This Heat - " Discography " (1977- 1981)

Staying on the theme of London DIY Squatland, one of the best three groups EVER! ( the others being PIL -up to 1982-, and Joy Division of course)....is the peerless beat trio THIS HEAT. Living in the same squat building as The Homosexuals, This Heat made the most influential (in time) and the most sideways looking music of the period. Intensely rythmic, with splashes of ambient noise, and wyatt-esque vocals; they sounded comfortably non-punk when we needed to escape from anyone who sounded like the UK Subs. Almost prog, but not, this music moved at a right angle to the accepted norm of the time. I therfore post This Heat's complete works for your compulsory download.

This Heat - 1978
1. Test Card
2. Horizontal Hold
3. Not Waving
4. Water
5. Twilight Furniture
6. 24 Track Loop
7. Diet of Worms
8. Music Like Escaping Gas
9. Rainforest
10. The Fall of Saigon
11. Test Card





















Deceit - 1981

1. Sleep
2. Paper Hats
3. Triumph
4. S.P.Q.R.
5. Cenotaph
6. Shrink Wrap
7. Radio Prague
8. Makeshift Swahili
9. Independence
10. New Kind of Water
11. Hi Baku Sho (Suffer Bomb Disease)

 
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Health and Efficiency - 1980

1. Health and Efficiency
2. Graphic/Varispeed (45rpm)

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Repeat - 1993 (recorded 79-80)

1. Repeat (20:21)
2. Metal (23:16)
3. Graphic / Varispeed (15:26)





















Made Available: Peel Sessions - 1996 (recorded 1977)

1. Horizontal Hold
2. Not Waving
3. The Fall Of Saigon
4. Rimp Romp Ramp
5. Makeshift Swahili
6. Sitting
7. Basement Boy
8. Slither



 















Live 80-81 (2006) 
Recorded on cassette using a stereo microphone placed near the sound desk. Compiled from gigs in Tilburg, Nijmegen, Arhus, Apeldoorn, Vienna and Rheims between April 1980 and June 1981. Structured around the set list used on tour in the Netherlands, December 1980.

1. Horizontal Hold
2. Paper Hats
3. S.P.Q.R.
4. Triumph
5. Aerial Photography
6. The Rough With The Smooth
7. Makeshift Swahili
8. Music Like Escaping Gas
9. A New Kind Of Water
10. Twilight Furniture
11. Health And Efficiency



This Heat - Live In Nottingham, 19th May 1981.

An excellent bootleg recording from the nearest This Heat got to playing in Leicester (my home town). Very no-fi but a great gig....just listen to the unenthusiastic audience response. One only appreciates greatness when it is dead.

1- Horizontal Hold
2 - Paper Hats/Aerial Photography
3- SPQR/Triumph
4-Makeshift Swahili
5-A new Kind Of Water
6-Twilight Furniture/Health and Efficiency


This Heat - "Live In Krefeld" (1980)













Semi-official live recording from 1980.Cassette only independant release. Very good quality recording of a group at the hieght of its powers.

A1		Paperhats
A2		The Fall Of Saigon
A3		Testcard
A4		S.p.q.r.
A5		Makeshift Swahili
B1		Unreleased Title
B2		Music Like Escaping Gas
B3		A New Kind Of Water
B4		Twilight Furniture
B5		Health And Efficiency

This Heat (with Albert Marcoeur) - "Tago Mago Cassette "(canterbury dream cd028)

Great tape ,released by the French experimental rock magazine Tago Mago,containing 1977 sessions of This Heat with Ghanaian musician Mario Boyer Diekuuroh on side A and Albert Marcoeur on side B.@ monsters of modern avant prog music meet here!

The Session A (THIS HEAT/Mario Boyer Diekuuroh-Split-MC)
The Session B (THIS HEAT/Albert Marcoeur-Split-MC)

Amos and Sara - " Sara goes Pop! " 2x7 ( Its War Boys 1982)

Jim, L. Voag , or Amos of the Homosexuals, teamed up with Sara in 1981, to make his most acessable music yet with the aptly named double seven inch release ,Sara goes Pop. Think the Raincoats, and you get the idea of what it sounds like.
Side 1
1- Arab O Habab of Arabia
2- My Pal The Crook
3- Lulu on the Rock
4- In Walked Lance
Side 2
1- Fleeced
2- Muslim Computer
3- Sexy Terrorist
4- I'm an Actress.

