Stephen Clover (aka seht)

Stephen Clover is an artist, musician and writer based in Wellington, New Zealand. He runs a label called Palindrone. He experiences bursts of 2D visual creativity which manifest themselves here. Currently his actual real proper website is down/offline.

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latest reviews by Stephen Clover....
Stephen's lifetime average review-rating is 6.33
Gate "A Republic Of Sadness" Quite the polarizing record... rated 5/10 (25 August, 2010)
FM Belfast "How To Make Friends" RAGE.. rated 3/10 (28 April, 2010)
Guillaume Gargaud "Here" Unquestionably beautiful... rated 9/10 (21 April, 2010)
Hong Chulki "Amplified W.C." Top notch stuff... rated 9/10 (14 April, 2010)
Matt Weston "Seasick Blackout" A goddamn great little EP... rated 9/10 (24 March, 2010)
Dub Tractor "Sorry" Sorry for what then?.. rated 4/10 (10 March, 2010)
Andrew Cedermark/Family Portrait "split" Split single on Underwater Peoples... rated 7/10 (3 March, 2010)
John Pilcher & Martin McKelvey "A Bun Dance" Vividly essential... rated 10/10 (2 December, 2009)
Dylan Ethier "Light Leaks" Really quite promising... rated 7/10 (18 November, 2009)
KK Null "Oxygen Flash" Unbelievably good. Fucken hell... rated 9/10 (27 October, 2009)
Hunters, Run! "EP2" Decent... rated 7/10 (20 October, 2009)
It's Elephants "Gets Along" Ugh... rated 1/10 (13 October, 2009)
Christopher Hipgrave "Day" Utterly unengrossing, utterly unengaging, and quite, quite lovely... rated 7/10 (7 October, 2009)
:take: / White/Lichens "Split Series Vol. 1" Time to get confused!.. rated 4/10 (7 October, 2009)
Defibrillators "Live at Colour Ride Club" Nice little CDR on Colour Ride... rated 7/10 (22 September, 2009)
latest features by Stephen Clover....
Stephen Clover looks at 2006 Twothousand'six flew by and I think we're going straight to hell with Saddam... (9 January, 2007)
Lines of Flight (Part 2) Stephen Clover continues his report from Lines of Flight 2006, New Zealand's biennial weekend-long festival of free music and experimental film... (30 October, 2006)
Lines of Flight (Part 1) The Lines of Flight festival brings together New Zealand's lovers of free music and experimental film for a weekend-long orgy of audio-visual delight... (23 October, 2006)
Schroedinger's CD-R, or, I Was a Teenage Pussy Hound .. (2 September, 2005)

latest blogposts by Stephen Clover....
Chill wave, bra (9 March, 2010)
Speaking, as we were, of minimal wave (4 February, 2010)
Fall's gold ''type''-cast '' You should know the deal by now, Brad Rose is The North Sea (among other things) and also runs the fab Digitalis label... (28 September, 2009)
repost: At Home With Rose [12] NZ electronic mayhem Tonight's At Home With Rose show on Radio23 ogged about here viously) looks like it is gonna be pretty ace... (20 April, 2009)
At Home With Rose At Home With Rose is a new weekly radio show hosted by my friend Rose Radio23 ill in beta... (18 March, 2009)
Election night special Congratulations to America for electing Barack Obama in an almost-convincing fashion... (4 November, 2008)
Evangeline Mary-Anne Hobbs is the self-described "firebrand at the helm of the pioneering experimental electronic show" on Britain's Radio1... (30 October, 2008)
Some Tinariwen for ya At some point in the near future my review of Tinariwen's Aman Iman (Water is Life) should be going up on the site... (22 July, 2008)
The Bopst Show podcast extravaganza You'll probably know of Chris Bopst (MySpace page) as a founding member of GWAR (the original “Bal Sac”), one of The Holy Rollers... (15 July, 2008)
Grouper discography Despite what Cory Card reckons (no hard feelings, mate) about how many albums Liz Harris has put out as Grouper, I reckon I know better... (22 June, 2008)
Def Leppard Isn't it awesome that there's a Def Leppard Concert Photos blog... (15 June, 2008)
RIP Bo Diddley (crosspost) RIP Bo Diddley... (15 June, 2008)
Stumps, Black Boned Angel, Elise&Jem on Saturday (crosspost) As Tom details here, The Stumps are playing on Saturday night at Happy with Elise&... (14 May, 2008)
Dead bees (crosspost) I've (finally!) got a new seht CD out which is the follow-up to The Green Morning. It's out on the PseudoArcana label, and it's called dead bees ((the((quiet)earth))suite). (21 April, 2008)
Stumps and Netherdawn live + friends Ok so it turns out that The Stumps are doing a late-notice show tomorrow afternoon... (17 April, 2008)
latest podcasts by Stephen Clover....
Poems for the Aching, Swords for the Infuriated vol. 3 Only the rawest, blackest, melancholy buzzing mess-noise misanthropic howlingly-suicidal depressed black metal for you, my pretty childs..... (7 March, 2008)
Ornette Coleman One person's guide to the music of Ornette Coleman, first installment.. (23 February, 2008)
Mostly non-wack Xmas music podcast If you're like me, and you're beginning to fear you will have to get the key to Dad's gun cupboard if you hear "Snoopy's Fucking Christmas" one more time.. (22 December, 2007)
Poems for the Aching, Swords for the Infuriated vol. 2 Part two of the black metal primer... (5 August, 2007)
Poems for the Aching, Swords for the Infuriated A black metal primer. Of sorts... (14 July, 2007)
2006: The year that was.. One man's guide to the some of the year's best psychedelic-black-doom-drone-metal-folk releases. Compiled as a complimentary addendum to my article... (30 December, 2006)
Get on the fucken horse A podcast dedicated to the awesomeness of a new unreleased track by Melbourne's very own Whitehorse, and other stuff brought to mind whilst immersing myself in same... (11 October, 2006)
No retreat, no surrender Foul daemons took us out of play for a while. Now we're back!.. (10 July, 2006)
Day of the beast podcast It's the day of the beast so seht voms up some beastly goodness etc... (6 June, 2006)
seht podcast #3 seht's latest podcast for Foxy Digitalis features new music from Armpit, Pefkin and seht itself, as well as a bunch of cool tracks from the vaults... (16 May, 2006)
seht podcast #2 seht's second podcast, featuring a wealth of short tracks, and obscure music, and sometimes even both at the same time... (1 May, 2006)
seht podcast #1 First podcast by seht with voice-breaks by sidekick ''Robo-DJ''... (3 March, 2006)
 
