Sometimes people complain that there is so little information on musicians, but its so hard to go by the cover. I am not sure if this tape is by Pand 33 and 'Staalwol' is the title or vice versa. Its funny that I borrowed a bunch of tapes from a unnamed friend and this one was part of it, while I also have a copy myself. Its quite alright experimental, electronic music. Maybe some conservatory students going wild?
The predecessor of Nine Tobs, around vocalist Han Buhrs, from Arnhem. "NINE TOBS was an avant-garde band formed by HAN BUHRS, a longtime composer and vocalist on the Dutch and French music scene. Hailing originally from Arnhem and later moving to Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Han has been involved in many projects. Nine Tobs was one of these projects and their one-and-only album 'Gruffy Splurge' is a rare gem from the 1980s. Han's projects are always different and he always inserts an element of humour into everything he composes. Influenced by many genres of music, Nine Tobs' music is an eclectic mix of blues, jazz, punk and even disco but with an avant-garde bent. Han's lyrics are unique and his vocal style is always recognisable and distinct and perhaps an acquired taste to many." from the progarchives where you can read much more on Nine Tobs/Remo Tobs.
A tape of spoken word by performer, poet and politician Mike von Bibikov. He was a nice troublemaker, who did ad hoc performances with Tox Modell. He was the leader of a party called 'De Reagering', who wanted '51% of the voices, which required 51% effort' - great! His political party was more art than political. You heard him on the Ultra cassette posted in 2007. He has a great voice, even if you don't understand what he says, a bit like Jules Deelder. After 1982 he retreated from social life and Von Bibikov died in 2004. There is a great small documentary about him here
This band started started in 1981, with various members of bands like The Torpedos, Slum and Zum Beispiel. Their first vinyl release can be downloaded here. It says the first tape was released by V.I.S.A. but I think this is the first tape, released on Decay Int, following some demo's. Not really my cup of tea this band, but I was also never a big fan of Birthday Party. There is also a book on the band, in Dutch only. check out their site.
If I'm not mistaken than this is the last release that I needed to post to complete this label on this blog. Fetisj, according to De Nederlandse Cassette Catalogus, published five tapes. And this is probably by one of the few artists who can claim (some) fame in a later world. Richenel is Hubertus Richenel Baars, who was a member of a disco group named Luxor, then singer and dancer, known for his androgynous apparence. He scored in the 80s a big hit with 'Dance Around The World'. His fame later on vanished, he moved to Spain, but apparentely a new CD will be released this year.
'Noise Fest was an art and music event at White Columns NYC JUne 16-24 1981. All material was recorded live at White Columns'. This includes John Rehnberger, Off Beach, Ut, Lee Renaldo, Mofungo, Khmer Rouge, The Problem, Smoking Section, Sonic Youth, Jeff Lohn, Ima, Jules Baptiste Red Decade, EQ'D, Avant Squares, Don King, Primivites, Ad Hoc Rock, Y Pants, Barbotemagus (as it is spelled on the cover), Economical Animal, Chinese Puzzle, Glorious Strangers, Built On Guilt, Fakir, Lampshades.
Today we say goodby to Odal. This tape is the last I have from him. Unless in the future something else pops up from him, I won't be posting anymore tapes from him. Post Mortem was a project by Jan-Kees Helms, the guy who was behind the label, and also worked as Little Seed and Contact T.B.D. Under that last banner he recentely released a 3"CDR as a sort of come-back. More info here
And this one has music by Djo Le Chien, David Prescott, Minoy, Robert Poss, Illusion Of Safety, Jack Wright, Violence And The Sacred, Eugene Chadbourne & Jon Rose, Nicolas Collins, Thick Slimy Whisper & Qwa Digs Never Parish, Kurt Kelison, The Iniutive Bikers, Paul Dutton, Not Half, David Lee & David Prentice, Crash Worship, P16.D4, Brewlay Brothers, Zo Darsh.
According to Discogs a pretty rare tape, probably around fifty were made. Its has a printed cover however. "Mnemonists is a collective of avantgarde musicians from Colorado, lead by Mark Debyshir and Bill Sharp. Their music is a crazy mixture of modern classical, experimental sounds, noise, industrial, avantgarde and free jazz. Their releases were published by their own self-produced label Dys between 1981 and 1986. In 1987 the group changed its name into Biota." This tape uses small-battery powered devices, tapes, voice, string instruments, clarinet, percussion. Unindexed.
From probably an ancient website:
From Wikipedia: The band was formed by former Fatal Microbes Pete Fender (Dan Sansom, guitar), Gem Stone (Gemma Sansom, bass) and It (Quentin North, also bass), with vocalists Annie Anxiety and Womble, and drummer Sid Ation (born Sid Truelove, 18 April 1960, Sutton Coldfield, a former chef, later also the drummer with Flux of Pink Indians). Annie, Womble and It were involved only initially, left and were replaced by vocalist Zillah Minx (born Zillah Elaine Ashworth, 31 March 1961, Birkenhead). Fender and Stone were the son and daughter of Poison Girls singer Vi Subversa. The band used Poison Girls equipment to jam and write songs and their first performance was when they took to the stage at a Crass/Poison Girls concert. They had originally been called Rubella Babies. The band's first proper gig was a fundraiser for the Theatre Royal in Stratford, which ended in a riot, and the band played frequently, often asking audience members to put them up after gigs.
The most important Radioshow when I was young was not John Peel, nor Radionome but Willem de Ridder's Radiola Improvisatie Salon. He would play any tape with music sent to him. During the show he would rip open the enveloppe, read whatever note, and then, without any prelistening, play the tape for five minutes. If you sent in a tape, you'd got the newsletter and could take part in action's, which I never did. The radio station, VPRO, also released one tape, which at 20 guilders, was quite expensive I thought. No real cover and two sheets of info which didn't fit in the box. A louzy job. Veldman later on worked on musical projects with Willem de Ridder as FNTC.
In the very early days of this blog I posted the first tape by Atom Cristal, together with Satellite, here is their second tape, packed in a small first aid kit. I think I saw this somewhere but it was unindexed, so I did a new rip, indexed. I used their photos though. Nice popmusic from France.
The biggest I reckon until now, this is five tapes of each one hour. It deals with the pamphlets by one Ed Taylor, with the truth about dinosaurs. Its all explained in the texts that I also scanned. I posted music by blackhumour before, and this is a sort of mixture of the old stylewith long formed ambient like drones and cut up/collage spoken word. Very nice.
No less than 3 people left a comment about a fault in the first zip, so i re-upped that in part 1 and 3. but please, why doesn't anyone send me an e-mail about broken links?
part 1
part 2
It is been quite a while that I posted stuff released by Eindhoven's Kaisettes label, also known as Zesde Kolonne. Here's one which I borrowed of yet another friend, who gave me some more nice stuff which I'll post soon. I have no idea who was behind Unit6 but it seems to me that SMtv is anagram of MTVS, who were in the previous post and of whom I'll post more stuff soon too. Quite noisy and industrial.
Probably my least favorite record with Richard Youngs, which he recorded with Neil (Campbell), Simon (Wickham-smith) and one Stewart (Walden). A highly chaotic and improvised music affair, but may you like it more than I do?
A very early compilation on Midas Tapes featuring only bands I never heard of afterwards: Freud But A Virgin, Alias Alibi and Those Arabian Knights. All have more tracks and its mainly guitar/punk oriented music. I got these MP3s (all of the Midas stuff I am posting these weeks) years ago from Mr. Midas, and they are all 128 kbps, which is the way it is. No need to write comments: hey man, 128? its 2009, you know (usually followed by that horrible word 'dude').