VA: pt. 14 - Running Amuck

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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VA: pt 13 - Some Velvet Desert

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

This is a painted desert for the ears.

 

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

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

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VA: pt 12 - Hit & Run

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

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

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

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

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

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

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

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VA: pt 11 - Bananafish

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

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

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

 

 

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VA: pt. 10 - Big Body Parts

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

 

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VA: pt 9 - Black Riot

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

 

Various – Black Riot (Early Jungle, Rave And Hardcore) 2xLP,
Soul Jazz Records SJRLP452, 2020.
decryption code in comments

Side One - 
The Smokers Rhythm - Rhythm for Reasons
Durban Poison     - Babylon Timewarp
RK1 - The Terrorist

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

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

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

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VA: pt. 8 - Slash on Vinyl

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

All LA early punk greats. 

 

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

The Word Goes Flesh    
Pony Dress    
Version Nation - Flesh Eaters

Social Circle - U.X.A.

Side 2 -
U.X.A.    - U.X.A.

I Got Power    
Mercenaries - Negative Trend

Love is Just a Tool    
Above Suspicion - Middle Class

Manimal    
Dragon Lady    
Strange Notes - Germs 

 

 

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VA: pt. 7 - Weird & Wacky

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

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

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

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

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VA: pt 5 - A Drink for Sue Ellen

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

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

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

 

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

 

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VA: pt 4 - Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks

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

 

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

 

 

 

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VA: pt 3 - Industrial Records 1976-1981

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

 

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

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

 

 

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VA: pt. 2 - Amorphous

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

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

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

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VA: pt 1 - After Hours

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

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

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

 

  

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Playing the Laswell Bill with Jarring Effects

Before I plunge into June's madness, I'm going to take this day for Playing my Bills. I Played my Nelson Bill a few days ago so the only one due right now is my Laswell Bill. & perfectly, this ties right in with another request from the ole Bill collector hisself, Richie M.

On the Rachid Taha share Mister Muster sez:
     "Nicely, thank you Nate. Looking forward to giving this a listen. Um, just out of curiosity, and only mentioned because Algeria's next door to Morocco, but do you have anything by Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects and if so, would you consider posting some at some point? I used to have a tape of El Buya but it vanished some time ago."  

Pretty clever how he segued the geographic proximity of Algeria / Morocco into a sly request. 

 

 

Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects are indeed from Morocco,  formed in Marrakech in 1987 by Abdou El Shaheed, Habib El Malak, & Pat Jabbar, to develop a Shabee (a popular Moroccan music) / Dance crossover, influenced by diverse elements such as Gnawa, Reggae, Ragga, HipHop, Ambient, Trance, House, & experimental noises.

The group was named after a spirit from the Moroccan mythology. Aisha Kandisha appears in the form of a woman. Legion. Manifold. A Mass Psychosis. 25 years ago Paul Bowles calculated that she was married to some 35,000 men in Morocco. A lot of the people in Ber Rechid, a Moroccan  psychiatric Hospital, are married to her.

In 1988 Cheb My Ahmed, S’Mohamed Kbirr, & Cheb Qchatar joined the band. Their first recordings were made for the debut album, El Buya. The label Barraka el Farnatshi Productions was started in 1990 to release & distribute the album, which got a surprising positive reaction from all around the globe. During this time all band members were still students & so promoting the album with a live tour was not possible. 

 

Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects – El Buya, Barraka el Farnatshi Barbarity 002, 1990.
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Before Jedba - 
Aisha    
Majiti Mataliti    
El Mouka    
Sankara    

Jedba -     
Moulsinnia    
El Farrah    
Laroussa    
Roof Fish Suck 2

 

 

 

In the meantime, an American journalist, whom the band met at Paul Bowles' home in Tangiers, made contact with Bill Laswell in 1992. Laswell became producer & bassist for Shabeesation, released in 1993. The New York experience, which included jams with Omar Ben Hassan from the Last Poets & Bernie Worrell from Funkadelic/Parliament, helped the band a lot to get a worldwide response as well as to find booking agencies for their first Europe tour in 1994. 

