(μια σημείωση, ότι οι Angels in America παίζουν και το προηγούμενο βράδυ μαζί με beaTol & the Eagol στο χώρο της Βιοτεχνίας στη Θεσσαλονίκη)

PHASE! celebrates 10 years PARTY #1
Σάββατο 31 Μαρτίου 2012
ΚΝΟΤ Gallery – Aπό τις 18:00!!!

LIVE (Ξεκινούν αυστηρά στις 19:00!!!):
ANGELS IN AMERICA (USA)
ΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ
GAY ANNIVERSARY
WHAM JAH
A THOUSAND BEAUTIFUL WOMEN

DJs:
CHRIS OD, JAMIE BYRES, DJ SOFIA, DJ ΜΙΚΕΣ, DEAD GUM

HAPPENINGS:
• Release party της νέας κυκλοφορίας των Angels in America “Greecings Caesar” σε κασέτα από την Phase!.
• Massive merch table + real time δημοπρασίες με πρώιμα νούμερα της Phase! και τιμή εκκίνησης τα 0,10 ευρώ! Special auctioneer θα είναι “ο νονός του αθηναϊκού underground”.
• Αυτοί που θα προσέλθουν νωρίς θα αποκτήσουν μαζί με το εισιτήριο τους την περιορισμένη -για το event- physical έκδοση της συλλογής “An Urgent Cry for a Better World: Not for Hippies” με αποκλειστικά κομμάτια των Big Blood, Adam_is, beaTol & the Eagol, Άγγελος Κυρίου, κ.α.

H Phase! γιορτάζει δέκα χρόνια συνεχούς παρουσίας στον (υπο)χώρο και σχεδόν 100 κυκλοφορίες με μια σειρά από πάρτι, το πρώτο εκ των οποίων θα πραγματοποιηθεί στον χώρο της KNOT με πολλούς εκλεκτούς καλεσμένους και DJs, κάβα με φθηνά ποτά και appetite for destruction από:
- το bedroom/psych ξύσιμο των 1000 Beautiful Women,
- το νωχελικό κι σπασμωδικό κάψιμο των Wham Jah,
- την ακραία και φρέσκια synth punk ουραγκοταγκίλα των Gay Anniversary,
- την αφοπλιστική κι ανεπιτήδευτη κατάθεση ψυχής του Άγγελου κυρίου μέχρι
- το σκοτεινό slacker lo-fi trip hop των Angels in America από την Βαλτιμόρη.

H Phase! ξεκίνησε αρχικά σαν φανζίν και ανεξάρτητη δισκογραφική εταιρεία από τον Παναγιώτη Σπούλο το 2002 με περιορισμένες χειροποίητες εκδόσεις σε CDR και κασέτα. Κι αν τα πρώτα νούμερα αποτελούσαν καταγραφή μια συγκεκριμμένης αθηναϊκης σκηνής δίχως αύριο (Κοψωκέφαλοι, Sweetohm, Postblue), το ρόστερ πολύ γρήγορα άρχισε να επεκτείνεται και σε καλλιτέχνες του εξωτερικού (Donna Parker, Robert Piotrowicz, Lamps, Cakes of Light, Gang Wizard, Slicing Grandpa, Arklight, Placenta Popeye, Fossils, Vluba, Howlin’ Ghost Proletarians, Big Blood, κ.α.) με ταυτόχρονο βομβαρδισμό κυκλοφοριών από signature projects της ελληνικής πειραματικής σκηνής (Nokalypse, Reverse Mouth, Lunar Miasma, Putsum, Nightshift, Betty Loop Loop, κ.α.). Στόχος της είναι να συνεχίσει να κυκλοφορεί περίπου 10 κυκλοφορίες τον χρόνο –κάποιες από αυτές σε βινύλιο– διατηρώντας πάντα έναν DIY νοσταλγικό χαρακτήρα που αναδεικνύει μοναδικά την φρεσκάδα των ηχογραφημάτων.

