Twinkle, Twinkle Li'l Brother…It’s a Dub Massacre

Mixed by Jah Shaka & Mad Professor.

(The) Twinkle Brothers – Dub Massacre: Inna Murder Style, Twinkle Music NG741, 1982.
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Side A –

Jahovia in Dub Majesty

Dub Assassinator (Inna Murder Style)

Magnetic Enforcer

Nations Liquidator

Escape from Hell

Side B –

Dub Examiner

Kingdom Dub

Give Rasta Dub

One World Wide Dub

War Zone

Mixed by Engineer M.D. & Mad Professor.

(The) Twinkle Brothers – Dub Massacre 2: Killer Selections, Twinkle Music NG502, 1983.

Side A –

Mountains of Dub

Devaluation Dub

Dance Hall Invasion

Road to Damascus

Underworld Dub

Side B –

Dubbing for Peace

Tamborine Dub

Escape of the Assassin

Gully Banking Dub

Burden Bearer Dub

(The) Twinkle Brothers – Dub Massacre Part 3: Dub it Inna Roots Stylee,
Twinkle Music NGLP505, 1985.

Side One –

Mob Fury

Cross Fire

Fatal

Axe Man

Split Up

Side Two –

Blood Sample

The Fugitives

Revenge

Every Drop of Blood

No Return to Normal

Twinkle Brothers – Dub Massacre Part 4: The Killing Zone, Twinkle Music NG515, 1989.

Side One –

Panic in the Street

Urban Gorella

Hunger & Starvation

Zulu Warrior

Total Disaster

Side Two –

Never Die Dub

No Money Dub

Fighting Fit

Self-Inflict Wound

Generation Gap

Mixed by De Mondo & Mad Professor

Twinkle Brothers – Dub Massacre Part Five: Lion Head, Twinkle Music NG519, 1990.

Side One –

Lion Head

Attack

Cold Blooded Attack

New Decade of Dub

Crown Him

Side Two –

In the Name of Dub

Brain Washing Dub

Evildoers Dub

Go to Hell Dub

Mixed by Demondo, Dub Judah, Jerry Lion, & Mikey Riley.

(The) Twinkle Brothers – Dub Massacre Pt. 6: Dub Feeding Programme,
Twinkle Music NGLP543, 1994.

Side 1 –

What is it Dub

Such is Life Dub

Blood is on Their Hands Dub

You’re Bound Dub

Lament of Dub

Have Mercy Jah Dub

Side 2 –

Signs of the Times Dub

Can’t Stop Dub

Eastern Standard Time Dub

Shit a Bush Dub

African War Dance

World Dominion Dub

More time,

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Just Another Gloomy Sunday

Was listening to Billie Holiday’s version of  "Gloomy Sunday" tonight. I immediately thought I wanted to hear Diamanda Galás' version from her covers album The Singer. When I was searching around for that tune I dug out these two bootlegs from the Scream Queen Extraordinaire that I thought I could use to torture all you music lovers.

First, recorded live at Castlefranco Emilia Teatro Dada May 09, 1992. Diamanda's album The Singer had just been released & here she covers the…well…covers.

Diamanda Galás - Live at Castlefranco Teatro Emilia Dada May 9,1992.

Tracklist -

Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?

Let My People Go

Balm in Gilead/Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Judgement Day

My Love Will Never Die

Cris D’aneugle

Reap What You Sow

See That My Grave is Kept Clean

Insane Asylum

Gloomy Sunday

I Put a Spell on You

At the Dark End of the Street

Let My People Go (again)

Secondly, recorded by David Homes on Sony DAT with Radio Shack PZM mics at Gammage Auditorium, Arizona State Univesity, Tempe, Arizona December 02, 1994 with John Paul Jones. This tour was in support of the album The Sporting Life w/ John Paul Jones. Contains several non-album numbers, including "Communication Breakdown".

 Diamanda Galás & John Paul Jones - Live at Gammage Auditorium December 2,1994.

