Prutsers - "Volumes 1,2,& 3 (re-post)" (Year Zero Records) & newly revived "Proto-Prutsers Tapes"....... A Tribute.

In a time when it seems lethal to be an aging pop star it will be no surprise to reveal that this plague has reached the doors of Die Or DIY? and Year Zero Records.

While Mark Stewart related posts have forced their way into the Die or DIY? top ten in the past week, I have the sad duty to announce the passing of Prutsers non-legend,and possessor of the silliest mustache since the demise of Freddie Mercury, Jan Kopp.

So you can adjust your playlists accordingly to include the Prutsers version of 'Nice'n'Sleazy' between 'Forces Of Oppression','Death Disco' and 'Hi-Ho Silver Lining' and whoever else suitable and relevantly corpsed can be included from the past few months of carnage.

Here's Henk Madrotter to say a few words in the grand ol' tradition,make ready the henkerchiefs :

"As far as saying something about Jan.... He was a very good friend of mine, me and a few other friends were always at his place from say '86 till about '90 or so, board games, making music, watching pro-wrestling, getting drunk, getting stoned.... He was always a bit of a hermit and in the last 25 years of his life he really became one, I lost contact many years ago unfortunately, specially when I moved to Indonesia in '96, he wasn't much of an e-mailer... Sad to hear of his passing, a friend went by his house a few years ago and he was in a bad condition then, very dirty, very much the alcoholic and almost not able anymore to express himself, but back in the day he was a real trooper, incredible sense of humor, a genius when it came to song writing and computer programming (those commodore 64 days) and many the times where I would've starved if it wasn't for him, back then he was the most organized from our group, always plenty of food, plenty of drinks, plenty of fun.."

"I've got a mustache and I'm gonna use it".
Jan back in those halcyon days of Post Punk in the Nether regions.

Wait...there's more.....thanks to Henk, proprietor of the 4th 'best' obscure music blog according to some weird internet search engine thingy...a tape has emerged to add to the legacy...

Madrotter explains:

"Well, I had the tape in water it sounded so bad, way better sound now, who knows, you might like some of this stuff, it's recordings, mostly Jan Kopp and Robo and sometimes them with a few friends, recorded between 1983 and 1985, before I joined and we became the Prutsers, it's ehrrr.... DIY so to say...."

Here's the tape, hope you'll like it!

If, for some inexplicable reason, you have never heard Prutsers????...so below there's a link to the original posts, including download links and more blurb etc on the subject.

Links to DOWNLOAD prutsers vol1/2/3 and read more HERE!

ZOG -"ZOG NOT ZOB !" (Year Zero Records YEAR 049) 2020

 More shameless self-promotion with another 'new' ZOG album......this one's my personal favorite as it 'appens. A more ambient rock approach might I say?

Another lovely album of noisy improvised avant rock from Anglo-French Drums and Bass duo, ZOG.This one has slightly lengthier pieces than usual,but ultimately more rewarding.

ZOB is a french slang word for a penis, which ZOG frequently gets mistaken for....oh how we laugh everytime some clever dick says that...hahaha!

Personel: Christophe Medina....Batterie Jonny Zchivago.....Bass/samples Tracklist: 1. Non-Exist-Ent 19:26 2. This Is Madness 18:39 3. Semen Is Another Word 19:42

STREAM IT HERE! or Album available for FREE download at

https://year-zero-records.blogspot.com/p/zog-zog-not-zob-year-zero-records-year.html or http://www.mediafire.com/file/jbpfyf5...

Jane Buerk - "...sings Enculé and her other Hits" (Year Zero Records YEAR049) 2020

 Jane Buerk,the erstwhile clavist of France's premier improv Rock combo, ZOG, says Enculé to the world in her unique experimental electronic style,with her first solo album on Year Zero Records.

Feel Jane's pissed off side in the medium of electronic sound. No sequencers,or polyphonic keyboards on here...she hates that shit! Don't even think about mentioning MIDI.... she could get violent! Recorded in enhanced MONO, using just the knob twiddling magic of a single oscillator Korg MS10. No one gets out of here alive and Jane's gonna remind you....in sound! Tracklist: 1. Je m’aime, oui......vous non plus (3:52) 2. Clyde and Bonnie (05:52) 3. (2020)(Année Non-Érotique) (04:43) 4. Docteur Jane Et Madame Buerk! (05:31) 5. Ford Mondeo (07:19) 6. Intials J.B. (03:40) 7. New York,Lincolnshire (04:02) 8. Des Connards pour un requiem (07:44) 9. Le Couleur Café est fermé (04:16) 10. La La La Sucette (03:50) 11. Ballade de Admiral Nelson (06:41) 12. Enculé (03:26)

(All tracks imrovised by Nadine Aleman as Jane Buerk).

