Crash Course in Crash Course...Jump Over Barrels

Mining the vein of The Normal, I give you Crash Course in Science.

Crash Course In Science are a minimal synth post punk band that formed in 1979 in Philadelphia. The band members, Dale Feliciello, Mallory Yago, & Michael Zodorozny met while attending art school. Inspired by performance art & the punk scene, they began to write quirky songs about household items, utilizing extremely rudimentary drum machines, toy instruments, & kitchen appliances augment the distorted guitar, drums and synthesized beats.

I posted their first single, Crash Course in Science - Cakes in the Home (1979) here & their 4-song 12" EP Signals from Pier Thirteen (1981) here.

I thougt everyone might like a bit more. After years without hearing from CCiS, in 2005 Mr Sam (Samuel Joël Paquet) appearred featuring the resurrected Crash Course in Science with Flying Around. Since then a slew of singles & two full-lengths (2011 & 2017) have been released.

I'm sticking with the shorts. 

 

    Mr Sam featuting Crash Course in Science - Flying Around 12",
    Black Hole Recordings Black Hole 191-5, 2005.

Side A -
Flying Around (Mojado Vision)

Side B -
Flying Around (Dimitri Andreas remix)
Flying Around (album version) 

 

 

 

Crash Course in Science - Cardboard Lamb 12", Planete Rouge Records PLR07001, 2007.

Side A -
Cardboard Lamb (Transducer mix)
Cardboard Lamb (original Club mix)

Side B -
Cardboard Lamb (Vitalic mix)
Cardboard Lamb (David Carretta mix)

 

 

 

 

 

Crash Course in Science - Flying Turns 12", From Jupiter Recordings jup05, 2009.

Side A -
Flying Turns (Terence Fixmer remix)
Flying Turns (original mix)

Side B -
Flying Turns (Danton Eeprom remix)
Flying Tirns (CCiS remix)

 

 

 

 

 

Crash Course in Science - Jump Over Barrels 12", Dark Entries DE 102, 2016.

Side A -
Jump Over Barrels
Jump Over Barrels (1981 demo)

Side B -
Jump Over Barrels (Charles Manier remix)
Jump Over Barrels (early rehearsal version)

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I said the short ones, but when I was previewing these with a friend of mine (a Crash Course in Science fan), he said it was good but his favorite has always been 2011s Near Marineland. One of my all-time faves of their, "Jump Over Barrels (remix)" is on this disc. So as per his suggestion, here goes. 

 

Crash Course in Science - Near Marineland, Schematic SCH 085, 2011.

Near Marineland    
Second Glance    
It Cost's to Be Austere    
No More Hollow Doors    
Force the Habit    
Someone Reads    
Jump Over Barrels    
Pompeii Spared    
Near Marineland (remix)    
Second Glance (remix)
Jump Over Barrels (remix)

Enjoy,
NØ

Poison Honey

Note: I haven't even had time to digest the newly arrived Horace Andy / Adrian Sherwood joint Midnight Scorchers & now The Mars Volta's latest self-titled showed up in yesterday's deliveries. You'll have to excuse me, I've got to go play with myself. Here's something sweet as a treat...neat...allreeet! 

 

Flykkiller is the brainchild of Pati Yang (Patrycja Grzymałkiewicz) & Stephen Hilton. Pati Yang is an acclaimed electronic artists from Poland, an electronic balladeer whose sirenesque tones & joy of experimentation in music have garnered her world-wide accolades. Her husband Stephen Hilton is a musical partner of David Holmes, is co-founder of The Free Association, has provided the beats behind many soundtracks (four James Bond movies, Ocean's 11, 12, & 13, Zoolander, Spiderman 2, more) & has produced albums for Pulp, Depeche Mode, & Trevor Horn. Stephen also co-wrote with Siouxsie Sioux her album Mantaray.   