Tracklist -

Skotoseme

Do You Take This Man?

Dark End of the Street

You Gotta Move

Tony

Devil’s Radio

Let’s not Chat

Last Man Down

Baby’s Insane

Hex

The Sporting Life

You’re Mine

Communication Breakdown

Drag out the earplugs, the show is about to begin,
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Finally, Some DUB Again

This bashy offering is from mi key Dub-fanatic Jonder. I wanted his compilation to be the first Dub of the new year here. Let’s get wit da rockas & have us a bangarang, bwoys.

The website skysaw.org is an invaluable resource for the adventures of Adrian Sherwood and his merry men. The site's Rhythm Directory reveals that a number of songs released by the On-U collective known as Singers & Players were also issued in Dub versions, mostly on albums by Dub Syndicate. Dub Syndicate was a collective as well, with Lincoln "Style" Scott the only consistent member from 1982's Pounding System through 2015's Hard Food (released a few months after Scott's death). Five albums credited to Singers & Players were released by On-U between 1981 and 1988.

Like the Jamaican producers who inspired him, Sherwood remixes and reuses his source material, issuing new dubs and versions often re-titled and credited to different artists. Over 250 rhythms have been traced back to their original On-U recordings by the dub detectives of the Rhythm Directory.

Singers & Players In Dub is a mix that alternates S&P songs with their corresponding Dubs, as identified in the Rhythm Directory. For me, listening to the songs in this order heightens my appreciation of the talented singers, the musicians of the Dub Syndicate, and the inspired madness of the man behind the mixing desk. Thanks to the host of skysaw.org and its contributors, and respect to the late Style Scott, Prince Far I, Mikey Dread and Bim Sherman.
                                           

Jonder Underneathica

Singers & Players - In Dub

Devious Woman - Singers & Players featuring Bim Sherman
Last Sane Dream - Creation Rebel/New Age Steppers
Fit to Survive - Singers & Players featuring Bim Sherman
Threat to Creation - Creation Rebel/New Age Steppers
Bedward the Flying Preacher - Singers & Players featuring Prince Far I
Pounding System - Dub Syndicate
Dog Park - Singers & Players featuring Prince Far I
Hi Fi Gets a Pounding - Dub Syndicate
School Days - Singers & Players featuring Mikey Dread
Ascendant Part 6 - Dub Syndicate
A Matter of Time - Singers & Players featuring Bim Sherman
Substyle - Dub Syndicate
Snipers in the Street - Singers & Players featuring Congo Ashanti Roy
Drainpipe Rats - Dub Syndicate
Boof Um Baff Um - Singers & Players Feat. Delroy Cat
Boof Um Baff - Dub Syndicate - Boof Um Baff

Thanks Bredda Hope…
Enjoy All,
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Residents Unknown

I previously posted up another entirely different sort of offering from C.W. Vrtacek (Ver – tass' – ik) & Dancing Lessons called Monkey on a Hard Roll. Here's another tastee morsel of wonderful insanity.

I found this over at the strangely different now Willard’s Wormhole from someone tagged Zed (no #s any more???). Thought I’d share it with ya'll.

From the tape insert:

"This is a parody. A parody is a satirical imitation of something. This is an imitation of the underground recording group The Residents. It is in NO WAY connected with or authorized by The Residents, Ralph Records, or the Cryptic Corp.  It Is also in NO WAY representative of my own musical output, which can be heard on the award winning, #1 album "Victory Through Grace" and the forthcoming "Days And Days" (which is different from "Victory..."). Confused? Don't feel bad, it happens to me all the time."

