PTSMH

 

German-born electronic musician Patt Smith creates compelling music with a complex juxtaposition of soundscapes & emotions blending electronic & downtempo stylings.

Smith skillfully combines melodies, throbbing beats, & ethereal textures. His proficienct fusion of downtempo sensibilities & electronic components creates a sonic tapestry that is simultaneously uplifting yet meditative.

Here is a cross-section of his body of work. Drift away & feel the music.

Patt Smith - PTSMH Nothin' Mix, NØ Comp., 2024.
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Nothing
Darknumber
Eyes Closed (album version)
New D Trip
Inside
Behind the Scenes
Klammeraffe
Hesitate (BMON remix)
Realize (BDKS)
Eyes Closed (dance version)
Walkers
The Last Call

 

 

 

 

Here are a couple of EPs self-released by Patt... 

 

Patt Smith - Broken Instruments, self-released, 2015. 

Patt Smith - 20,000 Noisemiles Under the Sea, self-released,  2016.

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

The End (for Now)

This is the end of the ongoing series of Glasgow Noise bands, at least for now. 

 

This final instalment features the band DeSalvo.

Desalvo formed from the ashes of several Glasgow/Edinburgh bands: Allan Stewart (future Idlewild guitarist); Alex Grant (former PH Family & part-time Idlewild bassist); original vocals - Fraser Lumsden (former PH Family vocalist); replacement vocals - P6 (former Stretchheads & PH Family vocalist); & Richie Dempsey (former Stretchheads drummer).

Desalvo was originally strongly influenced by US post-hardcore bands such as Helmet & Tad. They signed to Mogwai’s label Rock Action Records. Their style has been compared to The Jesus Lizard. Listen & decide for yourself. 

 

DeSalvo - Mood Poisoner, Rock Action Records rockact38cd, 2009
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Brown Flag    
Tonguescraper Parts 1 & 2    
Ripper Situation
Latrine Lizard    
Get Black    
Oedipus Rising    
Schindler’s Lift    
Questionable Sport    
Spandoflage    
Cock Swastika

It’s been a great journey,
NØ

The White Whale

Never been a fan of Moby but I know he's worked with a lot of various artist, remixing their tunes to his own musical vision. I was checking on his website & looked at his list of remixes. I realized I knew of a few that weren't on his list, so it made me go, hmmm!

Well, I found over twenty-five more remixes that he hadn't listed & decided it would be a stupid insane idea to get them all together. Here's an even one hundred, split into four parts... 

 

Moby - A Remix Set, NØ Comp. 2024.
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Part 1 -
(Do Not) Stand in the Shadows (Moby remix) - Billy Idol
(Do Not) Stand in the Shadows (Moby Half Speed Version remix) - Billy Idol
Vault (Moby remix) - Pendulum
Salt (Moby remix) - Kita Klane
Break (Moby remix) - ADLT VDEO
Just Say (Moby remix) - KDA
Hell in Paradise (Moby remix) - Yoko Ono
The Bumps (Moby Remix) - Pete Tong feat. John Monkman
Walls (Moby Remix) - Monkey Safari
Automatic (Moby remix) - NØISE
Torn Red Heart (Moby remix) - Mark Lanegan Band
Do it Again (Moby Basement mix) - Röyksopp feat. Robyn
Do it Again (Röyksopp & Robyn Vs. Moby mix) - Röyksopp feat. Robyn
All I Know (Moby remix) - Washed Out
y (Moby remix) - iamamiwhoami
Noah's Ark (Moby remix) - David Lynch
Theme for Great Cities (Moby remix) -Simple Minds
Wait & See (Moby remix) - Holy Ghost!
I'm Free (Moby remix) - The Rolling Stones
Krakpot (Moby remix) - Plastikman
The Son Of Flynn (Moby Remix) - Daft Punk
I'll Be Home for Christmas (Moby remix) - Tony Bennett
Rock Your Body, Rock (Moby remix) - Ferry Corsten
Les Djinns (Moby remix) - Djuma Soundsystem
Miserablism (Moby Electro mix) - Pet Shop Boys

