HERE'S WISHING A HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL. WE ADORE ALL OF YOU AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND AND CONTINUAL SUPPORT. 2010 IS SET TO BE A BANNER YEAR FOR MUTANT SOUNDS. EXPECT ALL MANNER OF INTERESTING NEW TWISTS IN THE WEEKS AND MONTHS TO COME.
THANKS TO ONE AND ALL...
ERIC
(VDOANDSOUND)
Thursday, December 31, 2009
DER SCHWARZE KANAL-LIVE, TAPE, 1983, GERMANY
Newly expunged from the deepest bowels of Geniale Dilettanten Neue Duetsche Welle tape culture, this dystopian crew generate drifts of morose atmospherics cut by arc-welded metal squeals and corroded clatter, exploiting the innards of collapsed new buildings for maximal sonic decrepitude.Get it via Megaupload Here
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KICKBIT INFORMATION-BITKICKS, CD, 1998 (RECORDED: 1975), GERMANY
Pure krautrock gravy from the loins of some of its finest architects, the hairy jazz rock blowout herein being choice enough to even overlook the gristly and distorted warts-and-all recording quality of these never-intended-for-release rehearsal room recordings. Led by Ex-Guru Guru and future Spacebox bassist Uli Trepte, this briefly assembled outfit (which also featured Frumpy's Carsten Bohn and Thirsty Moon's Willi Pape) churn out three slabs of classic kraut fusion here in the rawboned and hectic style that Trepte would soon carry forward with Spacebox.Get it via Megaupload Here
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ELECTRIC SUN FEATURING JOHN KING-S/T, CD, 1993, JAPAN/USA
Featuring God Mountain label head and idiosyncratic ivory tickler Hoppy Kamiyama (Optical*8/Daimonji/Saboten etc...), Bass Army/Dragon Blue/Death Ambient bassist Kato Hideki, improv polymath and serial turntable abuser Otomo Yoshide and frequent Toshinori Kondo collaborator Hideo Yamaki and fronted on this occasion by visiting Downtown NY string slinging eccentric John King (known for his collabs with David Moss, which I've posted elsewhere), this was both a brilliant genre defining label statement for Hoppy's imprint (home to seminal discs by Koenjihyakkei, Bondage Fruit and Tipographica among others) and a wildly sprawling and absurd mess, often simultaneously, with cascades of technicolor wet key splatter pummeling greasy bar band funk into submission as blazing arcs of bombast and dadaist antics cut across the mix quaquaversally.
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V.A.-ER IST TIEF UND DIEN WASSER IST DUNKLER, LP, 1991, VARIOUS
The cooly deliberate and considered aesthetic stance promulgated by Quiet Artworks during their brief existence is finely distilled on this compendium of curious electronic and concrete explorations. Divided between just four parties, there's lots to admire here, from Arcane Device's waves of thrum, squeal, wobble and whistle teased from his self designed feedback systems to PFN's computer tweezed clatter, though it's C-Schulz (aka Carsten Schulz, one time member of Pol, Blockwart and Kontakta) whose track is gonna inspire hearts to beat the fastest here, methinks; his inky black propulsive pound and unsettling claustrophobic mix existing at an intersection between Bruce Gilbert, late model Art Zoyd and Stephan Wittwer's soundtrack for Der Rechte Weg.
Track listing:
1. PFN-Die Wellen In Honen Wellen Davon 1+2
2. Yeast Culture-9328 Biocarrier
3. Arcane Device-Zero Crossing
4. C-Schulz-Schwellen
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
HAPPY NEW YEAR
From Berlin Happy New (Y)ear to all.No posts the last few weeks due to trip to Berlin.Will be back by the end of this week...so new posts will appear the next few days.