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The Just Measurers - " Flagellation " (Its War Boys 1980)

Homosexuals again! This is Jim Whelton, Lepke (Milk from Cheltenham), and Chris Grey (amos and sara). My favourite Homosexuals related release, its got that falling apart feeling that one loves so dearly, an almost endearing aimlessness. The very best in Avant punk strangness you can find. Released on jim's Its War Boys Label in 1980.
Check out a posting on you tube here

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L Voag - " The Way Out " ( Its War Boys! 1979)

A Homosexuals side project by Jim Whelton from 1979.Self-released on his own Its War Boys Label, its a curious beast indeed , songs(?) that seem to change direction every 30 seconds, and very schizophrenic in style. Swinging from beginners level Jazz one moment to sound collage and avant noise the next. Very eccentric,and just what you'd expect from any member of the Homo's.

Track Listing:
1. front door
2. hall
3. kitchen
4. toilet
5. living room
6. bedroom
7. the way out
8. the lengthy pause
9. franco's prayer
10. the raw end (of the tits, bum & challenge deal)
11. boxing and sparing (with the third dimension)
12. the goalkeepers fear of the piss-up
13. planning-budgeting-shopping
14. helping the police with their enquiries
15. your own hair - your own chance
16. el cada dia del gente comun
17. the tuned knife and fork toned down to a light lunch
18. the monumental

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The Homosexuals - " The Homosexuals Record " (recommended records 1984)

Here's a band name to rival the Bathroom Renovations and Danny and the Dressmakers as best band name. I wish i'd thought of it. The Homosexuals (and they were beaten up for it too), existed in London squatland from 1972, and recorded mostly to mono cassettes for themselves and friends. Hardly releasing anything in their lifetime, except a couple of singles and an e.p. between 1978 and 1982; this record collects the releases and selected highlights from the bucketload of cassettes they recorded. I prefer this collection to the 3cd astral Glamour set on Hyped2Death, as it cuts out the boring chaff and leaves the quality that this band were more than capable of, if they cared.Their angular guitars, complex melodies, and experimental leanings distanced them somewhat from the punk rock being created by their contemporaries, and has now cemented them as uk DIY legends. So much so that they have now reformed and are touring.
Also the group members released various other records as various alias (which will be posted later on this blog), like L.Voag, Just Measurers , Amos and Sara, etc.
A reissue of the first single, 3 tracks from The Homosexuals EP, 6 songs* from the live-to-tape session at Surrey Sound that was one of the first things recorded there (You can tell which songs those are because of the awful distortion), 3 alternate mixes ** and Jim's wonderful "False Sentiments." Remastered by Bob Drake. Bruno's handsome mug appears on the cover courtesy of one of Suzy's videos... 1) My Night Out *
2) Technique Street *
3) Vociferous Slam (a different mix from the EP with some tape-wobble but many more effects) **
4) Soft South Africans "#1" (a previously-unreleased rough-mix) **
5) Neutron Lover *
6) A Million Keys *
7) Naming of Parts *
8) Kiss With Venom *
9) Divorce from Reality
10) Hearts in Exile (45 version)
11) All About Cheap
12) Soft South Africans (45 version)
13) False Sentiments
14) Mecho Madness (a radically different mix from the EP) **
15) Astral Glamour
16) The Birds Have Risen
17) Collapsible You (a longer, more dub-stye mix that turned up in Chris Cutler's unused tapes: the 3:45 original is on George Harrasment and AG)
18) Snapshots of Nairobi (instrumental: never released: there's also a live vocal version on Astral Glamour)
19) "Soft South Africans (raw)" Actually this is the original rough mix of "Hearts in Exile" with all the vocals and the three guitar-parts that Bruno faded out (in response to which Anton faded Bruno's vocals up-and-down, dub-style. This is the pre-mixing counterpart to the rough mix of "SSA" from the LP and it's an incredibly major "find" (It'll be on Astral Glamour, too, of course.)
20) Walk Before Imitate (from the Recommended 2LP sampler)
21) Still Living in My Car (from Venceremos)

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Chris Carter - " The Space Between " - cassette (Industrial Records IRC32) 1980

Chris Carter was ,of course, the electronics wizard in Throbbing Gristle.And in 1980 he was granted his first solo release on Industrial Records with this cassette only outing.This particular release,consists of several synth/cold wave style instrumental recordings made in the legendary Throbbing Gristle studio.