Part 2 -
Souvenir (Moby remix) - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Sunday (Moby remix) - David Bowie
Alive (Moby remix) - Beastie Boys
Wait A Minute (Moby's mix) - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Beetlebum (Moby's mix) - Blur
Dead Man Walking (Moby mix 1) - David Bowie
Dead Man Walking (Moby's House mix) - David Bowie
Dead Man Walking (Moby mix 2) - David Bowie
Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees) (Moby Flawed mix) - Aerosmith
Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees) (Moby Fucked mix) - Aerosmith
Grave Ride (Moby mix) - John Lydon
Damage I've Done (Moby Sad Gospel mix) - The Heads
Damage I've Done (Moby Melodic Deep mix) - The Heads
Stella (Electro mix) - Jam & Spoon
Stella (Moby's Barracuda mix) - Jam & Spoon
Stella (Moby's Spirit mix) Jam & Spoon
1979 (Moby remix) - Smashing Pumpkins
Until it Sleeps (Moby's Herman Melville mix) - Metallica
Until it Sleeps (Moby Slow mix) (unreleased) - Metallica
Dusty (Moby mix) - Soundgarden
Greyhound Part 1 (Moby remix) - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Lost Again (Moby's Hands on Yello remix) - Yello
Bam Bam Bam (Paul Yates mix) - Westbam
Bam Bam Bam (Moby Dub mix) - Westbam
Revolution Earth (Moby's CO2 mix) - The B-52's

Part 3 -
Movin' On (Moby mix) - The Other Two
Movin' On (Moby's Waterfront mix) - The Other Two
Revolution Earth (Moby's PPM Dub) - The B-52's
Revolution Earth (Moby's Vibe Tribe version) - The B-52's
Revolution Earth (Moby's CO2 Edit) - The B-52's
Fall from Grace (Moby Distressed version) - Eskimos & Egypt
Fall from Grace (Moby's Love Dub) - Eskimos & Egypt
Fall from Grace (Moby's Patient Love Dub) - Eskimos & Egypt
Fall from Grace (Moby's Regressive mix) - Eskimos & Egypt
I Talk to the Wind (Moby Transcendent mix) - Opus III
I Talk to the Wind (Moby Head mix) - Opus III
I Talk to the Wind (Moby Transcendent Dub) - Opus III
I Talk to the Wind (Moby's mix) - Opus III
Is That You Mo-Dean? (Moby's Interdimension mix) - The B-52's
Is That You Mo-Dean? (Moby's Liquid Sky Dub) - The B-52's
Is That You Mo-Dean? (Moby's Harpapella) - The B-52's
Is That You Mo-Dean? (Moby's Roots mix) - The B-52s
Fractal Zoom (Mary's Birthday edit) - Brian Eno
Fractal Zoom (Moby's Up River mix) - Brian Eno
Fractal Zoom (Moby's Naive mix I) - Brian Eno
Fractal Zoom (Moby's Naive mix II) -Brian Eno
Fractal Zoom (Moby's Landed mix) - Brian Eno
Fractal Zoom (Moby's Bucolic mix) - Brian Eno
Who is It (Moby Tribal version) - Michael Jackson
Who is It (Moby's IHS mix) - Michael Jackson

Part 4 -
Who is It (Moby's P-Man Dub) - Michael Jackson
Who is It (Moby's Lakeside Dub) - Michael Jackson
Who is It (Moby's Raw Mercy Dub) - Michael Jackson
Beat It (Moby's Sub mix) - Michael Jackson
Everybody in the Place (Moby's Dance Hall version) - The Prodigy
Make it Mine (Moby's Manhattan mix) - The Shamen
Make it Mine (Moby's US Dub mix) - The Shamen
Make it Mine (Moby's Deep mix) - The Shamen
Ride (Moby's Dub) - SoHo
Ride (Moby's Odessa mix) - SoHo
Ride (Moby's Speed mix) - SoHo
You Gotta Believe (Moby's Sweet mix) - Fierce Ruling Diva
You Gotta Believe (Moby's Love of God mix) - Fierce Ruling Diva
Good Stuff (Moby's Schottische mix) - The B-52s
Only Time Will Tell (Mobygyn mix) - Ten City
Only Time Will Tell (Obygyn mix) - Ten City
Faith Healer (Moby's Barracuda mix) - Recoil
Chorus (Mob''s Vegan mix) - Erasure
Heart on the Line (Voodoo Child mix) -Fortran 5
Heart on the Line (Voodoo Child mix) (Edit) - Fortran 5
Heart on the Line (Moby's Bassline mix) - Fortran 5
Gazza (Voodoo Child Disco 2000 mix) - Andromeda
Speed Freak (Moby Mutation mix) - Orbital
Tan Ta Ra (Moby remix) - LFO
Está Loca (Moby remix) - the latin age