Shabeesation is how I'm Playing the Laswell Bill. 

When Jarring Effects teamed up with Laswell, the mind-bendingly prolific bassist/producer added his well known eclectic mosaic of traditional & contemporary Arabic/Indian elements, ambient electronica & acid jazz, meticulously layered atop narcotic, dub-infused beats with thick, throbbing bass riffs, mantra-like in their disciplined minimalism. 

 A Shabeesation Tour 94/95 followed the release & was a big success, with audiences varying from small Jazz Clubs to Open Airs with over 40,000 attendees. Everyone seemed to be deeply enthralled by the Marrakshi Jedba Beat. 

 

 

 

Aisha Kandisha’s Jarring Effects - Shabeesation, Rycodisc RCD10336, 1993.

A Muey A Muey
Dunya
Fin Roh
Nbrik
Nbrik Dub
Lahbab
Nenzak    
Zin    
El Harb

 

 

 

Thanks Richie,
NØ

May: I Come Again - Something Wicked

Most recently (April 10) I shared Transglobal Underground - Psychic Karaoke here.

 

Although I had shared Natacha Atlas & Neil Sparkes (both of TGU), I had never featured the collective. Got the expected warm response to this great group, so thought I'd finisn off this month of revisits by one of TransGlobal's all-time greats... 

 

Transglobal Underground - Bakpacking on the Graves of Our Ancestors (1991 - 1998) 2xCD,
Nation Records NRCD1085, 1999.
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CD1 -
Temple Head
Taal Zaman
I, Voyager
Shimmer
Mouth Wedding
Boss Tabla (radio edit)
Sirius B
Nile Delta Disco (Blue Gedida remix)
Dustbowl
Ali Mullah
Dopi
Chariots (radio edit)
Monter au Ciel

CD2 - 
Temple Head (Burundi mix)
Lookee Here (Dreadzone at the Controls)
Psycho Karaoke (Manga Moon mix)
Body Machine (Badmarsh remix)
International Times (Fun<Da>Mental mix)
Kashmiri Falooda
Slowfinger (Delta Ladies Night remix)
Eyeway Souljah (Hardknox toxic remix)
Kintamani (Hanoman's forest mix)
Khan
This is the Army of Forgotten Souls
I, Voyager (Transmigration mix) 

 

 

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May: I Come Again - A Glorious Red Noise

The other day I recieved the following comment from dear friend Richie Muster. He sez:
       "I hope I'm not too late to the revisits party, but I was wondering if you had any more Bill Nelson to share with us? Cheers, and all the best."  

At the time I just kinda blew him off. I sez:
      "I'm near done with the revisits & an working on the start of June, so Bill Nelson might have to wait until the next time I'm "Playing the Bills". Those due notes roll around often enough that I'm sure I'll be Playing them soon. I'll make sure he is on the top of the heap. Always more to share with Mr. Bill."  

I got to thinking that wasn't too kool. He's a great friend, a frequent commentor, & one of my inspirations for things to share around here. Plus, in April he had a bit of bad luck.

On April 25 Richie sez:
     "Alas...2 days ago my house got flooded out by a burst water main. 2nd time in 18 months! What're the odds on that? All is chaos, chez Muster. Anyways, thanks very much, as ever. I've got an industrial dehumidifier & 2 huge fans blowing 24hrs a day, drying the house. It sounds like a very boring Merzbow album. Carpets & rugs ruined, as were 90 albums I had lined up on the floor, which ironically would have been safely up on my shelves had the flood happened a few days later. Because it was a water utility fault, there's some compensation due (I'll get a new carpet for sure) but there's no guarantee they'll pay out for the lost vinyl. What can I say, they're a rapacious capitalist company; natch the'll want to stiff me. I'll know in a few weeks." 

 

So as a more proper response to a good mate, here are a few releases from Bill's Be Bop follow-up band Red Noise. The band was created as a "new start & new direction" for Nelson. They were only active throughout 1979, even performing a UK tour throughout March of that year, but by 1980 the band had disintegrated, marking the beginning of Bill Nelson's solo career.

