Various Artists ‎– "Slaughter Of The Innocent" (New Blockaders Org) 1983

This compilation, compiled by Richard Rupenus of New Blockaders fame, tries nobly to dispel much of the criticism leveled against the industrial/power electronics genre as an all sound-alike group of TG/Whitehouse imitators(Which it largely IS). The great variety of styles, techniques and sounds displayed on this 20 track tape suggest that perhaps this genre is more of a philosophical collective rather than a purely aesthetic one.The truth being more like a mixture of both leaning strongly towards the Aesthetic shoebox that all these acts find themselves cornered in. All the performers included here are extreme and intense chaps, yet the gamut of sounds runs from new musique concrete via 23 Skidoo Funk (Bourbonese Qualk, Mixed Band Philanthropist) to dark ritualistic collages (Metgumnerbone), to skin peeling power electronics (New Sadism, Vortex Campaign). Then we have Observation Clinique, Konstruktivits,and David Jackman to provide the dark understated, avant garde end of the genre to make us all feel thick.And finally always the very odd one out, Paul Kelday is here to provide some Kosmishe inspired spacey electronics.

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Organum ‎– "In Extremis" (L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords ‎– LAY 19) 1985

Another plethora of scraping and squealing sounds, augmented by what sounds like an electric fan with something inserted between the rotating blades.
Top quality Non-Music from one of the originators of the genre, helped on side B by the Rupenus brothers, aka 'The New Blockaders', who add their own special brand of Nihilism as anti art to the already nihilistic mixture(they also frown on 'Anti-Art too by the way!).....and end up making....er......Art?!? In fact even making non-music and releasing a record with a designed sleeve seems to go against their impossible standards somewhat, but there you go, nobody's perfect?

Tracklist:

A1 In Extremis Pt. 1
A2 In Extremis Pt. 2
B Valley Of Worms

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Organum ‎– Tower Of Silence (L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords ‎– LAY 12) 1985

This is the sound i heard every Friday lunchtime at school,where the whole class would move their chairs and desks in the direction of the exit to make ready for the rush to get to the dinner hall first before sport in the afternoon.
If scraping chairs,nails scratching down a blackboard,and general metal on metal friction is your gig,this is highly recommended.

Tracklist:

A1 Tower Of Silence Pt.1 2:21
A2 Tower Of Silence Pt.2 7:14
B1 Voice Of The Angel 3:49
B2 Incarnate 4:48

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The New Blockaders and Organum ‎– "Pulp" (Aeroplane ‎– AR 7) 1984

This is the single version of Organum's "Pulp/Icon" cassette, augmented by anti-anti-art noise merchants the 'New Blockaders';who add a spadeful of searing noise to the recipe.
One has to say, the 7" vinyl format seems suited to this brand of scraping heavy machinery.As intense and exciting this grinding racket is, three and a half minutes is just about enough to avoid boredom.......modern day attention spans huh?   

Tracklist:
A Pulp Pt.1
B Pulp Pt.2

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Organum ‎– "Pulp / Icon" (Self-Released C-30) 1983

Whereas David Jackman appeared as 'himself' on his early cassette releases; around 1983 he became 'Organum' to become more anonymous ,if that was possible?
Dipping his toes further into the realms of non-musical droning noise, here's Organum's first release, featuring two near identical drones not unlike a spinning washing machine dueling with a taxi-ing prop driven aircraft.
Basically, don't expect a sing-a-long. 

Tracklist:
A Pulp (15:38)
B Icon (15:10)

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David Jackman ‎– "Ritual" (Snatch Tapes ‎– tch 211) 1981

A lengthy C-7 release on Philip Sandersons legendary 'Snatch Tapes', by David Jackman, with some assistance by everyone's favourite DIY label owner.

For the need of a better word, this 'cassingle' was unlikely to trouble even the most obscure of charts with Snatch Tapes unlimited supply of 30.

Side A is like an ambient recording from the engine room of a small submarine of a small vessel passing on the surface above, accompanied by a swinging rope brushing randomly against an electric guitar.

Side B is the sound of that same small vessel grounding itself on a reef while the sub breaks apart in the depths.