I stopped at 100. There are many more. Submit your suggestions & I'll do Take II.

ps. Here are two new ones I lifted from Dubhed blog.
We're Going Wrong (Moby Mix) - Cream
You & Me (Moby extended remix) - Anifisa Letyago
(check out the heavy lyrics from the bald alien on this last one)

Enjoy,
Queequeg

Lung Leg Too

 

Shared this Glasgow grrrrl group April 2014 for friend & fellow Taurus Ib Sibling, their EP The Negative Delinquent Autopsy here.

Here is their follow-up EP Shagg the Tiger. 

 

Lung Leg - Shagg the Tiger, Piao! Piao! 05, 1995.
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Side a -
Small Screen Queen
Edith Massey

Side b -
Kung Fu on the Internet
Accident
Butt Sister

 

 

 

 

& this split single with Make-Up... 

 

 

Make-Up / Lung-Leg - Pow! To the People / Krayola split 7", Southern Records, 1998.

Side A -
Pow! To the People

Side B -
Krayola

Enjoy,
NØ

Musick that Needed Work - O: Otis Optic & the Option People

Otis Optic & the Option People are a German psychedelic rock band from the Dortmund, Ruhr area. All the musicians were born in the 80s, but live in the 60s. Their blend of 60s psychedelic & garage music is classic 60s organ/fuzz guitar driven sounds. 

 

Here OO&tOP is: Tobias Fonda - guitar & vocals; Philipp Kawalek - guitar; Dario Treese - organ & bass; & Elke Jamelle - drums.

Micrograms is a bonus track originally released as a single in 2005. 

 

Otis Optic & the Option People - self-titled, Nasoni Records NASONI 072-2CD, 2008.

Saints of Sound    
Shallow Fair    
Velvetized    
Spot in Your Mind    
Traffic Lights    
Mass Confusion    
Among You    
Memory Dehydrating    
Liable to Fade    
Concept of Time    
Cold Rain (outro)    
bonus track -    
Micrograms

Enjoy,
Ø

Musick that Needed Work - O: ONO

The avant-gospel collective ONO have been around since 1980, pioneering/re-defining "noise".  Blending the slightest apparitions of jazz & funk with a primordial deluge of discordant sonic emanations driven by a poetic cadence of sing-speak-scream vocals exhuming our deepest, darkest thoughts, fused to the tempestuous now-you-hear-it-now-you-don't rhythmic arrangement. It is noise, but it is also dizzying, ponderous, profound, & so much more. 

 

Constant members are: travis (Travis Dobbs) - vocals & lap steel guitat; P. Michael - bass, keyboards, & electronics; & Shannon Rose Riley - vocals, keyboards, & horns along with an ever-changing cast of musical collaborators.

Village Voice-over sez:
     "über-legendary Chicago avant-everything cult freakazoids ONO are one of those radical groups who've earned that tag as 'one of the most influential bands you've never heard of'."

     "ONO is my idea of onomatopoeia before music.",
travis sez. 

 

ONO - Machines That Kill People, Thermidor T11, 1983.
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Side 1 -
Danger    
Machines That Kill People    
The Model Bride    
O Jackie O I    
O Jackie O II
WWV (locked groove)

Side 2 -
Pyramid of Drums    
X-Ray

 

 

 

 

The full ONO experience, however, happens in the live shows, which are tightly orchestrated, with a narrative arc & numerous costume changes. travis spits out words that weave history with personal pain, moving in & out of the crowd as he adds or subtracts a wedding gown, a headpiece, a tuxedo shirt, a lace veil. P.Michael helms the ship from behind a table covered by drum machines, samplers, & effects pedals. He crafts dense, groovy compositions that swell with travis's vocal performance.

