Evil Edna's Horror Toilet! – Too Much Gristle In The Blancmange [Cass] (1986, Not On Label)

This tape is the personal concept project of Jane Reaction (ex-Magic Mushroom Band) and her -then- boyfriend Joie Hinton (from Ozric Tentacles). On the recording, as musicians guested members of The Oroonies and The Ullulators, plus Gary "Moonboot" Masters and Kim Oz. Jane Reaction later on reinvented herself as Nana Obscuri. Somewhere between psychedelic dub minimal wave, Ozric Tentacles jam, Gong and some odd groove-funk outsider twee pop, etc., the vocals are sometiems too weak and instrumentation stereotypical. A bit uneven maybe, but lovely, and a rather consistent whole. Mostly it's also original anyway, and doesn't default too much on existing genres. Recommended: "Omné" and "Turkeys Dinner", maybe the longer piece "Floating In The Overflow" if you want a long jam à la aforementioned bands. Horribly under produced, but interesting mix of primitive 80s synthesizer, festival era spacerock, reggae, and even some good old fashioned new wave pop. Lot of cheap digital drums to endure that are awful, though not nearly as awful as that cassette cover. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]

 

 

Label: Not On Label (Evil Edna's Horror Toilet! Self-Released) – EE1 †† 

Format: Cassette, Album

Country: UK 

Released: 1986 

Style: Reggae, Dub, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental, Space Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Minimal Wave

 

Tracklist:

SOD 1 

A1 Cistern Men 

A2 Warrior Dub 

A3 Mo-Ad 

A4 We Have A Mushroom Cloud 

A5 Ferbetha 

A6 Omné 

A7 Turkey Dinner 

Slide 2 

B1 Lend Me A Fiver 

B2 Floating In The Overflow 

B3 Mama Redstripe 

 

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Dog Faced Hermans – At The Ancienne Chocolaterie [Cass] (1991, Demon Radge Records)

Orchestral instruments, including viola, trumpet, and saxophone, were combined with such oddities as hippo tube and foghorn to create the ultra-loud post-punk sounds of the Dog Faced Hermans. Although the group disbanded in 1995, the members of Dog Faced Hermans remain active. Bass guitarist and steel drum player Colin McLean worked with Pere Ubu vocalist David Thomas before become a full-time sound engineer for The Ex. Guitar, hippo tube, and viola player Andy Ex went on work with The Ex, Kletka Red, Little Red Spiders, and The Magpie Dance Company. Nigerian-born vocalist and trumpet/bells player Marion Coutts relocated to London, where she played briefly with Spaceheads and works as a sculptor and lecturer. In addition to playing drums with Rhythm Activism, Wilf Plum has worked as a DJ in Amsterdam and had led his own group, Johnny Distance & the Web Riders. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC] 

 

 

Label: Demon Radge Records – none 

Format: Cassette, Album 

Country: Netherlands 

Released: 1991 

Style: Alternative Rock, Punk, Post-Punk, Art Punk

 

Tracklist:

A1 Suppressa 

A2 Ballad About Bhopal 

A3 From The Top Of The Mountain 

A4 Fortune 

B1 Astronaut 

B2 Waiting For Their Waters To Be Stirred 

B3 The Running Man 

B4 Body Strategic 

 

Notes:

All songs recorded live in Neuchatel, Switzerland in June 1991. 

 

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Cold War – Irrational [Cass] (1982, Rasquap Is Dead Tapes)

Cold War was a Post-Punk band formed in 1980 in Hornchurch (London) and disbanded in 1982. Members were Ian Smith (vocals, also in Seventh Séance), Paul Harding (guitar), Chris Knowles (bass), and Kev Bulmer (drums). After splitting, Paul Harding and Chris Knowles ended up together in Hagar The Womb and We Are Going To Eat You. Then both became successful Techno DJs and producers during the 1990's and 2000's. Cold War released one live cassette ('Live At The Autonomy Centre Wapping 18-10-81', two demo cassettes ('Cold War' and 'Irrational', both in 1982) and a 7" released entitled 'The Machinist' (1983, Namedrop).

