New 7" ep - Oktronium: Pseudo Pop

After several years, hamarplazt is finally back, this time with a 7" EP from the new and rather bizarre odense-based projekt Oktronium.

Oktronium is a self-generating music system, evolved from old hardware and renegade software. Mutated algorithms continously exchange and incorporate unstable electro-organic machines and human components given the task of carrying out the visions of the system. The result doesn't sound like anything ever heard before - elastic beats, angular 8-bit structures and absurd scraps of melody twist and turn in unexpected constellations, as cartoony colourful as they are insidiously alien.

Pseudo Pop is a 7" EP containing almost 15 minutes of music, its four tracks spanning unruly rubber funk on Yum Yum Eurypticon, plastic scrapheap-grooves on Data Leech and Faceborg, and wobbling soda-pop for twisted computer game characters on Zuckerrausch. As such, the EP is a welcome demonstration that electronic music can still be fully futuristic and strange, while completely rejecting all dull notions of "good taste".

The EP can be heard in full on Oktroniums soundcloud site, and should be available from Rillbar soon.

New Rillbar Site

Rillbar distribution have their new site up and running, more or less, with all four hamarplazt-records available. There's no webshop as such yet, so contact them for further details.

Also, a clip from Giedo Primos concert at Danish Synt Festival 2011 have been uploaded to youtube here.

New Genespleizer ep + other news

After much delay, Genespleizers Skrotwerk ep has finally been released. 30 minutes of dark, noisy, and grungy skrot-core, with elements of acid, breakcore and doomcore. The tracklist is:

A1: The Black Time
A2: Skrotstep 2017
B1: Darklands
B2: Over Frozen Zones

All four tracks can be heard on youtube on bashcorpos channel, so check them out and then get the vinyl. Danish distribution for this, and indeed for all hamarplazt releases now, is handeled by Rillbar, but the record can also be ordered from the excellent swedish shop Snickars, through their discogs shop.

In addition to the Genespleizer-tracks, a lot of Giedo Primo tracks can now also be heard on youtube, also through the bashcorpo channel. These include the unreleased Future Colours and an older, unreleased version of Skrot Brothers. Of other hamarplazt-related artists, there's plenty of Ras Bolding to be found on youtube as well.

Furthermore, Giedo Primo will be playing live november 19th at Danish Synth Festival 2011, at Lygten Station in Copenhagen. Admission is DKR 50, and Giedo will be playing at 20:30 as the first act.

Giedo Primo, Commodore Combat Unit, Ras Bolding and Papa Stein will all be playing live in Århus, at a SKROT-showcase october 2. It'll be at Musikcaféen, Mejlgade 53, tickets are 40 DKR, and doors open at 8:30 PM.

Time schedule for the concerts is approximately:
21:00 - Papa Stein
22:00 - Giedo Primo
23:00 - Ras Bolding
00:00 - Commodore Combat Unit

During breaks Giedo Primo and Interzone will play some records, and Ekkoregimet might do a special improvised encore to end the evening.

The Ammonia Globe is gone!! It had only just started to get the recognition it deserved, with the SKROT-compilation, and then they do exactly the thing we were trying to prevent. The stupidity and cruelty is beyond words. The globe will never be forgotten, and neither will the crime of its destruction. The bastards responsible for this deserves to be spat in the face for all eternity.

The globe will rise again. Preferably in Odense Town Hall Square!

The concerts for the official release of SKROT and Empty Circles went pretty well, so thanks to anyone for showing up despite the weather. Both records are now available in Moby Disc in Odense, and they can also be ordered online from Labelkollektivs shop.

Next skrot koncert is with Ras Bolding may 28, some place outside of Odense. Further information will presumably appear on his website.

On may 29, the day after, there will be a concert with Giedo Primo, Commodore Combat Unit and Ekkoregimet/Genespleizer at Havnekulturfestivalen in Odense, as a part of Urban Art Projects thing there.
Location: Vasagade 14
Time: 9 PM
Entrance: Free!!

Releaseparty may 8th 2010 + distribution.

Eight of the ten acts on the SKROT-compilation will be playing at the official release-party 8th of may i Odense. The concerts will be in the outside area Farvergården at Kulturmaskinen, as a part of Kulturmaskinen Festival, and will start at 8 pm.


Approximate times for the concerts:
08:00 pm - Hr. Eide
08:20 pm - Genespleizer
08:45 pm - Commodore Combat Unit
09:10 pm - Papa Stein
09:35 pm - Giedo Primo
10:00 pm - Organbox
10:10 pm - Ras Bolding
10:35 pm - Ekkoregimet

Within Denmark, Hamarplazt will be distributed by Labelkollektiv, and it will also be possible to buy the records directly through their web shop.