Charanjit Singh – "Synthesizing - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat" (His Master's Voice – ECSD. 2912) 1982

Groan!.Here we go again......Who's invented Acid House this time?

Ay Up, its a bloke from India of course,who in the process of modernising the instrumentation of some classical Indian Raga's, and bunging a TR 808 and an Acid in a box TB303 in there amongst his tinkling fingers, he accidently came up with something that sounded a bit like........yep......Acid House?

He had as little idea about Acid House as Frankie Knuckles had about Indian Raga's. But Acid disco leaked out of every infected sphincter, a sound that is very difficult to avoid as soon as you switch a 303 on. Charanjit doesn't actually do much,if any, of the famed Knob-Twiddling stuff,the very thing that distinguished yer Acid House from yer actual House and yer actual Disco in the first place. As it says on the tin,it is very much Synthesizing Ten Raga's to a Disco Beat,which to western ears sounds like the electronic Disco music that started to emerge in 1985 in a Chicago-ized parallel universe. 

So, when a crate digging Dutch D.J. found a copy of this and played it,he obviously concluded instantly that he'd found the missing link of  House music, which is basically the "Disco" that Charanjit Singh did actually know about.

It sounds more like a speeded up version of Gottshing's E2-E4 to these tired ears.

And there's no knob twiddling,so it ain't Acid is it?

It sold fuck all copies in India, and now goes for as much as US$11,000 to some tiny minded idiots who are probably mentally ill.

The same price,incidentally as a 2026 World Cup Final Ticket!...yes that stupid!?

They can give me Eleven Grand if they want for the digital download,or for watching the cup final on TV, but for normal people out there,this daft two plus Two equals 5 logic is pushing things a tad too far.On here everything is FREE.

Tracklist:

A1 Raga: Bhairavi
A2 Raga: Lalit
A3 Raga: Bhupali
A4 Raga: Todi
A5 Raga: Madhuvanti
B1 Raga: Meghmalhar
B2 Raga: Yaman
B3 Raga: Kalavati
B4 Raga: Malkauns
B5 Raga: Bairagi

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Various Artists - "Streetsounds Electro 3 (Street Sounds – ELCST 3) 1984

 

More from the Cambrian Oceans of Old Skool Hip Hop,from before they....the Rap-Singers ....regularly called out the Female of this species as "Ho's" and "Bitches".I'm almost done analyzing the role of the Internet in creating this phenomenon of the INCEL in modern day society.

If you didn't know already, INCEL, the acronym, stands for Involuntarily Celibate.These Icel's ,to say the least,don't hold the Sisters in very high regard,mainly for denying them as much sex as they can get,without so much as a 'Thank You young lady. They then blame the ladies for this, and I have a strong suspicion that 21st century Rap Singers are indeed involuntarily and ,yes,...celibate. The cause of this is the unnatural habitat of the Internet ,where these frustrated rappers congregate in facebook groups,and worship such dickweeds as Andrew Tate.They never had this problem in the Old Skool of Rap,they got all the voluntary sex they needed,and as a consequence lacked that modern need for violence, both passive, and  aggressive to prove their manhood through a general display of unbridled Misogyny. None of that shit in the Old Skool......well....not much anyway.....in fact lets just say there was Less of that back in the day.Also a less liberal use of the N-Word.

I suppose we could call this glaring difference between the two 'Rap' epochs, charmingly Innocent,or naive? 

I have little or zero interest in post 1990's Hip-Hop and Rap.Basically it had reached its very low bar for creativity by the mid-90's.Bores the Shit out of me.

Personally, I prefer the tracks that don't have a Rapper...careful how you spell that one. "You've seen 'em,on the top of the pops, the Rapers,you know,you've seen 'em about,down by the multi-story, round the back of the corn exchange?.....the Rapers?......No?"......the Rap Singers.

Tracklist:

1.DivineSounds–Dollar Bill 7:50

2.Imperial Brothers– We Come To Rock 5:03
3.Newcleus– Jam On It 6:57
4.Boogie Boys– Zodiac 6:06
5.Pumpkin– King Of The Beat 4:17
6.Davy DMX– One For The Treble (Fresh) 5:17
7.Fresh 3 MC's– Fresh 5:38

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Various Artists – "Street Sounds Electro 1" (Street Sounds – ELCST 1) 1983

There ain't nuffink more Do It Yerself than a bunch of black kids in the ghetto with a Boom Box, a turntable, an Oberhiem DMX, a mike for the MC plus some Herbie Hancock and Gary Numan records.

