this is the first mailing in a long time so there’s quite a bit of it. first thing to mention is the irritant / melange records night at the arts cafe, 28 commercial street, london. carthage, badboy, amateur, pisstank, ryo co, dj scud and more will be on hand to tickle your nuts. if you don’t come your name is mud. (except dave in sydney who’s working that night).
OUT NOW :
knifehandchop – hooked on ebonics / social anxiety
disorder 7″ (irritant24)
very limited 2-track single in katie and p.tank’s full colour sleeve. both tracks find billy in a playful mood with house, rave and electro thrown in the pot. his catchiest pop tunes to date in my opinion. i don’t have any copies left at irritant so pop down to your local independent record store or visit http://www.normanrecords.com. the knifehandchop singles compilation cd is being prepared as you read. titled “bling the noize” it features all the hits – dancemix 2000, bounty killer killer, taking the soul out of music, etc – and a few unreleased tracks aswell. ker-ching!
welcome to my world compilation cd (irritant22) 20 tracks, 76 minutes, in a tasty card sleeve with artwork by playmade, featuring : random number, deacon boombastardizer, cwichlo, duran duran duran, moblin, rude boy & pisstank, frederik schikowski, mascara-sue, knifehandchop, honey and kisses, jonatan svard, ryo co, skeep, cdatakill, braer rabbit, kimonophonic, printed circuit, noise creator, captain ahab, yuji. most tracks are exclusives, a couple have been “single of the week” (random number and braer rabbit in nme and record collector respectively), the mascara-sue track is my favourite irritant track ever, various tracks are getting airplay by in england, the states and belgium (!), it’s all good (no, really – this is a fucking awesome compilation).
NEWS :
the last irritant 7″, henry kissinger war criminal, is still available but is going (surprisingly) fast. it features VzR (vote robot’s kevin rivard), duran duran duran, brigette et brigette, dance chromatic & pisstank, and the mercy fucks : a merciful fate bootleg, radio adverts, leroi jones, a tired c+c music factory beat, bass heavy breakcore, three turntables and a micro… um… minidisc player. it’s a dumbass mess. yeah!
coming up next is captain ahab’s bot pirate 12″ep (irritant25) including a shorter version of you never ever ever ever from the irritant22 comp cd, and deacon boombastardizer’s oldschool combat tactics 12″ (irritant21, with secret weapon records). i’m still waiting on the last few tracks for duran duran duran’s drunk on cock lp (irritant23), hopefully it’ll be soon because it has a fantastic cover that i’m itching to see at 12 inches. also happening in the near future is a random number / moblin split-12″, and new stuff by jonatan svärd, frederik schikowski, harry merry and, if he remembers how to turn his computer on, the mighty honey and kisses.
irritant is currently listening to : donna summer’s to all methods which calculate power cd (omeko, japan), the sisterhood of convoluted thinkers cd (darla, usa) from last year, the streets’ original pirate material and random number’s cd on rocketracer, all pretty much on repeat. i’m also impatiently awaiting the release of high on fire’s new album and the eyehategod / soilent green split-7″. mis-teeq, the sugarbabes and lasgo are about all that’s happening in the charts at the moment.
finally, don’t forget – irritant and melange records, saturday 27th july at the arts cafe, 28 commercial street, london.
rock on,
andy / irritant
www.irritantrecords.com
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