Red Noise were: Bill Nelson - guitar, vocals, synthesizer; his younger brother Ian Nelson - saxophone, string machine;  Simon Clark - keyboards (ex-Be Bop Deluxe); Rick Ford - bass: &  Steve Peer - drums. 

 

Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Furniture Music 7" 45, Harvest HAR5176, 1979.
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Side A -
Furniture Music

Side B -
Wonder Toys That Last Forever
Acquitted by Mirrors

bonus tracks -
Waiting for the Night
Possession

 

 

 

This next one was released under Bill's name as the songs "Do You Dream in Colours?" & "Atom Man Loves Radium Girl" were just Bill & Ian.  However, the other two tracks are stunning exercises in quirky, angular New Wave quite unlike anything else available in the UK in 1980.  They are 100% Red Noise...

Bill Nelson - Do You Dream in Colour? 7", Cocteau Records COQ1, 1980.

Side A -
Do You Dream In Colour?

Side B -
Ideal Homes
Instantly Yours
Atom Man Loves Radium Girl

bonus tracks - 
That Way for Years
Disposable

 

 

 

 

On the following, "Stay Young" & "Out of Touch" (tracks on b-side) were recorded live at the Leicester deMontfort Hall, March 8th, 1979.

 

 

Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Bill Nelson's Red Noise 12" 45, Cocteau Records COQT8, 1983.

Side A -
Revolt into Style
Furniture Music

Side B -
Stay Young
Out of Touch

bonus track -
Substitute Flesh

 

 

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May: I Come Again - Rachid Taha

On March 28, I shared a posthumous release by Rachid Taha - Je Suis Africain here. 

 

The legendary Algerian singer Rachid Taha, known as "The King of Rock & Rai" died in September 2018. Taha hit the peak of his popularity in the 1990s, thanks to versions of timeless Arabic hits "Ya Rayah" & "Abdel Kader" (the latter with fellow Algerian singers, rai masters Cheb Khaled & Faudel).

One of Taha's longtime collaborators was English guitarist / producer Steve Hillage, who first met Taha back in 1982. At the time, Taha was frontman of the Arab-Franco rock band Carte de Séjour ('residence permit').

This one is Carte Blanche, a compilation consisting of songs Taha recorded with Carte de Séjour (Mohammed Amini, Mokthar Amini, & Jérôme Savy - tracks 2-6) along with songs from his more recent solo albums, produced by Steve Hillage. It begins with one of his most popular songs, "Ya Rayah". 

 

Rachid Taha & Carte De Séjour – Carte Blanche 2xCD, Barclay, 1997.
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CD1 -
Ya Rayah
Douce France
Bleu De Marseille
Rhorhomanie
Ramsa
Zoubida
Barbès
Bled
Malika
Voilà, Voilà
Indie (vocal version / 1+1+1...)
Non Non Non (original version)
Valencia
Jungle Fiction
Kelma


CD2 -
Kelma (Overload mix)
Non Non Non (Stacey Pullen Electro Funk Dub mix)
Rhorhomanie (Steve Hillage remix)
Indie (Percussion Frenzy mix)
Voilà, Voilà (Lion Rock Orchestra Dub)

 

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May: I Come Again - Some Witch(man) Craft

On January 27 I shared John Roome’s Witchman first full-length here. 

 

When I started this months revisits, I asked if anyone had any revisits they'd like shared here.

Frenz of NSS Tom sez:
     "Could you please post working links for all the other Witchman albums especially "Innasylum" and all his EPs and compilations. If possible please also post all music from his side projects "Gold Water" and "The Unknown Ghosts". The music John Roome released under these names has been very difficult for me to find on the internet to download. Thank you for all the great music you have posted on your website. I greatly appreciate it."

Well, Tom (& all), I dont have "all the other Witchman albums especially Innasylum" but I'm more than glad to share what I do have.

As for Innasylum, not having it is one of my biggest regrets about this artist. It was self-released by John for only a week & then was gone. If anyone reading this has a copy that they are willing to share, I would be forever in your debt. Here's the story of Innasylum in Witchman’s own words. 

