Sound Of Pig Music

From mid-eighties to mid-nineties, there were three major cassette labels of post-industrial and experimental musics in the US : Audiofile Tapes, Harsh Reality Music and Sound Of Pig Music. During that period, Al Margolis released more than 300 cassettes of underground music and was considered "the cassette godfather", as stated on Hal McGee's Electronic Cottage #1 cover (although the two other mentioned labels have released the same - Harsh Reality Music - or nearly the same - Audiofile Tapes - amount of tapes). You can read an interview of Al Margolis about Sound Of Pig Music here.

During the last months, I've been collecting MP3s of Sound Of Pig Music cassettes, and I'm gonna share some of them.

Most Sound Of Pig Music cassettes can be purchased here, and many can be downloaded on various blogs :
SOP ? - Jim O'Rourke - Secure On The Loose Rim
SOP 6 - Various - Aural Fixation
SOP 9 - Der Akteur - Rockery
SOP 10 - Various - Beyond Step One
SOP 10 - Various - Beyond Step One
SOP 11 - Various - War Is The Health Of State
SOP 15 - Various - Scary World
SOP 15 - Various - Scary World
SOP 17 - Various - Ha! Ha! Among The Trumpets
SOP 18 - Various - The Long March
SOP 19 - Dog A Master / Dog As Master & If, Bwana - An Organised Accident
SOP 20 - Nails Øv Christ - Dark Night Of The Soul
SOP 20 - Nails Øv Christ - Dark Night Of The Soul
SOP 24 - P.S. Bingo / If, Bwana - Untitled
SOP 26 - Schlafengarten - Spring Cleaning!!
SOP 34 - The Haters - Future Cheers
SOP 39 - Big City Orchestra & Deathranch - Massacre Of The Innocents
SOP 42 - Various - The World Does Not Fit On A 21" Screen
SOP 48 - Big Red Stain / La Otra Cara De Un Jardín - Chronicle Of Consumptive Irritation / Brikollage
SOP 49 - Het Zweet - Zweepslag 1 + 2
SOP 50 - Psyclones - Son Ov Cultleader
SOP 55 - Alien Planetscapes - Children Of Slaves
SOP 58 - Nails Øv Christ - Punishment Is Correction
SOP 60 - Irritant / Ramleh - Tomorrow We Live
SOP 62 - Minoy - Pretty Young Negro Man
SOP 64 - Thick Slimy Whisper - Live At Fashion Moda 10/11/86
SOP 66 - Dog As Master - Brash Pussy
SOP 66 - Dog As Master - Brash Pussy
SOP 71 - Various - Screaming "Alas" She Died Laughing
SOP 74 - Thick Slimy Whisper & Qwa Digs Never Parish - Teenage Pop Songs
SOP 84 - Abner Malaty - Fragments From The Semi Structure
SOP 87 - Deaf Lions - Copia
SOP 90 - Various - Empty Shadows
SOP 100 - If, Bwana - They Call Me "Bwana"
SOP 100 - If, Bwana - They Call Me "Bwana"
SOP 109 - If, Bwana - Beware The Sleeping Squid
SOP 111 - La Sonorité Jaune - Ersatia
SOP 111 - La Sonorité Jaune - Ersatia
SOP 118 - Big City Orchestra - Mile After Mile
SOP 121 - Violence And The Sacred - Arkinoid
SOP 124 - John Hudak - Blackening
SOP 128 - XTSW - Bridge
SOP 129 - City Of Worms - Crumnants
SOP 133 - Fake Feelings Institute With Audio Leter - Present...
SOP 140 - Joseph Nechvatal - Sleep
SOP 142 - Domaine Poétique - Exhale Slowly
SOP 148 - X-Ray Pop - Dirty Love
SOP 152 - Various - A Very Large Array

SOP 156 - Mami - The Trauma Of Industrial Etiquette
SOP 160 - Amy Denio - No Elevators
SOP 166 - If, Bwana - Organ Life
SOP 166 - If, Bwana - Organ Life
SOP 194 - Allegory Chapel Ltd. - Trip
SOP 196 - As If² Bwana - Tu
SOP 202 - Dan Joseph - No.3
SOP 217 - Joseph Nechvatal - Reckless
SOP 223 - Illusion Of Safety - Repairs
SOP 224 - Jim O'Rourke - Some Kind Of Pagan
SOP 236 - John Hudak - Wind, Rain & Clouds To Human Beings
SOP 239 - Deathranch - A Prisoner
SOP 246 - Dave Prescott - Red Shift 5
SOP 248 - Nihilist Surfin' Group - Music For The New Yorker
SOP 272 - Merzbow & John Hudak - The Time Stream
SOP 276 - Herd Of The Ether Space - Kumquat Over Again
SOP 288 - Merz - Big Band Theory

Various Artists - France

Cassette, C90
Label : Harsh Reality Music, US, 1989


That cassette was part of a series of "national" compilations released by excellent US cassette label Harsh Reality Music.
Download as well The Netherlands and Spain.


