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Monday, 26 October 2020

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

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  Jane Buerk,the erstwhile clavist of France's premier improv Rock combo, ZOG , says Enculé to the world in her unique experimental elec...
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Friday, 23 October 2020

The Zchivago Reviews Series - 3/ Guns N' Roses - "The truly awful "Appitite For Destruction" record (On the truly very awful Geffen Records) from about 1987!

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  As Prince Harry and Megan......sounds like some kind of naff novelty act doesn't it?.....In fact it is....but.....Prince Harry Hewitt,...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

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

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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 ...
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Monday, 19 October 2020

The Zchivago Reviews Series - 2/ The Clash "London Calling" (CBS Records 1979)

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THE CLASH – London's calling....Tell 'em i'm fucking OUT! London's Calling???...who gives a Fuck!? I hear that Scunthorpe ...
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Saturday, 17 October 2020

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

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What's next for you fools?...Ahhhh...another new Year Zero Records release......hows about some gentle post-rock improv by Leicester b...
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Friday, 16 October 2020

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

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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 ha...
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Thursday, 15 October 2020

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

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Gawd Blimey, luv-a-duck, guvn'r, I forgot about this album i made back in the early 'teennies' for the magnificent Year Zero Rec...
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Tuesday, 13 October 2020

The Zchivago Reviews Series - 1/The Fucking Joshua FuckingTree by U fucking Two!!!

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  The first inductees into to Die Or DIY?'s Rock'n'Roll Hall of Shame is predictably the only band of their generation not to sp...
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Wednesday, 7 October 2020

I Am The Fly - "I Am The Fly" (Self-Released 7" Single) 2020

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  While we're on the subject of Synth-Punk, anyone fancy some Modern Synth-Punk from Essen, Germany? Made by girl/boy duo ' I Am The...
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Tuesday, 6 October 2020

Cardboards ‎– "Greatest Hits Volume Two" (Mom's Records ‎– MR253) 1981

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The synth-punk thing wasn't just confined to California, for a start we had Suicide in New York for the previous decade up to 1981 and ...
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Monday, 5 October 2020

Brad Laner ‎– "Ligaments 05" (Captured Tracks ‎– CT/SP-059) 2019

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  The fifth and final...for now...volume of Brad Laner's (Y'know, that guy from  Savage Republic and 17 Pygmies?)  epic voyage into ...
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Sunday, 4 October 2020

The Blue Daisies ‎– "Wilt" (Iridescence Records ‎– I-23) 1985

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Oh Alright, let's call this 'Art Rock'. Highly possibly done by unemployed actors as well by the sound of it. Brad Laner played ...
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Brad Laner ‎– "Ligaments 04" (Captured Tracks ‎– CT/SP-058) 2019

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More cable unplugging,wire repatching, knob twiddling,circuit frying, art damaged, rearranged,edited ,reconceptualised electronic madness,fr...
Saturday, 3 October 2020

Red Asphalt ‎– "Red Asphalt" (Synthetic Shadows ‎– #18) 1981/2014

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  I was gonna tie this in with Brad Laner's role as a Synth Punk Pioneer, but its more than that. There's something 'Prog' a...
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Friday, 2 October 2020

Brad Laner ‎– "Ligaments 03" (Captured Tracks ‎– CT/SP-057) 2019

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The infinite possibilities of modular sound synthesis are dragged through the unpreditcable mind of Brad Laner for the third time. Reminisce...
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Thursday, 1 October 2020

The Philosophic Collage ‎– "Genius" (American Aesthetic Industries, Ltd.) 1981

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  Angry geeks want to show us jocks how much cleverer than us they really are,and 'look at me now' revenge has been taken...if only ...
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Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Brad Laner ‎– "Ligaments 02" (Captured Tracks ‎– CT/SP-056) 2019

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Another rewiring of the ligaments in the ligature of a genre that could be, 'Modular Synthesis". Personally the sight of wires give...
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Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Brad Laner ‎– "Ligaments 01" (Captured Tracks ‎– CT/SP-055) 2019

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  Brad Laner, the step-grandaddy of Synth Punk, among many other OUT-there musical projects too numerous to mention, is,of course, still off...
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Friday, 25 September 2020

Earth Dies Burning ‎– "Songs From The Valley Of The Bored Teenager (1981-1984)" (Captured Tracks ‎– CT-180)

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  Los Angeles gave us many things;some truly terrible singer-songwriters,some really quite good singer-songwriters(manily from Canada it has...
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Tuesday, 22 September 2020

Pink Section - "Sectioned(1978-1980)" (a Die or DIY expanded edition) 2020

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There's something about American culture that just effortlessly produces weirdo's.There's the Dave Grohl type of weirdo who'...
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Sunday, 20 September 2020

Chemicals Made From Dirt ‎– "Ike (1978-83)" (Hyped To Death ‎– Homework #203) 2000

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  More hopelessly obscure US Post-Punk quirkiness,or as it is described on the sleeve as "World Class Art-Wave"? A genre within a ...
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Saturday, 19 September 2020

Algebra Mothers/A-Moms ‎– "A-Moms = Algebra Mothers (1977-84)" (Third Man Records ‎– TMR533) 2018

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  From the Rock City of Detroit came a bunch of misfits called 'A-Moms',who released a quirky single( get it HERE! ) and promptly di...
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BOB ‎– "Backward" (Dumb Records ‎– d.7589) 1983

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  A fine example of the musical landscape in the USA from 1979 onwards is the ungooglable, 'BOB', from krazy ol'Frisco town.Herk...
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Friday, 18 September 2020

Marine Girls ‎– "Beach Party" (In Phaze Records ‎– 002 1/2) 1981

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Once upon a time,back at the Birth of the Indie Sound,which was specific to the British Commonwealth only. We find four sixth formers from E...
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Thursday, 17 September 2020

Various Artists - "Here's The Shit!" (Greenwich Performance Collective) 1984

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  Those wacky chaps at the Greenwich Performance Collective were at it again in 1984 with more classic DIY tchoons from all our favourites....
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Tuesday, 15 September 2020

Various Artists ‎– "Dennis" (The Greenwich Performance Collective) 1984

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  Balancing carefully on the zero degrees longitude meridian ,and therefore at the center of the Earth, The Greenwich Performance Collective...
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