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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