 

 

Label: Rasquap Is Dead Tapes – rid 1 

Format: Cassette 

Country: UK 

Released: 1982 

Style: Punk, Post-Punk, Anarcho-Punk

 

Tracklist:

1 Irrational 

2 Opening Doors 

3 Life On A Wire 

4 Pride 

5 Brother Murder 

6 Confrontation 

 

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Breeding Ground – Tales Of Adventure [LP] (1986, Fringe Product)

Breeding Ground was formed in Toronto in 1981 and subscribed to the cold wave mould of acts like New Order's school of rhythm. Their first release was an untitled 4 song 12" EP in 1982 on Mannequin Records and featured original drummer Ken Jones. They would receive notoriety with the independent 12" single "Reunion"/"Slaughter" in 1983 on Fringe. It was quite successful at college radio stations and ended up selling out three pressings. The follow-up LP, 1986's 'Tales Of Adventure', was produced by ex-Blue Peter guitarist Chris Wardman (who later joined the band for a short period) enlisting the help of Alta Moda singer Molly Johnson and Jason Sniderman on keyboards. The record made it to No.1 on the campus charts and No.60 on CFNY's "Best 86 of '86" based on the success of the single and video for "Happy Now I Know" and spawned the hit "This Time Tomorrow", a nicely gothic but light tune, brisk jangle pop with a dark atmosphere.

 

 

Label: Fringe Product – FPL3022 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: Canada 

Released: 1986 

Style: Alternative Rock, New Wave, Goth Rock, Darkwave, Post-Punk

 

Tracklist:

A1 This Time Tomorrow 3:56 

A2 Turn To Dust 5:17 

A3 Epic 6:38 

A4 Reunion 4:45 

B1 Tales Of Adventure 5:07 

B2 Happy Now I Know 3:41 

B3 Reflections (In A Coffee Cup) 5:19 

B4 In The Sun 5:01 

 

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Anorexia – Radical Riot [Cass] (1986, Not On Label)

Anorexia was a hardcore punk band from Birmingham England. Started in 1985, featured Mick Harris (Napalm Death) on drums. They recorded their first demo with this line-up in 1985, performing their own songs and covers of Chaotic Dischord. Afterwards Scott (pre-Alcohol Licks) joined in for drums on the second demo and subsequent recordings.

 

Label: Not On Label (Anorexia Self-released) – none 

Format: Cassette 

Country: UK 

Released: 1986 

Style: Hardcore, Punk 

 

Tracklist:

A1 Instrumental 

A2 Master Of The Hunt 

A3 Dream Of Reality 

A4 Addict 

A5 Battle For Equality 

B1 Die For The Government 

B2 Infinite Divisions 

B3 Living A Nightmare 

B4 Torture 

B5 Animal Rights 

 

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Acces 22 – War!! [12''] (1990, Megabeat Records)

 

Access 22 was a Spanish Techno project from Valencia formed by DJ and sound technician Fran Lenaers, DJ and producer Vicente "Gani" Manero, and musician Julio Nexus (Julio Pastor), that recorded under other aliases such as Ground Zone, Interfront, Invisible 2, Megabeat, Nexus, Robotics, Spook, The Impossibles, The Lords Of The New Beat, The Ora:cle, The Sun Corporation and Tyrell Corporation.

