The Best Of Zimbo (tape, Zimbo Tapes 4, 198?)

The first of several tapes from this highly obscure Dutch label. It was run by John de Pagter and in many of the projects he was involved himself. I tried seperating the various tracks, but didn't succeed as they are linked together. Included are The Kif-brothers, John & Peter, The Smelly Tongues, Zimbo & Wedge, Embryo, Zimbo, Some Bizarre, The Book Of..., Mojique. None of these names mean much to me, as I only saw them on Zimbo Tapes. The music is all electronic, from minimal synth to experimental. More to come!

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Lands End (tape, Touch T33.4, 1985)

One of the best labels as far as compilations go is UK's Touch, especially in the 80s when they were still a cassette only label, they released many great ones. What I like about them is the combination of experimental music, pop music, electronic and found sound - the latter making things not easy to seperate. I did this already a while ago, and today I was looking at discogs for this and saw they have a different tracklisting, but I lumped in a few together. Included are Nocturnal Emissions, Sudden Sway, Eliot Sharp, Zoviet France, Lol Coxhill, Det Wiehl, Suns Of Ara, Grame Miller, Frank Ricotti, Gilbert & George, Regular Music, Wolfgang Wiggurs. I'll do more of Touch tapes in the future.

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Last Few Days - So The Last Shall Be The First and First Last For Many Be Called But Few Chosen (tape, Staatape OOB, 1984)

When Staalplaat (here on the cover spelled as Staal Plaat, funny enough) as a label started, the first releases were live tapes of bands coming through The Netherlands and who played in Amsterdam at the NL Centrum (perhaps known from the compilation LP set 'QED', which documents this) and the first two were Laibach (to be posted soon) and this one from the Last Few Days. I believe this release was not for sale for very long, since at that time the band was very much against having releases available. Two concerts here, a 'living recording' from Amsterdam and a live recording from Eindhoven.

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S.Core - Gush (tape, Extreme XCT 003, 1990)

"Active since the mid of the eighties, japanese musician Yutaka Tanaka released his works under the name S-CORE. Early works are all cassette albums he put out on his own cassette label Afflict Records, many of those were recorded via mail collaboration with many sound artists from international underground scene, such as Stefano Biasin (Italy), Telepherique and Trigger B (Germany), Merzbow (Japan), Al Margolis/If, Bwana (USA), Rafael Flores (Spain)." (Discogs)
As far as I know Tanaka is one of the true lost musicians from the cassette scene and not seen since (like Mario Marzidovsek!). He has released a whole bunch of cassettes, 7"s and CDRs, and curious enough 'Gush' is the only one I have.

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Eric Lunde - XCHDX: On The Terrain Of Prophecy (LP by Alamut Records/Big Body Parts, AL-BBP 004, 1989)

This record was recorded by (or for) a presentation of a work at Walkers's Point Center For The Arts in Milwaukee WI and using metallic and electronic sounds. One long piece on one side and a very short on the other. The rest of the b-side is an etched image of a man suspended by meathooks


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An Uncommon Nature (LP, Anomalous Records nom 6, 2001)

After the blasts of noise from the last few days, here a quiet record, dealing with fiel recordings and some electronic music. Included are Jeph Jerman, Mirror, Agog, Climax Golden Twins, Jonathan Coleclough, Mike Shannon, Monos, Richard Lerman and Dave Knott.


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The Decay Of The Angel (LP, New Strength, 1985)

Don't you just love those compilations? Along the lines of yesterday's post a more industrial affair, again:

New Strength Side
A1 Uterus 28 & Grey Wolves, The The Chaos Of Creation
A2 Ramleh Phenol
A3 Lunatic Stupid Dogs Antipleasure
A4 Con-Dom Get Right With God II
A5 White Hand Prologue
A6 Terre Blanche Still Brilliant
A7 Psy. Phalanx Inferno
Thee Order Ov Wolves Side
B1 Uterus 28 For Sensorium
B2 Information Aggression Machine Pulse
B3 Vidna Obmana Eardome For Memory
B4 Psychic Workshop, The Richards Therapy (Live)
B5 Ice Crystal Sun Dog Formation Gathering Gods
B6 Subliminale Texturae Psichofonike
B7 Grey Wolves, The Survival
B8 Sigillum S E.O.F. (Elevation Of Fear-Making Occasions Out Of Neurosis)



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