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va - Ecstatic Peace! Sweet Release #2
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Greh & Dom - Ramblings In the Abyss
Greh & Dom - Ramblings In the Abyss Read more...
Jessica Rylan - Long Slow Changes
I think it's is very safe to say that we both love Jessica's work ... people are pushing on an open door!
C20 released on Fargone Records and Icefactory in 2005.
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Anhrefn - Defaid, Skateboards A Wellies
Another band that sang in Welsh which was a bit convenient given that they are from Wales. Smart political punkers with an ear for a tune. Listening back thirty+ years later, there is the occasional track that has a bit of that Banshees' guitar shimmer that nails it in time for me. I just hope there a bunch of these young fuckers that I keep being told about still out there making proper council house music.
Either a 12" or a short LP released on the very excellent Workers Playtime in 1987.
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Can't - Prepares to Fail Again
Can't - Prepares to Fail Again Read more...
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - 20 (Singles & EP's '94-'96)
... which led me naturally to this.
Gorky's were a band from Wales that predominantly sang in Welsh but occasionally threw in the odd line of English and were another favourite of The Saintly John Peel. Maybe less obviously "subversive" than Datblygu but I get a big load of Ivor Cutler and Vivian Stanshall in temperament and The Flaming Lips (in full-on "Mom, I Gave The Cat Some Acid" mode ... and yeah, that's Happy Flowers but you'll no doubt have no idea what I am talking about anyway so who cares) and the sly sophistication of The Divine Comedy / The Duckworth Lewis Method. I think that it is extremely enjoyable and needs to be heard by people who haven't heard it before ... if you've been here for a while you'll already know that I couldn't be arsed whether you like it or not but try it ... you never know! No refunds available however.
CD released on Castle Music and Sanctuary Records in 2003.
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Datblygu - The Peel Sessions 1987 - 1993
Many years ago, The Saintly John Peel raved about Datblygu every time they released something and that is where they introduced themselves to me. Quite randomly, I went back to listen to what I have and remembered just quite how brilliant they are. Classic dour and spirited UK post-punk. If you struggled to come to terms with the accents with The Fall and Sleaford Mods then it's worth saying that they are from Wales and sing in Welsh ... just dive in, it's proper good.
CD released on Ankst in 2008.
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va - Guitarrorists
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Violent Onsen Geisha - Nation Of Rhythm Slaves
This is just classic bouncy and unhinged VOG ... I'm sure there is a bit of Consolidated in the first track, Japanese covers of Canned Heat interfered with, twisted easy-listening salaryman karaoke and other such senses of false security and then you hit the middle section. From there it's all "oh shit, here we go!". Just for good measure there are a range of other people contributing to the majesty such as Masami Akita, Kazuto Shimizu, Masuko Shinji and Naruyoshi Kikuchi.
This is a CD released in Japan on Rail Recordings in 1996.
There is somebody (anonymous of course) who keeps abusing me for posting things in flac. So by way of apology, here it is ...
... in flac.
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va - Nothing Short of Total War
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Incapacitants - Ministry Of Foolishness
LLLord RRRon of LLLowell is a genius and largely responsible for giving me access to all corners of noise form all around the place (but especially Japan) for very cheap prices. A lot produced the reaction akin to "what the shit?" until I started to begin to understand the language. He's just lucky we are separated by the Atlantic Ocean because I'd hug him on a daily basis with or without permission.
This was my introduction to Fumio Kosakai and Toshiji Mikawa, so if that alone is not worthy of regular low-level molestation than I have no idea what is!
Same as yesterday, it's on Pure from 1995 and it's a big fat flac so is in two parts so combine and so on and so forth.
Foolishness
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Milk Cult - Burn or Bury
Milk Cult - Burn or Bury Read more...
Violent Onsen Geisha - The Midnight Gambler
It starts. It stops. There's part of a loungecore version of Foxy Lady. Some things get smashed up. That's just the first two or three minutes.
Flac rip of a CD released on RRRon's Pure imprint in 1996. It comes in just over 500MB so you'll have to extract both parts to the same folder etc.
Midnight
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Milk Cult - Project M-13
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Milk Cult - Bruse Lee Marvin Gaye
I don't know what is going on with the world these days! You coax the odd reptilian follower out from under the rocks and then they expect us to leave them to do the heavy lifting?
I blame stuff ... not quite thought of the appropriate thing, it might be education or blood temperature. Hmm, I've really not figured this bit out yet ...
"Album recorded by Steelpole Bathtub side project, Milk Cult, during their visit to Japan in February, 1994. Japanese collaborators include Hidekazu Miyahara (Surfers of Romantica), Yoshimura (Bloodthirsty Butchers), Masaya Nakahara (Violent Onsen Geisha), Suzuki (Korean Buddhist God), et al., in a recording of unrepeatable power."
A ridiculously slinky and cool CD released on ZK Records in 1994.
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Milk Cult - Love God
Milk Cult - Love God Read more...
Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy & Violent Onsen Geisha - Sod And Sodie Sock / Studio C
HHHMMM ... where to start? Well, there's Mike Kelley who was part of the brilliant post-Velvet shamblefest that was Destroy All Monsters. Then you get Paul McCarthy who is as revolutionary and revelatory an artist as you can imagine ... and then you get Masaya Nakahara.
Seriously, just make your own shit up!
Double CD released on Mike Kelley's Compound Annex Records in 1998.
Sod Studio
Blood Stereo - I Was Tucked Up Eyeless Inside A Fish
For so long, Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance have stood as a beacon of hope above the UK shitscape ... and that is always a source of comfort to me.
CDr released on the conspicuously delicious Chocolate Monk in 2012
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Enos Slaughter - On The Shore Of Jupiter
Double Dubz left news in the last post and I've felt it hard. Marc Orleans was a key person within the Sunburned Hand Of The Man universe and he isn't here any more. I've spent the past couple of days just listening back to some of his work. As a Sunburned fanatic, I own most of their releases and more or less everything else Marc played on. If you are not too familiar then take the hint below and listen to some of his work with them ...
From the Sunburned facebook page: "Wild Animal [is] a great example of Marc Orleans's amazing guitar playing. This was meant to be an LP but nobody remembers what happened. Marc foamed at the mouth to play, he WAS music. Our bandcamp page has just been rearranged and the top 13 releases all have Marc on them and they'll all be free (as they were, except for 2 titles) to check out or download for the rest of time... There may be more with Marc on them up there but memory is dull at the moment. Please enjoy and remember Marc. He is loved by us all."
This has Marc on guitar alongside David Shuford (aka D. Charles Speer and a member of No-Neck Blues Band and Egypt Is The Magick # amongst others) and Carter Thornton (whose collaboration with Kiyoharu Kuwayama & Rina Kijima and a bit of his work with Zashiki-Warashi I posted a long time ago).
Long-form smokey psychedelic jams on a CDr released on Sound@One in 2005 and bought by me then.
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