Tracklist :

A1. X-Ray Pop - Touf Touf (3:23)
A2. Aehos - Rectitude No. 4 (12:52)
A3. Brume - Panzerfaust 3 (3:50)
A4. La Sonorité Jaune - Reha (3:12)
A5. Sempiternels - L'Annunciation (Du Vide) (7:28)
A6. Betrayal - Mauri (5:18)
A7. Vox Populi! - Let Us Get Higher (8:02)
A8. Hänzel & Gretzel - C'Est Le Père Sadique (1:53)
A9. Hänzel & Gretzel - Teutir Spregue (1:09)
B1. M. Nomized - The Girl In The Sweating Room (4:33)
B2. Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Bloody Slime, Significant Symbol For The Force Of Tedious Habits (12:28)
B3. Costes - Fart In My Face (2:14)
B4. Bernard Donzel-Gargand & Philippe Moënne-Loccoz - Cellules (7:28)
B5. Totentanz - Future Prospects (4:33)
B6. RWA - Jesus Trash Can (2:48)
B7. Alain Basso - Poussières Dans L'Extase (4:04)
B8. X Non X - Loiseau Malade (2:18)
B9. Nos Yeux Aveugles - Z.T.T.01 (7:00)

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Various Artists - F-rants

Cassette, C90
Label : audiofile Tapes / S.J. Organisation, US / France, 1988


I usually try my best not to post anything that was posted elsewhere before. That wonderful "F-rants" compilation of french artists, put together by Pascal Dauzier, was recently posted here, but my rip was ready to close the S.J. Organisation series... So here it is.


Tracklist :

A1. The Grief - Automatic Piece (6:04)
A2. Lieutenant Caramel - Donald Au Moyen Age (5:59)
A3. La Sonorité Jaune - Hilessia (3:22)
A4. Cri Primal - Untitled (3:54)
A5. La Destination - Diaspora (6:20)
A6. S.T.P.O. - Idol (Live) (1:04)
A7. Le Syndicat - Presque (6:54)
A8. Galeshka Moravioff - Untitled (5:04)
A9. Élève Modèle - The Big Baboon By The Light Of The Moon (3:56)
B1. Étant Donnés - Mes Yeux Clos, C'Est Mon Coeur Entre Tes Mains (6:50)
B2. Orient Express - L'Offrande A Itzpapalotl (Live) (4:58)
B3. Pacific 231 - Mahol (2:01)
B4. S.T.P.O. - Non (Live) (1:12)
B5. Jérôme Noettinger - Le Macheur De Verre (8:15)
B6. Anne Gillis - Wohohin (3:33)
B7. Dreaming With Vox Populi - Luna Plexus (6:05)
B8. Pierre Perret - Excerpt From "Gaia, La Terre" (4:48)
B9. Aversion Sonore - Lai (6:57)

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La Sonorité Jaune - Istania

Cassette, C30
Label : audiofile Tapes, US, 1989


Last and least La Sonorité Jaune cassette, released by one of the best US independant cassette labels ever. Great interstellar ambient music as always.
Other La Sonorité Jaune releases available for download :
Heliae
Ersatia
The Interstellar Destroyed Music Mail Project
Je Ne Veux Plus Voir Le Ciel
Soundtrack For Breathing Structures
Anastia


Tracklist :

Istania Part One
A1. Biorta 1
A2. Icraen
A3. Biorta 2
A4. Ilen
Istania Part Two
B1. Biorta 3
B2. Icelen
B3. Oseur

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La Sonorité Jaune interview in ND #13 :

Urbain Autopsy & K... - Ashquelon

Cassette, C60
Label : S.J. Organisation, France, circa 1987
Ripped by jx


Tracklist :

A1. The Chess Of Death (3:59)
A2. Tribal Moment (4:13)
A3. Shema Yisrael (2:46)
A4. Tisha B'Ov (1:39)
A5. Torture (0:39)
A6. I Hate Politics (4:38)
A7. L'Orage (4:52)
A8. Zoolologie (2:05)
A9. Rhone Poulenc (3:18)
A10. You ! Yes You (2:17)
B1. Le Peuple Révolutionnaire (1:11)
B2. Le Sang (4:39)
B3. Stalingrad In Blue (3:49)
B4. La Vie En Rose (3:40)
B5. Shall Be Free (3:29)
B6. Numéro 6 (4:29)
B7. Zyklon B (3:07)
B8. Le Retour D'Edgar Le Scieur (5:55)

