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Massive Music 2003 - 2009

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:42:00 +0000

Massive Music has ceased operations and is no longer accepting new clients- and although it saddens us to close the doors on Massive, all is not lost, as future promotions work for a small list of exclusive labels and artists will still be carried out from helmet room recordings.

Please update your bookmarks!

In addition, if you'd like to purchase your own music promotion database, you can now get your hands on some of the lists used by Massive Music over the past few years. If your band or label could benefit from a CMJ-Radio list, press contacts, AIMS/CIMS retail stores, NAR/Zone Reporter, Roots Music Report, Americana Music Association, Jazz, JamBase, NPR, or any list of the sort please send an email to orders (at) collegeradiolists.com and tell us what you are looking for- we'll get back to you within 24 hours with a quote.

helmet room recordings news update 10.09.09

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Greetings Friends,

Lots of news from helmet room HQ. First off, the long-awaited re-release of antenne "#2" has finally come to fruition, featuring a stellar cover of Nick Drake's "Black Eyed Dog."

Click here to check out antenne on itunes

Click here to check out antenne on emusic

Next up, 2 new tracks from Kal Cahoone with more music in the works from the newest addition to the helmet room roster.

Click here to check out Kal on emusic

Click here to check out Kal on itunes

And finally, a very long overdue release from orbit service who comes out of hibernation with a new song appearing on Beta-lactam Ring Records' cancer benefit CD entitled MOM, which features contributions from The Legendary Pink Dots, Nurse With Wound, Nadja, and a whole lot of other great artists- and all for a good cause.

To read more about it, listen to samples, and order a copy, click HERE

The new track from orbit service features Elin Palmer (Crooked Fingers, Woven Hand, Devotchka, Kal Cahoone) on violin, and coincidentally, Elin is releasing her debut solo CD next week in Denver. Cick HERE if you'd like info on that show.

Special thanks to Bocumast Design for the new helmetroom.com website, which will have a new shop in the coming weeks.

helmet room recordings

beta-lactam ring records

::: an indie alliance :::

New Orbit Service track available on MOM CD from Beta-lactam Ring

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:43:00 +0000

New track from Orbit Service will be appearing on the MOM release on Beta-lactam Ring, (all proceeds going to help Chris' mom in her fight against stomach cancer).

We are super proud to have been asked to contribute for such a worthy cause. The new Orbit Service track features violin work from Elin Palmer (Crooked Fingers, Woven Hand, Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots). Please click here to order a copy of the CD.

Other artists appearing on this special release include: CJ Boyd, One Starving Day, Nadja, Expo '70, Seven That Spells, Troum, Armchair Migraine Journey, LaSTPO, The Legendary Pink Dots, Nurse With Wound, Un Festin Sagital, Earthmonkey, Andrew Liles, Volcano The Bear, and Else Teicher (I hope I didn't leave anyone off!)

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noreply@blogger.com (...) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:42:00 +0000

Troum "Eald-Ge-Streon" reviewed at Mudkiss

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:59:00 +0000

Troum review at Mudkiss

Fans of music to transcendentally meditate to will welcome the latest offering from Bremen based drone doom merchants, Troum. Sumptuously packaged in a gatefold card sleeve designed by Stephen O Malley (sunn 0)))), Eald-Ge-Streon (Beta-lactam Ring Records) is a seven-cycle-drone-concerto that delves deep into the inner psyche of the listener. Atmosphere abounds as waves of analogue sound wash over shores littered with avant references. Troum employ guitar, bass, voice, accordion, balalaika, flute, mouth organ, melodica, gong, field recordings and pre-recorded sounds to weave their tapestry of sound by hand. Call it dark atmospheric ambient industrial, call it transcendental noise, call it Tiefenmusik, if you will, but what ever you elect to call it, there were no samplers or computers involved in the process! Troum is the ancient German word for ‘dream’, and that’s possibly the best way to describe this listening experience: somnambulant. Haunting, evocative and expansive, this is womb music for astral projection, and only true space cadets should apply.

Beta-lactam Ring Records

Troum "Eald-Ge-Streon" lovingly reviewed at Brainwashed by Creaig Dunton

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:54:00 +0000

Troum, "Eald-Ge-Streon"

Written
by Creaig Dunton Sunday,
14 June 2009As
former members of the ambient/industrial project Maeror Tri, the duo now known
as Troum developed and refined their combination of booming atmospheres and subtle
soundscapes. As Troum, they continue their trek into spaciousness, creating
drones of sweeping drama and roar.

