From Sudbury,ON, Canada “Strange Attractor is a basement recording project by Jeff Houle. A mix of 60’s garage and frat & 70’s punk with a chaotic twist. The live band features members of Statues and Ultra Violence Ray.”
To quote the lovely front man Rags:
“A NEW SINGLE! All proceeds will go towards funding a safe play day for autistic children in North London that my wife and I help run. A day the local council couldn’t give a shit about but is really important to so many families. My son Zoli included! (he even helped write the lyrics!!!) All through the local branch of the NATIONAL AUTISTIC SOCIETY! Alot of people donated time. To record it (Andy Brook, Rich Jones, Daniel Husayn), build a site for it (Dave Kerr), even include cool stuff to sell (Richard Crobar owner of the best rock bar in the world The Crobar!). Like I said verrrrrrrryyyyy sooooooon!”
Andy Brook of Strummers Recording Studio has donated time for the recording of the track and North London Bomb Factory has donated time for Mastering.
Listen to a track from the 12″ on Taken By Surprise Records:
In the meantime here are two songs from previous records of both bands, mastered here.
“Modern Pets were born in the beginning of 2009 by four friends in south Germany. After a few first shows and a demo recorded in their practice room and released by F.Y.I.T.H. Records, it happened that everyone decided to put as much time as possible into the band, rather than get into the next boring job or another pointless band and so things started getting serious….
A first 7” was recorded in January 2010 by Smail Shock in Berlin, named “Killing Sounds For Rotten People” and hit directly into the picture that was drawn by 70s UK and 80s US Punkbands before. This release, which was followed by two European tours in summer and fall 2010, sold out within a few months and two more 7”s (re-release of the demo tape and “Vista-Alienation”) emphasized their standing as one of the hardest working bands in this genre!
Meanwhile located in Berlin, they put out their first longplayer on P.Trash and Concrete Jungle Records, as well as Modern Action Records in the US in June 2011. This release was followed by a 4 week European tour in summer and another 2 week tour in fall, which brought the guys to countries like Switzerland, France, Spain, Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary […]
After almost 160 shows in 2 years, the band will record a few new songs for a single release on Rockstar Records in January 2012 to be on tour for the rest of the year! 2 European tours and a US Westcoast tour are already fixed as well as the recording of a new album in the end of the year…. So, watch out! 2012´s gonna be a Modern Pets year!”
The Orions are a Surf band from Haifa, Israel featuring members of the Sweatshop Boys. They are doing a split with another local band called HÄXAN
In the meantime check out a song from one of the Orions’ other sessions!
Here is a preview of one of the new tracks!
Dudes who are/were in these bands:
“Clorox Girls, Cute Lepers, The Girls, The Warm Jets, L.A. Drugz, Red Dons, Rough Kids, Suspect Parts. Now in Maniac.”
“Sauna Youth are a four piece punk rock band from London, England. They pose the question “why can’t you be the Ramones and Steve Reich?” in much the same way Kurt Cobain once asked “why can’t you be Black Sabbath and the Beatles?” They are MINCE / PINES / BOON / ECKE. They play at Power Lunches all the time. They have a 12” out soon on FAUX DISCX / GRINGO RECORDS. Get on it.”
In the meantime have a listen to their Dreamlands LP.
