Nik Turner - Sphynx

As requested by Mr. Phoenix Hairpins, here's the reworked versions of the original Nik Turner's Sphynx - Xitintoday album. Nicholas Turner born 28th august 1940, Oxford, England. Was a member of Hawkwind for two stints: initially from 1969 to 1976 and again from 1982 to 1984 playing Saxophone, Flute and contributing occasional vocals during their most successful period. He was also involved with Inner City Unit, Sphynx and guested on works by Robert Calvert, Psychic TV, Mother Gong, Sham 69, Sting and The Stranglers to name but a few. Currently, he plays in Space Ritual. On this release Nik Turner was aided by Helios Creed, Grenas, Len Del Rio and Wayne James. Fabulous space rock with an experimental/ambient touch. Sphynx was released as a cd by Cleopatra (CLEO 2135-2) in 1993. Track 11 is a bonus track, recorded in the Kings Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt in December 1976.


Tracks:


1. The Awakening
2. Thoth
3. God Rock
4. Anubis
5. Isis And Nepthys
6. Pyramid Spell
7. Osiris
8. The Hall Of Double Truth
9. The Weighing Of Heart And Negative Confession
10. Horus
11. Original Sounds From The Great Pyramid


Sphynx


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Vacation

Hi,

I'll be on a little vacation from today to next week Friday, I have scheduled some post for that period, so comment's or mails won't be answered until next Friday or Saturday.

Thanks,

C.

Various - Assemblage

Very nice collaboration 7" by S.B.O.T.H.I., Ios Smolders, Yeast Culture and Kapotte Muziek. S.B.O.T.H.I. is non other than Achim Wollscheid a media artist whose work over the past 20 years has been at the forefront of experimental music. He has performed and presented installation projects internationally. His work in sound has led to an interest in the relation between sound, light and architectural space, which he pursues through public, interactive and electronic projects. He is a founding member of SELEKTION, an organisation for the production and distribution of information systems. His book, The Terrorized Term, was published by SELEKTION in 1999. Today he still works as an artist for light and sound installations in Frankfurt/Main. Ios Smolders (Deurne, The Netherlands, October 20th, 1960) studied architecture at the Delft Technical University but quit and continued the musical tape experiments of his childhood. He started musicological studies of electronic and recorded music, was six years co-editor of Vital Magazine. Active in the underground electronic scene, founding member of the renowned Dutch electroacoustic ensemble THU20, he released his own music on cassette, LP and CD. He now works as a sound designer and composer in Tilburg (The Netherlands). Yeast Culture is an An experimental recording group in Seattle, WA started by UW DJs at KCMU Radio in the mid-80s. Yeast Culture did a lot of field recordings around the islands in Puget Sound, and in empty buildings. They inhabited a derelict 1950s apartment building known as Main Plant where shows were held and a shop was set up to sell noise records. Early records were made here. In the late eighties they moved to a downtown warehouse space, continuing the shop and publishing more records and hosting shows. Photography and screen printing and do-it-yourself tactics were used to create record covers and more. They developed a conceptual approach to sound recording, collecting together related field recordings to create produced work. Their sound sources ranged from closely miked natural specimens such as trees and water, to live electric plasma, empty industrial sites and historical military forts. Studio techniques included musique concrete style tape manipulations, custom editing processes, and gear and environments which were designed specifically for each project. Kapotte Muziek was founded in 1984 by Frans de Waard, then living in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Soon he was joined by Christian Nijs, who also lived in Nijmegen. They did not actually play together, though: Christian would record all the sounds at home on cassettes and give them to Frans, who would manipulate the material in different ways (pitch-change, loops, etc.). This way of working (using 'second-hand' material and recycling it endlessly) became the core of the activities of Kapotte Muziek. Assemblage was released as a 7" by Korm Plastics, Petri Supply and Selektion (kp 2589, none, none) in 1989. Limited edition of 200 numbered copies, each with a unique cover. Includes two double-sided inserts with visuals from each contributor. The sounds on the 7" are free to be used by everybody.


Tracks:


1. S.B.O.T.H.I. - Material
2. Ios Smolders - Materiaal
3. Yeast Culture - Atteue |/\|)|\-0/|
4. Kapotte Muziek - 9 Stukken


(Recorded as Side A & B, and as there is no mention of speed on the 7", I recorded it on 45rpm and 33rpm)


Assemblage


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Definitivos - Sight Seeing

The Definitivos or Definitivos started as a punk band from Kortrijk, Belgium. Founded by PIGZ drummer Rik Masselis & Lucien Callewaert. They made two 7" and one 12" and they seem to have made an album that was never released. On this 12" there last recording they play a more cold wave orientated sound than there early punk sound. Excellent stuff. Sight Seeing was released on Himalaya (HIM 026) in 1985.


