Various Artists ‎– "Fire On Boat" (Terse Tapes ‎– TRS006c) 1980

A C90 compilations from Terse Tapes (ran by Tom Ellard of Severed Heads) featuring UK DIY bands/Artists from the midlands compiled with Mark from....poor lad....Coventry.

This is why we find bands from Northampton,Nuneaton, Coventry and beyond on an Australian cassette label.

There are brief, but very worthwhile forays into the north via Liverpool with the Legendary Phillip Johnson,and Edinburgh with Josef K frontman Paul Haig,doing a very raw version of Josef K tune 'Pictures'.Not forgetting south Humbersiders,and DIY foundation stone layers, Instant Automatons, and chums, Alien Brains!

Not to mention some pre-fame Eyeless In Gaza stuff.

We also have something from DIY legend Gary Ramon in his WeR7 incarnation, and fellow Color Tapes stablemates 'Lives Of Angels',appearing here as the Body Electric.

Its ALL enrobed in that classic DIY small room ambiance,lashings of  fuzz and hiss; played on the cheapest equipment possible.

A classic compilation on a classic DIY Label.


Tracklisting:

A1 –Rota Rhythms - The Age Of The Fun Cassette
A2 –PR5 - Private Armies
A3 –Dave Carson - Crashing And Gasping
A4 –Paul Haig - Pictures
A5 –Philip Johnson - Nothing
A6 –Philip Johnson - Holiday Train
A7 –Paul Reekie - Drugs At School
A8 –A.D.H. - Ruins/Drive
A9 –Ron Crowcroft Lock/Unlock
A10 –WeR7 - Disquiet Music 2
A11 –The Ordinary - Fight The Good Fight 

B1 –Religious Overdose - 25 Minutes
B2 –Body Electric - Red Suit
B3 –Martyn Bates - Engine Failing
B4 –Douglas Barrie & Stuart Wright - March
B5 –Kevin Harrison - The Boy Was Dead (Ambulance Song)
B6 –Alien Brains - 2 Minutes Of Alien Brains
B7 –The Instant Automatons - Brains Under Glass
B8 –Eyeless In Gaza - By Proxy
B9 –Disintegrators - Disintegration (Excerpt)
B10 –Tony Clough - Isolation 1
B11 –Excitement Pathetix - Fun Cassette

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Kevin Harrison ‎– "Fly" (Glass Records ‎– GLASS 017) 1982

Kevin wants a hit, so the tried and trusted method of appealing to the feet rather than the brain is employed.
The result is some low budget white man's disco that I hope they had a laugh making.
I notice an errant 'Special' is listed as playing bass on this,as in 1982 he had nothing better to do I suppose.
The third track could have been a filler on a later Cluster album or Ash Ra goes disco.

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Kevin Harrison ‎– "Tape-Recordings 1975-1985" (Vinyl-on-demand ‎– VOD145.B1.KH) 2016

A compilation from the archives of Kevin Harrison.
Kevin's usual brand of combining Cluster with Ash Ra via Frippertronics is largely in evidence here.
Its kinda timeless, except that nowadays we'd call the track 'Vapour Trails' 'Chem-Trails' for various and imaginative reasons.....won't go on a rant because its too silly.Yes they are still made from water vapour,but try telling that to a Flat-Earther and see how long it is before they tell you to 'Wake Up'! Oh the Irony!?.....this kind of made up fear mongering fake shite is why we now have Trump holding our fate in his tiny orange hands.

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Kevin Harrison ‎– "Inscrutably Obvious" (Cherry Red ‎– BRED 16) 1981

Cherry Red seemed intent on signing up everyone in Nuneaton.So, Kevin Harrison got his chance to foist his revamped version of his "Earth2" cassette from 1980 on the public,and called it "Inscrutably Obvious".
It's a very krautrocky, minimalist electronic offering, which reminds one of fellow Coventry area electronicists "Sea Of Wires", and of proto-house cosmic guitar legend,kraut, Manuel Gottsching's mid-seventies albums,or Achim Reichel; with a large splash of Frippertronics.

Tracklist:

A1 The Cantonese Detective Agency
A2 Some Aspect Of Music
A3 All Night Long
A4 Wooden Heartthrob Of Peking
A5 Chase The Dragon
A6 The Word
A7 Cyclotron
A8 Water
A9 Take It Away
B1 Flicker
B2 Stretch / 1
B3 Stretch / 2
B4 Horizontal / Diagonal (Live At Nags Head Nuneaton)
B5 M0903A
B6 Melodica Melodica
B7 People In Space
B8 Free-Float

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Kevin Harrison ‎– "Spectro Verdu Est Mort?" (Glass Records ‎– GLASSMC 015) 1981

