Outstanding Debts...Playing the Laswell Bill

It's the first of the month...the vultures are circling, they smell fresh blood.

The debt collectors have been hounding me like wolves around a wounded elk. It's been a long time since I played my Bills. I always have three Bills to play, my Nelson Bill, my Laswell Bill, & my Burroughs Bill. I was playing them on a regular basis, but recently funs have been tight & I haven't been doing my dootie.

So for the next three shares I'll try to get caught up by playing all three Bills. I don't want my credit ratings to tank. 

 

 

I guess I'll start with my Laswell Bill. 

 

Back in September 2022, Bill was stricken with medical issues (go read "Help One of the Good Ones" here if you're not familiar with his problems). He has not been able to perform or produce others since then. It has been quite a financial burden. So I want to make sure I'm not taking any geld from Bill's pocket. Therefore I'm playing the Laswell Bill with a compilation of tunes that I find appropriate.

 

 

Bill Laswell - Man from Orange, NØ comps., 2025
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Part 1: O.A.O -
O.A.O. - Material
Simulacra - Bill Laswell
Beta One-Assyrian Dub - Automaton
Seven Souls (The Secret Name) featuring Burroughs Bill - Bill Laswell
Patterns of War - Jahbulon
Babylon Site - Bill Laswell
Aeon - Bill Laswell
Conform to the Rhythm (live) - Material

 

Part 2: Orange Music -
Golden Spiral - Bill Laswell
A Greater Source of Power - Bill Laswell
Dystopia - Bill Laswell
Elijah's Lament - Jahbulon
The Western Lands (A Dangerous Road mix) featuring Burroughs Bill - Material
Ariwa Dub Club - Mad Professor
Night City - Bill Laswell
The Creator has a Master Plan (live) - Material

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Laughing Sam...for Jonder

Starting off this month with a leftover from March centering on the suggestion from a Frenz of NSS.
Here I'm going to serve up a share for one of my longest-suffering Frenz around here, jonder.

Since October 2022 I've leaked some tracks from Bukowski in Dub. My friend Jonder of jonderblog Jokonky blog has been a big fan of the album. Last time I shared a Bukowski track (December 2024) jonder sez:
     "Looking forward to the sequel, Dukowski in Dub."

Jonder's such a jokester.

But here's the first track... 

 

Chuck Dukowski - Dukowski in Dub, EP Records #6923, 1999.

Laughing Sam's Dice Rolled Thirty Six Times.

 

April 1 & thanks jonder,
NØ

March Beyond the R

Here's a final share for the month. 

 

 

Vivien Goldman is a true Renaissance woman. She is a UK writer, journalist, & musician. She primarily came to my attention by her work with Adrian Sherwood, on the song "P.A. (Private Armies) Dub" from the New Age Steppers self- titled debut, & writing credits for "Sly" by Massive Attack.

Other than that, she was one of the PR heads at Atlantic Records, then Island Records. She was Bob Marley's UK publicist. She was writer & editor for Sounds magazine. She was a member of The Flying Lizards. She was a writer for NME & Melody Maker. She was Chrissie Hyndes' flat-mate.

In the early 80s Goldman lived in Paris for a year and a half, where she was a member of new wave duo Chantage along with Eve Blouin. Here's a single from that group. Some of the performers here: George Oban - bass; Style Scott - drums; Deadly Headley - horns; Steve Beresford - piano with Adrian Sherwood producing. 

 

Chantage - It’s Only Money, Celluloid CEL 6632, 1983

Side A -
It's Only Money    
Side B -
Same Thing Twice    
Tu M'Fait Rire

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Roy Montgomery

 

Finally made it through the R folder. More than I Remembered. & they just get deeper for the next two: S & T. Might hold off for a few, even though I'm trying to get through to Z.

This is a recent addition to the Musick that Needed Work folder. I'm glad it hasn't taken ten years to fix this one. This is some fine music here. I'm glad I worked on this one. It is one of my very favorites.

 

Roy Montgomery is a composer, singer, guitarist, & lecturer from Christchurch, New Zealand. He is one of the most significant musicians of the 1990s New Zealand music scene. Montgomery's mostly instrumental solo works have elements of post-rock, lo-fi, folk & avant-garde experimentation. His signature sound might be described as atmospheric or cinematic, often featuring complex layers of chiming, echoing &/or droning guitar phrases. He created a successful hybrid of all these styles with his ensembles Dadamah, Dissolve, & Hash Jar Tempo.

