Daphne Oram ‎– "The Oram Tapes: Volume One" (Young Americans ‎– YoungAm003CD) 2012

Yes, Daphne was mucking about with tapes and electronics since the early forties.
You could casually slip some of her works into an Industrial DJ set ,like the excerpt from "The Innocents"(1961) for example, and pass it off as unreleased Throbbing Gristle, or,Autechre, even Merzbow, and the kids would swallow it. The music's as weird as her image. It can sound like spy transmissions from behind the Iron Curtain, like those 'Numbers Stations', or proto-dark ambient, Industrial before Industrial, or the theme tune to a ventriloquists doll horror movie. The great Daphne was there first before anyone else,except maybe her peers in the French Musique Concréte movement:but that was certainly a thing of the Fifties,so maybe she invented that as well?

Daphne relaxing in her living room.

Naturally, as a female in a man's world, she never received any credit until around her death.Largely thanks to Pete 'Sonic Boom' Kember of Spacemen 3 etc(so he's gone up in my estimation), we now know about the dynamic duo of Delia and Daphne.
Here's hoping for a volume 2,as I am aware that there are many more hours of recordings in the Oram archive.
I've added a couple of bonus tracks featuring the first couple of electronic pieces Oram did for the BBC Drama department,so no complaints about strange running orders or anything please.

Tracklist:
1.Just For You (Excerpt 1) 3:00
2.Eton 2:00
3.The Innocents - Savage Noises (Excerpt) (1961) 3:20
4.Anchor Butter 0:40

5.Manchester 2 (1962)8:00

6.Wool (1967) 0:40
7.Oxford 12:57
8.Hydrogen Tones 3:30
9.2001 Effects Tape 1 2:52
10.2001 Effects Tape 2 5:23
11.Phensic (1961) 0:41
12.New Atlantis (1963) 6:03
13.Just For You (Excerpt 2) 1:13
14.Winters Journey (Intro) (1958) 0:14
15.Pulse Persephone (Alternate Parts For Mixing) 5:57
16.Light Music (Excerpt) 4:35

17.Stroke 5:53
18.Shell Flight (Excerpt) 0:27
19.Anacin Components 6:43
20.G.O.S. (Excerpt - 15" Tape Transferred At 7.5" Ps) 1:39
21.Costain Outtake 3:15
22.London University (Excerpt) (1968) 1:26
23.Encephalagraph 2:48
24.Anacin (Excerpt) 0:43
25.Hamlet - Youth Theatre (1963) 12:02
26.For Granada (1967) 1:00
27.Oramics Demonstration (Excerpt) 1:39
28.Electronic Sound Patterns (Excerpt) (1962) 0:48
29.Pure Tone Excerpts 1:07
30.Canadian Idyll 6:37
31.Hospital 3:29
32.Mermaid (Excerpt) 1:25
33.Shell 3:12
34.Illustrations (Fireworks / Hardwich High School) (1967) 2:43
35.Ursa Major (Outtake) (1962) 0:21
36.Ursa Major (Sun Mix) (1962) 3:14
37.Oddments (Excerpt) 1:22
38.Osram & Rank / Pulse Persephone Experiment (1963) 1:52
39.Pulse Persephone Pitch Experiment (1963) 1:02
40.Sardonica (Excerpt) 1:23
41.Progs (Excerpt) 1:22
42.Barclays Bank (Excerpt) 1:55

43.Amphitryon 38 (Bonus Track) (1957)

44.The Ocean (Bonus Track) with Desmond Briscoe (1957)
45.Speech Test 1:00

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Kiilo Radical ‎– "Denki Noise Dance" ( Vanity Records ‎– VAT2) 1981

This cassette is a weird ,muffled,glitchy affair,that dips its toes deeply into circuit bending electronic noises that are as pleasurable as popping bubble wrap; well, maybe not that pleasurable,but satisfying in a fuzzy lo-fi kind of way. The transistor frying sounds are backed up by repetitive pink noisy beats to keep the casual listener involved, so its not all dry joints and cheaply manufactured resistors; you could dance(?) to it......if you are that way inclined.I can certainly see Metal Micky's castors sliding around to this. Thankfully i'm NOT Metal Micky,or have to watch that new low in seventies childrens telly; but i would listen to this obscure cassette while I'm making me sandwiches.
(You know what, I dunno what I'd do without popular trash culture references from the arse end of the twentieth century?)