Tracklist:
A –David Jackman "Ritual" (3:29)
B –David Jackman & Philip Sanderson "Offshore" (3:28)

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David Jackman ‎– "Crest" (Aeroplane ‎– AR02) 1982

Four foreboding noise drones for the modern gentleman, as released on a very limited edition C-20 in 1982 by David Jackman on his own Aeroplane label.

These days everyone has a drone project going on; but back in 1982 this kind of stuff could get a Daily Mail reader foaming at the mouth like a rabid ferret, warning about such ill-informed hyperbole as 'the death of civilisation'. Those Brexit voting cretins would be missing the point, because this non-music is all about philistines like 'Daily Mail readers' in their role as the real killers of civilisation........again.....Twats! A cosy cardigan slippers and pipe type of passive evil that their kind are!

Tracklist:

A1 Crest
A2 Ember Hollow
B1 Grass
B2 Dawn Plaza

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David Jackman ‎– "Up From Zero" (Aeroplane ‎– AR03) 1982

A Fine and willful purveyor of creeping sinister noise is ex-scratch orchestra and Snatch tapes stalwart David Jackman. In there right at the year zero of articulated scraping Noise. A single minded approach to making non-music,looking total obscurity in the face. 
If you like the sound of a distant container vessel breaking up in a calm sea and sliding to the bottom of a polluted and dead ocean along an immense blackboard? Then this is for you. Although there is something strangely comforting about this menacing symphony of crashing cars and drowning hulks of structurally compromised hulls.

Tracklist:

Ways To The Sea
Threshold
Up From Zero

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Various ‎– "Flowmotion(An Album of Contemporary Electronic Music)" (ICR ‎– ICR 003) 1982

Well, as this compilation is over 35 years old, it can no longer claim to be an album of Contemporary anything, but it does have some electronic music on it ,by some of the bigger names of the UK's electronic underground of the early eighties. And I note that none of this lot have yet to retire.
A few of these tracks one would hesitate at calling them strictly 'Electronic'.Experimental pop with incidental electronics is good enough for Eyeless In Gaza,and Those Little Aliens hark back to the time when magnetic Tape manipulation was called 'Electronic' Music.I suppose anything made with machines that one plugs into the mains is technically 'Electronic' so there you are!?

Tracklist:

A1 –Chris & Cosey-Devil God
A2 –Those Little Aliens-Ismalia
A3 –Eyeless In Gaza-Dusky Ruth
A4 –Eyeless In Gaza-Through Eastfields
A5 –David Jackman-Do The Dog
A6 –Ian Boddy-Follow
A7 –The Legendary Pink Dots-Hanging Gardens
B1 –Ian Boddy-Skylights
B2 –Paul Nagle-A Journey In The Dark
B3 –Carl Matthews-As Above, So Below
B4 –Colin Potter-Rooftops

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Various Artists ‎– "The Elephant Table Album" (X Tract ‎– XX 001) 1983

Companion album to "Three Minute Symphony" compiled, again, by Dave Henderson ,late of the now defunct Sounds newspaper.Full of great tracks, even the 400 Blows track is fantastic, i think they went downhill fast after this single.
Its not perfect, (which is perfection?), as The Legendary Pink Dots do only a mildly irritating version of their Syd Barrett fans play with casiotone keyboards and pots'n'pans stuff.....still made me wanna punch somebody though!
We also got a minimal Coil track which is virtually a slow TR808 solo; dare to be minimal!
SPK on the cusp of becoming total Shite,the excellent Lustmord, Portion Control transmuting into their nasty vocals phase(which i'm not too enamoured about).
To sum it all up, it has its faults, but  a classic old school Industrial compilation, and a great starting point for the Industrial virgin to catch the 80's underground In flagrante delicto! (I don't really speak Latin by the way!)