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Psycodrama - Nigger

Cassette, C60
Label : S.J. Organisation, France, circa 1987
Ripped by Rubbish


"Psycodrama are two beerbellied, bearded men who long ago went to art school and then went on to Virginia, where they “died.” Listening to their music—a cat wailing over disco beats and songs about Jesus and asses (sticking cocks up them and poop coming out of them)—is for me like looking in a mirror, if only I were a redneck homosexual in my thirties. I write them a fan letter—their only one, I believe, and they immediately invite me to join the troupe. I spend my eighteenth birthday with Gator and Bubba (Brett and Jim) in Virginia making a video where we all eat bacon and sausage and drink whiskey at a restaurant called Grandma’s, and laugh about terrible things until I think I’m going to be sick. And then they drive me around the hills of Virginia drunk, talking over and over about “twee” instead of “three” (I don’t get it, but it cracks both of them up every single time) and their plans to beat up our friend Wha whose mother did heroin so he has very long arms and very tiny legs and their next tape which they will call Nigger. They swerve all over the gravelly road until I’m so scared I start crying. On the train home the next day, I feel like I hate them, but a letter from Brett explaining that what they did to me was “theatre” convinces me that I got what I claimed to want. My favourite authors (all stolen from Andrew) theorize on terror and absurdity, but it was my drive with the hairy, horrible men through the backwoods that was fast and real, with taste (the bacon and sausage kept coming back up) and touch and sound. Suckdog are feral. Psycodrama—the way they play with racism, sexism and homophobia—are more seasoned, more dangerous. I want in." (Lisa Crystal Carver, Drugs are nice, London, Snowbooks, 2006, p. 58-59)

If you want to listen and learn more about mysterious, provocative and crazy act Psycodrama - Costes US alter ego and collaborators -, please go there and there.

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Big City Orchestra - Trail Of Destruction

Cassette, C60
Label : S.J. Organisation, France, 1987


S.J. Organisation has released two Big City Orchestra cassettes. I've discovered BCO through S.J. mail order catalogue. And I bought "Massacre Of The Innocents" and "Trail Of Destruction" cassettes in my first S.J. order... At that time, Pascal Dauzier was planning to release a Big City Orchestra / Gregory Whitehead split LP, that would have been the debut vinyl for both artists. That was never done and both artists unfortunately missed their vinyl career. Why the hell did BCO never had a vinyl career ? At least, a RRR LP should have been released...
More Big City Orchestra in blogland :
A Good Time To Start Something New [Cassette]
Animal Religion [Cassette]
Drone Gnomes [10"]
Greatest Hits And Test Tones [CD]
Magnetic Personality [Cassette]
Massacre Of The Innocents [Cassette]
Our Life In The Bush Of Kate [Cassette]
So Much Quicker Than Tomorrow [Cassette]
The Beatlerape [CD]
The Consumer [CD]
The Four Cassettes Of The Apocalypse [CD]
The Man Of Steal [Cassette]
Tryst 7 [Cassette, Split W/ The Legendary Pink Dots]
Visual Archives
And more to come here soon...


Tracklist :

A1. State Of Decay (26:23)
A2. Journey With The Blockheads (4:42)
B1. Desire Vs. Response (10:16)
B2. Visit With Pilgrims (10:42)
B3. Your Mine (9:55)

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Schlafengarten - Dance / Trance

Cassette, C30
Label : S.J. Organisation, France, 1986


As the side titles suggest, one side is dance music, the other side is trance music.
More Schlafengarten here and here.


Tracklist :

The Danse Side
A1. No Time (2:58)
A2. City (3:21)
A3. Schlaf Rap (3:40)
A4. Danse (3:48)
The Trance Side
B1. Minimal Afternoon (10:41)
B2. Loupe (4:59)

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Various Artists - Organisation Orange 2

Cassette, C90 + C10
Label : S.J. Organisation, France, 1987
Limited edition of 150 copies


First in a series of posts related to S.J. Organisation, a french label run by Pascal Dauzier & Sylvie Loquet (La Sonorité Jaune) during the eighties.
Get more excellent S.J. releases :
S.J ORG 003 - La Sonorité Jaune - Heliae
S.J ORG 004 - Various - Organisation Orange 1
S.J ORG 008 - F/i - Threshold
S.J ORG 008 - F/i - Threshold
S.J ORG 009 - Dog As Master - Five Feuilletons Outlined In Red
S.J ORG 011 - La Sonorité Jaune - Ersatia
S.J ORG 011 - La Sonorité Jaune - Ersatia
S.J ORG 012 - La Sonorité Jaune & The Haters - The Interstellar Destroyed Music Mail Project
S.J ORG 016 - Maybe Mental - Lotuses On Fire
S.J ORG 019 - Master/Slave Relationship - Bed Of Perverse Dreams
S.J ORG 020 - The Twins And Rig Veeda - Boy Saves Hedgehog
S.J ORG 028 - Lieutenant Caramel / La Sonorité Jaune - Je Ne Veux Plus Voir Le Ciel
S.J ORG 034 - New Carrollton & Stolen Government Binder Clip - Minor Admittance
S.J ORG ??? - Illusion Of Safety - Finance And Ideology


Tracklist :

