Let's Do the Time Warp Again

This release is the result of Island Records finally reissuing Sly & Robbie's long out-of-print Raiders of the Lost Dub. To celebrate the occassion in the proper manner, they added another album's worth of "New School" Dub from the likes of Mad Professor, Jah Shaka, Dub Syndicate, Alpha & Omega.

The old school Dub such as Sly & Robbie's dubbed-up versions of Balck Uhuru & the Viceroys riddims seem equally matched to material such as Alpha & Omega's "One Prayer" & "Rastafari" or Dub Syndicate's "What Happened?".  It is a masterful juxtaposition between old-school rhythms & new-school technology. This is a listener's handbook on the essential of Dub old & new. 

 

Various - Time Warp Dub Clash - Old School Vs. New School, Island Jamaica 162-539 954-2, 1993.
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Old School (Raiders of the Lost Dub, Sly & Robbie, 1981) -

Indiana James (Man Next Door riddim) - The Paragons
Whip that Tarantula (Moulding riddim) - Ijahman
The Monkey is a Spy (Sensemilla riddim) - Black Uhuru
Pit of Snakes (Social Living riddim) - Burning Spear
Well of Souls (Feel the Spirit riddim) - Wailing Souls
The Dub of Gold (Heart Made of Stone riddim) - The Viceroys
Who's in the Tomb (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner riddim) - Black Uhuru
Convoy Hijack (Sponji Reggae riddim) - Black Uhuru
Bazooka Blast (Fort Augustus riddim) - Junior Delgado
Fire & Brimstone (Journey riddim) - Black Uhuru

New School (compiled by Don Letts) -

Dub So Hard - Mad Professor
Absentee - Manasseh
Smiling Dub - Jah Shaka
One Prayer - Alpha & Omega
Zulu Warrior - Mixman
Kumbia Dub - Jah Shaka
Warrior Dance - Mixman
Rastafari - Alpha & Omega
What Happened ? - Dub Syndicate

Praise Jah,
NØ

Let’s Just Go Dutch

 

Dutch was a short-lived trip-hop duo from USA featuring Kevin Baldwin & Liz Fullerton harkening back to the halcyon days of Portishead, Massive Attack, Hooverphonic, or the dizzy mixes of Kruder & Dorfmeister. Expertly produced & arranged, the voice of Liz is haunting, eerie, yet honest.

Kevin may be familiar to some as Jedi Mind Trick's producer DJ Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind. While Jedi Mind Trick's music is perfect for blasting in your car, Dutch is music for lazy Sunday afternoons. DJ Stoupe has been collaborating with Liz since 2007, when Fullerton lent backing vocals to "Razorblade Salvation" on JMT's Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell album.

That led to this project between producer & singer called Dutch. Their debut LP, A Bright Cold Day blends swooning pop with a darker mix of trip-hop. Stoupe shows the same flair for production that he does on JMT's records, with crackly audio samples & seductive beats but here he uses strings & horns to form something more intimately romantic.Although he takes plenty of opportunities to shine, the work largely provides a framework for Liz Fullerton's silky voice. 

 

Dutch - A Bright Cold Day, Enemy Soil ES-1001, 2010.
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Intro
Just Before the Rain
Pearls
2,000 Leagues Under My Keyboard
Warm like the Wind
Charlotte
California Cloaked in Wool
Tristessa
Cerulean
Beyond All Walking
Meaning of Unequipped
Shoe (outro)

 

 

 

 

For a bonus, here are some remixes of  six songs from A Bright Cold Day from Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind own label. 

 

Dutch - The Wind Remixes, Badtape Music, 2013.

Charlotte
Tristessa
Pearls
Wind
2000
California

Enjoy,
NØ

MF'n M

 

If you listen to Ambient to any extent, you might be aware of the Music From Memory label. They have been turning out excellent product since their inception. To celebrate their 50th release, they began the Virtual Dreams series of compilations with Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997.

This is the perfect entrance to their releases. The selections, the mastering, & the presentation are all on-point.

