Foot Village

Foot Village is contributing two tracks to the Deathbomb Digital Singles Club. At least one, if not both tracks, will be a collaboration with Juiceboxxx. Subscribers get new music each monday. 52 bands contributing 2 songs each. Plus some bonus releases. So 104+ unreleased songs. And just $10 to be a member no matter where you live on the planet.

To subscribe, please visit: http://deathbombarc.bigcartel.com/product/deathbomb-digital-singles-club

Here is info from Deathbomb, including a list of all the confirmed acts:
In the tradition of the Deathbomb Arc Tape Club, Deathbomb is excited to announce the Deathbomb Digital Singles Club. Embracing new trends in digital technology, this club expands on our mission of bringing you new music, from both well known and totally underground bands, at an unbelievably affordable price.

Beginning the first monday in September 2010, and going till Sept 2011, subscribers will be send a secret link and password to 2 previously unreleased tracks. Each week will be a different band covering a huge variety of genres from noise-rock to breakcore, from witch house to new age and more. Each digital single will have gorgeous art made for it by Mario Zoots of Modern Witch.

The tracks will be made available in both hi-res and mp3 quality. In addition to the 52 weeks of new singles, occasional bonus releases will be sent to subscribers. For the mere $10 subscription cost, you will end up getting these previously unreleased tracks for less than 10 cents each.

Here are just a few of the acts confirmed so far:
Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk
Back To The Future The Ride
Batwings Catwings
BITCHES
Blackbird Blackbird
Blissed Out
Captain Ahab
C V L T S
Divorce
Ear Pwr
Endless Endless Endless
Ghost Animal “Shapes Take Shape”
Girls in the Eighties
Haunted Horses
IE
Jason Forrest
Juiceboxxx / Foot Village collaboration
Kevin Greenspon
Kiss Kiss Fantastic
Mickey Mickey Rourke
Miguel Mendez & Joel Jerome (member of Dios)
Modern Witch
Pariah Carey
Railcars
Rale
Saivus
Sickboy
Sister Fucker (members of Child Pornography & ex-Coughs)
Teeth
Turbine
tik///tik
The Urxed (member of High Places)
U.S. Girls
VNC

Bonus Releases:
Yuma Nora rarities/unreleased tracks ep
Vancouver BC compilation feat: Animal Bodies, Twin Crystals, Holzkopf, Myths, Stamina Mantis, Reflektionss, N.213, Filip Gorecki, Nuggeteer, more!!

A free online comp of bands that Foot Village played with while in EU. Includes 2 live versions of unreleased Foot Village tracks.

http://deathbombarc.com/releases/dba107.htm

1. Foot Village “Lovers With Iraqis (Live @ CCA)”
2. Divorce “Early Christianity”
3. BITCHES “Vampire”
4. Silk Flowers “Chance Of Showers”
5. Ultimate Thrush “Complex Cats”
6. Shift-Static “Father’s Footsteps I”
7. King Alexander “Tall Tales”
8. Joy Of Sex “Weather Controller (Live @ The Thunderbolt)”
9. Hyper Black Bass “Contona”
10. Coupe Coup “Monojupette”
11. Simple Appareil “Worth The Trip”
12. Sausage Party “Up Fuckery (live)”
13. Blue Sabbath Black Fiji “Swimming To Florida”
14. Foot Village “Totally Tween (Live @ CCA)”

New “Slash” tee shirt design by Citizen Taylor-Fantastic.

Get one here: http://deathbombarc.bigcartel.com/product/foot-village-slash-tee-shirt

AB079 (on Absolutely Kosher)

The Foot Village song is a cover of IE’s “Kim ILL”. 60 Watt Kid is cali superstar Kevin Litrow (from Dance Disaster Movement) and crew. Full color art (one side done by none other than Jen Ray!) and the Foot Village side begins with a very insane and special surprise before the song begins! Hope you like structuralist art?!!?!?!?!?

Get it from us here: Deathbomb Arc Webstore
From Absolutely Kosher here: AK Webstore
and from iTunes here: Click here to load iTunes webstore

Cold Hands Video has released a dvd of live performances filmed at the Smell. It features The Mae Shi, Foot Village, Ponytail, Abe Vigoda, High Places, Gowns, BARR, No Age, HEALTH, and Captain Ahab.