Tracks:


1. Sight Seeing
2. Bilateral Deals
3. Besse


Sight Seeing


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Vox Populi! - 1987-1990

Alex from Infrastition and AxeL from VP! have given me the kind permission to post this cd on my blog, even with still some copy's left for sale at Infrastition. The first six tracks on this cd are taken from the Aither lp. Track's 7 To 9 are from the H.N.A.S./Vox Populi! split album. Tracks 10 to 31 are unreleased songs from 1987 to 1990. Excellent stuff in there from that period Psychedelic music, Persian folklore and all kind of mind elevating sound form. Here is an explication from AxeL why he is making all this available:

This proposal steps from my own behaviour : I download quite a lot but I often buy the items I love most. I believe that this is an atitude shared by many of the musical maniacs that are not afraid to open the door and get to see what's exactly lying on the door step. That's the new way to consume music. We should try to see how we can take advantage of it instead of fighting the downloaders or the blogspots. Apart from these commercial considerations, we should all be glad that most musics are now available to anyone, as soon as they have access to a computer. This is a situation I would not even have dreamt off 25 years ago.

Tracks:


AITHER

1. Djamileh
2. Le Nénuphar
3. A Cup of Tea for Suzuky
4. Herrvoragende
5. Narguile Toundra
6. La Grande Plante Fibreuse (live 1988)

Homme Femme Autruche ou Radiateur

7. Lunar Plexus
8. Samouraï
9. Permanent Revolution Pt 15

UNRELEASED Tracks

10. Soleymani Dub (1990)
11. Cooling with VP! (1990)
12. Radio Téhéran (1990)
13. Far Away From Home (1987)
14. Allo Rechte ? (live 1988)
15. Vapanda's Flying Garden (1989)
16 - 28. Sunshine Boy's Earthly Delights (1989-1990)
29. Sunshine Boy's Initiation (1989)
30. Au Dessus De La Falaise ... (1990)
31. Kachalestan (1990)


1987-1990

Or

Buy this cd and other stuff from Vox Populi! (The new cd "Mystic Entertainment") from Infrastition

There is also another cd called 'Aramesh' by Vox Populi! & Pacific 231, and will be available from Rotorelief.



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Vox Populi! - Creations Alternatives update !

I'm happy to announce that AxeL from VP! has retrieved a copy from the master cassette of Creations Alternatives. In all his kindness he converted the cassette to mp3 (@256) form again, and send it to me to replace the old link. Had a listen to it and it sounds excellent.

So go to the original post " Vox Populi! - Creations Alternatives" and get the new link.

And most important of all don't forget to thank AxeL for doing this, and Laurent for making it available in the first place.

For more info about VP! go here.

The Haters - Future Cheers

Future Cheers is in the old tradition of the Haters, manipulated sound compositions of things falling apart. According to the text on the cassette not out of the hate or love for smashing things up, but the curiosity of the sound it makes when it's smashed. Future Cheers was released as a cassette by Sound Of Pig ( SOP 34) in 1986.


Tracks:

1.Future Cheers Vol. One
2.Future Cheers Vol. Two


Future Cheers


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Mensen Blaffen - D'Un Seul Coup

Mensen Blaffen was a six peace band from Aalst in Belgium. They where often compared in music style to the post-modernist funk of A Certain Ratio mixed with new wave, post punk, and surrealistic lyrics and beautiful female vocals. D'Un Seul Coup was released on vinyl by Colour Red (CR 601/602) in 1986.


Tracks:


1. Hippopotame
2. Kleine Vamp
3. Hartstocht
4. Ravijn
5. Dat Gevoel


D'Un Seul Coup


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Yximalloo - Monnorhyta

Yximalloo recording since 1973, is Naofumi Ishimaru alone, but he drafts a loose ensemble of players, including the core of Shigeo Ootake and Takashi Korgo (who appear on all discs), as collaborator-executors. All of his releases are on his own label, and none have seen a distributor yet (which is why you very rarely find his CDs in stores). Ishimaru works like a Japanese Jandek without the angst, like the Boredoms minus the bombast. Spiritual kin to early artpunk and especially the LAFMS, he revels in mock-ethnic music and nonsense. Lo-fi, sweet and primitive, he uses ancient drum machines, hand percussion, and electronic droplet noises, sometimes set to melodies gathered from some imaginary South Sea island where the traditional instrument is seemingly an old '80s synth. Hand claps and chanting abound, but Yximalloo has also been painted as a Japanese Half Japanese -- Jad Fair himself has collaborated with Ishimaru and draws the covers for every release. Other Yximalloo recordings can be found here and here and here. Monnorhyta was released as a cassette on Sakura Wrechords (Y-9246) in 1982.


