VA: pt. 20 - How Much?

This one is obviously a rif on Prince & the Revolution as the compilation is subtitled  "Various Artists Never Formerly Known as Prince".

The liner notes sez:
     "This is the first release of Evolution Controlled Creations, the label spawned from the band The Evolution Control Committee.compiled just in time for the end of the world: December, 1999. You did purchase that hand-crank CD player, right?"

Just a bunch of goofy shit... 

 

Various - Party like It’s Only $19.99, Evolution Controlled Creations ECC1, 1999.
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The Symbol - Unknown Artist (uncredited – The Evolution Control Committee)
19999 - Wobby
Can I Get Another Hit Off Dat? - Cracked Out Carl    
Love is the Alcohol - Fossil
Destroy 1999 Years of Culture - Push Button Action Man
If(1999) { If(want) { Party(); Fun(); Exit; }} - Steev Hise
Mommy Bomb - Brindle Spork
Polka like It's 1999 - Blarney Stein
Oops Out of Time - Realistic    
2000 Flushes - Wayne Butane
Princelot Link & the Revolution Evolution Control Committee - The Evolution Control Committee    
Glyph Blender    - Mr. Meridies
Don't Worry - Help Suit

 

 

 

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VA: pt. 19 - Got My Mojo Working

MOJO is a British music magazine first published on 15 October 1993. From 1997 until mid-2004 the magazine occasionally came with a CD or an odd 7" vinyl record. A cover mount CD has been included with every month's issue since July 2004, except for September 2004 / January 2006 when two CDs were included, & March 2016 when no disc was included with the David Bowie tribute issue which included commemorative posters.

This one was the free CD for the MOJO March 2015 issue.

 

 

Various - Change the Beat (14 Tracks from Madonna’s New York Scene),
Mojo Magazine, March 2015.
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Coup - 23 Skidoo
Erase You - ESG
You Can't Be Funky - Bush Tetras
Triangle – Delta 5
Sax Maniac – James White & the Blacks
Hop on Down – Arthur Russell
My Main Man – Screamin' Rachael
White & Green Place (Extraterrestrial mix) – Maximum Joy
Icka Prick - Funkadelic
Tell Me, Tell Me (How Ya Like to Be Loved) - Curtis Mayfield
3,000,000 Synths – Chaz Jankel
Program for Light - Section 25
The Dice – Judy Nylon
Make a Joyful Noise - Singers & Players

 

 

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VA: pt. 18 - It’s Twilight Time Again

This compilation comes courtesy of Ryan Moore of Legendary Pink Dots fame, head of the Dub label Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem. 

A Dub fanatic of the first degree since teenage days, when Ryan moved to The Netherlands in 1991 with LPD he gained virtually unlimited access to recording studio equipment. This allowed his production skills to develop. In the studio multi-instrumentalist Moore plays & mixes all the tracks himself.

On this one he plays guitar, keyboards, bass, drums as well as producing & mixing the lot along with: Earl Chinna Smith - guitar; Bongo Herman & Skully Simms - percussion; Dean Foster - saxophone; Nambo & Vin Gordon - trombone. 

 

Twilight Circus - Presents Deeper Roots, M Records MRecCD420, 2005.
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Lion's Den - Big Youth
Lion's Horn Cut - Dean Fraser & Vin Gordon
Why Dem Gwaan So - Cornell Campbell
Universal Ruler - Jah Stitch
Universal Horns - Nambo & Ian Hird
Throw Some Stone - Michael Rose
Don't Follow Babylon - Ranking Joe
Fiyah Well Hot - Brother Culture
Better Horns - Vin Gordon & "Cannonball" Bryan
Lion's Den (remix) - Big Youth
Lion's Dub - Twilight Crew
Throw Some Stone (Megadub mix) - Michael Rose

 

 

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VA: pt. 17 - Cup of Tea at the Coffee Table

Here's one from Cup of Tea Records. I shared a bit of Cup of Tea releases during Trip-hop February a few years back. The label was an off-shoot of the club of the same name in Bristol. Cup of Tea Records  released quality tracks of slo-mo beat excursions & weirdelic sound collages between 1994 to 1999. The label, founded by Pip Diaz, started with the release of The Mud Skipper EP by a band called Junkwaffel, remixed by Bristol royalty Portishead. This one is subtitled "Sounds & Soundtracks mixed by Grantby", Grantby being the nom-de-mix of Dan Grigson, who worked at Cup of Tea. 

