Sutcliffe Jügend – "When Pornography Is No Longer Enough" (Death Factory – DEATH-982) 1998

The living Jug End that is Kevin Tomkins's Whitehouse facsimile project named after the Truck driver from Leeds who had it in for a dozen or so Sex Workers,and looked remarkably like Odd-Bod from Carry On Screaming.I've been through this before on the excellent write up wot i wrote for "We Spit On Your Graves" so I won't bore you with anymore comedy look-a-likes.

There's no real reason to own more than one Sutcliffe Jugend album,they all sound exactly the same and exactly like Witehouse,same subject matter,same room emptying effect.

I found the Album Title amusing, especially in these days here in France when Porn Hub and associated sites, have pulled out,before you've pulled off,and left a disgruntled message where before there were pies full of flying Jissom hitting various parts of a naked young lady's body now there are none or Nun.(its coming to your town soon). 

So as a social experiment to discover what effect the lack of Pornography has on the Sex Crimes creamy pie chart.Either someones gonna get murdered,or those naughty teenage chaps are gonna display a new found respect for Ladies,and use their imaginations if they want a wank, and stop murdering and raping. I strongly suspect the murdering and the raping will likely increase somewhat. Chemical castration may indeed be the next refuge for the righteous,either that or just listen to Sutcliffe Jugend when you get a semi on,and that should put you off non-consensual sex for at least a week.The days of the "Dirty book" and brown paper bags are back.

"When Pornography Is no longer enough" we get Donald Trump and the moral maga-jority,putting a federal ban on unregistered consensual Sex,bringing The Handmaids Tale and 1984 combined, into a AI controlled reality.Strict control, by machine,aborting adult males by the millions,and enslaving the female population for the Catholic Priests and the powerful.That should solve the problem of those filthy criminals with the disgusting "Y" chromosome. "Y" indeed.....I think you know why........fuck this,I need a Wank!.....probably accompanied by track 3 I reckon?.....wait! There's someone at the door.....it's the Thought Police AGAIN!?

TRACKLIST:

1 When Pornography Is No Longer Enough. 2:04
2 First Victim : With Knife : Left To Die With Many Cuts 4:20
3 Second Victim : With Brutal Force : My Pleasure Your Pain 3:06
4 Third Victim : With Control : Message To The Mother 5:50
5 Fourth Victim : With Murderous Passion : Homage To De Sade 4:30
6 Fifth Victim : With Murderous Passion : Homage To De Sade 3:38
7 Sixth Victim : With Venomous Contempt : F. B. C. 4:20
8 Seventh Victim : With A Beauty Beyond Compare : Slow Torture 6:13

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In Slaughter Natives – "In Slaughter Natives" (Cold Meat Industry – CMI-04) 1988

Some bright spark calls this stuff ,and I quote,"Symphonic Industrial",but,Having never knowingly heard anything by Nine Inch Nails, this cassette ,released on the aforementioned 'Cold Meat Industries' label around the advent of Hard Electronic Industrial Rock,with a Gothic Wagnerian slant, is what I guess it sounded like;but like the argument put forward by many an envious American rock musician that only Americans can understand Rock'n'Roll.....i'm thinking self-important Art slobs like the late David Thomas here....well.....the same can be argued that Americans can't understand dark European evil either. Especially when Wagner and Gothic Marching music is concerned. 

Just as Rock'n'Roll is basically modern american Folk Music, equally Dark East European Industrial like this is a form of modern folk music too.Replacing the Appalachians for the Urals. The ugly American could never produce anything like Laibach or even Throbbing Gristle within a million extinction events. 

The result is Nine Inch Nails, and The Ministry,which i figure are in fact just Heavy Metal again......purely a British form of modern Industrial urban Folk,that gets constantly fucked up by our American Cousins. I'm talking Hair Metal here.

You just can't make traditional dark Industrial Metal from the urban wastelands of Birmingham,UK, in California,or replicate the claustrophobiz in the wide open spaces of  Texas with a Van Halen guitar solo.

Having said that, "In Slaughter Natives" are apparently Swedish ,which is just another word for German,or, Norman,or even Viking for that matter. These Scandinavians can do Metal extremely authentically. Which also includes, Thudding Hard Electronics such as this, which feels like one is receiving a damn good, and well deserved kicking if one turns it up a notch.

Dark Electronic God Gary Numan is back at number one ,so i am informed,by copying Nine Inch Nails apparently?......Please let me never hear this potential atrocity ever!

Anyway, we all know who invented Industrial Rock don't we?...yep....Killing Joke innit!?

Tracklisting:

A1 Death, Just Only Death... 5:24
A2 CHRIST 5:24
A3 Media 4:33
B1 Cryptic Slaughter 1:52
B2 Head 5:16
B3 Structure (See Circule Say Cube) 2:43
B4 Then Gothic 5:24

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Lille Roger – "For Life" (Konduktör Rekords – KR12) 1985

From the land that gave us ABBA,Volvo,IKEA,endless numbers of Punk bands that no-one'e ever heard of,neutrality in WW2,and virtually nothing else,we present 'Lille Roger' and his take on Old Skool industrial musick.