Μία πρόσφατη συνέντευξη της Phase!, εδώ: http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/features.php?which=486

LINKS:
http://phasejunk.com
http://phasemag.blogspot.com

http://knotarts.blogspot.com
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Angels_in_America
http://angeloskyriou.bandcamp.com
http://gayanniversary.bandcamp.com
http://whamjah.bandcamp.com
http://myspace.com/athousandbeautifulwomen

KNOT Gallery
Mιχαλακοπούλου 206 & Πύρρου (εις. από Πύρρου)
πλησιέστερος σταθμός Μετρό: Αμπελόκηποι
Λεωφορεία: Α5, Β5 (στάση ΖΑΓΟΡΑ)
http://knotarts.blogspot.com/

Tags: a thousand beautiful women, angelos kyriou, angels in america, athens, dead gum, gay anniversary, knot gallery, phase!, phase!records, wham jah

new release by Phase! Records main-man Panagiotis Spoulos’ Dead Gum project, out now on Big Blood’s ‘Don’t Trust the Ruin‘ label

Dead Gum – Doubleganger dttr 031 CD-R

dttr say: “Dead Gum is the solo project of Panagiotis Spoulos (other projects of his include: Reverse mouth, Wham Jah, Postblue, and running Phase! Records), from Athens, Greece. This past summer we toured with Dead Gum in Greece and we were blown away every night. Doubleganger is quite a journey, the constant thread seems to be loner style electric guitar that feels like the end of it all … quite, desolate, brutal, noisy, and 100% sincere. Handmade screen printed Art work by Colleen Kinsella (10 songs – 38 minutes)

**Cassette of this one soon”

order here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/88201352/dead-gum-doubleganger-dttr-031-cd-r?ref=v1_other_1

Tags: dead gum, don't trust the ruin, panagiotis spoulos

(something that might as well be THE event of this autumn in athens, unless i’m forgetting something)

η λάθος όψη του τηλεσκοπίου fanzine
phase! & mafia present:

DYLAN NYOUKIS & PHIL MINTON
smack music 7 & DEAD GUM
OLD FASHIONED all stars

@ knot gallery, saturday 26/11/2011
mixalakopoulou 206 & pyrrou, ampelokipoi, athens
http://knotarts.blogspot.com/

Tags: athens, dead gum, dylan nyoukis, knot gallery, old fashioned all stars, old fashioned donkeys, phil minton, smack music 7

Heraclis is a fresh new label from athens, greece. Its first batch of releases (they also organize events, etc) consists of a 7″ and a CS compilation, for all-you-can-eat synth & noise pleasure. Featuring one side from Hiroshi Hasegawa, amongst others

IRA001 – 7’’ Vinyl
A tribute to Synti AKS
SIDE A – Georgios Karamanolakis – Reentry capsule.
SIDE B – Astro (Hiroshi Hasegawa) – Crystal Silver Dream Machine.
Limited to 320 copies.

IRA.C002 – Cassette
Two days dedicated to electronic sound improvisation.
SIDE A – Plink, Adam is, Goosli noise (russia),
SIDE B – Georgios Karamanolakis, Dead Gum, Mecha/Orga, Analog Suicide (Turkey).
Limited to 100 copies.

http://www.heraclis.org/

Tags: adam_is, analog suicide, astro, dead gum, georgios karamanolakis, goosli noise, heraclis, hiroshi hasegawa, mecha/orga, plink

the fabulous Big Blood (US) are doing a small tour of greece in the first days of july. Hosted by Phase!, there are three stops on their callendar, athens, xanthi and finally thessaloniki. Betty Loop Loop will be opening in athens, Dead Gum in the other two dates. Expect this post to be updated with more info in the coming days, until then:

friday, july 1st @ six d.o.g.s, athens. Big Blood, Betty Loop Loop
sunday, july 3rd @ xanthi folk museum. Big Blood, Dead Gum
monday, july 4th @ fuzz bar, thessaloniki. Big Blood, Dead Gum

also: Colleen Kinsella solo art exhibition “Leviathan Song”
Athens, Six D.O.G.S. Gallery Space (1-8 July)

http://dontrusttheruin.blogspot.com/
http://bettylooploop.blogspot.com/
http://phasemag.blogspot.com/

posters:

Tags: athens, betty loop loop, big blood, dead gum, FEX, fuzz bar, phase!records, six d.o.g.s, thessaloniki, xanthi