 

Various - Coffee Table Music, Cup of Tea Records TWAD474, 1998.
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How We Used to Live - Brown Susan
High Over Glenelg - The Narcoleptics
Chase Scene *3 - Brothers Grimm
Large Block of Flats - Jobclub Music Workshop
Glass Shards - Picturebox
Timebooth – Grantby
Don't Trust the Brains Trust - Kaysound Fashion
Vamos a la Playa - Emiliano
R53 - Albert Hall
Dementia Pugilistica - Kirk Lake

 

 

 

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VA: pt 16 - Max Kan Ska

More what I'd call a ménage à trois than a true VA. This one was a 2019 UK Record Store Day release. It is a compilation of ska tracks recorded for Max's Kansas City Records with many never having been previously released. This one features Terrorists who I've shared  here, The Offs, who I've shared here &  here. Also, on this one Terrorist back up the incredible Roland Alphonso on five tracks. 

 

Various - Max's SKAnsas City, Jungle Records FREUDLP122, 2019.
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Side 1 -
Tear Up - Roland Alphonso
Pressure & Slide - Terrorists
Riis Park - Terrorists
Musical Resurrection - Roland Alphonso
Justice - Terrorists
You Fascinate Me - The Offs
Four Corners - Roland Alphonso

Side 2 -
Working in a Coalmine - Terrorists
Treat Her Right - Terrorists
Sax Skandal - Roland Alphonso
My World - The Offs
Fade Away - Terrorists
Bridge View - Roland Alphonso
Easier Said than Done - The Offs
Take it Easy (Champs Elysee) - Terrorists

 

 

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VA: pt. 15 - Une Saison En Enfer

Here's a great gob of goobity from Third Mind Records. Founded by Gary Levermore in Tankerton, Whitstable, Kent in February 1983, Third Mind Records became one of the leading British independent labels for experimental, melancholic, & electronic music during the 1980s.

Their roster is reminiscent of 4AD or C'est la Mort (two of my favorite labels). It was bought by Roadrunner Records in 1991 & eventually disbanded in late 1994. 

Various - Une Saison En Enfer (World Domination), Third Mind Records TMCD03, 1988.
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The Icon - Heavenly Bodies
Body Count - Front Line Assembly
The Powerhouse (Ben Johnson mix) - Beautiful Pea Green Boat
Sheltered Life - Bill Pritchard
I'll Gather Flowers - Area
Acid House G - God Said
Deceit - Bushido
Assassin - Intimate Obsessions
Fear - The Faction
Fusillade III (Both Barrels) - Attrition
The Discreet Agent (Spycatcher mix) - Harry Fabvre
Wednesday – Bill Pritchard
Flesh of Love - Future Neighbors
Hammers of Islam (Gulf Escalation mix) - Beautiful Pea Green Boat
Teardown (Maniac mix) - Front Line Assembly
Slowly - God Said

 

 

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VA: pt. 14 - Running Amuck

amuck \ ə-ˈmək, ə-ˈmäk \ adv : in a murderously frenzied manner. This is a word that has to do with chaos and disorder. A riot is an example of people running amuck. In a cafeteria, if people are yelling and throwing food, they are going amuck. This word applies to times when control has been lost: people are showing no self-control, and the situation is out of hand.

This Amuck is a cool punky compilation from that great Phoenix label Placebo. Born in 1979, Placebo is primarily a punk label (the main early label for Phoenix skate-punkers JFA) based in Phoenix, Arizona, 

Aside from punk bands they released a handful of electronic/noise releases, notably the early parts of the 'Dry Lungs' series. 

Side One is punky, Side Two is electronic/noise. 