 

 

Label: Megabeat Records – MEGABEAT DURO 1 

Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, 45 RPM, Mini-Album 

Country: Spain 

Released: 1990 

Style: EBM, Industrial, Electro, Techno, Makina

 

Tracklist:

A1 War!! 4:45 

B1 Ducted 5:10 

B2 Trust Me 4:04 

B3 Sex Floor 4:31 

B4 1-Ex 3:33 

B5 Up 2 U 2:06 

 

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Various – 1980: The First Fifteen Minutes [7''] (1979, Neutron Records)

Neutron Records was founded in Sheffield in 1978 by Stephen Singleton, Mark White and David Sydenham to release work coming from the burgeoning Sheffield electronic music scene. In its anarchic beginning, the label was conceived as fiercely independent, with as strong an emphasis on the visual aspects as the audio, regarding the material as manifestos focused on what they saw as the subversive principles of the postmodern and anti-art. Although fairly obscure (as the Sheffield underground scene at the time did not get much national or international notice) Vice Versa still succeeded in gaining public attention with their own blend of electronic pop tendencies, largely inspired by the fellow Sheffield group, Cabaret Voltaire. 

Neutron releases where seen as sharply intelligent statements for the new decade, beginning with Vice Versa's 'Music 4' (7" EP, NT001), a piece of electronic pop linked with cut-up statements on social decadence which went on to win a famous 'single of the week' line in NME, much to the surprise of the group. Two further releases, even more ambitious: a set of prints with a manifesto (NT002), and then the semi-legendary '1980: The First Fifteen Minutes' (7" EP, NT003), complete with six-sided fold out cover (which featured, alongside Vice Versa, three other Sheffield groups: Clock DVA, The Stunt Kites and I'm So Hollow.) Each band contributed one track each for what would be their first vinyl appearance. While the compilation received a great deal of critical acclaim, this wasn't enough to assuage the frustration with the lack of promotion which then led to Neutron singing a distribution deal with the major marketing facility Phonogram, in 1980.

 

 

Label: Neutron Records – NT 003 

Format: Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM 

Country: UK 

Released: 1979 

Style: New Wave, Punk, Synth-pop, Experimental, Post-Punk, Synth Punk, Minimal Synth

 

Tracklist:

A1 ClockDVA – Brigade 3:17 

A2 The Stunt Kites – Beautiful People 2:14 

B1 Vice Versa – Genetic Warfare 3:34 

B2 I'm So Hollow – I Don't Know 3:43 

 

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Ralph Lundsten And The Andromeda All Stars – Discophrenia [LP] (1978, Harvest)

It's probably the cover that misled to think that this would be a sub-par Moog disco LP, filled with synthetic instrumental versions of "Shake Your Groove Thing", etc. Even though everything else heard from Ralph Lundsten has been adequate-to-genius avant-electronic compositions, just pegged this as a disco cash-in. Maybe it is. But it falls more on the "funk" side of disco -the kind of late 70s sanitary funk that served as the backdrop to acts like Grace Jones, early rap, or the Eno/Byrne sound. Funk that went to modern Africa on an Anthropology graduate student fact-finding mission, but found that bouncing between recording studios in Nairobi was good enough. Funk that has a PhD at the mixing board. Funk by white guys with afros. Lundsten pins those steady, repetitive bass-led grooves under mildly entertaining spacey electronic improvisations with jazz fusion indicators. A little like Miles Davis at his 70s grooviest, toned way down into something much more commercially palatable. You know -disco funk for horny, lovesick robots. So... the cover is accurate after all. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]

 

 

Label: Harvest – 7C 062-35537 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: Sweden 

Released: 1978 

Style: Disco 

 

Tracklist:

A1 Andromedian Nights 2:46 

A2 Discophrenia 7:10 

A3 Luna Lolita 3:20 

A4 Cat Nymphony 3:56 

B1 Robot Amoroso 5:50 

B2 Spring Fever 6:10 

B3 The Celestial Sphinx 4:07 

 

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Zajártalom – Áldozati Énekek / Live [Cass] (1996, Not On Label)

 

