Reviews

Marco Minnemann – ‘Celebration’ [Review]

Marco Minnemann

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Considering Marco Minnemann’s EEPS was TMMP’s second-favourite album of 2014, expecting its successor to top it might seem somewhat unreasonable on paper. Still, with Celebration Marco has done just that. For this 18-track (very) long player, the lighthearted quirky-playful approach which permeated EEPS has been largely set aside in favour of grim, determined seriousness.

Opening tune Miami sets the tone with thrashy guitar, ominous brass, the occasional spy movie chord, and some cheeky synths to remind us that behind it all, Marco Minnemann’s sense of the tongue-in-cheek is Read more…

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Posted on 04 June 2015

Interviews

Pat Mastelotto [Interview]

Pat Mastelotto

Pat Mastelotto is a busy guy. His CV is a mile long, including his current position as King Crimson’s drumming lynchpin; one third of acclaimed virtuoso trio Stick Men (alongside Tony Levin and Markus Reuter); and a huge range of additional projects including KoMaRa (whose self-titled album was reviewed on TMMP here), and O.R.k. (whose album Inflamed Rides received the TMMP treatment here). This is an epic-length interview Pat Mastelotto treated with the same generous attitude as anything with which he becomes involved.

Whether you’re a fan of King Crimson, Stick Men, KoMaRa, O.R.k., the man himself, or any of his other innumerable projects, you’ll find a ton of fascinating info here. Read on… Read more…

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Posted on 03 June 2015

Features

KoMaRa (Feat. Pat Mastelotto) To Release Debut Album on 30th June [Feature]

KoMaRa

Although I’m normally against copying and pasting press releases, prog fans just need to hear this straight from the source:

KoMaRa:
Boundary-Breaking, Cinematic Industrial Ethno-Rock From
 King Crimson’s Pat Mastelotto and Renowned Avant-Experimentalists David Kollar and Paolo Raineri
 
KoMaRa’s self-titled debut album is based on a dark, deviant and explicit detective story. It reflects the mysterious circumstances of an abduction and the ultimate demise of the abductee. It’s a NSFW, Rated-R release designed for the open-minded and brave. Unnerving, haunting artwork by Tool’s Adam Jones further underlines the album’s provocative vibe. Read more…

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Posted on 12 May 2015

Interviews

Mat Ducasse (Skylab) [Interview]

Skylab

With legendary electronica collective Skylab re-releasing their classic albums #1 and #2: 1999 (Large As Life And Twice As Natural) on June 9, TMMP caught up with core member Mat Ducasse for an incredibly in-depth interview…

Tummy Touch are re-releasing Skylab’s albums #1 (1994) and #2: 1999 (Large As Life And Twice As Natural) (1999) next month. How do you feel thinking back to the years those albums were released?

Hmm. Well, they were certainly interesting times.

In London in 1994 it was all about the raves, the chillouts and so on – or the tail end of that, of which I’m ambivalent. But it was also a time of open-ended creativity. Which is nice. But for me personally it was a time of great upheaval, even chaos, which began pretty soon after the completion of Read more…

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Posted on 08 May 2015

Reviews

Skylab – ‘#1’ & ‘#2: 1999 (Large As Life And Twice As Natural)’ [Double Review]

Skylab

skylabskylab 2Electronica fans are in for a treat this June, as the influential Tummy Touch Records gear up to re-release a pair of classic experimental albums by creative collective Skylab. The result of collaborative efforts between Howie B (Björk; U2), the UK’s Read more…

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Posted on 06 May 2015

Features

Marco Minnemann Set To Release New Album ‘Celebration’ [Feature]

Marco Minnemann

Long-time TMMP readers will remember Marco Minnemann’s solo album EEPS, which wound up becoming TMMP’s #2 album of the year in 2014. I waxed lyrical about that album’s sheer awesomeness here, and got chatting to Marco about EEPS, happiness, and the importance of good sex here. Now, Marco is set to release a brand new album, entitled Celebration, on June 1st.

Rest assured, Read more…

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Posted on 03 May 2015

Reviews

Black Peaks – ‘Crooks’ [Review]

Black Peaks

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Whenever I listen to Black Peaks, I wind up with a massive grin splitting my face like a Halloween pumpkin. Their Closer To The Sun EP has been played so many times at TMMP HQ that I’m sure the ones and zeroes are starting to wear out, and the more recent Glass Built Castles pushed things even further toward trance-inducing bliss overload.

In short, Read more…

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Posted on 28 April 2015

Reviews

Morning Bound – ‘Morning Bound EP’ [Review]

Morning Bound

The hell with the UK. I’m moving to NYC.

New York has long been associated with none-more-cool music of assorted kinds, and this EP continues that home-town tradition by eschewing norms and traditions in favour of a purely eccentric, experimental approach to composition and performance. I Did Fine features Read more…

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Posted on 15 April 2015

Reviews

Steve Vai – ‘Stillness In Motion (Vai Live In L.A.)’ [Review]

Steve Vai

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Steve Vai does not do things by halves.

Stillness In Motion is an instrumental guitar DVD extravaganza like no other. As with every other Vai release to date, Stillness In Motion is riddled with Steve Vai’s signature sense of artistry, humour, and no-holds-barred dedication to quality. Running at over 6 hours (one roughly two-and-a-half-hour show augmented by Read more…

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Posted on 08 April 2015

Live Reviews

Karnivool / Monuments [Live Review – The Roundhouse, Camden, 28/3/2015]

Screen shot 2015-03-29 at 14.16.57On the way to this show, I was propositioned by a prostitute; had a guy try to sell me a bible; and was challenged to a fight by a homeless man.

All in the same McDonald’s.

Thanks to my quest to avoid bruises, black eyes, STIs, and religion, I wound up Read more…

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Posted on 29 March 2015

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