Neon Noodle - Come Quick, Please Help Us, We Cannot Kill the Tabanga

Weird (even for these guys) tape of sparse (or should I say "minimal"?) synth tunes by an alter ego of Smersh. Mostly instrumental and more synthesizer-based than Smersh, Neon Noodle music favors brutish basement bleep over Smersh's overdriven guitars-and-machines "rock". This addled disco is slathered with a generous portion of Tascam 4-track tape hiss, which I did not try very hard to EQ out. The hiss is part of the charm (if, in fact, you find this sort of thing charming).  Neon Noodle has some real macho industrial song titles too, like "Summer Sunsets are the Best" (they really are!), "Brenda's Real Arty" (she sure is!), and the sort-of-onomopoeic "Plastic Box Wobble Wobble". I'm not sure if that creature on the cover is supposed to be a Tabanga or a Boston Terrier, but in either case I doubt anyone would want to help kill him. He looks cuddly, doesn't he? This tape came out on the band's Atlas King label in 1985.

Neon Noodle - Come Quick, Please Help Us, We Cannot Kill the Tabanga