Solmania - The Basement Tapes And Discs




Ten years ago this week I foolishly started this blogging malarkey and initially thought I'd do it for a couple of months ... and here we are.

This is in the Holy Grail territory of reissue compilations. The first five discs cover the CDs released on Alchemy Records between 1990 and 1998. The next four include eight of the impossible to find Fatagaga Tapes released between 1984 and 1987.

As if that isn't good enough, four of the six live performances on the DVD hadn't been released previously (those files are large and they all need to be extracted to their own single folder in order to work).

Nine CDs and a DVD released on Youth Inc. in 2013.

01 Metamorphor Chorus

02 Psycledelic

03 Trembling Tongues

04 Evil Bed

05 DLO

06 Gakinoizz / Hadayro

07 Vexation / H.C.P. Resolvent

08 Wörkenemy / Re-Rurr

09 Highdrophobia / Erosion

10 Movies - Live And Rare

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19 comments:

  1. Double Dubz12 January 2020 at 03:33

    Thanks for all that you do!! Certainly one of the best blogs of this sort...and here, now, in a time when most seem to have forgotten the blog. The waning of rare/limited *object* fetish (00s, esp) has weeded out so many...pure sonics, and historical inquiry, remain, however. Bye to the tourists! xo

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  2. cool breeze12 January 2020 at 03:46

    thank you for your efforts getting all this great art to a wider audience--incredible.

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  3. Bob. first name I thought of12 January 2020 at 08:45

    Wow thanks. I love the YouTube video of solmania were the cat gets outta the room fast once he gets started. It's a classic...

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  4. Anonymous12 January 2020 at 10:44

    Holy grail indeed!!! Cheers!!!

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  5. GRK.12 January 2020 at 11:38

    What a huge bastard! Thank you!

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  6. Mjy12 January 2020 at 17:41

    Thank you for the mountains upon mountains of sounds that you've shepherded us folks to.

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  7. wankerd12 January 2020 at 18:00

    thanks!!

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  8. Plague12 January 2020 at 18:19

    Adding my thanks to the literal ton of stuff you have added to my increasing tinnitus.
    Keep it up.

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  9. Anonymous12 January 2020 at 23:19

    Holy fucking shit. Wow. Thank you.

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  10. scato13 January 2020 at 20:15

    Thanks a ton for all the stuff posted over the past years! Here's a cheers for ten more!

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  11. mat 1313 January 2020 at 21:48

    I've discovered so many new sounds via your blog (others too ofc, but this blog i've been following for a long time now), i don't think i will ever be able to retribute, thanks a lot for your work and keep it up, we are here.

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  12. Marcel13 January 2020 at 22:56

    Congrats and keep up the good works!

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  13. CR14 January 2020 at 02:35

    HA-PPY AN-NI-VER-SAR-Y, HA-PPY AN-NI-VER-SAR-Y, HA-PPY AN-NI-VER-SAR-Y, HAAAAA-PPY HA-PPY AN-NI-VER-SAR-Y!

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  14. Bill14 January 2020 at 09:34

    Just wanted to echo the comments of others: I really can't describe how enriched my life has been because of the music you've shared. I am incredibly grateful. Thank you so much. Can't believe it's been 10 years, happy anniversary!

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  15. Salem Tunes14 January 2020 at 18:45

    I tried my hand at blogging several years ago and I really appreciate all the, usually unseen, hard work that goes into it. Thank you.

    Andy

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  16. Anonymous15 January 2020 at 00:05

    Thank you

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  17. harm300130 January 2020 at 21:28

    You have overdone yourself once again .. don't remember Solmania being quite some noisy on comps .. I am waiting to get a tooth pulled, short on pain meds and living on downloads from Bleak Bliss .. know you're not into reupping posts, but hoping to try more Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden .. Frank Kaka, Structure et Force, and or Report from Iron Mountain ... you seem to be about the only western speaking (correction western typing person on the internet who has ever heard of them

    thanks no matter what

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  18. Bob. first name I thought of13 August 2020 at 01:14

    my favorite video of solmania is on youtube.
    he's setting up, there's a cat photobombing the video, but once he plugs in, the cats gone...
    always chuckles watching it.
    thanks fella.

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  19. Unknown17 September 2020 at 20:47

    Shit, missed out on all of these.

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