MIDSOMMAR-BELSEBUB AR LOS, LP, 1971, SWEDEN

Squally psych guitar ramalamma with bluesy/hard rock-ish underpinnings and some proto prog ambitions from this Swedish outfit that shares exactly zero in common with the more notable exports from their underground of the period from Parsson Sound/Harvester to Samla/Zamla. Instead, what's going on here seems curiously behind the curve for 1971 Sweden, though this crew manage to produce some undeniably winning results at times in spite of it. Yugoslavia's Fire could be considered a bit of a touchstone for what's going down here, though minus their vicious guitar tone and with the addition of raw and strafed sax interventions and stray bits of rustic Tull-isms that lend 'em something of an early Burnin' Red Ivanhoe vibe as well.



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XX-UU, TAPE, 1981, GERMANY

Another confounding year zero blast of otherness from the Geniale Dilettanten fringe of the early 80's German sub-underground. Comprised of two untitled 30 odd minute plunderphonic-based melees, this has most of the basic sign posts you'd anticipate for this sorta fuckery. Turntable and tape speed abuse? Check. Hectoring blather? Check. random metals bashed about? Yes, that too. As geysers of nihilist dada junk spew from this era go, it's a pretty snazzy example. Too bad that all acts of public onanism aren't as amusing as this...

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OHO-ECCE OHO!, CD, 1998 (RECORDED: 1974-75), USA

Following Jim's post of this Baltimore outfit's truly batty and Zappa damaged basement prog debut Okinawa (and preceding my soon-to-come post of the expanded 4x 10" boxset reissue of that album), here's a briefly issued odds-n-sods archival collection released on the same label as said box i.e. Little Wing Of Refugees. Musically, Ecce Oho! lands somewhere between British proggers Morgan circa Nova Solis and The Hampton Grease Band, though it's neither as pomp bombastic as the former nor as eccentrically advanced as the latter and neither, to be honest, is it close to being as formidable a beast as either Okinawa or its follow up, Vitamin Oho (featured on the Orion Awakes blog Here alongside the single album version of Okinawa which is confusingly presented with a picture of the boxset re-edition). Ecce Oho! does however have a handful of highly choice cuts that are well worth rolling around on your cilia, particularly the Magic Band meets Grease Band brain scramble of "Her(e) Comes The Oyster" and the well fried "Cragwheel", a ripsnorting down 'n' dirty live take on "The Continuing Story Of Cragwheel The Corpse" from Okinawa.

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MINAMO-SHRINE/NEST, CD, 2003, JAPAN

Prismatic and pointillistic like glinting jewels on sandy expanses, the ultra-refined sound crafting of these abstract Japanese electronica merchants (whose Wakka/Live CD boxset I posted previously) situates them somewhere between Pimmon and Fennesz. The live material heard here sends out radiant flows of shivery cellular musical data flecked with twittering electronic cicadas, swarming piano fragments and haloing harmonics and inducing neuropeptides to ripple through your brain tissue.

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SPRATLEYS JAPS-HAZEL, CD EP, 1999, UK

Long requested in the wake of my posts of Cardiacs rarities, this briefly assembled offshoot project of Cardiacs leader Tim Smith and Joanne Spratley took inspiration from a dysfunctional mellotron that was on loan to them at the time (used extensively on their recordings) and placed the emphasis more on epically sweeping acid pop grandiosity that the Queen-meets-XTC-en route to The Rocky Horror Picture Show prog punk freneticism of The Cardiacs proper. Just goosebump-inducing work here (dig that signature squashed acid vocal effect!), though those of you who are looking for more than just this very brief EP will either have to fork out for the remaining stock of their godhead "Pony" CD that Aquarius still has in stock or wait 'til their copies run out before I up that one. Messr. Smith may have been laid low these last few years after his tragic heart attack/stroke, but his musical vision remains amongst the most profound of the last several decades. Here's more evidence to support that thesis...

