Very obscure Dutch composer/singer/guitarist.Released this msterpiece in 1980.Anyone can easily see his deep influnce of Peter Gabriel.This LP was 1st posted(as i found out trying to find infos in the inernet) by Prog Not Frog blog.You can find infos there...and dead links...so..
Totally obscure German psych folk LP on private Brutkasten label.Reminding me of Hölderlin,EmTiDI,Brosel Machine,with many traditional instruments,much use of violin and alternate male/female vocals and a strong medieval feeling. Wondering if their 2nd LP "Kommt tu dein..." is as good as this one....A chance for Steve and Allan (you know who) to hear this one!
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after an e-mail by Ron Kane of the Decayes ,where he was kindly asking me to remove all the Decayes posts from the blog,i had to respect his request,so i removed them.It would be great if Ron can give us a link where someone can possibly find the Decayes releases in reasonable prices,since as far as i know they have not been re-released. Sorry Ron for posting them without permission.
What follows is the sixth installment in my ongoing series of postings of singles from the vdoandsound archives.
C.U.B.S.-S/T EP, 1981, GERMANY
A giddy and insanely fun new wave quirkfest strongly calling to mind Andy Partridge of XTC's soujourns to the land of Residential weirdity circa his "Take Away/The Lure Of Salvage" deconstruction project and XTC's Homo Safari instrumentals. Not what you'd normally expect from a Neue Deutsche Welle outfit and all the better for it.
CURRENT OBSESSIONS-S/T EP, 1982, UK
The scrappy D.I.Y. packaging doesn't really prepare one for the subtle art pop pleasures found in these grooves which take in both archly elegant Slapp Happy-isms and a certain elusive David Cunningham je ne sais quoi ala his work with General Strike.
DAG VAG & SVAGSINTA-DIMMA/NAR VARDEN SLAR TILL, 1978, SWEDEN
Intense, snarly and fascinating Swedish post punk electronic rock with distinct overtones of NWW-listers Ilitch circa "Ten Suicides".
DELIR NOIR/LYSSA HUMANA-KRATZ COLLAGEN, FLEXIDISC, EARLY 90'S, GERMANY
Completely unknown micro-press German split flexi, with Delir Noir commingling sax splatter with electronic mulch in a sorta Van Bebber/Hubweber style on the A side and Lyssa Humana offering up scramblified dada sound collage on the flip.
DELTA-DIAGRAMS OF WOMEN/MR. E. CHAOS, 1980, USA
Top notch minimal synth mega-rarity reminding me of The Corridor Des Affairs on "Diagrams Of Women" while the flip finds them in the land of Ralph Records madcap smurfiness. 
DEMENTIA PRECOX-MINES/DEAD ON 2 LEGS LUNCHEONETTE, 1981, USA
A sickly brilliant (and sadly brief) single from this synth punk into minimal synth unit. The savage, vocally warped "Mines' will haunt your dreams. Their 2 rare LP's are soon to follow...
PHILIPPE DE MOUCTOURIS-47s DE ROUGE DANS UNE BIBLE NOIRE/SONG FOR GURDJIEFF/LES SALONS D'ITHAQUE, 1982, FRANCE
Warped R.I.O.-ish French art damage somewhere between the Residential Germain Hubert Ales EP I hoisted in a previous "Alphabetical Uploads..." post and Hans Reichel.
DERRIBOS ARIAS-APRENDA ALEMAN EN 7 DIAS/LILI MARLEEN, 1983, SPAIN
Rare Spanish Casio rhythm-fill minimal synthiness with a certain dumb charm on "Aprenda..." while Lili Marleen comes off a bit like a daft quarter speed take on something from Eno's Here Come The Warm Jets.
