SONIC MASALA: Radar Men From The Moon

Saturday, 2 March 2013

Laying Down In Space With Llamas

The second psych earworm of the weekend comes courtesy of Italian one-man project The Lay Llamas. He's just released a cassette through Helsinki based Jozik Records, and its a scorching mind melt. In the man's own words:

"the LAY LLAMAS is a tribe that in the year 2092 AD starts a trip from an unknown region of Nigeria on a self-built spacecraft (track A1) to reach a planet that they continued to observe every night from the earth and inexplicably attracted them. Once there, explore the planet (track A2) until they meet a totem called the Big Snake (track B1) who will point the way for the purification and elevation to a higher state of consciousness (track B2)."

And you thought Radar Men From The Moon were out in the ether... This is deliciously warped stuff, occasionally borrowing from kosmiche tensions and avant-garde electronica, liberally dosed in PCP and the dust of angels. My eyes are bloodshot from just listening to this. Pretty solid, if I say so myself...I need to go lie down.

Buy The Lay Llamas here.

Radar Moon Echo

Good morning, rise and shine! There are radar men on the moon!

Maybe there are, not sure. But as it's an overcast, rainy day in Brisbane on this Saturday, I'm getting psyched out, and the Dutch spaced out instrumental rockers Radar Men From The Moon are the guys to set me on my way. Named after a 1952 sci-fi serial - which is already pretty rad - the Eindhoven trio intercut B movie dialogue with their heavy grooves, this is interplanetary brutality. Echo Forever is insidious, worming its way inside you... Get ready to drop out on this one.

You can pre-order Echo Forever here through Fuzz Club Records - Radar Men From The Moon are also playing Roadburn Festival this year, which will also be the official launch of this record, so if you have a chance catch them, you won't be disappointed.

Radar Men From The Moon - Echo Forever
Radar Men From The Moon - Heading For The Void

About

It was early on a Sunday morning at ATP - A Nightmare Before Christmas 2009. After downing a fair few, at 4am we decided to cook a curry. It was during the consumption of this drunkenly delicious breakfast treat that we decided to actually do something about the music we talk about all the time.

So we started a blog – and Sonic Masala was born. Now into its seventh year, the blog has spread out to call both Australia and the UK its home (and the rest of the world), and has expanded to include gigs, festivals and a record label under its black umbrella. Come on, eat the noize.

If an mp3 is up here, it's because we have been talking about it, and think the whole world needs to know more. It's there to give you a little taste. Then, if you like, check out the band live and spend all your hard earned cash on their records. If we've posted up an mp3 of your stuff and you're not too keen on the idea, let us know and we'll happily take it down pronto.