Mudhead - Complete Recordings

Don't know much about these folks, but someone already uploaded this on youtube so you can hear and read info over here.

For some reason his version of this unofficial compilation is missing a track called Stare which exists in my version, so there it is. Overall pretty cool group, early noise rock with a psychedelic twang, lovers of the Surfers that's for sure. Deranged vocals and acidic guitars, shame the audio quality is only fair, otherwise I'd probably come back to them more often.

1. Eleutheromania
2. Charlie's Golden Ticket
3. 666 Children
4. Eleutheromania
5. Monkey
6. Third Leg
7. Dog
8. Mother And Child
9. Empty Without You
10. Scarab
11. Stare
12. City of Rain
13. Eleutheromania

1-2 are from The Jumbo Sound Of Mudhead (1988),
3 from A Limited Gourmet Boxset Of The Unclean & Imperfect (1990), 4-7 from What Does God Say About It? (1987).
13 wasn't in when I got it, I added it myself, from a compilation called Live From Lawrence (1988).

Complete Recordings

Introverts - Twentieth Century

As always when I wanna post something, I google to check if it popped up on bandcamp or something. I found this suspicious looking bandcamp page, which has no audio on it, but leads to another, more dubious and fishy looking page, which I didn't click through. So if this is indeed by the smallest chance an official page, reach out and I'll delete the download link. But since it's probably not, I have to chuckle, cause who the hell is trying to scam and fish via bandcamp using the most obscure bands like Introverts.

Yes obscure is the name of the game here.
Fantastic tape by this group, playing their version of Flipper punk, you know the kind, the sloppy bass, sleazy attitude, the kind this blog always appreciate.
It's more likely they are from Cleveland, as the cover art states it was "conceived/recorded in Cleveland, Ohio Oct. 80 - Mar. 81.".
But they have strong ties with Houston- Ralf Armin (Culturcide) was a member, and this was released via C.I.A. Records. Also the correspondence address leads to Houston, so yeah, I don't know, maybe they moved to Houston or something.

1. I Can't Dance
2. Touchtone
3. Life Is A Gift
4. Cogito Ergo Way
5. Ted Kennedy's Car
6. I Can't Keep From Cryin'
7. Gay Boys In Bondage
8. Picked On
9. 1/4 Straight
10. Mirror Image
11. Amber Bottle Bottom
12. Yoko Ono
13. Prelude
14. Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century Schizoid Men

1986 - Treason of the Heart review
Unsound Magazine, Volume 3 Number 1

There's actually another place Houston is mentioned, and that's in a review for their second cassette which I could never get my hands on ! So here we are again, with me on my knees pleading for someone to share something. Help us ladies and gentlemen, for we are looking Introverts - Treason of the Heart.
So if you got a rip of this one, or any other thing by the band, or just some more information or stories, do share.

Damn this blog is now a decade old. 

Not a bad run if you ask me. 

Talking to myself while writing this nonsense.
If you've followed this blog throughout this period,

Thanks, I truly appreciate it.

First Things First - Life Reducer

Follow up post.

Even more psych-noise rock than the first one, again Helios Creed and Terminal Cheesecake come to mind. The latter's dub vibes come also in the shape of the excellent dub jam title track (also made me think of Blind Idiot God).

1. Get My Point
2. Drag Strip
3. Freakmachine
4. Egon Mueller
5. Life Reducer
6. Soulcontroller Of The Universe
7. Troublemaker
8. Way Down
9. God Was Fucked Up (When He Made This Town)
10. Feel LIke Going Home
11. Life Reducer (Reprise)

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Pineal Ventana - UX

We're on a row here. Finally found this.
Live album CDr.
The almost full discography if you've missed it.

1. Alive
2. SSS (Land With No Heads)
3. **
4. Taenia Solium
5. Crack In The Light
6. - - - [Deaf]
7. P9
8. Intrinsic
9. Begotten
10. Untitled
11. Sleep
12. Studio Improv. 1
13. Studio Improv. 2

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Gam - Thunder Bomb

Another soulseek wishlist success (and another one coming soon), hence again a follow up post.
Their debut EP, after the better full length posted by yours truly here.
Two long tracks. Very short post.

1. Beer Planet
2. Heavy Meadow

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Pineal Ventana - Philosopher's Stone

As long as my Soulseek wishlist is doing its work, I know there's still hope for this world. So whoever I got this from, who finally ripped this and shared it, thank you.

This blog is in dire need of resuscitation (and not because of the war, I'm just busy, sorry), so instead of just editing the Pineal Ventana discography post, and letting this gem of an EP to be neglected in the archives- here's me pumping you again with PV, you need PV in your life. This band was something else.
That PV post I mentioned actually had three of these tracks, but here's the full thing, lossless rip.