Zajártalom was an experimental noise band from Budapest, Hungary. Active period 1986-1988, with one release. “Our band was founded in the fall of 1986. Our first concert took place on December 6, 1986 in Petöfi Csarnok, Budapest. We want to stage a new attempt in our music. We’re trying to perform comprehensive noise music that embraces all environmental sound (noise) effects. This is not industrial music! The sound effects are basic, this is an instrumental production. Process music that is born on stage and forms a coherent whole together with background sounds. Each of our concerts are based on different songs, which is why we always make a concert that can only be heard once. It's difficult to make sense of it, but in fact there is no need to. It is impossible to listen to the ever-changing soundtrack and music at the same time. Our goal is for the listener to perceive what is happening on stage with his senses, surrender himself to sound effects, let his mind free, because these noises are everyday, consciousness sound effects in an amplified form. Congested feelings that even in their unity, they can manifest themselves in many ways... The band broke up in early 1988…” (Karel, Második Látás fanzine 1990). Members: Kalóczkai Attila (voice ), Tunner János (guitar ), Veress János (guitar ), Apró Imre (bass ) and Karel (drums, noise). [SOURCE: YOUTUBE]

 

 

Label: Not On Label (Zajártalom Self-Released) – none 

Format: Cassette, Album 

Country: Hungary 

Released: 1996 

Style: Alternative Rock, Noise 

 

Tracklist:

A1 Halott Lelkének Kisérete 

A2 Fények 

A3 Jegyzet 

A4 Engem Hívnak Úgy! 

A5 R.B. 

A6 Világ Vége 

A7 Át Akar menni A Zebrán 

A8 Harc Az Életért 

A9 Utolsó Áldozat 

B1 Live 

 

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Yen Pox – Deliver [7''] (1995, Drone Records)

 

Nuclear-nightmarish-ambient darkness in the vein of Lustmord, Thomas Koner and Atomine Elektrine. The duo (Michael J.V. Hensley and Steve Hall) also founded two others amazing "deep listening" projects under the name Blood Box and Veil of Secrecy. [SOURCE: PROG ARCHIVES]

 

 

Label: Drone Records – DR-15 

Format: Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM

Country: Germany 

Released: Dec 1995 

Style: Dark Ambient, Drone 

 

Tracklist:

A Deliver 8:48 

B Remove 8:51 

 

Notes:  

First edition (1995), limited to 250 hand-numbered copies, packaged in handmade silk-screened covers.

Second edition (1998), limited to 300 copies on black vinyl in black-on-red printed sleeves.

 

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The Walking Floors – No Next Time [7''] (1981, My Death Telephone Records)

The Walking Floors were a Post Punk DIY band all from around Basingstoke in Hampshire, UK. The band began life as The Brothers K in 1978, but changed to The Walking Floors with a change to Ian Sturgess on bass in 1979. Drummer Mike Barnes and Ian Sturgess also worked with The Lemon Kittens during 1979-1980, appearing on the latter's 'Cake Beast' EP and providing back-up at a number of memorable live appearances (a spectacularly mismatched support slot with Killing Joke has entered music folklore). The Walking Floors most notable live appearances were probably their handful of gigs supporting The Diagram Brothers in London and an appearance supporting The Lemon Kittens at Reading University in 1980. This single was recorded at the R.M.S. London studio and the engineer was Andy Le Vien, same for the Airmail first and only single. [SOURCE: LAST.FM] 

 

Label: My Death Telephone Records – TEL 001 

Format: Vinyl, 7", Single 

Country: UK 

Released: 1981 

Style: New Wave, Punk, Post-Punk, Jangle Pop

 

Tracklist:

A No Next Time 2:29 

B Removal 3:38 

 

Notes:

Fold-out sleeve, housed in a plastic bag with sticker. 

 

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V-3 – Unbroken Silence [Cass] (1989, Iron Press)

Monomaniacal home-recordists-cum-outsider-musicians are getting to be a rather common breed, but Columbus, Ohio’s Jim Shepard was hunkered down in his primordial lair back when most people thought “lo-fi” meant listening to music on a transistor radio. Far more devoted to noise than most one-man/4-track operations, Shepard -who hung himself at home in October 1998- had a flair for carving out blocks of blue-collar art-rock that rivals fellow Rust Belt survivors like Destroy All Monsters and Pere Ubu (in its heyday). He also tempered the smart-guy sound-assemblage with a dark and smoky garage aesthetic born of toxin-laden practice spaces and beer-soaked lunch hours out behind the plant. 

