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Omit - Retraction (Resistance in the Field of Subtracting Selfless Dissimulation)

This creeper is from 1993, and was perhaps the best 7" to come out on Stomach Ache Records.

Omit - Retraction (Resistance in the Field of Subtracting Selfless Dissimulation)

Omit - Rundowns

1995 cassette by New Zealand's darkest, Clinton Williams/Omit!

Omit - Rundowns

Omit - Signals

More Omit? Sure, why not. This cassette came out in 1990. It's very good.

Omit - Signals

Omit - The Invision State (The Reasoning of the Void Below Self Expulsion)

A real stunner of a lathe-cut 7" by the always fascinating Omit, released by Trinder in 1994.

Omit - The Invision State (The Reasoning of the Void Below Self Expulsion)

Omit - Frequency Drop-Points

This fairly brief Omit EP was first issued as a lathe-cut 7" in 1996 by an American label called Aegri Somnia Vana, then reissued as a CDR in 1999.

Omit - Frequency Drop-Points

Omit - Fluid

Another pile of wires, circuits, and mystery from New Zealand's Omit, released as a cassette in 1992.

Omit - Fluid

Omit - Complacency/Dissipation

Double lathe-cut 7" from Omit, recorded in 1997 and released in some teensy edition in 1998.

Omit - Complacency/Dissipation

Recorded in 1989, released as a cassette in 1990 on Omit's own Deepskin Conceptual Mindmusic label. Imagine irr. app. (ext.), Nurse With Wound, and a heaping dose of pure, uncut despair. Happy Valentine's Day!

Omit - Alienation

Omit - A Block of Face

Self-released cassette on Omit's own Deepskin Conceptual Mindmusic label from 1991. Sinister homemade electronic nightmare music, not what you might expect to come from the tranquil, sunny wine country in the north of New Zealand's South Island.

Omit - A Block of Face

Nasmak - Indecent Exposure 5 & 6 (Only This Day and 77 Others)

Final two-tape set of art/punk/electronic loose ends by Nasmak, more mess from 1980 mopped up and spewed forth upon an ambivalent world by Plurex in 1981.

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Nasmak - Indecent Exposure 3 & 4 (The Smell Remains)

The second double-tape set of experimental bleeps n' bloops, rehearsals, and all-around confusion by Nasmak, this time issued on the legendary Plurex label (home of Minny Pops, World According To, Nexda, and others from the Dutch post-punk/art-damaged fringe) in 1981.

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Nasmak - Indecent Exposure 1 & 2 (Music For Brass,Wood, Drums and Violins)

First double-cassette set of weirdo improvisations, noise, demo versions of songs, live material and other detritus from Dutch new wave/post-punk band Nasmak. This was recorded in 1980 and self-released by the band in 1981.

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The Pink Chunk Jazz Band - Alone And Effected

C40 released on American Tapes in 2008 (it's AM707 btw).

It's Daniel Dlugosielski and John Olson (you should recognise both from very recent posts). Discogs has this as a C60 but my copy weighs in as a C40 ... go figure.

Skronk electronics that appear to have been recorded by accident by somebody in a nearby apartment ...

You don't have to call it band if the word bothers you.

Alone And Effected

Medical Lake - Easy Moves Alright

Session of hissy, reverb-drenched synth splat by one of John Olson's many alter egos. This cassette was originally released by Excite Bike in 2008 as an edition of 70 copies.

Medical Lake - Easy Moves Alright

God Willing & Uneven Universe - Friday the 13th

Loose, somewhat directionless improvised synth jam by the duo of Ren Schofield/God Willing (who ran the I Just Live Here label) and Dan Excite Bike/Uneven Universe. There's a doodly, searching quality to this album that never quite gels into anything, but so what. I imagine the dudes at home on a quiet afternoon, plugging in for the fun of it and making a tape just because they could. Will it change your life? No, but if you like what these guys did then here's another hour of it. Excite Bike put out "Friday the 13th" as tape in an edition of 30 copies.