Beta-Lactam Ring

The
album consists of a variety of pieces that have been attempted or performed
over the past seven years, appearing here in their most finished states (as
finished as the artists can ever be satisfied with, that is). Opening
with "Elation," the stage is set with low end tones and higher frequency ringing,
crawling along at a slow pace and enshrouded in a tangible amount of reverb.
The following "Useque Sumus Lux" keeps the sub-30hz frequencies pegged out,
but throwing in rhythmic loops and a wider palette of noises. The piece
is a running contrast of loud synths and raw rhythms, yet gentle and delicate
ambient pastiches.Both "Eolet" and "Ecstatic Forlornness" keep the rhythms in
place, though the former is more buried and primitive in nature, while the latter
is much more commanding and clattering. "Ecstatic Forlornness" is based
on heavy elements and a lot of flanging and filtering, but the transitions between
effects are almost too direct and jarring, never allowing the piece to
hit its stride. The cover of Savage Republic’s "Procession" is similar,
but more old school organic in nature. The echoing production is still
present, but the allowance of more traditional rhythms and noticeable,
although highly obscured, vocals give it more of an early 1980s feeling rather
than oblique compositions."Dhanu-H" and the closing "Crescere" eschew the rhythms
for symphonic, sweeping elements of dramatic flair. Both could be the
score to a psychological drama, though the latter’s slow build from near silence
into rawer textures and musical loops might be a bit too jarring to work in
that capacity. Half of the first pressing of this disc includes a bonus
second CD, consisting of the 33 minute track "Abhuna," which continues the dramatic
ambience. Using all of the time allotted to it, the piece builds from
nothing into a slow, sparse piece of glacial drift and reversed tones, reaching
a warm and inviting conclusion instead of the expected raw and dark ending moments.
While the second disc isn’t as impressive as the main album tracks, it does
not detract from the experience either.This set comes packaged in the traditionally
beautiful Beta Lactam way, a heavy mini-gatefold jacket adorned with designs
by Stephen O’Malley that compliment the subtle, yet complex sounds contained
within very well. Considering it is more of a compilation of tracks rather
than an album in the traditional sense, the pieces work extremely well together
to form a coherent whole.

Volcano The Bear / LASTPO covered in Octopus (France)

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:29:00 +0000

Entre la folk-concrète mutante de Volcano The Bear et le post-punk théâtro-tortué de La STPO, les points communs étaient-ils suffisant pour asseoir la pertinence d’une telle entreprise, à savoir un split-album au titre aussi énigmatique que son contenu musical ? La réponse est oui, vous en doutiez ?

Octopus Magazine (France)

Troum "Eald-Ge-Streon" reviewed by Fraçois Couture for All Music Guide!

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:32:00 +0000

Troum
Eald-Ge-Streon
Beta-lactam Ring Records

Troum’s own liner notes start by describing this album as “a collection
of strange songs and odd old jewels.” Don’t take the first part literally,
for the band hasn’t changed its ways, and Eald-Ge-Streon features the
kind of drone music you came to expect from Germany’s prime exponents of
Industrial drone music. However, “odd old jewels” perfectly fits the
contents. The basic tracks for the seven pieces were recorded “years ago,”
on an analog 8-track machine. Left unfinished, they have been used through
the 2000s as backing tracks for live performances, re-worked on, augmented,
and eventually spit-shined for this release. The resulting music is a bit
muddier in sound quality than usual Troum (lots of audio flapping,
although very well used and nicely framed by other sounds), but the music is
more involved, richer, and as taking as Troum’s music ever gets.
Scrutinized, the loops seem to disintegrate under the sheer weight of the
massed guitars, voices and field recordings, yet taken as a whole, the music
is surprisingly light, aerial and ecstatic. Highlights include the opener
and closer, “Elation” and “Crescere,” the latter an uplifting hymn,
plus “Dhânu-h,” whose massed build-up of guitars and percussions is
reminiscent of Godspeed You! Black Emperor-type post-rock, while
remaining pure Troum. It could be argued that the Industrial leanings of
Troum’s mother band Maeror Tri come forward more distinctly on this
release, but they were always there to start with. The first edition of
Eald-Ge-Streon (500 copies) comes with a bonus disc that includes the
33-minute “Abhuñâ,” a brand new track with better sound (obviously a
digital recording) and a more menacing demeanour that make it a nice
complement to the main set.

--
Francois Couture (for All Music Guide)
Critique, journaliste, réalisateur de Délire musical/Délire actuel (CFLX)
Reviewer, journalist, producer of Delire Musical/Delire Actuel (CFLX)

Monsieur Délire, portail du journalisme musical de François Couture
Monsieur Délire, Francois Couture's music journalism blog
http://blog.monsieurdelire.com

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kifwxzu0ldfe

10 Ft. Ganja Plant debuts at #28 on CMJ-New World college radio charts

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:55:00 +0000

Check 'em out here:

Official ROIR website

10 Ft. Ganja Plant on Myspace

They were also #2 most added to radio this week, but who's keeping track?

