Wednesday 30 July 2014

The Wet Taxis - "Taxidermy" (Terse Tapes TRS008) 1981

The Wet Taxis are from Australia, although you'd never guess it. No hints of sporting prowess here, no beach culture, surfing or mention of Barbecues!
They sound like a sort of antipodean ,less funny, version of Danny and the Dressmakers, but more tooled up in the instrument department.
They later turned into a very competent garage rock combo......how boring.
But this tape is up there in the pantheon of chaotic bedroom rock recordings, competing with "200 Cancellations" as the most sprawling epic of DIY cassette rock.
The best tape I've heard from OZ.

Apparently this was Assembled from bits off 1,000 Cassettes! This makes the Homosexuals seem to have the production rate of Scott Walker!

Classic DIY Instrument List:
Compurhythm - Guitar + Effects - Bass + Effects - Vocals - Minipops - Noise? - Kazoo - Clarinet - TV Game - Wineglasses + Tapes - Piano - Utensils - Home Made Oscillators - Amp Hum

Track Listing:


A1 Dare You (Live)
A2 But Mono Never Dies
A3 Wind Up Toys
A4 Max And Peter Marmite Jar
A5 Felate Your Baby
A6 Miniamata
A7 FP219
A8 Theme For A Bitch
A9 The Worm Has Turned
A10 Untitled 1/2/3
B1 Vomit
B2 Nun Strike
B3 Cerebral Damage
B4 My Boy Lollipop
B5 Untitled (Live)
B6 Make Cake (Live)
B7 Boom (Live)
B8 Rhythm
B9 Doll Hospital
B10 Polio Baby
B11 Fingernail Biter
B12 Rubber Balunes
B13 I Must Have Drunk Too Much Rum


DOWNLOAD some taxidermy HERE!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank You! This is really cool

Jonny Zchivago said...

I agree.

Anonymous said...

Authors, Simon Knuckey, Tim Knuckey, Garry Bradbury - and the download is illegal.

Jonny Zchivago said...

It was also once 'illegal' to be Gay,or sit on a park bench if you were Jewish.
Providing a link to a third party file host is in fact not illegal.

Anonymous said...

many gay and Jewish folk are also musicians.... not sure why you have named them. point is musicians are being ripped off.

Jonny Zchivago said...

What are you doing on this site then Mr Self righteous soap boxer.
There are many Gay and Jewish music fans who have been ripped off also.
Also the vast majority of the 'musicians' featured here are more than pleased to have their music kept alive,where if they charged money for it, it would have been forgotten. Play live and you will get paid.....most of the time. The days of records as a way of making an easy living is dead,after the brief period it existed as a job.Market forces say,no money for recorded music.
No doubt you'll come back with some predictable and superior standard statement.

Richie Muster said...

Hope you didn't hold your breath waiting for that tool's reply, Jonny. Gosh, i do love these back pages. So much to discover.

Jonny Zchivago said...

I didn't hold my breath...mainly because of a need to breathe.
These fools are easy meat.
Yeah, sometimes i enjoy looking back into the darkest annals of the blog.Its like it was all written by someone else.