Shitmat - Full Of Shit!

Apparently there are 19 billion people congregating today in an unemployment black-spot somewhere near Blackpool ... something about a moving vehicle that had a full tank of petrol to siphon off and some wheels that could be nicked.

The sight and sound of cheats having a wank... and we can tune in right now.

Full Of Shit!

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Various - Tourney Into Pain

This is a collection of four themed tapes where you get people like Band Of Susans, When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water, Half Japanese, Eugene Chadbourne, Architects Office, Denier du Culte, P16.D4, Victor Nubla, Enrico Piva, The Gerogerigegege, Masonna, Incapacitants, Muslimgauze, Cranioclast and Asmus Tietchens.

It's spectacularly good.

Four C60is tapes released on the wonderful Beast 666 Tapes in Japan in 1989.

Tourney Into Pain

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Felix Hess - Air Pressure Fluctuations

"Five days and nights of documented "air pressure fluctuations" (technically named infrasound), reproduced at 360 times original speed, with microphones placed 360 times the width of our ears (to achieve human-audible frequencies and stereo perception)."

This does exactly what it says on the tin. For twenty minutes and thirty eight seconds.

This is the edition without the book that was released by Edition RZ and Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken ‎in 2001.

Air Pressure Fluctuations

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Felix Hess - Frogs 4

It's Frogs. I really like Frogs but even if I didn't I'd probably still think it's great. It should be prescribed instead of benzos.

You won't be surprised to learn that this LP was self-released. It comes from 1985. There were five such self-releases but I only have this one. Pisser.

Frogs 4

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Felix Hess - Sasayaki

Felix used to be a nuclear physicist (might still be for all I know) who then started to make his own electronic instruments and "make" found-sound-art-sculptures.

Turn all of your devices off and go and lie down in a field (definitely not on a road) and listen, your brain will do the rest. There is music everywhere.

Hand-painted four CDr set in hand-made wooden box all of which Felix created with his own fair hand and had released by Edition Omega Point in Japan in 1999 in an edition of twenty five.

Sasayaki

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Various - The Residents Unmasked!

I'm not sure why the previously posted tape was thought to be necessary when this exemplary freak scene had preceded it.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water? Well, more fool you ... water is the enemy. At all times I am very dry and wear a steel helmet whilst wrapped in tin foil. Trust me ... it's worked so far which I would like to think is self-evident! I'm listening to this on your behalf so you can avoid the neural damage. Just thank THEE LORD for ME! and simply move on and procreate, there's a war coming soon and your progeny will be needed.

Triple C60 box set released on Ecto Tapes in 1995.

Unmasked!

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Various - The Residents Unmasked! 2

I'm not entirely sure where these came from but the later attribution of "partially unofficial" gives the game away. The vast majority was recorded waaaaay before 1995 and a fair amount seems to be scalped from other compilations. However, a more important proportion seems to come from a shout out to bedroom weirdos, home tapers and just freaks ... the kind who really do have a shrine of eyeballs that they consult before their daily ablutions. They can all sleep on my couch if they want ... they might just have to take turns (it's not a big couch). More tomorrow. That's both a promise and a threat.

C40 released on Ecto Tapes in 1995.

Unmasked! 2

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Various - Interchange Compilation

Randomly, here's a bunch of people presumably still floating around on this brexiting shithole that completely masquerades as a functioning democracy. Basically it's just a tiny bunch of people who come from an extraordinarily privileged public school educated (that's privately educated if you are unlucky enough to be in trumpville) chinless shitpumps protecting their reputation with papa and their business investments. Contempt is too good for them. Anyway. Sorry about that. Nothing to do with the tape at all.

This has a predominantly North-East of England noise thing going on with TNB, Metgumbnerbone, a couple of Mike Watson vehicles (Outside Bill and Small Palace Players) and a scattering of other British outsiders for company.

C90 that accompanied an edition of the short-lived Interchange magazine.

Interchange Compilation

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P16.D4 - Passagen

The two P16.D4 tracks on the Devastate To Liberate comp were mastered there at twice the intended speed. This was later corrected on the Tionchor LP from 1987 ... so I was going to post that. Then I remembered this magnificent collection that includes that release. It's long sold out and now changes hands for a huge amount of money. So, in for a penny ...

