Breathing Problem - (2020) Mattress On The Floor Of A Dirty Mind, XXXtended / Uncut / Remixed 2xCS

Private Release – none

Interior One / Concave/Convex / Breathing Problem - (2019) Examples Of Abductions And Kidnapping In The United States Of America 3xCS

Private Release ‎– none

INTERIOR ONE - 18 Years

CONCAVE/CONVEX - I Built This For You

 

 

BREATHING PROBLEM - Strength And Honor

Charlie Mcalister - (2009) Maimed Spacemen 6'' Lathe

Rah Rah Records ‎– RahRah014

Angel - (2016) 2017 LP

 

 Faro – FARO-01 

It has been a while since we last heard from Adam Stonehouse, the genius behind The Hospitals - one of my favorite bands of the last decade or so. Adam is back with Angel. Synthed-out rock & roll with both pop and experimental sides to it, Angel is the logical (well, as much as Stonehouse and logic go together) next step from The Hospitals - but keep in mind we are talking an 8 year step from Hairdryer Peace to now, so do not expect the fantastic chaos of Hairdryer Peace. Angel is a different kind of weird, one rooted in T-Rex, Throbbing Gristle's Jazz-Funk Greats, Tangerine Dream's Sorcerer, dub, David Essex's Rock On, Bobby Brown, Negativeland, and Suicide's second album. Pretty fantastic.

Lenny And The Squigtones - (1979) Lenny & Squiggy Present Lenny And The Squigtones LP

Casablanca ‎– NBLP 7149

Delroy Edwards - (2014) Slowed Down Funk Vol. 3: Pure Evil CS

  L.A. Club Resource ‎– 011

VA - (2008) Victrola Favorites: Artifacts From Bygone Days 2xCD

The Dust-to-Digital label has compiled several exquisitely packaged anthologies of rare early- to mid-20th century roots and ethnic music, the two-CD (One/ Two) Victrola Favorites being no exception. What exactly the theme of this compilation is, however, is a little hard to ascertain, other than having been drawn from the collections of Robert Millis and Jeffery Taylor. The 48 songs could hardly be more geographically and stylistically widespread, ranging from early American jazz, blues, and folk to indigenous and ritual music from China, India, Turkey, Korea, Japan, Egypt, and the Republic of Congo. There's chanting from Chinese Buddhist nuns, spoken word, oud and bamboo flute solos, West Indian jazz-calypso, a Thai costume drama, and even an "actual recording of Big Ben and traffic noises" from London. Though the images of Victrolas and ancient recording labels and ads in the liner notes might prep you for tracks originating from the 1920s and 1930s, actually the chronological span it covers is wider than that, running from about 1910 to the early '50s (with some of the dates being estimated). There are occasional cuts of U.S. origin that are clearly ancestors of strains of American pop, and even one fairly well-known performer, Blind Boy Fuller, whose rhythmic 1938 blues "Step It Up and Go" isn't far removed from R&B and rock & roll. But these are considerably outnumbered by less conventionally accessible world music recordings. So you'll need to have wide tastes to get the most out of this, though that's something that can be said of several other Dust-to-Digital releases. If you are an adventurous listener with a general liking for world music and vintage folk/ethnic sounds, it's a thoughtfully assembled banquet of material that provides windows into cultures now vanished or nearly vanished, or at least rarely exposed to most 21st century Western listeners.

VA - (2007) People Take Warning! (Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938) 3xCD

This three-disc (One/ Two/ Three), 70-track (30 of them new to the CD era) collection of murder ballads and disaster songs originally released on commercial 78s between 1913 and 1938 is, in spite of the archaic song structures and often crude sonic qualities on display, strangely contemporary in tone and feel, maybe because we've always been drawn to the scene of the accident, and even in this 21st century world of the Internet and all-day, all-night news channels, that's still as true as it ever was. We just don't write songs about such things so much anymore, and since one can just flip on the TV to get up to speed on the latest round of personal, local, and global tragedies, that's probably understandable. A quaint view of why these old songs were so popular back in the day is to say that's how the news traveled back then, but that wouldn't be true. The news media in the early 1900s in America was every bit as dogged and sensational as it is now, and these tragic songs didn't carry the news so much as give it a community focus, good or bad, functioning as street-corner sermons, cautionary tales, or just plain gossip given melody. Some of these songs are straight observational narratives, but some of them have definite agendas.

The Legendary Pink Dots - (2007) ST 5xLP

Vinyl-On-Demand ‎– 048

"Tape recordings from 1980-82 including Kleine Krieg (originally packaged with a model kit of a tank or an aeroplane, intended to be assembled while listening to the music), Chemical Playschool Vols. 1 and 2 (the original cassette edition of which had 24 copies), outtakes, and Live in Cologne 1983."

VA - (2009) The Insane Box 4xLP & 7''

 

Vinyl-on-demand ‎– VOD59 

Insane Music, run by Alain Neffe, has been one of the greatest and biggest tape labels promoting the international cassette-culture of the '80s. Label-owner Alian Neffe got approached by VOD to compile a 4LP Box with a 7" of his band/projects I Scream, Bene Gesserit, Subject, Human Flesh and Pseudo Code. Alain Neffe looked deeply into his archive and found many obscurities and unreleased material in combination with '80s tape classics and compiled this wonderful box-set. All box-sets will also contain a 2-track EP of newly recorded, mixed and produced songs by Bene Gesserit in the same spirit but with new equipment.

Van Kaye & Ignit - (2011) Anthology 80-85 5xLP & 10''

 

Vinyl-on-demand ‎– VOD 86 

Great, fantastic minimal synth tracks from legendary Dutch duo Van Kaye + Ignit. Van Kaye aka Ed van Kasteren (studying art history and serving as the singer of Monomen in the late '70s) and Ignit Bekken (performing artist and painter studying to become an art teacher) met in early 1980 and started working and experimenting with synthesizers. The result were the highly sought-after minimal synth classics A Slight Delay (1981) and With a Little Help (1984), which they distributed and published through their own Ding Dong Records and Tapes label. Another ex-Monoman, William Wiusselink ala Wizkopf, joined the project in 1982. Van Kaye + Ignit's Ding Dong label also published beautifully designed releases of independent minimal wave artists such as The Legendary Pink Dots, Bene Gesserit, Anne Gillis, and many more, including the all-time classic must-have compilation Film Noir (1984). This box includes both tapes, A Slight Delay (as eight-track demo and 11-track original release) and With a Little Help, as well as the ultra-rare Picasso on the Wall 7" (1981), 17 compilation-contributions from 1981-'85 (including the tracks from the 1982 Radionome compilation), seven previously unreleased tracks and demos recorded between '80-'85, and a 30-minute live concert held in Rotterdam in 1983.