Saturday, June 20, 2009

The Essential Purchase returns!

Apologies for the lack of the regular weekly purchase column but I've been so dam busy the past few weeks. It doesn't mean I've not bought a few bits and pieces though. So straight into what I recommend you check out from the past few weeks....

Essential Purchase week 21


BV Dub - To Live (Smallfish) 3" cd

Brock Van Wey has featured on the thisisnotanexit blog before for a previous release on Millions Of Moments of which I spoke about the depth of emotion BV Dub brings to his music. He himself calls his music "sadness, idealistic, daydreams, regret, thought, hope, life". Indeed his music is the type that won't have the hands in the air and the masses screaming for one more. This is music with heart and soul. The stuff you save for staring out of the window on a train journey, on the night bus home, over a coffee on your own as it rains outside...you know what I mean. Anyways this was released on 100 x 3" cds and sold out within about 5 seconds. Due to the gushing praise for the release (and by god it is an amazing 20 minute journey) Smallfish have pressed some more. Go get. It's like £5.99 and your music money should be for people like BV Dub and not to those careerists on the majors.

You can also download a whole load of BV Dub mixes from his website. All worth checking.There's 10 of them so that's about 10 hours of free music. Get to it.


And some kind soul has uploaded the 2 parts of 'To Live' to Youtube if you want to experience it before you buy.





Essential Purchase week 22


Optimo presents...In Order To Edit

Next week I'm going to Optimo for the first proper time (I'm not counting the time I DJed there as that's not really 'going to optimo'). Anyways I cannot wait to experience the full optimo effect in the subbie. As you all know I'm such an Optimo obsessive Twitch and Wilkes could fart over a drum loop and I'd probably buy it. Probably. Anyways this is the new selection from JD Twitch who got access to the full R&S catalogue and put together a special mix cd. It's bloody brilliant. Go and buy it and dance round your bedroom to this. It beats most techno being produced these days that's for sure.

Essential Purchase week 23


Black Meteroic Star - World Eater / Death Tunnel (DFA) 12" / Black Meteoric Star CD

Speaking of techno go and buy this. Just do it. It's by Gavin Russom one half of Black Leotard Front (remember Casual Friday?) and it's just absolutely immense. DFA have been really clever and put all the tracks together in shortened form on a cd and all the extended versions on 12"s so if like me you love this stuff you'll buy both the cd AND the 12" for the extended mixes. Massive trippy speaker blowing house music. Do it do it do it.

And check his mix of German band Palms too. Like wow.

The man builds his own synths for christsakes! None of this 'i'll get my ableton soft synth out' he's a bloody genius.

http://www.myspace.com/gavinrussom

Essential Purchase week 24

Black Meteoric Star - Dominatron / Anthem (DFA) 12"

Yep. And Mr. Black Meteoric Star will again be the purchase of the week. And the week after too when the final of the three 12"s gets released!

This weekend I am back in my home town of York. Upon my arrival my parents gave me a load of records they had managed to save from being thrown in the bin. I was unsure of what might be in there and the quality but I got VERY VERY lucky!!

Here's what I got:

The Stooges - The Stooges LP
U2 - Boy LP
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising LP
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation LP
U2 - 3D Dance Mixes Promo 12"
The Sisters Of Mercy - Body And Soul 12"
The Sisters Of Mercy - Alice 12"

All in exceptional condition. They'd been kept in a shed so the sleeves are a little worn but the records look hardly played. Awesome!

Finally here's a little treat for you. Here's the acoustic version of The Flowers That Fell that Sebastien recorded for the Diesel Radio Show I did a couple of weeks ago. Enjoy.