As vinyl was the recognised Electro media of choice,these same kids would have a record pressing plant in their living room,while us whites stuck to the humble cassette......you can't scratch a cassette.

Me being one of those white kids,and from England, who dug Punk Rock and Industrial musick, i never even knew this shit existed,even if Malcolm Maclaren did,somehow(?), make some electro hits in 1983.....I looked down my nose at it all as merely chart fodder innit? It was totally alien to me,especially as it involved ...er...Dancing(?),which was its raison d'etre.

But, one didn't need any instruments to make it? Rather like Old Skool Industrial didn't? Could all this be the afro-american version of Throbbing Gristle? If so why does this Electro stuff sound so fucking joyful, yet the stuff I listened to was so miserable? Are whites really so disconsolate and whinging?..well..yes they,forward slash, we, are??..Hell kick my honky Ass we are,Sheeeeet mother lickers. As a previous Girl Friend suggested that I have No Joy,I'm beginning to think she may have been right?

In the post House era, I began to frequently notice records like this popping up in charity shops,as all the kids were luved-Up on those incredibly dull House style four to the floor beats. The first one i shelled  out 50p for was Electro 2, but it makes sense to start at the beginning does it not?

Lots of Scratching,lashings of Vocoder, under pinned by Akai samplers,and a Roland TR808. What more could you desire tech-wise?

Ah yeah,i should have warned you....there's some very shit Rapping on a few of these tracks,otherwise,instrumentally, its smoking HOT

Tracklist:

A1 The Packman– I'm The Packman (Eat Everything I Can) 6:35
A2 Newcleus– Jam On Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song) 7:49
A3 West Street Mob– Break Dancin' - Electric Boogie 5:02
A4 C-Bank– Get Wet7:52
B1 K-9 Corp Featuring Pretty C– Dog Talk 9:35
B2 G-Force – Feel The Force 7:24
B3 Project Future– Ray - Gun - Omics 6:40
B4 Captain Rock– Return Of Captain Rock 8:23

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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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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 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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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 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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Jimmy Smack – "Death Is Certain" - (Knekelhuis – KH040) 1982-83 / 2022

Hmmmm, Nice Arse.

Electric bagpipe drone weirdness from LA deathrock outsider Jimmy Smack. 'Death is Certain',aww and there's me thinking I was gonna live forever, is assembled from two self-released 7"s and a similarly self-released twelve incher from 1982/3.

Looking at him I sense he prefers a good 12 incher to a nice seven incher any day, but then again don't we all?
There aren't many records that can boast an electric Bagpipe, but this one does,so its already automatically good,never mind the Suicidal tendencies, as in that Rev and Vega kind of minimalism.

Always keep at least one hand on yer bagpipe kiddies.

Slapping on the corpse paint well before all those Scandinavian Death Metal drongos,Jim reminds one rather of a scotch Alien Sex Fiend,or Fad Gadget.

Is he trying to frighten us or something?....I really think he is!?

Although he was unhealthily obsessed with Death, he soon decided to quit after receiving an opportunity to find out what Death was really like when he received several Death Threats.Apparently he wasn't too popular with the LA Deathrock audience,regularly booed off and and a hate target.Worried for he and his families safety,....Yup, he had a wife and Kids!?.."he bailed right after the death threat thing. Stopped,and sold his pipes(how much did he get for them?)." Went back to his day job permanently,that's right he was a Ballet Dancer,and even more incredibly....NOT GAY!?

Smack, not his real name i'm guessing, was a multi-disciplined artist,so when he wasn't donning death mask war paint,he was preaching the gospel of Cold War nihilism; or channeling paranoia with great urgency through the howling banshee screams of electrified Celtic bagpipes.Or,doing The Nutcracker on Broadway?

At least we can now reassure ourselves with the knowledge that Smack never struggled for work,and I quote:"I was in the theatre all the time, my whole life. I had the Hollywood Free Theatre and then the Star Theatre. I was just always on stage doing something. Worked with all these clowns, we were all clowns so I became a clown — I was Jimbo the clown.”.....interestingly Not Smacko the Clown?

If only Johnny Rotten became Jimbo The Clown after Wobble left PiL, then the world would have been a marginally better place......if slightly creepier.

Tracklist: A1 Anguish 9:51 A2 Hating Life 3:12 A3 Depression 2:09 B1 Souls 1:26 B2 Cybernetic 1:38 B3 Death Is Certain 1:56 B4 The Scarlet Beast 1:38 B5 Batty 2:31 B6 Anguish (Instrumental) 8:51 DOWNLOAD smacko the clown HERE!