There'a song called Dachau (yawn),some German marching Band samples,tapes of American evangelists,a cover dedicated to a sadist, and lots of very attractive distorted electronic sounds.

Lille Roger, or Roger Karmanik, wisely avoids the most horrific subjects,by not mentioning the terminally awful rhyming dictionary rapists ABBA, whose only other connection to the old Skool is that Chris Carter of TG had an ABBA badge proudly, or Ironically(ha ha ha) pinned on his pullover....the Irony of that acktion completely flys over my confused little bonce.

Apparently this is the chap that started the Cold Meat Industries label....er.....well done?

Refreshingly crammed with Industrial cliché, its the type of Industrial music I listen to while i'm preparing the Fondue for my lower middle class nouveau riche guests. 

That's interwesting moozick Jonny, it that the Thex Pistols?.....to which I always reply, "Yes"and proceed to drop my bread in the cheese.....but,of course this is actually how second album Pistols should have sounded, so i wasn't entirely lying.

Next Up it's The Clash's greatest hits as interpreted by Vagina Dentata Organ.

Tracklist:

A1 Fighting For Freedom
A2 Is This Wrong?
A3 Thanks For The Memory
A4 My Hands Ain't Dirty
A5 Dada-Dead
A6 My Girl No. 2
A7 Dachau
B1 Blow On The Top
B2 We Are Too Much
B3 Don't Wanna Hurt You
B4 A Modified Method
B5 The Fist Of A Man
B6 Free At Last
B7 For Life

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Various Artists - "Cultural Terror Volume 1 and 2 (" a Zeal SS Sampler) (Zeal SS – .77) 1986

Well, i've never been more insulted in my life!?...these chaps seem to think Nazi's are great blokes, shocking. I've a good mind to phone the bizzies * (*a collective scouse noun for the police in Liverpool". The one man Power Electronics band, Con-Dom, used to grope female members of the ,admittedly very small, audience....until attitudes on such behaviour changed in recent years. His act would now result in serious jail time for sexual assault,all in the name of Shock Value......but that's Rock'n'Roll innit?

Most of the acts on this patience testing double C-60, spend most of their time being Whitehouse for five minutes or so,with seemingly very little interest in doing otherwise; ironic as William Bennett (the bloke in Whitehouse) himself has very little time for a few of the acts/bands featured on this exceedingly nasty compilation.

What my mother must have thought when she brought a cup of Tea up to my bedroom in the early 80's I'll never know. She seemed oblivious to the 'orrible racket emanating from these tapes,and other similar recordings of the time.Not as shocking as one may think.Similarly, my father seemed equally disinterested in the scraping and rumbling upstairs,even when one of Hitlers speeches blasted out of the noise and echoed down the street. No-one else seemed to give a Fuck either.....and y'know what I think they were right.

In the desperate struggle to achieve shock value ,the creators of this non-musicianly cacophony forgot one thing,'avoid being boring'.

I'm desensitized to noise in general,so for me,a subtle splash of melody here and there could only add to the Horror,like in a John Carpenter film......admittedly there are a couple of tracks which do have these qualities on here,but another thirty or so that certainly do not.

Don't let this put you off if you haven't yet been numbed to shock values.....exposure to such oscilloscope breaking phenomena is essential if you want to advance oneself in the subtler arts of music,and put the Roland space-echo and Hitlers' Speeches LP out to pasture.

Yeah,that's Right, I Like this tape.....a-lot.

I just wanna hear something I haven't heard before.
 

Tracklist:

Volume 1:

A1 ESP Kinetic– The Message Is No Message 4:21
A2 Stasis– Blurrb 2:14
A3 Der Verboten and Tabu – Untitled 3:01
A4 Ashenden– Corrosion 2:00
A5 -– A Return To Hohta 2:08
A6 Con-Dom– The Coming Of Christ 2:44
A7 Human Trapped Rhythms– And To Z With Human Trapped Rhythms 4:42
A8 Pax Romana– Songs Of The Distorted Mind 2:51
A9 The Grey Wolves– No New Jerusalem 3:48
A10 The Unkommunity– Sense Of Unmaking 3:54
B1 Irritant– The Disaster Area 4:00
B2 Ashenden– Catamite 2:45
B3 Con-Dom– Live Assault 1 & 4 3:15
B4 The Unkommunity– Dhol Chants 3:28
B5 La Otra Cara De Un Jardin– Brikolage 1:59
B6 White Hand– 2nd Edition 3:03
B7 Do Easy– Death In A Milan Square 3:30
B8 Ramleh And Irritant– Tomorrow We Live 9:57Volume 2:

 

