Various ‎Artists – "Hoisting The Black Flag" (United Dairies ‎– UD 06) 1980

Here we go,- a United Dairies compilation!

And what's this, an exclusive but errant Lemon Kittens track?

The ironically titled “Funky 7”,is dance music for quadriplegic psychopaths of all creeds and colours. Personally, I find backwards avant-drone dislocated sound collage very funky. I know i'm white, and “ain't got da funk”, but I’d take to an empty dance-floor if this played at my local Discothèque. If it ain't four to the floor, the average Caucasian can't even attempt the hokey-cokey without several homemade E's stuffed down his or her neck. So please,please,leave black peoples music for black people to make,and the 'whites' to make insane shit like this masterpiece.

Still on the subject of ,(cough), 'Dancing'. I drift back to my adolescence,when many a Punk Rock concert witnessed no dancing at all, and in some cases,like Joy Division, no movement at all. This seemed like a desirable natural state for oneself. Then, slowly, idiots like the fucking Specials started beckoning these same lost youths to get up and Dance???? And they DID!!? The enforced jollity of Ska music is the opposite to the voluntary doom of the music on this beyond fine compilation. This stuff is about finding out where your meat comes from, rather than partying back at the abattoir.

The Dance Music theme returns with tracks by David Cross (was he not in King Crimson mark II?), and Paul Hamilton & Joseph Duarte(aka  the Bombay Ducks), which repeats the disjointed collage feel of the Lemon kittens track.

Whitehouse remove us further from the party atmosphere, with two trademark recreations of an electronic Danté's inferno. It's a Hell preferable to one we're living in now,and I wager that dancing's banned; punishable by being sent straight to Heaven(that has to be the name of one of those 'super-clubs on that hive-minded, voluntary Guantanamo shit-hole, Ibiza!).

Naturally, Nurse With Wound make an appearance with a totally de-konstructed version of hill-billy square dance classic, “Duelling Banjo's”. I suspect, that it just shares the same title as the aforementioned red-neck banjo-off?Wishful thinking hopes it's a cover version that has totally removed all the bluegrass, and replaced it with a dead barren wasteland, adorned by a Black Flag hoisted in place of that KKK flag;or whatever they call that swastika alike confederate rag (Seig Howdy!). A desirable future for the Tea Party Taliban's Fatherland I’m sure we'd all agree? If you don't, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING READING THIS BLOG?

Tracklist:

A1	–Lemon Kittens	Funky 7
A2	–Truth Club	To The Nile Sisters
A3	–Nurse With Wound	Duelling Banjos
A4	–Mental Aardvarks	Bogart Was Three Lemons
B1	–David Cross	Early Dance Music
B2	–Bombay Ducks	Dance Music
B3	–Whitehouse	Her Entry
B4	–Whitehouse	Foreplay
B5	–Mental Aardvarks	What Have You Done (Pieces Of Meat)?

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Volcano The Bear ‎– "The Inhazer Decline" (United Dairies ‎– UD 055) 1999

Bookish Leicester Quartet, Volcano the Bear's, first 'proper' LP, on Nurse with Wound's United Dairies imprint, from the end of the 20th Century.
Shove The Residents, Renaldo and the Loaf, Nurse with Wound, Current 93, This Heat,and some carefully selected 'Krautrock', into a Kenwood Chef, and you could possibly end up with this. Plenty of silly voices,Dada-esque lyrics,daft noises, and a veritable rainbow of instruments,played with varying levels of skill and incompetence.Ladles full of 'Too clever by half' poured copiously over the finished product,although the constant invention keeps that particular irritation at bay.
Can get a bit silly, but was there anybody else doing this in 1999?.....er.....probably; but not quite as effectively.

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Nurse With Wound ‎– "Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella" (United Dairies ‎– UD 01) 1979

Without self released tapes and vinyl the Industrial scene would not have existed. Often dealing with unpleasant and offensive themes, it isn't everyone’s cup of tea. For example, Nurse With Wound's Début release , "Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella", and its artwork depicting women in various states of bondage, caused it to be banned from the Rough Trade co-operative for its politically incorrect images. Therfore it had to be distributed in other ways. Forming an alternative to the alternative!
The music is the usual tape collage of noise and found sounds, and was probably quite shocking back in 1979.Steven Stapleton was apparently offered some free studio time one weekend, and immediately called his record collecting buddies John Fothergill and Heman Pathak, persuading them to buy some instruments - none of them had played music before. The person who offered them the studio asked if he could play a little lead guitar over their "songs " and they couldn’t really refuse, hence the slightly santanaesque flourishes over huge cacophonous slabs of chaos The first release on Steven Stapleton's United Dairies label.
Have to say, the racket on these tracks do reek of a large smattering of over-cleverness; a trait that can get an artist on my Shit List, but i'll forgive them as this record, along with "Homotopy to Marie", are fine works;if this one does rather try that little bit too hard to be "weird" maaaan.
Nurse with wound are getting more famous nowadays for the "Nurse With Wound List" of "interesting" bands which was included, you would do well to check out. Read the full list here.
Don't think for one minute that Stapleton's taste is immaculate, because thaere is some absolute shite on this list as well as the great; at least PiL is on there,so that's no bad start.

(I didn't write this bit,inspired by NWW, i have cut'n'pasted it from somewhere):

"I doubt that any of Nurse With Wound realised it at the time, but the list that accompanied the first Nurse With Wound album, (and also the revised version, included with their second) has become almost like a bible for the intrepid musical adventurer. Sporting the enigmatic text: "Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided..." it has become legendary, as a reference list of revolutionary music, and a challenge to Nurse With Wound collectors around the world, who curious enough to want to hear all the music on it. Of course, this is not an easy task, as the full list nears 300 artists, and many are extremely obscure! As Steve once pointed out, some artists are listed for obvious reasons, some less-so, some are there just for one track!"

Hey check this out,the origin of the image on the sleeve is revealed:

And i thought Stapleton envisioned and  drew it himself ? I'm not the only one stooping to cut'n'paste afterall?...I suppose it fits in with the NWW cut'n'paste music style.....come oooon, what did you expect?) 

Tracklist:

A1		Two Mock Projections	6:20
A2		The Six Buttons Of Sex Appeal	13:13
B		Blank Capsules Of Embroidered Cellophane	28:19

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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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Colin Potter ‎– "A Gain" (Integrated Circuit Records ICR008) 1982

 What more can I say say about Colin Potter? You know its good,and always interesting? So its time to download another great ICR tape, and bathe in the electronic beauty.

Track Listing:

A1		On Entering York Minster	10:00
A2		Rooftops	7:30
B1		You Tell Me	7:54
B2		Mainland	8:36
B3		All Reel	3:00

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Colin Potter ‎– "Two Nights" (Integrated Circuit records ICR004) 1981

Two side long untitled electronic compositions done in two takes on two nights,as Colin says goodbye to his old studio.As always, inventive and great sounding from one of thee hero's of DIY.

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Colin Potter ‎– "The Where House?" (Integrated Circuit records ICR005 ) 1981

Colin Potter,one man electronica factory, and founder of ICR amongst many more achievements within the medium of experimental do it yourselfness, and his third cassette release from 1981.
You know what to expect; plenty of lovely phat vintage electronics with an experimental edge rarely found in this genre today.
All Hail the Potter!

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