Ralf Wehowsky / Kevin Drumm - Cases

Lovely chiming concrète cut-up static squelch from Ralf and the marvelous Kevin Drumm. We adore Kevin's work but we don't post it because he has a very organised and active bandcamp page where he also has a subscription option. When you go for that you get exclusive work that is only available to you. We highly recommend it!

CD released on Selektion in 2001.

Cases

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Bruce Russell & Ralf Wehowsky - Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues

Isn't technology great? Apart from the Terminators, they're bad! Back in the day, this would have been about (literally) shipping an analogue tape to somebody so they could contribute and send it back and so on and so forth. And now you can get two legends who normally would be around eleven and a half thousand miles apart producing beautifully abstract and twisted compositions ... and then we get to share them with you. When you think about it, apart from all of the shit stuff, the world is a pretty good place to live on.

CD released on A Bruit Secret in 2005.

Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues

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Ralf Wehowsky & Bruce Russell - Sights

This is one of the consequences of when Mr Russell went to stay with Mr Wehowsky for a while in 2003, with some cross-continental work added in later.

This should have been the soundtrack to Barbarella.

CD released on Corpus Hermeticum in 2004.

Sights

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P16.D4 - V.R.N.L.

This C40 was initially released on Wahrnehmungen in 1981 and when the label changed it's name to Selektion it was re-released the following year. In 2005, Ralf released a remastered vinyl version on Was Soll Das? Schallplatten. This is the Selecktion tape in all its original analogue glory.

Von Rechts Nach Lichts

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Rogalli Nr. II - Neue Deutsche Peinlichkeit

Rogalli Nr. II is also known as Charles Rogalli but it's actually Ralf Wehowsky.

This C30 was the fifth release on Achim Wollscheid and Ralf's Selektion label way back in 1981. It was restored and edited as the "eaRLy W - Three: Neue Deutsche Peinlichkeit" LP (more of which later aka when I get around to it) but this is the original tape.

Neue Deutsche Peinlichkeit

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RLW - Acht

Sonorous abstractions released on Selektion in 1993 that again features Ewald Weber, Roger Schönauer and Stefan E. Schmidt.

Acht

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RLW - 14 Recordings From 1980-1993

Self-explanatory CD released on Selektion in 1993 that also features contributions from Ewald Weber, Roger Schönauer and Stefan E. Schmidt (who were all in P16.D4 with Ralf), Bernd Leukert, Bernhard Jugel and Elliott Sharp.

14 Recordings

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RLW - Revu Et Corrigé

"When (alternate versions of) this material were released in 1986 on LP (Nichts Niemand Nirgends Nie!, Selektion SLP 011), they suffered from poor technical qualities of the vinyl standard in general and Selektion's equipment in particular. This CD represents the original sound ideas (realized for the first time appropriately) and provides a look at 1985’s work, seen from today’s point of view."

Wonderful CD released on Bernhard Günter's Trente Oiseaux in 1995.

Revu Et Corrigé

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RLW - When Freezing Air Stings Like Ice I Shall Breathe Again

Ralf Wehowsky creates very strange worlds on most occasions but the landscapes here drift in and out of focus to the point of being intangible before they smash into sharp focus and slip away again. CD released on Christoph Heemann's Streamline in 1995.

Stings Like Ice

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Murder Corporation - The New Crimes

... and then, in 2015, menstrualrecordings released an eight disc reissue that is remastered from the original tapes.

I no longer know whether this and the Pure CDr are related. More importantly, I no longer care because finally I can hear The New Crimes!

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Murder Corporation - New Crimes

In 1995, Moreno Daldosso released an eight tape set on his own Murder Release label called The New Crimes. Apparently there were "less than ten" copies (whatever that actually means) and always resigned myself to never hearing it. In 1996 (and later in 2000) RRRon released this CDr on his very reasonably priced Pure sister label that specialised in releasing new and lost treasures.

I naturally assumed that it was part of the box set of tapes and snapped it up straight away and figured it was as close as I was ever going to get ...

New Crimes

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Various - Missing Nothing

This was a six CDr collection that served as a fundraiser for the Bang The Bore collective in 2012.

Astral Social Club, Andy Jarvis, Spoils & Relics, Kevin Sanders' Petals, Ashtray Navigations, John Butcher, Mark Sanders, Seth Cooke, Clive Henry and The A Band are the hooks that will drag you in. However, everything on here is well worth your undivided attention.

This seems to be the perfect way to temporarily conclude what will forever go down in history as "Bleak Bliss: The Compilation Years" ... who at the back said 'thank fuck for that'?

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Various - Unbecoming: An International Compilation

CD released on Freedom In A Vacuum in 1993 featuring Pierre-André Arcand, PGR, Empirical Sleeping Consort, Allegory Chapel Ltd. and John Duncan alongside others who have slipped into the æther in the intervening 23 years.

Unbecoming

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Richard Duaine Lyons

Am I just getting old? Is this what it is like when you get old? Do I just have to get used to the fact that the people that I admire just leave?

It has just been announced that Prince Rogers Nelson has died at the age of 57. That really stinks. What will be reported far less and hurts me more is that Richard died today also at the age of 57.

Alongside Mark Hosler and Peter Conheim, he was a founder member of Negativland ... a genius collective of cut up / plunderphonic flies in the ointment of the American dream.

It always seems to be a trite and consoling cliché that people battle cancer ... Pastor Dick managed it for around 12 years. Today we all lost. Today he joined former Negativelanders Don Joyce and Ian Allen who we lost last year.

Raise a glass people!

Originally released on their own Seeland label in 1980 ...

Negativland

... and a CD released on Seeland in 2002.

Deathsentences Of The Polished And Structurally Weak

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Various - Voices In A Dark Room

Double C45 set released on Honeymoon Production in 1989 featuring Kapotte Muziek, Asmus Tietchens, Vidna Obmana, S.Core, blackhumour, The Haters, The Gerogerigegege and Merzbow amongst others.

Voices In A Dark Room

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Various - Organisation Orange 1

Rafael Flores' Comando Bruno project, Pacific 231, Schlafengarten, The Grief, Bene Gesserit, La Sonorité Jaune and more on a C60 released on S.J. Organisation in 1986.

Organisation Orange 1

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Various - Organisation Orange 2

Controlled Bleeding, Vivenza, Urbain Autopsy, Schlafengarten, Mystery Hearsay, Big City Orchestra, La Sonorité Jaune and a range of people who appear to only appear on old school "industrial" collections.

C90 and C10 set released on S.J. Organisation in 1987. Extract both files to the same folder etc ...

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va - Phonography.org: Compositions Using Field Recordings 1

From 2002, with Doug Haire, Cornucopia, Quiet American, Rod Stasick, Edward Ruchalski, Andrew Haylek, Marc McNulty, and more. 

va - Phonography.org - Compositions Using Field Recordings 1

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Various - Phonography.org: Compositions Using Field Recordings 2

The second of the compositions collections from 2002 featuring Dale Lloyd, Jon Tulchin, Yannick Dauby, Sawako Kato and Cédric Peyronnet amongst others. As far as I am aware, none of the tracks on the "Compositions" CDrs featured on any releases in the broader series.

Compositions Using Field Recordings 2

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va - Phonography.org 1

Compilation of field recordings by Yannick Dauby, Rod Stasick, Dale Lloyd, Yuko Nexus6, Toy Bizarre, and more. Released on CDR in 2001.

va - Phonography.org 1

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