Raw Opium Enema (1994) C60

I've nearly digitised all of my compilations now, with only Impulse mag's Allegory and Trev Ward's Power to Destroy (next week probably) still to be transmogrified, so far as I can work out. This one escaped the routine sweeps because I had it under M on the shelf as a Mlehst tape, it being the work of the man behind Bandaged Hand Produce.

Aside from being one of those collections I always found exciting because you have no idea what the fuck is going to come out of the speakers when you first press play, this one is also distinguished by its exceptional sound quality, which seems to have been a thing with Bandaged Hand. I really should have picked up a few more of his tapes when it was still possible to do so.

Download the twelve tracks and cover by clicking on this link.

Tracks:
1 - Brume - Ronde
2 - Herb Mullin - Over and Over
3 - factor X - Forever Roses
4 - T.U.O.B. + Okaniwa Fumiharo - n.v.1
5 - Expose Your Eyes - Absolute Spongiforms
6 - Mlehst - Anal Dentist
7 - Cacophony '33' - Riding the Aorta
8 - Lunus - Introductione alla Terra
9 - Expose Your Eyes - Bongo Trasho
10 - Sof Tillan's And - Television Teenager
11 - Cacophony '33' - Carboot (excerpt)
12 - Defacato - Burnett
 

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Sunken Chambers (1995) C90

I recently came across an Anschluss track on YouTube, which was interesting because that was me for about five minutes. It was a track taken from this compilation, and yet when I played the clip it turned out to be one of the other tracks from the tape. Now, having edited this thing, I can see how the confusion arose regarding where one track ends and another begins.

I know. Cool story, yeah? Feel free to retell it at dinner parties and claim it as your own.

Anyway, clearly this has already been digitised by someone else, but nevertheless here it is again with the correct titles, unless I too have fucked up, which is admittedly a possibility.

Anschluss was supposed to be a postal collaboration with the bloke who did Hoax! magazine, partially so as to focus all of his attempts to involve himself in everything I did in one place in the hope he'd leave everything else alone. The idea was that I'd build it all up from samples of his demos, but he started to send stuff which sounded like Nik Kershaw and lo, my enthusiasm didst wane; so that was the end of that, apart from the tracks on Sunken Chambers plus an unreleased tape elsewhere on this blog if you can be arsed to look for it. Apparently I was going to send it to Mindscan to see if he wanted to put it out, but I guess I never got around to it.

Sunken Chambers was the work of the excellent Kyran Lynn, CEO of Racing Room Tapes, whom I vaguely recall as having sent me a few good ones when I was reviewing stuff for Sound Projector magazine. Curiously, I also vaguely recall having been sent a Dachise CD for review in the same, although I can't remember what I made of it. Ed Pinsent was of course the editor of the Sound Projector - and still is come to think of it. Himself and Harley Richardson were in Pestrepeller with jovial, light-hearted raconteur Edwin Pouncey. I used to know Harley but fell out with him after he started posting links to climate change denial articles on my facebook page and chanting the people have spoken whenever anyone mentioned Brexit. Sigh. Another one bites the dust.

I don't know anything about the rest, except everyone has heard of Expose Your Eyes, obviously; and Ozone Bandits was Dave Hopwood. Sunken Chambers is mostly weirdy noise music, but is very good of its type and really takes hold of you after a couple of plays.

Download the thirty-one tracks and cover by clicking on this link.

Tracks:
1 - Educational Resources - Start in Her Hands to Grovel at Her Feet
2 - Expose Your Eyes - Bastard
3 - Tim Baker - Blame the Kingdom of God
4 - Messy - Fall Out
5 - WYRM - Three Minutes I
6 - Carsick - Social Club Revert
7 - Sean Reynard - Tijuana Bastard
8 - Anschluss - Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Shit to Live
9 - WYRM - Three Minutes II
10 - Tim Baker - Do You Want to be Killed or Murdered?
11 - Expose Your Eyes - Solan
12 - Educational Resources - Smirk at the Sitting in the Temple
13 - Dachise - Futile Rebellious Teen Shite
14 - Paddy Collins - Tech'no'ise
15 - WYRM - Three Minutes III
16 - Amy Love - Fisherman's Thread
17 - The PamelA Mind B.and - 11-TV
18 - Amy Love - Sonic Attack
19 - Ed Pinsent & Harley Richardson - The Volcano
20 - Carsick - Morning Shift
21 - Messy - All These Colours
22 - Ozone Bandits - Ozone Ballad
23 - Forecastle - Norwaves
24 - Anschluss - Reward
25 - Mark Hadley - Evil 95 Version
26 - Ozone Bandits - Mo'Pro re-hash : i
27 - Messy - To-she
28 - Expose Your Eyes - Small Masks Made Out of Spit and Paper
29 - The PamelA Mind B.and - Okwinox
30 - Educational Resources - Proper Grade Prolix
31 - Noise Gate - Musique Cemente

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Cassette Music 3 (1994) C60

Here's another hour of strange sounds from the excellent Personal Soundtracks series. Once again my information on those contributing is patchy to nonexistent, but I'm sure some of you will at least be familiar with Hex Minora, Mlehst, factor X, and Expose Your Eyes who seemed to be everywhere at one point. In fact I'm fairly sure I remember them, or possibly him, filling in for Jimmy Hill on Match of the Day.

 

Anyway, regardless of who you've already heard of, the thing you'll probably notice about this tape is the exceptional quality and high production values with a track list that genuinely keeps you guessing from one minute to the next - which is really what it's all about for me.

 

Very glad Mr. Hopwood conceded to my digitising these things - it's been great digging them out and hearing them again. Surprised no-one has yet done a boutique CD reissue of this series of compilations.

Download the twelve tracks and cover by clicking on this link.

Tracks:
1 - Ozone Bandits - Sergio Leone
2 - Phenomena - Skitzpphenomena
3 - Majorana - Grateri Dentro
4 - Hex Minora - Heresy
5 - Mlehst - Bitter Oranges
6 - Clitoral - Pussyshaver
7 - Phenomena - Paramilitary
8 - factor X - In Love w/ You
9 - Vinci - Tribal Night
10 - Expose Your Eyes - &#0149 &#0149 &#0149
11 - Telepherique - Marked Faces
12 - Ozone Bandits - Pliers in My Heart

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