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LORDS OF ACID USA TOUR 2011
Mar02, 2011 US-LA CA
Mar03, 2011 US-SAN FRANCISCO CA
Mar04, 2011 US-PORTLAND OR
Mar05, 2011 TBA
Mar06, 2011 US-SEATTLE WA
Mar08, 2011 US-SALT LAKE UT
Mar09, 2011 US-DENVER CO
Mar10, 2011 US-KANSAS CITY MO
Mar11, 2011 US-CHICAGO IL
Mar12, 2011 US-MINNEAPOLIS MN
Mar13, 2011 US-DETROIT MI
Mar15, 2011 US-CINCINNATI OH
Mar16, 2011 US-ATLANTA GA
Mar17, 2011 US-ST PETE FL
Mar18, 2011 US-NEW ORLEANS LA
Mar19, 2011 US-HOUSTON TX
Mar20, 2011 US-SAN ANTONIO TX
Mar22, 2011 US-DALLAS TX
Mar23, 2011 US-TULSA OK
Mar24, 2011 US-AUSTIN TX
Mar25, 2011 US-EL PASO TX
Mar26, 2011 US-PHOENIX AZ

Apr2011 : North East USA gigs TBA!
NB: These shows will be Angelspit only.
Apr15, 2011 US-Boston MA
Apr16, 2011 US-NYC NY : TBA
Apr21, 2011 US-?? DC : TBC
Apr22, 2011 US-?? VA TBC
Apr23, 2011 US-PHILLY PA : TBC

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CARBON BEAUTY
Hideous and Perfect Remix CD #2
10 remixes, 3 NEW Angelspit tracks, Stunning photos.
RELEASE DATE MAR:8:2011
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VENA CAVA
ZooG's notes on the creation of the track "Vena Cava"

Recording percussion on Vena Cava Rode NT1A and NT1, wooden pole, Middle Finger of God.

THE MUSIC

This is the first track we decided to release from Krankhaus. The final version of this hit draft 30 – it just wasn’t working so we spend months on it.

Vena Cava was ‘born’ in January 2004 – it was meant to be a driving insane hi energy track with a central accending manic guitar line. Graham laid the guitars down when he was doing the guitars for Nurse Grenade. We wanted to make something that would make party-people ‘come on’, and then die violently....i fucking hate 'party people'.

But this idea was completely lame arse and the entire track was abandoned until January 2005. I’d just got the analogue sequencer and Alienator and was looking for a track to debautch. DestroyX was at the Vivian Westwood Art Gallery in Canberra and I was stuck at the RockHaus hot and bored – it was about 35degrees that day….so I got drunk. Really really really drunk. The cool thing about being drunk and making music is you do stuff that you normally wouldn’t do.

The Vena Cava Cocktail:
2 shots of Vodka
1 shot calua
1 shot frangellico
1 shot butterscotch snaps

... this lubricated the song nicely.
I used Vena Cava as a canvas and got this percussive line happening on the analogue sequencer. I accidentally plugged the percussion CV into the Filter and BEHOLD…the verse bass line in Vena Cava was born.
The bass line is pretty huge. It has active frequencies around 20Hz (DAMN low) so it had to be worked a lot for it to make sense….there’s HUGE and then there’s ridiculous….this was ridiculous.
The bass was made up of OberMoog, Doepfer, Analogue Solutions oscillators making a HUGE mono bass which was panned centre. This was then distorted and fed into the Low Pass Filter on the OberMoog.

Recording percussion on Vena Cava Rode NT1A, wooden pole, metal pole-o-dooom

The Prophet5 was laid down twice – each take was slightly different. The 2 takes were panned left and right. The Prophet 5 is PURE SEX. Turning up the Frequency Modulation and hitting the UNISON button makes demons howl.
…and around about this time I was unconscious.

PERCUSSION
An iron board was seriously damaged during the making of this recording. It was bashed TO DEATH with a large metal pipe, distorted and compressed to make the snare and the hats. The additional ‘bleepy’ percussion from the analogue sequencer is being fed through the Alienator (bit-crusher).

GUITAR
Graeme is a complete GOD. The guitar track is uneffected and unprocessed.
Yes, he too was drunk. Want your guitarist to ROCK? Pay them in beer.

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