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***NOTE: THERE'S A MIRRORED MEDIAFIRE LINK IN THE COMMENT FIELD*** 

A SPLENDID MESS-LIVE AT M-SQUARED 27/08/1981-UNRELEASED RECORDINGS, AUSTRALIA

To celebrate the release of the Terrace Industry CD boxset covering Australia's greatest ever underground label M-Squared, here's some otherwise unavailable related goodness retrieved from the archives of Voigt/465's Phil Turnbull. A Splendid Mess merited only one track on Terrace Industry, so for all of you intrigued by the glimpse, here's something more substantial to sink your cilia into, with these live recordings clocking in at around a half hour. The work heard here doesn't particularly remind me much of what was contemporaneously going on during that era of Aussie weirdity, instead tracing a similar sorta loose limbed but hard edged parabolic arc from post Krautrock groove to post punk angularity that bands like Bit's and Sticken-In were advocating for during the early 80's in Germany, though A Splendid Mess' structures are less elaborate and more incessant.

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ICH UND DIE WIRKLICHKEIT-SPRACHE ZUM ANFASSEN, TAPE, 198?, GERMANY

A big 'ol heap of headscratch is the order of the day here, with this addled band of Geniale Dilettanten nonplussers creating a fractured melee cut with huge blocks of rambling lip flap. Perhaps it came with notes to explain the events that I'm lacking or maybe it was part of some multi-media event? Or maybe these marginal fringe Neue Deutsche Welle pranksters just have it in mind to fuck with you for the sake of it? Whatever the hell it is, it's a relic worth a least a small ponder for its resolute outsider-ness if nothing else, as bouts of slobbering Flipper-like stumble cede into extended passages of dictaphone chatter and abuse of rubber duckies, only to cut away to acres of uneventful prattle. Side two begins with three minutes of fetching low key organ preset rinky dink ala Australia's Essendon Airport before determining that 15 minutes of blather would be the better way to fill this chunk of the tape. Ahh...but wait, the doink beat doth return and eventually leads, via more inane chatter, to a final round of shambolic post punk clamor. Confused? Check. Amused? Well...at least sorta...

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LANDFUNK-ODER WAS? EP, TAPE, 1981, GERMANY

Another entirely obscure Neue Deutsche Welle combo, this one engagingly battering at the membrane between itchy mutant funk and garrulous post punk bluster with a certain degree of trashy panache.

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SHRI SWIFTY & THE MANDALI OF MANTRA-THE CANALS OF THE ATLANTEAN PLAIN, CD, 1999, USA

This cabal of kosmiche voyagers was featured once before on MS (under the name Big Swifty) via their Experimental Art Film single, but this feature length outing goes quite some ways further toward establishing their significance within the parameters of late model lysergic gush, the extended length of these pieces affording this crew the legroom they require to properly unfurl their oriental rugs, hookahs and time lag accumulators. Their suspended approach to time is marked by sprawling string drones accompanied by tidal flows of analog gloop, all meticulously interwoven in a way that suggests a mid-ground between Taj Mahal Travellers, Richard Skelton projects like A Broken Consort/Caroussel/Harlassen and, indeed, the sorta heavy lidded cosmic blear that my own band Vas Deferens Organization were tapping circa our Zyzzybaloubah album.

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C. NEWMAN-TRACKWAYS MADE BY TWO DINOSAURS, PROBABLY MEGALOSAURUS, LP, 1983, UK

Fabulously untutored/unfettered in its approach to song form, this first salvo from quintessential British nutter Chris Newman is a stone cold classic of cockeyed art damage, establishing the blueprint for the Ivor Cutler meets Wildman Fischer stance he'd continue to "refine" on his follow up LP alongside his band Janet Smith that I shared a little while back. A giant thank you to blog friend Ansgar for supplying this wonder, as my copy of it is completely trashed!

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GRABSCHANDER-DAS ERSTE MAL, TAPE SINGLE, 1981, GERMANY

Like the Frustrierte Konsumenten tape that I posted back in November of last year, this bent little cassingle represents yet another long lost iteration of the Geniale Dilettanten trajectory within Neue Deutsche Welle tape culture, the mental cases in Grabschander seeming more than content to worry away at patterning their lobotomized chants and dejected grunts over dictaphone distortion and threadbare seams of dilapidated Casio plonk which are strung across the two "songs" here like garlands of tinsel encrusted dental floss.