So in case the first offering wasn't weird enough for some of you weirdos, here's a couple live shows. You kinda already know what happens New Year's Eve...

 

 

ONO - New Years Eve 1984, ONO self-released, 1985. 

ONO often performs a cover of the song "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground that is as solemn & painful as it is elegant.

P. Michael sez:
     "We've been doing it since the 80s. We knew so many people who were on heroin, so it means a whole lot to us to perform that piece. Which is why it takes so much out of travis to do, it always has to be at the end. He can't function after, because of all the folks we know and all the people who were at our shows that were doing heroin. And some of them are dead now because of that, so it's very intense."

 

 

ONO - Filmmakers2 - Heroin, ONO self released, 2007.

 

 

 

 

Enjoy,
Ø

Musick that Needed Work - O: Ofra Haza

 

Ofra Haza was a songwriter/singer & actress from Hatikva, Tel Aviv, Israel. Outside of her native Israel she was known as  "the Isreali Madonna". Ofra represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983, with the song "Hi", finishing second with 136 points. Her major international breakthrough came in the wake of the album Shirei Teiman ("Yemenite songs"), which she recorded in 1984. 

 

 

The album Shaday (1988) won the New Music Award for Best International Album of the Year. The single "Im Nin'alu", taken from that album, topped the Eurochart for two weeks in June that year. It was on heavy rotation on MTV channels across the continent. The song became a dance floor favorite across Europe & the US, topping the German charts for nine weeks.

Haza's death from an AIDS-related illness added another layer to the public mourning, bringing the disease into the spotlight. The revelation of Haza's illness caused much surprise among fans, along with debate about whether the media invaded her privacy by rushing to report it.

Ofra Haza - Shaday, TELDEC CD43845, 1988.
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Im Nin'alu    
Eshal    
Da'Ale Da'Ale    
My Aching Heart
Love Song    
Galbi
Face to Face
Take Me to Paradise
Shaday

Enjoy,
Ø

Musick that Needed Work - O: Old Time Relijun

There's a saying..."Give me that Old Time Relijun" but once you've got it, well... You either love that Old Time Relijun or you hate it, there’s no fence sitting. 

 

The band started in Olympia,WA. Their early releases were home-made cassette offerings on their own Pine Cone Alley label. They soon jumped to home town indie label K Records & became a regulars there. OTR is now based out of Portland, OR.

On this release, recorded at Dub Narcotic Studio, Old Time Relijun is: Arrington de Dionyso - guitar & vocals; Aaron Hartman - bass, & Phil Elvrum - drums. 

 

Old Time Relijun - Witchcraft Rebellion, K KLP 128, 2001.
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Mystery Language    
Cune Form    
Vampire Sushi    
Dark of the Male, Light of the Female    
Mercury Snake    
Two Crows    
Fermentatio    
King of Nothing    
Book of Life & Crime    
Treasure Map    
Maenads in the Android Brothel    
Crocodile Theater    
Witchcraft Rebellion

Enjoy,
Ø

Musick that Needed Work - O: Orchid Spangiafora

 

This is an ongoing solo project of Rob Carey, sometimes joined by Byron Coley, head honcho of Ecstatic Peace! record label & occassionally Chris Osgood. This is OS's first release & very much the solo explorations of outsider psychedelia of Rob. Released on Twin/Tone Records. 

 

Alfred E Neuman sez:
     "Recommended for explorers of the remote & connoisseurs of the weird!"