Track Listing:

1. Beat
2. Outreach
3. Electrodub 1
4. Clouds
5. Reprise
6. Electrodub 2
7. Poptone
8. Slomo
9. Walkabout
10. Maybe
11. Falling
12. Solidit
13. Snap
14. Interloop
15. Resonance


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The Leather Nun - " Live at the Scala Cinema London & misic Palais Kungsgaten 1980 " - cassette (Industrial Records IRC27)

Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle are Industrial Music, NOT, nine inch bleeding nails and shit like that!
Somewhere between the two come the Leather Nun from Sweden. Not really my cup of tea,but i did like the slow death ep, and they were on Industrial Records, so.....they get included here.
A rough and ready love set from 1980,Part one in a cinema in London,the other in a place called Kungsgaten(?).
Don't forget Genesis p. Orridge's famous T-shirt slogan from back in the day,- "Rock is for Arse-Lickers!",- never a truer word spoken methinks.

Recorded 2/24/80 binaural stereo and 11/30/79 mono. Includes "Prime Mover", "No Rule", "I'm Alive", "Here Comes Life", "Ensam I Natt", "Varfor Svek Du", "Search and Destroy", "Slow Death".


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Richard H. Kirk - " Disposable Half Truths " -cassette (Industrial Records IRC34) 1980

First solo effort from Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire. Good stuff indeed,sounds very much like ......erm....Cabaret Voltaire!
Disposable Half-Truths was released on cassette only, on Industrial Records (IRC 34) in 1980.

Track Listing:

1. Synesthesia
2. Outburst
3. Information Therapy
4. Magic Words Command
5. Thermal Damage
6. Plate Glass Replicas
7. Insect Friends Of Allah
8. Scatalist
9. False Erotic Love
10. L.D. 50
11. L.D. 60
12. Amnesic Disassociation

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Throbbing Gristle - " Pastimes/Industrial Muzak " - cassette (Industrial Records IRC23) 1979

Here's another obscure T.G. cassette release.Originally released in 1979, the recordings themselves are undated, mostly consist of relatively formless jamming & have never been officially re-released (none of Industrial Records' studio tapes were included in the 24 Hours Of T.G. boxset). It certainly makes for more interesting listening.

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Cabaret Voltaire - " 1974 - 1976 " Cassette (Industrial Records IRC 35) 1980

Cabaret Voltaire were making their own tapes from 1974. Joint creators of the Industrial genre, they pioneered the make-do home recording process that lead to the home taping boom of the late seventies. This tape shows a band in the process of evolving into something unique. All their early albums and singles for Rough Trade follow this pattern,and are all landmark recordings of this epoch. But this is the Cab's at their most DIY.(recorded in Chris Watson's Loft)



Track listing:
1 The Dada Man 8:31
2 Ooraseal 4:30
3 A Sunday Night In Biot 3:24
4 In Quest Of The Unusual 2:43
5 Do The Snake 6:53
6 Fade Crisis 3:15
7 Doubled Delivery 5:42
8 Venusian Animals 5:27
9 The Outer Limits 8:48
10 She Loved You 8:42

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Clock DVA - White Souls in Black Suits (Industrial Cassette IRC31) 1980

Clock DVAs first release came on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records in the form of the "White Souls in Black Suits" cassette in 1980.The album itself is a raw pre-amble prior to the Formation of Thirst. Taken from fifteen hours of improvisational sessions a five member version of DVA recorded the sessions via a mobile recordingunit.The album was mixed and produced at Caberet Voltaires Western Worksstudio. The album includes a tape chance montage sequence in collaboration withChris Watson. Richard H Kirk and Stephen Mallider engineered and co-producedin collaboration with DVA.
Track List:
01- Consent 02- Disconsentment 03- Disconsentment (2) 04- Still-silent 05- Non 06- Relentless 07- Contradict 08- Film Soundtrack (Keyboards Assembly Themselves At Dawn) 09- Anti-Chance

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Throbbing Gristle - " New T.G. " (cassette 1982)

Don't know anything about this, but it sounds like a rehearsal tape.Recorded in 1976, and it is excellent. This doesn't appear anywhere on CD, niether TG24 or TG+, and it doesn't appear to be on INdustrial Records either! Two long tracks, therfore no track listing.

