Various - Anhedonia

Twenty tracks from twenty lovely people(s) on a C20 courtesy of Jim's eternally delightful Fusty Cunt in 2011.

never forget, jesus died for exactly this kind of shit.

thanks jesus, you're way cool.

dong ding miserably on low

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Taku Sugimoto, Burkhard Stangl, Christof Kurzmann - In Tokyo - First Concert, Second Take

 

Sugimoto & Stangl on guitars, Kurzmann on clarinet and laptop. Recorded at Off Site, Tokyo, in 2001. Released as a CD in 2002 by Musica Genera. 

take two

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Various - Pure And Painless Pleasures

Some ferric archeology featuring the likes of Dave Prescott, Minoy, P16.D4, Illusion Of Safety, Violence And The Sacred, a tidy collab track from Eugene Chadbourne & Jon Rose and a host of others ...

C90 released on John Doe Recordings in 1988.

pure and simples

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Taku Sugimoto Guitar Quartet

 

Two long tracks. Two acoustic guitars (played by Tetuzi Akiyama & Toshimaru Nakamura) and two electric guitars (played by Taku Sugimoto & Otomo Yoshihide). Released as a CD by Bottrop-Boy in 2003.

more is less

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Ishiwarizakura - Okuno Hosomichi

I was going to post something entirely different but got out of bed and put this on. Mitsuru Nasuno on bass, Tatsuya Yoshida on drums, Murakami Naoki on guitar, with the driving force of Naoki Kita on violin. Beautifully improvised chaos-rock to put a spring in your step this weekend.

CD released on Magaibutsu Limited in 2011.

Okuno Hosomichi

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Various - Rub Out The Word

"A compilation based on manipulation of speech recordings. The title comes from a quote by Brion Gysin."

A wealth of talent on offer here: Hands To, PBK, Yeast Culture, John Hudak, Kapotte Muziek, Eric Lunde, Crash Worship, Illusion Of Safety, Big City Orchestra and on and on and on ...

A double C60 set released on Big Body Parts in 1989.

eraseyourhead

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Zoviet France - Assault and Mirage

 

First issued as a cassette in 1987, then cleaned up for a CD in 1995. Another gem from the Zoviet France catalog.

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Black Sand Desert & Clew of Theseus - Obelisk

Double CDR from 2002, way back in Greh Holger's earliest daze, before the thought of co-hosting a podcast ever entered his teenage mind (before podcasts even existed!), before he started calling himself Hive Mind (which happens to be the title of a track on this album) and about the same time he began his Chondritic Sound label. Some tracks BSD solo, some Clew solo, ending with a couple of harsh blasts by both guys together as a duo called Obelisk. Edition of 70 copies on Cathartic Process.

old greh whistle test

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PHBTK - Verfall / Melachoir

This is Phillip B. Klingler (aka PBK) and Jeph Jerman (aka Hands To). So what they did was ... ah, you're ahead of me. Anyway. These were initially seperate tape releases on Sound Of Pig (a seminal tape label ran by Al Margolis aka If, Bwana) and Jeph's Big Body Parts (stop sniggering at the back) in 1989. 20 years later, Phillip put them up on a netlabel that passed me by.

These are lossless rips of the re-reissue from 2011. It was only in the final stages of preparing this post that I realised that Phillip has these on his bandcamp ... I consider these tapes so extraordinary that I'm going to compromise our T&Cs, hope for forgiveness and encourage you all to dive into the wealth of art on the PBK page.

A double C50+ set courtesy of the aptly named Cathartic Process from 2011.

clap your hands and say lymphokine-activated killer T-cell-originated protein kinase

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Zoviet France - Just An Illusion

 

First released in 1990, "Just an Illusion" remains one of Zoviet France's very greatest achievements. Mysterious, enveloping atmosphere that mixes acoustic instruments with tape delay for a mix of musique concrete, raga, and ambient noise. The edition we have here came inside a balsa-wood box with the titles stained onto it. The liner notes are on another thin sheet of balsa. Sure, it kind of scratches up the CD, but the band that once packed their LPs in roofing shingles could hardly care about that. When someone isn't sure where to begin with Zoviet France, "Just an Illusion" is what I always recommend. 

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Zoviet France - Garista

 

The first album by Zoviet France might be a shock to listeners who jumped on later to hear their classics "Look Into Me", "Just an Illusion" or "What Is Not True". Back in 1982, when they self-released "Garista" as a cassette, it might have seemed to have more in common with weirdos like Metgumnerbone, New Blockders or even The Residents' "Eskimo". Feral animal grunting and whooping, banging sticks together at the back of a dank cave, general chaotic weirdness that gives hardly a hint of the atmospheric ambience to come. It's their strangest album, but worth a listen to hear what they were doing as odd teenagers huddled around a tape recorder. It was reissued in all formats in 1990, then on LP by Vinyl on Demand in 2019.

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Captain Condoms - Super Cool

Take your best from the very early rosters of Amphetamine Reptile and Touch & Go and then move them to Japan to go and live with members of the Tokyo-based punk and hardcore scene. Fun times!

CD released on Bron Records in 1991.

turn around and see your butt in a clinic

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Climax Denial - Repentance In Ecstacy

Following sessions of nylon worship it is always important to pay heed.

C30 released on Bacteria Field in 2016.

from here to maternity

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The Rita - Pedicure Deconstruction Of The Feminine

Sam McKinlay (skateboarding hero, wall master and shark-baiting foot fetishist) effortlessly cracks off another one.

C48 released on Bacteria Field in 2016,

found footage

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Deep Throat - Nylons Nailed To A Concrete Floor

Pleasant harsh noise that swerves between subterranean walls and metal junk

C20 released on Bacteria Field in 2016.

nailed nylon

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19/Juke - 19/Juke

The first outing ... full-on Shockabilly meets The Beatles reinterpreted by Bunny Brains. Or something completely different. They created a completely different mode of articulation so why are you asking me?.

Originally a self-released LP from 1980, this is the Time Bomb reissue from 1996.

19/Juke

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Sly & Robbie - African Roots

Robbie Shakespeare left us yesterday. Along with Sly Dunbar, he contributed to more than you'd know and influenced more than you could imagine.

This is my doff of the cap with Robbie on the bass, Sly behind the kit and the late great Bunny "Striker" Lee handling the production.

African Roots

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Borghesia - Resistance

 

This 1989 album was Borghesia's widest-release and highest profile album to date. Released in for former Yugoslavia by Jugoton and the rest of the world by Play It Again Sam and Play It Again Sam USA, "Resistance" tackled the band's favorite themes of state oppression and popular solidarity. Holds up well in 2021. 

resist!

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Borghesia - Ogolelo Mesto

 

Yugoslavia-only LP from 1988, featuring songs that appeared in different versions on their "Escorts & Models" album.

mesto

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Borghesia - Ljubav Je Hladnija Od Smrti

 

The first LP by Borghesia, released in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and reissued by Dark Entries in 2010.  

colder

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