 

John Roome sez:
     "The story goes like this...after Explorimenting Beats I recorded a follow up album Innasylum. After delivering the album, the label deemed it too "uncommercial and downtempo". So, back to the drawing board I went, to write a few more ear-friendly tracks, ha!. On delivering the album I was promptly shelved in favor of another *cough* Trance artist with whom I shared the label and was raking in the cash for the powers that be. While I understood the logical thinking behind the decision, it became infuriating. After almost 2 years of gathering dust I left the label and the album in a bitter cloud of disgust, packed my bags and left for NYC. After such a lengthy period I couldn't support the release. I had moved on both technically and creatively. The whole process with the label left an incredibly bad taste in my mouth and as such I had no real passion in recording a new album.

That was 7 years ago! Last week I came across the album while unpacking the new studio.

So ladies and gentlemen, please feel free to follow this link and enjoy:

http://download.yousendit.com/5BE54A4D477B37F2

I believe you have 7 days to download this puppy, after that, it's gone. At least until I upload to the Witchman website server, which knowing me..could well never happen.

Bear in mind the album was recorded back in the stone age (1999-2000) and as such I would sure as hell never release it commercially. It's a document in time. Incidentally, this is not the original intended play list, a couple of tracks were taken off ("Mekong", "Gotham City Rockers") as I never really liked them, but the label did. They have been substituted for tracks I had originally intended for the release, "Sweet Waters" and "Sleepwalkin' the Apocalypse". New artwork has been embedded as the original art was destroyed.

The Masai tribe have a great saying, "the past is another country, I no longer live there" which pretty much sums up how I feel about this album. While I no longer live there, it was enjoyable taking a return trip for an hour.

Thank you to everyone that has supported me over the years, hopefully there will be some bits and pieces within this recording you like. If not..hey it's free...delete it.

Till next time."

So Tom (& all), here's what I've got... 

Heavy Traffic compiles tracks from Witchman's 12"s & EPs from various labels across two discs.

Witchman - Heavy Traffic 2xCD, Deviant Records dvnt27cd, 1997
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CD1 -        
Mutha Lode    
Bullethead    
Heavy Mental    
Bone Music    
Amok II    
Chemical Noir    
Kada Nostra    
Light at the Edge

CD2 -
Hammerhead    
Primal Skin    
Offbeat    
Arcane Radio    
Red Demon Loco    
Offworld (Fire mix)    
Hand of God    
Destiny

 

 

Witchman here teams up with Jammin' Unit from Air Liquide for Inferno..

Witchman vs. Jammin' Unit - Inferno, Blue Planet Recordings PLAN17CD, 1998.

Ice is Blue    
Filter Voodoo    
I-Man Dub    
Sub-Urban Pt. 1
Desert Ill    
After Midnight    
Sub-Urban Pt. 2    
Blind TV (Cathode Ray Dub)

 

 

 

This John Roome project sounds much like Witchman with the rhythms either slowed way down or missing, much more ambient in texture.

Gold Water - Dustbowl, Invisible Inv7003, 1998.

Dried Interior    
Red Chamber    
Goho Dohji    
As Precious as Blood    
Fractured Break    
Blue Haze    
Womb of the Desert Sun

 

 

 

 

The Unknown Ghosts is a collection of tracks by Witchnan, The Orb, Livstrompet, & others recorded, mixed, & produced by Witchman.

The Unknown Ghosts - Transfer at Dub, Mekong Records Ui1030, 2002.

Master of Ceremonies    
Dreadnaught    
Motown featuring Livstrompet
Reality Check featuring Mako & Rosanne
23 Kaboom    
Revolution featuring Baby Johnson
Metro King    
Bronx Warriors    
Sleepwalkin'   
Kingdom of the Eye
City of Ghosts

 

 

 

 

Witchman - The Stolen Voices EP featuring Rosanne Erskine, Mekong Records 2013.