TRACKS:

1. Denki Noise Dance 1 (4.21)
2. Denki Noise Dance 2 (2.13)
3. Denki Noise Dance 3 (2.35)
4. Denki Noise Dance 4 (2.57)
5. Denki Noise Dance 5 (3.31)
6. Denki Noise Dance 6 (0.23)
7. Denki Noise Dance 7 (2.20)
8. Denki Noise Dance 8 (2.19)
9. Denki Noise Dance 9 (23.02)

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Normal Brain ‎– "Lady Maid" (Vanity Records ‎– vanity 0009) 1981

Normal (Brain) service has been resumed, after that admittedly wonderful new years day post, we return to some Japanese nascent electronica,by Normal Brain,on the cult label, Vanity Records.
Apparently this features on that trainspotters guide to alternative music the "Nurse With Wound List". Hiding amongst the awful eastern European bargain bin prog rock, anglo-american psychedelic rock copyists from Switzerland, and dull as fuck third rate kosmiche from former Czechoslovakia; we find this proto-electronica-glitch classic that could easily have been made today, or at least released on Warp records around 1995. A very post-rave vibe permeates the Speak and Spell machines, misspelling 'Music' for our delight. Definitely one of the bright spots on that nerdy list,along with PiL,Glaxo Babies,Homosexuals,Cabaret Voltaire and a few other surprise inclusions.I'd sooner listen to this than some twenty minute bland -out from another third rate Agitation Free-alike.(I am of course being rather harsh,purely for entertainment purposes naturally)
Basically,this record is rather good indeed.

Tracklist:

A1	M-U-S-I-C
A2	Frottage "One Way"
A3	You Are Busy, I Am Easy
A4	KE300
A5	Frottage "SW"
B1	Fragment

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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.

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"36 Howden Road" by clicking HERE!

Storm Bugs – " Metamorphose " (L’Invitation au Suicide INV 0100) 1981

Storm Bugs were formed by Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball in 1978 and have been described as “the spiritual forefathers to Oval”, grandaddies of the “Glitch”. That’s pushing it a bit, but what they were good at is sounding like a shortwave broadcast from some aliens from an ignored planet’s extra-terrestrial insane asylum. The broadcast is, of course, very badly tuned in on your pre-digital receiver.
The cover of this single looks like a propaganda poster asking for contributions for a revamped nazi party, which explains why ‘Tin’ sounds rather like a fine example of Forced Labour Disco; a genre that is inexplicably absent from the racks of all those closed down record shops out there.
‘Car Situations’ , with its ‘Take a child on Holiday’ refrain, sadly suggests a mentally malfunctioning male with a Pete Townsend style ‘curiosity’; although I doubt that is what the composition is about. You have to be careful about these things these days. No such bother in 1980, where it was perfectly acceptable to make such dodgy references. Listen to several John Peel shows and you can hear the venerable old sod, making many references to school girls, and openly bragging about having sex with under age girlfriends in the sixties. This is statutory rape, is it not? This is a fine example why Hippie culture was the twentieth centuries western version of the Taliban.
All this has nothing to do with the great Storm Bugs however, and I apologise for digressing, but I can’t stand those Hippie-crites. Long haired smelly sex abusers.For evidence check out hippie DIY’ers/cult Father Yod and Ya Ho Wha 13 to come later on this blog.

Steven Ball enlightens us school drop outs further:

" To clarify, the cover of the single (yes it is a Hitler youth member), was imposed on it by the label. We were utterly disgusted with it when it arrived and discarded as many as we could, replacing with them with a plain sleeve. As the sound of Tin might suggest (it is also a melodic rockabilly inflected pop song, with acoustic guitar), we were trying to make something a world away from the tired death camp imagery and fascist flirtations that proliferated at that time, promulgated by many of the contemporary post-punkers (TG being the worst offenders), so we were doubly disappointed to be unwillingly thrown back into the fray. Unfortunately the image seems to have resurfaced in the internet age. "Take a child on holiday" is a reference to Nabokov's 'Lolita' to be taken as literary, rather than literally. Most of the lyric was written using a cut-up technique, from various sources."

Track Listing:

1 – Tin
2 – Car Situations

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