Direct Hit - Human Movement - VINYL LP

Direct Hit's third album, Crown Of Nothing, is the Milwaukee, WI quartet's most challenging, elaborate and downright catchy work to date - and it's built around the idea that heaven and hell might very well be the same place. It continues Direct Hit's unique strain of InchF**k you, get pumpedInch party punk they've been honing throughout their decade-long career. Opener InchDifferent UniverseInch has a killer new-wave vibe; InchPain/BoredomInch is a guaranteed circle pit starter that evokes labelmates Pears; InchBad AnswerInch is loaded with fuzz bass, a disco beat and a sax solo that would make the Big Man smile from beyond the grave; InchDisassembleInch is so catchy, it could be something John Feldmann would write for Goldfinger and then sell to Blink-182. Direct Hit pinballs from style to style over Crown Of Nothing's 44-minute runtime, but it never feels schizophrenic - more accurately, it feels like the best mix tape ever. There's a reason why no two Direct Hit songs ever sound quite the same, too. The band returned to producer Mike Kennerty (Masked Intruder, Screeching Weasel), who's captured just about every note Direct Hit has played in the past five years.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 . Human Impact is Chris Spencer (Unsane, UXO), Jim Coleman (Cop Shoot Cop), Chris Pravdica (Swans, Xiu Xiu), and Phil Puleo (Cop Shoot Cop, Swans). The band's first recordings are a dark mirror held up to the band s collective pre-history. It's sound is cinematic post-industrial filth rock, a dozen run down subway stops away from recognizable civilization, as futuristic as it is grounded in it's sordid heritage. The result is a potent, hard-boiled distillation of this sonic ethos.

Bach & Piazzolla - two composers who really have nothing in common? The Austria-based Serbian accordionist Nikola Djoric has nevertheless brought them together on one album, creating a soundscape that is thoroughly unfamiliar in the context of Bach. Together with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester (Chamber Orchestra Mannheim) under the baton of Hans-Peter Hoffmann, he has recorded Astor Piazzolla's famous Concerto for bandoneón, InchAconcaguaInch, along with Bach's Harpsichord Concertos Nos. 1 & 7. For him, there was one really important aspect in the realisation of this project InchWe recorded this music using a score faithful to the original; nothing at all was changed, this is not a series of arrangements. I play the Bach and Piazzolla scores one-to-one on the accordion, which gives the listener to hear familiar works in different tone colours. Thanks to it's ability to sing and it's complexity, the instrument exudes an inimitable allure. Just imagine a wind instrument that plays polyphonically whether the player is breathing in or out and creates the notes in the air, as it were; a keyboard instrument that can phrase notes in the way string players do with their bows, with two different manuals, over 500 notes, 20 stops and a musician who plays using all ten fingers and can breathe freely at the same time - that is the button accordion it sings and breathes.Inch