*****,*****

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.

Konstrukt - Dis-Co

Found this on my PC, no idea where I got it from. Ultra sludge dirty powerviolence from Vienna, can't get much uglier than this. Couldn't find lot of info about these guys, in fact, couldn't find more of their releases except this split right here and very few other short tracks on youtube.

The download file has only one track, the full vinyl rip, both sides. I have no idea even what type of file this is (some unknown extension), but just play it with your media player, it works fine for me.. 
I actually tried to create time stamps but gave up fairly quickly (The Doors cover is on 08:44 (i think)  the Deep Purple one is on 30:04, if you care).
Also included are some cover photos taken by some guy who's selling this vinyl on ebay, so thanks man.

is hardcore dead? hardcore is disco...just become extinct

Infected - Breathe

Infected Mushroom (not the trance duo) was formed in a small Israeli town called Nahariya, released an album called Don't Panic in 1993 and broke up. Pretty soon after some of them moved to London and started Infected.
If you want to check that first incarnation you can get the album's re-released CD version (shorter than the original cassette) in this awesome dead blog (please come back).. personally I always had a mixed feeling about that one, it's a weird one, even for me. Avantgarde goth/post punk/funk metal idk, Bauhaus-Primus-Cardiacs, they didn't stop there, pretty diverse. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.

Shachaf Barkai, Amir Shoat, Jon Acker at Bull & Gate , 1994
Photo by Mick Mercer*

Anyways, we're here to talk about the London trio, which I have much more sympathy towrads. Amir Shoat (vocals) and Jon Acker (bass, synths and drum programming) were both the founders of the original group, they were joined by Shachaf Barkai (guitar) who also participated as a guest on Don't Panic. The three were a bit more focused this time, and embraced the goth-industrial influences to the end (I don't mean they've gone straight up Skinny Puppy by saying that). It's still weird, still very unusual, and great all the way doing their own thing.
They were active mostly around Camden Town, especially The Bull & Gate club, between 1993-'96, and recorded a couple of tracks which were compiled to their sole release, Breathe. I think it was released on tape in 1996, but I only have a CD version which says 1999, so I ain't really sure.

I need to get a new scanner..

1. Shake [1993]
2. Breathe [1993]
3. Happy [1993]
4. Grey [1994/95]
5. Toxic [1993]
X. Winelight [bonus track I added, taken from Fuckin' Hardfloor Volumes 1+2 Compilation, 1995]

"Breathe" (Lossless rip)

*That awesome pictures up there by Mercer was stolen from the Bull & Gate facebook group page, where, if you bother to search, you'll find many more by him and some flyers. Mercer actually published a photo book of them.

Brutal - Bullshit, Attitude, And EXPERIENCE

This blog looks even uglier without a scanner

Four guys from Grangemouth/Falkirk (perhaps ?):
F.B. Coltrane (Brian Guthrie I think, Robin's brother and head of the label to release this- Anoise Annoys), Dogbite, Cheg and Bebop.
"Special thanks to Bigwar on track 2 and Russell McEwan on track 6. Sample sources, with thanks all round includes "The Cowboys", "Star Trek", "The Trial of The Chicago Eight", "The Day Today", "L.A. Law", "The Commancheros", "The Searchers" plus odd moments of David Essex, Sammy Davis JNR and Phil Harris".
Industrial rock, breakbeat with some Stretchheads angry energy. If you like Meat Beat Manifesto and such. Good stuff here.

'NEVER GIVE UP NEVER GIVE IN DON'T BELIEVE YOUR GOD DON'T BELIEVE YOU'RE GOD' (lossless rip)

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