Part 29 of the ever evolving ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES, hot on the tail of January’s LEAVE THE CAPITAL single. February’s release is a rather delicious left-field four tracker from SPIRITWO

You may recognize the lead track Foundling, Spiritwo’s rather warm version of the much loved CARDIACS classic, indeed that second track might be bugging you just a little, a rather different interpretation of SEPULTURA’s Inner Self (the band love it, there’s been talk of a collaboration, Spiritwo knows her metal, she’ll argue with you for hours over the merits of Carcass and Kreator). The other two tracks here are Spiritwo originals, a taste of her rather lush debut album, I think I like her originals more that her rather unique covers. 

Who is she (or are Spiritwo a band?) She has a big big underground following, shows in performance art venues, gay clubs where hoards of cross-dressing Spiritwo lookalikes in big wigs and high heels mob her 

The four track CD, part 29 of the ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES brought to you by ORG Records and ORGAN zine, is out on FEB 19th. Part 30 is on the way, first week of March, it's going to be a good one 
 

John on the phone......

“Hello, On 2nd February, Brighton 's notorious purveyors of the depraved The Flesh Happening celebrate the release of their first single - Kamikaze/Waste - with a special London gig. Support comes from The Violets, The Open Mouths and Spinmaster Plantpot.  We'd like to invite you all. What's more, if you send us an email, we'll put you on our guest list, which means you only have to pay £1 to get in.  Here are the details: Friday 2nd February 2007 - Lark in the Park, 60 Copenhagen Street, Islington, LONDON (Nearest tube: Angel) - 8pm - 2am The new single will be available on the night, but those unable to attend can get it from all good record shops and the TFH web site. Hope to see you there... Love,  TFHxxx” www.thefleshhappening.com www.myspace.com/thefleshhappening

Orange County hardcore (and occasional Organ TV) stars BLEEDING THROUGH are set to return to the UK and Ireland in February for a string of shows. The band’s current album, ?The Truth? garnered a rash of excellent reviews when it was released last year and the band have always delivered incendiary and uncompromising live shows.  You can catch Brandan, Marta and the boys at the following venues; Mon 19th Feb - Belfast Limelight Tue 20th Feb - Dublin Voodoo Lounge Wed 21st Feb - Cork Crisian Fri 23rd Feb - London Mean Fiddler Sat 24th Feb - Manchester Academy 2 Sun 25th Feb - Glasgow Garage Mon 26th Feb - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Tue 27th Feb - Cardiff Solus Wed 28th Feb - Nottingham Rock City Support comes from CALIBAN, plus ALL SHALL PERISH with one other band tbc. X

What's it all about? Simple, just good music, and the art of good video making...  Same musical policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just handy signposts, as long as the music and video making has that X factor - expect a healthy eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post rock, post punk, post man pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever..... music and creativity for the open minded 
 

We have the following fine videos on tonight.... 

READ YELLOW - The Association 
IRVING - Jen Nothing Matters To Me 
THE LOW LOWS - Dear Flies Love Spiders 
BEYOND DAWN - Among The Sedatives 
BLEEDING THROUGH - Kill to Believe 
ASSDROIDS - Daft Crunk
MUNICIPAL WASTE - Unleash The Bastards 
SLIPKNOT - The Heretic 

Now that's what I call music TV. 

Want to get your video on? Well all you need to do is make us aware of what you have, send
us a link to your video on MySpace or You Tube or wherever, or a VHS or a DVD and if you have something that we want to broadcast then we'll chase you for a master broadcast format and wallop, sorted 

DEMO OF THE WEEK
ALSATIAN -  Five fine shots, bark bark bark, on your guard, they’ll bite you if you don’t pay proper attention. Jerky and pointy and a delicious rush of frantic energy with that rather fine first track “You Only Say I Love You When You’re Drunk”, frantic energy all the way actually, they kept the standards all the way through - all thrill, no filler. OK, smart-ass time, three northern English arctic monkeys who do that scratchy indie/punky/blues edged Mission Of Burma/Blues Explosion frantic thing rather well. They’re from the smogmonster lands of Middlesborough and they’re dealing out lo-fi indie-punk drenched in dirty filthy keyboards and a healthy get in the van attitude. Plenty of stomp and White Stripes and Von Bondies and yes, Arctic Monkeys/Little Man Tate and losing three stone means the girls won’t leave them alone and their band maybe bigger than your band any day now. My riff is bigger than your riff and this is good. Five franticly urgent (did we say Frantic too many times?) infectious have-a-go-hero songs - we like, we like, we do indeed like. I ain’t no abacus but you can count on me (and words I steal off of Jamie T), we like Alsatian, they’re frantic (did we say that?). www.myspace.com/alsatianband