DOWNLOAD the hits of Jane Buerk HERE!...or she'll hit YOU!

OR

You can stream it HERE!

ZOG - "Happy Happy Happy!" (Year Zero Records - YEAR050) 2020

More ruthless self-promotion with yet another jolly album by those little rays of sunshine in a dark planet,ZOG.

Happiness is a choice boys and girls, and you can find it in the most unusual of locations.One such location is the totally improvised Bass and Drums interplay surfing on a bed of samples and electronics that is ZOG! Drums - Christophe Medina Bass and stuff - Jonny Zchivago Cover by Andy Tithesis (Dysgeusia Records) Tracklisting:

1. Klaus Barbie Dolls (7:17) 2. In Search Of Potatoes (06:37) 3. Solids (08:12) 4. You Will Become Like Us (07:41) 5. Your Children Will Inherit This Fuck Up (06:33) 6. Happy! Happy! Happy! (22:36)

DOWNLOAD and make yourself very Happy...HERE!

or

STREAM this little ray of happiness HERE!

Phool - "Phosphorous" - (Year Zero Records - YEAR046) 2020

What's next for you fools?...Ahhhh...another new Year Zero Records release......hows about some gentle post-rock improv by Leicester band 'Phool'? Which includes a Scout Of Uzbekistan on drums
Indulge your stressed out lugholes with these soothing flotation tank rock sounds,as in rock without the 'rock' part. Minimally underplayed,so don't expect any face-melting guitar solo's, jazzy drum fills, or any slap bass, this just envelopes you like a creeping mist of that made-up as you go along stuff that some dare to call,... "improvisation",except this version of improvisation doesn't involve 'Showing Off'.
Strictly instrumental, it also saves one from that terrifying blight of the 21st century.....Singing!
Mark,Helen and Francis (Phool) are rare examples of musicians who obviously had lots of attention as children, which is in itself jolly refreshing.

Don't worry i'll stop being nice in the next post.

Tracklist:

1. Disaster (part 2)
2. Bandage Aid
3. Disaster (part 1)
4. McWerter McWerter
5. Are One Oh
6. Dizzy Diva
7. Cheese Cob and a Dog

DOWNLOAD or feel rather phoolish HERE!

OR

You can stream it HERE!

ZOG - "Subvertebrates" (YEAR ZERO RECORDS - YEAR045) 2020

As we're on the subject of Year Zero Records ,there's been No new ZOG music for a long time, as we were poncing about waiting to have a vinyl record release, but that looks like it ain't gonna happen.That coupled with drummer boy....i said drummer boy!....nearly cutting his hand off with a stone cutter.(not his fault by the way!)

Following his emergency Helicopter evacuation to hospital they managed to sew it back on,not quite a Def Leppard incident, but he'll never be the same again.It was his wanking hand too,so it's deadly serious!

Luckily we recorded lots of shit before the accident, so here's the first installment of the usual improvised Bass and Drums interplay,with some freeform electronics atop, placed like a cherry on a cake laced with LSD.

Christophe Medina - one hand clapping and Drums

Jonny Zchivago - Bass and stuff.

Recorded sometime in 2018-ish.

Cover by Andy Tithesis

Tracklisting:

1. Having Children Is Child Abuse (4:42)
2. The Cacophony Of Gesture (9:12)
3. Survivours Of The Rapture (14:40)
4. LGBT's from the Twelth Dimension (12:59)
5. Punish Or Be Damned (10:02)
6. The Lowness Of Space (Who Gives a Fuck? (16:52)

DOWNLOAD and subvert your spine HERE!

or

You can STREAM it direct to your nervous system HERE!

ÜWAN - "Ü2" (Year Zero Records YEAR 023) 2013

Gawd Blimey, luv-a-duck, guvn'r, I forgot about this album i made back in the early 'teennies' for the magnificent Year Zero Records netlabel.(clears throat)

An improvised guitar drone fest on the subject of the abject U2.As the first Üwan album was called "Ü1",'twas only natural that the second outing would be monikered "Ü2".So the connotations were obvious,and a chance to slag off this terrible group with scything six string noise. 

