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The Box - Great Moments in Big Slam

Second album, released in 1984.

The Box - Muscle Mix

This here is The Box's greatest single recording! It's Richard H. Kirk's insanely dubbed-out mistreatment of The Box's "Crow Bar" and "Low Commotion" songs from 1984. Required listening for anyone who loves this sort of thing. Fans of early 80s Northern industrial dub punk disco (which should be all of you, frankly) look no further. At the same time that Cabaret Voltaire experienced some mainstream success with the robot-funk albums "The Crackdown" and "Micro-Phonies" albums, Kirk was in top form as a producer for like-minded astronauts like Test Dept, Eric Random, Sedition, Surface Mutants, UV Pop and these guys. He slathered both songs in echo and heaviness and unleashed them as a promo-only 12" on his own Doublevision label. So good.

The Box - Muscle Mix

The Box - Secrets Out

Their debut LP from 1983.

The Box - Secrets Out

The Box - Muscle In

Non-album single from 1984, hits every possible button for both the husband and me. Post-punk heavy disco from grimy Sheffield.

The Box - Muscle In

The Box - Old Style Drop Down

Their second single from 1983. Another ripper.

The Box - Old Style Drop Down

The Box

The Box are, along with Electric Guitars and Fire Engines, one of the hardest bands to find information about via Google. When the first lineup of Clock DVA split from Adi Newton, they took on singer Peter Hope and made a whole bunch of terrific records. Imagine an industrial dub blues by some Sheffield noise weirdos who must have been listening to lots of Captain Beefheart and Hula. This is their first self-titled EP from 1983.

The Box

DNA - DNA (Last Live at CBGB's)

As the title says, this is a document of the final DNA concert from NYC's legendary CBGB's in 1982. Released as a CD in 1993 by John Zorn's Japan-only Avant label.

DNA - DNA (Last Live at CBGB's)

DNA - DNA on DNA

The complete studio recordings + live documents of the astounding DNA, a classic no wave provocation from the late 1970s and early 1980s. They didn't exist for very long, boy what an impact they made. Guitarist/singer Arto Lindsay (who would become a staple in the John Zorn orbit of downtown NYC players), drummer Ikue Mori (who would later drop the drums in favor of electronics), keyboardist Robin Crutchfield (who would go on to make solo albums as Dark Day) and bassist Tim Wright (who played in an early line-up of Pere Ubu) made an alienating, angular, tense and tightly-wrapped racket. These recordings are massively influential. Collected on a CD in 2004, reissued as a double LP set and are now hard to come by. So here they are.

DNA - DNA on DNA

va - Insane 80s [EV01>EV10]

13 songs taken from the first vinyl releases from Belgian label EE Tapes: 5 from compilations, plus one song from 2013. Music by Berntholer, Human Dance, Human Flesh, MAL, Bene Gessirit, The Misz, Pseudo Code, Absent Music, Kloot Per W, Opera Multi Steel, Subject, Nostalgie Eternelle. Released as a CD by EE Tapes in 2014.

va - Insane 80s [EV01>EV10]

Gaji - Focus/Fluid/Daub

Album from 1999, released by ZK Records in Japan.

Gaji - Focus/Fluid/Daub

Siglo XX - Antler Tracks II

Second compilation of early mopey/dopey post-punk nonsense with lyrics so dire they make Section 25 seem good. I enjoy this stuff anyway. It has a naive earnestness that I admire. Released as a CD by Antler Records in 1987.

Siglo XX - Antler Tracks II

Siglo XX - Antler Tracks 1

Some saddos from Belgium heard Joy Division and thought, "How hard could that be?" Turns out, harder than it may have looked. Even so, farm-team JD clones of a certain era have their charm and this has charm aplenty (if not much else). "Antler Tracks 1" was the first collection of the group's early 80s vinyl, released as a CD by Antler Records in 1987.

Siglo XX - Antler Tracks 1

PTA's - Tiger

The group's final document, a 7" released in 1986. This is better than the 10", trying for an anthem rather than a pop ballad. Twin vocals on the title track bring to mind the Au-Pairs, while the mersh b-side has some Tina Weymouth funk moves going on.

PTA's - Tiger

PTA's - Young Vernacular

The group's 1984 10" is a much more polished affair, clearly modulating their sound for new wave pop stardom that never arrived. Not as singular as the 7" posted earlier, but there's still has an aspirations-exceeding-ability charm to this record.

PTA's - Young Vernacular

PTA's - New Songs

1981 7" of scratchy and angular, minimalist post-punk by a band whose time to get rediscovered is now. PTA's were a Japanese answer to Delta 5, Kleenex or Raincoats. Simple songs, played with efficient amateurish vigor

PTA's - New Songs

va - Wanna Buy A Bridge? (A Rough Trade Compilation of Singles)

Another absolute classic compilation, this 1981 LP of Rough Trade post-punk singles needs to be in everyone's collection if it isn't there already. Spizz Energi, Stiff Little Fingers, Kleenex, Slits, Robert Wyatt, Delta 5, TV Personalities, Scritti Politti, Cabaret Voltaire, Young Marble Giants, Raincoats, Essential Logic, Swell Maps.

va - Wanna Buy A Bridge? (A Rough Trade Compilation of Singles)

va - Love Not Devotion

Three-way split of post-punk/pop and dub/funk nonsense by Instant Automatons, Hamburger All-Stars and Blue Midnight. The latter two bands featured Mark Perry (Alternative TV) and Grant Showbiz among its ranks. I'll assume you already know Instant Automatons, because why wouldn't you. Released as an LP by Deleted Records & Fuck Off Records in 1982, reissued on CDR by Waterden in 2004.

va - Love Not Devotion

Cindytalk - Camouflage Heart

This is the CD reissue of Cindytalk's intense debut LP from 1984.

Cindytalk - Camouflage Heart

va - Teutonik Disaster 2

Second volume of 80s German wave and disco-influenced post-punk, just as good as the first volume. Includes songs by some slightly more known groups, like Starter and Instant Music (whose 1981 albums were both reissued by Dark Entries), Camilla Motor (a real weird song from them), Die Chefs, Exkurs, Die Heteros, Fred Banana Combo and more.

va - Teutonik Disaster 2

va - Teutonik Disaster

Need a break from harsh noise? I sure do. This is a compilation of obscure German synth-punk, post-punk and DIY disco-influenced neue Deutsche welle from 1977 to 1983. It's a lot of fun. Includes tunes by Exkurs, Scala, Geisterfahrer, Schwarze Bewegung, Ampzilla's Delight, Bernward Büker Bande, Reifenstahl and other bands I won't bother to list here because the only way you would have heard of them is if you were a member. Anyone following the Tape Attack blog will also like this.

va - Teutonik Disaster

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The Box - Great Moments in Big Slam

The Box - Muscle Mix

The Box - Secrets Out

The Box - Muscle In

The Box - Old Style Drop Down

The Box

DNA - DNA (Last Live at CBGB's)

DNA - DNA on DNA

va - Insane 80s [EV01>EV10]

Gaji - Focus/Fluid/Daub

Siglo XX - Antler Tracks II

Siglo XX - Antler Tracks 1

PTA's - Tiger

PTA's - Young Vernacular

PTA's - New Songs

va - Wanna Buy A Bridge? (A Rough Trade Compilation of Singles)

va - Love Not Devotion

Cindytalk - Camouflage Heart

va - Teutonik Disaster 2

va - Teutonik Disaster

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