 

Various - Amuck, Placebo Records LA103, 1982.
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Side One -
Cold War - Dali's Daughter
Bouncer - Jody Foster's Army
Unpleasant – Meat Puppets
She Cracked - Paris 1942
Pepperoni Ice Cream - Killer Pussy
Bobby Sands Boogie – Sun City Girls
Bottles Neck – Victory Acres
Happy People – Happy People
Soylent Greene - Soylent Greene
I Wanna Know Precious Secrets
After the War (Meat to Eat) - Teds

Side Two -
Long Journey to Nowhere  – International Language
Annex - Knebnagauje
Out! Out! Out! - Tone Set
History of the World & the Beat Ch.22 - Poet’s Corner
Windows - Mask
Time - Destruction

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VA: pt 13 - Some Velvet Desert

The Velvet Desert Music series paints a sound world from disparate styles & influences from across psychedelic rock / folk, darlwave, downtempo right into contemporary electronic music, concocting a psychedelic landscape bursting with color & character. 

This is a painted desert for the ears.

 

Various - Velvet Desert Music Vol. 1, Kompakt KOMPAKTCD152D, 2019.
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Cirrus Minor (The Black Frame extract) - Terrapin
Magic Lantern (Velvet edit) - The Modernist
Memphisto - Burger / Ink
The Gain of Loss - The Novotones
Welt 10 (Jörg Burger mix) - Cologne Tape
Arrival    - Paulor
Pilgrims - Fantastic Twins
Beatmesse Pt.2 - Jörg Burger
Mountain Eagle (The Black Frame Desert mix) - Rebolledo & the Novotones
Faithful Hessian Walks into Ada's Bar (Jörg Burger remix) - Metope
Remix – Jörg Burger
Redfern Address (In Memory of Vision) - Paul Mac
Botzaris - Sascha Funke & Cosmo Vitelli
Far from Home (Superpitcher mix) - Kenneth James Gibson
Noir State Beach (The Modernist mix) - Xu Xu Fang
Encore - The Velvet Orchestra

 

 

Various - Velvet Desert Music Vol. 2, Kompakt KOMPAKTCD156D, 2020.

Not So Far Away - Michael Mayer
Vertigo     - The Velvet Circle
Ride - Mount Obsidian
Monterrey Paris Texas - Superpitcher
Variation Sur 3 Bancs - Golden Bug & the Limiñanas
Cruising Nevada (extended version) - Rebolledo & el Niño Paulor
Between the Dog & the Wolf - Fantastic Twins
Aride - Gen Pop
In der Tat - Sascha Funke
We - Paulor
Casa Delfines (Cubenx edit) - Mount Obsidian
East County Lines - Lake Turner / WEM / Hand
Angel of Doomsday - The Novotones
Dragon Slayer (Velvet 77 Jörg Burger mix) - Pluramon
Velvet Desert Music Vol. 2 (Continuous mix) - Various

 

 

 

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VA: pt 12 - Hit & Run

Now this is my idea of what a compilation should be. This is a collection of singles from HitRun label. I didn't even find these in the VA folder, but in a repository of “All Things Sherwood”.

This is a very UK based roots sound by Adrian Sherwood. HitRun was his prelude to the famous On-U Sound label. 

Corn-Fed Productions  sez:
     "Adrian was a very young man when he started in the music business. At the tender age of seventeen he launched the Carib Gems label with acts he licensed from original Jamaican producers including the likes of Black Uhuru, the Revolutionaries, Roots Radics, and many more established Jamaican artists. During this time he forged long-lasting friendships and gained the trust of many arists and producers. Such was his raw enthusiasm and love for the music. It wasn’t long before his vision began to outweigh the possibilities of his label, so he started a new one. This was born HitRub Records, a platform for his continuing licensing deals but also a label for his home-grown roster of artists that now included Creation Rebel and several other UK-based acts. He also had begun to do his own production work. The label was a qualified success, for it was at once clear that his plans would outstrip even the new label’s capabilities and so was born his still very active On-U Sound label. So HitRun only lasted for less than two short years 1978-1979."