Basically,it's another Shackleton in a Ü-boat style exploration into the eternal combination of Guitar, Drums, effects, and sound collage from our favourite free rock improv combo,Üwan.A kind of an subconscious abstract tribute to U2's unaltering longevity. This is what you'd get if one placed Bono's career minded stadium rockers' back catalogue into a food blender.I know i'd like to push a certain vertically challenged lead singer of an Irish stadium rock band's face into a blender anyway.

All the notes are there, but not necessarily in the right order, you'd be pleased to know.
What we have here is an improvised drone and feedback ballet score for people who hate ballet. An opera for the deaf,or a painting for the blind.But above all for people who hate U2's guts!

Don't forget, there's Ü3,and Ü4, too!

Dumbo - Drums
JZ (thats me!) - Guitar, Tapes, fx.

DOWNLOAD it HERE!

or

Stream it HERE!

Son Of ZOG - "Son Of ZOG" (Year Zero Records YEAR 044) 2019

Resting briefly from more Ken Nordine, on the subject of "Son Of...." projects, your non-award winning esoteric blogger, thats right 'Moi'; has done a 'Son Of...' project himself (Note use of the third person). Ones Improv Noise rock group, called "ZOG", has a jazzier offshoot, called...you guessed it, "Son Of ZOG". Its got a sax player in it ,so we can't escape the Jazz label being slapped on it.
Some cheeky bastards reckon its better than the group that fathered it,ie ZOG, father of the Son and the holy grossed.
Its on the esteemed Year Zero Records for free download, as always....but now you can get it here, in another shameless act of self-promotion and agrandisement.
Hopefully there will be the appearence of actual physical ZOG product later in the year,on vinyl, courtesy of Siltbreeze records....but will believe it when we see it.
Deconstructive Constructive criticism welcome....just don't make me angry thats all!!!

Personel:

Christophe Medina- Drums
Phil Allison - Sax
Jonny Zchivago - Bass
Nadine Aleman - Electronics

Tracklist:

1.Pain Patisserie
2.Horses In Love
3.Mechagodzilla vrs Son of ZOG
4.Do The Fukashima Slide
5.Spunk Bucket Hostage
6.Silent Music
7.Jonny 3:16
8.Toga Party Refugees
9.VooDoo is DooDoo
10.Love Supremacists

DOWNLOAD and meet the son of zog HERE!

THEE AETHYR " Event Horizon " (Year Zero records YEAR 005) 2010

Yes, ENO was 'inspired' by Cluster, and ENO 'inspired' a flood of similar wanna be ENO's.If I was to be any musician in the pop universe, i would probably choose to be a Non-Musician, like our Brian. didn't wanna be left out, so here's my (j.Zchivago's)solitary attempt to make an 'Ambient record as Thee Aethyr, on Year Zero Records.
What's a blog for if you can't plug your own records to an unforgiving public/

Tracklist:

1. A Martyr's Prayer
2. I.G.Farben
3. An Exorcism
4. Event Horizon
5. Thee Last Days
6. Waiting For last Year
7. The Stockholm Syndrome
8. We Are Not Here
9. We Can remember It For You
10.Thee Eternal

DOWNLOAD from the aethyr HERE!

PHILIP JOHNSON - "Ellis is Poofyman" (Year Zero Records YEAR035) 2015

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!

Prutsers - "Volume 3" - (Year Zero Records YEAR040) 2016

You want more hopelessly obscure Dutch DIY dabblings from the eighties do you?
Thankfully Year Zero Records has cobbled together a Third(?)  volume of lunacy from Rotterdam nutters The 'Prutsers'.

Jan and Henk engaging in some light reading before an evening in front of the Television

Henk, Jan and Robo, bring you the usual,and the very unusual, madness from the squatlands of Rotterdam in the early to mid 1980's.
Robot voices mix with accordions,toy instruments, cheap samplers, and pots and pans, as The Residents get blended with Danny and the Dressmakers in a broken sonic liquidizer, then poured slowly into your ear.

Jan and Henk relaxing at home

Just think with a moments horror, what would have happened to Prutsers if they were rich, had top of the range equipment; then got put into a recording studio with a top Producer......you'd end up with something like Westlife probably, instead of Pondlife.
For sheer inventiveness alone this is worth the price of a FREE download!....surely.....its funny as well!