1. Philosopher's Stone
2. Golden Return
3. Cheese of The Month Club
4. Sour Sheet
5. Attack of The 50Ft. Cannibal Clownz

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3H-B

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       3ח-B

This is a follow-up post for Shalosh Hait one I made a couple years ago.
This one is dedicated to the bassist Ram Aruveni who passed away a couple of days ago.

Here we have another unofficial cassette, claimed to be "the last recording session they made", albeit I find it false. I think it's a mix of various sources, both studio and live Pargod sessions.

Ran Slavin, David Opp, Ram Aruveni

Side A:
00:00 Daydream [Track 15 on their sole full length bonus CD]
04:32 Untitled [Longer, unedited version of track 14 on their sole full length bonus CD]
12:25 Untitled [Different version of one of the two 1989.08.10 Untitled tracks from the last post]
17:22 במצב של חריטה [Different version of track 13 on their sole full length bonus CD]
22:50 Untitled
26:02 Untitled
29:22 Untitled

Side B:
00:00 Untitled
00:54 Untitled
05:14 Untitled
07:17 Untitled
11:00 מפיות חומות (Brown Napkins) [Early version of a song by a band called Rir, Ran Slavin's post 3H band]
16:01 Untitled
20:17 משהו מדומה [Different version of track 9 on their sole full length bonus CD]
25:01 London Time [Track 5 on their sole full length bonus CD, also track 3 on the bootleg from the last post]
28:43 אל תצעק (גיטרות) [Different version of track 12 on their sole full length CD]

RIP Ram


Among other things Ram also operated in One Two Four Nine , Barbara (both with David), Solo . Even toured with Rabies Caste on their 2002 US tour. So yeah, as you can see, this guy is a fan favorite here in the blog.

מעצ

1982, days of the Lebanon War, a couple of Israeli leftists formed an activists group called ועד למען בריאות הציבור (Public Health Committee). Among their anarcho activities, they were also making music, playing live in some peace protests.
Those roots led to the formation of מעצ (Ma'atz), a socio-political band, merging ethnic/oriental music with new wave. Minimal Compact would be the first thing to come to mind, but influences are varied from Gang of Four to Yemenite folk.

Based in Tel Aviv, yet they weren't really part of the local new wave scene. They didn't perform often and when they did it was mostly on students festivals in colleges and less in clubs.
Ilana Tzabari (Bass, Vocals), Ziv Lewis (Synth), Hezi Davidian (Guitar), Lior Saar (Bass, Drum Machine). Also contributed in the group's early days were Nevo Svorai (Vocals) and Ido Amin (Drums).

The bandcamp up above is their first and only cassette, self released on February 1988. 200 copies were initially pressed by their own "label" called "לא BUDGET" (לא=No). Later sources say about a 1000 were sold, I think it's a bit exaggerated, but probably more were pressed indeed. Personally I think it's a cool album, but not something I listen to often, other than the first track which is a straight-up classic with its iconic samples (Hebrew needed) and guitar work. Track 8 is also a personal favorite, but I'll always come back to a cover made by the blog sweethearts Mujahideen. 
In 2001 it was re-released by Earsay on CD with bonus tracks. Those are not on the bandcamp version so I got you.

Ilana Tzabari, Hezi Davidian, Lior Saar, Ziv Lewis

מעצ - שבת אחים קטעי בונוס / Ma'atz - Brotherhood Bonus Tracks 

10. הודי
11. לעבודה ולמלאכה
12. שישי אינסטרומנטל
13. עיזים
14. שעונים
15. קן בין עירוני
16. מוצקים
17. Jc Hopes
18. Remix השעון ההיסטורי

Now, the real intention of this long planned post (since this blog formation pretty much, like most other posts), is to share rare demos that I have on my PC. I can't remember how I got these. I'm sure it'll interest some local readers of this blog who probably enjoy this band more than I do. I know the band has recorded a full length worth of materials with Nevo, I reckon this is it. 1985-ish recordings, maybe someone will correct me. I left the titles as they were in the original files.

Tzabari, Saar, Davidian, Lewis
Photo by Dvora Gruda

מעצ - סקיצות / Ma'atz - Demo

1. מוצקים [full version of track 16 above]
2. עיזים [full version of track 13 above]
3. גטס
4. תורכי [early version of אילמז]
5. ערבי
6. קונסולה [early version of שבת אחים]
7. טבול ראש [early version of טבול ראש בחול]
8. על האדמה
9. פלייבק [early version of השעון ההיסטורי]

In 2023 Nevo also uploaded a collection of his demos with the band to his own bandcamp:

First track here is an early version of a song that Nevo's later group (called Israel) will play.
The following are the same as in the demo I uploaded (some are slightly different versions):
3 is track 5, 4 is track 8, 5 is track 2, 6 is track 7, 7 is track 1.

