Everyone and their granny,in the known experimental pop universe, has done an 'ENO' collaboration it seems? Running our Brian a...

I've got a headache from a weekend of excess and too much spring sun,but what did I find in my inbox this morning?.....only the most ...

Basically, this is how to 'Rock!'....... in 15 easy lessons. I say 'easy' because Jad fair makes it seem easy, but it a...

Is there a group that Mick Hobbs wasn't in? Family Fodder, The Work, The Momes ,Officer! Half Japanese and....the magnificent Str...

Mick Hobbs with friends and acquaintances, subverting the medium of the 'Pop Song' in Baltimore, in 1995, and belatedly relea...

The lost album from the Unrest,Work and Play archives wot I found on the interweb in an atrociously low bit-rate, but its still not too b...

Mick Hobbs of The Work etc, was in 'The Momes' with Andy Wake of 'Unrest Work and Play' , along with Tim Hodgkinso...

The early eighties were full of generic groups and generic people like this who fitted in with the waves of fashionable right-on-ness, t...

Eight, thirty-four year old songs by Mick Hobbs, with chums from 'The Work' and others, recorded at This Heat's 'Cold St...

Whereas "Cough" from 1985 reminded me of 'The Dirty Three', this lime green offering from the second summer of love re...

I rather like this lo-fi outing for Mick Hobbs' 'Officer!'  Dare one suggest that this sounds not unlike post-cave Austra...

Mick Hobbs' post-prog post punky pop collective 'Officer!' made some slightly annoying but very eccentric song based Avant-p...

The Quirky post-prog lunacy of Mick Hobbs on solo duty,as theatre score composer and as his 'band', 'Officer!'. Side...

This one contains most of the core line-up of 'The Work' plus Trefor from Camberwell Now. "Piggy Bank" is the closest...

A 'Work' related group, featuring Mick Hobbs of 'The Work',  Rick Wilson of 'The Work, and Trevor Goronwy of ...

A novel angle on the 'Live' album by our fav proggy punky avant rockers, The Work. Capturing a whole tour schedule in 69 untitl...

I thought I'd posted this before,but I hadn't......I checked. If you click HERE !.....you can find the rest my The Works posts ...

Wasn't this the second 'official' Work album from the end of the decade......I think it was y'know. It's up to the ...

Deconstructed rock from Henry Cow spin off's, The Work.  This Live performance in Osaka, featured the one and only Jim Whelton,aka ...

Why were these guys soooo angry? Most animals fight each other for breeding rights or food, but these creatures seemed to just want ...

Frankly, the best sound ever made,EVER, is,of course, Godzillas raking analogue screech/scream/roar, or whatever it could possibly be...

This album is a Monster, in the tradition of Mothra and Godzilla (who gets a mention in the track listing). But this half monster is goo...

Only seventy-five tracks of childlike wonder from outsider primitives Jad Fair and Nao Ishimuri. I hesitate to say that everyone of them...

Two living legends of DIY outsider otherness, Jad Fair of Half Japanese and Naofumi Ishimura of Yximalloo , got together to make a tript...

An album with 24 tracks that's called "15 Songs"? More certified lunacy from the padded walled sound factory of Yximal...

When you've finished your Chicken Vindaloo, Yximalloo ain't no chicken when it comes to using your plate,washed or unwashed...

Yximalloo makes music with small samplers,small synths and drum machines that suggests pre-emulator Residents.Sounds promising doesn...

Another truckload of sub-two minute ditties from the Yximalloo day-centre for the mildly insane(1984 was a good year for Paranoia one su...

A further compilation of Yximaloo's prolific output,this time from 1982. Every country has their 'Residents', and ,arguably...

Enter the very special world of Naofumi Ishimura, also know as Yximaloo. Japan has always produced a interesting brand of nutter, and I...

The core line up of this Japnoise duo/band consisted of Hiroshi Hasegawa(late of the bands Astro & Mortal Vision) and former porn a...

No series of posts on Japanese music would be complete without the poster boy, and wild man of Japnoise, Masonna. Once a close assoc...