Every East Midlands town has a local musical hero called 'Kevin' haven't they? Leicester has Kevin Hewick at least anyway......Kevin Coyne for Derby,maybe Kevin Rowland for Birmingham, but that's West Mids innit; and Rowland was a Londoner allegedly.....well, he sounded like one when he was one of those Punk Rocker chaps in The Killjoys?
Nuneaton's 'Kevin', was, of course, Kevin Harrison.
No spring chicken in '81, our Kevin had been around since the early seventies, playing in various beat combos and what not.Our Kev was,prior to his solo outings,also in a quite awful local 'punk' band called The Urge,who were very crap.So he'd done his time and graduated. Strewth!?  He was even chums with This Heat,somehow?
This is a cassette he made for a nascent Glass Records,which showcases his eclectic musical taste,from minimal composition,Krautrock, Fripp and Eno to post-punk.
Mostly recorded in his home studio,its a UK DIY classic.Especially fine are the tracks that end side two, namely the tape-echo workout called 'Walkabout' and 'Making Friends in Radioland';where a recording of Kevin offering his opinions on some new record releases on a local radio show is the basis of an amusing musique concrete experiment.The chirpy local radio, 'Smashy and Nicey' type presenters voice sits in stark contrast to Kevins moody responses. When asked for scores out of ten for some unheard pop tunes,we get :"Well thats ten from Yvonne and Glenda.....and you Kevin?"
"......er....Nothing",says the not so young mr Harrison.

Tracklist:

1 Tensions Between Emotions
2 Enmeshed
3 Indirect Contrast
4 The True Bounce (Of Invested Energy)
5 Escaping From The Zoo
6 Modern Industry With Its Back Against The Wall
7 Time Shift
8 A Moment Of Joy
9 Pablo 
10 The Humming Of The Hive
11 Returns Happy
12 Alpha/Zeta
13 Voices 1
14 Voices 2
15 Waalwijk
16 Shutdown
17 Verdant Arcadia
18 Bent Logic
19 Commercial Radio Riding On Phil Spector's Back
20 Screened Surface
21 The Changing Face Of Today's Music
22 News At One
23 The Middle East Construct
24 Fast Forward
25 Thoughts Of Ripples Suddenly Disturbed
26 The Popeye Melodies Are Gone
27 Hammer Nails Into A Wall/Something Curious
28 "It's A Good World, Isn't It?"
29 Walkabout
30 Making Friends In Radioland/
 Derv's Radar Favourites From Space

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Various Artists - "The Wonderful World Of Glass(volume One)" (Glass Records ‎– GLASS 010) 1981

The primary reason for including a Glass records compilation on this site,is the inclusion of another lost Lemon Kittens track. The less strange,but beaty, “What the Cat Brought In”; not for completists only.

What else is on this then, you ask.......or ,more likely, probably not?

Nuneaton's Eyeless In Gaza soundalikes,Bron Area are on here, and even the two halves of yer actual, Nuneaton's own, Eyeless In Gaza dip into their vast reservoir of tracks for us.

Shit, I didn't see the Legendary Pink Dots! I usually slag these geezers off, but I'm fucked off writing about a band I don't particularly like. I hear nothing here to change my entrenched position.

Great tracks by, it's the Nuneaton connection again, Kevin Harrison. Not from Nuneaton are Schleimer K, Joy Div copyist lightweights English Subtitles, and probably many more?

I suppose we may get some sulking Nirvana bores salivating over the Marine Girls track, as Cobain expressed a liking for the twee indie act before blowing his brains out. Sad.....no not the suicide.....the Nirvana nerds!

Tracklist:

A1 Schleimer K - She's Gone

A2 Bron Area - You Would Be Amazed

A3 Ciaran Harte - Johnny Doesn't Need Much

A4 Legendary Pink Dots - The Defeated

A5 Marine Girls - Flying Over Russia

A6 Peter Becker - During Half Sleep

A7 Kevin Harrison - Blinded By Hypnotism

A8 Lemon Kittens - What The Cat Brought In

B1 Where's Lisse? - Red Light

B2 Tonix - The Sex Junk

B3 English Subtitles - Water

B4 Martyn Bates - Nascent Fragrance Of Skin

B5 3 Way Dance - Praise The Flames

B6 No More - Hypnotised

B7 Clinical Noise - Venus Comes

B8 Religious Overdose - Blow The Back Off It

B9 Richard Formby - Your Name You're Strange

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Kevin Harrison & Steven Parker ‎– "Against The Light" ( Illusion Production – IP 011) 1982

Young men buy synthesizers, can't stretch to a drum machine, but release a C-30 cassette of their clumsy attempts to be a post punk Tangerine Dream. Sounds great dunnit?
These two young men avec synths, accidentally made a dark electronic folk record, well before industrial public schoolboy Current 93 turned to the genre. Dunno who sings, Harrison or Parker(late of Nuneaton's own Bron Area), but his voice has that simple Shirley Collins effect. Which, when coupled with the electronic accordion style backing tracks, have a very chilly effect not heard this side of the Eraserhead soundtrack.Very much a solid state Shirley and Dolly Collins.

 Track Listing:

A1		State Of Attrition
A2		Rope Of Sand
A3		And Through The Furnace
A4		Cavalcade
A5		Distant Truth Of English Dreams
A6		Swings And Roundabouts
B1		Green Mantle Of The Standing Pool
B2		Continuation Song
B3		Sahasara
B4		Caught Then Drowned Affection
B5		After

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