God Willing & Uneven Universe - Friday the 13th

Invasion Status & Pink Chunk - The Listener

Whole lotta saxophone on this split cassette from Excite Bike circa 2009, originally honked upon the world in an edition of 70 brassy copies. Invasion Status is John Olson (who you may know from Spykes, Wolf Eyes, Dead Machines, Stare Case, etc) with a horn and a tape deck. Pink Chunk is Olson again, joined by excited biker Dan Dlugosielski (aka Body Morph, Mossy Throats, Uneven Universe, many more). You don't have to call it jazz if the word bothers you.

Invasion Status & Pink Chunk - The Listener

Body Collector - Six Gutters

Imagine an American, punk rock "Changez les Blockeurs" with more synthesizer... and here you go. Came out with no fanfare on Excite Bike in 2008, as a limited-to-58-copies cassette guaranteed by design to slip under all radars.

Body Collector - Six Gutters

Rudolf Eb.er ‎- 666 (Music For Francis Bacon)

A long time ago, the Liverpool Tate Gallery hosted a Francis Bacon exhibition. I was lucky enough to sit in front of the Screaming Pope. I wish that I'd been listening to this at the same time. I've seen the work of Francis Bacon up close and personal many times since.

If anybody could soundtrack the art of Mr Bacon it's Mr Ebner.

3" CDr jointly released on Hate Operation and Thomas Mortigan's (aka RU-486) Destructive Industries. Perfect accompaniment.

666 (Music For Francis Bacon)

My Cat Is An Alien - The Cosmological Eye Trilogy

My Cat Is An Alien is the intergalactic majesty of Maurizio & Roberto Opalio.

Their recordings are instinctive and they don't go back to their recordings and overdub. You just get to see what in is their imaginations, and they are centuries ahead of us. When you look at the expanse of their work (especially their live recordings) they cover more ground than you could possibly imagine. Create your own pigeonholes if that makes you happy.

The first two parts of the trilogy were released as CDRs on their own Opax label in 2003 and 2004. Last Visible Dog added the third and brought this together as a three CD set in 2005.

You should check out Elliptical Noise Records where there are astonishing things. Huge and hugely exciting sets that make me die inside because I can't afford to buy them at the moment. And you can track the Alien Cat here.

I've loved these Turin brothers for at least a decade. Straight from my first listen. I even have a couple of pieces of Robert's artwork hanging on my walls. Given my love of the MCIAA brothers and my adoration of all things feline, I can't understand why I haven't posted any of their work before. Maybe it was hidden in plain sight.

Trilogy 1

Trilogy 2

Trilogy 3

G.I. & The Spykes - Untitled

C60 released on American Tapes in 1998.

It's John Olson. It's AM61.

Untitled

LIKE MINDS

Crate Diggers

Omit - Retraction (Resistance in the Field of Subtracting Selfless Dissimulation)

Omit - Rundowns

Omit - Signals

Omit - The Invision State (The Reasoning of the Void Below Self Expulsion)

Omit - Frequency Drop-Points

Omit - Fluid

Omit - Complacency/Dissipation

Omit - Alienation

Omit - A Block of Face

Nasmak - Indecent Exposure 5 & 6 (Only This Day and 77 Others)

Nasmak - Indecent Exposure 3 & 4 (The Smell Remains)

Nasmak - Indecent Exposure 1 & 2 (Music For Brass,Wood, Drums and Violins)

The Pink Chunk Jazz Band - Alone And Effected

Medical Lake - Easy Moves Alright

God Willing & Uneven Universe - Friday the 13th

Invasion Status & Pink Chunk - The Listener

Body Collector - Six Gutters

Rudolf Eb.er ‎- 666 (Music For Francis Bacon)

My Cat Is An Alien - The Cosmological Eye Trilogy

G.I. & The Spykes - Untitled

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