A1. Two Witnesses - Only Love (2:20)
A2. Tzilenda Kopfdachtung - Tribut-Tot (4:00)
A3. Pietro Insipido - Remember (4:09)
A4. A.I.Z - La Purge (5:08)
A5. Controlled Bleeding - Body Bags (6:17)
A6. Arnovah - Symetrical Segments (4:44)
A7. Stenka Bazin - La Conscience Immolée (6:48)
A8. S-Ink - Monument (3:24)
A9. Vivenza - Unité Objective (Principe Conducteur) (5:00)
A10. Urbain Autopsy - Overload System (3:37)
B1. Schlafengarten - Looking Glas (2:46)
B2. Moly - Val De Travers (3:46)
B3. Mystery Hearsay - Sunrise In Disguise (7:04)
B4. Ampzilla's Delight - Mindscape (3:50)
B5. Alain Basso - Parliures Et Aveuglements / Les Murmures Du Moribond (3:55)
B6. Controlled Bleeding - Trunk Time (3:35)
B7. Yves Mo - Ecouter Strauss Sous La Douche (2:22)
B8. Mystery Hearsay - Plumtree Spiral (7:19)
B9. Yves Mo - La Femme Est Merveille (3:28)
B10. Société Musicale Marine - Chat De Printemps (6:21)
C. Big City Orchestra - Orange Is The Color Of My True Love Eyes (3:58)
D. La Sonorité Jaune - My Dreams Collapse In The Orange Landscape (Excerpt) (3:29)

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Zone Void - Wu-Nien Voidmusic

Cassette, C60
Label : Cthulhu Records, Germany, 1991
Limited edition of 300 numbered copies


Last cassette released by legendary German label Cthulhu Records.

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Entre Vifs - A Scent Of Strength

CD
Label : Staaplaat, The Netherlands, 1993

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Entre Vifs - Heavy Duty

Cassette, C60
Label : Cthulhu Records, Germany, 1989
Limited edition of 300 numbered copies


From Le Syndicat website :
"Due to a painful experience of censorship at the festival of new music DMA2 in Bordeaux (France), Le Syndicat decided to build his personal sound system.
Zorïn immerses himself in electronics and starts constructing "The MATRIX" : the electro metallic material intended to be used at the live appearances of Le Syndicat.
It is about an armada of objects over amplified by contact microphones, often discovered in the belly of a trashcan and designed to the manner of dangerous weapons : Low Tech electronic instruments, walkmans, multitrack tape recorders to cassettes used at the same time as samplers and mixing tables, racks of preamplifiers, distorters, ring modulators, delays. 800 meters of cables concentrated on 5 square meters.
The goal of the system was to be able to react as quickly as possible to everything that all other operator porduces. What they named "The reflex piloting", something that holds as much the fight sports or the instinctive monitoring of the other. This live version of Le Syndicat conceived by Zorïn became naturally his thing in 1986 : The bruitiste ensemble (Noisecraft band) ENTRE VIFS".

From inner sleeve :
"We began to build our Noise Complex (generators, switches, intermodulations, mixing) in 1985.
Our Sessions or Training meetings started in early 1986. Some were performed in front of a few selected listeners.
These live excerpts were recorded at our Noisecraft Workshop, Enghien (France).
The instruments used on these tracks are : the Rumbler, the Shriller, the Harrow, the Smashers, the Cracklers, the Screecher, the Rails.
Our voices are picked up by Laryngophones and processed by various distortion units".

Entre Vifs debut CD, "L'Ordre Par Le Bruit" (Artware, 1991), can be downloaded here.

A recent french radio show with an interview of Ruelgo (founding member of Le Syndicat) can be downloaded here.

And of course you can buy :
- Le Syndicat / Entre Vifs / Icon Zero / Ruelgo high quality CDrs on Le Syndicat website ;
- Le Syndicat "Timespace Losses 1982 / 1987" recent CD of early rarities here.

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P.C.R. - The Power Of Blindness

LP
Label : Empty Records, Germany, 1990


From Empty Records website : "This concept album is the only vinyl release this Nürnberg band ever released, and is based upon an obscure story by H.G. Wells. Musically, these nine tracks are somewhere between soft industrial and guitar based new wave".


Tracklist :

A1. Instantaneously Drown (6:04)
A2. Eastward Slip (4:22)
A3. The One-Eyed King (4:36)
A4. Zwischen Knochenrissen I (3:07)
A5. A Great Big Kiss (4:52)
B1. Sacrifice For Love (4:53)
B2. A Man Is Close To Nothing (8:30)
B3. Zwischen Knochenrissen II (5:14)
B4. Blue Deepening Into Purple (3:28)

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Mentocome - Untitled

LP
Label : Giraffe Rec., Germany


Another forgotten but great minimal German act.

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fLEUR dU mINIMAL - Untitled

LP
Label : Pigture Disc, Germany, 1987


Reminds me a little of early The Hafler Trio and Nurse With Wound.


Tracklist :

A1. Geburt (1:00)
A2. Heimat (3:00)
A3. Krieg (3:00)
A4. Sonntag (3:00)
A5. Lust (3:00)
A6. Fortschritt (3:00)
A7. Wald (3:00)
B1. Schönheit (3:00)
B2. Meer (3:00)
B3. Liebe (3:00)
B4. Götter (3:00)
B5. Maschine (3:00)
B6. Wissen (3:00)
B7. Tod (1:00)

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Phronèsis - Ritual For Kandisha

CDr
Label : Self-released, France, 2008


A few weeks ago I've posted a nice Phronèsis CDr. Here is a more recent one, in a more homogeneous ambient style. Recommended.