 
Shepard inaugurated his insular experimentation back in the late ’70s with Vertical Slit, a free-ranging, amorphously constructed band that laid out its lattices of scree around the leader’s extraordinary guitar constructions. You can hear bits of MC5er Fred “Sonic” Smith, Sonny Sharrock and Can’s Michael Karoli in Shepard’s alternately piercing and massaging use of feedback, while his lyrics coat everything in sight with overlapping bile and black humor. An array of cassette releases and micro-pressed records -in editions ranging from 100 ('Slit and Pre-Slit') to a whopping 300 ('The Live EP')- were excerpted for 'Vertical Slit and Beyond', a revelatory 1976-’90 compendium of isolationist howl that would be impossible to replicate in an age of networking and backslapping indie-rock support groups. 

 
Not that the confronto-delic aesthetic that endures in V-3 (a combo Shepard put together) exactly conforms to that of the whippersnappers who have sprung up over the years. In fact, his last-sane-man-on-earth stance might be even more pronounced in this setting. [SOURCE: TROUSER PRESS]

 

 

Label: Iron Press – none 

Format: Cassette, Album 

Country: US 

Released: 1989 

Style: Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Post-Punk, Slacker Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Noise Rock, Experimental Rock

 

Tracklist: 

A1 Unbroken Silence 

A2 Party/Cop/Judge 

A3 Photograph Burns 

A4 Why I Shot The President 

A5 Central Park 

A6 To Breathe No More 

A7 Nobody Make The Jukebox Please 

B1 Inside Outpost 

B2 Don't Blame Me 

B3 Scrap Metal Burial Ground 

B4 The Artist 

B5 Birds And Garbage 

B6 Voices In The Woods 

B7 The Enemy Within 

B8 Bloody Veteran Feedback 

 

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The Untamed Youth – Some Kinda Fun!! [LP] (1989, Norton Records)

 

Long before Derek (nee Deke) Dickerson became a virtuosic twangy roots music figure (in such outfits as the Dave & Deke Combo and on various roots and rockabilly country solo records), he was the musical force behind the unabashed frat rock revivalist quartet The Untamed Youth. 'Some Kinda Fun', the Untamed Youth's debut LP, is a note-perfect time-travel machine to the days between the reign of surf and psychedelia (which makes sort of revisionist history sense when you consider that The Untamed Youth came from Missouri). Drenched in reverb and riding along on a tide of Farfisa organ and Pabst Blue Ribbon, The Untamed Youth reveled in the simple pleasures of girls 'n' hot rods (granted, not the most inventive ground) with a fidelity to the spirit and letter of the source material some 25 years down the line that, even if you can't get next to the retro factor, is admirable. Of course, NYC's Norton Records label specializes in just this kind of atavistic pleasure and The Untamed Youth were the prize young 'uns among Norton's stable of wild and wacky, thankfully not forgotten recording artists such as Hasil Adkins, King Uszniewicz, and The Flat Duo Jets. With 'Some Kinda Fun' you get the whole package -from liner notes by "Bugger Waller" of "K-ROD Radio" to photos of the boys hanging out, Nuggets-style, in repose next to a hearse next to a barn in Middle America. But all this clever packaging would just be pretentious if the music wasn't so darned hot. Dickerson rides the reverb, expertly picking his twangy way around the aforementioned Farfisa, both of which ride over Steve Mace's bouncing, boundlessly energetic basslines and F. Clarke Marty's fill-happy surf and stomp beat parade. Better still -and unlike many retro-obsessed groups of beer-loving young men parading around the garage rock circuit- you believe Dickerson when he says "I wanna girl and a hot rod" or when he extols the virtues of his "antique '32 Studebaker hearse." From surf to turf, The Untamed Youth take a trip down a musical memory lane by refusing to believe that the past is gone and things aren't so simple. And for 31 minutes and 43 seconds you believe 'em. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]