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Throbbing Gristle - " Nothing Short Of Total War " (Total War Cassette TW01 1977)

Another Genre that embraced Cassette Culture to its breast, was Industrial Music. The inventors of which were the lovely Throbbing Gristle, who released virtually everything they recorded(and they recorded everything they played) on their own Industrial Records.
Until recently 90% of T.G.'s output was on cassette, "Nothing Short Of Total War" being a prime example.
Recording everything they did,there are many live,rehearsal and demo tapes knocking around too. Here’s one of the more listenable (and more collectable), released in 1981(limited edition of 23?) but with recordings dating from 1977, with different takes on several tracks from Second Annual Report… which also shows that they were rehearsed, rather than mostly improvised as one might expect.



SIDE ONE
1. Epping Forest
2. MFDF I
3. Zyklon B. Zombie
4. Maggot Death
5. MFDF II
6. Untitled
SIDE TWO
1. We Hate You (Little Girls) I
2. We Hate You (Little Girls) II
3. Dead Ed
4. No Two Ways
5. Slug Bait I
6. Slug Bait II
7. We Hate You (Little Girls) III
8. Blue Six Silk
9. Not Quite

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Sea Of Wires - Individually Screened (SOW 2 self -released Cassette 1980)

This one from my misty past. I remember posting my blank cassette to the address in sounds DIY corner and receiving this bubbly electronic miesterwerk in return.Coventry, England, synthesizer duo The Sea of Wires were another shadowy outfit from the electronic Dark Ages, those very early 1980s, just as synths started to get smaller and more affordable. Releasing just a few self-released tapes and making a few compilation appearances, they mostly relied on beat-free sequencer pulses with something of a Kraut influence, plus the occasional nod to the past glories of the Radiophonic Workshop. Since this tape is SOW #2, one rather suspects that it had a predecessor, but information about them is beyond scarce. A few years later and they’d have been on ICR or Direction, I suspect, and more widely known and loved. Anyway, enjoy this one at least.
Get their earlier cassette, "Diversions", Here!

Track listing:
A1. Invincible
A2. Seascape
A3. Is the New Man Human
A4. Return of the Captain
B1. Robot Dance
B2. An Endless Rainy Day
B3. Breathing
B4. Viking

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Rick Crane - " Kolyma " & " Fuji " (Integrated Circuit ICR 013/ICR 015) 1983

Next Batch of early electronica comes from Rick Crane.More similar stuff to Colin Potter and Dave Jones.(see Below in the Blog)


ICR013Rick Crane - "Kolyma" (1983)







A1 Magister
A2 Aerobia
A3 If The Saucers Should Land
A4 In The Jungle
A5 Give Me A Reason
A6 The Arcadian
A7 Sloth
Winterbreak By The Kolyma River (Siberian Suite)
B1 Intro - The Fall
B2 Abduction - Steppes To Another State
B3 Overnight Stop
B4 Dreams Of A Past Life
B5 Troika
B6 Interragation
B7 Scene In A New Light
B8 Outro - Another Loose End
B9 The Maddener (Runaway Girl)



ICR015
Rick Crane - " Fuji " (1983)







A1 Rising Eastwards
A2 Fuji: Pillowbook Of Dreams
A3 Moondrawn
A4 Inner Struggle
B1 Fisher Of Souls
B2 Of Robots, Men And Zen
B3 The Shrine Of Harai

Dave Jones - Cassettes 1982-3 (Integrated Circuit Records)

The next artist (after Colin Potter)to appear on ICR records/tapes, was Dave Jones. More of the same Experimental Electronics, full of warm analogue sounds from the early 80's. Lovely stuff.





ICR 007 - Dave Jones -'Second Attempt (1982)



A1 Black Mikado
A2 The Jade Temple
A3 Ro
A4 Necropolis
B1 Oh Prodigy
B2 G.F.I.
B3 Voyager
B4 Excerpt
B5 End Play


All tracks composed/perfomed/recorded, (Dec. 1981, Jan. 1982) by Dave Jones. Instruments:
Moog Prodigy, Boss D.R.55 Rhythm Unit, Boss KM2 mixer/preamp, Vox 1900 Paser, Melos Echo Chamber.