Brilliant six CD released on Monotype Records in 2012. It also came with a DVD and the label uploaded it so you can watch it whenever you like!

P16

D4

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People of America - We Are Fucked

They really are, aren't they?

People of America - We Are Fucked

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Various - Devastate To Liberate

With a mid-Eighties compilation that is a fundraiser for the Animal Liberation Front, you would expect the likes of Annie Anxiety and Crass ... but P16.D4, Coil, Current 93, Nurse With Wound and Shock Headed Peters (who provide a cracking cover of The Residents' "Blue Rosebuds")? Great LP for a great cause.

LP released on Yangki in 1985.

Devastate To Liberate

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Various - Born Out Of Dreams

Amongst the people here are P16.D4, Nurse With Wound, Mixed Band Philanthropist, Muslimgauze, O Yuki Conjugate, Enrico Piva and a completely pointless contribution from The New Blockaders (but I'm sure it's auntie art so it must be secretly brilliant apart from the fact that something more culturally valuable could have turned up here instead ... a recording of a fart in a bath full of water for instance).

LP released on Frux in 1985.

Born Out Of Dreams

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Various - Let The Pigeons In

Déficit Des Années Antérieures, We Be Echo, Bene Gesserit and a couple of collaborations between We Be Echo and Dave Framer's Iham.

LP released on Frux in 1986.

Let The Pigeons In

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Rinji Fukuoka, Ayuo Takahashi, Iwao Yama - From Shuji Terayama's Anthology Phoenix Story of Wild Girl Lima

Unreleased session from members of Overhang Party. No information.

Rinji Fukuoka, Ayuo Takahashi, Iwao Yama - From Shuji Terayama's Anthology Phoenix Story of Wild Girl Lima

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Plugged Ear - Live 2003

Members of Overhang Party, Broom Dusters, Miminokoto and Zeni Geva get together to play tunes by Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Serge Gainsbourg and more. Released as a CDR on There. 

Plugged Ear - Live 2003

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Various - Ritual Dos Sadicos

Some of the people on the prior post but also Art Remains Tangible, Clair Obscur, Parazite and Berlinerluft.

C50 released on VP 231 in 1983.

Ritual Dos Sadicos

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Various - Ritual Dos Sadicos II

Well. Having thrown myself willingly into a maelstrom of football (no, it's not called soccer) induced alcoholic hallucinosis and generalised unbearable smugness, the former has now resolved to the point where I feel obliged to return to what I laughingly refer to as bizness.

So for your delectation or disgust, here's a great compilation of subterranean noise, strangled beats and weird tribal infused convolutions that appear designed to turn your head inside out ... Nox, Vox Populi!, Pacific 231, Atrophisme Interne Z, Denier Du Culte et cetera and so forth ...

LP released on VP 231 in 1985.

Ritual Dos Sadicos II

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Overhang Party - Untitled

Another self-released CDR of out-takes and live versions.

Overhang Party - Untitled

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Overhang Party - Out Takes From 1996 to 2003 (Memorial Edition for 26 September 2003)

Self-released CDR created to give away at a gig in 2003. Epic, soaring psychedelic rock led by singer/guitarist Rinji Fukuoku (now of Majutsu No Niwa).

Overhang Party - Out Takes From 1996 to 2003 (Memorial Edition for 26 September 2003)

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va - ND 7

Oldsters like me will remember ND as one of the only sources for information about the noise underground in the days before the internet. Based in Texas (as you can tell from the cover of "N D 7"), ND was a magazine and label affiliated with a record shop in Austin. At the start, they made split cassettes that came inside little magazines. Then, they made magazines full of interviews and loads of contact information so that you could write away for catalogs and tapes. Eventually, they made CDs. "N D 7" was the seventh issue of ND, and it's a compilation cassette. A who's who of who-the-hell-are-these-people. Some names you'll recognize: Minoy, Die Form, Big City Orchestra, X-Ray Pop, The Haters, If Bwana, The Joke Project, Odal, Ideas Beyond Filth. Others are just as obscure in 2019 as they were in 1992: Booed Usic (actually tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE from balTimOre), Vittore Baroni (of Trax), K.U.Sch, Theater of Ice, and others.

va - ND 7

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