Experiments in Violent Light is Flykkiller's only full length. Patti now fronts the Patti(extra t now?) Yang Group whose latest was 2019's War on Love. On EVL Pati whispers & wails enchanting songs hurled like threatening spells, each song a disturbed vignette out of a David Lynch evoking storyline. The underlying beats stutter through minimal & mechanical breaks with Electro finesse creating a synapse sizzling Electro Rock with soulful Gothic vocals & warped horror-soundtrack atmospheres.

 

Flykkiller - Experiments in Violent Light, Flykkllr Rerds FKK026, 2007.
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Flykkiller   
Peroxide   
F E A R   
Sell My Pulse   
Shine Out   
Get All Pulled Out   
Controlled Environment   
B. Murphy   
Music for I2 Sounds   
Sleepless Night   
Flykkiller (David Holmes remix) 

Pati released a top-20 Trip-hop album in 1998 when she was only eighteen years old. I'm always a sucker for more Trip-hop with female vocals. See what you think.

 

 

Pati Yang - Jaszczurka, Columbia COL 491872 2, 1998.

Si
3 Pati
Jaszczurka
Uwolnij
Aooh
Higher Perception
Underlegend
Nie Wroci
Moze Zapomni
Too Late
Empty Temple

Enjoy,
NØ

A Day Such as This

Let the drums roll. 

 

Anton Fier & - Crazy Rhythms: The Art of the Beat, NØ. Comp., 2022.

Clean Plate - The Golden Palominos
Incident on South Street - The Lounge Lizards
A Day Such as This - Pere Ubu
Sharkey’s Day
Sharkey’s Night - Laurie Anderson
Forces at Work - The Feelies
Dear Richard - Friction
Stand Gaurd - Bob Mould
The Nostalic Ache - Blind Light
Future 40s (String of Pearls) - Syd Straw
Power & Sacrifice - Swans
Rockit - Herbie Hancock
Jaguar Ride - Styrene Money
Fatty Walks - The Lounge Lizards
The Long Walk Home - Pere Ubu
Black Sheets of Rain - Bob Mould
Calvary Cross - Friction
Wid Dog Moon Pt. 2 - Kevin Kinney & the Golden Palominos
Drano in Your Veins - The Styrenes
Crazy Rhythms - The Feelies

A band is as solid as its drummer,
R.I.P Anton
NØ

Flogging...For Anton

 

I wasn't going to post up any new music until I got a response or two about my last post. However, the untimely death of drummer Anton Fier made me change my mind.

Feelies, Lounge Lizards, Pere Ubu, Golden Palominos...the list goes ever onward. One of the good ones.

The Golden Palominos - A Dead Horse, Celluloid CELCD 6138, 1989.

Wild River
Shattered Image
Angel of Death
Lucky
Darklands
A Letter Back
Over

Here the Golden Palominos are: Anton Fier - drums; Robert Kidney - guitar & vocals; Amanda Kramer - vocals; Nicky Skopelitis - guitar; Chuck Leavall - keyboards; Bernie Worrell - organ; Bill Laswell - bass; & Aiyb Dieng- percussion.

R.I.P. Anton,
NØ

Transylvanian Gris Gris

Around Casa Nada del Este lately I've been listening to all things Lil Obeah since I bought Lil Obeah - From Transylvania & Lil Obeah - In Dub. It's so hot to me right now that I so wanted to share with everyone here, but I think everyone should support the artist & buy it yourselves, so I wasn't sure what to do. Just chill & enjoy it myself. But that's not really my style. I love to share what I'm bumpin' or bangin' or groovin’ to at the moment. What to Do? 

 

Then I came across this 2+ hour mixtape from Lil Obeah hisself. I split the tracks & cut it into two parts. It contains numerous tracks from Lil Obeah's latest as well as songs that soothe his ears.