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One of the most legendary of French underground rock bands, Komintern were part of that post-May of '68 armada of arch
iconoclasts that first established French rock of the era as an unsurpassed force for radicalism, a lineage that would include the likes of Red Noise, Fille Qui Mousse, Martin Circus, Magma, and Moving Gelatine Plates amongst others. Komintern's particular breed of sonic malarky comes couched in a frothy effervescence and jolliness that can initially mask just how extraordinary their achievement is, at one time or another musically touching on everything from early Gong-like whimsy to chanson and from Moving Gelatine Plates-style post-Canterbury motion to Red Noise-like Dadaist piss-takery. A work of timeless genius.
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Sounding virtually nothing like the work found on their mega-rare debut single (posted by Jim a while back), this 12" from two years on finds Kosmonautentraum plying an exemplary and prototypical breed of Neue Deutche Welle, their itchy and anxious mutant funk-inflected post punk gambits frequently tweaked out with treated vocals and trumpet splatter. Their self titled debut LP will follow shortly...
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Exactly what the band name suggests and part of a host of similarly themed Gameboy projects that came on the scene around the same time (the Nanoloop compilation CD, Matt Wand's Public.exe 10" and the Klangstabil "Gioco Bambino" CD I posted a while back to name a few), this troupe feed numerous Nintendo gameboys through a nanoloop editor then tweak the results through delays and reverbs, though to their credit, the migraine-in-an-arcade aggression and mulchy grittiness of their approach causes this to successfully stand apart in tone from the other cited projects. Issued in a blink-and-you-missed-it edition of 55 copies on the Mik Musik imprint (home to the Molr Drammaz and Pathman CDR's I've posted previously), this is a real winner for those inclined to enjoy 8-bit fuckery of this sort.
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Idiosyncratic and uneven but sometimes brilliant R.I.O.-ish machinations from an all-over-the-map Finnish crew. I hear bits of Swedish R.I.O. ala J. Lachen, hermetic wackiness akin to their countrymen in Keuhkot, burning bits of Crimson-oid fury, jagged 90's Happy Family-like J-prog and the occasional misguided Mr. Bungle-isms here and there. Unique and perplexing.
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Here's one of the very first releases of the great Swedish label Cold Meat Industry(actualy the 2nd one).Released in 1988,in limited edition of 731 copies, of which 31 copies were hand-numbered. Packaged in a gate-fold sleeve.In the electronic /dark industrial vein that characterised CMI's sound all the next years.This one is creating scary hounted atmosphere for nightmarish rituals .Superb release!
Multiregional compilation from Germany and Austria.Released in 1982 through Schwabenstolz Tapes.Combining NDW ,minimal synth,with the likes of Andi Arroganti,Familie Hesselbach,Duotronic Synterror ,Die Frauen Von Avignon and others this is considered one of the best underground tape compilations came from Germany during this period.
Sorry for the screw up with the initial link for this. It's now been replaced with a fresh link containing all the tracks.
Continuing my series of Steaming Coils posts, this second dispatch from Brad Laner and Dave Chrisman's anarchic art damage crew modifies the riotous aberancy explored on their debut (posted here a few days back), pulling back the dense thicket of mutated post-Beefheart/Residents motion to reveal the wobbly pop underpinnings that only fitfully reveled themselves inside the bedlam of aural psychosis on "Never Creak". This partial recasting of their muse coincided with a reformulation of their lineup. Now pared back to a core of Laner and Chrisman, with L.A. Free Music Society patriarchs Rick Potts & Joseph Hammer (and nutter Spencer Savage) being supplanted by guest contributions from C.O.M.A. (California Outside Music Association) stalwarts James Grigsby and Lynn Johnson of The Motor Totemist Guild, this change of tack allows for the some heartbreakingly beautiful art pop nuggets to surface amidst the melee. Tracks like Intents And Purposes, 4/10 and Proposed Pink City exhibit a degree of delirious pop psych mastery that's simply breathtaking, their themes burned into my brain for eternity. These (and other) dollops of songform wonderment exist in tense balance with garrulous bursts of semi-improvised irregularity from the Motor Totemists in a way often quite distinct from the fracas generated on the their debut. A different window into a world of wonder and one that would set the stage for the poignant addled art pop perfection of their third and final release "Breaded", which will follow shortly.
