Gate is a free noise project of New Zealander Michael Morley, which began at the end of the 80's. Morley, who has also plays in Dead C and runs the Precious Metal label, performed the thick, sonic improvisations that are characteristic of Gate on a tour with Keiji Haino and Thurston Moore in 1994. Gate has several releases on the Table of the Elements label, including 'Monolake' (1997) and 'The Wisher Table' (1999), as well as other releases on smaller independent labels such as Go For It and Siltbreeze. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]
At first, this long-player from Fallout all seemed to have that familiar anarcho-Britpunk style, but after more listenings, the variations and intensity come through. They have a PiL sound on “Know Your Enemy” and “Aparthied” [sic], an Iggy Pop riff on “Trojan Horse,” and lots of early Crass garage influence. Well thought-out and executed. [SOURCE: MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL]
Label: Not On Label (Fallout Self-released) – (F10-1)
Since beginning in 1977, French industrial innovators Die Form have built up a staggering body of work, ranging from goth club tracks to neo-classical explorations. Lyrically and visually confrontational, the group's music, videos, performances, and art books have revolved around controversial themes such as eroticism, necrophilia, sadomasochism, and bestiality. The group was founded by audio-visual artist Phillipe Fichot, and model / vocalist Éliane P. joined during the late 1980s. Much of Die Form's material, including dozens of obscure cassettes, has appeared on Fichot's Bain Total label, but releases on labels like Metropolis and Trisol have expanded the group's audience.
Die Form's earliest cassette releases, as well as recordings under pseudonyms such as Eva-Johanna Reichstag and Krylon Hertz, were noisy experiments heavily inspired by musique concrète. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]
The actual name "Doc Wör Mirran" was thought up by Bernard H. Worrick while he and Joseph B. Raimond lived together in San Francisco in 1982. But the real history of Doc Wör Mirran begins when Bernard H. Worrick and Joseph B. Raimond both moved to Nürnberg Germany in 1985, where Joseph B. Raimond bought an analog 8-track recording studio and began to record what has since become a huge body of recorded work. The concept of Doc Wör Mirran though from the very beginning was to combine music, graphic art, painting, sculpture, poetry and just about every other medium of art into one project.
The open-membership policy of Doc Wör Mirran is an important part of the Doc Wör Mirran philosophy. In the early 1990's, Bernard H. Worrick moved to Florida, taking with him an important part of the group's identity. But Doc Wör Mirran has continued onwards without Bernard. Bringing Bernard back to Germany and returning him to the Doc Wör Mirran fold has become one of the goals of the group. Although rarely playing live, Doc Wör Mirran is not averse to live concerts, although playing live is not one of the priorities of the group. Since the departure of Bernard, Doc Wör Mirran has become especially interested in collaborative efforts with other artists, both recorded and live. Recent developments with Doc Wör Mirran include the formation of a new label within MT Undertainment devoted exclusively to the recordings, literature and artwork by Doc Wör Mirran and its various members.
Label: RRRecords – RRR-WÖR, Empty Records – MT-148
Format:
3 x Vinyl, LP
Box Set
Country: US
Released: 1991
Style: Abstract, Industrial, Experimental
Tracklist:
A1 False Legs For The Decapod 3:13
A2 Bennie 3:46
A3 Initiative 3:39
A4 April Sekt 2:50
A5 Fuck You, Frau Kalb 2:54
A6 Into The Sun 1:52
B1 Misery Fiction, Misery Life
3:58
B2 Distrusting You Forever
2:07
Trilogy Tits
B3 A) Bi-Anal Improvisation (Repaired Trance Version)
2:26
B4 B) Lockerbee Rain
4:25
B5 C) Satan Is Also Stupid
6:17
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C1 The Events Of January 17, 1991 3:45
C2 8500 Nurnberg
15:03
D1 Slow #4 7:15
D2 Andropovski's Nightmare
3:04
D3 Jeandra's Eyes
8:14
D4 Was Mach Ich Jetzt 2:58
E1 Distrusting You Always 5:57
E2 The Glory O.T. Sun
1:34
E3 Henry's Secret Deformity 4:00
E4 Top Ten Hit Material 2:52
E5 Another Sighting Of The Great Loch Ness Titty 4:12
F1 Beat Your Meat Manifesto
2:41
F2 Blood And Burn
3:58
F3 Broccolli June Harvest (Part 3)
5:10
F4 Stop Doing The Laundry, Frank
4:25
F5 Mythical Riches 4:13
Notes:
Comes in a box in an edition of 500 copies.