Lil Obeah (Andrei Bucureci) is a curator, musicologist, art director, & entrepreneur. He has been a vital part of various projects such as Tunesinourheads, Abator Industries, Crowd Control, Creionetica, Black Rhino Music, Black Rhino Radio & A4Activism.

Andrei recently began releasing under the moniker Lil Obeah on the Sound of Art to Come label. 

 

The Sound of Art to Come Records is a partnership started by Andrei & Cristiana Bucureci. It is a multi-faceted Transylvanian platform, publishing house, & record label, where dub, electronic & experimental artists from all over the world come together. From the depths of Romania, Andrei & Cristiana offer monthly a unique selection of works of art, collages, music, & remixes inspired by the intersection between Pop Art, multiculturalism, & horror movie soundtracks.

Lil Obeah also hosts a monthly show on Black Rhino Radio called Everyday is Halloween with sessions dedicated to Jamaican music as well as dub, reggae, & bass sounds from all over the world with a dark spooky haunting aesthetic. It may seem unusual but Everyday is Halloween focuses on the sounds that bridge the gap between pop art culture, comic books, horror movies, from both Romanian & Caribbean culture. His programs approximate imaginary Eastern EU pirate radio shows from another dimension.

This Lil Obeah Everyday is Halloween mixtape features exclusive remixes, never-heard-before original songs from the Sound of Art to Come renegade Transylvanian label, & inspirational tunes from great artist of Romania & across the globe. Fantastic selections from all the Sound of Art to Come crew, a fine smattering of Romanian guest artist, & it ends off with Denis Bovell & The Slits. What more can ya ask for in a mixtape?

Note: the tracklist with the Asymetric mp3 is not accurate. After "Le Serpent Qui Danse Dub" it veers awry & good luck figuring what the SNAFU is. I have the original 2:37:25 version if anyone wants to attempt the unravel. What I have done is compile the tracks as they are listed.

Second note: while working on this, a friend dropped by from Pittsburgh & brought my copy of Horace Andy - Midnight Scorchers which I had previously ordered from the nearest record store (90+ miles away) that was going to have it. If you don't know...continuing a series that Adrian Sherwood began with Heavy Rain, his re-working of Lee 'Scratch' Perry's Rainford album, Midnight Scorchers is both the essential sequel to Midnight Rocker as well as being a powerful stand-alone album. So I'm off on a Sherwood 'sound system' Dubplate. But please give this mixtape a listen. Powerful concept & a taste of things Lil Obeah-style for the uninitiated. Hope you enjoy. 

 

Lil Obeah presents - Everyday is Halloween mixtape, Somewhat Asymetric, 2022.

Set 1 -

Rodion G.A. - În liniștea nopții
Mad Professor - The Coming of the Obeah Man
Lil Obeah meets Dub Colossus - Tăcerea
Lil Obeah meets Dub Colossus - Vraja
Lil Obeah meets Marius Costache - Oamenii-Constața Vlad Velcov
Transglobal Underground meets Cristiana Bucureci – Interior
Transglobal Underground meets Raphaëlle Von Glitz - Le Serpent Qui Danse Dub
Oigăn & Ana Ularu - Meteorologie (Lil Obeah x Marius Costache remix)
Bălănescu Quartet – Model
Prince Fatty meets Cristiana Bucureci - Model (Lil Obeah & Marius Costache remix)
Lil Obeah meets Marius Costache - Titan Dub
Positivie Thursdays meets Lil Obeah - Cetățeanul Zombie
Positive Thursdays - Citizen Zombie (Peter Harris - Marius Costache rework)
Lil Obeah & Marius Costache - Everyday is Halloween

Set 2 -

Lil Obeah meets Marius Costache - Fearless Vampire Killers
Mircea Baniciu - Mașina timpului
Lil Obeah meets Transglobal Underground - Timpul (Time)
Mircea Florian - Întoarcere în cerc
Crowd Control & Alien Pimp - Return to Circle
Valeriu Sterian - Axioma copiilor
Lil Obeah meets Transglobal Underground - Copii (Children)
Adrian Enescu - Autostrada (Highway)
Adda Kaleh - Player Karma
Dub Pistols & Rhoda Dakar - Stand Together (the Dead Don't Die) [Lil Obeah & Marius Costache remix]
Ana Maria Irimia meets Marius Costache – Urma Dub
Ebony Bones – Police & Thieves
Dennis Bovell – Zombie Zones
The Slits – Partner from Hell

Enjoy,
NØ

Are You Paranoid??? Nearly??? 60%??? 70%???

