Since 2010 Taylor Burch and Joe Cocherell have propelled DVA Damas into a curiously cool fixture for Karl O'Connor's Downwards label. Having released a number of singles and EPs; including Brand New Head (2010), Nightshade (2013), Wet Vision (2015) and Clear Cut (forthcoming 2016), the duo have continued an effortless progression from their DIY punk lineage to a forward facing "now" sound.

While looking forward Burch and Cocherell have taken note from the dubwise, the tripped out and the driving. With tough, lean rhythms, heavy, subsonic bass and tongue-in-cheek wordplay, DVA DAMAS continue to present their contemporary, clever take on pop music.

The new 12" is out on June 5th and you can watch the video for title track "Clear Cut" written and directed by Taylor Burch below.

"To Be Clear, or not to be clear..."

Dedicated To Prince

DVA DAMAS - CLEAR CUT (Official Video) from DVA DAMAS on Vimeo.

“All My Sins Remembered” is a tribute to Australian musician John Murphy, who died on the 11th of October 2015, and at the same time a charity project with all proceeds from the sales to be given to his widow.

This compilation features almost all of the projects he was involved with – whether as a solo musician, contemporary contributor, full band member or session musician – it covers a wide range of genres and styles, and allows a wonderful insight into John Murphy’s rich and complex legacy, featuring: LUSTMORD, KRANG, ASSOCIATES, SHINING VRIL, KRANK, BROWNING MUMMERY, HUGO KLANG, GERECHTIGKEITS LIGA, SOOTERKIN FLESH, KNIFELADDER, BLOOD AND IRON, SPK, WERTHAM, FORESTA DI FERRO, WHITEHOUSE, NEWS, WHIRLYWIRLD, NAEVUS, DUMB AND THE UGLY, VHRIL, THE WALKING CORPSES, SLUB, BLOOD AXIS, OF THE WAND AND THE MOON, NIKOLAS SCHRECK, BORDEL MILITAIRE, THE GRIMSEL PATH, DAVID E. WILLIAMS, MANDRIX, MY FATHER OF SERPENTS & DISCIPLES OF NONE, GENOCIDE ORGAN, ORCHESTRA OF SKIN AND BONE, DIE WEISSE ROSE, ANDREW KING, ZEENA SCHRECK and LAST DOMINION LOST.

This box set is limited to 750 copies and comes in a beautiful design: Lavish black cardboard folder with full colour & gold print, containing three CDs housed in cardboard sleeves and a 32-page booklet with texts by The Epicurean, Andrew King, Alan Bamford and Jon Evans, allowing for detailed insight in the three distinct periods of John Murphy’s musical career, as well as publishing unreleased photographs from his friends’ archives.

For roughly the past 40 years, the cryptic tally of works by Maurizio Bianchi has formulated a somewhat religious rite of passage, a communion of tone and definition based around his various devotional phases in his life. Coming to the forefront of industrial music and noise composition in the late 1970’s, just as the world was recovering from the jarring wake left behind by groups such as Throbbing Gristle and Whitehouse, Bianchi was bundled within the zeitgeist of extreme experimentation due to the use of provocative subject matter and sonic assault. Though by 1983, Maurizio Bianchi seemed to have “disappeared” after conflicting releases and disappointing acceptance amongst his peers. It was not until the mid-90’s when Maurizio Bianchi resurfaced, now with a focus on spiritual guidance and restraint, that he released varied recordings of his newly sculpted ambient works and re-visitations of his now classic albums from the previous decade. Up until present day, Bianchi has enjoyed a renaissance of interest in part due to his expansive reissues of previous works and his dedication to new recordings, which state that Bianchi is still a zenith in the world of the experimental electronic music.

Around 2008, New York City based artist / musician Ryan Martin, of industrial outfit York Factory Complaint andCopley Medal, started correspondence with Bianchi about the reissue of his mechanically clinical ambient masterpiece, Endometrio, for release on Martin’s co-founded imprint, Dais Records. During this time, Martin was forming his own solo label to release private edition works under the title Robert & Leopold and asked Bianchi to present his recent exploratory violin compositions as the label’s debut release. Since that time, Bianchi and Martin have collaborated in various forms including the release of Bianchi’s recent exploration, Arkeomene, and the featuring of Martin’s artwork on the cover of Bianchi’s contentious single, Amentest. Most notably however was the complex and deliberate musical collaboration between the two entitled
As Strong As Death Is.

Spanning the course of two years to write and create, composers Maurizio Bianchi and Ryan Martin took on the pilgrimage of scoring the abstract concept of marriage based on the biblical Song of Solomon. Employing a variety of prepared electronics and conventional instruments along with accompanying strings, tapes and sampled recordings, this abstract collaboration seeks to flesh out the union, to understand the universal desire to be one and explore the yearning for partnership.

Constricted lullabies walk down the aisle to create a consortium of moving, ghost-like haunted consolidation. Mixed and edited by Anthony Mangicapra (Hoor-paar-Kraat) and mastered by Kris Lapke (Alberich / Hospital Productions). Recorded in both New York City and Opera, Italy between the years 2010 and 2012, which saw its initial release in 2013 as a limited double cassette on Martin's own Robert & Leopold imprint in an edition of 100 copies, which quickly went out of print. Italy-based label Backwards has now reissued this manuscript in the form of a double LP vinyl release for listeners in 2016.

Faces On tv debut ep is a collection of hitsingles including "Love/dead" and the new STUBRU Hotshot single and titletrack "Traveling Blind"! Its a 5 song masterclass EP and all 5 songs are potential hitsingles! And this is just the beginning! Faces On Tv is the coming band of 2016! Not only because of his hi crafted singles with a Balthazar quality stamp on it or his major talent to produce singles, but also because Faces On Tv is the only Belgian artist who is just 27 years old and is responsible for at least 15 breakthru album productions in 2015/2016, such as Jef Neve, Gabriel Rios, Bazart, Soldier's Heart, Marble Sounds, Douglas Firs, Warhola, Nordmann, Glints and last but not least the first solo album of Maarten Devoldere of Balthazar called Warhaus!

Warhaus is produced/mixed by Faces On Tv's Jasper Maekelberg and there the story does not end! Jasper will also join the WARHAUS band on tour sept/oct 2016 thru Europe! Faces On Tv is not only a local phenomenan! With hitsingle Love/Dead, Faces On Tv expanded his unique sound cross borders into Holland, Italy, France, UK, Poland, USA etc....Music blogs/sites across Europe have cheered Faces On Tv as the new band from Belgium with a sound so unique that a new style is born: trip pop deluxe! Faces On Tv is here and we will know it by the hits they leave behind:-)