Tracklist :

1. Ritual For Kandisha (10:58)
2. Dread (7:21)
3. Tales From Moh (6:30)
4. A Knife In The Sand (3:29)
5. Prisoner Souls (6:54)

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Sleep Chamber - Spellbondage

Cassette, C60
Label : Inner-X-Musick, US, 1987
Limited edition of 2000 copies


That "Spellbondage" cassette version includes two tracks that are not on the LP version.
On both cassette and LP covers, John Zewizz used pictures of Debbie Jaffe (Master/Slave Relationship) without her consent. Debbie addressed that issue in the 1991 interview I've posted.
Find more Sleep Chamber rarities here and here.


Tracklist :

A1. Site Ov Pain, Site Ov Pleasure (7:29)
A2. Odoratus Sexualis (6:13)
A3. Kiss The Whip (6:02)
A4. The Nun (Fetish Convent) (4:19)
A5. Spellbondage (Soundtrack Excerpt) (3:23)
B1. Extreme Unction (6:43)
B2. Femme Fatale (3:23)
B3. Vortex (7:06)
B4. Thee Unforgiven (3:12)
B5. Finger On The Trigger (8:50)

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Sleep Chamber interview (by Stéphane Santini) in Hello Happy Taxpayers #7, july 1988 :

Master/Slave Relationship - Interview 1991 [Radio Broadcast Series #5]

Cassette
Exclusive interview, US, 1991


That exclusive interview was recorded in 1991 by Debbie Jaffe, aka Master/Slave Relationship, after the brilliant "Being Led Around By The Tongue" CD was released.
Those who are interested in the history of Debbie's earliest artistic and musical efforts with Hal McGee, with whom she has been making music in the duo Viscera and has been running the Cause & Effect label, should certainly listen to issues #11 an #12 of Hal's podcast "Homemade Alien Music".
Most MSR releases can be purchased on MSR website.
According to her MySpace, Debbie is recording new music. A short but exquisite new MSR track, "Give", the first musical recording Debbie has done in a decade, has recently been released on "Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation Volume 3".

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Algebra Suicide - Real Numbers

CD
Label : Pursuit Of Market Share, Germany, 1988
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies


That CD was recorded live at Link's Hall, Chicago, April 19th 1988, by infamous minimalist pop duo Algebra Suicide, formed by Don Hedeker and the late Lydia Tomkiw (1959-2007).
You can read here a comment by Don Hedeker about that CD. And a nice tribute to Lydia here.

More Algebra Suicide can be downloaded here :
The Secret Like Crazy
Swoon
As well as great tracks on various compilations :
Die Orgasmus Bigband
Just A Lovesong Pas De Deux
The History Of Jazz


Tracklist :

Set #1
1. Cerebral Dance
2. Waiting For Delmore
3. In Bed With Boys
4. No Action
5. Verbal Blunder
6. Sinister
7. Agitation
8. Tonight
9. Tuesday Tastes Good
10. Mantic Sway
Set #2
11. True Romance At The World's Fair
12. Sub Rosa
13. Let's Transact
14. Heat Wave
15. Friendly Manifesto
16. Connoisseurs Of Lightning
17. An Explanation For That Flock Of Crows
18. Tractor Pull
19. Horizon
20. Please Respect Our Decadence
21. Little Dead Bodies
22. Amusing One's Self
23. Somewhat Bleecker Street

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Various Artists - Electronic

LP
Label : Climax Productions, Belgium, 1988


Tracklist :

Electronic Side
A1. Traxx - Venecreator
A2. Bambix - Painted Noses
A3. White House White - The Image Creator
A4. Frontline Assembly - Resuraction
A5. Vomito Negro - The Man Factory
A6. Danton's Voice - Oriëntal

Experimental Side
B1. Absolute Body Control - Slow Action
B2. M.I. 5 - Last Moments
B3. Blue Garden - Red Jungle
B4. The Force Dimension - Attenzione Prego!
B5. Unknown European Group - Fucking Dog Johnny
B6. De Fabriek - Corpusnow Callosumball
B7. Suicide Commando - Industrial Underground

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Various Artists - Climax Productions Presents

LP
Label : Climax Productions, Belgium, 1986
Ripped by maggothead


I've found that link in a comment of a post on The Thing On The Doorstep. I thought it deserved a greater exposition, so here it is !


Tracklist :

A1. White House White - Jungle Emotions
A2. Absolute Body Control - Car Fever
A3. Vita Noctis - She Likes Me
A4. Schicksal - Body Beat
A5. Nightmare Reality - The Cage
B1. Somnambulist - The Seaman's Imagined Fish
B2. Private Image - The Game
B3. The French Park - The Turn Of A Card
B4. Cross Arc. - Take This Day Away
B5. Deliens Roger - Falling Rain
B6. Private Image - This Belongs To Your Show

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Mission Papua Holland - Love You Baby

LP
Label : Mission Papua Holland, The Netherlands, 1987


Mission Papua Holland was a band including two main members, Jasper Frenken and Mark Van Gelder, as well as a records and tapes label. They relased three LPs in 1987. The first one, "June 87", was a great LP of minimal electronic music. The second one is that strange "Love You Baby" LP, more conventionally "musical" than "June 87". And the third one was Roderik Henderson "Generated Progression" LP, a good record of percussive ambient music.
Get some Mission Papua Holland tapes as well here :
2
Corridor
Le Chevre D'Or
Rex Nura
Son Geng
Sweet Sixteen


Tracklist :

A1. Presence Dub
A2. Uncle Gangster
A3. Kickin' Door
B1. Josefa
B2. Sammy Summer
B3. Ten Minutes At The Border
B4. The E.B.