Stolen Voices    
Only You    
Gotta' Be Worth It    
Stolen Voices (Moyma remix)
Stolen Voices (Rain Mix)
Stolen Voices (Rubba Dub)
Gotta' Be Worth It (Lazy Boy mix)

 

 

 

 

Witchman - British Supernatural EP, Mekong Records, 2014.

Ghost Wires    
Badlands    
I am Destroyer    
Earth Inferno    
I See Forever

 

 

 

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May: I Come Again - Hope I Don’t Bungle This One

Just this January 8, 2025, on a Mike Patton post, I shared Hemophiliac here. 

 

 

Hemophiliac was an international free improv experimental trio of Mike Patton (voice & electronics), Ikue Mori (laptop electronics), & John Zorn (alto saxophone, voice). I shared their only release, June 2002s self-titled Special Edition on Tzadik label, the 2xCD Hemophiliac which featured live recordings from various locations, released as a limited edition of 2,500 copies autographed by the three artists.

Hemophiliac performed live at Tonic on September 1, 2003 as a part of John Zorn 50th Birthday Celebration concert series. They performed an intenselyfocused live set. It was released as 50⁶ in August 2004. 

 

Hemophiliac – 50⁶, Tzadik TZ5006, 2004.
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May: I Come Again - Fab. Trip 28

On February 28, 2024 I shared the final trip-hop February entry, Half Dub Theory’s - Value here. 

Half Dub Theory are from Russia & the following was self-released. Not being on a major label, it is not readily available. I decided that while I was hitting some highlights of trip-hop month I should include another on from HDT. 

 

Half Dub Theory here are: Макс Куббе (Max Kubbe) - guitar, vocals; Марина Скалозуб (Marina Skalozub) - vocals; & Андрей Большаков (Andrey Bolshakov) - guitar, synthesizer, sampler, turntables. 

Remember, in theory it's only half Dub. 

 

Half Dub Theory - Floating, Half Dub Theory self-released, 2009.
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21    
Floating    
Control    
Safe & Sudden    
My Own    
Contentious    
Too Late    
Sad Things    
Fly    
Accident Dub    
Zhdatipadat + hidden track

 

 

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May: I Come Again - Fab, Trip 21

On February 21, 2024, still in trip-hop February, I shared Sneaker Pimps - Squaring the Circle here.

I had previously shared most of the Sneaker Pimps catalogue on the August 19, 2018 36 Chambers Nike Dunk High here.

In the fall of 2021, Sneaker Pimps began issuing a series of four sets of remixes of songs from Squaring the Circle called Rework Collection 1 - 4. I have compiled a collection of some of those tracks just for this revisitation. I selected mainly remixes by Liam Howe (AMP), it seems. I just liked them best. 

 

Sneaker Pimps - Rework reworked, NØ Comps., 2025.
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Fighter (AMP remix)
Child in the Dark (AMP remix)
Alibis (AMP remix)
So Far Gone (AMP remix)
SOS (AMP remix)
Stripes (AMP remix)
Paper Room (Markus Guentner remix)
Black Rain (AMP remix)
Love Me Stupid (Simonne Jones remix)

 

 

 

 

Although I previosly shared Sneaker Pimps studio recordings, the band has numerous live recorded sets well worth the listen. This is one of my favorites. This is a part of the ''Live at the I.C.A.'' set of recordings, also known as ''Home Taping''.