Tracklist :

A1	– Portion Control	Chew You To Bits
A2	– Chris And Cosey	Tears Of Blood
A3	– Metamorphosis	Muzak From Hawthorne Court
A4	– Coil	S Is For Sleep
A5	– Nurse With Wound	Nana Or A Thing Of Uncertain Nonsense
B1	– 400 Blows	Beat The Devil
B2	– Konstruktivits	Andropov '84
B3	– Lustmørd	Boning Of Men
B4	– Muslimgauze	Melena Jesenska (Extract)
B5	– David Jackman	Edge Of Nothing
C1	– SPK	Despair
C2	– MFH	Vox Humana
C3	– Nocturnal Emissions	Suffering Stinks
C4	– Attrition	Dream Sleep
C5	– Legendary Pink Dots	Suprise, Suprise
C6	– Paul Kelday	Birth Of Planetesimals (Extract)
D1	– Bourbonese Qualk	Under The City
D2	– Sirius B	Build Your Children
D3	– New 7th Music	New Humanity Switchboard (Extract)
D4	– We Be Echo	Alleycat
D5	– Bushido	Modelwerk

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Various ‎– "Three Minute Symphony" (X Tract ‎– XX002) 1984

Classic compilation that skirts in and around the edge of the Industrial scene of 1984,the underground equivalent of 'Pillows and Prayers' but for weirdo's instead of foppish fringe wearing students.
Being a Sounds reader since the halcyon days of Punk Rock, Sounds contributor and compiler of this album, Dave Henderson, was writing increasingly about the burgeoning underground of there new music of 1984. Nowhere else could you read about such acts as Konstuktivists or Nurse with Wound; and of course, in these pre-internet days,obtaining these records was a stiff task, especially if you lived outside of London. This made these disc's and tapes even more desirable, and the moment one actually obtained one became an almost religious exercise. Slipping the artefact out of its sleeve and playing the messages contained within, which invariably would lead to friends, parents, and neighbours believing that you were either mad or insane, or a potential threat to their community as a whole.
Anything that is a threat to normality is naturally attractive to anyone with their eyes firmly open to this sham we call Civilisation; so that fact put these artists on the front line of consciousness change.
The works within this double album's grooves, span a virtual Who's Who of the underground in 1984, even the granddaddy of Industrial , Conrad Schnitzler himself, who contributes the title track, appears.
It also has probably my favourite German group, Die Tödliche Doris, amongst many other international favourites.
UK Diy is represented well, with Philip Johnson, Colin Potter (with an actual picture on the cover of the man himself!) and David Jackman, can't go wrong there?
The only groan factor was the inclusion of The Legendary Pink Dots, who, as many of you may know, are not one of my favourite groups; but!.....even their track is pretty good,despite that Edward K bloke failing to resist contributing some of his god awful warblings half way through it!
Apart from that sole criticism, this is pretty perfect! (mmm(thinks), doesn't that mean its NOT perfect?......but isn't perfection in itself, imperfection? Without imperfection we wouldn't recognise perfection, therefore by definition, perfection is imperfection is perfection.9999999 recurring?).

Tracklist:

A1	– Kill Ugly Pop	Let's Get Real Gone	3:45
A2	– Ptose	Waiting For My Soul	3:30
A3	– Trax	Trax Co Mix 1	3:12
A4	– Die Todliche Doris	Maria	2:45
A5	– Van Kaye And Ignit	A Slice Of The Action	3:30
A6	– Bene Gesserit	White Men	3:10
B1	– Colin Potter	The State	2:57
B2	– Human Flesh	L'Ultima Storia	3:20
B3	– DDAA	Your Mother With A Cake	3:10
B4	– Point Of Collapse	When Worlds Collide	3:10
B5	– David Jackman	Wolf (Part 2)	3:05
B6	– Sema	Untitled	3:20
C1	– Hunting Lodge	Tribal Warning Shot	2:58
C2	– Roll Kommando	Die Romantik Ist Tot	3:00
C3	– Stratis	I Fotia	2:58
C4	– Merzbow	Xa-Bungle	3:10
C5	– Philip Johnson	Always Behind You	1:58
C6	– Conrad Schnitzler	Three Minute Symphony No 1	3:00
D1	– Nagamatzu	Bird, Spider, Fly	3:05
D2	– Hurt	Money Matters	3:20
D3	– Nurse With Wound	Antacid Cocamotive 93	3:50
D4	– Legendary Pink Dots	No Bell, No Prize	3:52
D5	– Asmus Tietchens	Dahinter Industriegelande	3:10
D6	– Smegma	The Breathing Method	3:00

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Various Artists - "Integration" (Integrated Circuit Records ICR12) 1983

Excellent minimal synth/experimental compilation realised in 1983 on Colin Potter's Integrated Circuit label. Full of all the usual suspects, Alain Neffe, Colin Potter,David Jackman,it goes on. A classic DIY electronica compilation.