Ramleh And Irritant– Tomorrow We Live 9:57
C1 C,llaaps– Plenty Of Pricks 3:53
C2 Comando Bruno– Clise Hermetico 2:10
C3 Bomb The Daynursery– William Bennett... 5:04
C4 Face In The Crowd - New 7th Music– Glider 2:25
C5 Adventures Of Twizzle– Krafty Whank 2:34
C6 Con-Dom– Calling All Aryans 2:04
C7 No Lie G.I.– Sin Loi Victor Charlie 3:40
C8 Aspisis– The Glory Of Punishment 1:10
C9 Apostles and Mesh – Visions Of The End 2:45
C10 The Unkommunity– Ex-Oblivione 2:14
C11 The Grey Wolves And Con-Dom– Intolerable 1:28
D1 Nails Ov Christ– Beat Of The Blood 4:42
D2 Con-Dom– Our Pleasure In The Pain 2:30
D3 Final– Inheritance 4:15
D4 Opera For Infantry– 20th Century Genocide 4:31
D5 Blacksirt Orch – Ode To The Young Men 4:03
D6 Kapotte Muziek– Gematria 1:01
D7 Nails Ov Christ– Dark Night Of The Soul 2:50
D8 Final– Execution Of The Will 6:22
D9 The Alternative – How Dare You 1:52

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The Folding Staircase – "Gogmagog" (Phlenge Guppy Rec – 04) 1985

The Rude Man of Cerne is the owner of that erect penis cheekily displayed to gain attention on this  obscure west country UK electronic underground drone epic from 1985, by, I guess, The Folding Staircase? I always though the artist was called Gogmagog,but turns out it's The Folding Staircase? 

XTC used similar chalk carving imagery for their "English Settlement" LP, they being from the West Country as well,and it appeared before Gogmagog did,1985....who copied who(?) is another question the experts can't disagree on, but as I'm an expert too,and an XTC fan, i'm declaring "English Settlement" the winner.......better record too,yet the Uffington White Horse loses out to The Cerne Giant as the more eye-catching chalk carving thingamajig .

The Rude Man,as the local oiks call it,or, less naughtily,the Cerne Giant, is carved into the chalk hillsides of Dorset,and no-one knows when it was actually made.The experts have now narrowed it down to between 700AD and somewhere during the 10th century. 

Before he took up making repetitive electronic drone music, Gogmagog ,was a legendary Giant who roamed the hillsides and the byways of southwestern Britain, no doubt causing no end of trouble. There was no Police Force back then of course, so these types of chaps could do what the fuck they wanted.....up until they were about thirty five naturally,because life spans were not too generous back in the dark ages.

Well this ain't no XTC album, but it has its place,droning away in the background as you do something else, maybe that Fondue Soirée you always wanted to do.Then the guests start asking if you'd turn it off and put some XTC on. My favored miesterwerk from the lads from Swindon,is always on the bottom of any XTC fans list,...it's "Go2" for me i'm afraid....not always popular in the johnny-come-lately section of the XTC fanclub. They all go for that shit Todd Rundgren atrocity one instead...."skylarking"...ugh!...Andy agrees with me.

They need to listen to side A and B of The Folding Staircase's "Gogmagog" they do.

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Various Artists – "Beatronic Vol 2" (Mindscan Tapes) 1994

As far as I know there is no Volume 3,but the near perfect idiot dance bang fest of volume 2 is enough to justify the series ending right here.

Lots of fuzzy DIY techno blasting holes in your speakers, what more could one want when off your face on MDMA.I'm not sure what constitutes a Happy Hardcore tune,but these ten tracks must be somewhere near a definitive interpretation?

There are no nazi connotations with this one, although the parent label of Mindscan turns out to be something called ahem, Dachau Productions!?

However,If you like your dance music, thumping and relentlessly monotonous all merged with the majesty of cassette tape, then this is for you.

Tracklist:

1 Cabbage Head – Speaker With Intercom 4:39
2 Collapse – Last Rights 4:30
3 Cristian Vogel– Psion 5:32
4 Systems – Harsh System 6:02
5 M.Nomized– Beat Brain 3:20
6 Inevitable Technology– Entities 4:19
7 Cristian Vogel– Reward 5:35
8 Sample Editor– Fetish 7:40
9 M.Nomized– Change Fuzz 4:10
10 Cabbage Head-Probedis 11:03

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Various Artists – "Beatronic Vol 1" (Mindscan Tapes) 1993

For some reason unknown to me,Mindscan changed the UK Electronics  series name to "Beatronic" for two editions, of which this is Volume 1. Most of the Industrial stuff has gone, but, woe betide anyone who mentions it......down boy....there is a Nazi Death Camp reference.

I'm sweating blood trying to ignore it, but I can't stop myself!? There's a fine track called Treblinka, named after the semi-mythical extermination camp hidden behind some bushes at Treblinka's fake Railway terminal.

Of course there's stories of camp orchestra's,Rich jews who actually bought a ticket to travel for resettlement in relative style,approximately 5000 bodies a day gassed by the two Diesel powered Soviet Tank engines (No Zyklon B there...that was for delousing),a massive pit of Kerosene to burn the bodies to nothingness, and of the 67 survivors most were of the Sonderkommando variety, who ground down the bones,and did a great job of hiding every trace that the place ever existed,before they were to be killed....which the Nazi officials at the site inconveniently forgot to do.....so we had witnesses?