Jan and Robo enjoying some spare time

Track Listing:

1 In Den Beginnen
2 Love is the Drug
3 Modern Ridderverhaal
4 Mijn Naam Is Hector de Computer
5 Als u Het Niet Aanzien Wil
6 Let's All Chant
7 Wouterje
8 Der Buurman
9 In Mijn Huis Woont een Spook
10 Ein Stuck Von Mir
11 Prutsers but made by ton van Hammond
12 Foggy Days Are Here Again
13 Ontevreden met het Heden
14 Hobabaloeka
15 Kleuter Medley
16 In Perfect Evenwicht
17 Paperclip Polka
18 Pecos Bill
19 Struisvogel ei
20 To The Point
21 Zware Kost
22 Heartbreak Hotel

DOWNLOAD a third volume of drug crazed dutch weirdness from the eighties HERE!

Scouts Of Uzbekistan - "Hate is Our religion" (Year Zero Records YEAR039) 2016

In keeping with the current theme of 'Hate', its only fitting that we feature the latest Scouts Of Uzbekistan album. A parable for these uncertain times.
At last, after 6 looooong years, we have the new album from Scouts of Uzbekistan!!!!?.....the long awaited follow up to "Fun Lovin' Muslims" (YEAR001).
The trademark Scouts sound of improvised drums and Bass, combined with speech samples and Noise is very much still their raison d'etre.A kind of Post-Post rock?
This time with an extended line-up.
Mark carolan drums and Guitar, J.Zchivago Bass, guitar, Noise and samples, Christophe Medina Drums and Percussion, and Nadine Aleman, Korg MS20.
Dedicated to Donald J. Trump.

Track Listing:

1 Nude tuesday (4:42)
2 E.T. Phone Homophobe (4:53)
3 The Perception Of Doors (12:11)
4 She Came From Lincoln (5:50)
5 Portable Slave Toilet 5:35)
6 Release the Kraken (8:56)
7 And So Cometh The Christ Android 6:00)
8 Five Reasons To Love Me 6:01)
9 Hansel and Zombie (4:38)
10 I Am The Alter-Destiny (5:54)

DOWNLOAD Hate as your religion HERE!

ZOG - "Thee First Commandment Of ZOG" (Year Zero records YEAR038) 2016

Free improvised Jazz/Noise Rock from deepest France. Featuring former Electric Buttocks anchorman, Christophe Medina on drums and vocals, Blind Man Walking Phil Allison on Tenor Saxophone, erstwhile 'Outsider' Nadine Aleman, knob twiddling on the Korg MS10, and Sampler, with Jon Zchivago clawing his own raw path on,what can only be described as a, Bass Guitar.
All music is improvised in one take,with no rehearsals or discussion beforehand,and only the minimum of editing afterwards. Like a Dogma 95 for music.
ZOG channels every dead or dying musician's soul from the last 60 years of popular music, as if remote viewed from one of the plusher corners of purgatory. If this doesn't excite you, you're dead already.
For terrestrial references, think Archie Shepp fronting Can's better half of Suzuki and Liebezeit , with a dash of Hawkwind, and Jean Jacques Burnel gene spliced with Bootsy Collins; a sort of funkier version of John Zorn's Painkiller without the boring dub bits. 

PS...ZOG is avaiable for gigs,festivals,bar mitzvah's and children's partys. Leave any possible leads in the comments section.

Track Listing:

1 - The Smell of ZOG
2 - ZOG brings World Peace
3 - Kneel Before ZOG!
4 - Horses In Love
5 - Faster ZOG, Kill, Kill!
6 - O'Dowd's Spunk Bucket Hostage
7 - Sexyback by Timberlake
8 - Man Bites ZOG
9 - Raining In My Brain
10- ZOG 3:16

ZOG commands you to DOWNLOAD it HERE!

Esmectatons - "Bene Gesserit Science" (Year Zero Records YEAR034) 2015

Ah yes, Brazil, home to the mellow vibes of the Bossa Nova beat,scantily clad girls from Ipanema playing beach volleyball,immense shanty towns, showboating footballers,and the intense cultured prog noise of Esmectatons? 
This reminds one of the kind of European improv prog band from Bravaria  that you find on that list included with Nurse With Wounds first album.The  honking squealing of saxophones surf on a whitewater tumult of Swirling noise,and improvised drumming that just keeps its head above the surface.
There is more to Brazil than disappearing rain-forests and poncy footballers; Germany may have beaten them 7-1 in the last world cup,but now they are doing what our favourite disciplinarians did best in 1972, progressive improvised avant rock.
Somebody described this (from memory) as 'Post Everything Progressive Noise',with which I wholly concur!......and ,yes,as if you didn't guess,this is the sound of modern Brazil! 