Virtual Dreams delves into music produced during the 1990s that redefined the boundaries of 'Ambient'. This is music created mainly by House & Techno producers, created for clubbers, but for a world beyond dance floors. House & Techno exposed millions of late 80s young people to the life-changing ups of a new world. However, with the ups of course came the downs. This ushered in the concept of a 'Chill-out' room. Early Chill-out rooms were usually sound-tracked by music such as reggae & soul. Then creative young Techno & House producers began developing a futuristic 'Ambient' sound for a world beyond the thud of the main room.

Unlike Brian Eno's Music for Airports, for example, Ambient in this new age had much sharper teeth. The soundscapes steered away from the pastoral & often portrayed outer-space & technology as opening up transformative new dimensions, exploring psychedelic, mind-altering, & transcendental possibilities of music. These were the Virtual Dreams of a new world. 

 

Various - Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations in the House & Techno Age, 1993-1997 2xCD,
Music from Memory MFM050, 2020.
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CD1 -
Birds & Flutes - MLO
Isolation (Part Two) - Pulusha
Rainful Memories - MDA Analog
Fluresence - Space Time Continuum
Sergio Leone's Wet Dream - David Moufang
Frozen Tundra Dub - LA Synthesis
Oneski - Richard H. Kirk
The Calling (Loved'Ub mix) - A Positive Life

CD2 -
Mare Nostrum - Sideral
Levitation - The Primitive Painter
Love 2 Love - Sun Electric
Helen - LFO
Sunshine's Theme (Sunshine's remix) - Dubtribe Sound System
∞ (Infinity) - Human Mesh Dance
Arcadian (Global Communication remix) - Link
Orphic Mysteries - The Arc
Joyriding III - Bedouin Ascent

Enjoy,
NØ

Thirsting for Blood

 

One year ago today I featured Wendy O Williams & the Plasmatics.
 

In a comment, Neil Dawson sez: "Will you ever do an entry on the Bloodthirsty Butchers?"

In response, I sez: "Neil, I will add the Bloodthirsty Butchers to my to-do list. Just to let you know, that list is hella long but I do try to get to everything eventually (however long that should be)."

I also added that I don't know all that much about Japanese bands. 

Bloodthirsty Butchers are a indie / punk band from Sapporo, Japan. They formed in 1986. Although well known in Japan, they are much less known in the West. 

I first heard them on the Periscope compilation from Pat Maley of Olympia, WA Yoyo Studios. I posted Periscope here.

They started off Side B of that album with "I Hate You". They had a song "Lost in Time" on the following Yoyo a Go Go comp.

Bloodthirsty Butchers was: Hideki Yoshimura - vocals & guitar; Hisako Tabuchi (ex-Number Girl) - additional guitar from 2003; Takeshi Imoriya - bass; & Masahiro Komatsu - drums.

 

Hideki Yoshimura died of acute cardiac failure May 27, 2013 & that was the end of the Butchers.

The band's earliest sound is free-form punk based around loose jams through long, meandering songs with shouted vocals. 1996s release Kocorono (their fourth) largely redefined the Butchers' sound into more conventional alternative rock with a more introspective style with wandering guitar & melodic bass. 2003s Kouya ni Okeru found the Bloodthirsty Butchers further evolving their sound with shorter, more accessible songs that had a brighter mood than much of their previous material. With the addition of Hisako Tabuchi, the band further evolved towards tighter song structures on Banging the Drum & Guitarist wo Korosanaide.

Let's start with their first demo cassette.

 

Bloodthirsty Butchers - 1st Demo Cassette, BTSC, 1987.
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Swimming Eyes
ラリホ
Never Give Up
Low Life
目を覚ませと呼ぶ声が聞こえ 

 

 

Next, some live tracks prior to their first full-length (though not released until post-BB).

Bloodthirsty Butchers - Live 1986-1990, King Records KIZB-213, 2015

Run on the Road
I Don’t Wanna Be Alone Tonight
Blowin’ in the Wind
For You
Looking Outside
目を覚ませと呼ぶ声が聞こえ
Fight! You! Never Die!
Unknown
Let’s Start
Swimming Eyes
ラリホー
Never Give Up
Cowboy
Wake Up
ラ・ラ・ラ
More Than Fight! Marching On!
Ready Steady Go 

 

 

 

Now their first album.

 

Bloodthirsty Butchers - Bloodthirsty Butchers, B.S.P. Project BSP-005, 1990.