In 2021 the still very active Montgomery released four albums: Island of Lost Souls that contains the 22-minute "The Electric Children of Hildegard Von Bingen"; That Best Forgotten Work, presumably a collection of leftovers & rarities; Rhymes of Chance which collects instrumentals, songs performed by him as well as songs performed by Emma Johnston: & Audiotherapy, a collection of leftovers & rarities ranging from the spoken-word piece "Occlusione" to the instrumental "Audiomemory". 

 

Roy Montgomery - Island of Lost Souls, Grapefruit Records GY11-1, 2021.
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Cowboy Mouth (for Sam Shepard)    
Soundcheck (for Adrian Borland)    
Unhalfmuted (for Peter Principle)    
The Electric Children of Hildegard Von Bingen (for Florian Fricke)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Roger C. Reale & Rue Morgue

 

Although these cats were known as Roger C. Reale & Rue Morgue, we're all probably a lot more familiar with Rue Morgue alum G.E. Smith & Hilly Michaels. 

 

The band only released two albums: Radioactive in 1978 & Reptiles in Motion in 2019 as well as the compilation shared here. 

Reptiles in Motion was recorded in 1979. It featured Mick Ronson taking G.E. Smith's place on guitar. It was meant as a follow-up to Radioactive but remained shelved until 2019. RIM was released on Rave On Records, basically a vanity label for the two bands The Reducers & Heap. Roger C. Reale had provided vocals for The Reducers 1988 Wake the Neighbors release.

Also in 2019 Rave On released this compilation that contains both of the Rue Morgue offerings. The Radioactive set contains all twelve tracks as per the UK version (the US version was only ten tracks with "Rescue Me" & "Close Inspection" missing). 

 

Roger C. Reale & Rue Morgue - The Collection, Rave On Records TGP1015, 2019.
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Radioactive -    
High Society    
Dear Dad
Stop & Go    
Pain Killer    
Rescue Me
Kill Me    
Reach for the Sky    
Madonna's Last Stand    
Please Believe Me    
Close Inspection
Inside Outside    
I Can't Control Myself 

 

 

Reptiles in Motion -     
She's Older Now
Pros & Cons   
Radioactive  
One More Try    
No Secrets    
Debutante Ball    
Make it Be Over
I'm in Distress    
Point Blank    
Back it Up    
Living in Anger    
Rock it to the Kremlin

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Rachid Taha

 

Rachid Taha was a French-Algerian singer best known for fusing rock with raï, a form of traditional Algerian folk. Taha was born in 1958 in Algeria but moved to Lyon, France with his family at age 10. In his early twenties, he founded the nightclub Les Refoulés (The Rejects) where he created multi-cultural mash-ups by splicing elements of Arabic pop songs with backbeats from artists as varied as Led Zeppelin, Bo Diddley, & Kraftwerk.

 

Taha emerged as a solo artist in the late 80s. Steve Hillage, former guitarist of psych-prog outfit Gong produced the majority of Taha's catalogue which utilized punk to raï to electronica. The singer's final LP, 2013s Zoom, featured guest spots from Brian Eno & Clash guitarist Mick Jones.

This CD was released after Taha's 2018 death. It is as varied as usual & a great example of the man's creative excellence.

 

Rachid Taha - Je Suis Africain, Naive M7062, 2019.
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Ansit
Aïta
Minouche
Je Suis Africain
Wahdi featuring Flèche Love - vocals
Insomnia
Andy Waloo
Striptease
Like a Dervish
Happy End

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: R. Stevie Moore

 

R. Stevie Moore is known as the Godfather of Home Recording. He is probably the best known artist to come out of the mid 70s cassette tape underground, a DIY movement of self expression centered around home-made cassettes of both music & spoken word that allowed musicians & writers to easily, economically release their material.

In 2019, Bar/None released Afterlife, a compilation of Moore tracks that were recorded at professional studios between 2006 & 2013. The album also features contributions from Ariel Pink, Jason Falkner, & Lane Steinberg. Most of the selections are remakes of decades old songs.

On December 31, 2019, Moore posted on his website that he would be doing no further song writing, recording, performing, travelling, or interviews. 

 

R. Stevie Moore - Afterlife, Bar/None Records 267, 2019.
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Irony
Pop Music
Come My Way
The Winner
National Debate
What Do I Do With the Rest of My Life
Too Old (to Fall in Love)
Take Back
Love Is the Way to My Heart
Another Day Slips Away
You Don't Have to Worry About Me
Back in Time

bonus tracks -
Here Comes the Summer Again
Hurry Up

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Randy Jacobs

 

Randy Jacobs was born in San Francisco & raised in Detroit. He started playing a music at the age of 13. After graduating from high school, Jacobs worked with former Miles Davis bassist/singer Michael Henderson. He co-authored the Top-Five R&B hit, "Wide Receiver." After a number of years working in the Motown scene Jacobs became one of the core members of Was (Not Was). While with the band, Jacobs co-authored the Top-Ten hit "Walk the Dinosaur" (here).