Tracklist:

A1 Trevor Wishart -Anna´s Magic Garden

A2 Muslimgauze -Afrikaner

A3 Paul Kelday -Towards A New Clear Age

A4 David Jackman- Last Estuary

A5 Ampnoise - Floppy Disk Drive

A6 MFH - To Give Painless Light

A7 New 7th Music - Untitled No. 7

A8 Andrew Cox - Ritual Dance

A9 Andrew Cox - Silent Moorings

B1 Ian Boddy - Sundance

B2 Subject - What Happened To You?

B3 I Scream - Menace

B4 Human Flesh - Delon Enlarges

B5 Carl Matthews - Power of three

B6 Carl Matthews-Harmless Thought

B7 Monoplane - Fin

B8 Citizens Of Science - She Moves Like A Machine

B9 Colin Potter - Hills

B10 Stratis - By Water

B11 Dave Jones - Memories Of...

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Organum & The New Blockaders – "Salute" (Frux Records) 1984

This is the sound of sinking oil tankers breaking their backs as they founder in a deep ocean.The screeching of metal as it rips and scrapes against massive machinery struggling to operate as an onslaught of sea water compromises its functionality (sorry for this americanism).
A thousand refuse lorries emptying their rotten cargo into a bottomless landfill site, to a cacophony of malfunctioning electricity pylons.
Beaten to the punch ,maybe by Whitehouse and Non, this is a pityless march into the forbidden realms of extreme noise, only matched by the 90′s work of Merzbow.
David Jackman‘s Organum, joining forces with arch-nihilists, The New Blockaders, set a new benchmark for ear bleeding noise, gauranteed to send any normal citizen running to the nearest suicide leap point……..which is a highly recommended objective in art; and this is art,not pop.

TRACK LISTING:

A1 Part One
A2 Part Two
A3 Part Three
B1 Part Four
B2 Part Five
B3 Part Six
B4 Part Seven
B5 Part Eight

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David Jackman and Phillip Sanderson – " 0° North " (Aeroplane Records AR04) 1982

Scraping ambient noises, with abundant repetitious tin can percussion, adequately describes what you are hearing on this cassette release on David jackmans Aeroplane label. Following his contributions for Sanderson’s Snatch Tapes compilations; it seemed only right that he should collaborate with Sanderson and release it on his own imprint.
For some reason, ‘Under Press of Sail’ makes its third appearance,albiet a more ambient version, (see Snatch 1 and Snatch 3), and ‘Ashes and Diamonds’ makes another too. I suppose its easier than making a new track, and you may not have heard its other manifestations,so why not?
The title track,’Zero degrees north, sounds rather unimaginatively like the north pole,lots of windy synth effects.Pretty uninspiring, but there’s plenty else to be inspired by on this C30.

Track Listing:

A1	David Jackman & Philip Sanderson –	Ashes & Diamonds
A2	David Jackman & Philip Sanderson –	Terrain
B1	David Jackman & Philip Sanderson –	Zero Degrees North
B2	Philip Sanderson –	Under Press Of Sail
B3	David Jackman –	Fade Of Light

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Various Artists – " Snatch Tapes 2 " (Snatch Tapes ) 1980