 

 

Various - The Hit-Run Singles Collection 1978-79 Volume 1 2xCD,
Corn-Fed Productions CF078, 2004.
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Disc 1 -
Wicked are to Blame     - U Black
Wicked are to Blame (version) - Cry Tuff All Stars
African Land - Carol Kalphat
African Melody - Dr. Pablo & Cry Tuff All Stars
Love Jah Only - Bim Sherman
Dub from the Ghetto - Cry Tuff All Stars
Jah Will Explain - Naggo Morris
Wicked Feel It - Dr. Pablo
The Ungodly - George Calstock featuring U Black
Righteous Melody - Dr. Pablo & Cry Tuff All Stars

Disc 2 - 
Hunger & Strife - Bobby Melody & Jah Lion
Hunger & Strife (version) - Teem All Stars
Down in Jamdown - Bim Sherman
Trenchtown Dub (Down in Jamdown) - Teem All Stars
Beware - Creation Rebel
Natty Conscience Free - Creation Rebel
Love is Like a Password - Mike Brooks
Feeling of Reggae - Mike Brooks
Reggae a the Best - Woodrow Noble & Prince Hammer
Strike the Hammer Wild - Hammer All Stars

 

 

 

Various - The Hit-Run Singles Collection 1978-79 Volume 2 2xCD,
Corn-Fed Productions CF079, 2004.

Disc 1 -
Them Must Fall - Prince Hammer
Ball of Fire - Hammer Allstars
Higher Field Marshall / I & I a De Chosen Ones - Peter Broggs & Prince Far I
Loved By Everyone - Prince Far I
Jah Will Lead Us Home - Jennifer Lara
A Fe We Jah - Ranking Purple
Ten Thousand Lions - Prince Hammer
North London Thing - Prince Hammer
Yes Yes Yes - Errol Holt
No One Can Tell I About Jah - Rod Taylor

Disc 2 -
Ivory Girl - Thomas White
Prejudiced Country - Keith FFrench
Insane Love - Still Cool
Stereo Style '79 - Still Cool Band
Long Long Time - Mike Brooks
Dub in Time - Style & Roots Radics
Sweet Reggae Music - Errol Holt
Hairdressing Salon - Prince Far I
Jah Should Come Now - Rod Taylor
Mackabee Bible - Prince Hamer

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VA: pt 11 - Bananafish

This compilation came in the 154 page Bananafish 'zine #12. 

The bands that were featured in that issue all contributed a track to the compilation, something to listen to while you read. Interesting mix of bands not usually readily found.

Various - My Baby Does Good Sculptures, Tedium House Publications BF12, 1997.
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Locations – Climax Golden Twins
No Bananafish - The Nihilist Spasm Band
Funky Love Blast Vs. Funky Anal Humour - Justice Yeldham & the Dynamic Ribbon Device
Branches of Contortionism - (In Spite of Flaming Creatures) & Deepkiss
Do - Monde Bruits
An Example of Measurements Stated First – Stilluppsteypa
Ouranos I (San Francisco version) – Iancu Dumitrescu
Blue Kachina - Sufi Mind Game
Excerpts from Missing! - Witcyst
Footpocked y Kettlehole: The Story of My Drink - Crank Sturgeon
Figure Skating Dog - Mike Boner    
Comedy Fated from the Stars - Neil Hamburger

 

 

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VA: pt. 10 - Big Body Parts

Here's an experimental electronic compilation based on manipulation of speech recordings. The title comes from a quote by Brion Gysin. 

This release was done toward the end of the operations of Big Body Parts. Only a small portion of the copies were distributed by BBP (mostly to contributors). The remaining printed pieces went to Anomalous Reocords in 1993 where the remaining copies were distributed, in a variety of hand-made packages using the same materials. 

