Thursday, January 8, 2009

Mick Milk- Songs for citizens ,demo tape,1982-3,UK

Wonderful minimal synth discovery from 1983, unreleased as far as i know. Would appeal to all minimal wave fans!Quircky synth sounds all over!No pic sleeve.
get it here

11 comments:

  1. I have heard this before offa soulseek. And yes, I agree completely, and awesome record. From what I heard this was recorded on the label Mann Parrish. Supposedly this dude had a '12 inch out too. Sometjhing or other' nuclear....'. I would love to hear this too. I love this album. I have had it for about a year now. I would recommend this to anyone digging this kinda material. Reminds me of a giddy mix of Snowy Red and Wall of Voodoo. It's very good to see this here:)

    TymexPyres

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  2. At least, that is what I was told from a source I inquired of about him. Sometimes we are misled:) So, don't fully quote me...

    TP

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  3. this is a fantastic discovery, Jim.
    thanks again.
    Gianni

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  4. Have to thank you for this one. What a sound!

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  5. thanks for bringing this to my attention (!), its amazing this fell thru the cracks






    BTW
    Mutant Sounds:
    fantasic album, thanks, and thanks for your blog, its on my hotlist for firefox, i visit you everyday, but I dont like to tell too many people, the music on here is too good to share with just anyone .... (hehe)

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  6. This is wonderful. Snowy Red plus Wall Of Voodoo is a good comparison, though the singing reminds me more of early Men Without Hats. Fantastic sounds and tunes all over! Even the instrumental tracks are great. Thank you for this treasure!

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  7. Did anyone notice that one of the istrumental tracks on here is the theme to the cartoon "Peanuts". I wonder if Charles Schultz would have liked the new wave electro version. Oh yeah, I agree. The singing does sound alot like early Men Without Hats.

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  8. I saw him play live in Soho (NYC) at Greene Street, must have been the winter of 1981-82.
    He played alone with a keyboard, everything else prerecorded on a big boombox.
    Fun show.
    A bunch of us went that night because Lara knew him from back home, Buffalo NY I think. I presumed that Mick Milk was from there too.
    I remember that night was the first snowfall of the year.
    Later I bought the vinyl from a record shop in Greenwich Village. (It wasn't huge, but it was released and in stock.)

    Thanks. I've wanted to find an mp3 copy of this for a long time.

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  9. A friend of mine made me aware today that this fellow has a web site with pictures, and downloads of this, and unreleased material. Not sure when he made it though, as I had searched some time back, and came up with nothing.

    http://www.mickmilk.com/

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  10. here is a link to Man Parrish's work

    http://www.manparrish.com/discography/

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  11. I've been mining a lot of these old MS posts and it took me this long to finally get around to hearing this one! Ugh..it's just..incredibly great. Thanks! haha

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