Recorded mainly at Two Car Garage Studios, Nürnberg, Germany between 1987 and 1991. Some recording was done at Lexisound Fercht and at the private studios of the participants.
Clónicos is a Spanish experimental jazz-rock group that was active mainly between 1984 and 1994. Markus Breuss, a conservatory musician, formed the group in 1984 with Pelayo Arrizabalaga and soon after, Justo Bagüeste joined, taking as references artists/groups such as Cassiber, Material, Elliott Sharp, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varese, Fred Frith, John Zorn and Art Ensemble of Chicago. Breuss was the group's leader and principal composer. During the ten years of the group's life, it incorporated several collaborators.
Clónicos was the first Spanish group to play at the prestigious mœrs festival (Germany). In 1991, together with Finis Africae and the Swiss painter Daniel Garbade, they presented the performance “Cláusulas” to celebrate the 700 years of the Swiss Confederation, in Madrid in 1991.
The music of Clónicos coincides in time with the groups of the so-called "Movida Madrileña", with which it has some contact (Víctor Polanski, leader of Polanski y el Ardor), but it is closer to the proposals of European and American avant-garde music (no-wave, free-rock, punk-jazz, etc.), with a combination of traditional percussion instruments, synthesizers and self-made instruments. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
The Bpeople were one of these Post-Punk / Art Punk bands that inherited the theatrical atmospheres of the Progressive Rock of the 70's (similar to Magazine and UK Decay) as depicted in the dense and frosty "Can Can't" and "I Am The Sky" (modeled after Magazine's "Definitive Gaze" from 'Real Life'), the epic and grandiose "In The Mind" and "Time" (again modeled after Magazine's "Cut-Out Shapes" from 'Secondhand Daylight'). The most impressive tracks were actually the brief gothic atmospheres of "Betrayal" and "Masquerade". A melancholic and moody art punk masterpiece, very much in the vein of The Sleepers or Toiling Midgets. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]
Anechoic Chamber is a french coldwave band formed in Strasbourg, France in 1985 formed by Gabriel Di Gregorio (vocals, guitar), Syd Rey (guitar, bass, violin) and Franz (drums).
They released records on Lively Art, New Rose and Krezimikroïd. This album was produced by Legendary Pink Dots members Edward Ka-Spel, credited as The Prophet Qa'sepel (tracks: A1 to A3, B3) and Phil Knight, The Silverman (tracks: A4, B1, B2).
Mario Ruiz, from Barcelona and with the stage name "Sorollsec", was 32 Guajar's Faragüit. His was a rhythmic, repetitive and dronic rituality, structurally close to that of Esplendor Geométrico and the more forceful SPK, although formally treated with less metallic sonorities and a greater number of melodic accents that distanced him from the tribal savagery of Arturo Lanz's band. [SOURCE: ARCHIVO SONORO]
Label: EGK – EGK 019
Format:
Cassette, C46
Country: Spain
Released: 1988
Style: Experimental, Industrial
Tracklist:
A1 Rutinas De Ajuste
A2 Spots A / B / C
A3 Billonio Neomático
A4 Spots B / A / C
B1 Despasajes
B2 Spots A / C / B
B3 Expeler + Solvent
B4 Ulimatum 3 Y Cierre
Notes:
Recomendable audicion con auriculares ("Hearing with headphones is recommended")
Other Versions:
Cassette on Linea Alternativa on 1989 with catalogue number L.A.P. 10 (Spain). Linea Alternativa was an Spanish industrial / experimental cassette label formed in 1989. Also released a few CDs in later years. Inactive since late 1998.