 

Various - Rub Out the Word 2xcassette, Big Body Parts BBP C3, 1989.
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Cassette 1 -

Rub Side -
Banishment - Hands To
As You Were Saying (live) - blackhumour
G.X. - AMK
Ashtray - Lab Rat
Witch's Butter - John Hudak
x - Crisis

Out Side -
Patriot - Terre Blanche
The Heads Off Our Two for Dinner - Then Behavior
Process 4 - Kapotte Muzick
The Late Moss Hart - David S. Hastings
HBOI Alphabet Master - Yeast Culture
Gloria - Black Coke

Cassette 2 -
The Side -
Malediction PBK
Volta - Big City Orchestra
Museum - David Montgomery
A Literary Classic - If, Bwana
If You Do Not Have Friends - CBC III
The Old Colonel's Job on Kat - Allegory Chapel Ltd
Bullets for Breakfast (Brain Dead Brain Dead) - Crash Worship

Word Side -
Little Joey's Rats - Bunker Club
A World Full Of... - Mental Anguish
After a Dream - Swinebolt 45
Mae - Illusions of Safety
World's Fastest Tape Player - Eric Lunde
Damaged Reports: The Evening News - Eric Lunde
Hacc - City of Worms

 

 

 

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VA: pt 9 - Black Riot

Now I'm jumping ahead to the early 90s with a  great compilation from Soul Jazz covering the early days of Jungle/Hardcore. 

 

Various – Black Riot (Early Jungle, Rave And Hardcore) 2xLP,
Soul Jazz Records SJRLP452, 2020.
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Side One - 
The Smokers Rhythm - Rhythm for Reasons
Durban Poison     - Babylon Timewarp
RK1 - The Terrorist

Side Two -
Tings a Go On - DJ Dubplate    
Burial (Lovers Rock mix) - Leviticus
Time & Age - The Freaky

Side Three -
Snowball remix - Trip One
Ganja Man - DJ Krome & Mr. Time
Way of Life - New Vision

Side Four -
Original Rubadubstyle - DJ Dubplate
Chill Out (Raggafunks U) - Hi Fi Power
House Sensation - Nu Jacks featuring Ivory Ranks

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VA: pt. 8 - Slash on Vinyl

This one was thrown together by Chris D. of The Flesh Eaters & Divine Horsemen fame with help from Exene Cervenka of X & Judith Bell, writer & photographer for Los Angeles Slash punk 'zine. 

All LA early punk greats. 

 

Various - Tooth & Nail, Upsetter Records UP WR 1&2, 1979.
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Side 1 -
Another Day    
Electric Church    
Jezebel     - Controllers

The Word Goes Flesh    
Pony Dress    
Version Nation - Flesh Eaters

Social Circle - U.X.A.

Side 2 -
U.X.A.    - U.X.A.

I Got Power    
Mercenaries - Negative Trend

Love is Just a Tool    
Above Suspicion - Middle Class

Manimal    
Dragon Lady    
Strange Notes - Germs 

 

 

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VA: pt. 7 - Weird & Wacky

Independent UK sez:
     "Until her recent passing, Vicki Fox was a versatile cog in the Ace Records machine, handling artwork and compiling several theme-based compilations. This anthology of bizarre instrumentals was her final work for the label, its enthusiastic diversity and effusive character making for an apt tribute. Tribal drums, twangy guitars, spooky organs and synths abound, often in unusual combinations: Jan Davis's "Watusi Zombie" yokes together horror, exotica and rockabilly, while Ray Ellis's "The Sheik" is an unfeasibly ambitious exercise in cod-Arabic go-go harpsichord and horns.
     Outre FX are littered throughout, from quirky guitar noises and animal shrieks to the (apparently real) puking sounds heralding The Martinis' Memphis soul groove "Hung Over".
     But it's the unearthed rarities that delight most, from Sixties space oddities like The 101 Strings' eerie "Flameout" and "Waltz in Orbit" by Ray Cathode (aka The Radiophonic Workshop), to the Tornadoes obscurity "Hot Pot" and the lovely dry, tribal drum-machine workout "Funky Me", the B-side of Timmy Thomas's "Why Can't We Live Together?"."

One of my favorite is Bo Diddley doing a great Mexican surf-guitar twang-thang. So just get wacky, just go crazy for a while (How weird you want??? We've got Leonard Nimoy...that Spock can rawk...enough said)...