If you wanna see some videos documentation, they participated in an indie film called Tiftuf directed by Danny Yitzhaki (Tzabari's husband at some point), where you can catch them in action in a couple of scenes.

Shithammer - Demo

Many years ago this was posted on Avalanchers forum (Godflesh related groupies forum), and since then I've seen it circulating only around Soulseek, so here it is.

"Dave Cochrane (Bass, "choppy guitar", vocals on 3 tracks) & Paul Neville (Drum programming, "droning guitar", vocals on 2 tracks)"
A very lo-fi demo for die-hard fans only. If you're into this blog than you probably know these names, and if you know the names you can probably guess what this sounds like.
5 untitled tracks, track 2's line sounds like a slowed up version of Sweet Tooth's Soul Shark opening bass, if you need a general idea of what you're going to hear.
Wish we could get to hear more of this with better audio.

Gotta love these Brummie folks

GAM - Phase 8

 As I approach to post this album, one of many I planned to upload since this blog started, I came upon this youtube channel, which is uploading live GAM videos as I write this, so I guess this post is right on time.

GAM were a Savannah (with some Louisville roots) weirdos group, active for most of the 90's. This album is pretty diverse, a bit too diverse, but other than that it's a great one. They call the music Freak Folk, you'll notice it just means a wide variety of genres flavored with a southern twang.
FFO Butthole Surfers, Cows, Captain Beefheart, Chrome, Cramps, Country Teasers, Flaming Lips, Von LMO

1. Woo Yeah
2. Brain Damage
3. Detroit Steel
4. Fishin' UFO
5. Kant Keep Me In Check
6. Rose
7. Speedfische
8. Freewheelin'
9. Greg Ginn Body Bag
10. Sleep
11. Something In Here
12. Gigantor
13. Lonely Boy
14. Legendary Spaceman I
15. Legendary Spacemen II
16. Slowwurm
17. Truck

That's What I Like About The South..

If you have their EP (1994) or single (1998), share with us.
Please.

Human - Transmission

Tony Calvert (vocals), Tony Hamill (bass), Richard Lewis (guitars, programming).
The first two played in a group called Tortoise Corpse, so I think this was also recorded in Swansea, but not too sure.
Ministry-Skinny Puppy industrial metal. The third track has this quirky dungeon-synth line that I highly appreciated, as primitive 90's as it gets.

1. Don't Fuck With Truth
2. Pornocracy
3. Terra Nostra
4. Insignificance
5. Human Abattoir
6. Interzone
7. Panopticon
8. Simulcra
9. Human
10. Sex War
11. The Silent Minorities

Get (Over) Here

Heiland Solo - Heiland Solo

An Austrian fellow named Helmut Heiland, his guitar and a drum machine.. Mechanic metallic noise rock.
This '90 album is more primitive than the next one which is available here. . and is predated by a cassette which can be purchased here.

1. Opportunity
2. Why Shall I Never Fall In Love Again
3. In All Secrecy
4. I Can't Love You Anymore
5. I Talk
6. The Truth
7. Killed Time
8. Tanzstück (Remix)
9. Insanity

Also included are two more compilation tracks,
get all your files here

First Things First

 

I'd say this ad/press release above has all the info you'd need pretty much. Just some more name dropping- Rein Sanction, early Dino Jr. and strong psych from Helios Creed to Terminal Cheesecake.

1990 - Dirtbag Blowout

1. Nirvana
2. Half Past Ten
3. Pal
4. 12.3 Trillion Years
5. Pretty Flat Earth
6. October Feast
7. Pace
8. Dirtbab Blowout

1990 - Let The Rain Come Down

1. Let The Rain Come Down
2. Flex

They've had a couple more releases but I could'nt find any of them, be a mensch and put links down in the comments if you have one of 'em.
Disbanded later in the 90's, Andreas Schiegl started opreating under Hausen, creating more abstract electronic music (or so they say).

Exit - Exit

Charles Holmes, a Brixton fella, recorded two albums, I've heard only this one, pure drone. If you're into that, enjoy..

If you feel like sharing the second one (called Set), the stage is yours.

1. To Hyena

2. Infinite Gain

3. Horsa

I also included Turn Me On Dead Man (taken from '96 V/A compilation called Disco Sucks), here's the link.