Here is a comment posted on a music blog by C.W. Vrtacek (Charles O'Meara) in response to critics accusing him of plagiarizing the sound of The Residents:

"hi i'm C.W. Vrtacek, the guy who created the Residents parody. my real legal name by the way is Charles O'Meara.

let's get a few things straight...by the time i did the residents parody i had already recorded two solo albums, i didn't "copy" the residents sound, it isn't representative of what i do, it was JOKE because i know "the inidividuals responsible" for the residents sound, i.e., i knew "their real names"...so it was just an inside joke that circulated to some friends at the time...chris cutler, david thomas, a few others i forget, probably fred frith...

in a lot of ways i wish i had never done that thing because people keep digging it up without realizing that i've recorded BUNCH of solo albums, that i'm a member of Biota, that i've collaborated with Nick Didkovsky, Chris Cutler, Steve MacLean, Thomas DiMuzio and others and released five albums with my band Forever Einstein...

OK?"

Everything on Now Available  was done by C.W. hisself. Kool, eh?

C.W. Vrtacek – Now Available single-sided cassette, Leisure Time Records, 1983.

Tracklist –

Now Available:

     Pt. 1 – Who are The Residents

     Pt. 2 – Tailored Lunacy

     Pt. 3 – enoynA ekiL tsuJ

     Pt. 4 –  reprise

     Pt. 5 – On the Eighth Day

     Pt. 6. – Direct from Shreveport

Enjoy,

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Time for Some Voodoo & Juju

Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Voodounon EP, Editions Makossa EM23.04, 1974.

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Side One –

Azeta

Oglenon

Side Two –

Voodounon

Hihache

Nicky

bonus tracks –

Soul Makossa (Manu Dibango cover)

Darkest Light

Dr. Beezar: Soul Frankenstein (using the Captain Dax moniker)

Oneness of Ju Ju – Electric Juju Nation (introducing Virtania Tillery), Move MVLP14, 1986.

Side One –

Electric Juju Nation/Keep it Moving

Plastic is Easy to See Through

Get Your Head Together

Be About the Future

Side Two –

This Time I’ll be Sweeter

Share with You

Later for You

Turning on to Me

Enjoy,
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Mid(west)-Life Crisis

As with the first two volumes in the series, this compilation contains tracks from rare punk records from 1978-1982, this time by bands from across the U.S. Midwest.

Various – Bloodstains Across the Midwest, Bloodstains BLO-03, 1994.
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Side A –

Can’t Stand the Midwest - Dow Jones & the Industrials

Takin’ the City by Storm (pt. III) – Haskels

Sex Drive – Embarrassment

Human Garbage Disposal – Gizmos

I’m a Drunk – Baloneyheads

Long Gone – Customs

Slack – NNB

Side B –

Killed in Jail – Latin Dogs

War Hero – Toxic Reasons

Gym Gerrard – Gynecologists

Berlin Wall – Cult Heroes

I Let Jenny Ride – Brain Police

Soldier 19 – Mentally Ill

Process of Elimination – Endtables

Police State – Crap Detectors

Death – The Five

Enjoy,

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Welcome to My Life

Back in May 2014 I posted up Bloodstains Across Texas, the first offering in the ever-thrilling Bloodstains series. Here’s the second dose from my own present state (of mind).

Bloodstains Across California is a compilation of tracks from rare California punk singles from 1977-1982.

Various – Bloodstains Across California, Bloodstains BLO-02, 1993.
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Side Ahhhhh –

American Society – Eddie & the Subtitles

Prison Walls – Injections

Waiting for the Bomb Blast - Funeral

Don’t Blame Me – Reign of Terror

Wasted – Silver Chalice

I’m Gonna Punch You – Child Molesters

Stiff Love – Insults

Mean Boy – Destry Hampton

Laurie’s Lament - Vidiots

Side Blaahhhhh –

Bloodstains – Agent Orange

Midget – Vktms

Tammy Wynette – Maggots

Cutie’s Wrong Now – Seizure

Hard Rock – Gears

Move – Plugz

Slow Boy – Controllers

Class War – Plain Jane & Jokes

Criminals in My Car – Jones

Tower 18 – Chiefs

John Rock - Dogs

Enjoy,

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Eulogy for a HawkLord

One for the ages.

Here’s something from one of Lemmy’s other bands.

