Krim Kram

02/08/2024

Got a small handful of Rocker #5 for sale. €14 plus postage. DM or email ([email protected]) if interested.

19/06/2024

Nice reviews of Kapotte Muziek 'Discon' and Arv & Miljö 'Samling' in Rocker #4. Typo in the Arv & Miljö title (label name incorrectly given as artist and title).

12/06/2024

Swell review of Meilt tape by Byron Coley in this month's Wire.

24/05/2024

Zalhietzli 'Étreinte' is Tip of the Week over at Satatuhatta 🙏

https://satatuhatta.net/blogs/tip-of-the-week/tip-of-the-week-21-24-zalhietzli-etreinte-cs-krim-kram

21/05/2024

Neat little review of Bren't Lewiis Ensemble 'Hand Signals' in Akti vol. 2. Highly recommend the zine, it's great. Looking forward to more issues in the future.

Side note: that Apostles 2xLP also reviewed here is fantastic too.

07/05/2024

Latest batch (Zalhietzli, Meilt & Zheng Hao) reviewed in this week's Vital Weekly:

CELER – IT WOULD BE GIVING UP (4CD by Two Acorns) * MARTIJN HOHMANN – GAANDEWEG (CD by Universaal Kunst) * NASMAK – PM2: PLOWING MUD – TIME IS A FRIEND (CD by Nasmak) *

05/04/2024

Three new releases available now:
- Zalhietzli - Étreinte CD
- Meilt - Jasu Jest CS
- Zheng Hao - Breaks CD

Further info + audio samples at www.krimkram.com

Order direct ([email protected]) or through Bandcamp (krimkram.bandcamp.com).

31/03/2024

Upcoming gig on Friday week! The amazing Zheng Hao is coming to Cork to play a launch gig for her new CD, Breaks, which will be available in the next few days. Also playing on the night is Oootini. Tickets available shortly.

14/03/2024

Super piece in today's Bandcamp Daily by Stewart Smith on Usurper's 19 years and 364 days together ❤️

Scottish experimental group Usurper are calling it a day; they take us through key releases from their quirky catalog.

12/03/2024

"To cut it short, this is an absolutely mandatory 2CD compilation"

- Noise King Vilho Satatuhatta on Arv & Miljö 'Samling' 2CD

https://satatuhatta.net/blogs/tip-of-the-week/tip-of-the-week-8-24-arv-miljo-samling-2cd-krim-kram

24/01/2024

Missed these Arv & Miljö and Kapotte Muziek Vital Weekly reviews (from the week before last) in the back to school chaos ...

Vital Weekly has been going strong since 1995 as a labour of love and sheer persistence for the love of underground music. Today, with Vital Weekly 1419, we officially present our new website.

19/01/2024

Two new releases available now:

Arv & Miljö - Samling 2CD
Kapotte Muziek - Discon CD

Further info + audio samples at www.krimkram.com

Order direct ([email protected]) or through Bandcamp (krimkram.bandcamp.com).

11/01/2024

Claire Sawers sez kind hings about Usurper’s last stand in the most recent issue of The Wire. Thanks, Claire.

03/01/2024

Usurper 'The Big Two' review in this week's Vital Weekly: https://www.vitalweekly.net/number-1418/

Insider music for those in the know

17/12/2023

This month's Fantastica by Rock n Roll Jackie on dublab is a two-hour Rick Potts special ❤️

https://www.dublab.com/schedule/994l5ajo82150s1v0iogjo19ej_20231218T040000Z/jackie-stewartfantastica:-rick-potts-greatest-hits

15/12/2023

Throwing a small pre solstice knees up with Nyahh Records in plugd next Tuesday. Free in*. Short live sets by Natalia Beylis, Eimear Reidy and Phil Langero. Brian O'Shaughnessy (ex DotDotDot) will be joining myself and Willie on the wheels of steel.

*There'll be a donation box if peeps want to contribute towards travel costs.

01/12/2023

Available now (after a bit of a delay): Usurper - The Big Two CD.

Order by email ([email protected]) or at https://krimkram.bandcamp.com

Further details at https://www.krimkram.com

Mastered by Grant Richardson.
Layout by Rory O'Brien.

Summerhall live photo by Alejandro Basterrechea.

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Here's the last will and testament of Usurper. The final curtain on two decades of heroic toil in the experimental/noise/improv/no-audience underground. Over the course of their twenty year existence, Usurper developed into one of the most original and uncompromising groups to emerge from the early 2000's sub-sub underground, always pushing themselves (and audiences) to new territory. They were fearlessly experimental, with seemingly limitless reserves of creativity. Their performances were utterly unique, combining elements of post-Fluxus performance art and absurdist theatre with a thoroughly Luddite sound palette (via a veritable flea market's worth of dismantled instruments, household detritus, and recontextualised children's toys). Within their twenty years together, they developed their own colloquial Gesamtkunstwerk, continuously blurring the lines between sound, performance, theatre, and life.