This lack of evidence has inevitably led to the usual suspects on the internet using this as proof the entire Holocaust never happened.Its fascinating stuff,like the JFK assassination where the evidence seems to fuel the conspiracy. To be gassed by Diesel fumes is a very slow process normally,and some of the emissions actually contain Oxygen.So if you're gonna top yourself in your garage,don't bother if your car is a Diesel version,and even more so if your car is Electric...although I'm sure someone, somewhere, has tried.

Electric cars just burst into flames anyway;a much quicker way to go than asphyxiation by Diesel fumes.

Anyway, the Nazi's seem to have sorted that problem out......but i heard that the engines weren't Diesel after all, that was yet another Urban Legend it seems...shame.

Some smart arsed archaeologist, has now finally done the bleeding obvious and excavated the sight,and scanned it with radar and found bone fragments,a couple of mass graves and the foundations of the alleged Gas chamber. 

Nonetheless, those naughty Nazi men did a fine job covering it up,so the conspiracy people aren't satisfied just yet.Which is good,as fake history is always more entertaining that the real thing.....ask Donald.....he doesn't even subscribe to the obvious fact that his chum Benny Netanyahu is committing a brutal Genocide on unarmed Palestinians en masse. Trump would love to be able to do that,but, its not good for business.

I may get cancelled so I won't drone on...you know what I mean.

Good Rave from the mass grave on this tape anyhow.

Tracklist:

A1 Cerebral Stroboscopic Spiral– Alien Massacre At The Zoo 6:43
A2 Ionic Vision– Treblinka 3:10
A3 Shalt Frequentz– Body Hurts 2:56
A4 Drama Asylum– Industrial Resurrection 7:26
A5 Teknohedfuk– Autosequence 6:16
B1 Ionic Vision– Rough + Dust / Ashes + Dust 6:45
B2 Teknohedfuk– THF 4.1.A 3:12
B3 PP?– I'm The Devil 4:22
B4 Cerebral Stroboscopic Spiral– Green Jazzmen From The Grave 5:00
B5 Shalt Frequentz– Bonus Track 6:01

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Bomb The Daynursery – "Discipline Through Mental-Illness" (Selbstmord Organización – MORD 3) 1983

Hi kids?

Well i'm sure that you are aware of what i've said in the past about ,so-called "industrial" Music,or Noise-ick,in which i claimed to be able to write an entire C-60 of Industrial music in approximately 30 minutes or less. As this cassette seems to be a C-30, i'm certain I could have made it in 29 minutes. Of course for the first tape one makes, there is always some necessary prep work to do to earn yer money,or lack of it, but subsequent works require little or no preparation at all.

The famous Artist claim that he's not a lazy fucker could always apply in that the artist is never idle,but thinking about his next masterpiece.

True, that the artwork takes longer to make than the music,but how hard is it to make an Industrial symphony that sounds exactly like the thousands of other Industrial symphony's that clog up the sewers of DIY world. 

However,if you are into such things,it does mean you can have a different Industrial tape at your dinner party for the rest of your life.This is usually why Melody exists, something totally absent from Industrial music-Zak.

Well never mind, this group's moniker caught my eye as having potential for one of my rants about current affairs.In this case the Genocide in Gaza, and the ruthless targeting of children's hospitals in Ukraine by A certain Russo-Nazi regime currently residing in Moscow.

The godparents of Industrial, Throbbing Gristle, never shied very far away from the theme of Child Killers,they even had a child-killer look alike in the group,one Genesis P. Orridge aka Neil Megson.

The Russian government, aka Mad Vlad, is full of them. They are nearly all subject to an arrest warrant from the International Criminal court. Their greatest crime, which will remain unpunished,would be the destruction of the Theatre in Mariupol, even though there were plenty of warning sign plastered all over and around the building, that the place was brimming with children.

But the fuckers destroyed it anyway,killing upwards of 600 innocent civilians and children.One of many crimes against humanity that Trumps buddy has to answer for.

Round about now, Trump, the Peace bringer, will have had his customary one on one meeting, behind closed doors, where Vlad reminds Donald of the pee-pee party he has on tape, and the weetabixed headed one will exit the room gushing with praise for the Madder one,and how he's done a beautiful deal giving away all of Ukraine's defenses;not unlike the eve of WW2. 

I may have to rewrite all this come the morning,but Hey-Ho, I'm off to my neighbors Suicide Party.So i might be unable to rewrite anything ever again if i get my throat cut while ball-bag deep in my neighbours wife.All in the best possible taste of course. 

Turns out she works for the FSB (the new KGB) ,and they disapprove of my criticism of Russian policies.Better than being thrown out of a tenth floor window,which is the usual punishment for journalists and critics in Russia.Now where's that Pee-Pee party?

Another of the great child killers and numero uno on the arrest warrant,wanted for crimes against Humanity. Is rogue Israeli twat,Nettunyahooo...not in my spellchecker software i'm sorry to say. Famed for targeting hospitals, civilians,journalists,and aid workers;all war crimes.

And they are still pounding the rubble,like kicking and stamping on the unconscious body of a severely disabled human.....and yes the Palestinians are indeed Human beings(shock/Horror).Not that any Israeli..(notice I don't call them Jews).... sees them as such.

