instruments also the voice has its ad lib part.

With this release Þeyr developed their trademark sound, which is of a one kind in the post-punk sector.

Q4U - Q2 1980 - 1983 - 16-Aug-06 01:28 PM
Fronted by the powerful female singer Elly, Q4U is a legendary Icelandic band out of the "Rokk i Reykjavik" period. They started out as a raw punk band in 1980 but evolved into a syntheziser-powered chic-rock that brings to mind Siouxsie & The Banshees and the Electro-clash movement of today. This great CD has everything Q4U ever did: Their only actual record, the 1983 6-track EP "Q1", a 18-track previously unreleased punk cassette, and a various other recordings, 34 tracks in all.