I'm immensely proud to be releasing this CD. When I asked Ali and Malcy to do a release on the label, I couldn't have foreseen that it would be their swansong. I'm biased of course but I think this collection of sounds and radio play miniatures is as good a way to clock out as can be. I hope it brings you as much joy and smiles as it has brought to me.

Farewell ♥

03/11/2023

Did an interview for Keeping Track on UCC98.3FM. Listen back here: https://on.soundcloud.com/JGWcNLzYBQZW4Fwm9

Features tracks from upcoming releases by Adam Bohman, Creep of Paris, and Tori Kudo, alongside tracks from existing releases by Bren't Lewiis Ensemble, Sm**ma, Rick Potts, and Usurper.

13/10/2023

Hot off the press, arrived just in time for tomorrow's farewell Usurper show. I'll be hauling copies to Edinburgh with me this evening. Will be on general sale next week x

Duff & Robertson - Usurper

06/09/2023

Lovely review of LDSN & Yakkida tape over on Foxy Digitalis.

https://foxydigitalis.zone/2023/09/06/the-capsule-garden-vol-2-33-september-6-2023/

06/09/2023

New batch reviewed in this week's Vital Weekly. See

Vital Weekly, the webcast: we offer a weekly webcast, freely to download. This can be regarded as the audio-supplement to Vital Weekly. Presented as a radioprogramm with excerpts of just some of the releases reviewed. It will remain on the site for a limited period (most likely 2-4 weeks). Download....

12/08/2023

Available now:

LDSN & Yakkida - Can Yr Ysgol CS
Ted Byrnes - Roads CD
Luciano Maggiore & Michael Speers - necesse est numquam revelare stercorem tuum CD

Further info + samples at www.krimkram.com

Order by email ([email protected]) or through Bandcamp (https://krimkram.bandcamp.com).

Note: cheaper to order direct and download codes available on request.

07/08/2023

Upcoming launch gig for forthcoming LDSN & Yakkida cassette, 'Can Yr Ysgol'.

Wed 16th Aug | plugd | 7pm | €10

Tickets: https://plugdrecords.com/collections/events/products/krim-kram-presents-ldsn-yakkida-claire-guerin-eamon-ivri-krimkram02/

FB event page: https://fb.me/e/2NfIfCDwd

14/06/2023

Three new releases available very soon:

LDSN & Yakkida 'Can Yr Ysgol' C-60
Ted Byrnes 'Roads' CD
Luciano Maggiore & Michael Speers 'necesse est numquam revelare stercorem tuum' CD

24/05/2023

"From total abstraction within the context of a song to, well, a good song. Plunderphonics is next to rocky weirdness; it is a lot of music and a lot of ground covered here, but it is delightful."

Frans de Waard on Rick Potts 'Don't Think' in this week's Vital Weekly. Cyess Afxzs CD also reviewed. Read here:

Vital Weekly, the webcast: we offer a weekly webcast, freely to download. This can be regarded as the audio-supplement to Vital Weekly. Presented as a radioprogramm with excerpts of just some of the releases reviewed. It will remain on the site for a limited period (most likely 2-4 weeks). Download....

22/05/2023

"No Bull One Left Behind especially deals in complex textures that resist simple divisions of abrasive vs. atmospheric, processed vs. pure, etc., wielded in tensile strands that are rattled, strung, and braided across an expansive stereo field."

Jack Davidson on Cyess Afxzs 'No Bull One Left Behind'.

Full review at https://noisenotmusic.com/.

05/05/2023

Available now:

Cyess Afxzs - No Bull One Left Behind CD
Rick Potts - Don't Think 2CD

Further info + samples at www.krimkram.com

Order by email ([email protected]) or through Bandcamp (https://krimkram.bandcamp.com)

24/04/2023

This gig is tonight! Ticket link in original post.

Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø
Adam Campbell & Aonghus McEvoy

Mon 24th April, 7:30pm | plugd | €10

Tickets: https://plugdrecords.com/collections/events/products/krim-kram-presents-henrik-munkeby-norstebo-adam-campbell-aonghus-mcevoy-kramkram3/

HENRIK MUNKEBY NØRSTEBØ - phantom orchestra (2021): http://vimeo.com/797677843

FB event page: https://fb.me/e/35tEk2pV4

20/04/2023

This coming Monday!

Tickets: https://plugdrecords.com/collections/events/products/krim-kram-presents-henrik-munkeby-norstebo-adam-campbell-aonghus-mcevoy-kramkram3/

Same lineup plays Unit 44 in Dublin on Sunday.