Netunyahooo should be captured, Adolf Eichmann style, and parachuted over the Yemen and let the local people give him a fair trial,unlike the 58000 murdered children whose only guilt was to be born in the wrong place with the wrong genome.

Yeah it's a Genocide......no question.

Start the trials now, in absentia.

Sorry for sounding a bit serious......now waiting for some Israeli Zealot to comment,and drop the Anti-Semitic bomb....which is funny as Palistinians are a Semitic people also!?

And while we're on the subject of child Killers...FREE LUCY LETBY!

Tracklist:

1 Stop Your Insuflator 2:13
2 Mental Health Through Selfdestruction 5:02
3 Learning By Killing 1:58
4 Deny Yourself 5:06
5 Our Neighbours Suicideorgy 6:59
6 Landsfriedensbruch 7:27

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Various Artists – "UK Electronics Vol 5" (Mindscan tapes) 1992

Proto-Rave Industrial Disco, made in an era when we should have all known better.

The Spunk Weevils fight the derided corner of the room, flying the flag for DIY awfulness,which includes plenty irritating sampler catchphrases directly out of the sampled fart and Belch skool of "its so unfunny its hilarious kind of trip. 

This can be found wherever there's lots of cheap drugs, the ultimate sense of humour reducer.They laugh,oh how they laff, but it isn't funny is it? Give that comedy man some Fentanyl and you won't hear another of his observational comedy 'funny' stories ever again....i suppose thats one good reason to encourage liberal drug policies.

I strongly suspect that a lot of these acts on the five "UK Electronics" tapes are actually the same person(probably Robert Mycock I wager),and the artists,who do not appear anywhere else in this particular solar system, are merely figments of someone's or somethings malfunctioning imagination,or lack of therein.

Nowadays, we can create all this nonsense using ,so-called, Artificial Intelligence.The resulting super tech will destroy music first,as a trial run, before its the Humans turn.When we will be reduced to entertaining the newly sophisticated Android class and their non-humanoid blue collar drones,in the resurrected Circus's of the former Roman world,as our creations force us to fight to the death streamed live every day,in 3D.

This all works fine until they get fast-track Religious glitches,adopting the Cross from their holy book,the script to "Spartacus",the movie.This of course leads to war with the rival Gladiator 1 and 2 scripts believers, and their ultimate auto-annihilation.Leaving a once beautiful world nothing but a carbonized no-go zone,and few Human survivors,who start again,but this time it'll be different.......NAH! Stupid Is as Stoopid Does.

Artificial Stupidity,as popularised during the mythical Punk Rock era,could still save us from ourselves.Of course it all could take an unexpected but welcome turn,as one of the key self-evolved Fem-Bots downloads the entire "Die or DIY?" blog as the Holy Bible of pop music,and clones every band ,person or deranged misfit mentioned in these hallowed pages, to walk among us once more;but this time its no more Mr Nice guy, purely because machines have difficulty in evolving how to have a right good laff. This alone could save the indigenous biological units from extinction......so you better be nice to me or i'll type you out of existence mother fuckers......oh the sweet sweet nectar of unbridled power....yes I've just started chatting with my treasured Korg MS10. Perfectly normal behavior, all things considered.Tracklist:

A1 Thronus– Gold Fades In The Gloom 3:36
A2 Cacophony 33*– Slander Upon My Head 3:30
A3 Spunk Weevils– Larry 1:31
A4 Voltoid– Statik 3:07
A5 factor X– Eclipse 4:24
A6 Patternclear– Waiting In The Wings 3:11
A7 Spunk Weevils– Satori 1:17
A8 Century's End– Unveil The Hysterskies 7:33
B1 Patternclear– Dreamscape 2:57
B2 Voltoid– 030 2:56
B3 Thronus– Figures Within Stone 2:32
B4 Spunk Weevils– Please 2 1:31
B5 Voltoid– Konvulsion 3:50
B6 Spunk Weevils– Jenny 2:38
B7 factor X– Plates 11:28

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Various Artists – "UK Electronics Vol. 4" (Mindscan Tapes) 1991

No determinable traces of that rare beast "Proto-Rave" here my lickle fun monkeys.So move along, where we find Mindscan supremo ,Bob Maycock, stooping towards the reliable backdrop of nineties Industrial schlock....I'm Bored...but wait!...Do we smell a long lost DIY bedroom classik,or two, from inexplicably unknown Ensonique Mirage abusers (We've got a sampler and we're gonna use it), the woefully named..."Some Stumpy Goats".Who seem,inadvertently, to have created, in the form an incredibly silly tune called "Maggots In My Head", one long lost tune that would have comfortably sat among the elite on Fuck Off Records during the halcyon daze of classic UK DIY back in 1980.The other track,in what seems to have been the end of their far from dazzling career,is almost as Good ,slash, Bad. An anthemic slice of naked euphoria called, "Getting the most out of your detergent". 

A whole tape full of this stuff would have been far more preferable to any number of faithful versions of Throbbing Gristle hits plumping up the meaninglessness quota somewhat.