DEMO OF THE WEEK 2
THE VIPERS – The Vipers are from Manchester and sounding like they couldn't give a flying toad about the latest sound or trend. The Vipers are from Manchester and sound like they could accidentally without ever trying, be the latest sound or trend. To label the sound (they argue) would be to kill it, so we won’t mention their ‘blend of teenage b-movie slashfest rock n’ roll’ that’s there for all who dare to be converted. They’ve got the stomp of classic 60’s/70’s garage punk and I’m sure there’s a healthy slice of Manc swagger and suss in there with thier Stooged up Wire and vitriolic Cramp bite. A bite that you won’t want to pass on the stairs without a care. The Vipers are intense and if The Smiths really had sounded a little more like Morrisey’s beloved New York Dolls... The Vipers are a breath of freshness in the ashtray air, they’re lean and mean and stripped down keen, they know they’re good, they have the attitude and despite the names we dropped and things we just said they’re no backward looking swipe of nostalgia. www.myspace.com/thevipersuk

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QUARTANTINE – Some kind of messy out of focus hardcore punk band who aren’t quite sure if they want to be a metal band or take on a ska edge or if they want to flavour it with a side serving of grunge or indeed alt.rock. The result us a bit of an unfocused mishmash, an undercooked stew with too many ingredients, right now they’ve gone all ’77 punk rock and a little more Norman Wisdom than Johnny Rotton (Gog Magog!), hang on they’ve gone all nu metal on us now, no, hang on, ska again. A mess is what it is, but hey, there is a potentially good band trying to fight through, and they are trying to do something, they clearly have some kind of ambition. Not ready yet, worth watching though, worth waiting to see if they can get a bit of focus in there and come out of their mess with something worth us shouting about, we shall wait and see what they do next, could turn out to be rather good, then again, might not.... They’re from Plymouth and shock of shocks, they have a My Space page – www.myspace.com/quarentine69

Last week's demo of the week - LILY GREEN

Previous demo's of the week - THE VELCROS / MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI / FANTAPLASTIC / CLUB LE SHARK / THEY DIED TOO YOUNG / INVASION / OPHELIA TORAH / THE MERLIN BIRD / LEAVE THE CAPITAL / GRAVANZIA / CHET / LADY PROMISE / FTSE100 / STEAL GANDHI / ALL DARK MORNINGS / SHADY BARD / SHILOE / THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE / BATTLEWITCH / THE FLESH HAPPENING / VESSELS / BLACK JACKSON / INNER RAGE / ALLERGO / BROOKE / CARTRIDGE / PERHAPS CONTRAPTION / THE PROCESS VOID

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EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (Bella Union)  -  Art or craft? There's a sonic technique doing the rounds, so popular that it's difficult to tell certain bands apart.  Simple, sad/happy nursery-rhyme chords on a six-time base, instrumental build-ups to big climaxes.  A great formula on the verge of being devalued - because it's becoming just that, a formula. We are watching the fossilisation of a groundswell movement into a genre.  Any complaints are churlish however, churlish because all these bands have merit in isolation; its just when you're in the position to hear most of them that annoyance sets in. 
The new album from Explosions In The Sky is a difficult one. It's so beautifully done. In fact, All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone is spectacularly beautiful.  The playing is superbly delicate and sensitive, the arrangement and production gorgeously rich and warm.  The dynamics - what can you say? Dynamics is what post-rock is all about, and Explosions In The Sky cannot be beaten here. Hush and tempest, and - most importantly - so obviously performed genuinely flowing from the heart.  There's more: All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone has a foundation of powerful percussion lacking from their army of imitators, adding to the depth and variety of the production.
        Now, the churlish bit... sorry, but boy do you know what's coming next all the time. There may be variety in the playing, the production and the instrumentation, but it's built on a foundation of really similar melodies, and always that looping six-eight time.  Always that happy-tragic resolution... too much of a good thing, in need of some kind of contrast, some darkness, some other route to that high.  Maybe its this (or listening to Godspeed! You Black Emperor and Sigur Ros too often) that stops this music from knocking me to the floor (the way the aforementioned do).  I mean, the final track – So Long, Lonesome - so sweet and soul-warming. If all you'd heard of this kind of music was this album, surely you'd be overwhelmed - and what else is music for, but to reach other people?  There may be no surprises from Explosions In The Sky, it's good to know this album will be out there though, out there soothing and uplifting thousands of listeners. 