She's Break
I'm on Fire
Drop Out
I'm Blue 

Silencer

AM 6:00
Your Sad Story
Clash! Sky!

 

 

 

 

A split with Rocket from the Crypt.

 

Rocket from the Crypt / Bloodthirsty Butchers – Cut it Loose/Water split 2x7",
Bacteria Sour SOUR 2-V, 1994.

RftC Side A -
Cut it Loose

RftC Side B -
On Living & Dying
Pressures On

BB Side A -
Water

BB Side B -
Alligator
Raven

 

 

 

 

Bloodthirsty Butchers - kocorono, Bellwood Records KICS 587, 1996.

February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
7:19 of dead air
tracks 13 - 74 (4 second sound bites)

bonus track – I assembled the 61 segments to hear the song uninterrupted
bonus bonus – Kocorono (from 2016 reissue)

 

 

 

 

Bloodthirsty Butchers - Banging the Drum, Columbia Music Entertainment COCP 50847, 2005.

序章
B2
サンザン
ゴキゲンイカガ
This is Music
YAMAHA-1
Maruzen House
プラス
マイナス
No. 6
Banging the Drum

 

 

 

 

& the last official BB release... 

 

 

Bloodthirsty Butchers – Youth(青春), King Records KICS-1967, 2013.

レクイエム
コリないメンメン
デストロイヤー
ディストーション
サイダー
Techno! Chidoriashi
Goth
ハレルヤ
Youth
アンニュイ

Enjoy,
NØ

Aaaah! Single Again

 

I was looking through some older music & came across The Jesus & Mary Chain - 21 Singles. I thought I had more than that so I went searching. I was surprised at the outcome. I guess I had collected everything but the Live At The Fox Theatre In Detroit 3-song single that was available only at the opening of Third Man Records London on September 25th 2021. Other than that, I think I counted 31 singles over the course, which are presented here in four parts...89 tracks in all (note:if the same version of a certain song was on more than one single, I only used it once).

Here, for the one & only time, The Jesus & Mary Chain... 

 

The Jesus & Mary Chain - 89 Singles tracks, NØ Comp., 2023.
all decryption codes in comments

 

PART I -
1
          Upside Down
          Vegetable Man - 1984
2
          You Trip Me Up
          Just Out of Reach
          Boyfriend's Dead - 1985
3
          Never Understand
          Suck
          Ambition - 1985
4
          Just Like Honey
          Head
          Cracked
          Just Like Honey (demo - Oct. 84) - 1985
5
          Some Candy Talking
          Psychocandy
          Hit - 1986
6
          Darklands
          Rider
          Surfin' USA (April outtake)
          On the Wall (Porta Studio demo) - 1987
7
          Happy When it Rains (long version)
          Everything's Alright when You're Down      
          Happy Place
          F Hole - 1987

 

 

PART II -
8
          April Skies (long version)
          Kill Surf City       
          Who Do You Love - 1987
9
          Bo Diddley is Jesus
          Mushroom - 1987
10
          Surfin' USA (summer mix) - 1988
11
          Sidewalking (extended version)
          Sidewalking
          Taste of Cindy (recorded live in Detroit)
          April Skies (recorded live in Detroit) - 1988
12
          Blues from a Gun
          Shimmer
          Penetration
          Subway - 1989
13
          Head On
          In the Black
          Terminal Beach - 1989
14
          Her Way of Praying (LP version) - 1989
15
          Rollercoaster
          Silverblade
          Lowlife
          Tower of Song - 1990

 

PART III -
16
          Inside Me (Peel sessions)
          The Living End (Peel sessions)
          Just Like Honey (Peel sessions)
          Fall (Peel sessions)
          Happy Place (Peel sessions)
          In the Rain [about You] (Peel sessions) - 1991
17
          Reverence
          Heat
          Reverence (radio mix)    
          Guitarman - 1992
18
          Almost Gold
          Teenage Lust (acoustic version)
          Reverberation (Doubt)
          Don't Come Down - 1992
19
          Far Gone & Out
          Sometimes
          Why’d You Want Me? - 1992
20
          The Hardest Walk (live)
          Fall (live)
          Nine Million Rainy Days (live) -1992
21
          Snakedriver
          Something I Can't Have
          Write Records Release Blues    
          Little Red Rooster - 1993

