V/A-DESPERATELY SEEKING SUICIDE, LP, 1987, VARIOUS

A top notch left field compendium covering a wide swath of experimental sonic praxis from the era, from the passel of minimal synth poppers that emerged during this period via the post-industrial music network ala X-Ray Pop, Algebra Suicide and No Unauthorized to baleful post-industrialism from Maria Zerfall, Null and Maybe Mental and peachy keen bursts of inscrutable otherness from the likes of H.N.A.S. and Jean Luc Charlier Et Son Orchestre, with a particularly choice bit coming from the collaboration of Controlled Bleeding with Art Barbeque, which sounds like Caroliner caught in the gears of Esplendor Geometrico's heavy machinery, though thanks but no thanks to the otherwise fab John Oswald for his slowed down tape of pig slaughter...

Track listing:

A1 Algebra Suicide - Little Dead Body Poem
A2 Controlled Bleeding & Art Barbeque - Untitled
A3 Human Flesh & Viscera - ... In Your Life Full Of Screams
A4 Staubsauger (2) - Frühstück, Fernsehen, Schlafen
A5 John Oswald - 1/2 Speed Of Pig Slaughter: 'I Don't Want To Die!'
A6 Maria Zerfall - Der Schnitter
A7 Psycodrama - Into The Groove, Then Into The Grave
A8 No Unauthorized - Suicidez-Moi Pas!
A9 Maybe Mental - Witness
A10 France Douce & Abortions, The - Abort Yourself
A11 Ich, Er Und Die Andern Zwei - Mutti Macht Schluß
A12 H.N.A.S. - Ich Bin Ja...
B1 Ampzilla's Delight - Desperately Seeking Suicide
B2 Borbetomagus - Chatanooga
B3 Swallowed Cry, The - Paralysis
B4 Null - Killing God
B5 Algebra Suicide - Please Respect Our Decadence
B6 Hybryds - The Willing Victim
B7 X-Ray Pop - Oh Quel Supplice
B8 Mullah - Nothing
B9 Jean-Claude Charlier Et Son Orchestre - Is Suicide Worth Living?
B10 Philip Perkins - Closing The Big Deal
B11 Luc Fierens - Tape Of My Suicide (+- 3 Min.)
B12 Die Form - Suicide Party

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JUNE WALLACK-S/T, LP, 1975, CANADA

A variable but often fabulous funky/jazzy/singer-songwriter-y confection from this little known chanteuse. The best bits here (of which there are several) prod my female fronted proggy jazz funk g-spot in a way that only the finest Canuck artists of the period (think: Contraction, Toubabou,Yves Laferriere and Franck Dervieux) have ever managed.

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DAVID FULTON-DON'T ASK, LP, 1987, USA

The second installment of this Downtown NY guitarist/electronic musician/Elliott Sharp associate's trifecta of related releases on Dossier, though this one and the final installment that'll follow with my next posts are absent both Sharp and the coterie of improvisors associated with him that were present on the first part, Like Chignik. No idea what the backstory is on his fellow travellers here but the inspired racket that's being kicked up needs no preconditions. Expect scabrous guitar patterns to chatter and churn in asymmetrical strange loops inside a spin cycle of sampler-deployed electronic malarky and miasmic swarms of glutinous sonic mucilage.

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HARLASSEN-A WAY NOW, CDR, 2006, UK

Following my posts of Richard Skelton's hauntingly lovely string based drone works under the guises of Caroussel and A Broken Consort, here's another piece of his bewitching puzzle, the Harlassen moniker being deployed for the work of his that both rubs up against the edge of structure and conventional "prettiness" perhaps a tad more than work under his other aliases and which seems to accumulate a greater density of his lovingly arranged pluck/stroke motion.

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VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA-LINO HI, CD, 1999, UK

One of the earlier and harder to locate titles by this preeminent drone syndicate and cosmic improv mafia. Shivery susurrations from the cosmic ether channeled by ethnic instrument-armed freaks that fulfills the promise made by The Theater Of Eternal Music and Limbus 4 and runs circles around a lot of the second generation freak folk/communal inprov whatsis that they helped usher in by their example.

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SORRY...NEW POSTS BY TOMORROW.

I've been feverishly beavering away on three different musical projects with my band Vas Deferens Organization, including one under tight deadline, so it's cut into Mutant Sounds' time a bit this week. I think you'll find tomorrow's assortment to have been worth the wait, though...

DALE JENKINS LINKS NOW CORRECTED

Sorry for the botch in the original post and thanks to those that drew my attention to my snafu.
As megaupload was refusing to cooperate with my today, I resorted in this one instance to using one of the other crappy hosts (in this case sharebee) for the second, non-rapidshare link.

A COUPLE OF FAB RECENT DISCOVERIES

I felt I should pass on pointers to both of these, since they've been occupying my time of late and would surely tingle the tangles of more than a few of our followers.

The first is an interview conducted by celebrated engineer/producer Udi Koomran (Present, Dave Kerman/5uu's, Aahvak etc.) with the even more legendary and elusive Etienne Conod, the producer and engineer responsible for recording some of the most extraordinary and revered R.I.O. albums of all time, including those by The Art Bears, Univers Zero, Art Zoyd, Aksak Maboul and many others. For anyone that geeks out on this sorta info, this discussion is pretty fascinating. Go Here for that.

