MINATURES-V/A, PIPE RECORDS, LP, 1980, U.S.A

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V/A- Miniatures
1980. Pipe records
A sequence of 51 tiny masterpieces edited by Morgan Fisher. Amazing collection of mostly British composers and sound explorers. Everything from abstract poetry, jazz, experimental, avant-rock and more. It's impressive to see the amount of creativity these artists back into a 1-minute (or less) piece. You can hear them having fun with the work and doing things they are not normally used to doing, full spectrum of composition, sound and explorations. Each track is wonderfully commented on by label owner and project producer Morgan Fisher. Stand out tracks for us were Andy Partridge, The Work, Fred Frith (who squeezes pieces from every Henry Cow song into a power mash up piece!) Metabolist, The Residents & Mary Langford.

HARD-CORPS-DIRTY, SURVIVAL, 7", 1984, FRANCE

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Hard-Corps 7"
1)Dirty
2)Respirer
Survival Records 1984
French minimal synth pop. new wave flares but with a darker tint, somewhat DAF/BIG STICK at times.
nice production and female vocals that add nice accents to the music in a treated voice as instrument style.

THE WORK-I HATE AMERICA, 7", WOOF, 1981, U.S.A

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the Work 7"
1)I Hate America
2)Fingers & Toes
3)Duty
-Woof Records, 1981
Awesome spraypaint stenciled sleeve by the UK's The Work. art damaged avant rock! blown out drums and off timing guitar and bass riffs. This Heat US Maple meets Cpt. Beefheart. features Henry Cow member...meats

PRAGVEC-S/T, 7", 1979, U.K.

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excellent synth punk from uk.

DISLOCATION DANCE-ROSEMARY, 7, 1981, U.K.

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although rosemary is a bit on the pop side of things for this taste, shake has
a very nice classic post punk aesthetic people could compare to maximum joy, medium medium etc. try it out.

UN PROJECT-UNPROJECT, RYGEL, 7", 1981, U.K.

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HERE WE HAVE A U.K BASED UNIT FEATURING TWO VERY COOL TRACKS POST PUNK WITH POP, TRIBAL AND GLAM LEANINGS MAYBE FANS OF EARLY BANANARAMA AND THE FACTORY RECORDS CATALOG COULD GET INTO THIS RARITY ON RYGEL RECS...ENJOY.

ICU-BLIND LEADING THE BLIND, YEVRAH, 7", 1981, U.S.A

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THIS SCARCE AND ONLY RELEASE FROM SAN FRANCISCO BASED TRIO, ICU FEATURES TWO BROTHERS DAVID AND JABARI ALLEN ON KEYS AND VOX WITH DAVID PLAYING A LITTLE SAX AND FEATURES REGI HARVEY ON DRUMS VERY FULL AND QUIRKED SOUNDING SYNTH POST PUNK VIA 1981

SAAL 2-ANGST VORM TANZEN, ZICKZACK, 7", 1980, GERMANY

the absolute catchy synth punk unit saal 2 herk and gerk thru four tracks
of kraut prosthetic aesthetic goodness.

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SHE'S A WILD-S/T, RECORD RECORDS, 7", 1981, U.S.A

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Recorded at the Center For Contempoary Music, Mills College, Oakland, CA

A1 Cannibal Cowgirl - avant salooner crooner counrty jam
A2 Donner Party - very cool minimal synth number.
B Archetypal Unitized Seminar - electronic droner

David Behrman studied with Henri Pousseur in Belgium. Although he wrote several instrumental works, he is best known for his electronic work and producing several important avant-garde LPs for Columbia.

PAUL DeMARINIS has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. Much of his recent work involves speech processed and synthesized by computers. A recent series of installation works, The Edison Effect, uses optics and computers to make new sounds by scanning ancient phonograph records with lasers.

ANNE KLINGENSMITH takes on vocal duties and has worked with artists david rosenboom and jaques bakeart

JAH WOBBLE-DAN MACARTHUR(DISCO DUMMY)/DAN MACARTHUR 2, 7", 1979, U.K.

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Incredible first outing for mr. wobble who made this diddy whilst still in p.i.l.

PRECISION BEARINGS-ROLLER FUNK/ROLLER BLISS/DONT FALL DOWN, FOWL, 7", 1981, U.S.A

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S.F. BASED roller derby??? OBSSESSED MINIMAL/SYNTH/PROG/FUNK/PUNKS/SYNTH- DRONE- MAYHEM
DON'T FALL DOWN HOLDS HEAVY LIQUID SKY VIBES!!!

AWESOMER.

GET YOUR SKATES ON.....THIS.......WILL OCCUPY YOUR SKULL.

BANDt+INSTRUMENTS-SPECIAL AGREEMENT, 7",1980, NETHERLANDS

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A1 Special Agreement
A2 Sweet Bananas
B1 Words

MINIMAL MAN-SHE WAS A VISITOR/HE WHO FALLS, 7" , 198O, U.S.A

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PARTY BOYS-NO AGGRO, INDEPENDENT PRESS, LP, 1981, U.S.A.

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Numbered Edition with printed innersleeve.

First LP from these CITY OF ANGELS proto-tribal blues post punk masters of rhythm trash. beautiful packaging was letterpressed with 100 different color combinations.

released on the legendary Independent Project Records label in 2000 numbered copies and letterpress artwork by Bruce Licher of savage republic. On the insert we read "All songs written and published by Party Boys © 1967 however according to marine webers webpage it is 1981.