 

PART IV -
22
          Sometimes Always
          The Perfect Crime
          Little Stars
          Drop-Re-Recorded - 1994
23
          Come On
          I'm In With the Out Crowd - 1994
24
          I Hate Rock 'N' Roll
          Bleed Me
          331/3
          Lost Star - 1995
25
          Iloverocknroll
          Nineteen666 - 1998
26
          Cracking Up
          Rocket - 1998
27
          Birthday
          Hide Myself - 1998
28
          All Things Must Pass - 2012
29
          Amputation - 2016
30
          The Two of Us (radio edit) - 2017
31
          Ono Yoko - 2021

Enjoy,
NØ

San Liya

 

Ilya is a Bristol, UK based duo, composed of singer Joanna Swan & songwriter-guitarist Nick Pullin. On their debut album They Died from Beauty, Swan & Pullin team up with producer/bassist Dan Brown. They gently kneads dramatic John Barry strings with sun kissed acoustics, crisp flattened beats, & smoky aromatic vocals to touch the heart. It's distinctive jazzy, Mediterranean feel is a sonic ray of warmth. Joanna Swan's voice seems captured from the 50s & caged in an entirely modern surrounding without the slightest glitch. A torch-singer from a golden era wrapped in the titanium truths of today & tomorrow.

Ilya - They Died for Beauty, Virgin 0724359576824, 2003.
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Bellissimo
Quattra Neon
Bliss
Heavenly
Soleil Soleil
Pretty Baby
All for Melody
Happy & Weak
They Died for Beauty

bonus track - Asleep at the Wheel (from The Revelation EP) 

 

 

 

Although a really fine freshman release that garnered wide critical acclaim, album sales were not great enough for Virgin to continue on with another outing. Perhaps the debut they released made promises they couldn't quite keep, but their second, Somerset, fulfills their prophecies & more, meeting their most far-fetched expectations, thrillingly going even further. Somerset is a devastatingly beautiful album

Ilya - Somerset, Ilya self-released, 2006.

September Rendezvous
In the Valley
Falling Everywhere
Wonderful
Airborne
We Shone
Winter in Vienna
The Last Castrato
Glory
Juanita
Sleepwalking
Still You Can't Say No

 

 

 

& here is a hard-to-come-by grabbag of songs created to help lighten the dreariness of the Covid lockdown.

 

Ilya - Love in the Time of Corona, Ilya self-released, 2020.

Before the Morning Rose
Lake
Call My Name
The Constancy of Water
Unbroken
The Last Castrato
The Memory
Jamais
Brealthrough

Enjoy,
NØ

You Can Drive My Car

The year was 1981. 

 

The first itteration of Mutant Disco was released in the Netherlands on Ariola Benelux label. It contained 6 tracks: Coati Mundi -  ''Pasa / Me No Pop I''; Gichy Dan - ''Cowboys & Gangsters''; Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band - ''Deputy of Love''; Kid Creole & the Coconuts - ''Maladie D'Amour''; Material - ''Bustin' Out'' (featuring Nona Hendryx); & Was (Not Was) - ''Out Come The Freaks''. 

It was released in Germany on Ze Records & Island in the same format. 

Island released it on a single sided cassette in the UK but replaced the Was (Not Was) track with another of their songs, ''Wheel Me Out''. 

Ze Records & Island decided to release a 3x12'' box set in the UK with the new track.

Fast forward to 2003 & skip across the Channel to France. Ze Records releases this version. Now the original 6 (several remixed), the additional ''Wheel Me Out'' remixed, & now, as if by (disco)magic...16 more tracks??? 

 

Various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Discolation of the Norm, ZE Records ZEREC CD02, 2003.
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CD 1 -
Wheel Me Out (remix version) - Was (Not Was)
Bustin' Out - Material & Nona Hendryx
Drive My Car - Cristina
Annie I'm Not Your Daddy (remix version) - Kid Creole & the Coconuts
Emile (Night Rate) - Aural Exciters
Contort Yourself - James White & the Blacks
Funky Stuff - Lizzy Mercier Descloux
French Boy - Garçons
Deputy of Love - Don Armando's 2nd Ave. Rhumba Band featuring Fonda Rae
Cowboys & Gangsters - Gichy Dan
Blame it on Disco - Cristina
Encore L'Amore (unreleased Italian version) - Garçons