Heavyweight Dub Champion reviewed in Pop Matters!

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:40:00 +0000

Pop Matters says: "Heavyweight Dub Champion has given the listener a soundtrack for their own internal revolution to become the Last Champion" - read the full review here:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/heavyweight-dub-champion-rise-of-the-champion-nation/

Going for adds to CMJ-New World on July 14, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:48:00 +0000

ARTIST: 10 Ft. Ganja Plant
TITLE: Bush Rock
LABEL: ROIR
FILE UNDER: Reggae/Dub
CAT #: RUSCD 8308 & RUSLP 8308
RELEASE DATE: July 28th, 2009

For radio inquiries please contact:
Randall Frazier at Massive Music
tel: 720-221-8370 (direct) / 877-571-4521 (toll free)
airplay@massivemusicamerica.com
********************************
FOR FANS OF:
John Brown’s Body, Bob Marley, Slightly Stoopid
Going for adds July 14th to CMJ New World

ROIR’s fifth album with 10Ft. Ganja Plant, “Bush Rock” is their most inspired and accomplished to date!

Includes vocals by Kyle McDonald of Slightly Stoopid. 10 Ft. Ganja Plant includes members of John Brown’s Body.

Drev "Failure" reviewed at Side Line Magazine

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:03:00 +0000

Belgium's Side-Line Magazine calls Failure a "a quite hard and explosive cocktail"!

For more information, visit the Labile Records official website.

Heavyweight Dub Champion confirmed for coverage in The Wire

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:32:00 +0000

That's right folks. Look for coverage in the August issue of The Wire Magazine.

Champion Nation Revolution

The Project Pale reviewed at Wildy's World

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:03:00 +0000

The Project Pale review here

"This is a great album."
- Wildy's World

to hear more, visit The Project Pale on Myspace

THE MELTDOWN FESTIVAL IN LONDON KICKS OFF WITH MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA OPENING THE CEREMONY

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:52:00 +0000

Patti Smith & Flea dancing up a storm at the opening ceramony of the Meltdown Festival to out very own Master Musicians of Jajouka w/ Bachir Attar!

Massive Music announces new Viral Marketing Specials

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:56:00 +0000

Massive Music announces discounted Viral Promotion Strategies coupled with Digital Distribution to over 250 retailers via the IODA Network.

Massive Music offers a complete solution for your music. Worldwide Digital Distribution backed up by intelligent and eco-friendly marketing options, which require no printing, no mailing, no packaging and no postage. Get you music heard with minimal impact on the planet.

Our experienced staff will create digital press assets for your project (which are yours to keep and use), and solicit your music to hundreds of bloggers, podcasters, music webzines, magazines, and college and public radio music directors and genre directors all over the planet. We follow up for 4 weeks and present you with a full report of our activities in a handy excel file for your archives. Included in this report you will find documented and confirmed radio airplay activity, reviews of your music with links (and scans when applicable), and quotes or comments from music critics and radio hosts about your music.

All Viral Marketing Specials include WORLDWIDE Digital Distribution to over 250 retailers via the IODA Network at no additional charge, giving you top notch, professional level distribution for all of your titles. There is no limit to the number of releases you may put out under your distribution, and no additional charges for submitting your masters for distribution. In addition, with Massive Music and IODA on your side your titles appear in the services generally 8 weeks after you submit them, allowing you to plan future marketing strategies around the release date of your newest titles.

Heavyweight Dub Champion still hangs at #29 on CMJ-Hip Hop

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:35:00 +0000

For weeks, nay months, we have sailed the high seas of the CMJ-Hip Hop.

Champion Nation Revolution

Edward Ka-Spel's "Dream Logik 2" reviewed at Blog Critics!

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:23:00 +0000

Edward Ka-spel Dream Logik review here

"Like a good dream, Edward Ka-Spel’s latest offering leaves one wondering what exactly just occurred, and wanting desperately to remember every detail of the experience. Unlike a dream, we can just replay Ka-Spel’s vision over and over to get it right."
- Greg Barbrick for Blog Critics

To hear more or to purchase the album with limited edition cover art, visit Beta-lactam Ring Records

We Heart Music also covering the new Troum

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:12:00 +0000

Troum review here

to hear more or to purchase the album with limited edition cover art, visit Beta-lactam Ring Records

Troum "Eald Ge Streon" reviewed at Wildy's World

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:36:00 +0000

Troum review here

to hear more or to purchase the album with limited edition cover art, visit Beta-lactam Ring Records

ROIR's Artist of the Month: Dub Trio

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:29:00 +0000

We're kick starting our new "Artist of the Month" series with Dub Trio! This month, we got Dub Trio specials galore! New Dub Trio shirts, Dub Trio records as low as $5 and a Dub Trio online sampler. Check out the full digs here, and of course all the info is also below...