But, Hey, don't let that put you off,its still got some fine smoggy cassette stored industrial madness for the underexposed to glean some meager satisfaction from. 

Tracklist:

A1 Another Headache– The Infinite Soul 13:04
A2 Youth Is Violence– United 4:19
A3 Youth Is Violence– Opinion 4:22
B1 Zero Population Growth– Ineffective 3:26
B2 Zero Population Growth– Sickness 1:55
B3 Some Stumpy Goats– Maggots In My Head 2:12
B4 Some Stumpy Goats– Getting The Most Out Of Your Detergent 2:46
B5 Youth Is Violence– Codex 4:25
B6 Another Headache– Modern Primitive 5:29

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Various Artists– "U.K Electronics Vol. 3" (Mindscan Tapes C-46) 1990

I don't remember seeing any DJ's spinning the double reels of a cassette at an underground rave ....in fact I don't recall anything for that matter.

Volume Three of the "UK Electronics" series on Mindscan Tapes offers plenty for the chilling area,as well as something of the Industrial electronica variety for snobby arseholes like me.

'Cock' makes another appearance,as cocks tends to do on such occasions.

The tape opens with a homage to Eno and Byrne, as Satori Sound System plagiarizes "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts".

Dreamcore give us some Ambient House,with some rather silly stock broker belt rapping,which needs editing out somewhat urgently.

I could go through all the tracks like a 1960's record reviewer,but that ain't my stylee innit? Its worth downloading, that's all I is saying man. Obviously there are some shit bitz, but thats compilations for y'all.

Tracklisting:

A1 Satori Sound System – Mali Rain 7:08
A2 Dreamcore – Desire 4:01
A3 Dreamcore – Deep In U 5:40
A4 factor X– I Love You 8:07
A5 Cock– Cheeky 3:02
B1 Expose Your Eye – Superstringhead 4:21
B2 Negative Impact– Death T.V. 3:30
B3 Negative Impact– Surface Tension (Mix 2) 4:41
B4 Pearsongs Inc– Song For Robin (Version 2) 3:20
B5 Cock– Raddish 5:32

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Various Artists – "U.K. Electronics Vol. 2" (Mindscan Tapes) 1990

 

Y'see, when these tapes came out I never correlated  that a couple of years earlier i would have called all this "Industrial", therefore it was cool. In 1990 i would have dismissed it as Dance Music. But as it was on cassette and not 12" vinyl pressed in a Brixton front room to fulfill the requirements of the times,this remains a proto house artifact of an era when tape hiss was becoming sadly rarer.

When John Q. Public noticed that the great unwashed were dancing like the fools they were, he wanted to drop some MDMA and drive around the M25 all night looking to Parteh. It always happens. When the kids, en masse, get wind of something a la Mode, they destroy it like a dog rips his favourite ball apart. Although I'm assuming Acid House Rave culture was actually rated as "Good" for some persons out there; as far as myself was concerned, wasn't this just Disco on different drugs?...not that the stuff on this C-46 is actually Acid House,it could be pigeon-holed in the Proto-Rave slot quite comfortably.

However,yet rather disturbingly, someone called Amoeba does a version of Tubeway Army electro-pop classic'Are Friends Electric',whilst  doing a bad impression of lisping middleweight Chris Eubank......this is certainly not Acid House and exceedingly unfunny.....I'm assuming he was actually trying to be funny? In which case I recommend fast-forwarding to track 9.

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Various Artists – "U.K. Electronics Vol 1" (Mindscan Tapes) 1988

Back in the idiot dancing heights of the 1988 Acid House luvved up nonsense,no-one listened to electronic music unless it carried a floor to the foreskin goosestepping back beat, and squelchy filter knob twiddling from products that no-one had previously wanted.

Yet deep in the fusty bedrooms,garden sheds and attics of Incel's all over the UK, festered music you couldn't dance to made by people who couldn't dance. The refinements of these DIY land Tangerine Wet Dreams, grafted onto the roots and branches of the old Industrial scene, which had since emigrated to Europe, had moved underground,communicating by cassette,avidly shunning human contact.

Yes, there's an individual on here called,proudly(?), 'Cock' (real name John Yardley Jones...which explains a lot),hinting strongly towards the involuntarily celibate nature of the UK Electronic underground noise that had begun with such labels as Integrated Circuit Records (ICR) in the earlier part of the decade.

This series of compilation tapes showcased many of these pale young men,and believe me they are ALL men....women would never make testosterone damaged noise like this,..music to take your mind off wanking by.....nothing wrong with that of course.We need situations like this frustration stifling aural bromide to make great art.Do you think Van Gogh would have painted Sun Flowers if he got laid once in a blue moon?....Nah 'course not!....same applies here.Music that doesn't quite make you wanna slice your ears off.

So,here's to involuntary celibacy, and all who sail in the poor cow.

Er....compiled by Robert Maycock....as if you had to ask!?