CD 2 -
Disco Clone - Cristina
Que Pasa / Me No Pop I - Coati Mundi
I'm a Wonderful Thing Baby (remix version) - Kid Creole & the Coconuts
Out Come The Freaks (remix version) - Was (Not Was)
Fire - Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Spooks in Space (Disco mix) - Aural Exciters
Tell Me That I'm Dreaming - Was (Not Was)
Narcissique - Caroline Loeb
I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses
Mission Impossible - Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Re Bop Electronic - Garçons
French Boy (Disco Edit) - Garçons
Faites Le Proton - Casino Music

Enjoy,
NØ

Repair Job

 

Fifteen years ago I posted up Jerry Teel & cohorts in a sprawling post that, including links in comments, covered a great deal of Honeymoon Killers output.  Yesterday I spotted a folder labeled "closed for repairs". Along with 1000 Mexicans' Dance like Ammunition & The Last Pop Song, Brasil & the Gallowbrothers' Wander 'til Spring & In the Rain in the Noise, was Honeymoon Killers - Love American Style & Take It Off!.

Still as vital as last I featured them, still as vital as the day they laid it down. This is rock, American style. Let's take off.

On these two, Honeymoon Killers is: Jerry Teel - guitar, harmonica, & vocals; Lisa Wells - bass & vocals; & Sally Edroso - drums & vocals. 

 

Honeymoon Killers - Love American Style, Fur Records FUR2, 1985.
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Side A -

Night After Night
Wee Dawgees
Boon Like I LIke It

Side B -

Batman
Pain is Easy
Good 'N' Cheap
Motor City
Here We All Are 

 

 

 

This one's worth it for their version of "Hanky Panky" alone & that's not nearly the best tune here. 

 

Honeymoon Killers - Take It Off!, Buy Our Records Europe BORE 8901/CD, 1989.

Love Bandit
Hard Life
I'm Glad My Baby's Gone
Hanky Panky
Smotherly Love
Too Much!
The Sexorcist
Dazed 'N' Hazey

One of my favorite bands,
NØ

Prompted by Other Blogs, Part 9

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.

Sometimes I search high & low for something new that grabs my ear. Then sometimes I get lucky. Here's another prompt, the first of its kind...a two-fer. 

 

 

First, friend jonder over at Jonderblog posted a Pere Ubu/David Thomas/Rocket from the Tombs sampler 2002 - 2020 & word of a new Pere Ubu release Trouble on Big Beat Street coming in May 2023.

 

 

Then over at The Good Old Major's Hole, SteveShark featured Gypsy Blood, the second Doll by Doll release from Jackie Leven & crew.

Here's something you might enjoy that hits both nails on the head... 

 

Jackie Leven with David Thomas - Creatures of Light & Darkness
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD 213, 2001.

My Spanish Dad
Exit Wound
The Sexual Loneliness of Jesus Christ
Hidden World of She
Billy ate My Pocket
Rainy Day Bergen Woman
Friendship Between Men & Women
Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Washing ny Hand
Wrapped up in Blue

 

 

Then to make this more incestuous, jonder commented at The Good Old Major's Hole: "He (Jackie Leven) collaborated with David Thomas of Pere Ubu" as Ubudoll (live at L' Hotel du Nord, Paris May 17 & 18, 1999.

Leven & Thomas met on the south coast of England in 1996, recognizing a musical kinship. They are road-travellers, collectors of funny, tragic, dangerous, often true, always real, human tales. They are natural born storytellers, equally at ease with either song or spoken word. They recognized each other as soul mates, yet they are each loners, uncompromising, dedicated to unique vision. It is this magnetic tension of opposition & attraction that makes for such a compelling performance. 

 

Have a go at this... 

 

David Thomas & Jackie Leven - Ubudoll live, L’ Hotel du Nord, 1999.

Lost Nation Road
Cry Cry Cry
Morbid Sky
Working Alone / A Blessing
I am Working Now
Man in the Dark
What Happened to Me (French version)
Down by the River
Life of Riley
Bus Called Happiness
Kathleen
Brunswick Parking Lot

Enjoy,
NØ

Prompted by Other Blogs, Part 8

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. 