Some great old nuggets done only as Lemmy could do them, with the help from some of his friends. We will not forget you brother.

The Head Cat: Lemmy Kilmister – bass & vocals; Danny B. Harvey - lead guitar & piano; & Slim Jim Phantom - drums.

The Head Cat  –  Walk the Walk…Talk the Talk, Niji Entertainment Group NEG007, 2011.
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Tracklist -

American Beat

Say Mama

I Ain’t Never

Bad Boy

Shaking all Over

Let it Rock

Something Else

The Eagle Flies on Friday

Trying to Get to You

You Can’t do that

It’ll be Me

Crossroads

R.I.P.

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Final F For 2015

The Fatima Mansions – The Loyaliser CD single, Kitchenware Records SKCD67, 1994
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Tracklist –

The Loyaliser

Gary Numan’s Porsche

Arnie’s Five

Into Thinner Air with The Loyaliser (Juno Reactor mix)

Feliz año nuevo,

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Back to Alphabet City

Got both Fad Gadget & Frank Tovey under F, so let's go.

Francis John (Frank) Tovey is Fad Gadget.

He was an early practitioner in the melding of New Wave & Industrial into skewed pop songs filled with his black-humor lyrics regarding dehumanization in the modern Industrial age & the mass media's enslavement of modern society.

Fad Gadget's music was synth-driven but augmented by the sounds of electrical appliances such as electric drills or razors. The vocals were satirically deadpan.


Fad Gadget was the first artist to sign to Daniel Miller's Mute Records. "Back to Nature" was recorded as the second Mute Records release at RMS Studio in London.

Fad Gadget – Back to Nature/The Box 7", MUTE 002, 1979.

Side A –

Back to Nature

Side B –

The Box

"Back to Nature" was a great success for Mute Records so the follow-up record titled "Ricky's Hand" was recorded. The recording included Tovey's wife, Barbara, singing a vocal part near the end of the recording; the vocal part is then mixed with a synthesiser part into the outro of the song.

Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand/Handshake 7", MUTE 006, 1980.

Side A –

Ricky’s Hand

Side B –

Handshake

By the time Frank/Fad recorded the album Fireside Favourites at Blackwing Studios, he had decided to record the album without Daniel Miller's assistance. He wanted the final say to be his alone. Tovey recorded two more albums for Mute at Blackwing, Incontinent & Under the Flag. During the recording of Under the Flag Frank began using a Roland MC-4 Microcomposer. This made it easier for him to create a more controlled style of music. This style was carried on with the recording of the album Gag.


The recording of Gag was a change of direction for Tovey. It was the first time he used a band of musicians to record an album. Before he had recorded most of the musical parts himself. He also moved the recording from London to Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin. This recording included many acoustic instruments (like Joni Sackett – viola & David Simmonds – keyboards). Frank had utilized synthesisers before they were fashionable, now he moved away from electronic instrumentation which was the trend at the time. At this same time, Einstürzende Neubauten played a show with Fad Gadget at The Loft in Berlin & Tovey was moved by the use of heavy machinery for percussion. He had heard a large printing press nearby & got recording engineer Gareth Jones to record it. This was looped & would become the basis for "Collapsing New People".


Here Fad Gadget was assisted by: David Rodgers – guitar, double bass, & bass synthesizer; David Simmonds – piano, synthesizer, organ, celesta, bottles, & marimba; Joni Sackett – vocals & viola with additional vocal chores by Tovey’s wife Barbara Frost & daughter Morgan Tovey-Frost as well as guitars by Rowland S. Howard.

Fad Gadget – Gag, Mute STUMM 15, 1984.
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Side 1 –

Ideal World (featuring Rowland S Howard – guitar)

Collapsing New People

Sleep (featuring Morgan Tovey-Frost – baby vocals)

Stand Up

Speak to Me

Side 2 –

One Man’s Meat

The Ring

Jump

Ad Nauseam (featuring Rowland S Howard – guitar)

After recording Gag, Tovey began recording under his own name, Frank Tovey. In 1986 he released Snakes & Ladders. The dancefloor success of the Fad Gadget single "Collapsing New People" led to the song's inclusion on both the U.S. & Canadian versions of Snakes & Ladders as it was the first Frank Tovey or Fad Gadget album released in North America. This special edition French version includes a free limited issue 12" maxi EP with songs selected from all four previous Fad Gadget albums.

