WET TAXIS-TAXIDERMY, TAPE, 1980, AUSTRALIA

Whoah...get back, Jack! Lookie what an anonymous Mutant Sounds fan just decided to gift us all with! Yes, this really is the first Wet Taxis tape, one of the most storied and, 'til now, completely vanished early artifacts of the Aussie post punk/post industrial/post everything cultural uprising of the late 70's/early 80's. Why so storied? Because this 50 copy tape features some of the earliest Severed Heads-related material extant, being the original home for future band member Garry Bradbury, working here alongside brothers Tim and Simon Knuckey (the latter of whom played guest guitar on several Severed Heads cuts) and with a guest turn from Severed Heads founder Tom Ellard. The Taxis started life under the moniker Sydney Quads and apparently issued a hand painted artist record ala Milan Kniszac during their brief existence before altering their moniker to Wet Taxis. These folks would have several notable cuts featured on legendary Terse Tapes comps like Mysterious Kitchens and One Stop Shopping circa this period (both featured elsewhere on MS), though they'd latterly gain much more renown as a garage psych outfit some years down the road under the guidance of one Louis Tillet. Taxidermy though is another story entirely, being comprised of a rudely spliced grab bag of live and studio tracks, sound bites and noise. Australia's underground of this era was host to several virulent strains of post punk/synth punk sturm und drang and Wet Taxis' cantankerous early racket places Taxidermy in parity with crucial work by the likes of Primitive Calculators and The Slugfuckers. When the post punk clatter is to the fore, this also calls to mind some of the more baleful exemplars of UK post punk like Metabolist or or the pre-Whitehouse tactics of Come, while the more electronically oriented passages vary between blearily blooping cassette culture claustrophobia ala the Storm Bugs and others that clearly presage the queasily distressed avant electropop churn of early Severed Heads circa Earbitten and Clean. Crucial stuff!

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EARCANDY-SOUND IS JUST THE WAY YOU EAR IT, LP, 1996, UK

A psychoactive beacon of some real substance from deep within the crusty UK space rock scene of the 90's, though divining that requires some initial suspension of disbelief, as the deliberately ludicrous angle of approach that some of this takes bring up mental images of Cheech and Chong standing in for Timothy Leary during the Cosmic Jokers' sessions for 7-Up, while other bits sound like the after effects of too much time spent with Dr. Who re-runs. Put the jokier aspects aside though and you'll quickly find that Dave Tor and crew were well steeped in the fundamentals of kosmiche time slippages and wormhole tunneling. The scene requisite Hawkwind nods are there, but unexpectedly emerge more from the rustic and folky dimension of Hawkwind's debut and work as a calmative counterpoint to the more liquidly phasing and astrally inclined portions here.

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ETANT DONNES-WONDERLAND 1, CD EP, 2001, FRANCE

Mesmerizing, time-tunneling and thunderingly intense, this late-model work by the nonpariel Hurtado brothers (released in tandem with a book of texts by Etant Donnes, Henri Chopin, Claude Louis-Combet, Yvan Etienne, Stephane Duval, Xavier Baert and Michel Giroud) reconfigures their approach toward an alchemical integration of voice, electronics and location recordings as an ecstatic expression of the lived art experience by instead recasting these impulses inside a Virilio-esque transmogrification by sheer velocity.

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V/A-POINT OF YUCCA VOLUME ONE, CD, 1993, VARIOUS

A fascinating and very obscure compendium of 90's cassette culture vets and assorted sub-underground movers, appearing here courtesy of blog friend Roger. Standouts include characteristic craziness from the Japanese Ralph Records-damaged autodidact Yximalloo, wonderfully delicate and enigmatic electropop experimentation from longstanding NDW institution Die Welttraumforscher and some sui generis oddness from Switzerland's Diledadafish who successfully navigate a path from Pascal Comelade-like whimsy to strobing Seefeel slurry by way of Dissecting Table-like post-industrial pound without breaking a sweat.

Track listing:

1. Hal Rammel-Prefigured Recollections
2. David Westling-Beleg Ulistas
3. David Westling-Into The Labyrinth
4. David Westling-Once More To This Star
5. Die Welttraumforscher-Die Feuermann & Wasserfrau Suite: Werde Erde
6. Die Welttraumforscher-Die Feuermann & Wasserfrau Suite: Als Ich Zur Sprache Kam
7. Die Welttraumforscher-Die Feuermann & Wasserfrau Suite: Feuergarten
8. Die Welttraumforscher-Die Feuermann & Wasserfrau Suite: Kindersommer
9. Morloops-Dracula-Loop
10. Morloops-Pain-Loop
11. Morloops-Orff-Loop
12. Doc Wor Mirran-Slow #11
13. M. Hovancsek, B. Chabala, J. Cieciel-The Stomp
14. Amy Denio & Mike Hovancsek-Theatralisch Hersagen
15. Diledadafish-Meret Rici Ous
16. Diledadafish-Radio Odessa
17. Diledadafish-One Minute Of Shimmel
18. The Screaming Popeyes-What The Statue Saw
19. Liquid Sound-Peter's Journey
20. Liquid Sound-Great Music In The Body
21. Liquid Sound-Cow-Mouse
22. Neglige - Electronic Underwear-Dreinklang
23. Yximalloo-A Bird
24. Yximalloo-A Horse
25. Yximalloo-A Fish