ICR 0011Dave Jones - Midnight in the Birlec (1983)









ICR 014Dave Jones - Room Thoughts (1983)

Various - Integration (cassette)- (Integrated Circuit Records ICR12) 1983

Excellent minimal synth/experimental compilation realised in 1983 on Colin Potter's Integrated Circuit label

Tracklist:

A1 Trevor Wishart -Anna´s Magic Garden

A2 Muslimgauze -Afrikaner

A3 Paul Kelday -Towards A New Clear Age

A4 David Jackman- Last Estuary

A5 Ampnoise - Floppy Disk Drive

A6 MFH - To Give Painless Light

A7 New 7th Music - Untitled No. 7

A8 Andrew Cox - Ritual Dance

A9 Andrew Cox - Silent Moorings

B1 Ian Boddy - Sundance

B2 Subject - What Happened To You?

B3 I Scream - Menace

B4 Human Flesh - Delon Enlarges

B5 Carl Matthews - Power of three

B6 Carl Matthews-Harmless Thought

B7 Monoplane - Fin

B8 Citizens Of Science - She Moves Like A Machine

B9 Colin Potter - Hills

B10 Stratis - By Water

B11 Dave Jones - Memories Of...

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Colin Potter - Early Cassettes (Integrated Circuit Records) 1980 - 1983

One area that suited the cassette medium down to the ground was DIY Electronica.The most prominent prime mover in this zone was one Colin Potter.Sound engineer and bedroom geek, with a couple of synthesisers and a tape recorder, he took the opportunities available to him, via the new cassette culture,to release his owns works on his own record label(which still exists today!);Integrated Circuit Records.ICR Studio and ICR Distribution have been in existence for over twenty years.
"Integrated Circuit Records & Integrated Circuit Studio… the name seemed like a good idea over 25 years ago but it was soon realised it was too much of a mouthful & we were left with ICR & IC Studio. Much better."

The first release, ICR 001, was a record, the compilation LP ‘We couldn’t agree on a title’. Again that seemed like a good idea at the time... The next few releases were cassettes (remember them?) promoting the dubious ‘musical’ career of one Colin Potter. The studio moved from a bedroom into an outbuilding & became a modest 4-track. It was the dawn of the DIY era, anti-music, the tape underground, call it what you will. It grew, a little bit, more cassettes & the odd record were released & ICR became ICR Distribution promoting other fellow-travellers from near & far.
Colin has been an engineer for over 20 years now, and along his diverse history he has worked with Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Organum, Jonathan Coleclough, Ora, and many others. Being a musician himself, his contributions to these projects are often more than just being the engineer.


His music is primarily synthesiser based, and sounds very 'now' ,with its minimal electronics and crude rhythms.The muddy quality of the cassette tape gives the sound an time looped quality,like you're listening through a wall into a bedroom stuck in 1980; or is that just in my mind?

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The Ghost Office ICR002
Two Nights ICRoo4
The Where House ICR005
A Gain ICR006

The Official Die or D.I.Y. Top 20 Compilations EVER! Chart 2009

Here follows your humble bloggers top 20 DIY/cassette Culture etc compilations, in order of quality,starting at 1 = best ever.

1 - Weird Noise e.p. - Fuck off records
2 - Unzipping The Abstract - Manchester Musicians Collective
3 - Vaultage '78 - Various acts from Brighton
4 - A Manchester Collection - Manchester Musicians Collective
5 - Earcom 3 - Fast products' third installment of eclectic DIY.
6 - Angst In Your Pants - Various DIYers get together on Deleted Records
7 - Earcom 1 - This has got the Prats on it. Fast Product again.
8 - We Couldn't Agree On a Title - First release on Integrated Circuit Records.
9 - Back To Sing Again For Free - First cassette comp on Fuck Off Reckords.
10- Hicks From The Sticks - Various unknowns (in 1980) from all over UK.
11 - Norwich,a Fine City - comp of local bands from.......Norwich.
12 - East Of Croydon - comp of local bands from......yes, Croydon.
13 - Where The Hell is Leicester - and this one's from the fair city of Leicester.
14 - Love not Devotion - Fuck Off/ Deleted shared vinyl.
15 - Folk In Hell - Another Fuck Off compilation Tape.
16 - Beyond The River - Stuff from Reading
17 - Avon Calling - a Bristol Compilation.
18 - Bouquet Of Steel - post punk from 1981 Sheffield.
19 - What Happens When we Sing? - London Musicians Collective cassette Comp.
20 - Earcom 2 - Fast product strays from the Diy and includes Joy Division?

Please feel free to submit your own top 10/20 etc.

