Trottel
is a Hungarian punk band that later turned into psychedelic sound exploration (psychedelia–folk–groove–electronica) from Budapest, formed in 1985. The band is on the road since 1989, the year when the first album untitled ‘Borderline Sydroma’ came out on the legendary french record label Gougnaf Movement.
Long time passed since then, more than 1000’s concerts, one and a half million kilometers done, 12 albums, many different people with many different instruments and influences. The matter of fact is that Trottel is in a permanent change and transformation. Each tour, each recording is a new challenge and each new member brings new musical inspiration into this amoba-like project. [SOURCE: TROTTEL.HU]
Label: Not On Label (Trottel Self-released) – none
Sindicato Malone's first recording, which served to launch the recently created Producciones Goldstein label under the direction of Manuel Recio. And a good first reference, which includes the hilarious "Sólo Por Robar" with the collaboration of Gabinete Caligari's Ulises Montero on sax.
This single is very eclectic, so, if in the first song they opt for a electronic pop with a profusion of drum machines and keyboards, the second, "Hot Doo - Doo", is a new wave punk number in the Kaka de Luxe style, and "Oweh Ke Owhe" is a simply delirious and demented song in the purest Derribos Arias' Poch style, with punk guitars that Los Nikiscould sign, and ethnic motifs, so common at the time.
It is also worth mentioning the beautiful artwork, created by Sindicato Malone's guitarist Fernando Caballero, and Servando Carballar (Aviador Dro) in the sequencing of the record. As a curiosity, "Sólo Por Robar" appeared in the radio show "Los 40 Principales", being the first song from an independent label in that list. [SOURCE: LA FONOTECA]
Label: Producciones Goldstein – GOLD-002
Format:
Vinyl, 7", Single, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: Spain
Released: 1982
Style: New Wave, Experimental, Minimal, Synth-pop
Tracklist:
A Solo Por Robar (Una Bomba De Neutrones, 25 Portaaviones Y Un Tractor Nuclear)
B1 Hot Doo-Doo
B2 Owhe Ke Oweh
Notes:
Title wrongly written on label, it should be "...Y Un Reactor Nuclear", not "Tractor Nuclear"
The first Ramleh three tracks mix up their usual power electronics assault and Gary Mundy's shouty siren vocals with some really mean eyeball-shakingly deep crackly bass drones akin to a thunderstorm, which make it actually feel kind of unique in its league, while 'Phenol' seems to be merely a copy-paste from one of their earlier tapes.
Philip Best's one-off pseudonym as Libertarian Recordings is a decent addition for the genre, with a series of walls of thin, wallpaper-scrapingly screechy static, with what's either samples of zooming jet fighters or flanged synths that closely resemble them. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]
Label: Broken Flag – BFV2
Format:
Vinyl, LP
Country: UK
Released: 1983
Style: Industrial, Power Electronics, Noise
Tracklist:
A1 Ramleh – A Return To Slavery 4:41
A2 Ramleh – Nordhausen 4:39
A3 Ramleh – New Force 3:48
A4 Ramleh – Phenol 7:38
AA Libertarian Recordings – Slaughter At Random 22:58
Notes:
Side A - recorded at IPS in Shepherd's Bush (June 1983).
Side AA - Libertarian Recordings is actually Consumer Electronics live performance recorded at the Spanish Anarchy Center 12 June 82 and engineered at I.R.S. studios 26 June 83 (Gary Mundy: "Philip was in Whitehouse now and didn't want to use Consumer Electronics name" *from "Broken Flag: A Retrospective")
The Persian Rugs formed in Edinburgh 1981, a three piece whose members were Jamie Watson (vocals and guitar), Keith Grant (backing vox and bass) and Bod (drums and percussion). Jamie wrote most of the music while Keith was the lyricist. The band released three records; the first was the 7'' inche single 'Burning Passion Pain' on Phoenix Records followed by an LP called 'Drowning Pool' also on Phoenix Records. The third release was a 12" single called 'She Said' on +1 Records. In this single they had Paul Moore of The Blue Nile on synthesizers.