Jim Mutantsounds
Jim Mutantsounds
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
V/A-DIX-HUIT SURPRISES POUR NOEL!, LP, 1981, FRANCE
As a Happy Hollandaise gesture from MS HQ, here's an exquisite curio cabinet of French marginalia that'll blow a few welcome raspberries into any holiday gathering you'd care to unleash it in. Issued on a sub-imprint of the notorious French Scopa Invisible label (Incontinents, Lucas Trouble, Tango Luger etc...), this compendium features lotsa intriguing unknown quantities along with a few more name brand experimentalists (relatively speaking), like former ZNR member Hector Zazou and longstanding avant garde collective Un Drame Musicale Instantane, most of it wonderfully fractured stuff in the grand French what-the-fuck? tradition.
Track listing:
Michel Risse-Pour En Finir Avec Jingle Bells
Daniel Cobbi-Bout De Gui
Galeschka Moravioff-Christ (Mas Sacrifice)
Pierre Sauvageot-Petit Tango De Noel
Fred Wallich-Fourmilitude
Joachim Vidal et Philippe Roberty-Espace D'Un Instant
Les Lumieres De Belleville-Les Cloches De Noel De Belleville
Francois Kremer-A Tous Mes Amis Pour Qu'ils Pensent A Moi De Temps En Temps
Un Drame Musicale Instantane-Pas De Cadeau
Olivier Foy-La Dinde De Noel (Mini Conte)
Mader-Menopause De Noel
Trait D'Union-Le Petit Marchand D'Allumes
Jean-Pierre Lentin-Plan General-Les Bergers Montent Vers Bethlehem
Luc Le Masne-Moi Et Mon Casio
Xavier Le Masne-Victor Ou Agathe
Hector Zazou-Le Pere Noel Ne Viendra Pas (Plus?)
Raphael Gimenez et J.J. Hertz-Texte Pour Balthazar...Necessite De
Provence-Cote D'Azur-Corse sous la direction de Pepe Portella-Babillotes
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SUBURBAN LAWNS-BABY, 12" EP, 1983, USA
In which our So-Cal paragons of nutty spasmodic new wave angularity suddenly get proactive with the production values, the Devo-esque polka dotted herky jerk displayed on their eponymous debut (shared elsewhere on MS) accumulating additional layers of Speaking In Tongues-like polyrhythmic densities, spiky Aladdin Sane piano runs and studio tweaked vocal malarky on this follow up EP (their last), before taking an unexpected turn into Siouxsie And The Banshees territory on the final two cuts. Very fine.
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LT. CARAMEL-S/T, TAPE, 198?, FRANCE
Following a raft of previous shares of material by this French experimental electronic musician (including work under the moniker Pierre Bouchet and as a member of Denier Du Culte), here's an obscure tape full of strange pulsations, inane mutterings, electroacoustic swarms and subterranean surrealist menace, all formulated with the deft organizational touch that those familiar with Messr. Blanchard's work have come to expect.
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TERROR VISION-O.S.T. (THE FIBONACCIS/RICHARD BAND), LP, 1986, USA
Given that their Civilization And Its Discotheques LP is apparently due to be reissued shortly, this will be my final Fibs post. Its a corker though, or at least the A side that they're the authors of is, Richard Band's incidental Fairlight wanderings on the flip not meriting much discussion. The soundtrack for a self conscious attempt at a midnight movie that seemed amusing enough to my teenage brain (not sure how it'd fare after all these years, though) The A side sees these terminally tongue in cheek L.A. eccentrics taking on overtones of Oingo Boingo on the title track, dipping a toe back into the instrumental Morricone casio wave of their debut EP and tearing through one of Maggie Song's most riveting performances on the haunted house art pop of He Can't Stop Laughing.Get it via Megaupload Here
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RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK-MORX UND KOTSCHLAG, CD, 1994, SWITZERLAND
Spearheaded by Aktionist acolyte and genial madman Rudolv Eb.Er, these Swiss deviants (documented elsewhere on MS) use the extended CD format here to enact a form of dadaist endurance test, exploring over one unbroken 74 minute track extremes of unhinged art abuse and glottal torture that sound like Yamatsuka Eye attacking a pack of dobermans with a toy accordion and a bicycle horn.Get it via Megaupload Here
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
THE FOURTH VDOANDSOUND VINYL AUCTION
Not as many this time and not all vinyl, but lots of very rare items regardless, including a Volcano The Bear rarity that ebay killed for contravening it's CDR policy, but that is offered for sale outright off the same page where the hyperlinks are to the auctions Here
V/A-DIE VIZEWELTMEISTER, TAPE, 1982, GERMANY
An iconic and cornerstone document of the Neue Deutsche Welle tape scene, with fully three of the knockout bits here (by Roter Stern Belgrad, Ankles and Gorilla Aktiv) having already been revived on other archival releases. that said, it's just as often the lesser knowns that turn in eye opening material, ranging from Sueno Sueno's paradoxical lumbering skank and offhand chic to a synth blasted jazz curio from the Hans Kopf Terzett that sounds like an outtake from Jacques Thollot's Watch Devil Go.
