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How minimal can you get?
Tag: DIY
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It’s going on three years old now, and lord knows what happened to this Brighton, UK band in the interim since they made their 2011 demo tape, but a great recent discovery for me (thanks Modraucous) are THE IRREPARABLES.
The band’s mix of Shaggs/Desperate Bicycles simplicity with some hot spit and vigor makes for a pretty intoxicating mix of DIY splatter, as you’ll no doubt hear on this track, “Digested System”.
Unlike my usual pattern, I happen to like the dude singer’s stuff far more than the woman’s. This time.
All-female weirdo space punks ANDROIDS OF MU, circa 1980 in the UK.
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This 45 from a late 70s New York group called the HAND GRENADES has been fooling “punters” for years who mistook it for a British DIY record from the same era, myself included. When I found out these dudes were from “the Apple” I was incredulous. I guess I still am.
But here you go – a really great, lost-to-time stark and strange inepto-garage record from a band who have very pleasing elements of the Swell Maps, Wire and Steve Treatment. Enjoy!
Random punk/garage/artwave junk. 60s to 00s.
Art by Roland Topor.
1. The Moderates – Yes To The Neutron Bomb (UK, 1980)
2. Star Club – Hello New Punks (Japan, 1984)
3. Rondos – Syphilips (Netherlands, 1980)
4. Fireworks – Murdered Model (US, 1996)
5. Rhinoceros – Yankees & Commies (?, 1985)
6. Helen Keller – Surfin’ With Steve And E.D. Amin (US, 1980)
7. Kronstadt Uprising – Invasion (UK, 1981)
8. Regulations – Sex With Jesus (Sweden, 2005)
9. Special Affects – I Know Ah Girl (US, 1979)
10. ESG – Erase You (US, 1991)
11. Blank Its – Master Intellectual (US, 2004)
12. Liimanarina – Piitles (Finland, 1989)
13. Null Set – Times Out (US, 1983)
14. The Naffis – Slice Two (UK, 1979)
15. The Mice – Crystal Silence (US, 1986)
16. The Last Word – Sleepy Hollow (US, 1966?)
17. Sparks – The Decline And Fall Of Me (US, 1982)
18. Strangulated Beatoffs – Broken Nose (US, 1990)
The best music mixologist on 8Tracks has another new whopper. This will be the soundtrack to my March 28th, 2013.
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The one-woman, 1980 UK “band” THE PETTICOATS put our their/her only 45 on the Blah Blah Blah label, and it’s a masterpiece of frantic, buzzing DIY punk. Definitely something the fell below the radar for most of us for many years; I never even heard mention of the single until a little over a decade ago, when the song “Normal” made it onto a Killed By Death comp and a bootleg called “Instant Pop Classics”.
Later, Times New Viking covered this one, “Allergy”, and I think it’s my favorite of the three mindblowers on Stef Petticoat’s single. Share this around with yr pals – they’ll thank you for it.
DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE 