Rap – Hysteria [12''] (1987, Dogma Records)

The all-female japanese punk rock and deathrock band RAP formed in 1984 and disbanded in 1988. Members were Rouge (vocals, keyboards), Nishiki (guitar), Kaori (bass), Misa (drums, also member of bands such Final Bombs, Geizz, Kyah and of hardcore punk band from Tokyo Last Bomb) and Kinta (drums, also a member of goth / post-punk / new wave band Mannequin Neurose). They released three 7", 'Wrap' (1985), 'Trap' (1986) and 'Rapout' (1986) and a 12", 'Hysteria' (1986), all on Dogma Records. The set of tunes in 'Hysteria' veers into X-Mal Deutschland territory with its sung vocals, slow tempos, and thinned out guitar sound. [SOURCE: MAXIMUMROCKANDROLL] 

 

Label: Dogma Records – DOG-18 

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

Country: Japan 

Released: 1987 

Style: Punk, Goth Rock, Punk Rock, Deathrock

 

Tracklist:

A1 ~ 輪廻 (リーインカーネーション) 

A2 ランドスケイプ 

A3 ヒステリア 

B1 マタニティブルー 

B2 麻酔 / 魔睡 (Masui) 

B3 輪廻 ~ 

 

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PGR – Cyclone Par L'Immobile Habité [LP] (1988, Permis De Construire)

PGR started life as an industrial group in mid '80s under the Poison Gas Research moniker. Their studio was in a rough area in Oakland. To deter dubious people they affixed a sign with "Poison Gas Research" written on it at the front door. After self publishing several cassettes under this name, the group name was shortened to PGR. Kim Cascone was also ahead of the game on the whole ambient drone vibe, sometimes even with slight World music overtones. Don't let that scare you away though, as this is certainly far from room filler. With friends like Das (Big City Orchestra) and AMK (Anthony Michael King, American experimental musician who was active since the early 80s and created his own label Banned Production) on board, this early LP runs with all the above and more. Highlight would have to be the three part "Time" trilogy. In the haunting "Only Hell Burns Brighter' samples of Stravinsky's "Sacre du Printemps" are used. Very enjoyable. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC] 

 

Label: Permis De Construire – PER 011 

Format: Vinyl, LP 

Country: France 

Released: 1988 

Style: Experimental, Ambient, Drone

 

Tracklist: 

A1 An Elbow Of Crosslight 

A2 Only Hell Burns Brighter 

B1 Time 

B2 Bee Wings Beat 

B3 Alice In Wondertime 

B4 Time Reprise 

B5 For Kat Dancing 

 

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Oi Polloi – Destroi The System! [Cass] (1985, Not On Label)

Oi Polloi are a punk rock band from Scotland that formed around 1981. Starting as an Oi! band, they are now generally more associated with the anarcho-punk genre. The band has become notable for their contributions to the Scottish Gaelic punk subgenre. The name comes from the Greek expression "οἱ πολλοί", anglicized "hoi polloi", meaning "the masses" or "the common people". 

 

The band has gone through about 50 members since their formation, and their only permanent member has been vocalist Deek Allen, who has also been involved in Gaelic-language television. The band has included punks and skinheads. The members have been supporters of Anti-Fascist Action and Earth First!, and they use the motto "No Compromise in Defence of Our Earth," which is an adaptation of Earth First!'s motto. They support direct action in defence of the environment, hunt sabotage, as well as resistance against racism, sexism, homophobia, fascism and imperialism. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]

 

 

Label: Not On Label (Oi Polloi Self-released) – none 

Format: Cassette, Single Sided 

Country: UK 

Released: 1985 

Style: Punk, Oi!, Street Punk, Hardcore Punk

 

Tracklist: 

A1 Punx 'N' Skinz 

A2 Thugs In Uniform 

A3 Never Give In 

A4 Minority Authority 

A5 Boot Down The Door 

A6 Stop Vivisection 

A7 Skinhead 

A8 Pigs For Slaughter 

A9 No Filthy Nuclear Power 

 

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NNB – Slack / New World [7''] (1978, Wave Seven)

NNB, who formed in Minneapolis in the late '70s, created a fair amount of buzz at the time, being favourably compared to the likes of Television and Pere Ubu. By all accounts, guitarist/vocalist Mark Freeman was the guiding force behind the band, which released a string of singles but no long-player, together with bassist Rusty Jones, drummer Jim Tollefsrud and guitarist Dick Champ. 