The Original Sins were a grungy garage band led by vocalist J.T. (real name: John Terlesky) and organist Dan McKinney. Their first two albums drew praise for the group's unique sound, playing in an idiom not noted for originality, and also drew a few comparisons with the Lyres. Later material moved into garage acid-rock and psychedelia, with the same originality evident. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]
Label: Dog Meat – DOG 020
Format:
Vinyl, LP
Country: Australia
Released: 1990
Style: Garage Rock
Tracklist:
A1 Party's Over
A2 Can't Stop Dancing
A3 Beast In Me
A4 Lacerations
B1 Later Than You Think
B2 Thats All There Is
B3 Atom Bomb Song
B4 Just 14
Notes:
A1-A4: Available only on 'Hardest Way' CD
B1-B3: Unreleased Out-Take from 'Hardest Way' sessions
New Buildings formed in Barcelona in early 1982 by Jeanette (vocals), Gat Castaño (bass), Juan Morales (drums) and Mireia Tejero (sax). While the first two members of the group, Jeanette and Gat, came from Ultratruita, Mireia, the latest addition, had played in groups like Error Genético or De Tacón. Gat was also part of other groups such as Basura, Truita Perfecta, Error Genético or UMBN Aleatoria; and Juan Morales from Primera Línea.
The group's name is in honor of Einturzende Neubauten (translated as "New Buildings Collapsing").
New Buildings were structured with the intention of putting into practice an aesthetically committed music, feasibly evolutionist and with certain free schemes. The influences range from Van der Graaf Generator to Robert Fripp and Romeo Void. They have not advanced too much in their style, compared to what they had done before, but you can't deny them the desire and some extremely elaborated albums.
The monastic sound of Joy Division marked the path of Gat, while Jeanette approached the hysterical register of Nina Hagen, towards the penumbras where Siouxsie performed wonderfully.
They even toured Europe, such as France and Germany.
In 1982 they edited, in cassette format, and self-financed, 'Historias Para Largos Recorridos'. In 1983 they released another cassette with their live performance in Germany, 'Live in Germany'.
In December 1983 they performed at the Festival "Va de lona Viva", held at the Pabellón de La Plana in Badalona together with similar bands (Donación Agnelli, Kremlin and Claustrofobia).
Later they released a couple of maxis for the Klamm label: in 1983 'Le Dernièr Homme' and in 1984 'Your Message'. [SOURCE: GRUPOS NACIONALES NUEVA OLA 80]
Mirror/Dash
is a side project of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth. They released the 'Electric Pen / Gum' 7-inch single in 1992 and put the project to rest until 2006, when new material by Mirror/Dash was released. This is a great, great single. It seems to have anticipated what was going on in American underground music and new weird America during the 2000's. Surges of electrical drone and crackle, detuned twang under a somnambulent Kim vocal. Utterly beautiful. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]
L-Seven were an american punk / new wave band from Detroit, Michigan. Not to be confused with L7, this is a short-lived group which recorded one 7" in 1982, and featured future members of Warrior Soul and Laughing Hyenas. The Touch And Go Special Forces label was created as an off-shoot of Touch And Go Records by T&G head Corey Rusk and L-Seven vocalist Larissa Stolarchuck. Rusk was interested in putting out records that he liked that didn't necessarily fit in with the hardcore sounds that Touch And Go was known for at the time. The 'L-Seven' EP was the only record released on the imprint.
Label: Touch And Go Special Forces – T&GSF01
Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
Country: US
Released: 1982
Style: Post-Punk, Punk
Tracklist:
A1 Insanity
A2 Secrets
B Clear Vision
Notes:
1000 copies pressed, issued with a double sided foldout insert.
This single has three very freaked-out, experimental minimal synth tracks, mostly instrumental. The radical, futuristic, messed-up and nearly baroque synth-rape noise is interesting and actually quite pleasant and very varied. "Kosmonautentraum" is underlayed with some slow, brooding post-punk, and the rest is also very good -"Der Deutsche" ("The German") has some great, angry lyrics that really capture the obnoxious German way of life.
The single has some cult status in Germany -apparently, many things went wrong during the pressing (low volume at the beginning, wrong label printings), and it got very negative reviews by Germany's punk pope Alfred Hilsberg. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]
Label: Not On Label (Kosmonautentraum Self-released) – MJ 91223
Format:
Vinyl, 7"
Country: Germany
Released: 1980
Style: Experimental, Abstract, Post-Punk, Minimal, Neue Deutsche Welle, Noise, Minimal Synth
Joanna Brouk (1949 – 2017) was an American electronic composer, author, and playwright who was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Brouk grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. She received a B.A. in Creative Writing and Electronic Music from the University of California, Berkeley. Inspired by the cadences of poetry and the human voice, as well as the rhythms and soundings of nature, she began creating music. She went on to receive an M.A. in Electronic Music from Mills College. While at Mills, Brouk studied under Robert Ashley and Terry Riley.
After graduating, she went into radio production, and composed music for documentaries and other programs.
Brouk self-released a number of recordings on cassette via her own label, Hummingbird Productions. Brouk's first release, 'Healing Music', featured the flute of American composer Maggi Payne. Her 1981 recording, 'Sounds of the Sea', included field recordings of nature sounds, vocals, and manipulated electronic and acoustic instruments. Brouk's music was known in New Age Music circles but did not receive a great deal of mainstream recognition. In 2016, a collection of archival recordings and selections from cassette releases, 'Hearing Music', was released by The Numero Group.