 

After Was (Not Was) disbanded he became a member of Soul Mission, a gospel R&B project featuring Tata Vega, Mavis Staples, Booker T Jones & Steve Cropper. In 1994 he formed his own outfit The Boneshakers, finally realizing his vision of funk, blues, R&B, rock  soul. He released two CDs, Book of Spells (here) & Shake the Planet both featuring his longtime Was (Not Was) band mate Sweetpea Atkinson on vocals for Pointblank/Virgin Records.

In 2005 Randy released From Me to You, his first jazz influenced solo instrumental CD on his Bad Monkey Recordings label. With appearances from Mindy Abair, Andre Berry, Rick Braun, Euge Groove, Wendy Moten, Bob Sheppard, Wayman Tisdale & co-producer Jon Gilutin.

Sit back & enjoy some sweet Soul musick... 

 

Randy Jacobs - From Me to You, Bad Monkey Recordings BMR003-2, 2005.
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From Me to You
Mi Corazón, Mi Amor
Trixie, Get Down Off the Table!
Kisses for Miss Faye
Ooo What She Does yo Me
Tell Me Why
Extraordinary Lover
No More Rainy Days
Never Over You
Dobro Jones
Emotional Moment

 

 

 

For this next one you probably will want to get out of that seat & on your funky feet. Jacobs' next outing was another instrumental release but more varied than his jazz-flavored debut. For this one he revisited songs he had written fresh out of high school. He included five of those tune & wrote five new ones to flush out the CD.

 

Randy Jacobs - The Return of Randy Dynamite, Bad Monkey Recordings BMR005-2, 2010.

For All Your Funky Needs    
Love You Back    
Rumpulator    
Melodius    
Troublefunk    
Sweet Distant Lover    
Fish in the Snack Bowl    
Big Star Church    
Someone for Me    
Mucho Mas

 

 

 

This 2013 release is an instrumental funk-fest, teaming up with Was (not Was) & Boneshakers friends: keyboardist Jamie Muhoberac; Sweet Pea Atkinson; Sir Harry Bowens; Mindi Adair; & Dave Hooper.

 

Randy Jacobs - Rhythm & the Beat, Bad Monkey Recordings BMR006-2, 2013.

Funkolina Brown
Secret Plot Deep
Groovellephacus
(Let's) Get Funky Tonight
Love Lessons
No Brag, Just Fact
Omazing
Wake up Baby
McStinkum
Free the Man
Que Sera Sera

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Re-Flex

  

This one could have remained where it has be languishing all these years but I'm trying to empty out the folder so I gave it the treatment, fixing it up. Some of you may like it & that's fine. I'm just not a big Brit wavish synth-pop fan. 

 

Re-Flex was a British electro pop group featuring John Baxter (guitar / vocals), Paul Fishman (keyboards / vocals), Nigel Ross-Scott (bass), & Roland Kerridge (drums). Their only big hit song "The Politics of  Dancing" was recorded in 1982, released in the U.S. in 1984. It reached #24 on the Billboard charts & has since become a new wave radio classic. The follow-up single "Hurt" hit the Billboard charts as well.

However, interest in the group faded quickly. The band's follow-up album, Humanication, was shelved, never to be released during the band's prime. Humanication was finally released in 2010.

This CBR320 CD is not listed on Discogs. The cover art is of amateur quality. The disc is most probably a bootleg release. The front cover has a generic Capitol Records logo, back listed as flex cd 001.

 

Re-Flex - Extended & Rare, bootleg flex cd001, 200?.
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Whizz Kid (Riding High soundtrack)
Praying to the Beat (demo acoustic version)
Hitline (extended mix)
Flex It ! (extended mix)
Cruel World (extended mix)
Praying to the Beat (extended mix)
Cut It (extended mix)
What You Deserve
Hurt (Emotional US mix)
Hurt (Emotional UK mix)
Hurt (Rubber Dub)
How Much Longer (longest mix remix)
True Lust
Cruel World (7" version)
Cut It (7" version)

 

Enjoy,

NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Reigning Sound

 

Reigning Sound is an American garage punk band founded by Greg Cartwright in 2001. 

 

Reigning Sound were originally based out of Memphis, Tennessee but relocated to Asheville, North Carolina. They have had a contantly changing line-up with Greg as the only constant. The band announced their split in 2022.