THANKS TO BRAD FOR PROVIDING THE MISSING INSERT IMAGES...I NEVER EVEN KNEW AN INSERT FOR THIS EXISTED!
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One of the more fabled library music albums, this compendium boasts a host of legendary French underground talent, most notably some 22 minutes of deeply blasted Philippe Besombes' material. Those that have encountered his less than stunning library album release of the previous year (La Guerre Des Animaux) will be in for a very pleasant surprise, as his contributions here hark back to his most potent electronic prog efforts circa the mid to late 70's (say "Libra" to "Ceci Est Cela"). Lard Free/Catalogue/Urban Sax mastermind Gilbert Artman turns in four short pieces here as well (totaling a little under 8 minutes) of lovely material squarely in the mode of Urban Sax. This 30 odd minute chunk of cosmic wonderment more than makes up for the disappointing contributions of Magma/Weidorje bassist Bernard Paganotti and Heldon drummer Francois Auger, who both pop in with a sub-par nugget of dumbo hard rock a piece as well as those of unknown quantity Philippe Laboudigue, the less said about which the better.
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This was a band whose name was tucked in the "must find" section of my collector brain for nearly 15 years before I managed to finally track down a copy of this exceedingly obscure release, as a review in an old issue of Option magazine once claimed that they sounded like "the Art Bears in a closet", a thumbnail description that seemed custom made to instill fascination in my fevered brain. Unexpectedly, their description squares not one whit with actual contents at hand. No...there's nothing remotely R.I.O. about the hermetic D.I. Y. 4-track post punk maneuvers at play here, though this is a decidedly odd kettle 'o fish nevertheless. As it happens, Strange Fruit Abiku turns out to be the first vinyl documentation of both Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and Tim Foljahn of Two Dollar Guitar, certainly enticement enough for a certain sector of music fans out there, though there's nothing here suggestive of what would follow in either of their careers. Rather, Strange Fruit Abiku's conflation of the whacked and the dubious yokes frequently gripping de-tuned shambolic instrumental lurch and wobble of a decidedly claustrophobic cast (often cross cut with tape speed fuckery and shattered by primitive effects) to largely insipid girly vocalese in a way that practically defines the phrase chalk and cheese. As frustrating as it is revelatory, I'll leave it to you to be the judge...
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Purchased many years back on the basis of an Igor Wakhevitch name-check in it's description (for those not in the know, one of the most devastating experimental musicians of the last century), this dazzling and regretfully obscure French electroacoustic project does indeed (at least in parts) touch upon a surreal electronic malevolence that could easily be confused with that of Wakhevitch, which is no small feat, as precious few others have ever graced this very specific and unsettling territory. At other points, Luc Ferrari Presque Rien-style location recordings co-mingle with bursts of percussion and Renaissance instruments like Cor Anglais and Hautbois in a way strongly reminiscent of Univers Zero circa "The Hard Quest". A work of remarkable depth and psychotropic potency.
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Italian project of the musician called Raffaele Cerroni,(aka Mushroom's patience,Novy Svet,Ain Soph,etc).No more infos aboyt it.Released as part of the 4LP box Noi e il mondo,featuring also:DBPIT, Novy Svet, Circus Joy.Limited to 100 copies and already sold out.Released through The Nekofutschata Musick Cabaret label.Also there's an album in the same label (Tetra) in 99 copies.All recordings are from 1983-4.A true hidden masterpiece.
This is the very first release of the Italian label Old Europa Cafe ,featuring industrial/noise/experimental acts from all over Europe.Released in red vinyl in limited edition of 500 copies.
Following Eric's post a few months ago ,here comes a Lol Coxhill LP gfrom 1975 which was result of his involvment in experimental theater groups, namely the Welfare State, for which he served as musical director. As always great easily changing moods from swinging jazzy tones to avangardish improvisations and then to military marches and back again.
