The Alien Brains were on the recently featured "Fire On Boat" compilation, so here's a C-90 of theirs that I haven't posted yet, on legendary UK cassette label Deleted records.
Its a confused lo-fi mash-up of noisy messing about with crap electronics,tapes, and whatever items Nigel Jacklin and chums could find lying around their living room.
To add further confusion,the tape opens with a segment by L. Voag, aka Jim Whelton of The Homosexuals.Followed by a live performance by an unknown group called 'The Activity Toys',butchering a sixties classic in front of a rather hostile audience.....i'm sure I heard a section of the crowd calling out for Sham 69 near the start,then the unknown singer observes;"there's gonna be a Riot soon!"?......brave boys.
The rest is by Alien Brains, a collective based around Nigel Jacklin,which included most of the luminaries of the early UK DIY cassette scene, eg Bendle, The New Blockaders, Storm Bugs etc.
Then Mark Automatons '391' project donates a tape recording of some bloke asking what makes people behave violently?...what exactly differentiates a '391' track from an Alien Brains track I dunno?
Be prepared for a classically messy and fuzzy lo-fi experience from the depths of early DIY history.
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The 391 (the other band of Mark from The Instant Automatons in case
there are some people out there who don't know!......what's that? Did
someone say who are the Instant Automatons?....I give up....click here!)
retrospective tape, which collects the various flotsom and jetsom of
the 391 back catalogue that never had its own home outside of
compilation tapes and other related bands works. This includes
selections from The Alien Brains, and The English assassin.In which Mark
Automaton collaborated with Nigel Jacklin.
A high standard of lo-fi experimental pop is fused with the more
avant-garde side of cassette culture, and it is often great, but never
pretentious.All done of a budget of approximately Zero quid!
Track Listing:
1 Introduction
2 Leaning on a Lampost
3 Whats wrong with my Hi-Fi?
4 Brains under glass
5 What makes people behave violently?
6 Jelly Babies
7 An Die freude
8 Requiem for fashionable trousers
9 Living in a factory (alt Version)
10 Here Comes the Milkman
11 The Landlady's disco band
12 Revenge of the Lawn
13 The Blind man
14 Famous Last words
15 Miles Apart
16 Killed in the Rush
17 Music from the Empty Room
18 Blast!
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Mark Automaton's other band, among many other 'Other bands' of course;
was 391.Named after a Dadaist magazine by Francis Picabia, so it says;
but of course you all knew that didn't you?
Again, another hissy classic jam packed with sing-a-long numbers like
"Mid 50's Teenage Dance Party", all sounding like they were recorded in a
broom cupboard. This makes the Fall look like Led Zeppelin.
The side long (the Way Out side) "In One Ear and Out Of The Other" is
especially fine. DIY Prog at its very zenith!
And to cap it all a rare cover version of a Public Image Ltd. Track(Bad
bay), one of the least cover versioned bands of all time.(Check out The
Controls version of 'Public image')
If anyone's interested,Nigel Jacklin of Alien Brains makes a guest
appearance on track 12, courtesy of his membership of The English
Assassins, with Mr M. Automaton, who penned this little number.
"We're the same as everyone else", says 391; you wouldn't find Led
Zeppelin saying that (and meaning it)?
Track Listing:
A1
Menanced By Nightingales
A2
Parallax
A3
The Failed Men
A4
Derek Appleyard's Green Suit Boogie
A5
This Vale Of Tears
A6
Lizzie Borden
A7
Mid-50's Teenage Danceparty
A8
I'm So Happy
A9
Overture
A10
Bad Baby
A11
Living In A Factory
A12
I Passed By The Brock
A13
Falling From Helicopters
B1,2&3
In One Ear And Out The Other(parts 1-3)
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