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Various Artists - Émergence Du Refus Volume 4

Cassette, C60
Label : Émergence Du Refus, France, 1986
Ripped by jx


Tracklist :

A1. Denier Du Culte - A Tire Larigot
A2. Urbain Autopsy - To The Garden
A3. Axis Mixor - Acid Lyrique
A4. Cripure S.A. - Perte Des Sens I & II
A5. La Nomenklatur - TPE
A6. Minamata - Niigata
A7. Stenka Bazin - Malus
B1. Die Form - Uns Kill
B2. Scopul Hydre - Extra Son's
B3. DZ Lectric & Anthon Shield - Danse Rituelle Noire
B4. Arnovah - Shuffle Flam
B5. Moïra XII - Purgatoire
B6. Philippe Blanchard - Friend Cheap
B7. Kora - Rock Bi Ba

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Various Artists - Émergence Du Refus Volume 2

Cassette, C60
Label : Émergence Du Refus, France, 1986
Ripped by Rainier


Tracklist :

A1. Pacific 231 - Uniquement Brut I & II
A2. Moïra XII - ...
A3. La Division Technique / Le Laminoir - Commercial 3
A4. A.I.Z - Elektrik Simulations
A5. Les 3 Phallus - Pollution Nocturne
A6. La Sonorité Jaune - Mouvances Blanches
B1. Narcisses Assassinés - La Somme Des Vents
B2. Le Syndicat - Pare
B3. Le Mal Des Ardents - Vacuum Extractor
B4. Stenka Bazin - Bel Canto
B5. Germain Scalp - Extraits

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Various Artists - Émergence Du Refus Volume 1

Cassette, C60
Label : Émergence Du Refus, France, 1986
Ripped by Rainier


It's time for a few "Émergence Du Refus" compilations, as requested by Tony Machette.


Tracklist :

A1. Vox Populi! - Carmino De Luz
A2. No Unauthorized - L'Enfant Malade
A3. Le Calvaire Du Samedi - Mordue Par Un Oeuf
A4. Costes Cassette - L'Avant-Garde, L'Amour
A5. Vae Soli - Solstice
A6. Isidore - Corridor
A7. L.O.S.P. - Hordes
B1. Jeff Laryngo - Aérophagie
B2. Axis Mixor - Untitled
B3. La Sonorité Jaune - Caresses Intimes
B4. Baudrite D. - Volumétrie
B5. 3 Jours & 3 Nuits - Testament De Dieu
B6. Formule Tag - Frankie (Live)
B7. Les Visiteurs Du Soir - Le Maudit
B8. Moïra XII - Untitled
B9. La Nébuleuse Sonore - Cymbales & Synthétiseur Pour Décompositions

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Various Artists - Schwarzkopf

Cassette, C90
Label : Toracic Tapes, Spain, 1988


Requested by Autodolor.
You can download many other cassettes released by Toracic Tapes here.


Tracklist :

A1. Minimax Maximalminimum - 23 Skidoo! (4:18)
A2. Programacion Infantil - Pabellon De Insomnios (2:58)
A3. Urban Project Music - Simulation V (5:17)
A4. Proletkult - Acceleration (4:32)
A5. PCR - Tom (4:28)
A6. Uvegraf - 10000 Visiones Del Dr.Castroviejo (4:55)
A7. Lustwig Van Biesthoven - Glorimental Smile (2:40)
A8. Arcueil - The Fisherman And His Soul (3:03)
A9. Doc Wör Mirran - Another Sighting Of The Great Loch Ness (4:05)
A10. Merz - Infection I (5:13)
A11. Kopfschmerztablette - Manila High Line (4:27)
B1. Markus Breuss - Richard Kimball (Partes I A IV) (7:50)
B2. Die Vorkriegszeit - Antalya (3:58)
B3. Esplendor Geométrico - Trybuna Del Lavoro (5:32)
B4. Siegmar Fricke - Clinique Obscure / The Room Was Dark (4:06)
B5. Orfeon Gagarin - Ephemerol (3:38)
B6. Roland Schiefnetter - Pyramide I (5:01)
B7. Marco Dope-Ra - Ethno (6:34)
B8. Krivoi Rog - Nabla (3:36)
B9. Context - Product 41 (2:51)
B10. Die Rache - Control System (2:44)

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Zagzig - Expérience Musicale N°1 : Machine À Coudre Et Piano

CDr
Label : Unknown, France, circa 2007
Ripped by Rainier


I don't know much about that CDr. According to Rainier, it has been released one or two years ago, but did not get a large diffusion.
Exeprimental piano + sewing machine music, a little in the Nurse With Wound genre...