 

Orchid Spangiafora - Flee Pasts Ape Elf, Twin/Tone Records TTR7910, 1979.
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Side One -
Dime Operation    
Short Piece    
Sput    
Flee Past's Ape Elf    
Mondo Stupid    
Hold Everything

Side Two -
Sheer Madness    
Some Crust    
Coarse Fish    
Trapped Heir Suite Part 2    
Persistance of F.M. (Fred McMurray)

Enjoy,
Ø

Musick that Needed Work - O: Oku Onuora

 

Another artist that I've shared in the past. Oku Onuora, born Orlando Wong in Kingston, JA March 1952, is a Jamaican Dub poet. His freeman name Oku Onura means "Fire that burns oppression" or "Voice of the people" in Nigerian. 

 

First up is the re-issue of his debut 1984 release with AK7 (with 5 bunus Dub tracks). Recorded at Tuff Gong Studio...

Oku Onuora & AK7 - Pressure Drop, Zola & Zola ZZCD012, 1993.

A Slum Dweller Declares
Dread Times
Sketches
Last Night
Pressure Drop
(Heathen) Let Wi Go
Thinkin'
The Call
Beat Yuh Drums
Decolonization
Change Yes Change
bonus tracks -
Changes Dub
Dread Dub
Sketches in Dub
Let Wi Go Dub
Pressure Dub

 

 

 

 

Here's a later effort released by ROIR with help from Sly & Robbie, Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Style Scott & many more...

 

Oku Onuora - Dubbin' Away, ROIR RUSCD8253, 1999.

Defiance    
Dub Out    
Untitled Dub    
Dubble Trouble    
We'll Keep on Struggling    
Dub Can't Wait    
Sun Dub (Solar Dub)    
Dub Pressure
Dub Sketches
A Slum Dweller Declares    
Dub Changes    
Dubbing Away    
Ruff Dub
Cumin Dub
More Dub
Fia Dub    
Tears

 

 

 

Enjoy,
Ø

Musick that Needed Work - O: The Offs

Another ongoing series that I'm really making a concerted effort to finish before this blog inevitably ends & I leave this incomplete ...Musick that needed work.

This project started in August 2015. At that time I opened a folder (always a dangerous act) I had labeled: "Musick that Needs Work'. It was a Pandora's box of files that needed some special attention, meaning anything from missing tracks to cleaning up the sound to fixing the tags to getting the art work, whatever. 

In the almost nine years since I started this, I have finished through letter N last month. Moving on to O. 

 

The Offs

I shared them before when I was first starting out. Now many years later I'll share their first record with cover artwork by Jean Michel Basquiat. 

 

The Offs - First Record, CD Presents, Ltd. – CD 025, 1984.
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Side 1 -
You Fascinate Me    
Cool Down    
True Story
Why Boy?

Side 2 -
Body Hesitation
I've Got the Handle    
One More Shot    
Bye Bye Baby

Enjoy,
Ø

The Naterock Album Dump Part 8

 

Continuing on with part eight of a continuing series, 1982 - 1983. Remember, a .zip file marked simply Albums List will be included in each dump, so youcan decide from that what you want or simply reference the list below (& with each posting).

Naterock Album Dump Part 8

Part Two -
1982
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Descendents - Milo Goes to College
The Clash - Combat Rock
Flipper - Generic Flipper
The Gun Club - Miami
Sparks - Angst in My Pants
Mission of Burma - Vs
1983
The Dream Syndicate - Tell Me When it’s Over
Cleaners from Venus - In the Golden Autumn
D.O.A. - Right to Be Wild
Dicks - Kill from the Heart
Minor Threat - Out of Step
Sad Lovers & Giants - Feeding the Flame

Enjoy,
NØ

A Little Porno Detour - $igue $igue $ex $tars

Taking a breather from filling the gaps & connecting the dots. Here's a first for NSS.

The brain child of former Generation X bass player Tony James, Sigue Sigue Sputnik formed in 1982 with Martin Degville on vocals & Neal Whitmore (Neal X) on guitar, later to be joined by Chris Kavanagh & Ray Mayhew, both on drums, as well as Yana YaYa on keyboards & synths. 

 

The key to Sputnik's sound was gifted largely by The Clash. Mick Jones donated a Pro 1 synth & Roland guitar synthesizer while Topper Headon & Terry Chimes each donated drum kits to Ray & Chris respectively. When combined with Neal X's riffs, Degville's vocals, along with the inclusion of some of the first sampled dialog & effects in music, a new SSS unique sound was birthed.