A rather special tape here.Snatch 2, featuring ,among others, Graham from Danny and The dressmakers, as The Beach Surgeon, and the usual Snatch suspects, The Alien Brains (the New Blockaders), David Jackman, and The Storm Bugs. There’s an appearance by the Sea Of Wires, with their incorrectly named “2 T’s and a Funny Hat”, which is called an ‘Endless Rainy Day’ on their excellent cassette “Individually Screened”. Spools full of claustrophobic DIY electronica, that sounds like it was recorded under a duvet after midnight, absolutely fantastic.
As with Snatch 1 the tape lists the names of the artists but not the track titles (?). Further details were included on a small booklet sent out with the tape. The Beach Surgeons feature Graham Massey (Danny and the Dressmakers) who went on to fame and (perhaps) fortune as part of 808 State, here he delivers a very humorous soliloquy on the merits of collecting girl’s nail clippings. Vote Police are of course our good friends Storm Bugs.
I’ve tried my best to split it up into tracks, but it is really in the form of a mix-tape, so I’ve supplied two downloads, one split up, and the other as it was originally intended.

Track Listing:
Side A
Orchestral Introduction
Beach Surgeons:
Mannequin Moves:
Vote Police – Our Main Objective:
Orchestral Interlude
Mountain Stream
2 T’s and a Funny hat

Side BDavid Jackman – Untitled
Scratch Dub: Beach Surgeons, John Cage, Scratch Orchestra with rhythm & loops by David Jackman, Philip Sanderson and Storm Bugs
Lemon Kittens:
Storm Bugs – Thin Line Flash of Traffic
David Jackman – Pulses
Cultural Amnesia Dub:
Garden Dwarves Dub

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Various Artists – "Snatch 3" – (Snatch Tapes TCH 300) 1981

More avant garde sound sculptures from Phillip Sanderson’s Snatch Tapes. The man himself appears a few times on this tape, including another version of ‘Under Press of Sail’, and as Claire Thomas, and probably Ice Yacht too; and why not,it is his label after all?
Avant Garde legend David Jackman contributes two drone-fests,as befits a man of his stature in this field.
The Alien Brains get funky??,Orior get Ambient, Steven Ball turns from experimental to library party music in one fell swoop;M.P.Denton is in bedroom contemporary composition mode, and Nigel Jacklin gives us a tape collage buried under a mountain of cotton wool.
This just leaves Mental to perform a Sax,tape, and sequencer improvisation in someone’s toilet block…….and rather fine it is too.
Various artists/various musics is the key word on a Snatch Tapes compilation, which is as it should be one supposes.
Listen to the two hour radio special podcast, by Collective Voice Radio, on Snatch Tapes HERE!…it includes many extremely rare Snatch Tapes releases,and an interview with Mr. Sanderson himself. Its a recommended listen.

Track Listing:

Turquoise Side:

 
A1 Steven Ball – 60″/60″
A2 Mental (2) – “Sound 2″
A3 Ice Yacht – 0° North
A4 Nigel Jacklin – Song
A5 Philip Sanderson – Under Press Of Sail
A6 David Jackman – World

Pink Side:

 
B1 Claire Thomas* – Ashes And Diamonds
B2 Steven Ball – Dressing For The Party
B3 David Jackman – Blues
B4 Alien Brains / + Instruments* – Untitled
B5 Orior – Call
B6 Michael Peter Denton – Part 3


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Andrew Chalk – " Harvest " (Integrated Circuit Records ICR 22) 1988

This is the mirror image of Neil Young’s “Harvest”, same title, completely different effect.
Two years between ICR21 and ICR22!…but worth the wait. Andrew Chalk’s recycling of his work with Organum, into a minimal version of a thousand bomber raid. Side B’s especially resplendent Luftwaffe Dronescape, descending into a series of thuds and clangs, before building slowly up again to a malfunctioning machine finalé. This is ground-breaking stuff for 1988.
Nowadays everyone and their granny has a Drone project going on.One can trawl the internet and find thousands of Drone based cd-r’s,;but this was the beginning of the flood. Not forgetting the long shadow of Lamonte Young’s Eternal Music Ensemble, and Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Chalk and his peers developed a more quiet and sinister form of drone, that still echoes on today.
Recorded at IC Studio 1986-88. Special thanks to David Jackman.
Re-worked and newly produced recordings using material from Organum’s “Kanal” sessions.

Track Listing:

A		Untitled
B1		Untitled
B2		Untitled

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