Earth Mother Fucker - Let Him Go Up

Sludgy/garage noise rock group from Ipswich, this is their 2001 compilation album of tracks recorded around 1989-1996. Only the bold ones are in the link, since the rest are available on their 2019 compilation- I Fuck Therefore I Am.
For fans of anything remotely like Brainbombs, Terminal Cheesecake, Birthday Party, The Stooges..

1. I Fuck Therefore I Am
2. Rock
3. Suffered Enough
4. Lost It All
5. Happy Shopper
6. Money Is Shit
7. Lightning's Girl (Nancy Sinatra Cover)
8. The Trials of An Everyday Schoolboy [retitled as Give Me Strength]
9. Teenage Pricks
10. Do It Again
11. Marking The Wall
12. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
13. The Big Mistake

Partial Fuck

Eftus Spectun - Eftus Spectun

British group from Bristol/Bath, Kieran Sheehy on drums, Sam Langley on lead vocals, bass and Oliver White on guitar and vocals. On this one I think they were a duo.

This album is like a transition album between their first era of 'angular math pop', short songs (with madness vibes a-la Cardiac Arrest, Karl Blake, Mother of Inventions, etc..) to the later more abstract style (minimalistic Glenn Branca, Derek Bailey, etc..). First track is the best one, gives a lot of This Heat's vibes. The other two are solo efforts I think, sound collage/noise/dungeon synth/chamber, done well, not the boring kind.

1. Untitled (Eftus Spectun)
2. The Orient (Oliver White)
3. Lagoon (Sam Langley)

Download Here

Streaming links for the rest of their discography:

Era I:
200? - Come And Spoil The View
200? - At The Saveloy
200? - Nat Atley presents
2005 - The Tocks Clicking (a compilation including the first two of those above, plus some other tracks, like this one)
Era II:
2008 - The Talons Snag Binary
2012 - Turtus
2015 - Rutger Hauser / Eftus Spectun 
2016 - In Speeches Thorms Kelm In Pulm Atherol (unavailable for me but maybe that's cause I don't have a spotify account ?)
2020 - Eftus Spectun Live (recorded 2014)

Think I got it all right.

Oxbow

Oxbow needs no introduction on this part of the web. An all time personal favorites for me, so here's one of these big posts with all the rare stuff I've managed to grab along the way, bootlegs, videos.

1992.10.02 - Live Video At Kennel Club, San Francisco, California
This one was actually uploaded to youtube not too long ago but for some reason vanished, so I'm here to fix that.

Eugene Robinson
Les Tontons Flingueurs, Rennes, 1995

00:00 30 Miles
05:24 Burn
10:51 Curse
16:15 Daughter
20:33 Bomb
26:24 Unknown (early version of The Virgin Bride perhaps ?)

2002.05.19 - Live Video At Diksmuide, Belgium
Officially released on Love That's Last compilation (2006)

1. Black Light Improvisation
2. Skin
3. Yoke
4. Sorry
5. Stallkicker
6. Woe
7. Sweetheart
8. The Valley
9. Glimmer (partial)

2003 - Music For Adults
Documentary

2003.10.11 - Live on Futility Fest at Nyabinghi, Youngstown, Ohio

Dan Adams, Eugene, Greg Davis, Niko Wenner
Live at The Eagle, San Francisco, 2004

1. Intro / Sweetheart
2. Bull's Eye
3. Sawmill
4. Burn
5. The Last Good Time (Youtube Video)
6. 1000
7. Babydoll
8. O'Clock
9. ...The Stick

2004.11.14 - Live Video At Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California
Officially released on Love That's Last compilation (2006)

1. ...The Stick
2. Bullseye
3. Babydoll
4. 1000
5. Sawmill

2009.11.16 - Live Bootleg at Grrrnd Zero, Lyon, France

1. 3 O'Clock
2. Sawmill
3. Babydoll
4. The Geometry of Business
5. La Luna
6. Frank's Frolic
7. She's A Find
8. Coalking
9 + 10. Cat And Mouse 
11. Over
12. Angel

2011 - The Luxury of Empire
I tend not to post new things here as you may know.. but it's more than 10 years now, think it's long enough. I know it was already circulating online for a couple of years anyway.

1. The Luxury of Empire (documentary)
2. Still Before (documentary)
3. 2009.11.08 - Live Video at La Maroquinerie, Paris, France

    1. Down A Stair Backward
    2. Yoke
    3. Sawmill
    4. Time, Gentlemen, Time
    5. Bull's Eye
    6. Sorry
    7. Shine (Glimmer)
    8. Babydoll (includ. intro with lyrics from future A Gentleman's Gentleman)
    9. Sunday
    10. Last Good Time

2012.10.22 - Live Bootleg at Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, England
Oxbow Orchestra, not to be confused with Love's Holiday Orchestra, this one is indeed, a classical orchestra, and featuring only Niko and Eugene.