Various - Hicks From The Sticks (Rockburgh ROC 11-1980))

A very influential compilation by music journalist Des Moines. His aim was to uncover 'talent' in the musical underground of the UK's provinces.There was even an artist on here that scored a number one single, namely Wah! Heat.(see story of the Blues by Wah!).
I played this to death back in 1980. Stand out tracks are Clock DVA "You're Without Sound", Section 25 "After Image" and the brilliant I'm So Hollow's "I Don't Know". (Check out their great album "Emotion/Sound/Motion" here.)

Track Listing:

1. Airkraft - Move In Rhythm
2. Expelaires - Sympathy (Don't Be Taken In)
3. Clock DVA - You're Without Sound
4. Music For Pleasure - The Human Factor
5. Nightmares In Wax - Shangri-La
6. Ada Wilson & Keeping Dark - Head In The Clouds
7. Modern Eon - Choreography
8. Medium Medium - Them Or Me
9. Radio 5 - True Colours
10. They Must Be Russians - Where Have I Seen You
11. Section 25 - After Image
12. Art Failure - Gimmick
13. I'm So Hollow - I Don't Know
14. Wah! Heat - Hey Disco Joe
15. Stranger Than Fiction - Immortal In Mirrors
16. The Distributors - TV Me

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Various - " Love Not Devotion " ( Fuck Off Records FLP002 / DELP 001) 1982

This time its a joint Fuck Off / Deleted Records release.
Featuring The almost 'funky' Blue Midnight, and The Hamburger All Stars , who have amongst their members, Anno, Mark and Dennis from Alternative TV. Steffy from Here And Now, Justin Adams from Impossible Dreamers and Grant Showbiz himself.
Then Protag and Mark automaton get 6 tracks for the Instant Automatons on behalf of deleted records.
How can you argue against a line up like that?

now re-upped after being removed from the hideous mediafire for copyright violation????....this is on deleted records you tits !!!!!!NOW REUPPED AGAIN TO DIVSHARE!

Track listing:

Blue Midnight - Quarter To Blue
Blue Midnight - Fireplace
Blue Midnight - Joy!
Blue Midnight - Crazy
Blue Midnight - Hot And ColdHamburger All-Stars - I Woke Up
Hamburger All-Stars - Swinging London Pt. 1
Hamburger All-Stars - Studded Leather Jacket
Hamburger All-Stars - My Life Is In A Mess
Hamburger All-Stars - Swinging London Pt.2 
The Instant Automatons - Worcester Avenue
The Instant Automatons - Catacomb
The Instant Automatons - Too Big!
The Instant Automatons - Violence
The Instant Automatons - Drunk In Woolwich (On New Year's Eve)
The Instant Automatons - Short Haired Man (In A Long Haired Town)

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Various - " Folk In Hell :Alternative Rubbish from West London " (Fuck Off Records FO 008) 1981

Another Fuck Off Reckords Tape compilation,featuring more from the usual suspects......Mark P., Androids of Mu, Instant Automatons etc.....
Up to the normal standards of F.O. reckords; take that whatever way you want, but in my opinion these standards are peerless in the history of the recording industry.

Track listing:

A Pencil - The Advertiser
Instant Automatons – Gillian is Normal
No Comment – think
Mob – slayed
Astronauts – behave
Androids of Mu– cityscape
Steve Lake – dancin
Eduardo Brylcreme – my gal
Murphy Fed – green apples
Mark Perry – take it easy
Sir Alias – A is for artist
Tasmin Smythe – beat
Working Men – Owd yowe
Here & Now – nudge up
Mic Woods – dreaming
Blue Midnight – infidelity
Impossible Dreamers – I woke


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Various - " We Couldn't Agree On A Title " - (Integrated Circuit Records ICR 001)

Many "big" names from the DIY cassette scene on here. The debut vinyl release on Colin Potter's Integrated Circuit Record/tape Label.
You get the usual muffled third generation overdubbing sound from the Instant Automatons. Colin Potter provides the electronics, and sounds like it could have recorded today.Digital Dinosaurs, give us some ameteur song craft,and sound like Donovan fed through a ring modulator; but what do you expect from some hippies who live in Coventry?
Phillip Johnson sounds like a really fucked mono cassette player recording of a bus depot being played at the end of 200 miles of piping.This is good.Magnificent songs,DIY/miniml synth masterpieces here!