This here mess is dredged from the twisted minds of Mancunian CP Lee (of Albertos y los Trios Paranoias) & Liverpool musician, music arranger, songwriter, producer, & visual artist John Scott. 

This may be the music you were never meant to hear.

In the decaying days of the 1970s, the situationist-indebted masked art-rock studio duo Gerry & the Holograms began their reign of sarcasm. Their sound arose from the electronic embers of Albertos y los TP via Vertigo commissioned prog & experimental theatre. It was then refined through the musical mind behind the most inspired vinyl moments of Martin 'Zero' Hannett, John Cooper Clarke, & Jilted John. This is the only music of this anti–band, alleged to be the most idiosyncratic, enigmatic post–punk artifact of our time. 

 

During the tenure of these art-crazies, they only released two singles on Absurd Records in 1979. Their first single Meet the Dissidents, Absurd Records ABSURD 4 contained the two tracks "GATH" & "Increased Resistance". Both songs are found here on this "Lost 1979 L.P. by Mancunian D.I.Y Sarcastic Synth-Pop Anonimites" as well as the previously unplayable "Emporer's New Music" & much more.

 

Their second single, The Emperor's New Music, Absurd Records ABSURD 5 contained the song "The Emperor's New Music". At the time of its release, the record was a favorite of Frank Zappa's. It was in fact a conceptual but unplayable record. Each record was pasted with glue to the inside of the picture sleeve. Absurd Records label boss Lawrence Beedle said, "It took the best part of a week to paint & glue them into the bags". 

 

Gerry & the Holograms - G.A.T.H., Finders Keepers Records Cache018LP, 2017.
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Gerry & the Holograms    
Tubular Belles    
Curiosity Killed the Gath    
Fake Moon    
The 43    
Increased Resistance    
Jeep    
The Emperor's New Music    
Just Desserts    
Space Invaders    
Gerry & the Holograms (alternative 1979 Drumbox version)

 

 

 

 

In 1982 Gerry & the Holograms reappeared alongside noted British free jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill & an unnamed female vocalist as 48 Chairs. 70% Paranoid is a rare album that parallels New York City's No-wave scene of about the same time.

With special thanks to the legendary massed Digswell Pipers led by pipe major Hawn Rondeaux. 

 

48 Chairs - 70% Paranoid, Relentless Records R102, 1982.

Side A -
Snap it Around
Samouri Swords
Camaracadabra
Rhino Whip
Relentless

Side B -
You Were Never There
Psycle Sluts
Discolero
Too Nice for Nigel
Snap it Around (version)

Enjoy,
NØ

People Forget

Antemasque is a burlesque & grotesque dance performed before or between the acts of the real show, the royal fete; it is a true spectacle of disorder handled by seasoned professionals. 

 

Here's some post-Mars Volta Antemasque with: Cedric Bixler-Zavala - lead vocals; Omar Rodríguez-López - guitar; Flea - bass; & David Elitch - drums. 

Only around for about a year (2014 -2015), with Omar's brother Marfred Rodríguez-López - bass & Travis Barker - drums while touring. This is their only full-length, with a single & a four-song CD EP. 

 

Antemasque - Antemasque, Nadie Sound 01CD, 2014.
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4AM
I Got no Remorse
Ride like the Devil’s Son
In the Lurch
50,000 Kilowatts
Memento Mori
Drown All Your Witches
Providence
People Forget
Rome Armed to the Teeth

Expect a new Mars Volta album in 4 days (September 16, 2022)!

