Kosmonautentraum is a music project founded in 1980 by the singer Ziggy XY (aka Michael Jarick) and drummer E.K.T. (then both at Der Moderne Man) in Hannover with a strong closeness to the genial dilletants from Berlin (Die Tödliche Doris, Einstürzende Neubauten, Sprung Aus Den Wolken, etc.). Kosmonautentraum published mostly on cassettes and on the ZickZack label, with changing accompanying musicians until the mid-1980s. Ziggy XY also published a volume of poetry titled "Der Deutsche" and published together with E.K.T. the fanzine "Heute", which contained mostly collages and fictitious concert reviews and record reviews. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
Label: Zickzack – ZZ 41
Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Stereo
Country: Germany
Released: Jan 1982
Style: New Wave, Abstract, Minimal, Post-Punk, Neue Deutsche Welle
This Power Pop album is from Tucson, Arizona band Jonny Sevin. Described as punky / New Wave during their run, members went on to be in many bands, most notably Yard Trauma and Jacket Weather.
Produced by Bill Cashman and released on Art Attack Records, this one's got a processed, "edgy," '82-sounding production job (think 'Everywhere at Once'-era Plimsouls without the distinctive songwriting). Nevertheless, the two tracks that bookend the album, "You Want To" and "Sarah Bellum," are marginal keepers. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]
Label: Art Attack – AR-007
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1982
Style: Post-Punk, Power Pop
Tracklist:
A1 You Want To
A2 She's Nobody's Rriend
A3 Magazine Girl
A4 Slick Boys
B1 Alien
B2 She's A Girl
B3 Now I Know
B4 Too Many Criminals
B5 Sarah Bellum
Notes:
Also came in a limited edition red vinyl edition. Side 2 features a runout groove.
Intaferon was a short-lived English New Wave duo, consisting of Simon Fellowes and Simon Gillham. They were signed to Chrysalis Records. Their song "GetOutOfLondon" (produced by Martin Rushent) was featured in the 2001 Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen movie "Winning London". Their singles were often featured on the Channel Four show "Max Headroom".
"Baby Pain" is a Simon Gillham song. The cover pictures Edie Sedgwick after the Chelsea Hotel fire. They originally wanted the cover to be all black with dark purple lettering -a big bruise. Produced by David Motion, the song signalled the end of Intaferon, the lyric at the beginning of the 12” remix uncannily preempting it. [SOURCE: SIMON FELLOWES]
With a sound falling somewhere between punk, pop, and new wave, The Hitmakers were one of the earliest San Diego punk bands, circa late 1970s, along with The Zeros, The Dils, and The Penetrators. The classic lineup featured Joel Kmak (Penetrators, Powerthud), Steve Potterf (Crawdaddys), Ron Silva (Crawdaddys, Nashville Ramblers), Joseph Marc, and Jeff Scott, with Penetrators bassist Steve Kelly and Silva's drummer brother Scuzz also doing stints with the group.
The band released a seven-inch three-song EP in 1978 called 'It's Only Sad', followed two years later with a single, 'Keep On Proving It b/w Tell Her I Love Her' (Surrey Sound Records). [SOURCE: SAN DIEGO READER]
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]