Executive Slacks – "Can't Hum In Europe (Live)" - (World Wide Terror) 1985

Big in Holland........wasn't there a band called that?

Whatever, either way The Executive Slacks were.......Big In Holland.

A fact this live in Europe Cassette demonstrates nicely as all of the Dates on this tour seemed to be in The Netherlands....except a couple,which were in Gay Paris,and the inevitable  appearance in Belgium where every band sounded like this with all that Belgian New Beat stuff and EBM.

As listed in the insert notes,as if you're interested, here's the actual Tour Dates for you nerds out there:

Executive Slacks live in Europe '84: Amsterdam (NL) - Venray (NL) - Tilburg (NL) - Rotterdam (NL) - Vlissingen (NL) - Arnhem (NL) - Utrecht (NL) - Groningen (NL) - Wageningen (NL) - Paris (FR) - Brussels (B) - Sint-Niklaas (B)

Nearly every Dutch person I know comes from Groningen, except for long time commentator on this blog, Henk Madrotter, who has admitted liking The Executive Slacks a lot,so I'm guessing that Mr Madrotter was in the audience in Rotterdam?

New wave / industrial band mixing primitive electronics, harsh guitars and aggressive vocals. From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA...it says here.

And yes we did call this kind of stuff Industrial back in the mid-eighties, although I don't see why,same for Nine Inch Nails. Americans doing this kinda stuff was and is rare.Other examples are Front Line Assembly......or were they Canadian?..Skinny Puppy?.....they were Canadian too I wager? Crash Course in Science came from Philadelphia didn't they?.....as you see we don't google anything on Die or DIY. The Neo-Luddite movement starts HERE!

Well, being the closet Numan Fan fan boy,that I am, I'm hearing Numan here,so I have no right to complain. 

Note the reference to "The Park"...as in,"Down In The Park",Tubeway Army.The same tune fucked over by that Trent Reznor knob,and if i'm hopefully mistaken, by that Marilyn Manson Twat.

Tracklist:

A1 The Park
A2 Sisyphus
A3 In & Out
A4 Cinema
A5 Man Of Christ
B1 Our Lady
B2 Ecce Homo
B3 Electric Blues
B4 I'm Coming

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K.K. Null – "Plasmagma" (Video Nasties – MMXV AD #NINE) 2015

Some highly nuanced experimental noise from our ol' mate K.K.

Allowing plenty good space at the red end of the VU meter spectrum. This allows the inevitable Noise fatigue heavily associated with the purveyors of Harsh Noise to be dissipated until well into side two.Lots of attractive noises lull one into a sense of willing exploration,rather than turning it off to listen to the B-52's first,and far weirder than this, album. This is what Industrial Noise should be.Something that wasn't knocked off inside an hour and passed off as something subversive. Maybe forty years ago yes,but not in 2015.The kids who'd shock mum and dad with their Marilyn Manson fixation, are now more likely to produce a K.K.Null cassette to further confuse their Grungy parents somewhat....or Not? All that shits long dead.I shit yee not!

One chose this tape to end my recent pregnant silence because i spied that this label was called Video Nasties, promising me an opportunity to delve into the fascinating world of the 1980's VHS Video Nasty. "Driller Killer" being my most favouritest Punk Rock Movie in that very sorry sub-genre of Punk Rock movies,not to mention Punk Rock Video Nasties.In fact "Driller Killer" could actually be the only Rock'n'Roll movie that doesn't suck ass completely in fact?

Other great Nasties would have to include female exploitation Nasty, "I Spit On Your Grave"...(as mentioned in the UK Parliament's notorious 'Video Nasty debate'.......they do tend to have great titles one must admit. The plot of "ISOYG" is basically ,Chick gets gang raped,Chick walks around naked in the jungle for half an hour, then chick gets bloody and violent revenge on the perps. there may be some clumsy Feminist angle somewhere in there, but I'm struggling to see it?

Only the Daily Mail's balanced mature arguments on the rise of the Video Nasty can really express  the mind of the true Igoramus

The original found footage film "Cannibal Holocaust" is rather notorious for being a suspected Snuff Flick as the chopping up and torture scenes are somewhat realistic? The Italian director was actually tried in court for murder to determine if it was or not....it wasn't!.

Having attempted to watch this all the way through several times,inevitably falling asleep each time......maybe because I was invariably Drunk,this being, along with "Godzilla vrs Mechagodzilla", one's preferred viewing post-kicking out time at the Pub. One has the hazy recollection of a very realistic castration performed upon one of the white guys hung upside down on some bamboo construction.....a most disturbing image to have a hangover enhance in the morning after the night before?

