Saturday 11 January 2014

Kallous Boys ‎– "Internal Damage" ( Black Dwarf Wreckordings ‎– BDC15) 1983


Unkommuniti members, Vincent Van Hire and Moonboy, were and still are The Kallous Boys.
To lazily quote from their porkweasel site(click here):

"Kallous Boys- Synth Geeks, BleepFreaks, Drum Machine Junkies the delectable talents of Vincent Van Hire and Moonboy. Power Electronic Pioneers with the Unkommuniti. Released Cassettes on Black Dwarf in the Eighties as part of the burgeoning Cassette Culture. Grew up to the sound of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Delia Derbyshire. Fell in love with the sound of Sheffield, The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire. Soaked up everything from Industrial to IDM, the sounds of Berlin, Detroit and Chicago. Analogue to Digital and back to the old tools."

Definitely from the Portion Control end of Industrial Electronics are Kallous Boys.
Lots of vintage warm analogue electronica, with hints of commodore 64 game soundtracks, and a bit of Ambient for good measure.
A pleasure to listen to and surprisingly steers clear from that Noise dead end that many Industrial/Power Electronics pioneers found themselves stuck in, with nowhere to go. The Kallous Boys dare to be minimal, maybe out of necessity, but it worked. The space allows those wonderfully fat(without a 'Ph') sounds to breath without being suffocated by the boredom of extreme electronic Noise.

Track Listing:


A1
Ranyhyn

A2
Triumph

A3
At Random

A4
Finite Days

A5
Are You?

A6
Care

A7
Say It With...

A8
Swan Hunter

A9
Tranquilise

B1
She Bites

B2
Nehmen

B3
Siren Red

B4
Caution

B5
So Low

B6
This Menace

B7
More Haste

B8
Internal Damage


DOWNLOAD some internal damage HERE!

5 comments:

taren said...

Hello there, I've just found that the link to this interesting recording is no longer available. Is there another source or perhaps a solution of some glorious kind to its availability? Hope that all is well with the great Zchivago.

Jonny Zchivago said...

Well, I dunno what happened to that?....i'll have a look see.
Yes i'm alright,just having an indefinite blog holiday.Will return at an unexpected juncture in time, like the spanish inquisition.

Jonny Zchivago said...

Hi again, found the file, just re-upping it to mediafire.

Jonny Zchivago said...

Now re-upped as of 30/05/2016

taren said...

Thanks Jonny, you're an absolute star. The re-up is very, very much appreciated and thank you for all your time. Great cassette too, a curiously rich slice of home grown '83. All the best Sir.