Beasts Unleashed — Beasts Unleashed (Blu Ray)

Beasts Unleashed is a Blu-ray set from Eureka bringing together two American sci-fi films from the 50's, which sit in the alien invasion and creature feature sub-genres. There’s The Beast with a Million Eyes-which focuses on an isolated farm where a craft crash-lands and starts altering first the behaviour of the animals, then the humans. The second film is The Beast of Hollow Mountain, which sold itself as a western dino-focused creature feature – but is in reality much more of just a traditional western, with dino action tacked on.

Clock DVA — White Souls In Black Suits

Originally released in the year 1980, as a cassette on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records, White Souls In Black Suits was the first sonic fruit from Sheffield’s Clock DVA. The band, who later became known/ respected for their work in the genres of post-punk and EBM, offered up their first release as a jam-focused blend of old school industrial, avant-jazz, and experimental jam rock. Here from Mute, as either a double vinyl or CD, is the first release of the album in thirty-five years, with the remastered original fifty-minute/ nine track album being joined by four bonus tracks.

Vacant Brain — Gut Full Of Maggots

Now here we have a release with a perfectly fitting title… as this just over fourteen-minute ‘wall’ literally sounds like a mass of bone-white squirminess, just about to burst, ready to fill your nostrils with sour decay and your vision with a mass of white, seething wriggle.

Saw-Scaled Dancer — Lynchian Injury

Lynchian Injury is an hour-long slab of staring-into-the-void wall noise from this relatively new Oregon-based project. The single track is a simple yet effective blend of rolling drone-heavy bleakness, with a thin crackling static edge.

Creative ‘n’ Inventive sleaze- The world of Roman Porno

Jasper Sharp interview

In the year 1971, Nikkatsu, the oldest/ at one point, the biggest film production company in Japan. Did something quite daring/ some would say crazy- they completely switched over their production to softcore adult films, which would become known as Roman Porno. Between 1971 and 1988, the company produced around 850 of these titles. The thing that made these films stand out from general softcore films is the often creative & inventive choices made- yes, the films primal focus is sleaze, but great examples of the genre are so much more than that. In the last year or so, there has been a spate of reissues of films in the genre from labels such as 88 Films, Third Window Films, and Klubb Super 8. One of the key figures/contributors behind these releases is Jasper Sharp- one of the world's experts on the genre, and the wider Pink genre it’s connected to. Jasper kindly agreed to give us an email interview discussing his history with the genre, his contributions to releases, and the new/updated edition of his book Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema on Fab Press.

Having Fun And Enjoying Casual Misery

King Futile Interview

King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.