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Dave Phillips / Maso Yamazaki / Rudolf Eb.er - Arschloch-Onna

One of the pillars of the Schimpfluch (dis)organization with Masonna and Rudolf / R&G. A selection of live and studio material from the three that is sliced, diced, blended and spat straight into your face.

CD released on Japan Overseas in 1997.

Arschloch-Onna

Robert Ashley - The Wolfman

The title track is Robert Ashley's legendary 1964 room-clearing piece for tape, voice and feedback and is necessary listening for anybody and everybody who would be reading this blog. Etch this wrecker onto your brains immediately. Fleshing out the disc is a 40-minute-long behemoth from 1960 called "The Bottleman" (made as the soundtrack to a film) plus a 1957 piece called "The Fox" which was Ashley's first electronic music. Compiled and released as a CD by Alga Marghen in 2003.

Robert Ashley - The Wolfman

Vehikel & Gefäss (& Ventilator) - Make ‘Em Pay (!): Homemade Napalm = Gasolin Or Fuel Oil + Nondetergent Soap (Bar, Flakes Or Powder) / Make Gasolin, Oil Or A (1:1) Mixture Bubble And Add The Soap (1:1)

Joke Lanz and Rudolf Eb.er alongside Marc Zeier (aka G*Park) live in Zurich in 1990.

7" released on Schimpfluch in 1990.

Vehikel und Gefass (und Ventilator)

Runzelstirn Gurgelstock / Rudolf Eb.er - Bock Mist Bock

Appropriately perverse 7" where the grooves on Side A are etched into white paper. Side B gets the more traditional black vinyl approach.

Released on P-Tapes in 1996.

Bock Mist Bock

Musica Elettronica Viva ‎- The Sound Pool

A total of 16 people are credited as performing on this record, including the core group of Rzewski, Curran and Tietelbaum plus a bunch of other people whose names I don't recognize. Released by BYG in 1970, then reissued on CD by Spalax2 in 1998. Darn close to the Platonic ideal of era-appropriate free improvisation electro-hippie noise. Fans of Vibracathedral Orchestra and Sunburned Hand of the Man can trace that stinky family tree back to May 1969, when this was hatched.

Musica Elettronica Viva ‎- The Sound Pool

Schmipfluch-Gruppe / Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck (mit den Saubaggerln und dem Kamm-Duo Plattl) - Mama (Das Fest)

By now, curious has left the building leaving essential to fight it out with profound irritation and utter indifference.

LP released on Schimpfluch in 1993.

Mama (Das Fest)

Musica Elettronica Viva - Leave The City

Exit this Roman shell! MEV's second LP from 1970 is... not actually by MEV? Or is it? A sound that's not a world away from what Alvin Curran's group was doing at the same time, but made by some French guys instead. Huh? Actually, the ex-pats who made "Friday" in Rome were interested in bringing non-musicians into the fold and tacitly allowed other MEVs to perform without them but use the same name. When this record appeared, there was already an MEV in New York and probably others in smoky basements around Europe. Maybe part of the same zeitgeist that ignited the Scratch Orchestra, Taj Mahal Travellers and other similar-minded free-form hippie freakout groups with utopian ambitions. First appeared on wax from the jazz label BYG, later reissued on CD by Spalax.

Musica Elettronica Viva - Leave The City

Schimpfluch-Gruppe - Paris Aktionen

Two live aktions from 1996 and '97 ... both are Dave Phillips, Helena Greter and Rudolf Eb.er with Doris Tomasoni added to the later performance.

LP released on Tochnit Aleph and Beniffer Editions in 2009.

Paris Aktionen

Musica Elettronica Viva - Friday

The amazing debut LP by some American kids living in Rome. Some of those kids (Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Frederic Rzewski) would go on to make a couple of other records in the ensuing years. They were joined on this album by Franco Cataldi (on trombone) and Gunther Carius (on saxophone). First released by Polydor (?!) in 1969, then reissued as a single-track CD by Alga Marghen in 2008, a format which I think really suits this music better.

Musica Elettronica Viva - Friday

Schimpfluch-Gruppe - Aktion 950908 Taipei Taiwan

Joke Lanz and Rudolf Eb.er recorded live at Taipei Broken Life Festival '95 with Mike Dando contributing some shouty business on one side.

7" released on RRRecords in 1995.

Aktion 950908 Taipei Taiwan

Joke Lanz and Allon Kaye - What Will Be, Wird Sein

Whilst somewhat unfortunately described on the cover, this sounds great in a "shit, they're in the room" way.

3" CDr released on Entr'acte in 2005.

What Will Be, Wird Sein

Putrefier - Maebashed by Fuzz Ball Licks

Blistering harsh electronics by the stellar (but under-rated) Mark Durgan, released as an 80-copy CDR by MSBR Records in 1999.

Putrefier - Maebashed by Fuzz Ball Licks

Sudden Infant - The Wicked Mothers

More warped dislocation ... the second track Pee Godzilla Pee is one of my very favourite things.

C20 released on Robert & Leopold in 2011.

The Wicked Mothers

Sudden Infant - Twilight Sleep

Twilight Sleep as a medical phenomena is a bizarre tale indeed. There was an understandable desire to lessen the pain of childbirth but a proportion of the medical establishment in Germany just had to take it to it's extreme. Women were administered Morphine and Scopolamine (derived from Henbane as in the Nightshade family of plants ... that's right, the deadly family ... and when used illicitly is known as The Devil's Breath). The latter induces amnesia so rather than a pain free birth, those women simply didn't remember the pain. Instead, most were sent into totally disinhibited psychotic states where they would attack themselves and others to the point where they had to be tied up or otherwise restrained. Unsurprisingly, the babies were born stupefied if not comatose or worse. Nevertheless, the monied American elite embraced the ideas and practice for a while. That shouldn't be too much of a surprise given that the theory of "Social Eugenics" was very popular in America until Hitler mechanized it and it became slightly less popular to discuss at dinner parties.

I'm assuming that Joke had this "Twilight" in mind given the semi-soporific psychotic nightmare he released as a C60 released on Soja-Sauce Bolognese in 2008.

Twilight Sleep

Sudden Infant / Brume / Tadpole - Sperm + Egg

The dark sperm lands fifteen years prior to it's issue and bears triplets.

7" released on Tadpole in 1992.

Sperm plus Egg

Sudden Infant - Dark Sperm

Spectacular channel switching noise ejaculations fresh from the mind of the Swiss maestro.

C30 released on Teenage Whore Tapes in 2007.

Dark Sperm

Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - Asshole/Snail Dilemma

This is the CD you cannot make it all the way through. It is abject misery. Worth attempting, of course, and Eb.er's dedication is admirable in its way... but you may quickly get the feeling that you don't need to climb all the way to the top of this particular mountain. Released by Tochnit Aleph in 2000, then inexplicably reissued on LP ten years later.

Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - Asshole/Snail Dilemma

Sudden Infant - Sudden Infant's Turntable Cookbook

This is just a mountainous shitload of fucked up fun ... stone cold genius!

CDr released on Gameboy Records in 2002.

Turntable Cookbook

Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - Ho

My favorite of all the Schimpfluch-related recordings is this CD, released in 1992. 69 short tracks of precision psychosis, violent silence, barking and puking. The place to start if you're a first-time vistor to Rudolf Eb.er's planet.

Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - Ho

S. I. / TAC - Split

Sudden Infant and TAC (or Joke Lanz and Tom Cox) tickling your synapses to distract you from the truth .... they're messing with your mind!

C46 released on Soja-Sauce Bolognese in 1994.

S. I. / TAC

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