Outtake of from the Foot Village performance (unmastered):

Trailer:
http://www.vimeo.com/4954219

“Featuring over 2 hours of live bands from Los Angeles and beyond, “Live at The Smell” captures the live energy that pumps through LA’s legendary independent DIY all-ages venue. Recorded in high-quality audio and video over a month period in Fall 2008, the DVD gives you the feeling of being immersed in one of the many gigs presented there each week for over 10 years. The music is clean and powerful, the footage is raw and wild, and the energy is LIVE.

“Presented on a gorgeous 6-panel Digipak with superb all-mural photographs by Wild Don Lewis and liner notes by Jim Smith (owner / operator of The Smell), “Live at The Smell” is a collector’s document, something you won’t want to miss. Even if it gets on NetFlix, even when you find it on your favorite torrent site, it won’t be the same as holding it in your hand. 6 murals are represented – featuring artists Cali deWitt, Jesse Spears, and some unknown dude from the 80s when it was a caballero bar.

“The bands featured on this movie are the cream of the indie-alt-rock / experimental bands that play the club on a regular basis: Mae Shi, Foot Village, Ponytail, Abe Vigoda, High Places, Gowns, BARR, No Age, HEALTH, Captain Ahab (in order of appearance). Culled from 20 hours of live concerts, the movie is at times slick broadcast-quality so to speak, and othertimes fuzzy and blown out, all the while with clean and loud audio, mastered by Mike Lastra. We harnessed the sun and the moon for a little while with all our mighty little cameras, and we bring you their shining lights and their madness in all our audiophonic fidelity.

“Proceeds from the sale of this DVD will help support The Smell’s operations, so buy them while you can. The Smell is a money-losing for-profit venture; its profit is in the heart of the LA freak-noise-punk-art-music scene.” – Cold Hands Video

Available from Cold Hand Video here.
Available from us here.

US Friends Buy It Here: http://deathbombarc.bigcartel.com/product/foot-village-anti-magic-cd-lp
UK/EU Friends Buy It Here: http://upsettherhythm.co.uk/shop.shtml

UTR032 (on Upset The Rhythm)

TAKE mp3 http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/footvillage/UTR032/T.A.K.E..mp3
REGGAE WAR ZONE mp3 http://deathbombarc.com/sound/fv/02%20Reggae%20War%20Zone.mp3
REGGAE WAR ZONE music video: http://vimeo.com/5791016
TAKE Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvy0Ly7wPS8
REGGAE WAR ZONE Live: http://vimeo.com/5929796

After a recent collection of singles, EP tracks and remixes on Gilgongo, Foot Village return with their new record proper called ‘Anti-Magic’. Describing ‘Anti-Magic’ as a collection of drum essays embracing the physical and rejecting the imaginary, Foot Village rise to a concept. First album ‘World Fantasy’ was concerned with songs about other countries, whilst follow-up ‘Friendship Nation’ documented the founding of Foot Village as a nation in it’s own right.

With this new album the story of the nation’s first war is discussed. A war in opposition to magic and spirituality. A record about resistance to the heathen hordes of sorcerers, prophets and pretenders. This is not a story that Foot Village are telling to make them look like saviours though. It’s a warning to not believe everything you’re told.

Contrary to a first listen to the band’s run riot sound, Foot Village are decidedly anti-jam. Very few parts of the record are improvised and their songs are heavily worked on and involved. This can be appreciated on this new album more than ever. “Crybaby” starts apprehensively with a cowbell and cymbal rattle, until the rim shots and vocals pour in, making way for the military march gone carnival signature beat to stamp it’s presence on the song.

“TAKE” fluxes with ever-changing drum patterns and wild vocals which almost edge each other into the impossible. A hushed breakdown in the middle of the song only makes the rampaging drum assault finale more intense. Foot Village prefer to shirk novelty for an evolving attitude to song writing, with tangents traced into new territories as a rule. “Reggae War Zone” works into the song a lot of melodic vocal exchanges that punctuate the drum stampede. “Grace’s Death” almost does away with percussion completely opting for an eerie vocal workout full of lament that explores repetition.

Over the course of this war/album, Foot Village do their best to show just how brutal a drums-and-screaming-only approach can be. But, by the end of the war, the virtues of all music are revealed to them and they join hands with bands of all styles for an “It’s A Small World” version of their song “Chicken & Cheese 2″ which features a “love song” section interpreted by countless friends, including AIDS Wolf, Jason Forrest, Kyle Mabson, Narwhalz, Tussle and Death Sentence: Panda!
When pretense has been banished, freedom can take wing and the doors can be flung open to everyone. Foot Village is a nation unlike any other and only by visiting can you really know.