"Texas Chainsaw massacre" was also mentioned in Parliament, although I would contest that this is not a Nasty,just another in a long line of Hillbilly schlock-horror epics started off by John Boorman's great "Deliverence"........others in the Hill Billy Horror genre are "Southern Comfort" and......this is stretching it a bit....."The Hills Have Eyes"?........has anyone seen that documentary on the USA'a most in-bred family yet?.....The Whittakers?.......oooya fookah.......click here.

Sadly I never got to see that Scandalous spaghetti-Nasty,or comedy(?) "SS Experiment Love Camp".....i may right this wrong very soon...or maybe, wrong that Right is more appropriate?

Sci-Fi Nasties aren't too common, but Sick Brit-Flick Nasty "Xtro",has to be one of the finest examples of the motion picture artform ever made.....forget Citizen Kane.

What effect these films could have on your mental well-being is still up for debate.....personally I err on the side of absolutely fucking nothing....but then again I would say that wouldn't I?....Look at the music I play and write about with such pulchritudinous abandon! 

After-all the Margate Police (Daily Mirror 1984) did explain away a violent youths' savage behaviour,as, and I quote, "Influenced by Video nasties or a New Moon"????.....sometimes, maybe its best just to give up completely on the eradication of stupidity?

Maybe there's some troubled youth out there whose behavior is influenced by a K.K.Null cassette or, the next appearance of a Gibbous moon?.

We may never know....or care?

Tracklist:

A1 Plasmagma 01 8:25
A2 Plasmagma 02 9:02
B Plasmagma 03 17:40

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Strangulated Beatoffs – "Days Of Our Lives" (Death By Blowjob – DBB001) 1994

Anything to do with Drunks With Guns,the group not yer actual Drunks Brandishing K-Mart Assault rifles; has to be good,surely? Couple that with puerile song titles about licking Bum holes and Jacking off with Jacko, and you've instantly lost the Art crowd.Leaving the attentive listener free from negative vibes of sneering pseudo intellects unaware of the classical beauty of American Dirge Punk from the 1990's./1980's. Namely Kilslug,Flipper,Groinoids,Killdozer,and, of course Drunks With Guns......one of the great band names, I would suggest?

A Drunk With Gun is but one part of  the Strangulated Beatoffs as it 'appens. From an era when the possibilities of making music without guitars became possible,....desirable even.Crawling out of a rust-belt trailer park and fucked up on Meth-amphetamine,this is the lost american's version of the Industrial music so enamored by media studies students all over Europe. Not quite as brutal as those tooled up Drunks, but so unsophisticated it can still give your bollocks a damn fine kicking...which, incidentally they probably deserve.

Strictly an oversight,but one has noticed that not a single Drunk with gun has been previously posted on this site.I suppose this is a salacious opportunity to right that debatable wrong?

NEWSFLASH:Apparently, they did NOT break up, and are Waiting to have their Genesis covers lp released.

Lookin' forward to that one.

Tracklist:

1.Earth To Satan 3:43
2.Satans Pool Party 4:02
3.Untitled 0:15
4.Bewitched 1:59
5.Bothered 19:15
6.Bewildered 4:20
7.It Isn't Fair For You To Taunt Me 4:18
8.Pied Piper Of Hamelin 8:06
9.One Life To Live 11:00

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Shit And Shine – "Everybody's A Fuckin Expert" (Editions Mego – eMEGO 212) 2015

The title of this, quite frankly, 'Dancey' album, kinda sums up the excrement filled creek that we are all stuck up without a paddle.

No-one likes a clever dick,and increasingly its the people who are patently NOT clever dicks who own the spare paddles, dragging us further into the more inaccessible regions of shitsville.

Sometimes we need,....really need, experts.You don't have to be friends with them, just acknowledge that they may know more stuff than you and let them get on with making our lives better rather than worse,and......a contentious point here....maybe even help save the planet from an impending environmental disaster.Be very careful what you say is a 'Lie' even if its backed up by 99% of all experts on the subject,because you just may be......MAYBE ,wrong(!?)......incredible as it may seem?All that "Research" you've done on facebook and YouTube, can sometimes mean you have read a lot of stuff that is in fact just made up bollocks.The scientists are quite prepared to admit they are wrong,whereas the University of Facebook just makes up more junk to further bury the actual Facts under a sludge pile of shit,that may never be cleaned up.The odds are, they are right, and you, a borderline Moron,are NOT! 