Track listing:
Dunkelziffer-Shadogs
Familie Hesselbach-Nicht Nur Tango
Romy Kindermann-Rororo
S.Y.P.H.-Kein Herz Fur Kinder
Erwin Brautigam Quintett-Dim The Light
Unser Favorit-Eins-Zwei-Dreistein
D-Zeit-D-Langweile
Zimt-Nullseibenelf
Zusatzzahl-Es Ist Nur Umpf (Live)
Sueno Sueno-Ineni Ahra Hauli
Dilemma-Leichentanz
Flirt Of Fiasco-Wake Up (Live)
Roter Stern Belgrad-Killa Killa
Hans Kopf Terzett-Trilogie Zum Widerstand
NDL-Monaco, Monte Carlo, Baden Baden
Jimmy, Jenny & Jonny-Jimmy Leibt Jenny, Doch Jenny Leibt Jonny
Ankles-Notstand
Dullijoh-Australien
Cinema Verite-Suez
Gorilla Aktiv-Kopf Und Bauch
Gemini-Leibling
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JANKO NILOVIC-PERCUSSIONS DANS L'ESPACE, LP, 1970, YUGOSLAVIA
My second album share from this revered Yugoslavian-by-way-of-France library music composer, Percussions Dans L'Espace (issued on the Montparnasse 2000 label) departs a bit from the Vampiros Lesbos style exploitation psych of his Supra Pop Impressions album from the same year, instead sharing a host of stylistic conceits with fellow library music mover on the French circuit Vincent Gemignani, whose Modern Pop Percussion album that I also shared a while back plies the same nifty hat trick heard here: a meshing of high drama avant garde-ish percussion workouts out of the Lasry/Baschet school with swinging cool cat vibraphone jazz and swank soundtrack-y accoutrements, though the balance here tips more in favor of the latter than the former.Get it via Rapidshare here
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ENEMA OCH GEJONTE-INGEN KISSE, TAPE, 1990, SWEDEN
Wacky pants Ralph Records worship from two Swedish marginals. This was their debut (more will soon follow) and their C. Newman meets Ptose caper and jabber uber-idiocy is already in full flower here, complete with a mile wide streak of pee pee caca juvenilia that's bound to make 'em an acquired taste for some.Get it via Megaupload Here
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BEN REYNOLDS-EARTH & SPACE MAGICS, CDR, 2005, UK
Spot-on sidereal sounds and amniotic bliss from this prolific U.K. freak folk artist whose Third Tongue Meditations EP and work in Helvetica Is The Perfume Of The City I've previously shared. Expect yawning vistas of harmonic waft, ghosted voicings and subtle interventions of scrape and clatter. And your third eye to get droopy and bloodshot in response.Get it via Megaupload Here
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THE COLLECTORS-S/T, LP, 1968, CANADA
Gripping and occasionally wrenching Canuck psych moodiness somewhere between Mandrake Memorial and Second Hand's Reality with a bit of Byrds-ian west coast-isms thrown in for good measure. Simultaneously obsessive and dewy eyed and with a real sense of rib sticking pathos about it.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
NULL & VOID-POSSIBILITIES (DISCOVERABLE THOUGHTS), 1983, USA (UNRELEASED)
Like Half Machine Lip Moves On Some Faraway Beach, this final genius stroke from these increasingly warped Californian post punk merchants (following my posts of their Happiness And Contempt and Montage Morte EP's, the latter of which shares a few tracks with this album) ratchets up the stakes significantly; their angle of approach here weaving Chrome-plated and dystopian shaded tangents through a series of emotionally loaded and pop savvy oblique advances that are absolutely breathtaking in their collective impact. This album was shopped around all over back in the day and deemed "too weird" by one and all. Feh! Silly children...they missed the boat on a stone cold classic; one you now have the privilege of discovering thanks to William Shifflette from Null &Void, who has graciusly made this monster available for public consumption.