The other day I was checking out the latest from Bleak Bliss.

 

Badgerstump has posted much Sun City Girls & related items over the years. Recently he posted Horse Cock Phepner. Even more recently the rare, scarce & saught-after SCG self-titled.

 

 

Being a SCG fanman, I have shared Sun City Girls & related items here as well: Kaliflower; The Girls of Sun City comp; Alvarius B. 

Bleak Bliss's recent posts made me think of one of my favorite SCG's album, Midnight Cowboys from Ipanema. That was the first thing from the Girls that I posted around here...May 2008. 

It's an insane combination of short snippets of avant-poetry & cover songs.  "Love Train".  "Radar Love".  "Me & Mrs. Jones".  The cover sez: THE HIT SOUND THAT MADE THESE GREAT SONGS GREAT!  It's kinda SCG's Third Reich 'n' Roll. 

March Madness. 

The original posting was hosted on Megaupload, Kim DotCom's Big Brother kidnapped cloud. I am remedying the fact it is no longer available there by presenting a new rip & link. If you want to read what I said at the time, go here.

 

Sun City Girls - Midnight Cowboys from Ipanema, Amarillo Records AM-587, 1994.
decryption code in comments

Side 1-
I've Done It All
Fly By Night
Achram, Slow That Speedboat Down
Midnight At The Oasis
Gary Had Sex
Sweet City Woman
I'm Gonna Die Tomorrow
Who's That Lady
Cook Ya Homos
Love Train
Caco Demons

Side 2 -
Malika
Radar Love
Canadian Dave
Tell Me Something Good
Desperado
Me And Mrs. Jones
Ha Ha

Enjoy,
NØ

Let the Madness Commence

 

Creeping Pink is a 'tape glam' project by multi-instrumentalist Landon Caldwell. 

Along with Mark Tester on guitar & Amy Crouch on drums, Landon played bass in the now defunct Indiana bred/California based garage-psych band Burnt Ones.

For the last decade he has released warped, psychedelic pop under the ever-evolving Creeping Pink moniker. Originally based in Indianapolis, Caldwell began recording damaged electronic psych-rock under the name Bad Magick, quickly changing the project name to Creeping Pink. Caldwell relocated to San Francisco, then eventually Los Angeles, releasing numerous tapes & digital releases along the way. He would occasionally play live as Creeping Pink Machine with members of Burnt Ones & POW!

The release here is a 2013 Record Day exclusive on cassette, not available on CP's bandcamp page. Let's get creepy. 

 

Creeping Pink - Creeping Pink’s Never Never Land / Tee Creeping Pink Sound cassette,
Glory Hole Records GHR004, 2013.
decryption code in comments

Side A -
The Black Tide
Prince Ray
To the Lite Side
Nyquility
Star Story
Candy Crows
Sle71 (Flies Thru Clouds)
Samuel Nelson Lambert
Hash Dream Mountain, California
Sun & Air

Side B -
Take Me to Space
Hidden in a Haze of Blue
One
Candy Feather Hearts
Uterine Hunger
Clown's Parade

Enjoy,
NØ

UniBoehmer Request - Part 2 (with bonus Ex) - Madness Next

 

Another of the bands I had been considering for a Glasgow noise post,  Dog Faced Hermans were in fact from Edinburgh. They later relocated to Amsterdam. They were active between 1986 & 1995.

Here's what I've got...

 

Dog Faced Hermans - Unbend, Demon Radge Records RADGE 1, 1987.
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This -
Cruelty
Incineration

That -
Catbrain Walk

 

 

 

 

Dog Faced Hermans - Too Much for the Red Ticker 7", Konkurrel K 044/129, 1990

Too Much for the Red Ticker b/w Time Bomb

 

 

 

 

 

Dog Faced Hermans - At The Ancienne Chocolaterie cassette, Demon Radge Records, 1991.

Side A -
Suppressa
Ballad about Bhopal
From the Top of the Mountain
Fortune

SideB -
Astronaut
Waiting for Their Waters to Be Stirred
The Running Man
Body Strategic

 

 

 

 

 

Dog Faced Hermans - Hum of Life, Konkurrel K 147c, 1993.