 

 

Label: Norton Records – ED 207 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: US 

Released: Jan 1989 

Style: Surf, Garage Rock, Rock & Roll, Frat Rock, Surf Rock

 

Tracklist:

A1 Some Kinda Fun 1:53 

A2 You've Got To Understand 2:21 

A3 Laughin' Linda 2:01 

A4 Pabst Blue Ribbon 2:32 

A5 Beer Bust Blues 3:13 

A6 Girl And A Hot Rod 2:06 

A7 She's So Satisfying 2:56 

B1 Antique '32 Studebaker Dictator Coupe 1:45 

B2 Surfin' Hearse 1:53 

B3 One Pine Box 1:43 

B4 California Bound 2:00 

B5 I'm Going Away 2:24 

B6 Haulin' Honda 2:15 

B7 Go Go Ferrari 2:31 

 

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Take It – Armchairs / Trends And Relations / Twenty Lines [7''] (1980, Fresh Hold Releases)

 

Take It was an english post-punk and minimal wave band. Their members were Igor (keyboards, vocals, also in Blue Screaming and Collective Horizontal), Simon (guitar, vocals), Alan Tyler (vocals), Paul Platypus (guitar) and Dave Morgan (drums). Inspired by Vic Godard and his "swing jazz" period at Club Left, the band's career culminated in a successful performance at the world famous Ronnie Scott's in Frith Street, London. They released only two 7" singles, 'Man-Made World' (1979) and this 'Armchairs / Trends And Relations / Twenty Lines', both on the Fresh Hold Releases imprint.

 

 
 

Label: Fresh Hold Releases – FHR 1 

Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM 

Country: UK 

Released: 1980 

Style: New Wave, Post-Punk, Art Punk, Indie Pop

 

Tracklist:

A Twenty Lines 

B1 Armchairs 

B2 Trends And Relations 

 

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The Snifters – I Like Boys [7''] (1978, Lightning Records)

The Snifters were a punk band from Amsterdam (Netherlands), also known as Cirrus Minor (from 1966 to 1970) and Mantra Energy Band (from 1970 to 1976). Members were Sandor Kleinsma (vocals, keyboards), Ruud Jacobs (vocals, keyboards), Nico Arzbach (lead guitar, and also in bands such De Dijk and Stampei), Ton van Wier (guitar), Dick van Wier (bass) and Ab de Jong (drums). They only released the 'I Like Boys' ‎7" on the London-based label Lightning Records in 1978. It's hard not to break into a grin listening to "I Like Boys" with its manic energy, sex-crazed frontman, and drum machine propulsion. 

 

Label: Lightning Records – GIL 534 

Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Stereo 

Country: UK 

Released: 1978 

Style: Punk, New Wave, Punk Rock

 

Tracklist:

A I Like Boys 

B Baby Punker 

 

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Recursos Ajenos / Merz – Una Exposición [Cass] (1987, IEP)

Luis Mesa is a Spanish electronic pioneer now disappeared from the scene, he was a true precursor of noise. He published his first cassette in 1983 at the same time that he founded his record label IEP (Investigaciones Estudios y Proyectos). He began in the eighties with groups like Esplendor Geométrico, Macromassa, La Otra Cara de un Jardín... He recorded with other pseudonyms such as Merz (with José Manuel Mesa, Alfredo Alvarez and Oscar Mayoral), Recursos Ajenos and Bercomice.

