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Sunday, 7 May 2017

Young Marble Giants ‎– "Colossal Youth Demos" (Self-Released) 1979

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Meanwhile,back in South Wales, we present some super-claustrophobic demos from Cardiff's own introspective minimalists, Young Marb...
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Friday, 5 May 2017

Chorchazade – "Death Is Eeklo" (Unreleased) 1988

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We have a short break in our stay in South Wales, and briefly return back across the Severn Bridge to Bristol via Penzance, as some k...
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Thursday, 4 May 2017

Young Marble Giants ‎– "Final Day EP" (Rough Trade ‎– RT 043)

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The best thing to come out of Wales is normally the M4 motorway right?.......but, whats the best record ever to come out of Wales? T...
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Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Various Artists - "Messthetics #104: South Wales D.I.Y.'77-81" (Hyped2Death) 2008

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Well if you liked "Is The War Over?(a Cardiff Compilation)" , you're gonna like this. A kind of  'Best of...' Sou...
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Tuesday, 2 May 2017

Various Artists ‎– "Is The War Over? (a Cardiff compilation)" (Z Block Records ‎– ZA1) 1979

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After Cornwalls' king of obscurity, Chorcazade ,its only right to stay firmly in the south-west of the uk, and cross the Bristol ...
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Monday, 1 May 2017

Chorchazade ‎– "Made To Be Devoured" (Get Ahead Records ‎– GET#1) 1987

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Proto-Post Rock is the made-up genre for this deeply buried and deeply good lost album from another lost British group. Pre-dating the v...
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Sunday, 30 April 2017

Chorchazade ‎– "Crackle And Corkette EP" (Crackle And Corkette ‎– Crack One) 1985

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"Indie" was supposed to be music for misfits,but even within these ranks there were outsiders.None more so than this Cornish...
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Saturday, 29 April 2017

Various Artists ‎– "C-86" (New Musical Express ‎– NME 022) 1986

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Amazingly,five of the Ron Johnson stable appeared on the Iconic 'Indie' compilation "C-86", as released/compiled by t...
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Friday, 28 April 2017

The Membranes ‎– "The Gift Of Life" (Creation Records ‎– CRELP 006) 1985

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The ironically titled "The Gift Of Life", was, funnily enough, an early release on Alan McGee's  nascent Creation Record...
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The Membranes ‎– "Crack House" (Criminal Damage Records ‎– CRI MLP-105) 1983

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The Nightingales and The Membranes were probably the earliest flowering of the Ron Johnson template. The Membranes being closely associ...
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Thursday, 27 April 2017

Bogshed ‎– "Brutal" (Shelfish Records ‎– SHELFish 4) 1987

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Here's Bogshed's first album part two, aka the second album, but the same as the first. Chock full of 'shambling' discor...
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Wednesday, 26 April 2017

Bogshed ‎– "Step On It" (Shelfish Records ‎– SHELFish 2) 1986

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Bogshed, as brilliant as they were,and like many other similar alternative pop groups,had a tendency to repeat themselves, and very o...
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Tuesday, 25 April 2017

Bogshed ‎– "Let Them Eat Bogshed" (Vinyl Drip Records ‎– DRIP 2) 1985

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Any record with a song called "Panties Please" on it has to be good right? Bogshed's debut release on John Robb of the...
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Monday, 24 April 2017

Bogshed - "Peel Sessions 1985-88" (a Die or DIY? Compilation)

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A collection of Bogshed's greatest work.Which, as per usual, was recorded at the BBC. Full of alternative pop classics such as ...
Saturday, 22 April 2017

Bogshed - "Demo's and Rareties 1985-87" (a Die or DIY? Compilation)

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Then we had the crop of groups who should have been on Ron Johnson Records instead of The Sewer Zombies and The Ex. The most shining ex...
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Friday, 21 April 2017

Boredoms ‎– "Boretronix 1" (? Ltd. ‎– ?001) 1988

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I said I didn't have "Boretronix 1", but now I do, thanks to the lovely Bleak Bliss blog, who seems to always have every...
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Tuesday, 18 April 2017

Scorn ‎– "Vae Solis" (Earache ‎– MOSH 54) 1992

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We are getting in really dodgy territory now, 1992. A truly terrible year for music. Awful sampling abuse, Dire drum machine conformity,...
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Monday, 17 April 2017

Boredoms ‎– "Boretronix 3" (? Ltd. ‎– ?004) 1990

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If it wasn't for japan, i don't think there would have been anything worthwhile to listen to in 1990. All the UK was too interes...
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Sunday, 16 April 2017

Boredoms ‎– "Boretronix 2" (? Ltd. ‎– ?002) 1989

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Yamatsuka Eye, another of the guests on John Zorn's various Grindcore projects, notably Naked City, was in the Boredoms of course. S...
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Azag-Thoth ‎– "Shredded Flesh" (Self released Cassette) 1987

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A highly regarded self-released tape from a prototype Unseen Terror line-up, including Shane Emburey (Although he denies all knowledge of...
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Friday, 14 April 2017

Unseen Terror ‎– "The Peel Sessions" (Strange Fruit ‎– SFPS069) 1988

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Here's the legendary Peel Session by Unseen Terror, with guest vocalist Mick Harris on lead growling. This benefits from having rea...
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Thursday, 13 April 2017

Unseen Terror ‎– "Human Error" (Earache ‎– MOSH 4) 1987

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The opposite end of the scale for snobbery and pretentiousness are a large majority of Metal categories, especially Grindcore and Spe...
Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Naked City ‎– "Torture Garden" (Earache ‎– mosh 28) 1991

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Jazzers, in general,aren't the most open minded of musicians, and do tend towards some rather unpleasant displays of intellectual sn...
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Tuesday, 11 April 2017

PainKiller ‎– "Buried Secrets" (Earache ‎– MOSH 62) 1992

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A Godflesh/Napalm Death/Last Exit supergroup with special guest star, John Zorn on Sax abuse. You won't find any other Godflesh o...
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Sunday, 9 April 2017

Pain Killer ‎– "Guts Of A Virgin" (Earache ‎– MOSH 45) 1991

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The gore-fest continues with this unlikely combination of Grindcore and Avant Garde Jazz, that gave birth to the sub-genre of,yes, '...
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Saturday, 8 April 2017

Carcass ‎– "Reek Of Putrefaction" (Earache ‎– MOSH 6) 1988

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I haven't listened to, or rather endured, this  for about 25 years! It certainly stuck out in the album racks at the record sh...
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Friday, 7 April 2017

Napalm Death ‎– "Hatred Surge" (Self Released) ‎– TDD3 1985

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Before the Grind took hold, our buddies in Napalm Death were carbon copy Anarcho-Punks; they were even featured on Crass Records...
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Thursday, 6 April 2017

Napalm Death ‎– "The Peel Sessions" (Strange Fruit ‎– SFPDCD049) 1987/88

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Twenty Five 'songs' in 20 minutes?!Now, that's either value for money or a total rip off! In my humble opinion it's ...
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