If they are lying participants in the greatest conspiracy the planet has ever known,then ....great...no harm done? But, if they are correct...and it looks like they ,the Experts,are; the we are well and truly FUCKED.

Donald Trump considers himself an 'Expert' in may area's,the main one is being an ignoramus of the nth degree.This appeals to the human ego, as no-one wants anyone smarter than them telling them what to do,do they?

A classic TV moment on British TV on the subject of the unbelievably brainless 'Brexit' debate,was when Pro-Brexit Government minister, Michael Gove, brought forth the vote-winning mantra  "People have had enough of Experts from organisations with acronyms saying they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong"!?.......the 'people' word is always used by nazi's and nationalist jerk-offs in general.

 .......says the lizard face fucker who has consistently fucked up every job he's ever had in Government.

The greatest example of this Brain reverse wiring has to be Trump asking his panel of soon to be saked experts, if they could somehow get light into the body

"Maybe you can, maybe you can't,I'm Not a Doctor, i'm just a person who has a good You Know What"

That video should just be played on a loop and streamed 24/7 to every social media device in the dumbest parts of the USA. Trump cleaning up the dumb vote will be a disaster of terminal proportions.At the very least it will result in Putin becoming the King of Europe,with at least the UK and Ireland being uninhabitable. In Russia, all the Experts are either poisoned, or in jail for life.

We Need Experts basically, or we is F.u.c.ked!

This is what Shit and Shine are alluding to in my Expert opinion.

Which explains the very Dance orientated nature of the lovely music contained within.Appeals to Dumb-asses and experts alike.

A call to end this celebration, and...word of the week.....'Weaponization', of Stupidity'

Tracklist: 1 Signal Failure 2 Upside Down Cheeseburger 3 Bus Station 4 Wespennest 5 Hay Ride 6 Chop The Night 7 Working On My Fitness 8 Picnic Table 9 Ass 10 Rastplatz 11 Stockwell 12 Clapham North DOWNLOAD expertly with expertise HERE!

Shit And Shine – "Shit And Shine" (Judgement Dispenser – JD#003) 2009

 As 'Industrial' music goes,it's hard to distinguish which 21st century acts display an acceptable face of product development as opposed to a bunch of Metalheads who heard Second annual report and a whitehouse LP,and mistook them for the new Sunn(((((0 album.

You can't blame 'em i suppose,as Metal inhabits the same musical dead-end as  Industrial musik does, and almost the same preponderance to invent as many sub-genres as possible to counter the valid accusations that it all sounds the fucking same!? 

The source of much of the problem is a wanton lack of a sense of humour, in both genres and their related,and very very silly, Sub-generic kissin' cousins .

Basically there's also so fucking much of this stuff, especially within the Industrial bracket,as its i actually a lot easier to make than almost any other form of Rock'n'Roll and its derivatives.You do actually have to have some basic skills to make a Doom Metal record,whereas in the grey Industrial hinterland, you need nothing except a lap top these days.In the old Skool tapes, that consisted of a double cassette deck, an echo box,a mike, and a distortion pedal, which actually looked better perched on a couple of Milk crates than the now standard two twats and a laptop,

Can't really think of any Metal bands with a sense of humour actually,but there are a few Industrial derived combo's who show this admirable trait, even if it is lost in the diaspora of uncountable generic Industrial MP3 files that are threatening the existence of any musical maldives out there in this too much of everything world we are saddled with for the near to mid-term future...if you can call it a 'Future'.

I can think of Smell and Quim and various offshoots, and this multi-drummer drone-psych-noise unit similarly tongue in cheek combo from the UK, Shit'n'Shine.

It could have been the name of a seventies cleaning product were it not for the naughty word,like a power electronics version of the Shake'n'Vac song.

The first side of this C-40 treats us to a unifying blend of Doom Metal as it should sound,and soul-crushing noise. Side B, is more yer power Electronics, but without the fucking silly murder stuff.Its brutal,and doesn't take prisoners or itself too seriously.Sadly,my only criticism is that this combo do that 21st century thing of releasing too many records, and they are on the great diluter site of Band-fucking-Camp. You can get dozens of the same thing here if you're so inclined.....it's all good,but not allllll good if you get what I'm sayin'?

Industrial culture has been watered down so much there's nothing left to cancel,and the product description is verging on the illegal.I wager even yer bank manager has invested in an original Leather Nun cassette,and a few VOD Sutcliffe Jugend box sets.Its all about as subversive as a Jeffrey Archer novel.

Recorded live in Belgium I gather?

Tracklist:

Side A (20:01)

Side B (20:08)

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