CAMORRA – Watch Us Start A Trend (Calculated Risk) – Now forgive for asking, but if you’re going to start a trend don’t you need to serve up something just a little bit new? No? Oh, Okay then, more extreme metal flavoured hardcore screaming yapping guttural low-end vocals, like he’s got his diseased gonads caught in a rusty rat-trap and he’s got to cut them off to escape the dark thing in the corner that wants to eat him. More crunching brutal guitars that gallop in to old school battle-metal laced death type histrionics without ever quite loosing the hardcore/Medulla Nocte edge. Hey look, top quality frontline hardcore laced death metal flavoured crossover brutality with an Iron Maiden/Slayer tendency or two that’s we’ve heard far too many times already. They’re goooooood at it and what the hell do we know about trends, setting rat-traps in case bands come around here or indeed anything else. www.camorra.co.uk / www.calculated-risk.co.uk

THE MAJESTIC TWELVE – Schizophrenology (Pandora’s legacy) – Oh now, a whole new pandora’s lunchbox of goodness and thank god everything on TV is a lie and another that almost slipped through the cracks on the wrong side of the hole. The hole may have been in San Diego, with some Mexicans and Canadians to do the cleaning and Coneleeeza check my posse, no it was a home in San Diego that the Mexican’s got to clean - the hippies went to Canada when Dubya won the day. Uncle Sam no doubt loves The Majestic Twelve, so will Mr Bungle and political whit from the inside lashing out (in such a subtle way) is always a good thing and they will rule the world for ever, me me me me.... Hey, Sack Trick and Zappa and Rob Crow and those disco bits that Faith No More touched on, no, that’s wrong, this is far more geeky (in a good way) and obscure (in a healthy way) and I really should be namedropping obscure US indie bands names, bands that only 12 people have ever heard of, I could be scoring valuable chin-stroking scene points – not that the Majestic Twelve are obscure or geeky or (well they probably are but hey, you know they are in a good way...) and Kenyatta Sullivan and his various bands have been providing fine earfood for us Organs for quite a few years now and it really does sound like Faith No More being an obscure geeky and rather beautiful US indie band that no metal head would ever go anyway near. I love these people, I love the way there’s so many sunny things here to unwrap, new things to find each time and hey there is hope and good people in America after all (whispering) and maybe Bush will go away and all will be well again thank god everything on TV is a lie. They’re from Willmington N.C (and yes, one day we will stand beside them whispering at the legendary W.E Fest). And the truth is this came out last year and I thought we’d already told you about it (we played it on the radio lots, it fell throw the cracks, blame the Mexican cleaner) and they’re about as Faith No More as Christmas is in July and if I say that again the air will explode and one more soldier will scream in to the sky. 
    Hey look, I can never put my finger on anything that comes out of Pandora’s Lunchbox or her fine legacy and I’d never cut it as a reviewer, Majestic Twelve have me beat, I love this and I can’t tell you why, this review is way off the mark, the album is available to download for free (but hey Paypal them a little bit of money, it is worth it, then go tell others about it). Give me a sign, hear the alarms, we’re not along, just go check it out. www.myspace.com/themajestictwelve or www.themajestictwelve.com

EXCRUCIATION – Angels to Some, Demons to Others (Non Stop Music) – Dooooooom, old school Candlemass flavoured doom with a slowly uncoiling gothic edge.  The Swiss band have been around in one form or another since 1984 - was that a death grunt just then? Is it getting Frosty? - they split in 91, were reborn in 2005, this is their new album and if you like your doom and your Celtic Frost and your Young Gods and you like it all to slowly smolder then you’ll like this. Song titles like Solitude pt 2, Mo(u)rning Again, Black, Is God Diabolical will give you more than an idea, if Excruciation sound like your thing then this is recommended.  www.nonstopmusic.ch or www.excruciation.net
 

Last week's album of the week - NUM 9 Previous album's of the week SHORT SHARP SHOCK / DEATHSKULLS / FUCKED UP / INTRONAUT / MICROWAVES / RONDELLUS / DUSTIN’S BAR MIZVAH / CRIME IN CHOIR / THE RUBY SUNS / THE SIEGFRIED SASSOON / DON CABALLERO / REIGNS / STREET DOGS / ME FIRST AND AND THE GIMME GIMMES / ALEUCHATISTAS / BLUT AUS NORD / CATS AND CATS AND CATS / I LOVE POLAND / HOLY SMOKES  / GALLOWS / SICBAY / THE LOST PATROL BAND / SQUAREPUSHER

