The third of the essential Industrial 'Philip's',this one being Johnson by name but certainly not a Johnson,of the Boris kind.
You could be forgiven in thinking that this album is called "1982" looking at the cover of this seminal(music press cliché word warning!) Industrial audio-collage from one of the leading lights in the dawn of DIY cassette culture.Having self-released over 25 cassettes,this would be PJ's only vinyl outing for 35 years.
And he was in Doof as well?
Tracklist:
A1 Heart Trouble
A2 It Meant Something Once
A3 C81
A4 We Can't Get What We Want
B1 Capermix
B2 New Age Sewage
B3 The Karate Kicking Girl Of New Invention
B4 Youth In Mourning
B5 The Same Side
As Twelve Cubic feet and Exhibit A main man Paul Platypus was in Doof with the legendary Philip Johnson;it is about time I plugged the last release on Year Zero records;- the excellent "Ellis Is Poofyman", EP? Mini album?....i dunno, but its rather good.
All together now...."I've Been farting On The Moon!"
I dunno how he does it? Another sing-a-long classic from a world reflected in a fairground mirror in an underwater House of Fun. More synthetic voice phrases assembled and rearranged to reveal the true meaning of language. Backed up with all the aural abstract expressionism of a DIY Willem de Kooning;.... before he developed Alzheimers!
You should know by now NOT to be disappointed by any Philip Johnson recording,and this definitely is no exception.
Made,originally, in the much maligned 3" CD format to further limit his audience.
DOWNLOAD ellis here you poofyman!
Exhibit 'A' formed in late 1978 when four 14-year-olds discovered a shared interest in John Peel's late night radio shows — whilst avoiding sporting activities together during school breaks. They produced three issues of a fanzine, Wombat Weekly, and recorded their first EP, No Elephants this Side of Watford Gap at a central London youth club in 1979. At age 15 and 16 they were one of the youngest bands to release their own record independently. Guitarist and indie idealist Paul Platypus also played with the excellent Reflections (with Mark Perry and Nag from the Door & the Window), Doof with Phillip Johnson, and Twelve Cubic Feet (joined by former Exhibits drummer Andrew Lunchbox-good stagename- and bassist Matthew Matrices among others), and founded Namedrop Records. Matthew went on to release one of thee classic DIY tapes ever with Solid Space's "Space Museum" (1982).In fact everything the members of Exhibit A had to do with was rather marvelous indeed.
This lot deserve their place in the pantheon of real boy(and girl, as in Honey Bane*) Bands, alongside The Prats, The Fatal Microbes*, and half of Eater.
But above that they were one of the earliest indicators of what would become the 'Indie' template, and the de-rocking of Pop music; before fey shoegazing and the inordinately floppy fringe became more important than the attitude.Then, even worse, before major labels started to set up their own 'Fake Indie' labels and shoved Jesus and Mary Chain clones down our throats into the proper charts,and eventually became rebranded as 'Brit Pop'?????(ugh!).The Subway Sect and the TV Personalities would have turned in their graves....although they both still exist as Zombie Indie cash-in acts to this very day!?
Tracklist:
A1 In The Night 2:55
A2 Fame And Fortune 2:08
B1 Digital Age 1:38
B2 Maniac Garden 4:36
And now we bring you the fabled Twelve Cubic Feet "Demo Tape",featuring most of Doof,and Exhibit A,designed to win them some kind of record contract (Shock,horror!); instead it signaled the end of a promising career in the fledgling 'Indie' scene. They could have been contenders,but they had something less important to do.
Die or DIY favourite, Philip Johnson provides 'tapes' on 'Tiptoes' I notice.
DOWNLOAD the mp-cubed files HERE!
After featuring The Casual Labourers gig at the Africa Centre, one thought you should hear the other bands on the bill; The Lemon Kittens you can hear HERE.
So that leaves Twelve Cubic Feet; so here's their debut 10" ep on the near perfect Namedrop records; home of Doof and Philip Johnson (who's namedrop release, "Youth In Asia" has been reissued recently,check it out here).
"Paul Platypus(Doof/Reflections), Andrew and Matthew joined Fred, Sally and Glenna to
form 12 Cubic Feet, who recorded the second 10" LP on Name-drop Records
–with "Evercare". After this and a cassette they fell in with Alan
McGee's Creation / Communication Club crowd, and met Dave Evans [Biff
Bang Pow] who replaced Matthew on bass. The late Duncan Jack [What is
Oil?] replaced Glenna on guitar, Dave Morgan [Take It, The Loft+++] came
in on drums... and 12CF cut a final Joe Foster-produced demo. Plans for
a new band foundered, and Paul checked into a commune (temporarily);
Fred went to university, Dave M got famous, Dave E became a roadie for
Jesus & Mary Chain, Shop Assistants and later, Belly; Sally sang in
Khmer Rouge, and Matthew and Dan formed Solid Space... Got that?" (info from hyped2death)
Classic proto-indie wimp pop ,with scratchy guitars Joe Meek monophonic organs,and lazy weak vocals. All this and seven catchy tunes that you can dance in an Indie Disco stylee to.
Tracklist:
| A1 |
Blob |
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| A2 |
Evercare |
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| A3 |
The Almshouse |
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| B1 |
Mary's Got The Bug |
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| B2 |
Escaping Again |
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| B3 |
Hello Howard |
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| B4 |
Tuesday Afternoon |
DOWNLOAD straight from the fridge HERE!
Phillip Johnson, who regularly appeared on Deleted records compilations,
and released several c-90's during 79-80, is the man behind Doof! He
and Paul Platypus ( of DIY supergroup The Reflections), created this
audio mumble, that must have been recorded under a duvet or something
equally acoustically deadening. That something as dysfunctional as this
ever made it onto ten inch vinyl is as much a miracle as the sub-genius
that is contained within these grooves.This record has the logic of
Dreams, and that is a quality which David Lynch and the like spend
millions of dollars,and years of thought to achieve......Doof could shit
surrealism in their lunch hour, and Dada is just their father.Nothing
extraordinary for Doof.......who the hell were they anyway.........i'm
glad i dont know.
(check out the excellent booklet that came with this great record too; now available below in a thoroughly modern PDF stylee )
Tracks:
1- Brighton pt.1
2- Nine Years old
3- Brighton pt.2
4- On it In it.
5- Treat Me Like (the man I am)
DOWNLOAD the original and remastered versions HERE!
DOWNLOAD the accompanying "exist"booklet HERE!