Tracklisting:

Colin Potter - Behind You

Colin Potter - We Are So Glad

Missing Persons - Buried Alive

Missing Persons - Mama

Missing Persons - Electrical Storm

The Instant Automatons - Routine Habit

The Instant Automatons - Invertebrates

The Walking Floors - If I Could Turn The Clock Back

The Victims Of Romance - 9 AM

The Digital Dinosaurs - Organs

The Digital Dinosaurs - Hole

Robert Lawrence - Heart Finds A Home

Those Little Aliens - Sentimental

Those Little Aliens - Low Point X

Mic Woods - Why

The 012 - Blabber 'n' Smoke

Philip Johnson - The Bridewell

Philip Johnson - Anaesthetic (changed version

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Various - " East Of Croydon " - (Nothing Shaking Records, 1981)

Croydon, the home of Johnny Moped, but also to this clutch of extremely interesting post punk/DIY groups from 1981. This definately is one of the very best compilations on offer here.
Highly recommended. I even like the Normil Hawaiians track!


Track listing:

1 Janet Armstrong Inadequate

2 Heartbeats, The Funny Anymore
3 Flips, The Schitzo

4 Big Combo, The 21 Girls
5 Local Heroes SW9 Another Modern Romance

6 Big Hair Over You
7 Bobby Henry Next Move
8 Calling Hearts In the Jungle

9 Kan Kan Phone Call
10 Sir James The Selection

11 Spöön Fazer Fly on The wall
12 A Circle Charmed Henrietta Missing

13 Greenfield Leisure Leisure
14 Normil Hawaiians Dark World

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Various - " Avon Calling " (The Bristol Compilation) (Heartbeat Records 1979)

Generally thought of as thee best post punk comp. But, apart from the superb Glaxo Babies, the rest hasn't been done any favours by time. Its probably my least favourite of all the compilations i have posted. Its too well produced, and professional sounding for my taste.

Tracks:
01 - Glaxo Babies - It's Irrational
02 - Europeans - On The Continent
03 - Private Dicks - Green Is In The Red
04 - Moskow - Too Much Commotion
05 - Essential Bop - Chronicle
06 - Directors - What You've Got
07 - Various Artists - Own Up
08 - Sneak Preview - Slugweird
09 - The Stingrays - Sound
10 - The X-Certs - Anthem
11 - Apartment - The Alternative
12 - The Numbers - Cross-Slide
13 - Vice Squad - Nothing
14 - Stereo Models - Move Fast-Stay Ahead
15 - Double Vision - My Dead Mother

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Various - Beyond the River (a Reading Compilation) Open Door Records 1982

I think every town/ village/linear settlement in the UK had a compilation of local bands released between 1978 and 81!
So now its the turn of Reading, (Home Town of The Lemon Kittens).
This ones pretty good too, so it gets posted.
Also check out the cassette precurser of this compilation: "Anything Could Happen in the Next Half Hour" later in this very blog! Its better even than this!

Track Listing:
01. El Seven - Under control
02. Dig Dig Dig - Behind the wall
03. The Ballistics - Chinese jungle
04. Shrinking Men - Marginally adjusted
05. Shrinking Men - Visitors
06. Access - Short
07. The Stills - Obsession
08. A1 Vegetables - It's all in the Name
09. Movita - Orange coma
10. The Beating Hearts - Wrap me up
11. St. Vitus' Dance - I've been used
12. The Erection Set - Foochie Capes

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Various - Norwich, A Fine City (Romans In Britain Records NERO1) 1981

This time its the turn of NORWICH, A FINE CITY. Believe it or not,It's a Norwich city local bands compilation from 1980. Only 500 pressed.Bands incuded are: Higsons, Screen 3, Capitalist music, Mohair twins....It is one of the best compilations that came out from the local UK DIY scene.

Track Listing:

1. Plan 9 from outer space - The Happy Few

2. My love is bent (at both ends) - Higsons

3. Live and learn - Screen 3

4. Railway sex - Mohair Twins

5. Little games - Panic Parade

6. Learning to smile - Clynics

7. Jane's gone to France - Capitalist Music

8. Shades of black - Screen 3

9. Eastern exercise - Clynics

10. Five Hawiian Bullets - Mohair Twins

11. Ultimate Sanction - Happy Few

12. Blue light brigade - Panic Parade

13. We will never grow old - Higsons
14. Do you really love that girl - Capitalist Music

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