Note: link removed, as this has now been formally released for the first time via Bunkerpop's new LP pressing of this gem.
V/A-NOISES, LP, 1977, BELGIUM
A brilliant and long forgotten compendium issued on Kamikaze, the same label that released essential albums by both Aqsak Maboul and Les Tueurs De La Lune De Miel, Noises features a curious cross section of Belgian art rock and experimental music notables. Perhaps most significantly, it also features an otherwise unavailable and hauntingly gorgeous 14 minute cascade of delayed organ/sax/vocal bliss from the Riley-esque French minimalist Ariel Kalma that fills out most of side B. Future Telex synth pop mover (and ex jazz rock titan in Placebo) Marc Moulin fills out the remainder of said side with another pool of delays, this one applied to his voice. Elsewhere, short tracks rule the day, with his fellow Telex-er Michel Moers contributing a series of them covering everything from flute and jews harp duets to field recordings, some alongside future Cos vocalist Ilona Chale, who offers up some brief but luscious bits as well.
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GUYER'S CONNECTION-PORTRAIT, LP, 1983, SWITZERLAND
The debut from these revered Swiss minimal synth mongers and a follow up to my post of their eponymous and archivally issued second LP from '85, Portrait works a notably less wacky synth pop seam than the aforementioned but is no less ingratiating for the restraint. Sharp Kraftwerk-ian fun with a nearly archetypal approach to the form.
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*RETRO*SEX*GALAXY*-LE BOOTLEGUE PARISIEN, CDR, 2002, POLAND
A hot spasming plunderphonic digital fuck from the Polish musical hinterlands that sounds like a death match between Dat Politics, John Oswald and Oval and comes to you courtesy of one Wojciech Kucharczyk, proprietor of the esteemed Mik.Musik imprint and the twisted mind behind a host of other left field treasures I've shared over time including Molr Drammaz, Go Outside To See More Animals and Pathman, here operating under his solo alias.
PIERRE LOUVET-KARATE K NO. 1, LP, 1970, FRANCE
Another choice library find from the seemingly infinite annals of French 70's glory, this one issued on the Homere Library imprint. Not 100% solid, this still features a raft of campily groovulating psych-tinged sleazy listening pleasures, becoming more evident the deeper you delve into it, though the opener Kenacontaquine is certainly worth getting hot and bothered about as well; with string synth themes that sound like the blueprin tfor several of Felix Kubin's best bits circa Filmmusik.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
JALOPPY-OWNER'S MANUAL, LP, 1997, USA
An array of funhouse mirror inversions and candy coated manias arranged like a series of exquisite corpses and extruded during one furious and compressed 20 hour episode of weed and caffeine fueled malarky, Owner's Manual continues my shares of material by Vas Deferens Organization and its satellite projects, this one being the second outing by this particular concern, one which was developed as an extension of Matt Castille's production work on two LP's of loner psych weirdity by his one-time roommate J. Bone Cro (the first of which will be posted soon), with Jaloppy being the aptly monikered vehicle for VDO'S jerry rigged absurdist overhauls and de/re-constructions of J. and his bandmate's source material. Heard with twelve years hindsight, the debt to the Texas psych tradition seems palpable in a way that really isn't apparent elsewhere in our work. It also, by dint of its collision of psych pop song structure and surrealist acid mangle perhaps jibes more with the work we've done recently in Shits And Giggles alongside Ariel Pink than most of our other outings, though the approach here is much more rough and schizophrenic.