 

1 September, 2010
Bis aufs Messer Berlins Bis aufs Messer emporium has all bases covered. From two rooms in the Eastern borough of Friedrichshain, Robert and Stefan run a store and a mailorder operation, they organize gigs, and not one, but two labels... feature :: by Jan-Arne Sohns

Neon Marshmallow Fest Recap More so than perhaps any festival on the radar, the lineup itself was truly the draw of Chicagos inaugural Neon Marshmallow Fest, the four-day cornucopia of experimental music of all stripes.... feature :: by Travis Bird

25 August, 2010
Little Fury Things Padnas own Nat Hawks runs a rad micro-label out of Brooklyn with an even radder name! .. feature :: by Dave Miller

Live London #13: Graham Lambkin / Call Back The Giants / Helm Show review from August 6th, 2010 at Cafe Oto in London featuring Graham Lambkin, Call Back the Giants and Helm... feature :: by Peter Taylor

18 August, 2010
Donovan Quinn Donovan Quinn has already proven himself to be one of the more gifted folk-pop songsmiths of the past decade through his work with Verdure and The Skygreen Leopards... feature :: by David Perron
10 August, 2010
Early Women Composers A collection of tracks from some of the best female composers this century... podcast :: by Brad Rose

5 August, 2010
Hobo Cult #1 First set of tunes from the man behind Hobo Cult/Hobo Cubes... podcast :: by Frank Ouellette

15 July, 2010
LAFMS Podcast #1 A selection of tracks from the might Los Angeles Free Music Society.. podcast :: by Andrew Murdock Livingston

3 July, 2010
ALPHACAST A collection of songs from the mighty Colin Ward AKA Alphabets in celebration of the ALPHABOX release... podcast :: by Brad Rose

26 June, 2010
Early Electronics A collection of various electronics from the last half-century... podcast :: by Brad Rose
 
 
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1 September, 2010
Various Artists "I'm Going Where The Water Drinks Like Wine" A must have compilation... review :: by Crawford Philleo

Mark McGuire "Tiding/Amethyst Waves" Recommended reissue on Weird Forest... review :: by Anthony D'Amico

Skjlbrot "Maersk" CD-r An absolute gem of a CDR... review :: by Matt Blackall

Zola Jesus "Stridulum" Another massive entry in the Zola Jesus discography... review :: by Dave Miller

other new reviews....
April In The Orange Siva Casting Dice 7''
Arklight Nolo Contendere/Rakkasans 3'' cd-r
Iain Campbell Absolutely the Best ABBA since ABBA CD-r
Celer All At Once Is What Eternity Is 3'' cd-r
Cornucopia Ultima LP
Dense Reduction Hobbes Diamond tape
Drivan Disko
Adam Gnade Trailerparks
Hellcake Friends Become Enemies tape
Imbogodom The Metallic Year
Ken Rei Wearing Sweatpants
Kkrakk!! Subatomic Vibrations tape
Lee Konitz, Chris Cheek, Stephan Furic Leibovici Jugendstil II
Outer Limits Recordings Foxy Baby LP
Oval O
Pausal Lapses
Horacio Pollard Acorn Bath CD-r
Prurient Cocaine Death
Sensible Nectar Minor Devil tape
SF Ghost Pulse tape
Sheik Anorak Day 01
Siddhi Cuttlefish Bone CD-r
Squim No Blade of Grass CD-r
Tokyo Mask Route Painless