Tracks:


1. Everiday
2. O'Rhythm#13
3. We Work 98 Hours A Week#4
4. O'Rhythm'3
5. A Thieving Habit Child's Drawing'9
6. The Vibrant Ritual
7. A Moon#2
8. A Moon#3
9. July Sky#4
10. Kimigayo#10
11. Wa-Matsuri#10
12. Charm For A Waiting Bus
13. Big Heart
14. My Washing Makes More Rain Than African Ceremony#2.2
15. Rhythm#14
16. Rhythm#9
17. Rhythm#7
18. Sai#16
19. Jungle Onsen#7
20. Creeper Do Multipris Wis 4 Dimention-Ly In Za Forest#7
21. The 51st Sidejob#9
22. My Washing Makes More Rain Than African Ceremony#2
23. Hare Krishna#8
24. A-E-A-E#6
25. A Horse#15
26. Cacaphony
27. We Work 98 Hours A Week#8
28. Agung Room
29. Wa-Matsuri#9
30. Plague#3
31. H-A-E-#16
32. O'Rhythm#11
33. We Work 98 Hours A Week#5
34. Spare Us#24
35. Masochistic Worker#4
36. Wa-Matsuri#6


Monnorhyta


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Brume & De Fabriek - Soulscape

Excellent collaboration between these two sound artists. See previous posts for info about Brume. De Fabriek are from the Dutch City of Zwolle and original founded by Richard van Dellen and Andries D. Eker at the end of the seventies. Now they are Richard van Dellen, Louise Manuru van Dellen (his wife) and Simone van Dellen (his daughter). Not considering themselves a regular band (for one thing, they are a label too) they present The Factory as some sort of workmen-union, and the musicians they work with as labourers. Music is created through workman tools and machinery. Throughout years they were recording with the likes of Solenoid, O.R.D.U.C., Technological Aquiver, Brume, Vivenza, Klinik, and Gen Ken Montgomery. Soulscape was released on cassette by (I think) De Fabriek & Brume Rec. in 1992.


Tracks:


1. Untitled
2. Untitled
3. Untitled
4. Untitled
5. Untitled
6. Untitled
7. Untitled
8. Untitled
9. Untitled
10. Untitled


Soulscape


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Kranioklast - Can I Talk Or S...

Another excellent Cranioclast release, here spelled as kranioclast, a bit different than there early releases, but still typical Cranioclast with a more rhythmic and ethnic approach to it. Can I Talk Or S... was released as a 7" by Sonaria (SON 702) in 1997. Limited to 500 copies.


Tracks:


1. Honey For The Bees
2. No Caveman Bites The Dog


Can I Talk Or S...


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Guy De Simpele - Snelschietende Westduitser

Guy De simpele is a musician, sculptor, painter, poet, performer, boatman and youth theatre maker. With his boat the `Eliane' , converted for festivals, podium activities, child work shops, exhibitions, workshops, sailing since 1988 along the Belgian waters. As musician he made several 7" and the cd "Taxi To Freedom". He published two collections of poems. His expressive work (sculpture's) is exhibited in and beyond the Belgian borders. `Odin Model' are photo' s taken by Guy De simpele, with Bakyt as a model and with costumes in the setting of the theatre peace "T' Anker" or KANart. Excellent Belgian Cold Wave. Snelschietende Westduitser was released as a 7" by De Gepelde Banan (SIMP.004) in 1984.


Tracks:


1. Snelschietende Westduitser
2. Doden Om Te Doden


Snelschietende Westduitser


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Sturm Group - Century Ho!

Sturm Group where a Canadian post-punk band, or in there own words "Calling their sound Post-Industrial Wikka-Wikka, they often stated that it was their wish to become as unpopular as possible." And that's about all the info about Sturm Group there is. Century Ho! was released as vinyl by Green Fuse Records (GF 157) in 1985.


Tracks:


1. Courage Two-In-One
2. Twenty
3. Relief
4. No Second Troy
5. In The Wheels
6. Century Ho!
7. To The Baltic
8. A Better Man
9. Dirt Blue Dixie
10. Quiet Day


Century Ho!