Here are their second & third releases... 

 

Reigning Sound - Time Bomb High School, In The Red Recordings ITR084, 2002.
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Stormy Weather
Straight Shooter    
You're Not as Pretty    
Brown Paper Sack
Wait & See    
I Walk by Your House    
Time Bomb High School    
I Don't Believe
She's Bored with You    
Reptile Style    
I'm Holding Out    
I Don't Know How to Tell You    
Dressy    
I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys
You're so Strange

 

 

 

 

Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar, In The Red Recordings ITR107, 2004.

We Repel Each Other    
Your Love is a Fine Thing    
If You Can't Give Me Everything    
You Got Me Hummin'
When You Touch Me    
Funny Thing    
Get It!
I'll Cry    
Drowning    
Uptight Tonight
Excedrine Headache #265    
Let Yourself Go
So Easy    
Medication

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Reggae Disco Rockers

 

Now here's one for you...a reggae/rocksteady band from Japan. The band is made up of Kitetsu Takamiya, Mika Arisaka, Tetsu Nishiuchi, Tetsuya Hataya, & Yota Kobayashi. 

 

These are their first three releases. As the band progressed, they loosened up around the JA vibe. Throughout, they live up to there name...Reggae Disco Rockers. Get ready... 

 

Reggae Disco Rockers - Oasis, Flower Records FLRC006, 2001.
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Just Tell Me
Asian Roots featuring Horace Andy
A Woman
A House is Not a Home
Still in Love (main mix)
Oasis
Zone 07 (interlude)
Ronin
Still in Dub
Sunset (album version)
Indian Love Call
Dis Reggae Muzik featuring Horace Andy

 

 

 

 

Reggae Disco Rockers - Reggae Magic, Flower Records FLRC021, 2003.

Skankin'
Bridge Over Trouble Water
Caramel View
A Dream Dream Dream
Cherry Oh! Baby
Zone XXX
Gashunin
Automobile
I Shall Be Released
Cry Me a River
Sun Stone
Wedding

 

 

 

 

Reggae Disco Rockers - Rainbow, Flower Records FLRC026, 2004.

Seeds of Love
Summer Breeze
Rainbow
Deepest Blue
The Great Pretender
Ode to Stars
And it Stoned Me
In the Zone
Mibo-Jin
Get Ready
Get Ready (Dubwise)
Ode to Stars (Plaza organ mix)
Perfidia

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Radar Bros.

 

Radar Bros. are an indie/slow-core/lo-fi/psych/rock band from Los Angeles, CA. They are focused around the music of founder Jim Putnam. 

 

The band has toured with Modest Mouse, The Breeders, Teenage Fanclub, & Overseas, among others. Over the years, their sound has evolved from slower, melodic rock with swashes of Floyd/Beatles-esque psychedelia to the heavier, multi-layered surrealism that characterizes their recent output.

This is their first, self-titled CD.

 

Radar Bros. - Radar Bros., Restless Records 72927, 1997.
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Lose Your Face Again    
Capital Gain    
Wise Mistake of You    
Stay    
Supermarket Pharmacy
On the Floor    
We're Over Here    
Distant Mine    
Underwater Culprits    
This Drive    
Take Stuff
Goddess

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Replicants

 

Talk about a concept band..

 

A few months after bassist Paul D'Amour left Tool, he joined Chris Pitman, a keyboardist, & L.A. alt/rock band Failure members Ken Andrews & Greg Edwards. The four decided their music would be restricted to covering songs by famous bands active in the 1970/80s.

They chose their name...Replicants. But for them Replicants was not a reference to P.K. Dick but to a bastardized verision of "replicate", alluding to the band's choice to be "a tribute band". Wow, what a concept. 

 

Replicants - Replicants, Zoo Entertainment, 1995.
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Just What I Needed
Silly Love Songs
Life's a Gas
Cinnamon Girl
How Do You Sleep?
Destination Unknown
No Good Trying
Are 'Friends' Electric?
Dirty Work
The Bewlay Brothers
Ibiza Bar

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Revenge

 

I'll get my revenge. I'll serve up some Gun World porn... 

 

This Revenge is a band started by bassist Peter Hook (New Order/Joy Division) to get his revenge.

This is the bands 1992 EP offering. Sadly, GWP was to be Revenge's swansong.