Why Dub Trio you say? Well because they're on tour with Matisyahu!

Dub Trio & Matisyahu on Tour:

6/2 - The Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA *
6/4 - Minglewood Hall - Memphis, TN *
6/7 - The Palladium - Dallas, TX *
6/8 - House of Blues - Houston, TX *
6/9 - Austin Music Hall - Austin, TX *
6/11 - Rialto Theater - Tucson, AZ %
6/13 - Grand Sierra Resort - Reno, NV
6/16 - Wiltern Theatre - Los Angeles, CA %
6/18 - Ventura Theatre - Ventura, CA %
6/19 - House of Blues - Las Vegas, NV %
6/21 - Pozo Saloon - San Luis Obispo - CA
6/23 - Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR %
6/24 - The Moore Theatre - Seattle, WA %
6/25 - Knitting Factory - Boise, ID %
6/27 - In The Venue - Salt Lake City, UT
6/29 - The Belly Up - Aspen, CO
7/1 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
7/13 - The Opera House - Toronto, ON
7/14 - Mainstreet Armory - Rochester, NY
7/15 - Newport Music Hall - Columbus, OH

* also w/ Les Claypool
% also with K'Naan

Check out this crazy video of ROIR president, Lucas dancing with Matis! Hahaha!

Visit:
http://www.dubtrio.com
http://www.matisyahuworld.com

New Dub Trio t-shirts!

Hot off the (t-shirt) presses!!! These suckers are now sale... only $12.00 (regularly $15.00).

Check them all out here.

Dub Trio records on SALE!

All our Dub Trio records are now on super duper mega sale (as low as $5 for vinyl! WHAT!?!?!?)! We've also got free mp3s from "Exploring the Dangers Of" & "New Heavy"!

- DUB TRIO Exploring the Dangers Of CD/LP now only $10 (reg. $13)
- DUB TRIO New Heavy CD/LP now only $10 (reg. $13)
- DUB TRIO Not Alone 7" now only $3 (reg. $5)
- DUB TRIO Cool Out & Coexist CD now only $8 (reg. $11.50)
- DUB TRIO Another Sound is Dying LP now only $10 (reg. $13)

Compilations featuring Dub Trio are now also on sale!
- VARIOUS ARTISTS So Indie It Hurts: ROIR Rocks Vol 1 LP now only $5 (reg. $8)
- VARIOUS ARTISTS Essential Dub

Download or Stream the Dub Trio Sampler

32 minutes of the best DT tracks!
Limited time only!

Download it here (30MB .zip)
Right Click & select "Save Target As"

Stream it here
Window will pop up with the Dub Trio radio player!

TRACKS:
1. Drive By Dub (from Exploring the Dangers Of)
2. Scoop & Smash 'Em (from Exploring the Dangers Of)
3. Not Alone feat. Mike Patton (from New Heavy)
4. Screaming at the Sea (from New Heavy)
5. Jack Bauer LIVE (from Cool Out & Coexist)
6. Who Wants to Die LIVE (from Cool Out & Coexist)
7. Not for Nothing (from Another Sound is Dying)
8. Jog on (from Another Sound is Dying)

Heavyweight Dub Champion climbs to #29 on CMJ-Hip Hop

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:09:00 +0000

Heavyweight Dub Champion climbs to #29 on the CMJ-Hip Hop chart this week with "Rise Of The Champion Nation"

click for tour dates and tracks...

On Deck: New 10ft. Ganja Plant heading to CMJ-New World Radio

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:17:00 +0000

New Release coming your way from ROIR:

Artist: 10 Ft. Ganja Plant
Album: Bush Rock

Features members of John Brown's Body, as well as KILLER vocals from Kyle McDonald of Slightly Stoopid (who also is touring with Snoop Dogg this summer, by the way.)

Adding to CMJ-New World radio on July 14th, 2009
Street Date:July 28, 2009

Need a copy for your radio programming?

Contact:
Randall Frazier
airplay@massivemusicamerica.com
720.221.8370 (direct)
877.571.4521 (t. free)
Massive Music America
Massive Music on Myspace

David Grissom dominating the country charts

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:07:00 +0000

David's amazing new album has been in the top 5 for over a month now and came in again last week at #2 on the Roots Music Roots Country chart! Check out the album here

Heavyweight Dub Champion added at KCRW

noreply@blogger.com (...) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:02:00 +0000

That's right, Heavyweight Dub Champion is spinning on
KCRW