Kirkland Ciccone sez it best:
     "a group of refugees from a dystopic future propel themselves backwards in time to Thatcher's Britain, bringing their music with them. And the music? Synth heavy Dubby dance tracks with samples crashing in and out of sync, complete with jagged bursts of guitar, like a car's exhaust pipe farting outside a pop party in Covent Garden."

Flaunt It! might be their highest ranked, but this is my favorite... 

 

$ci-Fi $ex $tars - Rock 'N' Roll Mixes, Sigue Sigue Sputnik self-released, 2000.
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Rockit Miss U.S.A. (Madman Vs Speedranch)    
Love Missile F1-11 (Dakeyne megamix)
Teenage Thunder (Sputstyle)    
Razz Crazy    
The Future's on Fire with Rock 'N' Roll    
Monalisa Overdrive    
Youth Juice    
Suicide (Live Sept. '86 London)    
From the Gutter to the Stars

Enjoy,
NØ

Epic Gap

 

During the April Three Epics posts, one of the truly epic bands I shared was Zenzile, a French troupe that began as a Dub unit & gradually expanded outward to encompass & enhance all the styles & sounds their members loved & loved playing.

As I sez at the time:
     "Following Living in Monochrome (2007), Zenzile expanded their sound in numerous sound experiments: (Pawnshop - pop); (Electric Soul - soul); (Berlin - film soundtrack); (Elements - audio-visual installation). I will explore those four in a further edition featuring this great band...What began as Dub became broad & cinematic, with the band dabbling in rock, progressive, electro, new wave, funk-punk or krautrock until Dub had almost completely disappearred on the 2017s Elements release."

The entire purpose of the Three Epics posts was to showcase three bands that didn't simply re-do there previous releases each time out, but used their creativity to branch out to various styles that fit their own personal design. Of the three, Zenzile perhaps personifies that concept to the greatest degree. As varying as each release is, each one is a masterpiece on its own, showcasing the band incredible mucical talents over a wide range of styles, while never forsaking or forgetting that they are at heart a Dubwise unit of the highest order. In every iteration you can still feel the truest soul of Dub.

With this share I will illuminate a fantastic ten-year creative period in the developement of Zenzile.

First off Zenzile takes a stab at their own unique twist on folk/pop.

Zenzile - Pawnshop, Discograph 6144982, 2009
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Histoire de Papiers
Life's a Dance
The Crooked Man
Motorbremsen
Fire Eater
Mind over Matter
White Spirit
National Quota
Thursday Night Rover Disco
Caution Horses

 

 

 

 

This one should be self-evident... 

 

 

Zenzile - Electric Soul, Yotanka YO26, 2012.

Scars   
No Idol   
Mind Control   
Stay   
Yuri's Porthole   
Magic Number
Chewin' Mi Mic   
Over/Time   
Man Made Machine

 

 

 

 

Next Zenzile created a live soundtrack for the famous documentary directed by Walter Ruttmann in 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt), a fascinating depiction of a single day in the Berlin of the 1920s.

 

 

Zenzile - Berlin, Yotanka YO37, 2014.

Der Zug   
Die Architektur    
Die Strasse    
Die Fabrik   
Die Laden   
Die Bourgeoisie   
Der Verkehr   
Der Windergarten   
Die Brucke   
Die Freizeit   
Der Tanz

 

 

 

 

Having found great success with their soundtrack effort, Zenzile embarked on their next project, music for an audio-visual art installation. The final fill in the ten year gap...

 

 

Zenzile - Elements, Yotanka YO56, 2017.

Bird   
Outsight   
Storm   
Dry   
Escape   
Sequences   
Stellar   
Presence   
Poly

 

 

 

 

Epic enjoyment,
NØ

Going to a Go-Go

This will be the fifth installment of Yoyo Recordings compilations from Yoyo Studios head honcho, Olympia, WA's Pat Maley. Previously I've shared: Periscope; Throw; Julep; & Projector.