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LAGGER BLUES MACHINE-TANIT LIVE, LP, 1992 (RECORDED: 1970), BELGIUM

Meaty hard rockin' psych/prog thunder recorded live and with a sound that bears scant resemblance to the band they'd later morph into two years later with the release of their very studio crafted debut Tanit, which this shares no overlap with despite the title's inference. Heavy was clearly the guiding principle with this crew circa 1970, with Cream and Black Sabbath being obvious antecedents, though with a proto-prog dimension extending their attack in a way that reminds of folks like May Blitz, Clear Blue Sky and, latterly, the modern psych moves of Tangle Edge.

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JIM'S ABSENCE

Hello dear friends of the blog
this is Jim,who's alive and well(kind of). In many comments i read that many people are wondering where am i. Well, last year changed my life....new place new people,new reality...due to personal reasons having to do with very bad psychology the last few months i preffered not to post anything at allinstead of doing it just because i have to(this would lead to bad results).Hope pretty soon to be well and active again....till then i don't know how to express my gratefulness to my BEST FRIEND Eric who's doing an excellent job keeping this blog alive.Thnk you very much my friend....
and as we sa in my new home country.
bis bald
Jim Mutantsounds

V/A-ALPHABETICAL UPLOADS OF WHACKED OUT SINGLES PT. 17

LEWISITE-SITESEEING, FLEXI, 1983, JAPAN
Sweetly teetering naif rock nuttiness with an undercurrent of venom. You'll find echos here of Phew's early no-fi no wave outfit Aunt Sally and foreshadowings of everything from Deerhoof's chirp 'n' stomp and The Tenniscoats' wide eyed wobble and to the witch-broom-on-chalkboard antics of Alva.



LITHOPS-BLASMUSIK/INTENDO, 1997, GERMANY
Expertly hewn frequency spectrum strafing from Jan St. Werner of Mouse On Mars' abstract solo project. This was one of St. Werner's early solo outings and bears a ghostly trace of the washed out dubbiness heard on MOM's Iaora Tahiti.




V/A-LITTLE BANDS, 1980, AUSTRALIA
This seriously fucking wonderful Aussie underground compendium documents the scene covered in the flick Dogs In Space starring INXS' Michael Hutchence (ever think you'd see him name checked here?). Too Fat To Fit Through The Door isn't too hefty to at least go head to head with both Nick Cave and Ollie Olson on the mouthy punchdrunk blather and shambolic stumble front, while the Morpions explode in a dystopian bout of Nervous Gender-like synth punk perversity, The Take unleash clattery and raucous pissed chick post punk (UK style) and Ronnie And The Rhythm Boys belie their off-putting bar band moniker by inverting a cover of Hey Joe into a minimal synth ice cream headache.

1. Too Fat To Fit Through The Door-Flintstones Meet The Flintstones
2. Morpions-Point Black
3. The Take-Summer
4. Ronnie And The Rhythm Boys-Hey Joe



LOG-A-RHYTHMS-LOGS/COFFEE, 1981, USA
Slippery and delicious art pop formulations that fuse Amy Denio/Tone Dogs-style angular whimsy with just enough commercial new wave-slicked period posing (think The Waitresses and Wazmo Nariz) to slake my thirst for the amusingly ridiculous.



FREDRICK LONBERG-HOLM-TRIOS/SOLOS, 1990, USA
Side A's suite of sharp trio action brings together improv cellist and future Peter Brotzmann and Ken Vandermark collaborator Lonberg-Holm and one half of cassette culture vets Crawling With Tarts on drums alongside a baritone sax player who's worked with both elsewhere. Their cumulative attack is a fine thing and reminds me most of The Ex's work together with Tom Cora. The B side? Alas, solo improv ain't my bag, even when it's by the masters. Maybe it's yours?