CD and Vinyl contain alternate tracks. Both versions packaged in awesome gatefold art, with lyrics.
CD version includes collaborations with AIDS Wolf, Puppy Dog, Two 2 Tango, Lee Noble, Anavan, Laco$te, Big Digits, Herons, Paid In Puke, Nero’s Day at Disneyland, Blue Sabbath Black Fiji, Tussle, Weird Habit, I.E., Eddie Brnabic, Robert Inhuman, Jason Forrest, Wolfblitzer, Geiger Retort, Kyle Mabson, Kid Infinity, Bio Bitch, Vankmen, Jonathan Snipes and David Rothbaum.

Vinyl version includes collaborations with Robert
Inhuman, Jason Forrest, Mr Padeiro, tik///tik, Power Sherlock,
Bitches, Death Sentence: PANDA!, YNGWLV, Spirit Duplicator, T.I.T.S., Narwhalz, Meta Magical, Cap N Fresh and the Stay Fresh Seals, Wolfblitzer, Eddie Brnabic, Nero’s Day at Disneyland, and Eustachian

CD version in stock now and ships immediately. Vinyl version ships in September.

Fuck The Future II – cd
2009

In anticipation of their upcoming full length “Anti Magic” on Upset the Rhythm, LA’s FOOT VILLAGE have compiled a second batch of vinyl only tracks. Four humans (you know them from Gang Wizard, Friends Forever, Rose for Bodhan and A++, and as members of 2008’s Boredoms 88 drummers performance) emerge from the apocalypse, exploring the primitive wasteland and creative a new nation of their own, using only drums and their voices. Housed in a digipack made using partially recycled material, with art work by Brittany Gould (Married In Berdichev!), “Fuck the Future 2″ collects the material from: their split LP with Black Pus (Deathbomb ARC / DNT), two recent 7”s (on Too Pure and Rock Is Hell), the “Pisspounder” triple LP (w/ Sword Heaven, Aa, Grey Skull, Rainbow Blanket and Dreamhouse also on DBA) and the recent, wild, collaboration 12” with Health, Captain Ahab and Jason Forrest on Ravesploitative,… assembled and mastered together by Pete Swanson.

MP3 Sample “Bones” : download

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Released by Gilgongo Records
Available on iTunes and in our webstore

Friendship Nation CD / LP / CS [our 2nd album]
2008

“These guys sure know how to make an entrance: aside from the daft industrial estate shoe shop vibes of the band name and the rudie nudie sleeve art, they’ve gone and collared all their weirdo mates for remixes at the end of the album (specifically Robedoor, Silver Daggers, Tussle and BIG A Little a), even recruiting arch filthnik Pete Swanson of Yellow Swans for mastering duties. The album kicks off with the holler “Urination!” signalling a tirade of drums, which actually sound pretty crisp and clean given that they’ve undergone the Swanson treatment. Just when you’re expecting things to develop and embrace a wider range of sound sources… they don’t. There’s a lot more shouting fun to be had though, and even some venomous barbershop tactics on ‘Erecting The Wall Of Separation’. Considering how spare the constituting elements might seem on paper, the combination of vocals and drums (all in triplicate) makes for a pretty captivating listen, brimming with excess energy and a playful destructive impulse. You sort of which all those loathsome drum troupes that stand outside your local Marks & Spencer on a Saturday afternoon would take a leaf or two out of the Foot Village book. Nudity, shouting and percussion is a winning formula.” – Boomkat

1 Urination
2 Crow Call
3 Protective Nourishment
4 Narc Party (Let’s Make It Fucked Up)
5 Erecting The Wall Of Separation
6 1998
7 Materialist Crap
8 Untitled
9 Untitled
10 Protective Nourishment (BIG A little a remix)
11 Narc Party (Silver Daggers remix)
12 1998 (Tussle remix)
13 Protective Nourishment (Robedoor remix)
14. Orangutan
15. Erecting The Wall of Separation (To Live & Shave In LA remix)
[Tracks 10-13 do not appear on the LP version]
[Tracks 14 & 15 are on the iTunes version only]

Protective Nourishment : download

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Narc Party : download

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Released on CD by Tome.
Released on Vinyl by Gilgongo.
Released on Cassette by Living Tapes.
Available on iTunes and our webstore.