 

Champ himself recalled, in an interview: “NNB, like a bunch of other Minneapolitans, rolled the dice, hopped into our Ford Econoline van, and relocated to New York in the fall of 1980. About six months later, NNB played the Noise Fest at White Columns, the festival that by some accounts launched Sonic Youth. All of which goes to illustrate: There's a little bit (and sometimes even a lot) of Minneapolis in the history of rock music.” Like Sonic Youth, NNB's music was as challenging as it was addictive, combining a laudable quest for invention with the can-do attitude of garage-rock. [SOURCE: WHATCULTURE] 

Label: Wave Seven – W7-1001 

Format: Vinyl, 7" 

Country: US 

Released: 1978 

Style: New Wave, Punk, Post-Punk

 

Tracklist: 

A Slack 4:07 

B New World 2:07 

 

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The Moderates – Fetishes [12''] (1980, Open Eye Records)

The Moderates were a Liverpool band who had a large local following in the late 1970s and early 1980s and championed by John Peel on his BBC Radio 1 show (the band supported John Peel's Roadshow date at Liverpool University on 2 September 1978). The band's lineup consisted of John Brady (vocals, keyboards), Heidi Kure (vocals), Phil Allen (drums), Tom Gould (guitar), Bobby Carr (guitar, violin) and Mike Pursey (bass, later of Dead or Alive). The Moderates also recorded a John Peel session on 25 March 1981 at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, produced by Dale Griffin (Mott the Hoople). The session was transmitted on 20 April that year. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA] 

 

 

Label: Open Eye Records – OE EP 1001 

Format: Vinyl, 12", EP, 45 RPM 

Country: UK 

Released: Jan 1980 

Style: New Wave, Post-Punk, Power Pop

 

Tracklist: 

A1 High Heel Shoes 

A2 Yes To The Neutron Bomb 

B1 Don't Be Silly 

B2 Suntan 

 

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Lustmørd – Lustmørdekay (Live Evil) [Cass] (1982, Sterile Records)

Lustmord, the solo project of Welsh artist Brian Williams, is often credited as the creator of the post-industrial genre known as dark ambient. His bleak, disturbing music often utilizes field recordings, deep bass frequencies, and ritualistic instrumentation, such as Tibetan horns. Initially associated with the industrial scene during the early '80s, when he was a member of SPK, he established his signature sound with releases like 1986's 'Paradise Disowned' and 1990's particularly groundbreaking 'Heresy'. 

This is an incredible document of early industrial music. It's a great mix of hypnotic tribal percussion, electronic experimentations, and mischievous vocal samples. All couched in a mist of early 80s tape hiss...or is that a leaking steam pipe in the warehouse basement studio? It's very successful at creating an evocative sonic experience. Reminds a bit of Gerechtigkeits Liga, and early Current 93. [SOURCE: DISCOGS]

 

 

Label: Sterile Records – SRC6 

Format: Cassette, C60 

Country: UK 

Released: 1982 

Style: Industrial, Power Electronics, Dark Ambient

 

Tracklist:

A1 Eugène Gigout – Toccata h-moll/b-minor 2:54 

A2 Lustmørd – Untitled 6:37 

A3 Lustmørd – Untitled 5:54 

A4 Lustmørd – Untitled 7:00 

A5 Lustmørd – Untitled 5:22 

A6 Lustmørd – Untitled 2:01 

B1 Lustmørd – Untitled 16:11 

B2.1 Lustmørd – Untitled 5:55 

B2.2 Ronnie Hilton – Windmill In Old Amsterdam (I Saw A Mouse) 2:32 

 

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Kapotte Muziek & Context – Verbindungen [Cass] (1989, Tonspur Tapes)

Kapotte Muziek was founded in 1984 by Frans de Waard, then living in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Soon he was joined by Christian Nijs, who also lived in Nijmegen. They did not actually play together, though: Christian would record all the sounds at home on cassettes and give them to Frans, who would manipulate the material in different ways (pitch-change, loops, etc.). This way of working (using 'second-hand' material and recycling it endlessly) became the core of the activities of Kapotte Muziek. In 1987 Christian left the project in favour of playing rock-music in a real band. Until 1993 Frans continued the project on his own through the Kapotte Muziek By... series, inviting as many musicians as he knew to send in material to be recycled. This resulted in collaborations with groups like S.B.O.T.H.I., Merzbow, De Fabriek, Yeast Culture, Odal, Asmus Tietchens and many others. Gradually, the harsh territory of industrial music was left behind and other forms of electro-acoustic music were explored. Kapotte Muziek still exists as a studio-project of Frans de Waard. 

