Intestinal Infestation was a short lived side project from Napalm Death and Unseen Terror members Mick Harris (drums) and Shane Embury (Bass) with Mitch Dickinson (vocals, guitar). This tape is a self-released official rehearsal/demo recorded in 1988. Mick Harris is best known as ex-Napalm Death drummer, now producing dark atmospherics. Early bands missing include Martian Brain Squeeze (two demos), Motherfuckers from Mars (with Pete Nash), and Drop Dead (with Shane Embury, Jim Whitely and Andy Whale). Founder of Possible and 416 Records.
Since 1983, Illusion Of Safety has been the ongoing project of Daniel Burke working alone and with various collaborators. They have released over 20 CDs on labels such as Complacency, Die Stadt, Experimedia, Odd Size, Silent, Soleilmoon, Staalplaat, Tesco, and Waystyx, and played over three hundred concerts in Europe and North America. IOS' work has been called ambient, post-industrial, electro-acoustic, noise, sound collage, improvisation, and power electronics, but they are unwilling to limit their work to any given style or method. The sonic character and affective substance of the music will often shift abruptly within each recording and live performance.
Daniel Burke is currently working with conventional instruments, electronic synthesis, computer composition, samples, and highly amplified handled objects. He uses improvised and composed structures containing material that confounds memory and stimulates perception. The resulting music encompasses broken sound, disturbed ambience and unfiltered beauty that collectively evokes an awareness of the ineffable.
The work activates modes of perception to facilitate direct access to the psyche, emotions, and the infinite in order to address the necessity of balance and the nature of dichotomy.
Holeist is another Dan Burke's side project, with Eric Lunde and Jeph Jerman. Eric Lunde
is an american musician and artist and also a member of Boy Dirt Car. Besides his musical releases and his artwork, he also published a book of poetry and wood-block prints entitled "LLND" (Alamut Records, 1991).
Jeph Jerman began in 1986 recording and performing under the name Hands To. Most of the early soundwork was sampler and tape loop based, though over the course of ten years it evolved into using environmental recordings with very little to no manipulation or electronic processing.
In 1996 in Seattle he embarked upon a weekly series of concerts at Anomalous Records which brought him into contact with the city's improvised music community. For the next three years he played with anyone who would have hime. During this time he began giving solo performances using only natural found objects (stones, shells, bones, driftwood, pine cones, etc), as soundmakers, a practice which continues to today. Eventually he stopped using the name Hands To.
In 1999, the Animist Orchestra was founded. The AO focuses on making music that hopefully bypasses our individual egos.
Most of his previous work could be interpreted as being 'idea-based'. He finds that most of his work nowadays is sound-based. He believes this is due to his growing interest in listening, in what happens when one listens, and his concomitant disinterest in contextualizing sound.
Label: Complacency – CPD03002
Format:
Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1989
Style: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient
Tracklist:
A1 Holeist – Soileth
A2 Holeist – 'Unsheltered'
A3 Holeist – Hazur
A4 Holeist – Stahlmesser
B1 Illusion Of Safety – 7•9•89 Chicago Laminating
B2 Illusion Of Safety – 7•17•89 Club Lower Links Chicago
B3 Illusion Of Safety – 7•22•89 Francis Ford Studio Milwaukee
Notes:
Holeist: Recorded during the Hands To..., Eric Lunde split LP sessions in the comfort of Lunde's living room on equipment provided by Dan Burke. 7-24-89. 4 track with mirage sampler, alesis drum machine.
Gaunt was a Punk band formed in Columbus, Ohio, in 1991. The band released five albums before splitting in 1998. The original lineup formed from remnants of short-lived "punkadelic" band Black Juju, and consisted of guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Jerry Wick, bassist Eric Barth (who had also been in Two Hour Trip with the Spurgeon brothers, who would soon form Greenhorn), and drummer Jeff Regensburger (later of The Patsys). Jim Weber (also of the then newly formed New Bomb Turks) soon joined on second guitar only to leave just as quickly, and following his departure guitarist/songwriter Jovan Karcic (Waybald) joined. Barth and Regensburger would also later leave (in 1995) and be replaced by a series of successors including Bret Lewis and Brett Falcon (Space Cookie, Servotron) on bass, and Nick Youngblood (Beano, The Rackets) and Sam Brown (Feversmile, V-3, New Bomb Turks, The Sun, You're So Bossy) on drums.
'Whitey The Man' is a punkish, garage and grunge type album and displays Wick's knack for penning sloppy punk pop. The
band was the first signing for the label and their album was only the
second release for Thrill Jockey. This EP has 7 songs, lasting about 18 minutes and packs a whallop. "Silly Watches" sums it up "punks dont wear silly watches" and then "Back Off" and "Salvation" sound like Mudhoney. "Whitey" is a pretty good rock instrumental, and the album's best two tracks are the final two ones, which go off to hardcore punk territory, "USA" and "Jim Motherfucker". [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]
Label: Thrill Jockey – THRILL 002
Format:
Vinyl, LP, 10", Album
Country: US
Released: 1992
Style: Garage Rock, Lo-Fi, Punk, Rock & Roll, Indie Rock, Punk Rock
Not much known about Family Patrol Group, although there's a website with a list of gigs performed. Their commitment to power electronics conventions of the time seemed tongue-in-cheek bordering on sarcastic. They clearly figured somewhere in that whole Birmingham noise thing which also bequeathed us Final / Smear Campaign, Con-Dom, Godflesh and so on, assuming that Family Patrol Group were Colin Fisher, Mike Grant, and some dude called Greg. [SOURCE: FERRIC ARCHAEOLOGY]
Label: Not On Label – none
Format:
Cassette
Country: UK
Released: 1983
Style: Industrial, Noise, Experimental, Power Electronics
Even Worse were a New York City punk band whose ever-changing lineups were consistently anchored by founder and drummer Jack Rabid. Denizens of the city's pre-hardcore scene, Even Worse initially formed in April 1980 in order to open for fellow N.Y.C. punks The Stimulators. Still in their teens, they gigged around Manhattan for their first year before the initial lineup fell apart and Rabid enlisted the personnel who would make the band's first recorded appearance. The 1981-1982 lineup featuring singer Rebecca Korbet, bassist Eric Keil, and guitarist Robert Weeks appeared regularly on the scene and contributed two songs to ROIR's seminal 1982 thrash compilation 'New York Thrash'. The compilation also included Bad Brains, The Undead, Heart Attack, and the Beastie Boys' first recordings. Also with this lineup, Even Worse recorded an entire LP's worth of material that remained unreleased during their brief career but was finally issued on CD in 2002. A new, completely different lineup rose in mid-1982 featuring Steve Waxman and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore on guitar along with singer Ken Tempkin and bassist Tim Sommer, the latter of whom would soon form experimental group Hugo Largo and become an MTV host. This version of the band recorded a handful of singles, the first of which, 'Mouse or Rat?', wouldn't see release until 1984. Their second single, 'Leaving', was eventually released in 1988, by which time the band had essentially called it quits. In addition to forming the post-punk trio Springhouse, Rabid is known for founding the music magazine "The Big Takeover". [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]
Label: Autonomy Records – 002, Autonomy Records (7) – AU002
Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1988
Style: Punk, New York Hardcore, Hardcore Punk
Tracklist:
A Leaving
2:33
B One Night Stand
5:30
Notes:
Side A recorded: November 1983, Stirling Sound, Stirling, NJ. Mixed: September 15, 1987, also at Stirling Sound.
Side B recorded live onto cassette by a Panasonic Stereo Recorder on February 20, 1983 at Great Glindersleeves, New York.