Track Listing:

01 A Place Where Dreams Come From
02 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili or Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream

DOWNLOAD it scientifically HERE!

The Blind Man Who Walked Past The Supermarket - "(More) Jolly Green Giant Corn (2nd Can)" (Year Zero Records YEAR032) 2015

Yes, a second volume of  stream of consciousness, deranged,  DIY improv, from Leicester, in and around the golden era of 1978-80.Heavily abused Trombones,clash with scraping contrabass, tortured saxophone,and Eraserhead organ. Ten untitled decompositions,that fans of the The Good Missionaries, The Door and the Window, and other willfully amateurish free improv should enjoy heartily. Could even be better than the first helping. ?

Tracks;

1-One Blind man (3:02)
2-Two Blind man (3:14)
3-Three Blind man (1:55)
4-Four Blind man (Keith!) (3:28)
5-Five Blind man (1:31)
6-Six Blind man (3:40)
7-Seven Blind man (4:30)
8- Eight Blind man (3:09)
9-Nine Blind man (5:52)
10-Ten Blind man (15:30)

DOWNLOAD another can of juicy sweet corn not even approaching its sell-by date HERE!

THE BLIND MAN WHO WALKED PAST THE SUPERMARKET - "Jolly Green Giant Corn (The First Can Off The Shelf)" (Year Zero Records YEAR031) (1978/80) 2015

From the catacombs beneath the underground,and maybe even below that, we bring you the long lost sessions of Leicester DIY improv collective, The Blind man Who walked Past the Supermarket,who were active in the golden years of 1978 to 1980.
Digitally remastered from the original high quality Dixons ferric oxide master cassette,here is a rare chance to experience the madness from the bubbling cauldron of thee most creative period in British music.
Imagine The Alien Brains and The Door and the Window,merging with Sun Ra,Airway and The Residents, but drunk; then you'd be getting half way towards understanding the off kilter lunacy of this long buried sub-genius.
Just the stuff to encourage that person you hate to shout..."TURN THAT FUCKING SHIT OFF!"

The Blind Men in action

The Blind Man Who Walked Past The Supermarket
Personnel and instrumentation 1978-1980:

Phillip Allison - saxophone shouting, contents of the kitchen and shed, keyboards, prepared bass

Mark Warner - submerged trombone, more competent keyboards, tapes, electronics, contents of the etc, vocals and sneaky stage moves, prepared bass, mutilated keyboards

Gordon Nichols - airborne trombone, percussion, laughter, contents of the etc

Hoover Washing Machine - lead guitar, backing rhythms

Old Valve Radio - Radio Mars

Moot, Tony Pye(Lead Vocals*), Walid Marzouk - excessive drinking and occasional rude vocals

Track listing:

01 - Blind Man 01
02 - Blind Man 02
03 - Blind Man 03
04 - Blind Man 04
05 - Blind Man 05
06 - Blind Man 06
07 - Blind Man 07
08 - Blind Man 08
09 - Blind Man 09
10 - Blind Man 10
11 - Blind Man 11(Maria!)*
12 - Blind Man 12
13 - Blind Man 13

Ho Ho Hooooo!DOWNLOAD the first can of jolly green giant corn HERE!
in glorious 320k mp3 quality.

Prutsers - "Volume 2" (Year Zero records YEAR033) 2015

The long awaited second volume (On Year Zero records) from Rotterdam nutters, Prutsers. Jan, Henk and chums, making Oompah computer game musik filtered through the crustier ends of the Ralph Records repertoire.
For a more in-depth info, check out the text for Prutsers "Volume 1".(Year zero records YEAR016)

Track Listing:

1- No Title
2- Kinderhaat
3- Sperziebonen
4- Love in the old fashioned way
5- Buck Rogers
6- It's a small world
7- Tuh tuh tuh
8- Lay back in the arms of someone
9- Hakkie hakkie hakkie
10- Dat ik hieraan moet den
11- Down by the riverside
12- Een goed ontwikkelde
13- De chinese thee
14- Rabibok
15- Ppo Rap Song
16- Erschrecklich kalt
17- Heel mijn haar zit door mekaar
18- De Straatmuzikant
19- Hoi Hoi
20- Omtrent mijn nieuwe kapsel

DOWNLOAD something rotten but not forgotten from rotterdam HERE!