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Internal Fusion - Et La Nuit Éclaira La Nuit...

Cassette, C30
Label : Désaccord Majeur, France, 1993
Ripped by svet_9


Requested by doc kwan.


Tracklist :

A1. Et La Nuit Éclaira La Nuit... (5:23)
A2. La Bibliothèque De Babel (4:21)
A3. Le Jardin Au Sentier Qui Bifurque (3:54)
B1. Funes Ou La Mémoire (4:00)
B2. Les Ruines Circulaires (5:40)
B3. La Forme De L'Épée (2:59)

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Internal Fusion - Événements, Traverses, Contrariétés

Cassette, C40
Label : Désaccord Majeur, France, 1991
Ripped by svet_9


Requested by doc kwan.
For sure, Internal Fusion is one of the best french artists in the ambient / experimental / post-industrial genres...
"Événements, Traverses, Contrariétés" is Internal Fusion first tape. A message sent on Internal Fusion MySpace, dated from January 10th 2009, is announcing the release of a remixed edition of that cassette on CD :

I. F. is working on a Remix of the very first tape originally released on Désaccord Majeur french label : Evènements, Traverses, Contrariétés.
Based on the original tape content plus some sounds suprises mixed with.
Will be a Self Released CD.
Packaging still to be defined.
Planned to be released and so available by the end of April 2009.
Price will 15 € with free delivery charges for France, 3 € added for europeans and 4 € for other countries.
Limited edition to 100 copies - Numbered and Signed on Request.
Feel free to let us know if you are interested in booking one (or more) by sending us an email using our myspace contact.
Eric


Tracklist :

A. Untitled (21:00)
B. Untitled (22:45)

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Vox Populi! - Introduction À La Théorie De La Subjectivité Relative

Cassette, C60
Label : Vox Man Records, France, 1982
Limited edition of 100 copies
Ripped by Rainier


"Only 100 copies of this cassette, which was the first VP! release, were released in 1982. That makes it one of our rarest items. These songs came out just after 'The Teens Recordings' featured above".
Axel Kyrou


Tracklist :

A1. 34210 (3:00)
A2. Syad (4:36)
A3. Sinuf (5:32)
A4. Ketchup Johns (2:57)
A5. Zone (5:05)
A6. Oyez Oyez (1:45)
A7. B. A. Bah! (1:40)
A8. Tac (2:36)
A9. Scoubidou 1 (0:45)
A10. Back To Lurp (1:12)
A11. Yep (0:23)
B1. Gosh (1:40)
B2. Après La Pluie (2:22)
B3. Operette (0:55)
B4. Vamp (2:11)
B5. Fnouf (1:42)
B6. Saft (1:12)
B7. Wosl (1:33)
B8. Pozl (0:58)
B9. Un Fantôme (1:20)
B10. Scoubidou 2 (0:54)
B11. For Ever (4:07)
B12. Lovely (2:11)
B13. Obsession (2:00)
B14. O. B. 31 (1:25)
B15. Subjectif? (3:27)

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Vox Populi! - The Teen Recordings

Unreleased recordings, France, 1979-1981


When I wrote Axel Kyrou that I wished to post the debut Vox Populi! cassette, "Introduction À La Théorie De La Subjectivité Relative", he answered that before I do so, he would like to offer earlier VP! recordings for sharing. He also sent the visual above and wrote the following statement to introduce these recordings :


'The Teen Recordings' were recorded between 1979 and 1981. These are the first and, yet, unreleased recordings by Vox Populi! As the title suggests, I made them during my teens (I'm from 1964), with some help from my elder brother Ariel on vocals, jaw's harp and percussion. I play synth, radio waves, video games, tapes, bass, guitar, jaw's harp and voices. I must say that we had a very encouraging family environment. Our father Ado was a great fan of any kind of unusual and extreme forms of music. I remember very well my father's PA being blown out by one of the first Whitehouse recordings ! He was a TV/film director and a writer. My mother Mireille is a musician and she had worked under Pierre Schaeffer's direction for a few years at the institution that became soon after the IRCAM. For sure, they were on our side and they did help in many ways. A big Thank is due to them.
I hope you'll enjoy these goofy DIY recordings made with very little means.
Wishing to you music lovers all the best,
Axel, for Vox Populi!

PS : apart from Nostalgie de la boue, you'll find many other VP! releases on 3 other musical blogs :
http://thethingonthedoorstep.blogspot.com/
http://misteriosoimpossivel.blogspot.com/
http://atlantisaudioarchive.blogspot.com/
It is our deliberate policy to make most of our music freely available. Vox Populi! returns to Populi, so...