 
Context (real name Stefan Schwab) is a German synthesist and experimentalist that evidently showed his influence by his chosen nom-de-plume, with many tapes of Conrad Schnitzler styled industrial and melodic synthesizer music. He founded Tonspur Tapes, a cassette label, for experimental, industrial and noise recordings that was active from 1986 to mid/late 1990s.  

 

 

Label: Tonspur Tapes – TT 28 

Format: Cassette, C60 

Country: Germany 

Released: 1989 

Style: Abstract, Experimental 

 

Tracklist:

A Context – Metrohypnotics 

B Kapotte Muziek – H Zwei O 

 

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Janitors – Thunderhead [LP] (1986, In Tape)

The Janitors were Andrew Denton (vocals), Craig Hope (slide guitar, keyboards), Pete Crowe (bass guitar), and Tim Stirland (drums). Denton, Hope and friend Phil Storey recorded demos in Leicester's Highfields which Yeah Yeah Noh's John Grayland brought to the attention of some indie labels. Described as "a mixture of Membranes meeting Captain Beefheart", they signed to Marc Riley's In-Tape label. Debut album 'Thunderhead', produced by Jon Langford of The Mekons, peaked at number 6 on the indie albums chart. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA] 

 

Label: In Tape – IT. TWENTY EIGHT, In Tape – I.T. TWENTY EIGHT 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Mini-Album 

Country: UK 

Released: 1986 

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

 

Tracklist:

A1 Thunderhead Johnny 2:55 

A2 Nowhere 4:39 

A3 Both Ends Burning 3:08 

B1 Really Shrinking 2:53 

B2 Mexican Kitchen 3:02 

B3 Wall Star 3:08 

B4 Track Eating Baby 2:57 

 

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Ice The Falling Rain – Lifes Illusion [7''] (1983, Future Records)

 

Ice the Falling Rain was a short-lived synth-driven New Wave trio comprised of former members of Manchester aggro punk band The Violators Sean Stiles (vocals, sequencer), Louise King (vocals) and Matchi (percussion, sequencer), plus Jim Bellicoso (synthesizer). Their sound is reminiscent of Human League. [SOURCE: NTS] 

 

Label: Future Records – FS 7 

Format: Vinyl, 7" 

Country: UK 

Released: 1983 

Style: Synth-pop, Minimal Synth

 

Tracklist:

A Lifes Illusion 

B Illusions 

 

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Hessel Veldman / Herman Te Loo / Kees Beukelaar – Far From The He(a)rd [Cass] (1984, Exart)

Hessel Veldman was born in 1956 in IJmuiden, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Member of FNTC, Gorgonzola Legs, Portable Vaudeville and Y Create, was also co-founder of Exart with Nick Nicole in October 1982. The label wanted to spread new experimental and improvised music. The studio was the place to improvise, compose, record and make radio-programmes, mixes and remixes. At the same time Veldman started to preserve sounds in the Exart archive. In this tape he is accompanied by saxophone player Herman Te Loo and Kees Beukelaar (member of Rotterdans).

 

Label: Exart – EA011 

Format: Cassette 

Country: Netherlands 

Released: 1984 

Style: Industrial, Experimental 

 

Tracklist: 

A1 Friday Side 1 

A2 Friday Side 2 

A3 Friday Side 3 

A4 Friday Side 4 

A5 Friday Side 5 

A6 Friday Side 6 

A7 Friday Side 7 

A8 Friday Side 8 

B1 Thursday Side 1 

B2 Thursday Side 2 

B3 Thursday Side 3 

B4 Thursday Side 4 

B5 Thursday Side 5 

B6 Thursday Side 6 

 

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