Various – Sounds of the Unexpected (Weird & Wacky Instrumentals from Pop's Final Frontiers),
Ace CDTOP 1505, 2017.
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Watusi Zombie - Jan Davis
Savage Girl - Felix & His Fabulous Cats
Mad Train - Andre Brasseur & His Multi-Sound Organ
War of the Worlds - The Atlantics
Funky Me - Timmy Thomas
Caravan - Gabor Szabo
Hot Pot - The Tornados
Aztec - Bo Diddley
R.F.D. Rangoon - The Forbidden Five
Watusie Freeze Pt1 - Big Walter & The Thunderbirds
Flameout - The 101 Steings
Music to Watch Space Girls By - Leonard Nimoy
Uh-Oh - The Imps
Waltz in Orbit - Ray Cathode
Moog Indigo - Jean Jacques Perrey
Space Walk - The Astros
Hung Over - The Martinis
The Sheik - Ray Ellis & His Orchestra
B'wana Bongos - Preston Epps
Long Sentence - The Upsetters
It's Karate Time - Travis Wammack
Zocko - The Ventures
Misirlou - Martin Denny
Russian Roulette - The Zanies 

 

 

 

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VA: pt. 6 - One - Four A.D.

This series of four volumes began in 1994 as Waveforms A.D. (Ambient Dub) Compilations.

Waveform began in Sedona, AZ in 1993. It was the US outlet for the UK label Beyond. Beyond Records was a renowned UK label that released electronic & chill albums, many of which are highly sought-after today. Waveform is closely entwined with the radio & internet program Musical Starstreams. They refer to their style of music as "exotic electronica". 

Might as well share all four, as they're right up my listening alley. The first one starts out with a track I've shared in April by Templeroy... 

 

Various - One A.D. (Volume One Ambient Dub), Waveform Records 84101-2, 1994.
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Dubometer - Templeroy
Devotion - Pentatonik
Soma Holiday - G.O.L.
Desert Wind (Interstate 101 mix) - Banco de Gaia
Spectral – The Higher Intelligence Agency
The Calling – A Positive Life
Beam - Sandoz
Harmony Angel – The Higher Intelligence Agency
Shanti (Toby Marks Black Mountain mix) - Banco de Gaia
Mecca of Space - Original Rockers
The Calling (Ambient mix) - A Positive Life

 

 

 

 

Various - Two A.D. (Volume Two Ambient Dub), Waveform Records 85101-2, 1995.

Behind the Sun (Deep Ambient mix) – The Starseeds
Autumn Leaves (Irresistable Force mix Trip 2) - Coldcut
Triangle - Sounds from the Ground
A Voyage on the Marie Celeste - Groove Corporation
Pleidean Communication - A Positive Life
Baby Interphase - Biosphere
Tortoise - Higher Intelligence Agency
Sunken Garden - Human Mesh Dance
Late Night - Insanity Sect
Aquasonic - A Positive Life

 

 

 

 

Various - Three A.D. (Volume Three Ambient Dub), Waveform Records 86101-2, 1996.

Shark Infested - Real Life
Skank - The Higher Intelligence Agency
Drawn to the Woman - Sounds from the Ground
Lighten Up! - A Positive Life
In 7 - Another Fine Day
Sign - Coldcut
Oracle - Spacetime Continuum
Solar Prophet - Insanity Sect
Regina from the Future - The Starseeds

& coming full circle, the fourth volume begins with a track I previously shared from Ganja Beats... 

 

 

Various - Four A.D. (Volume Foure Ambient Dub), Waveform Records 03102-2, 2003.

The Herb is Good - Ganja Beats
Travelinside - Solaroid
Push Push (G-Corp mix) - Rockers Hi-Fi
Montego Bay (TVS mix) – Razoof
Key to Another World - Ziontek
Angelica in Delerium - G.O.L.
XP Continuum - Asura
Crazy Moon - Soma Sonic
Blue Magnetic Ocean – Mystical Sun
Sister Bliss - White Star

 

 

 

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VA: pt 5 - A Drink for Sue Ellen

This one appears to be a bootleg of a bootleg of US hardcore tracks, originally released in Germany by Schrott SCHROTT010, 1983. This is a Volume 1 cassette version of 24 tracks. 

This one is a perfect example of my inability to stick with compilations. I'd hear Gun Club - "Black Train" & immediately I'd be looking for the album (Fire of Love) it was on . Then I'd listen to that all the way through. 