To complete Axel's statement, here are the links of Vox Populi! releases available on blogs for download :
Ectoplasmies [7"]
La Cathédrale Morte [Cassette]
Myscitismes [LP]
Imaginaires [Cassette]
Ebats Spirituels [Cassette]
Half Dead Ganja Music [Cassette]
Untitled [Cassette]
Aither [LP]
Face To Face Vol. 2 [LP]
Cthulhu Revisitation [CD]
1987-1990 [CD]

And here are the most recent Vox Populi! releases you can buy :
Cthulhu Revisitation [CD]
1987-1990 [CD]
Soft Entrance To Nature's Camino De Luz [Mini CD / FLAC]
Mystic Entertainment [CD]
Aramesh [CD]

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The Legendary Pink Dots - Live In Paris, Rex Club, 6/02/87

Cassette, C90
Live recording, 1987


I've recorded that live concert myself, with the band's authorization. At the end of the concert, I met a guy from the audience who asked me to send him the live recording, which I did once back in hometown ; a few weeks later, he sent me the cassette cover I've included in the rip. I've never really known (and never asked) if it was a personal cover he made for himself or if he used my recording for an unofficial bootleg cassette release...
Anyway, that was a wonderful concert, and I hope the sound is not too bad...


Tracklist :

1. A Dream Is A Dream
2. Love Puppets
3. Curious Guy
4. Jewel In The Crown
5. Premonition 16
6. I Am The Way, The Truth, The Light
7. The Hill
8. Echo Police
9. Poppy Day
10. Our Lady In Chambers
11. ?
12. The Dairy
13. Neon Gladiators
14. The Heretic
15. Silvertur
16. Flowers For The Silverman

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Stress - The Big Wheel

Mini LP
Label : Adventures In Reality, UK, 1985


After having released several cassettes, Stress contributed a beautiful track, "The Prayer Clock", on "Life At The Top" compilation LP, in 1984. The following year was released "The Big Wheel", their first and last vinyl release. Wonderful synth-pop.


Tracklist :

A1. The Big Wheel (3:42)
A2. Elizabeth Selwyn (5:02)
A3. Get The Most (5:05)
B1. Slaves To Beat (3:38)
B2. No Sane Alternative (5:30)
B3. The Price You Pay (5:03)

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Brain Discipline - world!

Cassette, C46
Label : Minus Habens, Italy, 1989


Requested by Dennis/Abraxas80.


Tracklist :

A1. worldone
A2. HERE,NOW:world!
A3. worldtwo
A4. SPIRIT IN CONSTRUCTION
A5. worldthree
A6. HERMES!
A7. worldfour
A8. DAUGHTER OF THE COLD PROGRESS
A9. worldfive
A10. SINGING HAMMERS MADE THE WORLD
B1. worldsix
B2. E TU INNALZI...
B3. THAT'S MY world THAT YOU IGNORE
B4. STARKE FEDER (Freude heisst)
B5. DOVE SGORGA LA GRANDE PIANURA
B6. LIKE A circle ROUND THE sun
B7. worldseven

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Various Artists - Cabbage IV

Cassette, C60
Label: Cauchy Productions, Belgium
Ripped by Rainier


Great compilation between post-punk, minimal synth and various experimental genres.
Includes the hit "Like I Am / Comme Je Suis" by Unovidual & Tara Cross !


Tracklist :

A1. Unovidual & Tara Cross - Like I Am / Comme Je Suis
A2. The Psychological Warfare Branch - Six Pack Musak
A3. Bondage Boys + The Beast - Plastic
A4. Friendly + The Southern Comfort Style - She Was So Pretty
A5. L. D. 50 - Sten Guns In Aldershot
A6. Luca Miti - Plouton (Prologos-Parados)
A7. Twilight Ritual - Tears On The Wall
A8. Smersh - Hollow Promises
A9. Man's Hate - President Botha Kills Children As Well
A10. Temporal Pain - Waves Hit
B1. Dissolutio Humani Generis - Spettri
B2. Sekte Der Schlammfische - Schicksal Der Ironie
B3. The Psychological Warfare Branch - Arbeit Macht Frei
B4. Tara Cross - No More Drugs
B5. Roberta Eklund & Jane Arfinson & Todd Kennedy - And Again
B6. Bog-Art - Sound Of Thrown Scum 1
B7. Temporal Pain - Baptist Girls
B8. Swine Bolt #45 - The Ever Developing Ordeal

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DDAA - 5ème Anniversaire

7"
Label: Illusion Production, France, 1984
Limited edition of 2000 copies
Ripped by Rainier


Tracklist :

A1. Les 25 Pièces Sont Vides
A2. La Pluie Sur Ton Visage
B1. The Sea It Laps At Transistor Geisha Girl
B2. Now It's Time To Go To Bed

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Laibach - Live At Divergences/Divisions V, Bordeaux, 1988

Unreleased live recording, France, 1988
Ripped by Rainier


Recorded live during Divergences/Divisions V festival, Bordeaux, France, March 12 1988.


Tracklist :

A1. Intro
A2. Krst (Baptism)
A3. Vier Personen
A4. Leben-Tod
A5. Drzava
A6. Trans-National
A7. Krvava Gruda - Plodna Zemlja
A8. Die Liebe
A9. Ti, Ki Izzivas
A10. How The West Was Won
B1. Jägerspiel
B2. Leben Heißt Leben
B3. Geburt Einer Nation
B4. (Unknown)
B5. Opus Dei
B6. Pre-Encore Music
B7. Nova Akropola
B8. Geburt Einer Nation Remix

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