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The Aborted. Estd. 1992. Beware of imitators!

9th November 2006
	[ B R A I N S O D O M Y / / / R E C O R D I N G S ] [ C O M P 0 0 2 ] Brainsodomy Recordings present another FREE DOWNLOAD compilation, with a suitably scary Hallowe'en theme. This album features a new and exclusive track by SCRIBE & THE ABORTED entitled "Farting In The Morgue". Click here to listen and download!
29th September 2006
	[ B R A I N S O D O M Y / / / R E C O R D I N G S ] [ C O M P 0 0 1 ] / / / SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION OF THE FRONTAL LOBE / / / Brainsodomy Recordings present as a FREE DOWNLOAD this new compilation of bizarre and out of this world sounds from artists all over the world. It features a new SCRIBE & THE ABORTED track "Satellite", issued as a taster for the forthcoming album "Everlasting Journey Everlasting" "Satellite" collides prog arpeggiators with simulated 80's new-wave drum machines, classical minimalist chants and guitars, spaced out cymbals and mangled mobile phones into a whirling evocation of satellites spinning over our heads. Click here to listen and download!

5th February 2006 release!   Click To Listen - 32kbps mp3

James Jackson Holmes went back to basics for his 13th solo release in 13 years, completed late last year. James 1 (File Under Industrial Folk 'N' Blues) is ten songs based on a simple formula of voice and guitar. Despite the embellishments of current technologies such as synthesisers, drum machines, mobile phones and space probes, that merely serve to add colour and texture, the songs are intended to still be performable long after the oil that makes these devices useable runs out.

The album takes the form of data collected by an alien space probe on a fly-by mission of a small inhabited blue-green planet. Radio emissions from the planet grow stronger, becoming more obviously man-made. Eventually a human voice becomes discernible through the static. The data collected from the human voices reveals this race is unhappy, it is waging wars with itself, it follows an unsustainable economy that will consume all of this planet's resources, and it will ultimately perish.

Barely an hour has gone by before the probe starts to swing out of range of the planet. As it picks up on the sad song of a depressed, downtrodden worker, it is flung further out past the gas giants, the voice becoming lost amongst the natural radio emissions of a large ringed planet.

It's mission completed, the probe leaves behind this sad species to continue it's sadness, it's wars, it's self-destructiveness and it's absurdities, and flies onward through space until the Universe dies...

2nd March 2005 - Singalong

Singalong by The Aborted is a concept album of sorts, it begins with themes concerning life, following on into death and through to the afterlife. Elements of punk, goth, folk, electropop and minimalist drones melt together into something funereal yet joyous.

LIFE SECTION:

Malignant - claustrophobic beats introduce this chant of pure anger.
Benign - Keats' "Ode To A Nightingale" twisted into a song about a shy transvestite.
Your Love Keeps Me Alive - despite everything, there's something that makes life worth living.
No Expectations - no expectations bring no disappointments.
The Grey Song - madness, misery, mayhem. Find solace in fast food!
Mr Scruff - my dog, Scruffy Blue. Is he ready?
Warm Usherette - dark, flowing, almost silent and luxurious.
Happy Birthday 2k4 - and so we celebrate the day of our birth again and again until...

DEATH SECTION:

No Expectations - sickness, carnage, death.

Three Minute Silence - time to remember the dead (or if you prefer, time to make a coffee)

AFTERLIFE SECTION:

Golden Hearse - and so we remember those who passed on, and they live on in our hearts, and in the electromagnetic ether around us, replaying their moments like a loop of electromagnetic tape as they fade into the background noise.

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1st December 2004 - Radio airplay for Tetsubo and Howard Amb & The Aborted! Playlist - Listen - More from the show

19th October 2004 - Radio airplay for Olbasginkgobiloba & The Aborted!

8th October 2004 - Howard Amb & The Aborted appear on the "Bush Raps" compilation. It features 21 of the best Presidential parodies by 21 artists. Actual Presidential speeches cut up and set to original music. To hear the songs and buy the CD go to:
http://www.thebots.net/BushRaps.htm

 
 

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Doggy Diary
 
 

The Aborted nerve centre!
 

I took the test. What can I say, I must have the bass player gene or something.

Take the Radiohead Collective Member Test.
 

Which punk rock god am I?

You are Johnny Rotten. You are punk to the bone,
and you don't take shit from anyone; in fact,
you give more shit than you take. You don't
care what people think about you, and you get
pissed off at anyone who thinks they're better
than you. You hate everyone and everything but
you.

Which punk rock god are you?
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Hmmmm and I thought I was such a nice guy too!
Then again, I could have been Joey Ramone...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

UK Record shop directory
A good Starting point if you are looking for British pressings

  http://www.demonstrationbootleg.com/
This is a pretty cool music site with quality stuff to hear. I'm currently rediscovering R. Stevie Moore...