But single tracks & random play are all the rage, so, what do I know??? 

 

Various - A Drink for Sue Ellen Vol. 1 cassette, 1983.
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Intro - Darby Crash
Religious Rip Off - Government Issue
White Minority - Black Flag
Hot Cars - Angry Samoans
Wasted - Circle Jerks
Short Songs - Dead Kennedys
Little Billy`s Burning - Nubs
You Belong - Middle Class
Kill the Hippies - The Deadbeats
Let's Have a War - Fear
Make Guns Not Love - No Alternative
London Dungeon - Misfits
Black Train - Gun Club
Funeral March - T.S.O.L.
We're Off - Würm
Lions Share - Germs
The Maze - Minutemen
Stupid Jack - Angry Samoans
Dope Smokin' Moron - Replacements
Don't Talk to Me - Eyes
La Bamba - The Plugz
Outta Style - Zero Boys
No Compromise - Rhino 39 
Outro

 

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VA: pt 4 - Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks

I'm guessing a lot of you might be vaguely familiar with at least some of these tunes. Interesting versions (Pavement to Blind Melon to Daniel Johnson to Biz Markie to Man or Astro-Man? & beyond) all to help better rock the Rock!. 

 

Various - Schoolhose Rock! Rocks, Lava 92681-2, 1996.
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Schoolhouse Rocky (original Theme music) - Bob Dorough & Friends
I'm Just a Bill – Deluxx Folk Implosion
Three is a Magic Number – Blind Melon
Conjunction Junction - Better than Ezra
Electricity, Electricity - Goodness
No More Kings - Pavement
The Shot Heard 'Round the World - Ween
My Hero, Zero - The Lemonheads
The Energy Blues  – Biz Markie
Little Twelvetoes - Chavez
Verb: That's What's Happening – Moby
Interplanet Janet - Man or Astro-man? 
Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here - Buffalo Tom
Unpack Your Adjectives – Daniel Johnston
The Tale of Mr. Morton - Skee-Lo

 

 

 

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VA: pt 3 - Industrial Records 1976-1981

This one proved to be just what the titled stated: a collection of material from Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records label spanning 1976 to 1981. 

 

Various – The Industrial Records Story, Illuminated Records JAMS39, 1984.
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A -
We Hate You (Little Girls) - Throbbing Gristle
To Mom on Mother's Day - Monte Cazazza
Slow Death - Leather Nun
Day Breaks, Night Heals - Robert Rental & Thomas Leer
Mekano - Surgical Penis Klinik (SPK)
Sunday Night in Biot - Cabaret Voltaire

B -
Stormy Weather - Elisabeth Welch
Silent - Clock DVA
I Confess - Dorothy
Distant Dreams (Part Two) - Throbbing Gristle
Nothing Here Now... - William S Burroughs

 

 

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VA: pt. 2 - Amorphous

Let me tell you. This has been the greatest. I had no freaking idea what music was in the Various Artists folder until I tumbled down this rabbit hole. What a journey of discovery (or should I say re-discovery). I am so excited by some of the things I found, I harly can contain myself. I just decided to follow up with this one as it is Monstrous (that's what they sez).

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble is an original podcast series created by Amorphous Androgynous (a well-known alias of The Future Sound of London). Many of the series were released or remixed & officially published (from The Pod Room, a sub label of fsoldigital.com).

 

 

The Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Vol. 1 2xCD,
Platipus PLATCD190, 2008.
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CD1 -
Barabajagal (Love is Hot) – Donovan
The Perfumed Garden: The Encouragement of the Lusty Wife – Chiitra Neogy
Feel the Spirit - Heaven & Earth
Black Ant – Osibisa
Blue Honey – Pop Levi
Entangled – The Yellow Moon Band
Breaking Point – The Earlies
If I'm in Luck (I Might Get Picked Up) – Betty Davis
Mountain Machine – Mountain Machine
After All - Henry Roland
Maypole from 'The Wicker Man" – Paul Giovanni
Kingdom of the Birds – Ian Neal
Light Beyond Sound – The Amorphous Androgynous
Tunnels Electronic – Bob Downes
Flow Motion – Can
Musashi - The Cosmic Wizards' Club Band
Mansfield & Cyclops – Espers
There It Is Part 2 - Cranium Pie
Rated X – Miles Davis