“Hello! In addition to the four already confirmed dates, Electrelane have now added Cardiff to their brief tour of the UK in May 2007. Dates are: Sun 6th MANCHESTER Academy 3, Mon 7th GLASGOW Tuts, Tue 8th NOTTINGHAM Social, Wed 9th LONDON Scala, Sun 20th Cardiff The Point. The band will be releasing their new album No Shouts, No Calls, towards the end of April.
Thanks for reading!”
keira. X
 

CINDER BLOCK ATE MY ART...
 

ZERO – Darker Days EP (Roadkill) – Ah proper aggressive trend-free old school bruising heavy metal, thrashing and pounding and bruising.  Zero are from the North East of England (where’s Neat when you need them?), this is their debut, and good and strong it is. Fat brutal heavy end old school thrash metal for fans of Exodus, the early days of Metallica, Onslaught and the first moves of Anthrax. Five tracks, all good, they’ve got a slight groove to their heavyweight old school brutality, this is not for you wussy emo haircuts out there, you go stick to pop bands  like Bullet for My Chemical whatever, this is not for you this is your nightmare woooooooooaggghhh. The vocalist has it just right, he’s called Slayer Dude, the drummer is Ted Bundy, get them out on tour with Short Sharp Shock, M.U.Y fuggin A, dirty offensive unfashionable metal, just the way it should be. Recommended.    www.metalwhiskyandsex.com
www.myspace.com/metalwhiskyandsex
 

SINGLE OF THE WEEK 2

BEATNIK FILMSTARS – Curious Role Model (International Lo-Fi Underground) - What do you get if you fall in love, a girl with a pin to burst your bubble. New Beatnik Film Stars material, we’ve gone on about them at length before, we have been doing so for years, (so did Mr Peel, they did loads of sessions for the great man) the Filmstars are right up there with the Wedding Present and The Fall (or in a better world they would be), they’re from Bristol and they’re a national treasure (we said that before as well). This six tracker came out at the start of the year, the Royal Mail apparently saw fit to hold our copy back, but hey, who cares about release dates, the EP is out now, go get.
 Sometimes creamy, sometimes edgy, mostly edgy actually, always rewarding, sometimes soulful, sometimes barbed, look after your feet now, look after your soul. “They’re often tagged as the UK’s answer to Guided By voices” (that’s lazy), “they will continue doing what they want to regardless of what anyone else thinks”, they’ve got a whole list of facts like this, I like the one about judging the yodeling competition on German TV. Beatnik Filmstars are excellent, they make very fine alternative indie music that has one foot in the 80’s and another foot in your future if you have any sense. www.myspace.com/theinternationallofiunderground or www.beatnikfilmstars.co.uk

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SUPER NASHWAN – Rockabye Baby (Traficante) - Some kind of soul-laced gospel flavoured supercharged rock and roll tinged R&B tasting rockabilly. Proper old school retro sounding R&B like they made in the days before the term was hijacked by plastic soulless arrrghhh, don’t get me started. Super Nashan are preaching good old righteous rock and roll, second track sounds a little Louie Louie around the edges  and those backing singers (well they’re not really backing, they’re a lot more than that) drench it with so much soul. They’re from London, they’ve just been out on tour with Lily Allen, they’re supercool! www.myspace.com/supernashwah

DARTZ! – Once Twice Again (Xtra Mile) – a Breezy bit of post-something or other breezy crafted intelligent and rather rewarding angular pop that worries a little too much about tall buildings and they should be irritating but they’re not, they are indeed impossible not to like for now, I suspect they could get a little irritating sometime soon, in fact... www.dartzisgood.com

Last week's single of the week - DAN LA SAC vs SCROOBUIS PIP / FEAR OF MUSIC

Previously - THE RUBY SUNS / THE SCHLA LA LAS / THOMAS TANTRUM / DUSTIN’S BAR MITZVAH / SUPERSUCKERS /GIANT PAW / CHROME HOOF/ FRANK TURNER / ESKIMO DISCO / THE RACE / OCTOBER FILE / MOISTBOYZ / THE LOVES / THE EDUCATION / JESUS LICKS / EINSTELLUNG / SPIDERBABY / 

MORE NEXT WEEK, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE FOR NUMBER 192? 
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