Also fascinating and worth following are a series of podcasts by Eurock, the formidable former journal of all things left field and progressive in the 70's and early 80's. Especially of note are the ones featuring Conrad Schnitzler and Cluster. Go Here for that.

V/A-ALPHABETICAL UPLOADS OF WHACKED OUT SINGLES PT. 16

LACRYMOSA (CHIHIRO S.)-S/T EP, 1985, JAPAN
Way back in May of '07, Jim posted another of Lacrymosa leader Chihiro S.'s projects in the form of Golden Avant Garde. Lacrymosa was however Chihiro S.'s primary concern and their gorgeously wrought take on the chamber rock canon evidenced on this single is a real corker, all finespun detail and tactile muscularity and with a tone and attack that most closely recalls Univers Zero leader Daniel Denis' first two solo outings.


LAST FOUR (4) DIGITS-BIG PICTURE, EP, 1980, USA
Really fab shambolic synthy post punk blurt from this Indiana crew with an approach that sounds informed by the early era of their Indiana contemporaries in MX-80 Sound.

THOMAS LEER-PRIVATE PLANE/INTERNATIONAL, 1978, UK
A truly legendary piece of the minimal synth puzzle, this privately issued initial salvo from synth pop pioneer Thomas Leer precedes his collabs with Robert Rental and more well known recordings for Industrial and Cherry Red. Both of these cuts are real low key charmers, displaying much of the savvy he'd carry forward on his later classics but in a more rough and direct D.I.Y. fashion.

LEGS AKIMBO!-S/T, 1980, UK
Engagingly ramshackle and sunshine-y, the work of this British character evokes a sort of threadbare spin on the sound of Kevin Ayers when he's in a calypso mood and the slippery charms of countrymates Woo at their most song structured, though its wiles are slighter and its reach less ambitious than either of those.

THE LEO BUGARILOVES-ABSOLUUTTINEN MIES/LOTINAPELTO REVISITED, 1992, FINLAND
Confounding and fabulous Finnish outsider moves from this curiously monikered ensemble, with Felix Kubin cum Aaviko-like kitsch keyboard kookiness providing the template upon which much Scandinavian grunt and gibber transpires.

THE LEO BUGARILOVES-ABSINTINJUOJA/ELAMALTA KIITOS, 1993, FINLAND
Very much the same story as the above.



HECTOR LEUCK/JAC BERROCAL/KRISTA-LILI TRACES/PLAISIR LOQUES, 1985, FRANCE
A collaborative set of cover versions undertaken by legendary French experimental musician/trumpeter/gadfly Jac Berrocal and Belgian author Hector Leuck, with vocals courtesy of one Krista and both sides ironically reducing said songs to comically dejected sounding limps and lurches.

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JOWE HEAD-PINCER MOVEMENT, LP, 1981, UK

This flat out staggering debut outing from early Swell Maps member and future Television Personalities bassist Jowe Head is 100% of a piece with the roughshod and riotous joie de vivre of the peak Swell Maps work of the era, possessing the same command of galvanizing post punk trashiness and conceptual/structural sophistication and the will to cheerfully pervert one by the other via unlikely juxtaposition. This album and the Richard Earl-Egg Store Ilk LP that I posted long ago really go some ways towards demonstrating that Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks weren't the only genius cartographers of the Swell Maps saga.

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DAVID FULTON-LIKE CHIGNIK, LP, 1986, USA

Bloody amazing and completely forgotten, this Downtown NY guitarist/electronic artist issued a string of three related gems on the German Dossier imprint (the next two forthcoming shortly) during a compressed block of time in the late 80's, popped up on a few Elliott Sharp discs in the 90's and then seemed to disappear completely. This first part of the series (the follow up to Fulton's debut opposite Sharp on the album Hara) featured contributions from the orbit of improvisors and out-rockers associated with Sharp's Carbon ensemble and Zoar imprint, including Sharp himself alongside drummer Robert Previte, keyboardist Wayne Horvitz and bassist David Hofstra, all providing the grist for Fulton's Fairlight mill, the component parts being elastically warped and hibachi chopped into expressive mosaics somewhere between the corrosive clangorousness of Carbon and the whimsically discombobulated warpage of The History Of Unheard Music and The Freshly Wrapped Candies.

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JOJI HIROTA-THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE, LP, 1981, JAPAN

Half whirligig spectacular, half milky unctuousness, this was the second fusion outing under his own steam for hard charging drummer Hirota, whose first recording under the name George Hirota I'll be posting shortly. Here, dizzyingly octopoidal essays in fusionoid intensity surge forth on riptides of synth spray in a mode not far removed from Ponta Murikami only to fall into narcoleptic Hallmark card pastures of becalmed new age drippiness, resulting in a very schizophrenic trip albeit one with some serious high water marks.

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DALE JENKINS-UNDESIRABLE ELEMENTS, LP, 1984, USA

Lost loner bedroom art pop is the order of the day here, though it's a day with variable climatic conditions. Shunting aside a few well meaning but unlovely sentimental and political bits, there are several tracks here worth gnawing on for fans of the style, Messr. Jenkins songsmithing in these instances coming off like an affable hybrid of Crisrail and Batang Frisco.

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SORRY FOR THE DELAY...NEW POSTS UP BY SUNDAY NIGHT...

Life got in the way big time this week, but I assure you...tomorrow's posts (including installment 16 of my Alphabetical Uploads Of Whacked Out Singles series) will be well worth the wait.