http://www.divshare.com/download/7656334-7db

Friday, June 19, 2009


On Monday 22nd June the remixes of Detachments The Flowers That Fell will be released on a very limited white label 12". Only 200 copies have been pressed. It features Capracara (fresh from his King Of Witches release on DFA), Parallels (fresh from their debut release on Thisisnotanexit Records! And remixing Sally Shapiro and Delphic at the moment), Thee Four Horsemen and The Max Moreau Quartet.
If you would like to buy a copy head to the shops on Monday - or we have 5 copies here at the label store for sale. Just drop us a note if you want one - they are £5.99 each. There are none left at the warehouse so once they're gone they're gone!
I'll be back over the weekend with a full 4 week catch up of the essential purchase. A bumper feast of records and cds you should have bought.
I'm off to spend 2 hours on a train with my laptop trying to finish a new mix. I hope the train has plug sockets otherwise I'm going to be VERY unhappy.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Saturday, June 13, 2009


Thisisnotanexit Radio Show 6th June 2009 Hosted by Simon A. Carr on DieselUMusic Radio.

Moscow - Boson
They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - The Unstoppable Kite (Hatchback Remix)
The Dark Esquire - Temptation
Panda City Band - Night Crash
Night Plane - Chinese Shadows
They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song (The Gospel According To Mung 2012 Live At The Hacienda Version)
Detachments - The Flowers That Fell (Live Acoustic Version)
Detachments - HAL (Andrew Weatherall Heavy Disco Dub Remix)
The Dark Esquire - Lexicons (Detachments Remix)
Detachments - Circles (Live Acoustic Version)
Naum Gabo - Pictur (The Loving Hand Parts I - VI Remix)
Brain Machine - Heaven 8
Spectral Empire - Jetstream
Spectral Empire - Metalhawk (Der Rauber Und Der Prinz Remix)
Spectral Empire - Seeing The Invisible
Unknown - Unknown (Discosession Remix)
Parallels - Ultralight
They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Rabbit Seal Monkey (King Of Town Extra 1/4 Remix)

You can download the full 2 hour show from Divshare here and relive the glory! Or if you missed it listen for the first time.

THISISNOTANEXIT DIESEL RADIO SHOW DOWNLOAD LINK

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Diesel Radio Tracklist

Here's the tracklisting from Saturday's radio show on Diesel U Music. All on Thisisnotanexit Records (bar two!).
Thisisnotanexit Radio Show 6th June 2009 Hosted by Simon A. Carr
Moscow - Boson
They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - The Unstoppable Kite (Hatchback Remix)
The Dark Esquire - Temptation
Panda City Band - Night Crash
Night Plane - Chinese Shadows
They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Moon Song (The Gospel According To Mung 2012 Live At The Hacienda Version)
Detachments - The Flowers That Fell (Live Acoustic Version)
Detachments - HAL (Andrew Weatherall Heavy Disco Dub Remix)
The Dark Esquire - Lexicons (Detachments Remix)
Detachments - Circles (Live Acoustic Version)
Naum Gabo - Pictur (The Loving Hand Parts I - VI Remix)
Brain Machine - Heaven 8
Spectral Empire - Jetstream
Spectral Empire - Metalhawk (Der Rauber Und Der Prinz Remix)
Spectral Empire - Seeing The Invisible
Unknown - Unknown (Discosession Remix)
Parallels - Ultralight
They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Rabbit Seal Monkey (King Of Town Extra 1/4 Remix)
I'll post the link up to download the show as soon as I have it (hopefully later this week).

Parallels Clash Magazine Review


Friday, June 05, 2009



This Saturday 6th June Thisisnotanexit Records will be taking over the airwaves on Diesel Radio from 1400 - 1600 GMT. We've got Detachments coming in to play a couple of acoustic tracks from their debut album, George from Spectral Empire playing some newly finished Spectral Empire jams plus myself Simon A. Carr will be spinning a whole load of new Thisisnotanexit material featuring....deep breath...Naum Gabo, Night Plane, Andrew Weatherall, DFA's Tim Goldsworthy, Sankt Goran, Salem, King Of Town, The Dark Esquire, Hatchback, Faze Action....plus some new stuff I'm just generally liking from some like minded independent pioneers....Black Meteoric Star, Factory Floor, Cold Pumas, Optimo Music.....and whatever else I feel like playing. Plus some chat.

Tune in and dropout.

www.cult.diesel.com/radio

Tune in and dropout.

www.cult.diesel.com/radio

Monday, June 01, 2009