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SINTESIS-S/T, LP, 1976, ARGENTINA

These obscure Argentinians (not to be confused with the Cuban proggers of the same name) erect a chassis of smokin' low down acid rock smolder in the mode of their countrymen in Montes, Relax or Arco Iris, upon which they graft flute/violin sympho elaborations that carry a strong whiff of Italian prog and rough spurts of horn-y jazz rock energy akin to something like Burnin' Red Ivanhoe. Quite nice.

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ORANGE HEAD-RIGHT INTO THE SUN, CDR, 1999, JAPAN

I posted a raft of Cha-Bashira label lunacy back in '08, but somehow overlooked upping this nugget of plunderphonic fuckery by label head and avant garde musical polymath Pol Mahlow (he of Cooking Errchestra infamy) at the time. This does however seem like a pretty apt counterpoint to today's post of Satan Alfa Beel Atem's dada spew, with Mahlow here summoning his inner Milan Kniszac as he stacks up layers of mulched audio debris sourced from overlapping slabs of broken, warped or otherwise wounded vinyl, though the thoroughly kitsch nature of the vinyl sources and the quasi-narrative form of their skipping vinyl arrangements render the results closer to LAFMS territory than anything else.

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SATAN ALFA BEEL ATEM-DELICIOR RIBBON PINK BEEL (MUSIC OF DEATH), CD, 1997, JAPAN

A patently obscure bulldada beacon from Japan's 90's freak fringe in the spirit of ultima-idiocy like UFO or Die, Violent Onsen Geisha and Xper.Xr. Is that a Bananafish in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

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SORRY...NEW POSTS SOON...

My apologies for the delay in getting new posts up. I got laid out with a particularly nasty case of the flu. I'll hopefully have my next round up within 2-3 days.

MIXER-ANDROS, LP, 197(?), ITALY

Enjoyable and deeply obscure library synth action from Italy. Lots of wacky little thematic chestnuts amiably plonking along in the mode of Eddie Warner's library albums alongside Eric Swan and Georges Teperino here. One for your next space age bachelor pad soiree.

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JOHN L. & ADAMAH-LONESOME IN OVERDRIVE, CD, 1996, GERMANY

For all you krautrock acolytes out there who wondered what the hell ever became of that histrionic furry freak that spewed a geyser of feral vocal mania across Ash Ra Tempel's "Flowers Must Die" (and whom Julian Cope would memorably wax rhapsodic about in Krautrocksampler), wonder no further. The 24 years between Schwingungen and this CD have definitely seen the hysteria abate for this hirsute head, though fortunately not Mr. L.'s engagement with tapping the mysteries of the cosmos, with the entho/psych/trance seam that he's working here tapping a mode of communication reminiscent of modern Polish units Atman and their eventual successor The Magic Carpathians, but with the occasional graft-ons of his still very untutored sounding spieling.

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SURPLUS STOCK-DANCE ERSATZ, 12" EP, 1983, UK

Following Jim's post way back in 2007 of the highly spectacular post punk missive "Holland In Not", here's another choice selection by these British post punk art pop merchants who've often been mistaken for a NDW outfit, due to their residing in Germany at the time. You won't find much on Dance Ersatz that'd be mistaken for NDW though, with the mixture of sly whimsy, scrappy rhythm box-driven post punk guitar scrabble and unexpected studio punch and polish (think: The Passage) here rendering this material much more akin to the in-house aesthetic of something like Cherry Red Records.

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EERO KOIVISTOINEN-THE ORIGINAL SIN, LP, 1971, FINLAND

Lump-in-throat jazz rock loveliness from this very under-recognized Finnish saxophonist, with an atmosphere as inviting as a warm bath. The rich and relaxed Canterbury-derived moves heard here exist in a direct lineage from Soft Machine's Third and early Nucleus and merits comparison with some of the other Euro units of the era that were carrying a flame forward for this sound, like France's Magma-associated Rhesus O and the related Belgian outfits Placebo and Solis Lacus.

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DAVID FULTON-MARCOS & HARRY, LP, 1988, USA

The final installment of my posts of the three related album issued by this Downtown NY avant operative and sometime Elliott Sharp associate on Dossier Records, Marcos & Harry continues the experimental processes of its predecessors in spectacular form, with tendrils of effected guitar chatter swarming around cockeyed electronic progressions over two sidelong slabs.