 

Revenge - Gun World Porn,  Capitol Records, 1992.
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Little Pig
Cloud Nine    
State of Shock    
Deadbeat    
Deadbeat (Gary Clail remix)
State of Shock (L'Pool edit)    
State of Shock (Paralized mix)    
Untitled

bonus -
Deadbeat (Gary Clail remix 2)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Renegade Soundwave

 

Renegade Soundwave was formed in the late 80s in London by the trio of Gary Asquith, Danny Briottet, & Carl Bonnie. They were pioneers in electronic music who combined punk ethos & industrial techniques to Dub/dancefloor music 

 

Of course I have mostly their more Dub influenced releases. 1990s In Dub was seminal in merging Dub with electronic & rave stylings. Three of the tracks are Dub reworkings of tracks from Soundclash: "Pocket Porn Dub", a remix of "Pocket Porn"; "Holgertron", a remix of "Traitor"; & "Black Eye Boy", a remix of "Blue Eyed Boy". "Recognise & Respond" is a Dub mix of the RSW single "Cocaine Sex". The remaining six tracks are new compositions for In Dub. 

 

Renegade Soundwave - In Dub, Mute 61006-2, 1990.
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Thunder
Bacteria
Deadly
Transition
Pocket Porn Dub
Women Respond to Bass
Holgertron (Holger Hiller remix)
Recognise & Respond
Transworld Siren
Black Eye Boy
The Phantom (remix)
Ozone Breakdown 90 (Uprising mix)

 

 

 

 

Carl Bonnie left in 1990, for a solo career. 

 

In 1995 the duo released The Next Chapter of Dub.

 

 

Renegade Soundwave - The Next Chapter in Dub, Mute CDSTUMM90, 1995.

Positive Mindscape    
Blastik 1    
Son of Bubbaluba    
The Man Who Wouldn't Let Wax Wane    
Where's Steve A.?    
Nightmare
The Jam Part 2    
Kurdistan
The Renegade Priest
Brixton (Audiopilot)
Turntable Terror    
A.J.'s Imbis
42nd Street Dub
Underground Chemist    
Coxy

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - R: Radical Dance Faction

 

I've shared Chris Bowsher’s Radical Dance Faction or RDF here before. 

 

I enjoy all of Chris' output but had most of it stashed away in the Musick that Needed Work folder for one reason or another. Mostly just gain issues or ID3 tags or the like, but my copy of Raggamuffin Statement was 192Kbps & I needed a better (320K) version. Here are the three that I had needing work. These are essential... 

 

Radical Dance Faction - Borderline Cases, Earth Zone EZ1CD, 1990.
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Surplus People    
Chinese Poem    
Borderline    
Rogue Trooper (live mix)    
4 Chuck Chant    
Back in the Same Place    
Riverwise    
Hot on the Wire    
Sorepoint for a Sickman    
Firepower (originally by Military Surplus)

 

 

 

On Raggamuffin Statement, tracks 1-5 are special mixes, tracks 6-11 are live tracks, & track 12 is a poem by Chris after witnessing first-hand the Hangerford massacre where 27 year old Michael Ryan shot & killed sixteen people, including an unarmed policeman, his own mother, & then himself. 

In the daily press, Chris Bowsher, 28, an acquaintance, described Ryan as "a bit of an oddball". 

 

Radical Dance Faction - Raggamuffin Statement, Inna State Records CD004DS4A, 1995

Beast in the Doorway (Sonic mix)
Dirty Old Town (Sonic mix)
Beast in the Dub (Sonic mix)
1st Dub / Martin Foran (Sonic mix)
Rogue Trooper (Genetic Infantryman mix)
Hot on the Wire
Punks with Guns
Dum Diggy (instrumental)
Babble On
Tense Dub
Go to a War
Statement (Hungerford Poem)

 

 

 

After Raggamuffin Statement the band went on hiatus, regrouping in 2006 & again in 2012. Here's a more recent release with Chris teaming up with a bunch of my favorite artists: Gaudi; Nik Turner (Hawkwind & more); Steve Cruickshank (Revolutionary Dub Warriors). This one is 2xCD, the second one being Dub mixes by Youth.

 

Radical Dance Faction - Daydream Dystopia 2xCD, Youth Sounds YS002, 2018.

CD1 -
Old Man's Eyes
Feel Dread
Lived/We Loved
What the Man Made of Stone
RU 1
Rogue Trooper
Surplus People
Riverwise III
Paris

CD2 -
Old Man's Eyes (Youth Dub mix)
Feel Dread (Youth Dub mix)
Lived/We Loved (Youth Dub mix)
What the Man Made of Stone (Youth Dub mix)
RU 1 (Youth Dub mix)
Rogue Trooper (Youth Dub mix)
Surplus People (Youth Dance mix)
Riverwise III (Youth Dub mix)
Paris (Youth Dub mix)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