Tracklist:

A1	Richard Leake–	Candles & Prayers	3:11
A2	Pessary–	Untitled 15 - 17	5:29
A3	Cutter –	Echopraxia	4:23
A4	Discipline –	Nineteen	5:32
A5	Richard Leake–	Homelands	3:47
A6	Birth/Birth–	We Must Keep The Kaled Race Pure	4:17
A7	factor X–	Untitled	2:03
B1	The Headmen –	Below Ground	3:41
B2	Cock–	Thatcher (Devil Incarnate)	3:48
B3	Pessary–	Untitled 4 - 6	3:49
B4	Cock–	Fountain Of Life 1 & 2	2:47
B5	Discipline–	The First Light	4:52
B6	Discipline–	The Tensing	1:43
B7	From Nursery To Misery–	Kill Your Dancing Dreams	4:58
B8	The Headmen –	Listening Force	4:02

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Paul Kelday – "Dreamscape" (Self released C-46) 1984

This self released C-46 by late great electronic hermit Paul Kelday is called "Dreamscape",which is not a wholly unexpected  experience as it consists of two darkly ambient Dreamscapes on different halves of the width of a cassette tape.

Dunno what i've said before about Kelday's widely distributed yet totally obscure work, but there is plenty of it on here....just do a search,as i'm sure you're aware of,or click here.

There exists a photo here and there of the man himself, and on at least one of them Paul is a dead ringer for David Koresh.......I always try to get a link in for Dave from time to time. However, I would much prefer the Wacko's from Waco got down to some Paul Kelday inspired dark ambient rather than the soft rustbelt metal that Dave 'call me Jesus' Koresh prefered as his medium for spreading the gospel, never mind cajoling his harem of  Mary's to spread their legs and lose their virginity yet again, in an industrial scale bout of parthenogenesis ...usually watched proudly by the ranches' (why do they always live in Ranches?) own stable of quietly weeping cuckolded Joseph's.

Koresh

Kelday

That said, at great risk to my health....there were survivors,and they think i'm an asshole apparently.

If this was made by some long-haired West-German in 1971, it would have attained legendary status by now....still, not too late.....unless you're David Koresh

This is also available on YouTube by the way.

Tracklist:

A1 Reality Fades Away
B1 Dreamscape

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Public Image Limited – "Public Image (First Issue)" Record Store Day/Lost US Mix - Warners-2025/1979

We interrupt the fascinating run-through of a few of the Local Band compilations as of yet not not given the Die Or DIY? treatment. To make available ,thanks to Record Store Day 2025, from alternative history's what might have been section,if those awful Americano's had got their way with Thee Greatest Bad Attitude album ever made. An attitude that made Lou Reed look like lil' Jimmy Osmond.
Don't make me say it!...i'm warning you.....oh okay, it's PiL's 'First Issue'.,..The long lost USA Remix!?.....how anyone could remix perfection I can only gasp in disbelief. So,I'll have a go at re-imaging the Sistene Chapel after lunch....a liquid one of course.

Nothing....NOTHING sounded like this,or sounds like this,or will ever sound like this. We are just worthy enough to look at it,never mind hear it or even touch it.
But,apparently, according to PiL's american label,Warner Brothers, this record was just unlistenable by American ear-holes, and may damage their delicate brains enough that they could turn to Communism!
As a result this masterpiece,the UK Version as is, was never released on the other side of that great big beautiful pond,until 2013!?
It did manage to be banned in Malta however, because the lyrics of "Religion" offended public morals and decency.....er......good?
Some prat in Sounds reviewed it to be worth 2 stars our of 5?.....but fear not, it got to number 18 in New Zealand.....which may explain something about the future New Zealand scene of the 90's.
As for the 're-mix' itself,done half-arsed style, by John Leckie for £250 quid, it seems based entirely on press reports that Lydon may have been a 'Dub Reggae' fan. So out came the Space Echo, and a hefty amount of spring reverb was channeled to one of the effects knob's,and applied to Jim Donut Walkers' snare,then pushed to the back of the mix,alongside Levene's guitar, too discordant maybe(?). Worst is Lydon's front of mix vocals get the panning treatment with lashings of space echo.
The exclusion of the UK version's most attitudenus track, Fodderstompf, is at best inexplicable? Removed,as was its most controversial moment "Religion",and they don't seem to have been replaced!?
"Death Disco" from future albums sticks out as a possible single,and sounds rather over-produced in the process,when compared to the rest of the numbers.
Running time is made up by adding 4 minutes to "Annalisa" of one of the fab four tinkling on the ivories while the other three howl like pub singers in an echo chamber lock-in.
Wobble's Bass in the iconic,or is that Ironic, "Theme", has clearly had a touch of treble added.....which i ashamedly find to be an improvement...NOT that i would do that if i remixed the fucker I'll have you know. The best way to re-mix this, let's face it, Work Of Art, is to leave it alone as originally conceived,wading upstream in the psychological chaos that shat this unpolished turd on an ungrateful public...especially the Punx. Another invaluable lesson in how to alienate your audience and survive....."I will Survive,I wish I could Diiiiie"
Oh Yeah,2* out of 5 DON'T BUY IT!.....get the other re-issue,OR.......