This one essential for any lover of tragic figures era savage republic,
birthday party, early sonic youth and doo rag.



A1 Jim Jones (4:57)
A2 Ode On A Grecian Urn (3:40)
A3 Ave Maria (2:58)
A4 White Trash (5:50)
A5 Victory (3:30)
B1 No Aggro (5:03)
B2 Nights Are Young / Days Are Old (5:46)
B3 Woodpecker (4:14)
B4 Mister White (6:29)

NECESSARIES-BIG SKY, SIRE, 1981, U.K.

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I STEERED CLEAR OF THIS ALBUM FOR QUITE SOME TIME FEARING THE WORST
NOT BECAUSE I HEARD ANYTHING BAD BUT MOST LIKELY BECAUSE I HAD NEVER HEARD ANYTHING GREAT ABOUT IT EITHER, AT ANY RATE WHEN I FINALLY GOT DOWN TO IT TURNS OUT IT IS CERTAINLY WORTH A LISTEN OR SEVERAL IN MY CASE.

FEATURES THE MIGHTY ARTHUR RUSSELL ON KEYS, CELLO AND VOCALS
AND ERNIE BROOKS BASS AND VOCALS OF THE MODERN LOVERS.

VERY WARM POST PUNK/POP NOT TO BE MISSED.

A1 Back To You
A2 Driving And Talking At The Same Time
A3 Born Yesterday
A4 My Baby's Explosive
Backing Vocals - Gary Kenton
A5 Sahara
Trombone - Peter Zummo
B1 Europe
B2 Algebra
B3 Detroit Tonight
B4 State-Of-The-Art
B5 On The Run
B6 Cuba Mortis

TRISTEZA-TEARLESS LIMA, TOUR ONLY CDR +BONUS TRACKS, 2005, MEXICO

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self released by tristeza with help from bulbo of tijuana and in conjunction with Japanese tour:

there might be a common misconception that tristeza follows a certain code of musical terrain to abide by, however trim your ear hairs -these next few posts should prepare that tristeza's sound is not only beyond trivial and mostly lifeless tags such as post rock or instrumental, it can actually transcend said genre's muffin although at times true is the sword, we cannot stop lifeless quiffs or horrible luck. I know for a fact that the pretty and quiet than so loud your brain caves in formula that most "instrumental bands" explore bores this band stiff...in several instances you might add: post punk, kraut, minimal synth, ambient, drone, dub, heelgaze, prog, and musique concrete to the descriptive cataloger of tristeza's sound corral.

some music that may have influenced these recordings include:

cluster, neu, bark psychosis, chris and cosey, silver apples, loop, windy and carl, felt, dif juz, durriti column, cocteau twins, john cage, cybotron, spacemen 3, chrome, talk talk and various psychadelicks.

In addition to 16 track cd post includes 13 live and unreleased songs.

1 Intropeluda
2 Lynched
3 Creedo
4 Gypsy Moth
5 Tearless Lima
6 Kyoto Foto
7 Malabaristas
8 Babear Bath
9 Otak
10 Entry Level
11 Hyped
12 Oakdown
13 Utopiarise
14 Gaza Shuffle
15 X Is Gone
16 Dutch Church

TRISTEZA-MARCH OF THE WHITE LIES, ROCKETRACER/SPARQMUSIC, U.S.A, JAPAN

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domestic and import version of white lies
includes 3 bonus japan only songs.

THE ETERNAL SCREAM-S/T, 7", ERO, 1979, U.K.

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QUE CHIDO!!!! RIPPING POST PUNK DUB WITH SYNTH AND MAGICAL FRENZIED TRIBAL PERCUSSIVE BACKBONE!!!

AN DIE SCHWARZE KUNST- CASSETTE, 1981, GERMANY

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black art.

not a sliver of information on this one. any help out there?

if this does not stir your quail feathers im not sure what will...
incredible Neue Deutsche Welle, post punk, dub, minimal synth with christiane f. soaked german female vocals. text on cassette almost indecipherable, did the very best i could at deciphering arabic/german/egyptian gothic scripture.

instrumentation i could make out:

saxophone, rhythm box, bass, guitar, drums, synths, tapes and xylophone



side a

ALHAZ RED DUB
OPEN
HEYPATEN

side b

MAMA TANZT
KRAN KENHAUS
WOLLTHR2
LEBEN GROZZZTODT
KH85

way too great and absurdly obscure not to absorb!!

STERILE RECORDS-V/A, SRC1, CASSETTE, 1979, U.K.

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blisteringly wonderful cassette compilation, featuring the first released
nocturnal emissions offering plus ten more songs running the course
of genre's punk, industrial, minimal, noise etc.

side 1

1 Leif Thuresson / Jag Vet Att Du Vantar
2 Moving Finger / From Our Dog
3 Lieutenant Murnau / I Left My Heart
4 S.M. Andrews / In A Box
4.5 Cultural Amnesia / Yellow Song
5 Organbank / Nazi
6 Nocturnal Emissions / From Puberty To Senility
7 M.B.* / COM SA (Extract)
8 Murderwerkers/ Blue Funk (Scars For E)
9 Johnny Alien / Without Measurable Damage
10 Loss Of Head / Sophisticated Incineration