 

 

Label: IEP – IEP 07 

Format: Cassette 

Country: Spain 

Released: 1985 

Style: Experimental 

 

Tracklist:

A1 Recursos Ajenos – El Himno De Los Muertos 

A2 Recursos Ajenos – Juegos Blancos 

A3 Recursos Ajenos – Cánticos 

B1 Merz – San Remo '84 

B2 Merz – La Cólera 

 

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Pink Industry – New Beginnings [LP] (1985, Zulu Records)

 

When Pink Military split up in 1981, singer Jayne Casey formed the more electronically oriented band Pink Industry along with Ambrose Reynolds (who had played with Casey in Big In Japan in the 1970s, and was an early member of Frankie Goes to Hollywood), the duo initially using several other musicians, later becoming a trio with the addition of Tadzio Jodlowski. The band's first release was the 'Forty-Five' EP featuring lead track "Is This The End?", released in February 1982. The band's debut album, 'Low Technology', was released the following year, reaching number 12 on the UK Independent Chart. A second album, 'Who Told You You Were Naked', followed later the same year, and peaked at number nine on the Indie chart. Between 1982 and 1984, the band recorded four sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show. After a two-year gap since their previous release, the band returned in 1985 with the 'New Beginnings' album. 

 
'New Beginnings' is haunted. Not haunting, it's far too unassuming and slight for that, but haunted. Everything about it sounds like a recorded echo, making the album feel like its own ghost striving to make itself known but only succeeding at being felt. Pulling that off in short bursts is hard, but sustaining the same overall feeling for a full album would seem almost impossible. At its best it's also incredibly beautiful and surprising on top of all those things -the mournful sax on "What I Wouldn't Give" and the skeletal desolation of "The Beech" stand out immediately, as does the proto-Autechere (of all things) feel of the title track -but for the most part it's merely trance-inducingly listenable. Not quite a lost classic but certainly worth keeping around. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]

 

 

Label: Zulu Records – Zulu 7 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: UK 

Released: Jul 1985 

Style: Leftfield, New Wave, Synth-pop, Minimal Wave, Post-Punk, Ambient Pop, Downtempo

 

Tracklist:

A1 New Beginnings 

A2 Pain Of Pride 

A3 Bound By Silence 

A4 State Of Grace 

A5 Piano Ping 

B1 Empty Beech 

B2 The Corpse 

B3 Fifty Five 

B4 What I Wouldn't Give 

B5 No Defence 

B6 Stand Alone 

 

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Ohne.Unter.Titel – In Aller Munde [Cass] (1981, Das Casseten Combinat)

 

Ohne Unter Titel was an Neue Deutsche Welle and experimental band formed in Berlin. Members were Nina Hagen (vocals), Kiddy Citny, Leffy Leffringhausen (aka Lefty Flamingo, co-founder of Das Cassetten Combinat, co-owner of Combinatsstudio and musician member also of Frau Siebenrock Combo and Lemmy Und Die Schmöker), and Manon Pepita Duursma (also in Malaria!, Matador and Mutabor!). Also Known As Ohne Untertitel, O.U.T., O.U.T. Production or OUT Production, all their releases were issued by Das Cassetten Combinat, a very shortlived but influencial german cassette label, production company (O.U.T. Production), studio (Combinatsstudio) and shop from West Berlin, run mostly by Kiddy Citny and Leffy Leffringhausen in 1981, but also sometimes by other members of Ohne Unter Titel. 

 

 

Label: Das Cassetten Combinat – 0113, Das Cassetten Combinat – 81023 

Format: Cassette, C30 

Country: Germany 

Released: 1981 

Style: New Wave, Experimental, Synth-pop, Minimal 

 

Tracklist:

A1 Fremde Sprache 

A2 Genius 

A3 Kraft Und Mut 

A4 Keine Zeit 

B1 Bin Ich Denn Im Urwald 

B2 Blondes Ding 

B3 Sonie 

B4 Fragen Über Fragen 

 

Notes:

The catalog number is listed as "0113" on the cover. It is actually "81023". 

The tracklisting on the cover is different from the actual appearance of the individual tracks. The listing here on discogs reflects the actual running order and appearing tracks. 