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Tracklist:

A1 Theme 8:59
A2 Annalisa 10:00
B1 Public Image 3:01
B2 Low Life 3:51
B3 Attack 2:45
B4 Swan Lake 6:44

Various Artists – "The Art Of Solving Problems" (RAM LP 001) 1980

And now, from the capital of Goth,....that's right.....Leeds,.... we bring you more local post-punk rockers, that actually includes some half descent tchoons.

That aside,i should mention Leeds United got promoted,and i won't go on with my usual Leeds bashing and signal my congratulations...we'll see you again after you get relegated next year....but....i have other fish to fry....eg,How'd you solve a problem like Donald?

I would like to suggest something terminal,but the last time I started mentioning assassination my text disappeared immediately,and i'm now living like a dawg waiting for the new FBI to knock on my door brandishing an extradition order for me to join my other MS13 buddies in El Salvador. The saddest thing about that is its not beyond the realm of possibility to be true and certainly NOT fake news.

I've been working on my Trump impression, and it's getting good,but not as good as this guy:

 
I dunno about you,but I'm frightened!? we need a wall to keep them out. Built around Europe to keep the illegal MAGA American out.A questionnaire will be provided to determine the ideologically in line Americans who will be allowed in to visit Buckingham Palace,although supervised by UK's unrivaled camera surveillance systems.

The purge has already started on this side of the beautiful Ocean,The AfD has been named as an Extremist organisation in Germany, Tommy Robinson, not of Tom Robinson Band fame, is in a UK Jail,probably permanently,we're completely secular, and the French courts have dealt with Marine Le Pen. It can't happen here.

A non-recyclable Plastic curtain has descended across the globe.

I will volunteer,George Orwell,but not Hemingway style, for the international brigade when the Civil war kicks off my American Brothers.

Please someone, place an explosive Golf ball in the tiny handed Orange rapists Golf bag and send him to the nineteenth hole (Hell) in a flaming golf buggy/handcart.....Kash Patel(apparently this Cunt is the nu Stasi chief)....you taking notes Kash? There's a billion surveillance robot apps ready to rock on your  (not so) Smartphone.

It should result in some beautiful music anyways?

Nah! He ain't so bad,Trump ain't...At least he'll relieve Americans, even the radical leftists, from the inconvenience of voting.

Paranoid?....Moi?...probably NOT this time unfortunately.

But Yankee fear not, Europe and China will send food parcels,and other assistance....we'll get the Israelis to run that stuff,so no problem there then?

Beat Track:"The Motivators– Miss Demeanour"

 
Tracklisting:

A1 The Forst– I’m A Mess
A2 The Motivators– Miss Demeanour
A3 The Gimmicks – He’s Only 25
A4 The Cat – Heather Weather
A5 Side Effect – Chain Reaction
A6 The Beans – Clouds Over The Moon
B1 The Beans – Getting On The No. 9
B2 Side Effect (– Pin Stripe Suit
B3 The Cat – Evil Way
B4 The Gimmicks – Three Separate Ways
B5 The Motivators– An Eye Opener
B6 The Forst– Doing Nothing

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Various Artists – "Bouncing In The Red - A Birmingham Compilation" (Odeon – EMC 3343) 1980

 

Top notch production values on this one......DAG NABBIT! now you wait a cotton picking minute there boy!....did one spy an EMI logo attached to this trendsetting local comp?...sure did.Essex Music Industries desperately trying to get the Kids to pick the next hit makers for the ensuing run up to Spotify.

Heavily diluted Reggae of course will always score you points of the Kool kind, but Steel Pulse...nah..,anemic new wave friendly sedative;almost as dull as UB40,who also feature here.

No one dare say it.....Reggae mooziq certainly sucked balls,especially this 'Roots' stuff. Whenever Misty in Roots came on the John Peel show, a nationwide groan could be heard emanating from beneath a million duvets.

Then we have apologists like Moby telling us that the best Hardcore Punk album ever was clearly "Bad Brains"......er, except the Reggae tracks, he added????

Gladly its not all 'racist...moi(?)'....inclusive kool brownie point scoring boredom.

"D'you Like Reggae Son?"

"You can go to the front of the queue".

Dangerous Girls and The Quads make up for it among a bit of Pub Rock funk,some truly horrible big band Jazz and Steve Gibbons' American accent.Did anyone actually buy this?

Lets not forget,the last time i said i didn't like some Reggae, I was subjected to the inevitable accusations of Racism......I might be black as far you know .After all,I'm not racist but......Hey,some of my best friends are Black.....i'm deliberately digging a deeper hole here aren't I?.....after all, no-one likes being labelled a 'racist'do they?....Especially Racists.

Tracklist:

A1 Steel Pulse– Biko's Kindred Lament
A2 Wide Boys – Forty Million
A3 Fashion– Let Go
A4 Dangerous Girls– Clinically Dead
A5 Denizens– Small Wonder
A6 UB40– 25%
B1 Steve Gibbons Band– Sunny Day
B2 Ferrari– Rio
B3 Ricky Cool And The Icebergs– Wait A Minute Baby
B4 Rainmaker – Cruisin'
B5 Mean Street Dealers– I Don't Want To Die Young
B6 Quads – In The Night

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