Fuck The Future CD
2007

Pure hardcore. No electricity. Fuck the future. Foot Village needs nothing but their own fists to make music, to make you scream, to make you dance, to make you thrash. An imaginary step back to a time more futuristic than now, yet shrouded in magic. Kung Fu was invented by peasants as a method of fighting so confusing to their enemies that it appeared as magic. Foot Village has invented acoustic hardcore in the same regard. If you are confused, perhaps you are the enemy. Foot Village features members of Men Who Can’t Love, Rainbow Blanket, Gang Wizard, Rose For Bohdan, and tons more. CD compiling Foot Village’s early “country” releases. Country as in songs about the countries of this world. Done as research for their current work building their own nation, Foot Village. Originally released in extremely limited edition and now sold out, all tracks have been remastered by Pete Swanson. Contains all tracks from debut 3” cdr, 7”, and World Fantasy 10”.
Art by Lart.

1 Brazil
2 Great Britain And The Bermuda Rebellion
3 World Fantasy (Featuring Weirdo/Begeirdo)
4 Egypt
5 Where Ever The Fuck Arnold Schwarzenegger’s From
6 Guatemala
7 Korea
8 Isle Of Man
9 Iran
10 Antartica
11 Ethiopia
12 Antartica (Pete Swanson remix)
13 Japan
14 Mexico
15 Peru, Austria, And Canada

Brazil : download

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Ethiopia : download

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Released on CD by Deathbomb Arc, olFactory, EXBX, and NGWTT
Available on iTunes and our webstore.

“Bones” 7″ aka Rock Is Hell boxset
2008

A
1. Bones
2. Chicken And Cheese 2
B
1. Iceland

Released both as a part of a 7″ boxset and individually by Rock Is Hell.
Also included on the Fuck The Future II CD.

Debut 3″ CDr
2005

1. Korea
2. Isle Of Man
3. Iran
4. Antarctica
5. Ethiopia

Self-released
All tracks available on Fuck The Future CD

Untitled 7″
2005

A
1. Japan
2. Mexico
B
1. Peru, Austria, and Canada

Released on Deathbomb Arc, Oedipus Records, and Silencio Recordings
Also available as a part of the Fuck The Future CD

Remix 12″
2009

A. Narc Party (Jason Forrest remix)
B. The Power of HEALTH (Captain Ahab remix)

Released by Ravesploitation
Available through Deathbomb Arc
Also available in our webstore.

“Clubtraxxx” 7″
2008

A. Clubtraxxx I – III
B. Crow Call (Anavan Remix)

Released on 7″ by Too Pure.
Included on the Fuck The Future II CD.

Black Pus / Foot Village split 12″
2008

Foot Village
1. Race Till The End of Food
2. 420 (National Holiday)

Black Pus
1. Floatzilla
2. Altar Rat
3. The Black Wholf

Released on 12″ by Deathbomb Arc and DNT
Originally released as a cassette on Deathbomb Arc with less tracks.
Foot Village tracks available on Fuck The Future II CD

Pisspounder 3xLP comp
2007

Sword Heaven
1 Tomb Ark
2 Dust Pneumonia Blues
Foot Village
1 Psychic Connection
2 Comparable Love In The Time Of Development
3 Napas
4 3840 Ticks Of Soul (Featuring Captain Ahab)
5 Follow Your Heart (Featuring Ecomorti)
Grey Skull
1 Untitled
BIG A little a
1 Prime Time
2 Wheat Thins
3 Wrong Way
Dreamhouse
1 No Longer Invisible
2 Adhd
3 Big Cool System
4 Airless
5 Gamble On Game
6 Spear It
Rainbow Blanket
1 Self Lover
2 My Violent Dream

Released on 3x 12″ by Deathbomb Arc
Foot Village tracks available on Fuck The Future II CD

World Fantasy 10″ [our 1st album]
2005

In the tradition of literary greats like “Bang the Drum Slowly” and Bowie’s not so great “Little Drummer Boy,” comes Foot Village – a bleeding, screaming, catastrophe drum circle that makes hippies wish they never invited Brian, Grace, Jeff, and Greg to jam on bongos at Zuma Beach. There’s been talk of covering Les Miserables and reenacting McDonald’s commercials, but for now Foot Village is happy to document their travels in World Fantasy. It’s a deep love for harsh noise, R. Kelly, Broadway musicals, and Rush that breathes life into the band that launched a million side projects. The Drum Machines Have No Soul guy is about to wet his pants. Edition of 300.

A1 Brazil
A2 Great Britain And The Bermuda Rebellion
A3 World Fantasy (Featuring Weirdo/Begeirdo)
B1 Egypt
B2 Where Ever The Fuck Arnold Schwarzenegger’s From
B3 Guatemala
B4 Antarctica (Pete Swanson remix)

Released on 10″ by Not Not Fun
All tracks available on Fuck The Future CD