Left Over Lolly - "Pity The Small/Social Security" (Year Zero Records/Snatch Tapes - YEAR030) 2015

To celebrate the forthcoming UK General election, Snatch Tapes and Year Zero Records brings you this cynical Election cash-in that as much to do with getting the lolly in the back bin as does the governments "trickle down" economic plan. Get this doom disco classic for 'NOTHING' and spend your 'trickle down' riches on the bastards who deserve your money,like Robin Thicke and fellow smug plagiarisers in the 'charts'.

Snatch Tapes DIY producer Philip Sanderson has put together a one off bedroom supergroup called Left Over Lolly and recorded this single, complete with cheesy 8 bit disco stomp loop and an elegant Georgian 4 min fade.

$et to a background of a field recording from the 2011 riots, this could be a prediction of the near future as the opportunities for 'the small' people are slowly strangled. The result of what is actually 'Trickle Up' economics, where the lower echelons of society are subjected to higher food and energy prices,lower wages(in real and adjusted terms),coupled with lower or non-existent benefits.The extra profits and lower expenses flood into the elite's bulging bank accounts. The world of the 'Haves' and the 'Have Yachts'. Where corrupt Bankers are rewarded with bail outs and bonuses for plunging half of the population into a poverty trap, with zero prospects(and Zero Hour Contracts) of joining the increasingly unattainable middle classes. The unemployed are endlessly demonised and ridiculed on state TV,and the real criminals are barely mentioned.....this calls for a Howard Zinn quote:
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all-over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” (Howard Zinn)

Good luck with your choice of out of touch Toff in the election,because whoever you vote for, the government will get in(Full of old etonians,just like everything we used to have a say in....Football grounds,Drama Classes/all actors/pop stars are now 'Posh',Pubs,they've stolen everything)....and they ALL want to continue the capitalist kamikaze ride to inevitable self immolation.

(Except The GREENS....who are endorsed,second place to ABSTAINING,by Year Zero records)

So in the next riots, don't forget your mask, try and avoid looting any Plasma Screens and head for Whitehall and Westminster.Smash up the Houses of Shame and MI6 instead of the High Street shops.

TRACK:

1 "Pity The Small/Social Security" (8:37)

DOWNLOAD the left over lolly HERE! (lol)

Philip Johnson - "0714" (Year Zero Records YEAR 029) 2015

A new year, a new Year Zero release, and ,more importantly,a new collection from Philip Johnson.("...a lost figure in the dark waters of early industrial music." - Superior viaduct.com")
This seems to carry on where Minumarine left off , with it's off-kilter loops, wobbly avant-garde composition,and fried electronic glitchs. Swimming on top of the damaged space,are various deconstructed/reconstructed dialogue samples,which add a touch of black humour and disconnected dystfunctional humanity to the already abstract proceedings.
Just "I am Wearing" (mp3) was the single from the Minumarine album, here we have "Just Like it Should" as the potential alternative universe numero uno.Click here for the mp3 of this track,and then download the whole album below......you know you want to,in fact I know you'll want to.
One day soon PJ will gain the recognition he so definitely deserves.
(ps...check out the Superior Viaduct reissue of 1982's classic "Youth in Asia" album.On sale NOW!)

DOWNLOAD 0714 HERE!

BLIND MAN WALKING - "36 Howden Road" (Year Zero Records YEAR 028) 2014

Blind Man walking goes Bontempi Kosmische on  'accessible' album shocker.
The last release of 2014 from our pals at Year Zero Records and our first post of 2015 is Blind man Walking's "36 Howden Road",which is kind of his version of 'Abbey Road' but without the hippies.

Give the kids what they want is not one of BMW's (Blind Man walking,not a certain German car manufacturer!) mottoes; so gone are the free glitchy saxophones, and in comes the generic GM synth sounds. A kind of ambient field recorded Muzak, but subliminally correct,as in it makes its intended target not want to buy anything.
There are lashings of Kluster and Cluster,mixed in with splashes of Zorn trapped in an elevator in freefall.

Step into this elevator as it descends from the thousandth floor,back to earth and click the link for the new direction the Blind man is walking in.

DOWNLOAD YEAR 028 - BLIND MAN WALKING
"36 Howden Road" by clicking HERE!