(PHR-80) SLICING GRANDPA – The Abstracticator CDR
(PHR-79) ARKLIGHT / DEAD GUM split C60
(PHR-78) COCKS OF THE DEAD – Blowskull Tape 2 C20
(PHR-77) WHAM JAH – Wham Jazz CDR

so far we have little physical evidence of this new PHASE! batch, but lucky for us panagiotis is at the top of his game in terms of documentation. I won’t be betting my dick on what’s inside, having only his casually over-the-top blurbs to go by, but i can tell you for one that PHR-77 has one Lost Body colliding with a Reversed Mouth and that’s something to begin with. The rest i imagine to be at least plain weird with a guaranteed minimum of sonic destruction.

oh and here is the, recently posted, complete (2002-2010) PHASE! discography:
http://phasemag.blogspot.com/2011/01/phase-discography-2002-2010.html
like, wtf??

.

http://phasemag.blogspot.com/

Tags: arklight, cocks of the dead, dead gum, phase!records, slicing grandpa, wham jah

phase!records is yet another world of its own, it would demand tons of research and dozens of posts to boot in order to investigate into its history, so let’s just catch the bus from where we are at this moment for now, ok?

the person behind phase! is panagiotis spoulos, of reverse mouth fame. A strictly-roots man in the athens noise scene, i remember meeting him some years ago and being told by nicolas that he runs a noise label. At the time the possibility of a greek noise label didn’t even register to me, so i just sat back and listened while the two of them went on with the conversation and let all kinds of alternate realities affect my feeble young mind.

fast forward to today and panagiotis is busy doing the same things he was doing back then, baking cdrs, dubbing tapes, blasting godawful noise through guitars and amplifiers. He’s even putting up some mp3 editions on the blog for good measure. And from local scene to international misfits, he carries them all. This one is a label that runs on the love of noise and the people who stand behind it,  so don’t expect any opportunist moves here, just the truth -in an edition of 40 to 60 copies at a time

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(PHR-76) DEAD GUM – Lost Decade CDR
Dead Gum is panagiotis’ solo vehicle and this one is -i think- the second dead gum release. Here, the actual noise is toned down a bit, to let instead in a noise of emotion, building upon “childhood nostalgia, appreciation of then-weird memories or half-remembered feelings”

(PHR-75) Η ΜΑΝΑ ΣΟΥ ΕΙΝΑΙ Ο ΠΑΤΕΡΑΣ ΣΟΥ – Είσαι η Αδερφή Σου CDR
collaboration between members of Placenta Popeye, Slicing Grandpa + Opera Mort. Jams galore with a strange twist, all under a surreal greek title. panagiotis calls it “a dark tale of psychic incest, deform + strangeland blues“. Comes in a special edition, containing a 12-page zine (mid picture), and in a regular cardboard sleeve edition

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more here:
http://www.phasejunk.com/
http://phasemag.blogspot.com

Tags: dead gum, phase!records, η μάνα σου είναι ο πατέρας σου

good stuff happening in athens in the next few days, other than the noise-below extravaganza called ‘infinity’ (http://blog.noise-below.org/2010/08/29/infinity/)

dead gum / angelos kyriou + kostis kilymis /kerkville
monday, nov 8
@ six d.o.g.s project space
http://www.sixdogs.gr/
21:00, free entrance

Francisco Meirino, Mecha/Orga
wednesday, nov 10
@ knot gallery
http://knotarts.blogspot.com/
20:30, 5 euro

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also a Danae Stefanou solo concert
@ knot on sunday, nov 14.
but no poster available for that one yet..

Tags: angelos kyriou, athens, danae stefanou, dead gum, francisco meirino, kerkville, kostis kilymis, mecha/orga

Παρασκευή 22 Οκτωβρίου

Goosli Noise (Ρωσία)
Adam_is
Γεώργιος Καραμανωλάκης
Plink

Σάββατο 23 Οκτωβρίου

Analog Suicide, (Batur Sonmez) (Τουρκία)
Dead Gum
Mecha/Orga
Τάσος Στάμου

20.30 – 00.00
Eίσοδος ελεύθερη
Α.Σ.Κ.Τ Πειραιώς 256 , Ρέντη . Aίθουσα Θεάτρου.
Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών «Ψηφιακές Μορφές Τέχνης» της Α.Σ.Κ.Τ

Tags: adam_is, analog suicide, athens, dead gum, giorgos karamanolakis, goosli noise, mecha/orga, plink, tasos stamou