VHS Head - Video Club

VHS Head - Video Club

Skald023

September 21st

CD and Digital

and there is a myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/vhshead

is the label called 'new skam'?

Just independently came across this as well, glad to see Skam isn't completely dead.

Samples, sounds Doyobi-esque

http://www.whatpeopleplay.com/browse/album/?id=14046&tid=61275&found=tracks

The song on their MySpace is one of the coolest things I've heard in a long time. Awesome!

And are those samples from Claudio Simonetti's Demons soundtrack?

no vinyl release?

Doesn't look like it, sadly enough. I remember Skam holding out for Bola Kroungrine, so we can still hope.

Lets hope so, im still holding out for the 3rd Mr 76ix album.

best thing i've heard in a while too!

Sounds pretty cool!

According to Norman Records page about the release (I'm guessing this is the press release):

"Blackpool based artist VHS Head began making music in 1999. Usingvideo tape as the primary sound source and 80's B movies as hisinspiration. The music is a collage of vocals, stuttering guitars anddrum hits taken from a vast amount of ex-rental videos teleporting thelistener back to the golden era of the VHS format.

This budget-priced mini-album is packaged in in limited edition black jewel case, containing a video club membership card."

I'd bet that he's sampling heavily from Demons, one of the most 80s movies I've seen. It also has an awesome cheesy 80s soundtrack.... worth checking out if you haven't seen it.

album is well cheap too!

... has it leaked yet?

Well... Where do you go to buy physical Skam albums now? Their shop is still fucked!

Boomkat and Bleep usually carries Skam releases

Sounds pretty fucking good from the samples. Getting this for sure.

sounds interesting ,like the next generation of Jackon and his computer band, it has that really intense plunderphonic Oizo vibe to it but with an Autechre/Dyobi twist

yeah, I got the jackson/french type vibe too, but I don't know if the tracks in that style are as good as actual jackson/french tracks etc. The tracks that are less in that vein seem to be my favorite.

some of this stuff really reminds me of the latest gescom. which makes sense. Especially B1 with all those voices.

  On 10/1/2009 at 4:08 AM, Joebot Kill said:

some of this stuff really reminds me of the latest gescom. which makes sense. Especially B1 with all those voices.

in a good way?

Growler Spit You Out really reminds me of the music playing in the club section in Robocop (where he goes after one of the bad guys in the club)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNI0edYAdwI

Some of the sounds were definitely taken from this song (video somewhat graphic):

there was a session on the mary anne hobbs show. anyone catch that?

great mix/section by VHS head, definitely worth checking out - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ny8qm/Mary_Anne_Hobbs_Sigha_VHS_Head_and_Mizz_Beats/

some of the songs in here are superior to anything on the VHS head ep

anyone make a recording as o fyet?

the link i posted is a recording of the show, the VHS part is about exactly 1 hour in