In 1985, Brouk stopped composing and recording music after moving to San Diego, California, where she married and gave birth to a son, and took up the practice of transcendental meditation. Under the name Joanne (with an "e") Brouk, she became a prolific writer of historical fiction and plays, as well as a notable producer of Internet content. She died on April 28, 2017, at the age of 68. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
Alongside Models, Little Murders and The Jetsonnes, International Exiles were one of the first bands to rise out of Melbourne's Punk/New Wave explosion. Formed by Fiction ex-member Rob Wellington in 1979, the band issued two singles in 1980. The first, 'Miniskirts in Moscow', was shared as one side of a double sided gig giveaway 7" with The Jestsonnes (soon to split up and reform as Hunters & Collectors). The track was a cover Wellington discovered in a second hand record shop and rearranged. Their close friend Groper (real name Steven Colgan), sound engineer for much of the scene, recorded it in a bedroom. The second, 'Let's Be Sophisticated / Note to Roger', came out on the Missing Link label, with The Boys Next Door / Birthday Party being the only other act signed to the label at the time. 'Let's Be Sophisticated' sat at the top of the Indy charts for a few weeks but the band split up before recording anything more tracks.
International Exiles lineup included: Laine McCready (Vocals), Rob Wellington (Guitars), Adam Learner (Bass), Andy Callandar (Keyboards/Vocals) and David Adams (Drums) (Paul Hester was also an original member). [SOURCE: PUNK A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY THE HISTORY OF THE MELBOURNE PUNK SCENE]
The Headstones were a indie guitar garage rock band from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in the 1980s. Formed in 1980 when the band was still in high school, The Headstones sound was guitar rock with an emphasis on 60s garage, especially in the Detroit R&B style, as was popular with other bands in Australia at the time. They were popular on the independent circuit and had a number of hits on the indie charts. They broke up in 1990. [SOURCE: DISCOGS]
Adolf Wölfli (February 29, 1864 – November 6, 1930) was a Swiss artist who was one of the first artists to be associated with the Art Brut or outsider art label. Wölfli's work has inspired many composers. Danish composer Per Nørgård, after viewing a Wölfli exhibition in 1979, embarked on a schizoid style lasting for several years; among the works of this time are an opera on the life of Wölfli called "The Divine Circus". The chamber opera "Wölfli Szenen" ("Wölfli Scenes"), which premiered in Graz, Austria, in 1981, featured music by Georg Friedrich Haas, the Austrian composer of spectral music, Gösta Neuwirth, Anton Prestele and Wolfgang Rihm. In 1978, "Adolf Wölfli: Gelesen Und Vertont", the first recording of Wölfli's work ever to be published, was released by the Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Bern. Since that time, a number of German musicians have released adaptations of Wölfli's work.
In 1987, musician and composer Graeme Revell released an LP entitled 'Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles: The Music of Adolf Wolfli'. This was on his own Musique Brut label in London, UK in 1987. This audio compilation was based on the works of Wölfli and incorporated digital renditions of Wölfli's compositions, with additional sound effects and ambient soundscapes added to the songs, by Revell, based on the artwork surrounding Wölfli's musical notations. The LP was a collection of musical interpretations by Revell as well as DDAA and Nurse With Wound. This LP came with a booklet with a biography and images of Wolfli's works. Tracks 8 and 9 are combined into one track. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
Label: Musique Brut – BRU 002
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 1986
Style: Modern Classical, Experimental, Ambient, Industrial, Dark Ambient, Sound Collage
Tracklist:
Alpha1 Graeme Revell – Necropolis, Amphibians And Reptiles 4:08
Alpha2 Graeme Revell – Countess Saladine 2:28
Alpha3 Graeme Revell – Chimpnags-Apes Of The Union Canada: America 4:33
Alpha4 Graeme Revell – Allgebrah 2:40
Alpha5 Graeme Revell – Ebony Tower In The Orient. Water Fanfare No.1 3:45
Alpha6 Graeme Revell – The Balli 2:16
Beta1 Déficit Des Années Antérieures – St. Adolf's Comet
4:23
Beta2 Déficit Des Années Antérieures – Natural Fhorm Of The Holy-Light-Island In The Pacific Ocean
4:25
Beta3 Déficit Des Années Antérieures – Rahma Margarine
8:57
Beta4 Nurse With Wound – Lea Tantaaria
6:36
Beta5 Nurse With Wound – Great-God-Father-Nieces
2:09
