Gate - Lounge

 

Gate's 1993 album, released on CD by Twisted Village. 


i believe in swordfish

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Crispin Hellion Glover - The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be.

 

You're on your own here. Best of luck!


get back

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Sore Throat - Disgrace To The Corpse Of Sid / Unhindered By Talent




So. Where was I? Oh yeah ... Malcolm can rim me to be honest. Milking a fuck-up for cash and kudos? Then the woman gets the blame for the inevitable male violence? You mean you've never heard that trope before ... what are you, an embryo? Anyway, this bunch of splendid chaps probably have the same line of thought. I mean, they have a load of stuff on Bandcamp and all of the money goes to the PDSA. The People's Dispensary For Sick Animals. It's a British charity where people with limited incomes can take their animal co-habitees for medical treatment for a reasonable price rather than the extortionate prices of private vetinary practices or the execrable RSPCA who just kill them. So do what I've done and spend a bit of money on their discog and who knows ... even donate to the PDSA seperately?

Originally, vinyls from 1989 and 1988 respectively ... the order here is reversed because junkie muderers sell better I guess?

I think it's brilliant, that's why it's here. The breadth of ideas is a wonderful thing to behold ... also, one of the band members went by the name of Gibby Vomit which might be a clue to why you have loads of Buttholian vibes going on throughout. For irrelevant infotainment purposes, this is the Japanese Earache reissue from 2010.

it's better to be deafened by noise than blinded by lies

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The Erotic Boulders - Starfish Toupee

 

Tape loop party time from California's beloved boy band the Erotic Boulders! The only published album by Mitchell Brown, Joseph Hammer and Damien Bisciglia/Agog (aka 3/5 of Points of Friction), recorded live in 2003 and released as a CDR the following year by Agog's Spagyric label.


echinoderm merkin

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Gate - Golden


A 1996 CD that reissues several of Gate's (mostly lathe-cut, very small-run) singles from the early 1990s. 


precious metal

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Keiji Haino & Derek Bailey - Songs

 

Recorded in 1996, released by Bailey's Incus label in 2000. While their previous album was a guitar duo, this one has just Bailey playing guitar and Haino only singing. 


singing

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Gate - The Lavender Head v3

 

Self-released CD from 2001. Bleary drones and no-fi ambience from New Zealand.


dirty knobby

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Keiji Haino & Derek Bailey - Drawing Close, Attuning - The Respective Signs of Order and Chaos

 

The Japanese label Tokuma released four massive Fushitsusha albums in the late 1990s, then doubled down with four more Keiji Haino albums: two solo albums, one album by Haino's cover band Aihiyo and one guitar duo album with the legendary Derek Bailey. This is the Haino/Bailey team-up. You know you need it. 

drawing close yadda yadda

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Gate - The Monolake

 

Michael Morley (of the Dead C.) follows up his sublime "The Dew Line" with this marginally more accessible album released by Table of the Elements in 1996. It includes a cover of Faust's "Jennifer" which you can play at parties to get some asses on the dance floor.

mono

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Orbital - Radiccio




Here's a neck-snapper. I intended to post Sore Throat but was listening to this whilst prepping that post. So. It's 1992. I bought both 12"s and then bought both CD EPs ... always mugged myself off with that "contains an extra two minutes of lead artist fragrance" palaver. Ah well, I was happy at the time ... I still am to be honest.

I can't be bothered checking but I think that this is the only digital release of The Naked And The Dub? Regardless, this is the Japanese CD release from 1993 and 30 years on, the pharmaceutical consequences await the future therapist but to what is left of my mind, this is just as good now as it was then.

radicculous

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Gate - The Lavender Head 1.1.1.2-2.1.2.2

 

Self-released in 1998 as a lathe cut double LP in a numbered edition of 20 copies, reissued as a proper double LP by Hell's Half Halo.

knob end 

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Omit - Quad




Oh, go on then ... a post from nearly ten years ago:

This is the work of Clinton Williams and the info is taken directly from discogs. It adequately says what i would have said anyway:

"Clinton Williams has been on a highly personal journey into sound since the late 1980's. Starting from scratch, using modified electric motors as his sole sound source, he has built up a home studio and battery of hand-made and salvaged electronic sound sources, with which to pursue his researches into the human psyche. Working in complete isolation for several years, before making contact with a few like-minded souls in other parts of the world, he has released a mass of cassettes and lathe-cut polycarbonate records on his own Deepskin Conceptual Mindmusic imprint. He has also collaborated with Bruce Russell as Dust/Omit, and Paul Toohey as Omit/K Group."

If you have any interest in people who have an individual take on the world...you need to pay attention to this 3CD set on Corpus Hermeticum from 1997!

Quad

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Gate - The Dew Line

 

Michael Morley's "The Dew Line" from 1994 is, in my opinion, the best music he's made outside of The Dead C. A huge gray downer of an album, sounding so broken and hopeless that it hardly has the energy to stand upright or keep its eyes open. Released as a CD by Table of the Elements.

dewdew-ettes

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Gate - My Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart

 

Recorded in 1997 and 1998, around the same time that the Dead C. were recording Tusk and their self-titled double CD epic. Released as a double CD by Hell's Half Halo in 2000.

deer

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Gate - Live in Boston, NYC 1994

 

Gate is usually the name that the Dead C's Michael Morley uses for some of his solo endeavors. For these live performances from Boston and New York City, he was joined by Lee Ranaldo (of Text of Light) and harpist Zeena Parkins. Released by Poon Village in 1994 as a CD in a very cool silk screened sleeve.

This is Boston, not NYC

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Vertonen - The Blister of Communication

 

An obscure (and scarce) CDR from 2003, released by a short-lived French label called Naninani Recordings.


blister

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Heresy - Never Slit Thanks




Well, once an Italian skaterboy ... what more can I say?

"Japan-only licenced release of early Heresy material. Also includes the rare original recording (previously unreleased) for the Concrete Sox Split LP with Reevsy on vocals and guitars." Not a clue what the title is supposed to mean but here's the CD courtesy of Toy's Factory in 1990.

he was a punk, she did ballet

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Vertonen - Trigger Field

 

An early title by the magnificent Blake Edwards/Vertonen, released as a CDR by Self Abuse sub-label Solipsism in 1999. Includes this dryly hilarious misdirection in the liner notes: Tracks 7-9 previously recorded as the "3 Hits From Hell" 7" on Plan 9 (first pressing of 10,000 copies in April 1981 ; second pressing of 800 copies in spring 1986) ; original track titles were "London Dungeon", "Horror Hotel" & "Ghouls Night Out".


field

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Heresy - Face Up To It!




More UK hardcore that I bought in 1988. If only I could remember how much I paid for it ...

An LP released on In Your Face Records.

here say

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Electro Hippies - The Only Good Punk




The UK hardcore scene blasted out of some very unlikely provincial places but if I'd been born that unlucky, I'd have been royally fucked off as well. This is their first LP, some compilation tracks and the "Live" LP. It finishes with a version of Silver Machine where they get a member of the audience to get on stage and sing the words with the irresistable cajole of "c'mon you puff". Happier times.

This was released on vinyl in 1988 but didn't get a digital reissue until this (lossless rip of the) CD on Peaceville in 2002.

Is An Anti-fascist One

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