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Brunst - Rrröster,tape,1985,Sweden

Classic analog blippin'n'bloppinby Njurmännen member Magnum Axelsson.Excellent minimal synth with experimental edges.

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The Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast-Zoom < Zero,LP,1983, Australia

2nd LP of this great exerimental/electronic Australian outfit.More experimental than their dreamy first release (The Vessels) but yet wonderful,combining perfectly ambient tunes with experimental weirdness.

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Yann Tomita & The Doopees-Doopee Time!,CD,1995,Japan

Awesome experimental/dada electronic concept by the experimentalist Yann Tomita backed by the mysterious Doopies.As requested.

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Monster Island - From the Michigan Floor,LP,1997,USA

Following my post ages ago of their LP Dream Tiger, here's their 1st. one.Folk psychedelic tunes with eastern influences...dreamy!

"Cary Loren, founding member of seminal '70s anti-rock outfit Destroy All Monsters (which, at one point, included former Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton and former MC5 bassist Michael Davis), emerges on this 1998 release showing his psychedelic roots. From the Michigan Floor is a period piece, and the period, stylistically, is somewhere between 1967 and 1970. Full-fledged psychedelic revivalism going on here, bathed in sitars, bells, vague religious musings, and even a reference to the Kent State shootings. Beginning with "Lady of Shalot" (adapted from a Tennyson poem), Loren's acoustic guitar and gruff vocal delivery (which sounds almost identical to Giant Sand's Howe Gelb) weave through 11 songs about death, Jesus, war, magic mirrors, and Japanese movie monsters with such conviction that it doesn't take much suspension of disbelief to imagine this album is some lost psych-rock gem. The warm production of Warren Defever (from His Name is Alive) helps matters, as does the sitar playing of Outrageous Cherry member Matt Smith, who appears almost throughout the album. Erika Hoffman of Godzuki is also featured prominently, singing and playing violin and bells. Highlights include the ironic "Happy Girl," sung by Hoffman in a Nico-esque deadpan accompanied by head-bobbing handclaps and shakers, and the following track, "Blue Revolution (Yves Klein)," which somehow makes lyrics like "the void shot out a flame from the heart of the earth" make sense. Overall, the album is pretty mellow and subtle; no fuzz guitar freakouts really. Rather, Loren chooses to explore the folkier side of psych with From the Michigan Floor. Similar in tone to albums by other latter-day psych revivalists like Bardo Pond, In Gowan Ring, and Bent Leg Fatima.

Jason Nickey, All Music Guide"
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Vyto Beleska & First Chips-Volume 1,LP,1972,USA

First Chips is actually Vyto Beleska backed by various musicians which were probably the different bands he was in or other musician friends....one track is from December '64 on which Vyto plays all the instruments & sound effects and all the other tracks date from December '70 to September '72.Pretty strange sound between psych,blues with much experimentation.

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Ullulators - Share A Clam with the..., tape,1985,UK

Great first tape of this Ozric spin off .Ethno space folk rock all through. No need to say more!

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Deja Voodoo-Too Cool to Live, Too Smart to Die,MLP,1985,Canada

Something unusual for this blog this one. Deja Voodoo was a Canadian duo(guitar,drums,vocals),combining 50s b-movie horror imagery with rockabilly primitivism.The result is an ultra primitive rockabily,reminding amaturish Cramps sound meeting Captain Beefheart (Trout Mask Replica era)primitive sound and undergound doo wop singers of the 50s.In my opinion very original and unique.

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This was jst a starter....more posts within weekend

Bill Bruce-Changing,Mini LP,USA, 1982

Fantastic minimal synth by one called Bill Bruce, released through Interior records(possibly private label) in 1982. I have first introduced this artist in the "tribute to some bizzare vol.10 " compilation (that i have compiled myself actually),with the song "chanching" and here's the full mini LP. Seems (sadly) that this was his only output.Bought it in late 90s in a used records store for almost nothing (i think was less than 1 Euro!) but seems to be mch sought after lately fetching up prices higher than 200 USD.

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