 

 

Here's Yoyo A Go Go, a 2xCD recording of almost two hours of live performances from the first Yoyo A Go Go music festival held at the historical Capitol Theater in Olympia, a five day affair that took place July 12-16, 1994, for your musical edification...

Various - Yoyo A Go Go, Yoyo Recordings yoyo cd-4, 1996.
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CD1 -
The Rickets–    Three Reichs You're Out   
Carson    - Excuse 17
Lost in Time - Bloodthirsy Butchers   
Another Schizoid Embolism - godheadSilo   
Ax Men - Heaven to Betsy   
Take it Away - Fitz of Depression
Freedom Riders - The Halo Benders   
Mongoose - Copass Grinderz   
Push Push, You Make Me Wanna Choke - Mukilteo Fairies   
My Home Town - Girl Trouble   
Me Big Mouth - Karp   
Title Unknown, Sleeping Bag     - Beck
Your Bed - Cub   
P.R.O.D.U.C.T. - New Bad Things   
I Love You Anyway - The Stinky Puffs   
I Walk Alone - Mecca Normal   
D - Codiene   
Helsinki - Mary Lou Lord

CD2 -
The Lesbionic Story - Team Dresch   
She's Amazing - Team Dresch   
Love You on a Tues. - Neutral Milk Hotel   
Lone Surfer Ghost - Dig Yr Grave   
Empty Patches - The Softies   
Dream Boat - The Crabs   
Blonde's Blonde - Kicking Giant   
F-Train - Georgia & Ira   
Frog - Versus   
Shot - Satellite   
Forever Nearly True - Crayon   
Crimson Tide - Nuzzle   
R is for Rocket - Long Hind Legs   
Apple - Some Velvet Sidewalk
Strumpet - Lois   
Day Old Tree - Hush Harbor   
Special Sunrise - Blair Mailer   
Valentine Card - Unwound

Enjoy,
NØ

What is This Strange Attraction?

This month is primarily going to be about connecting the dots & filling in the gaps. I'm going to be sharing items from artists & groups that I've shared here in the past while continuing on with on-going series.

As I said, filling in the gaps & connecting the dots. This first one connects the dots...Legendary Dots & Pink to boot...

On a Legendary Pink Dots post from June 2022  I included a release by Strange Attractor titled Mettle. 

 

Strange Attractor was a Dutch downtempo project active between 2004 - 2010 featuring Richard van Kruysdijk (Sonar Lodge), Niels van Hoorn (LPD) with the help of vocalist Marie-Claudine, Graham Lewis (Wire, He Said, Duet Emmo, more), Ryan Moore (LPD), David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, solo), Winston Tong (Tuxedomoon), Peter Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil),  & many others.

I've decided to share a few more items from this great collective.

First off is their first output (two releases, Rorschach & Rorschach II) issued in 2006 as a 16 track compilation called Everything is Closer.

 

Strange Attractor - Everything is Closer, Big Blue Records 8483403, 2006.
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Rorschach (Heritage Pt. 1.01)
Black Earth
Alpha
Omega
Simulacra
The Mind Travels Further Than the Body
Never Say Never
In the End It's All Pretend
Dreamtime
Scrap Metal
Fishface
26 September
Five Below Nothing
Melancholy Station
Undone
Fifteen Years of Sorrow

 

 

 

 

Next up was Mettle, which as I mentioned I shared before. Mettle was followed by the Youth EP.

 

 

Strange Attractor - Youth EP, Big Blue Records 8483490, 2009.

Dorian Gray
Only Sleeping
Revolte
Youth

 

 

 

 

This was followed by the full-length Anatomy of a Tear.

 

 

Strange Attractor - Anatomy of a Tear, Big Blue Records 8483502, 2011.

Readymade
A Moment featuring Marie-Claudine
Ray Potato featuring Blaine L Reininger
Hide & Seek featuring Marie-Claudine
Otherworld featuring Jarboe
Iron Horse featuring Graham Lewis
The Corridor featuring David J
Anatomy of a Tear featuring Marie-Claudine

Enjoy,
NØ