Enjoy,
NØ

Prompted by Other Blogs, Part 2

I'm always cruising around the interweb, looking for interesting music on various blogs. I'll see or hear something out there that sets me on a path, a new musical journey. 

 

This time I was drawn to a posting on myvinyldreams. There you'll mostly find 80s/90s vinyl (usually singles & EPs) with all the extra tracks & remixes that come with the singles releases. 

 

DJjedredy (Primary School teacher in Manchester. Vinyl junkie & 80s nostalgia freak) posted X Mal Deutschland - Sickle Moon 12" single. Get it here. Always a big fan of XMD, so I thought maybe I'd post up their singles from their first, Schwarze Welt 7" from 1981 up to Sickle Moon. 

 

Xmal Deutschland - Schwarze Welt 7", Zickzack ZZ 31, 1981.

Side 1 -
Scwarze Welt

Side 2 -
Wolken
Großstadtindianer

 

 

 

X Mal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus 12", Zickzack ZZ 110, 1982.

Seite 1 -
Incubus Succubus

Seite 2 -
Zu Jung zu Alt
Blut ist Liebe

 

 

 

X Mal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus II 7", 4AD AS 311, 1983.

Over -
Incubus Succubus II

This Side -
Vito

 

 

 

X Mal Deutschland - Qual 12", 4AD BAD 305, 1983.

Over -
Qual (12“ remix)

This Side -
Zeit
Sehnsucht

 

 

 

X Mal Deutschland Reigen / Eiland 7", DRO 094, 1984

Side A -
Reigen

Side B -
Eiland

 

 

 

Xmal Deutschland - Sequenz 12", Red Rhino Europe RRET 1, 1985.

Side a -
Jahr um Jahr II

Side b -
Autumn
Polarlicht

 

 

 

X Mal Deutschland - Matador 12", Xile XMAL 112, 1986.

Side 45.a -
Matador (12“ remix)

Side 45.b -
Paho
4

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Prompted by Other Blogs, Part 1

I'm always cruising around the interweb, looking for interesting music. I'll see or hear something out there that sets me on a path, a new musical journey.

I frequent Holland Tunnel Dive multiple times a week. It is a treasure trove of rare or hard to find oddities, just what I'm always looking for in my music searches. 

 

This past Tuesday Jillem posted a compilation of Bristol, England bands issued by Emotinal Rescue who teammed up with Bristol Archive Records to showcase some Dub / Funk/ Afro sounds that had originally been released on Recreatinal Records label in 1981-82. Check it out.

Three of the four songs ever released by Scream & Dance are on the compilation. They were a band similar to one of my other favorites of that time, style, & region...Glaxo Babies. A great find. On the same comp were two songs from the band Talisman that I used to enjoy that had completely fallen off of my radar. 

 

Talisman is a great roots rock band that are still active today. Me being a Dub fan, I have compiled a number of their Dub tracks for your enjoyment. Thanks Holland Tunnel Dive for sparking my memory. 

 

Talisman - Takin’ the I-surrection Fyah, NØ Comp., 2022.

Greetings & Dubutations
Hey Yout’ (Oldwah Dub)
Dub Yourself
Revolutionary Dub
Things ah Dub
Walk with the Rastaman (Dub)
You Can Cry if You Wanna (Dub)
Wheel & Dub Again
Season for Dub
Don’t Play with Dub
Racism Never Dub
Praise Dub

Enjoy,
NØ

Who Can Predict the Weather?

 

 

By request... 

 

 

The Weather Prophets was formed in 1986 by Peter Astor - guitar & vocals & Dave Morgan - drums when their previous band, The Loft, broke up. The original line-up had Creation Records head-honcho Alan McGee playing bass, but he became their manager when Astor & Morgan recruited David Greenwood Goulding - bass & Oisin Little - guitar to complete the line up. 