Jan 9
Viva
The Hook & the Wire
How We Connect
Love Split with Blood (music by 8 Eyed Spy & words by Lydia Lunch)
Wings
White Indians
Hear the Dogs
Love is the Heart of Everything
Madame La Mer
Peace Warriors (music by Ornette Coleman)

 

 

 

 

 

Dog Faced Hermans - Those Deep Buds, Alternative Tentacles VIRUS 151CD, 1994.

Blessed are the Follies
Volkswagen
Keep Your Laws / Off My Body
Lie & Swell
H Tribe
Human Spark
Les Femmes et les Filles Vont Danser
Virginia Fur
Calley
Dream Forever

 

 

 

 

 

Now for an extra treat. Treat is a split cassette release from Dog Faced Hermans & The Ex, one side per band recorded live in Holland, Germany, & Switzerland on Ex/DFH Tour in September 1989.

 

 

Dog Faced Hermans & The Ex - Treat cassette, Convulsion Cassettes, 1990.

Dog Faced Hermans Side B -
New Shoots
Confrontation
Beautiful
Supressa
Bella Ciao
Too Much for the Red Ticker
Timebomb
Mary Houdini
John Henry
The Blantyre Exposion

The Ex Side A -
Elvis & I
Mousetrap
No More Cigars
Meanwhile at McDonna's
Shopping Street
Tin Gods
The State of Freedom
The Early Bird's Worm
She Said
Stonestampers Song
Dead Fish
Get Your Share
The Buzzword Medley

March Madness next,
NØ

Tying up Some Loose Ends...Stretch Your Head

At the end of January I posted an outline of my plans for February. I mentioned one of my rejected ideas was Glasgow noise. I mentioned a variety of bands I had been considering.

Uniboehmer left the following comment:
     “i'd love to hear anything you've got from the Stretchheads or Dog Faced Hermans. But as always, share as you like. And thank you.”
                                                                     (One of the most polite requests I've ever received.) 

So Uniboehmer, these are for you (& of course anyone interested).

Stretchheads was an experimental noise/punk band from Scotland active in the late 80s/early 90s. They went through numerous line-up changes. I believe P6 (Paul Eaglesham), the vocalist, was the only continuous fixture.

Two LPs, a 10", & two singles...Here goes. 

 

Stretchheads – Five Fingers, Four Thingers, a Thumb, a Facelift, & a New Identity,
Moksha Recordings SOMALP 2, 1988.
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oneside -

Fans
Long Faced German
Headache
Asylum Suck
Skinrip
Yiddish Yoddel
Shape & Cleanse
Land of Ming
Rex Perplexed
Semtex
Oneside run-out

twoside -

I Should Be so Lucky
Confront
Sidatorium
Spleng
Archive Footage of a Fish
Jawbox
Chickenfish
Everythings Going to Break in a Minute
Illness
Cancer
Shut Up 

 

 

Stretchheads - Pish in Your Sleazebag, Blast First BFFP58, 1991.

Side One -

Space Ape
Trippy Deadzone
A Freakout
Incontinent of Sex
Crazy Desert Man
Housewife Up Yer Fuckin Arse Music
Machine in Deli (Gary Newman's Round the World Trip)

Side Two -

Ognob
Acid Sweeney
Mao Tse Tung's Meat Challenge
Space Jam
HMS Average Nostril
3 Pottery Owls (with Innuendo)
Hairy Musaka
Fly Feast

 

 

 

 

 

Stretchheads - Barbed Anal Exciter, Blast First BFFP 68, 1991.

Side A -
Stool Freaks
Satan's Frog
New New Thing in Egypt

Side B-
Anal Beard Wank System
Theme from the Movie - 'I Had an Extra Intestine'
Theme from the Movie - 'What's the Hole For?'

 

 

 

 

 

Stretchheads - Eyeball Origami Aftermath wit Vegetarian Leg, Blast First BFFP 56, 1990.

Side A -
Afganistan Bananastan
Incontinent of Sex

Side B -
O(o)mnipresent Octopus (Russell Grant)
New Thing in Egypt (Boney M)

 

 

 

 

 

Stretchheads - 23 Skinner, Blast First BFFP 64, 1990.

23 Skinner b/w Housewife Up Yer Fuckin Arse Music 

 

Madness coming,
NØ