Circles - Psychonauts
Light Flight - Pentangle
Wichita Lineman - Friends of Dean Martinez
The Lovers – The Amorphous Androgynous
Opus of the Black Sun – The Amorphous Androgynous 

CD2 -
Sahajiya - Tommy Graham
Awakening of the Birds - Cranium Pie
Drying in the Sun - Cranium Pie
49 Cigars – Nick Nicely
The Perfumed Garden: The Encouragement of the Lusty Wife – Chiitra Neogy
Riki Tiki Tavi – Donovan
Lazy Butterfly – Devendra Banhart
You Know, You Know - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Manzh Khamaz Teental – Hariprasad Chaurasia
I Never Asked to be Your Mountain – Tim Buckley
Roller Daddy - The Emperor Machine
Dívka S Jablky - Mahagon
I am the Walrus - Lord Sitar
Helga - Wizard of Ooze
Cellophane Symphony – Tommy James & the Shondells
Silver Machine - Hawkwind
The Phoenix – Magic Carpet Band
The Mental Traveler – David Axelrod
Queen Mab - Werkraum
Heart of Darkness - Shweta Javeri

 

 

 

The spice of life,
NØ

VA: pt 1 - After Hours

When I was preparing the Transglobal Underground - Backpacking on the Graves of Our Ancestors, I seemed to recall that I had another version of "Temple Head" somewhere, but search as I might through all things TGU, I couldn't find it. Being obsessive, I searched out its source on Discogs. There was a version on a TGU Temple Head 45 but I couldn't find that anywhere in my music.

Then I saw that the track I was thinking of ("Temple Head (the Pacific Mix - Airwaves") was on a Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs (both of Saint Etienne) compilation Fell from the Sun (Downtempo & After Hours 1990-1991. I looked through my Various Artists folder & there she be...

This got me thinking about Various Artist releases. I have a slew of them, but I never really listen to them. I mostly just source them for individual tracks. I've mentioned before that I mostly listen to complete rekeases by single artists. I enjoy taking the trip as they intended (or someone intended). I don't have a gripe against comps or mixtapes. My problem is that as I'm listening to one, I hear a track I really like, & off I go to find the album it was released on, to listen to it in its entirety, if possible. Some tracks are only on certain compilations. Those are the ones I set aside for my own mixes. Otherwise I just find the original release, throw it on the player, & the Various Artists... is forgotten.

But as the search for the Transglobal tracks showed me, I don't even really know all the songs on all the Various Artist releases I've accumulated. They're not sorted or filed anywhere. That's not too good of a system. So this month I am going to be sharing only Varios Artist releases that I stumbled upon a I fell down this rabbit hole.

Might as well start with the one that started this all... 

 

 

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs - Fell from the Sun (Downtmpo & After Hours 1990-91),
Ace CDCHD1596, 2022.
decryption code in comments

Higher than the Sun (Higher than the Orb extended mix) - Primal Scream
It Could Not Happen (Essential Trance Hall mix) - Critical Rhythm featuring Jango Thriller & Vandal
Cascades (Hypnotone remix) - Sheer Taft
Afrika (Love & Laughter remix) - History featuring Q-Tee
Floatation (original version) – The Grid
Speedwell (Bob Stanley/Pete Wiggs radio edit) - Saint Etienne
Fallen (Andrew Weatherall album version) - One Dove
Temple Head (Pacific Mix - Airwaves) - Transglobal Underground
Just a Little Bit More (Electro instrumental mix) - Massonix
U Make Me Feel (Running Water aka Workhouse mix) - Elsi Curry
I Don't Even Know if I Should Call You Baby (Marshall Jefferson Symphony mix) - Soul Family Sensation
Snappiness (7" edit) - BBG
Never Get Out the Boat (The Flying mix) - The Aloof
Spiritual High (The Moodfood megamix) - Moodswings

 

  

The spice of life,
NØ