Transmission - Dylan Ettinger

Dylan Ettinger - Shandor's Dream

I'll let the album sleeve do the talking this time.

From 'New Age Outlaws' on Not Not Fun

Bad Dimension with MUGSTAR live and guest DJ Jahshabby, 26 Mar 2011

MUGSTAR are the sound of 10,000 suns exploding, pounding like a supersonic mantra with shades of Sonic Youth, Neu!, Oneida and Pink Floyd. Since emerging in 2002 from the ashes of guitarist Peter Smyth's fondly remembered krautrockers Kling Klang, MUGSTAR have toured tirelessly with noise compatriots that include Mogwai, Melt Banana, Acid Mothers Temple, Clinic, Fucked Up, Mike Watt and Part Chimp. They famously recorded the last ever of John Peel's legendary Peel Sessions.

Revolving around locked krautrock rhythms, blisteringly heavy psychedelic riffs and turbo-charged grooves, MUGSTAR's latest album "Lime" was released on Important Records in October 2010. This will be their first show in London since the release.

Special guest DJ Jahshabby has appeared at Sonic Cathedral, Night of the Long Swords and Rock'n'Roll Soul, where he is a resident. Bands for which he has whipped up a frenzy include Sonic Boom, Wolf People and the Soundcarriers. Expect illsickpsychfunkbreaks and old records from foreign climes to confuse and delight.

BAD DIMENSION DJs collide kosmische disco, mutant funk, punk and psych to create analogue raves of supermassive proportions, powered by propulsive rhythms, motorik beats and tripped-out fuzz from the 60s to present.

The Horatia is a beautiful big boozer on Holloway Road with a hefty club soundsystem, recently reopened by the team behind Shoreditch's Horse and Groom.

Entrance is FREE.

Easter Sunday at the Horse & Groom, 24 Apr 2011

It was a pleasure to bring in this year at the Horse & Groom's disco spectacular, illustrated in full feathered splendour here and captured for your cans below. We'll be riding a beefed up soundsystem for the Easter Sunday party among a legendary cast with Discovery, Disco Deviance, Feel My Bicep and Leftside Wobble. The Papermill Terrace warms up from 2pm with a barbecue: we bring you the nightshift in the perfectly sleazy boudoir upstairs, from the psych-garage to the spacefunk disco mothership, 10 til 6am: be prepared.

Bad Dimension Live @ Horse & Groom NYE Spectacular 2010-11 by baddimension

Pictures of Brassica live at Bad Dimension, 27 Nov 2010

Remember this? Big thanks to Charles Chintzer Lai for the shots.

Brassica in Atlantis mode with Hey Man, on Relish Recordings' E.P.4 since December:

Pictures of Teeth Of The Sea live at Bad Dimension, 25 Feb 2011

Big thanks to Teeth of the Sea for a stunning show, and to all of you who came for the vibes. Check out the set on Flickr here. Do get in touch if you've taken any photos our nights: we'd love to see (there's probably only so far a distracted promoter can get, photographically speaking, waving a camera around in a dark room while dancing).

Looking back, and forth: BAD DIMENSION with TEETH OF THE SEA

Photos have appeared bearing witness to BAD DIMENSION with GNOD last month, including the violent demise of that doomed guitar. Check them out here and here. Big thanks to Julie Kane and to echoesanddust for capturing the show, and to the rest of you for making it happen. That was some next-level shit.

Next Friday, 25th February, BAD DIMENSION will host a live performance by TEETH OF THE SEA, rumoured to be the most thrilling and transformative thing ever to emerge from Manor House. This dark, cinematic psychedelia swings from a Morricone western to an Acid Mother's wig-out, through marauding sci-fi Brit-prog and squalling, feedback-crusted noise.

Recent second album Your Mercury has been described as "Sexual transcendence you achieve while your flesh dissolves under the leathery wings of the bat people of The Beastmaster." (20jazzfunkgreats), or "Like a giant android kestrel occupying an ominous telephasic cathedral" (BBC).

Entrance, as always, is FREE.

BAD DIMENSION with TEETH OF THE SEA
Friday 25 February
The Horatia, 98-102 Holloway Road, London
£FREE

Transmission - The Skull Defekts

"Your immediate and focused attention is requested."


Of all the filth that might come to see the light of day on a February 14th, this might not have been expected. The Skull Defekts have made a new album, and this track sounds like Steve Albini making love to a voodoo kaleidoscope.

The Skull Defekts - Fragrant Nimbus

Transmission - GAMES

GAMES - Strawberry Skies

While we're on the mini-groups tip, here's some haunted synth-pop from Daniel Lopatin and Joel Ford. That is, it's synth-pop that's haunting them. What results is something far more dense and interesting.

From 'That We Can Play' on Hippos In Tanks

GAMES on Myspace

Transmission - The Stallions

The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Tears (Stallions Remix)

Awesome work from Lee Douglas and Lovefingers, infusing the hippie-esque tones of TPHB with their wonderful strain of percussion-heavy desert-disco, and finishing up with something more genuine-sounding than the original.

Get it here

Bad Dimension #3 - Saturday 29th January at The Horatia

On Saturday 29th January BAD DIMENSION will be hosting a live performance by GNOD, a Mancunian psychedelic collective drawing on influences as disparate as afrobeat, krautrock, drone, noise and jazz. GNOD’s music rotates and expands around a constantly changing line-up, summoning the freak ‘n’ roll of Ash Ra Tempel, the motorik beat of Neu! and the groove of early Can. Their recent release with White Hills, “Drop Out…II”, has been declared... "the best album to come out of Manchester in 2010" (Drowned in Sound).



BAD DIMENSION with GNOD Live
Saturday 29 January
The Horatia, 98-102 Holloway Road, London
£FREE

http://www.myspace.com/gnodgnod