LUCAS TROUBLE-EL VEROLO/MISS SYPHILIS, 1980, FRANCE
Following up on my 2007 post of their LP Le Roy Defigure, here's more fantastic gallic post punk mania featuring the future keyboardist for garage psych movers Vietnam Veterans and here spitting out fab invective over a round of brash and trashy art punk blare akin to the Metal Urbain/Metal Boys/Dr. Mix And The Remix continuum on the A side (despite the absence of drum machines), and edging close to early Tin Huey territory on Miss Syphilis.














LUDUS-BREAKING THE RULES/LITTLE GIRLS, 1983, UK
The sardonic and effusive art pop giddiness of Ludus is truly something to behold. An integral part of the UK post punk uprising in general (Ludus front woman Linder did graphic design for some of the most seminal UK punk sleeves including the Buzzcocks' Orgasm single) and the Manchester Hacienda scene in particular, theirs was a sound that could veer off from Caribbean-inflected new wave fun to Plastic Ono Band art scree in an eye blink, though this striking single, full of Linder's instantly recognizable collages (issued on the legendary Sordide Sentimental imprint) plays it a little closer to the vest than elsewhere, their tongue-in-cheek and pop-tastic joie de vivre here dominating over some of the more outre aspects that'd come to the fore elsewhere in their discography.

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BLACKLIGHT BRAILLE-ELECTRIC CANTICLES OF THE BLACKLIGHT BRAILLE, LP, 1981, USA

This was the first outing under the Blacklight Braille moniker for these self described "fringe rockers", formerly known as as the hippy theatrical troupe cum band called Bitter Blood Street Theater. Jim posted both of those back in '08, as well a two late 80's/early 90's BB outings, but this here is the one that you've been waiting for, even if you didn't know it. Comprised of just two side long suites, Side A is highly reminiscent of the sorta DIY hippy sci-fi electronics and nutty narrative spieling encountered on Ian MacFarlane/Violet Lightening's albums and is a helluva lot of fun, but the real psychotropic meat swinging around here is the completely bonkers track "At A Rock Night Spot" that fills all of side B with blasting cosmic voids and balls out space rockin' in the mode of Melodic Energy Commission, The Happy Dragon Band and Mars Everywhere, all book-ended by yet more wonderfully fried blather. Thanks to blog friend Steve for this gem!


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TABLETOM-MEZCLALINA, LP, 1980, SPAIN

Very fine flute-y Spanish fusionoid prog with occasional funky moves ala Maneige's Libre Sevice or some mid-period Gentle Giant and with a notably suave line in sax swagger that's sometimes filtered in a way reminiscent of Sui Generis and sometimes massed into swooning stately grooves like early Nucleus. Combined with the unexpectedly raw attack of a vocalist who's convinced he's fronting a hard rock band, the resulting clash of musical sophistication and badass rawking is really something to behold and favorably compares with the blazing Argentine Sintesis LP I recently shared.
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UTON-GROUND'S DREAM COSMIC LOVE, CDR, 2006, FINLAND

The prolific solo project of Finland's Jani Hirvonen (Hevoset, Aan, Last Night On Earth), Uton's atmospheric, textural and associational drifts display a real command of the power of subliminal suggestion, with Ground's Dream Cosmic Love in particular representing a real high water mark for Hirvonen's marginal musical campaign thus far; the liminal and muted sonic events here accruing like layers of silt and slowly mobilized by distant gusts of Alan Splet-like Eraserhead ambience. Cocoon yourself deep inside these amber-lit drifts of fibrous and dusty cellular flow and experience the siren song of Hirvonen's hypnogogic musical brilliance as the masterful atmospheres here slowly advance you though successive perceptual thresholds, each a rung deeper down the rabbit hole.

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HARALD "SACK ZEIGLER- +10% PUSTEKUCHEN, TAPE, 1994, GERMANY

Hard to believe that the cat behind this screwy lo-fi cassette EP (appearing here thanks to blog friend Roger) is a professionally trained orchestral french horn player, as the cockamamie cacophony at hand here couldn't sound more the product of some recessive autodidact, but then Zeigler's long been a true blue anomaly. This is merely one of a flood of releases he issued within the cassette culture milieu during the 80's and 90's (more soon to come), before he'd surface in a more above-ground fashion via appearances on Mouse On Mars albums and as half of the warped pastel folktronica duo Sack & Blumm (shared elsewhere on MS). This stuff however is a much rougher affair, though it definitely has some very evident charms. For my money, most of those can be found on side B, where hectic dictaphone recordings of guitar abuse unexpectedly cede to eerie isolationist drifts, effects smeared french horn cascades and melancholic themes.

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SORRY...NEW POSTS UP BY NEXT WEEKEND

Unfortunately, unforeseen circumstances have conspired to absolutely swamp me at the moment. I'll be back next weekend with The Serious Goods though, including the return of the V/A-Alphabetical Uploads Of Whacked Out Singles series...