 

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November Group – Persistent Memories [12''] (1983, Brain Eater)

 

In the driving "I Live Alone," Ann Prim's machine-gun vocal echoes a monotone Greta Garbo by way of Marlene Dietrich. The band had a powerful presence live in concert, and lots of angst that gets subdued when translated to vinyl in a studio. Good production work by Ann Prim and A. Kirby, who goes by the name of Kearney Kirby, became the trademark of these warriors. Everything is so serious with November Group -"Night Architecture" sounds and feels contrived, but that doesn't take away from its beauty. Whether Prim and Kirby were doing this as a calculated business move (which MCA recording artist The Rings appeared to be doing before them) or if these songs emerged because it was their art at the time, isn't the point. For what it is, it is very good. Where an instrumental version of "Put Your Back to It" might have been fun, actually putting an instrumental like "Night Architecture" on a disc is a bit redundant. All this techno rock seems to work well sans vocals on the dancefloor anyway -and the voice takes so long to kick in on "Heart of a Champion" that side two is very much like one long dance mix. "Heart of a Champion" is excellent, though it shows the group's limitations; of all their material it sounds the most dated. This is Devo in a very serious light. "Heart of a Champion" is "Whip It" with a longer chorus. It is the first track, "Put Your Back to It," which is the hit. This is the original long version of a song they would re-record for their A&M Records disc, 'Work That Dream'. Don Foote on vocals and bass, and Alvan Long, the drummer who appeared on the first November Group EP, left for their own group shortly after this. Although not very original, these are good sounds worth finding and dancing to again. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]

 

 

Label: Brain Eater – BRAIN 1 

Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM 

Country: US 

Released: 1983 

Style: Synth-pop, New Wave

 

Tracklist:

A1 Put Your Back To It 5:44 

A2 I Live Alone 4:00 

B1 Night Architecture 2:54 

B2 Heart Of A Champion 5:24 

 

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Monster Magnet – Forget About Life, I'm High On Dope [Cass] (1989, Cool Beans)

New Jersey native Dave Wyndorf was already a rock & roll veteran by the time he formed Monster Magnet in 1989, having cut his teeth with little-known punk band Shrapnel (also featuring future punk producer Daniel Rey on guitars) in the late '70s before retiring from music altogether. But after teaching himself guitar, Wyndorf began assembling Monster Magnet with a handful of fellow New Jersey natives, vocalist Tim Cronin, guitarist John McBain, bassist Joe Calandra, and drummer Jon Kleiman. Fusing their metal, punk, space rock, and psychedelic influences, the band developed a sludgy, feedback-heavy hard rock sound that helped them stand out from the era's burgeoning retro-rock movement -also counting The Black Crowes, White Zombie, and many others.

 
This is Monster Magnet's very first release only available on cassette, that they released on their own label, Cool Beans, in 1989. Essentially it is a collection of 4 track demos, with several of the songs being re-recorded for later albums. For these recordings, Monster Magnet was a three piece consisting of Dave Wyndorf, John McBain, and Tim Cronin. Their debut owes a huge debt to Hawkwind, psychedelia and drugs. They even cover Hawkwind here ("Brainstorm"). It is a noisy stew of abrasive trippy rock. Some of the vocals are questionable but, altogether, this is quite a journey for psych lovers of all stripes. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]

 

 

Label: Cool Beans – none 

Format: Cassette, Limited Edition 

Country: US 

Released: 1989 

Style: Space Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock, Jam Band, Punk Rock, Noise Rock

 

Tracklist:

A1 Lizard Johnny 6:44 

A2 Black Wawa 3:14 

A3 Eight Ball 5:23 

A4 Brainstorm 5:24 

A5 Freak Shop USA 4:30 

B1 Tab 22:05 

 

Notes: 

This is the track listing and cover art for the second release of the tape, which includes "Freak Shop USA".

This was not on the original edition as it was recorded later for release on a Circuit 7" single. 

 

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