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STORM BUGS-A SAFE SUBSTITUTE, TAPE, 1980, U.K.
Many thanks to Philip Sanderson, one half of these legendary fringe dwellers and proprietor of the equally renowned Snatch Tapes for providing this crucial lost piece of the Storm Bugs puzzle, a follow up to my post of his Carriage Return project. Dunno whether this tape or their Table Matter single was officially their debut (they're both listed as 1980), but this is everything a fan of left field D.I.Y. song structure perversion (U.K. stylee) could hope for. Much of what's heard on A Safe Substitute (fragments of which would re-appear elsewhere) were generated from that great old British analog beast, the VCS3 synthesizer, a machine used to more tonal ends by the likes of Franco Battiato and Pink Floyd and here providing swaying pendulums of corroded bloop, greyscale warble and hollowed out rhythms triggered from filter fucked arpeggiations, upon which they graft passages of alternately morose and plangent song structure fragmentation.
NOTE: Link removed as this is due for reissue shortly on Harbinger Sound.
THE FIBONACCIS-TUMOR/SLOW BEAUTIFUL SEX/PSYCHO, 12" EP, 1982, USA
These art warped kitsch pop maestreos were one of the great and sadly unsung high water marks of the L.A. underground of the 80's, their marriage of Maggie Song's witheringly arch and sarcastic lyrics and high camp delivery with kitsch to the nth power Casio wave being something for the ages. I really can't imagine screwy new wave art pop being much more enticing than the track Slow Beautiful Sex. This EP was a bit of a grab bag however, Tumor being a somewhat uncharacteristic though fun stab at Downtown NY-like art funk while Psycho is a cover of Bernard Hermann's theme music from same. Their Civilization And Its Discotheques LP and Terrorvision soundtrack will follow over the next few weeks...
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FLIGHT-INCREDIBLE JOURNEY, LP, 1976, USA
The link for this has been down for a while elsewhere, so I couldn't resist reviving this beast. The whiplash inducing dimension of sympho proggery that Flight operate within is distinctly American, with a sound that mates relentless guitar and whizzing synth prog ferocity to Mahavishnu-cum-Moreira fusionoid twists; the conjunction landing 'em somewhere between VIola Crayola and Shadowfax's Watercourse Way, but with added horn chart bombast. This damn thing scarcely ever comes up for air; just cascade after cascade of crashing intensity. Absolutely toe curling and one of the finest prog units this country ever produced.
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HARALD "SACK" ZIEGLER & E*ROCK-MIND AS MASTER, 3" CD, 2000, GERMANY/USA
Ziegler is a long time cassette culture operative, cornerstone mover of the Cologne electronica axis (both as a member of Sack & Blumm and as a sometime contributor to Mouse On Mars) an orchestral French Horn player by trade and one-man universe of playful eccentricity by practice. On this EP, he's collaborating with a like minded quirktronica operative in the form of Audio Dregs label head E*Rock, their work here using martial arts as a conceptual hook on which to string five charmingly goofy miniatures, all bearing a strong streak of that pastel peculiarity that Ziegler had just finished plying the previous year on Sack & Blumm's eponymous debut, which I've shared elsewhere.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
THE THIRD VDOANDSOUND VINYL AUCTION
Just another little notice to let those of you that still collect original vinyl know that my next round of rare albums for auction went up today, including a one-0f-a-kind handmade version of Metabolist's Hansten Klork LP created for Steven Stapleton, a hyperlinked listing of which can be found Here
FRUSTRIERTE KONSUMENTEN-LIVE IM FLOZ 18.10.82, TAPE, 1982, GERMANY
Pots and pans meets knees and elbows in the cracked musical universe of these "geniale dilettanten" fringe dwellers, their militantly untutored tactics full of scrabbly and tenuous gestures, arch whimsy and decrepit pong-blip sequences running on low batteries.