00:00 Bomb (Partial Youtube Video)
06:55 Cold And Well-Lit Place
11:40 She's A Find
19:52 Unknown
25:50 Unknown
34:08 Ecce Homo
39:20 The Valley
50:23 1000 (encore, Niko and Eugene alone) (Partial Youtube Video)

I'm always on the lookout for 2012's official "In Camera" and not gonna buy a pricey second hand DVD for 3 songs on discogs. Also looking for a track called "Brujita", released on "Double of Love Volume Uno" compilation. If you have those or anything else interesting, don't spare us please.

The Garden/The River Split

Kids like The Garden (right ?), I like The Garden.. so here's The Garden.
I've had this split files lying around for years and wanted to post it, but haven't got to do it (like many other planned posts, someday). And now when I finally got it, I discovered that in the meantime it was uploaded to the band's youtube channel, so I wasn't planning to post it, but I noticed that my version has an extra song, with unknown origin, so of course it justifies this post just for the slim chance some fanatic groupie will ever stumble upon it.
The track order is also different from the known tape version, I left it as it was. I excluded The River's part of the split since it's available on their bandcamp.

1. Fruits & Vegetables
2. Quick
3. Tear
4. Bag
5. Release
6. Indina Hollering
7. Silk
8. Glass Eyes
9. Fantasies
10. Air

The Consultant's Flower Garden

*****,*****

Ringwood, Green, Coop

Pronounced as two coughs, or sometimes just Cough, Cough and pretty much impossible to google, so here's me hoping to make life easier for those who seek for their music. Short lived trio started in Canberra later moved to Melbourne. Two self-released cassettes, art-punk, lot of no-wave vibes (also a bit This Heat, The Gordons), cool stuff generally, not the greatest quality though.
Allan Coop (later Sunday Painters) on bass, Peter Ringwood on guitar and vocals on second cassette, and Cathy Green (later X, the Aussie X. Could have just equally said the good band called X right ? you would understand which one I'm talkin' about) drumming.

1982 - 1 [mostly instrumental, material from 1980-81]

1. Introduction
2. Punkesque
3. Extract
4. Executive B
5. Father
6. Study For Falling Apart
7. Tina
8. Mazda
9. Highway 31
10. Take Me
11. Other Places (Extract)
12. Other Places
13. Enfant
14. 20 Questions
15. Extract

1982 - Conflicts

1. ****
2. Childrens Song
3. Enfante
4. Try To Forget
5. Executive B
6. Introduction
7. Asylum
8. Jungle Song
9. Father
10. Knots
11. Stand
12. Don't Want To Be Alright
13. Heat
14. Danger

Convulsif Big Band

When I made a list of 2016 releases you shouldn't miss, Convulsif made their first appearance here on the blog. 6 years later and I still love these guys. You can find most of their discography on their bandcamp page, all their recordings as a quartet.

What's not there is their first incarnation, the Big Band, and it's pretty hard to find online as well. So here I am.. I think they formed around 2009, by Loïc Grobéty. They had some kind of ever changing line-up concept at that time, which was abandoned as they fixed on the current quartet.

2011 - 1

- Guido Wyss / drum
- Sébastien Aegerter / vibraphone
- Gregor Vidic / baritone sax
- Marc Jufer / sax tenor
- Loïc Grobéty / bass
- Stéphane Loup / guitars
[not part of this recording but also around that time, - Benjamin Pluss / vocals]

My PC file says it's from 2013, but intertnet says 2011, internet wins.
I think it's a live recording of a show, one longass track.
Know that this is pretty different from the quartet, much less brutal and heavy, a lot more atmospheric jazz. But still retain some metallic ideas that would appear later on.
Goes through different segments, some slow and smooth, some free jazz crazylike.

2013 - 2

- Martin Perret / drums
- Matthieu Amstutz / drums
- Christian Müller / clarinet + electronics
- Loïc Grobéty / bass + electronics + K7
- Gregor Vidic / baritone saxophone
- Marc Jufer / saxophone tenor + soprano
- Stéphane Loup / guitar + electronics

Double CD.
The first is almost the same length as on the first album, and starts with the same segment, but continues different, so I guess it's another live recording from the same era, same vibes and atmosphere. The second one is mostly pure drone noise for you abstract lovers.