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Fågeldöd - Kristus Gapskrattande

Fågeldöd was an experimental electronic/industrial project from Solna, Sweden, lead by M. Forshage and signed by the swedish cult label Konduktör Records. M. Forshage had also released one self-titled solo cassette one year earlier and had one track on the “Modern Pop Music According To De Selby” compilation also released in 1985. Experimental electronics with samples and a lot of background noises. Track 7 is a cover from The Human League. Kristus Gapskrattande was released as a cassette by Konduktör Records (KR 8) in 1985.


Tracks:


1. Ta Det Här Trädet T.ex.
2. Ajo Ajo
3. Jag Går Hellre
4. Tre Eller Kanske Fyra Nålar
5. Trianglar Av Hud
6. Guldsteklarna Som Cirkulerar Ovanför
7. Being Boiled
8. Ofödda Poeter Bryter Sönder Mandelkubbar
9. Noshörning
10. Noshörning Slow Version
11. Den Svåra Stunden
12. Ta Det Här Trädet #2


Kristus Gapskrattande


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Brume - In Death We Trust!

French sound-sculptor Christian Renou, who has recorded under the moniker Brume from 1985 to 2001, is heir to the glorious traditions of musique concrete and sound collage. His compositions (that treat, assemble and mix acoustic sounds) rely on dense, rapid-fire montage. They wed cacophony and dynamics, emphasizing both the element of discontinuity and the element of continuity. Brume exploits the technique of Mnemonists and the aesthetics of Einsturzende Neubauten. Excellent ambient/musique concrete release. In Death We Trust! was released as a cassette on Underground Productions (SUB 14) in 1988. In 1995 re-released on Nuit Et Brouillard (NB OE) also as a cassette, in a limited edition of 150 copies.


Tracks:


1. In Death We Trust!
2. Stahl Gig
3. Kabul (Parts I & II)
4. In Death We Trust! (Part II)
5. Ultra Church (Parts I & II)
6. Fist Fucking
7. Disjunkt
8. Stand By
9. Subnihill
10. The Rest (Part I)
11. Panzerfaust
12. Petite Ballade
13. The Rest (Part II)
14. La Danse (Parts I & II)
15. Transe / Chute
16. In Death We Trust!


(Recorded as Side A & B)


In Death We Trust!


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The Haters - In The Shade Of Fire

With a big thanks to P. here's In The Shade Of Fire. Founded in 1979, they are one of the earliest and most well-known acts in the modern noise scene. The group is primarily the work of the Hollywood, California-based media artist, writer, and film-maker GX Jupitter-Larsen, accompanied by a constantly changing line-up of other "members," usually local experimental musicians and artists in whatever town in which a Haters performance happens to take place. The album consists of 10 noise compositions made from the sounds of things falling apart. In The Shade Of Fire was released on vinyl by Silent (SR8601) in 1986.


Tracks:


1. Glsam
2. Explosions 3
3. Iny 1
4. Bebas
5. Thuch
6. Diti
7. Taisic
8. Cassas
9. Fire 5
10. Iny 2


In The Shade Of Fire


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New 7th Music - In A Dream

New 7th Music existed from 1979 to 1986. It was a group of amateur musicians with an interest in improvisation. They would meet on occasional weekends at a place called the Arun Leisure Center, where they would play in a rented room without the presence of an audience. Nearly all of New 7th's Music is spontaneous and unedited. Its members were not professional musicians, just friends getting together for jam sessions. The music was sometimes "New Age", sometimes "Tribal / Ethnic" with emphasis on percussion, and sometimes involving avant-garde or experimental music. They also threw in a bit of rock and roll on occasion. Some recordings were accompanied by live reading of texts, or improvised spoken word. While the musicians of New 7th Music were not professionals, some of them were rather good at improvising, which is an art in itself. The line-up of the group was continually changing, and not all members could make it to every session. Occasionally there were guest musicians - including Paul Kelday! The 2 constant members were Phil Kelday, who distributed the tapes, and Heather Rolfe, who designed most of the covers. In A Dream was released as a cassette by ADN (ADN TAPES 19) in 1985.