Let Liam explain. Liam sez:
     '' ''Home Taping'' was a club night that we organised around the release of Splinter in 1999. It was held monthly at the Institute Of Contemporary Art on the Mall in London (next to the Queen's house). As we all grew up in the 80's, we were very aware of the term ''Home Taping'' (the practice of taping records or radio onto a compact cassette at home). The music industry, which before the advent of the cassette recorder hadn't suffered any significant piracy, suddenly panicked and thought record sales would plummet due to the popularity of the humble cassette. They began a campaign to dissuade kids from copying music, its slogan: ''Home Taping is killing music'', its logo: a cassette perched on a pair of crossed bones (as in skull and cross bones).  The reason why we loved home taping was that, not surprisingly, this practice was not exclusive to us and it seemed that everyone who loved music had tapes that they had made or had been given to them which were totally formative in their musical and cultural development. The whole concept of the night was to invite people (famous and not famous) to send in their tapes and we would simply play them back. The idea was to cover 6 songs that were important to us and in true home taping style they varied quite stupidly from one to the other. We decided to perform them totally live, almost jammed, on 3 keyboards and an electronic drum pad. We stood 4 across the stage like 'Kraftwerk'. The thing I find most interesting is that this recording hints at the humorous part of the Sneaker Pimps, a part mainly kept under lock and key. Certainly I felt that playing Stevie Wonders 'Superstition' in a Kraftwerk kraut rock style was testimony to our comic intentions.''  

This one was recorded in 2000. This set is their most famous gig, featuring covers from David Bowie to Bjork.

Sneaker Pimps - Live at the I.C.A., Liam Howe released bootleg, 2000.

The Chauffeur (Duran-Duran cover)
Golden Brown (The Stranglers cover)
Venus as a Boy (Bjork cover)
Reward (Teardrop Explodes cover)
Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie cover)
Superstition (Stevie Wonder cover)

 

 

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May: I Come Again - Fab, Trip 9

On February 9, 2024, during a trip-hop February, I told the story of the Portishead / Mandalay
Pearl bootleg here. 

 

Mahdalay was a short-lived duo from the UK consisting of Nicola Hitchcock - vocals & Saul Freeman - programming. For this revisit, I'm sharing these two CD singles with additional bonus CD single tracks...

 

Mandalay - This Life CD single, V2 VVR5000113, 1997.
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This Life
Please
Running Down

bonus tracks from This Life remixes CD single, V2 VVR500118, 1997.

This Life (album version)
This Life (Wagon Christ mix)
This Life (Boymerang mix)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mandalay - Not Seventeen CD single, V2 VVR5014153, 2000.

Not Seventeen (radio edit)
I Don't Want the Night to End
To See Her

bonus tracks from Not Seventeen CD single, V2 VVR5014158, 2000.

Not Seventeen (Next Men radio edit)
Not Seventeen (Attica Blues remix)
Not Seventeen (Tom Middleton's Cosmos mix)

 

 

 

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May: I Come Again - Poison Honey

On September 24, 2022 I shared the band Flykkiller - Experiments in Violent Light here.  

 

 

Flykiller is made up of Pati Yang & her husband, Stephen Hilton. Hilton is David Holmes musical partner & co founder of The Free Association. Pati & Stephen have worked with David Holmes on soundtracks for Buffalo Soldiers, Ocean's Eleven, & Ocean's Twelve. Pati (as Patti) leads the Patti Yang Group. Yang (nee Patrycja Grzymałkiewicz) started her solo career in 1998 when she was only eighteen. I shared her first release as well (see link above).

Here are a few more of her solo releases. First up, weird aughties Trip-hop cult classic... 

 

 

Pati Yang - Silent Treatment, EMI Music Poland, 2005.
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Soul for Me    
Reverse the Day    
All That is Thirst
Unquiet
Pretty Fin (Keith Tenniswood mix)
19:53 Northwest
Giant Cat Woman    
Switch Off the Sun    
1986
Air Stands Still    
Easy Flow

 

 

 

Here's her next, a more cinematic Trip-hop outing...

 

Pati Yang - Faith, Hope, & Fury, EMI Music Poland, 2009.

Summer of Tears    
The Boy in Your Eyes
Stories From Dogland
Over    
Supernatural    
Red Hot Black    
Timebomb    
A Little Wrong featuring Joe Zawinul (guitar)
Strange Friends    
Outside    
Coming Home

 

 

 

One final share, with sparks of electricity running down the wires... 

 

 

Pati Yang - Wires & Sparks, EMI Music Poland, 2011.

Let it Go    
Near to God    
Hold Your Horses    
Kiss it Better    
Breaking Waves    
Revolution Baby    
Darling    
Take a While    
Wires & Sparks    
Fold

 

 

 

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