 

The Singles.

Their debut single Almost Prayed was released by Creation shortly after their formation. 

 

The Weather Prophets - Almost Prayed 12", Creation Records CRE 029 T, 1986.

Side A -
Almost Prayed
Your Heartbeat Breathes the Life into Me

Side B -
Like Frankie Lymon
Wide Open Arms

 

 

 

The songs on Almost Prayed seemed to be a logical progression of The Loft style so the response was favorable from both Loft fans & music critics. A second single was quickly released by Creation that same year.

 

 

The Weather Prophets - Naked as the Day You Were Born 12", Creation Records CRE 031 T, 1986.

Side A -
Naked as the Day You Were Born

Side B -
In My Room
Worst Friend I Ever Had

 

 

 

The Weather Prophets - Why Does the Rain 12", Elevation ACID 2T, 1987.

Side One -
Why Does the Rain
Midnight Mile

Side Two -
Mayflower (BBC session)
Annalea

 

 

 

The Weather Prophets - She Comes from the Rain 12", Elevation ACID 1TX, 1987.

Side One -
She Comes from the Rain
Wide Open Arms

Side Two -
You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie
Who by Fire

 

 

 

The Weather Prophets - Always the Light 12", Creation Records CRE 056 T, 1988.

Side One - Always the Light

Side Two -
Blue Rooftop
Hill House
Somersaults

 

 

 

 

The Weather Prophets - Hollow Heart 12", Creation Records CRE 54T, 1988.

Side One -
Hollow Heart
Joe Shmo & the Eskimo

Side Two -
Sleeping When the Sun Comes Up
Chinese Cadillac

Enjoy,
NØ

Help One of the Good Ones

 

I just learned from Music*Hertz blog that iconic bass player / producer Bill Laswell is in need of help from his fans, friends, & fellow artists. 

A note from Bill, titled "Entering the 2nd phase of Sacred Begging: EMERGENCY" included details of Laswell's difficulties over the pandemic with preexisting health conditions, his recent eviction from his Manhattan home, & his struggle to hold on to the lease of his legendary New Jersey studio, Orange Music. 

A GoFundMe (see link below) campaign is set up & has been receiving tremendous support from Bill's global network of fans responding with an outpouring of love & support. If you cherish this man as I do, help out, as I have.

 

Read "Translations in Dub: A Conversation with Bill Laswell" for an in-depth & intimate visit with the man himself.

& you can donate to Bill Laswell's GoFundMe.

Enjoy "Baron Samedi"...the first track from Bill Laswell, Mick Harris, & Eraldo Bernocchi:

Equations of Eternity - Vevè, WordSound WSCD028, 1998.

Please do what's right,
NØ

Brief Return to Roseland

On this Labor Day holiday, a true labor of love, from Joe & the tribe...

Here’s one I forgot. 

 

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Live at Roseland Ballroom, November 23, 1999.

Safe European Home
Yalla Yalla
Rudie Can’t Fail
Tony Adams
White Man in Hammersmith Palais
London Calling
Tommy Gun
X-Ray Style
White Riot

Enjoy,
NØ

Night Trippin'

Been a big fan of Mac Rebennack since I first heard Gris Gris back in 1968. Loyal to this day, but nothing ever really touched me in the same way as that album. Well, here's more of what I love from Dr.John. 

 

Dr. John - Gris Gris II

Witchy Red
Kiya Gris Gris
John Gris
I Like Ki Yoka
Bruha Bembe
Marie Laveau
Dream Warrior
City that Care Forgot
Tribal 

Here are a few more. 

Dr. John - Mo’ Gris Gris

Loop Garou
Party Hellfire
Craney Crow
Zu Zu Mamou
I Been HooDoo'd
Party Hellfire (Lynchmob Dub mix)

Enjoy,
NØ