Tracks:


1. Live At The Richmond Brighton
2. In A Dream
3. Violin Phase
4. The Bitter Humours Of Fermenting Passion Flow
5. The Circle Of Violence
6. Life Began From Here
7. Ritual

( Tracks 2 & 3 are recorded together)


In A Dream


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Vox Populi! - Créatons Alternatives

With an enormous BIG THANKS to Laurent of the French band CEMEUBLE, and of course Axel from Vox Populi!, I can present to you this very rare cassette. About the cassette Axel told me: A friend of mine, Laurent who plays in 'CEMEUBLE' a very strange group based in the middle of France, who is a great VP! completist dug out a cassette called 'Créatons Alternatives' wich was made in 1988. I remember doing it at the time (for a guy who run a fanzine and who organised one of our concerts) but then I never heard any more of it. Nether received a copy, nether read a review about it, nether heard anyone speak about it, nada nada nada... But it had effectively been published in a very limited edition. All the tracks are from 88, half of it being live extracts. Apart from regular members it features Laurent Perrier from Nox and Alain Juteaux from Kni CRik. All tracks except one (which appeared in the 87-90 Vp! cd) are unreleased. 'Creations Alternatives' was a magazine wich dealt with art, alternative musics and hazy esoterics. Excellent VP cassette. The cassette was released by Créatons Alternatives (N°O 1) in 1988. In a very limited edition.




Tracks:


1.Totem
2.A Boa
3.Joue Joue
4.Qou
5.Nakarde
6.Hades
7.Grande Plante Fibreuse
8.Sirene
9.Operation Banquise
10.Tch Tchi Vox
11.Fla Vox Men


(new Link!)

Vox Populi! - Créatons Alternatives


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Various - Batcave: Young Limbs And Numb Hymns

Excellent compilation album featuring new wave, goth rock and experimental bands from the UK. Specimen: One of the first and most important bands in the Goth scene, the Specimen was born in early 1981 in Bristol. They moved to London, recruited drummer Jonathan in '82 and started the scene defining club, The Batcave, in Soho in July 1982. Johnny Melton, AKA Jonny Slut, joined soon after. Despite touring the UK and the States, they never achieved the fame of bands like Fields Of The Nephilim or The Mission and they split in 1985. Sexbeat: Formed originally by batcave DJ and better badges assistant guru, Hamish (guitars and vocals), la belle Sophie (bass and ID magazine cover), Linzi (USA and drums) and the darling Max Edie (guitars and voice), the band first supported the Meteors in the Lyceum in 1982 and, after losing Max (eventually to World Party), went on to play gigs at the Batcave , the Lyceum with The Gun Club, the Sisters of Mercy, and the Stray Cats, Hammersmith Palais with Killing Joke and the Cramps (as well as a 1983 UK tour with the Cramps). Patti Palladin: Snatch began when two Americans, Patti Palladin and Judy Nylon, living in the UK in 1974, decided to do what many of their friends were doing at the time and started a band. Greg Shaw (Bomp Records) heard the demos they recorded at Palladin's flat in 1976 and he chose to release two of these as a single, "IRT"/"Stanley" in February 1977. She also was a member of The Flying Lizards. James T. Pursey: Lead singer and songwriter with the UK Punk group Sham 69. Pursey formed Sham 69 in the year 1976, left to pursue other projects (such as the Sham Pistols, and his solo career) at the end of the 1970s, reformed the band in 1987 and was fired from the band in 2007. Alien Sex Fiend: Getting their start at the Batcave club in London in 1982, Alien Sex Fiend quickly became known in the gothic scene for their psychobilly, dark electronic, industrial sound, heavy samples and loops and manic vocals.Made up of the married couple Nik Fiend and Mrs. Fiend the band has put out a long discography over the years. Switching up easily from heavy industrial to ambient experimental styles, fans of Alien Sex Fiend are always wondering what the next album is going to entail. The Venomettes: Anne Stephenson is a violinist who was a member of The Venomettes in the early 80s and toured as part of Marc & The Mambas. Since then, she has also played with groups ranging from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to The Cure; and from the Manic Street Preachers to the Brilliant Strings Quartet (featuring her former Venomettes bandmate Gini Ball, née Hewes). Batcave: Young Limbs And Numb Hymns was released on vinyl by London Records (CAVE 1) in 1983.


Tracks:


1. Specimen - Dead Man's Autochop
2. Sexbeat - Sexbeat
3. Test Dept. - Shockwork
4. Patti Palladin - The Nuns New Clothes
5. James T. Pursey - Eyes Shine Killidiscope
6. Meat Of Youth - Meat Of Youth
7. Brilliant - Coming Up For The Downstroke
8. Alien Sex Fiend - R.I.P.
9. The Venomettes - The Dance Of Death


Batcave: Young Limbs And Numb Hymns


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Test Dept. - Live At Q.Bo'

And here's another one recorded live in Bologna Italy 1987, this bootleg cassette came in a limited edition of 100 copies and with a concert photo, and I have no clue as to who made it. The sound quality is at times very horrible as it is transferred to loud on to tape witch gives a very distorted sound or it was recorded to loud on the PA.



Tracks:


1.Side A
2.Side B


Test Dept. - Live At Q.Bo'


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