Bastard Noise / Personasnongratas - Split

Fried electronics dipped into an acid bath followed by some relatively generic PE by Personas that I know almost nothing about.

7" released on Indignant in 1994.

Bastard Noise / Personasnongratas

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Charred Remains A.K.A. Man Is The Bastard / Aunt Mary - Split

Entirely from memory, after his involvement in the magnificently monikered Pissed Happy Children, Eric Wood was the central propulsive momentum behind Charred Remains who almost instantly became Man Is The Bastard who evolved into Bastard Noise. The Charred side is an entertaining view of the imminent transition from hard/grind core to the decayed electronics that followed. The Aunt Mary track is "insert name of core here" only played backwards. Literally. If it was a joke then it doesn't work. It's garbage.

7" initially released on DP in 1992.

Charred Mary Keeps On Burnin'

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Hijokaidan - Jojo & Junko

Here's hoping that the hangovers have resolved! Three live recordings with the first two previously appearing on the "No Paris/No Harm" LP. The third is recorded live at the No Music Festival in London. Ontario, Canada on March the 27th, 1998.

CD released as part of the Hijokaidan Rarity series on Alchemy Records in 2000.

Jojo & Junko

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Ronnie Sundin - Standards

Mister Bad Kharma's mini-CD released on Jason Talbot's Kissy Records imprint in 2004. "The birds have no names" is the only clue provided. Beats me.

Have a standard New Year!

Ronnie Sundin - Standards

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Ghédalia Tazartès - Works 1977-79

Ghédalia Tazartès exists in a universe of his own creation. Imagine it to be somewhere between Lieutenant Caramel and Sten Hanson with a liberal theoretical dollop of the absurdist phrasing of Ivor Cutler. Without doubt the work of a certified and certifiable genius!

A glorious four LP and 10" set released on Vinyl-on-Demand in 2011.

Bonne Année

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Neil Innes

I can't let this year pass without doffing my cap to Neil Innes who died yesterday. Founder member of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, architect of the Rutles and Rutland Weekend TV and the person writing the songs for the Monty Python films. A member of an illustrious roll-call of British absurdists and arch-parody-mongers.

The list of people that I actually like just gets shorter and shorter these days.

The first Bonzo album from 1967:

Bonzo Dog Doo/Dah Band - Gorilla

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Bad Kharma - Seltin

Self-released 1998 CD from Swedish painter, cartoonist and sound artist Ronnie Sundin, an early step along his path from relentless noise to lysergic near-silence. He's still using the Bad Kharma name here, though he'll drop it in a few years and then drop almost everything else to become a more conceptual Scandinavian relative of Sukora or tac. This album has plenty of sound on it, though.

Bad Kharma - Seltin

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ESP Beetles - Live ESP

"Live recorded at ZOOT'S. W.D. on guitar & voice, two drummers, and the beginnings of the ELECTRIC BEAR. Includes "Portable on My Shoulder" and cover versions."

So clearly on this occasion it's not Mr D alone ... and all bow down to double drumming! Quality ramshackle noise-rock.

CDr released on time STEREO in 1999.

Live ESP

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ESP Beetles - With The

Only Warren Defever gets credited for this these days but I'm not sure whether this is a solo outing or a "band". Either way, it's a rather good adventure into a warped bad acid zooniverse.

CDr released on time STEREO probably in 1996.

With

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Little Princess - Song Collection

There was a comment left that reminded me of this release. It is certainly not to be confused with the Michigan project. These are "Aliens from the Planet Puchin Pring who look and sound like Japanese girls!" Well technically that's not true given that they are neither alien nor female. Presumably, it's an actual band with a single full of parody grind-blurt because they had an afternoon free.

7" released on Punch The Cheese in 1997.

Song Collection

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Iovae - Untitled

Ron Orovitz was fairly active in the 00s, then seems to have hung it all up. A common trajectory, it seems. While he was recording as Iovae, he made a terrific 3" for Chondritic Sound and tapes/CDRs for Drone Disco, Skeleton Dust, Hung Like a Horse?! and other memorable imprints. This untitled thing was sent out into the world by the incomparable American Tapes label in 2003 as a 50-copies CDR.

Iovae - Untitled

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Grave Eaters - s/t

The always-brilliant John Olson (Spykes, Wolf Eyes, Henry & Hazel Slaughter etc) using a one-off nom de glurp for this edition-of-10 CDR released in an LP sleeve on his own American Tapes label back in 2000. Sloppy improvised electronic autodidact gunk by the damn master.

Grave Eaters

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Something to Burn - Untitled

A different untitled Something to Burn tape, also probably from around 1990 and also released on Empty Records.

Something to Burn - Untitled

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The Little Princess - Your Golden

The first of the Princess outings. There was also a group of Michigan noiseheads called The Dragon-God who I have always assumed were a PDM splinter offering ... but I've never heard them.

Originally a single-sided tape from 1993, this is the CDr reissued on Time Stereo in 2000.

Your Golden

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Something to Burn - Untitled

One of the first cassettes by Something to Burn, a noise-rock trio from Nurnberg formed by Joseph B. Raimond and Ralf Lexis (of Doc Wor Mirran) with someone called Gerhard Heimrath. Released on Raimond's label, Empty Records around 1990.

Something to Burn - Untitled

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Bastard Noise - Recycled

More re-gifting on repurposed tape.

C22 from RRRecords in 2000 or thereabout.

Recycled

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Little Princess - Recycled

As you root through the pile of unwanted gifts wondering whether you can get away with asking for the receipts so you can take them back...

C50 released on the lovely RRRecords at some point in the past.

Recycled Music

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Bathtub Shitter - XMAS

Apparently. it's the most wonderful time of the year. Who am I to argue with that?

3" CDr released on tUMULt in 2005.

XMAS

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Bathtub Shitter - Angels Save Us

Maybe they will but, given that they don't exist, I have my doubts.

7" released on Necro Obscure Terror and Rusted Lock in 2002.

Angels Save Us

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va - Helicopter, 2004

If I understand the situation correctly, there was some mastering error with the John Wiese/Dynasty Yellow Swans "Basement Ghost/Castle EVP" 7-inch. To rectify that, some copies (or maybe every copy?) of the 7" came with this Helicopter sampler CDR inside, which begins with the two sides of the single and then includes tracks from then-current Wiese-related Helicopter projects like Sissy Spacek, Wiese & Koh, Amps For Christ, Weise & Guilty Connector, Bastard Noise and LHD, plus one track from Wiese' "Soft Punk" LP.

va - Helicopter, 2004

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