Frank Tovey – Snakes & Ladders w/bonus 4-song 12" 45, Mute STUMM 23, 1986.

Face A –

The Cutting Edge

Snakes & Ladders

The Cutting Edge (reprise)

Shot in the Dark

Concrete

Face B –

Luxury

Small World

Luddite Joe

Megalomaniac

Maxi Face A –

Coitus Interruptus

Innocent Bystander

Maxi Face B –

Sheep Look Up

Ideal World

In 2001, Tovey resurrected his old pseudonym to support his former colleagues & Mute label-mates, Depeche Mode on their Exciter tour. Tovey suffered from heart problems since his childhood & died of a heart attack on April 3, 2002 at the age of 45. He was working on a new album at the time of his death.

F-you,

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Space Dub - Zither Style

This gem came out the same year as Audio Active’s On-U Sound release Happy Happer.

Here Audio Active are Taki 244 (Tsuyoshi Taki), 2 DD (Daisuke Omura), Masa the Al-Tamyran (Masa Osada), & Nanao (Shigemoto Nanao), on this outing joining zither great Laraaji Nanananda (Edward Larry Gordon).

Audio Active & Laraaji – The Way Out is the Way In, All Saints ASCD26, 1995.
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Tracklist –

New Laughter Mode (the Way In)

Music & Cosmic (Feel Yourself) w/Bill Nelson - guitar

Think Cosmically

How Time Flies (when You’re Having None)

Laraajingle

Space Visitors for Tea-That Lump on Your Head

Hither & Zither

Blooper’s Dance Floor

New Laughter Mode (the Way Out)

Enjoy,

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& Now for Somethin’ Completely Different

Here is Man Klan's only LP, released in 1987. Their output consists of two 12" EPs  released in 1985, this LP, & a 12" single of  "Wanting & Waiting". They were from Stockholm, Sweden although this particular LP was released on the UK label Wire. Some good female-fronted punky Goth grooves in the vein of Devils era Concrete Blonde or 4ADs X-Mal Deustchland.

Man Klan was started by Carita Palmroos – vocals & Jacki Pazda/Huberhoff – bass with Jens Lansman – guitar; & Johan Bomberg – drums on this release.

Man Klan- Flesh Machine, Wire Records WRLP007, 1987.
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Side A –

Wanting & Waiting
Everytime
Love for Pleasure

No Time for Mercy
Redheads

Side B –

Candyman
Getting Closer
Fisherman
Flesh Machine
Love Child

Enjoy,

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Today's E is You, Gene

Eugene McDaniels, 70s revolutionary radical & all-around heavy cat, was once Gene McDaniels, mellow soul singer & #1 contender for the Black Scott Walker title. Here's a pair of doozies from the mid-60s Genester.

Gene McDaniels – The Facts of Life from Sometimes I'm Happy Sometimes I'm Blue LP, 

Liberty 7175, 1960.

&

Gene McDaniels – (There goes) The Forgotten Man single side B, Liberty F 55752, 1964.

Leap ahead to 1970: Here’s a Bible-toting, denim-clad McDaniels on the grainy, guerilla-styled cover shot for Outlaw accompanied by then-wife Ramona, outfitted in ammo-belt & Angela Davis afro, & a grim-faced feminist Susan James with a semi-automatic.  Like many other of us from that era, something BIG had happened to Eugene McDaniels between 1965 & 1970 that transformed him from Gene McDaniels to "Eugene McDaniels the Left Rev. Mc D". This is a back-to-the-country rock album in many places, but the funky soul shines through strongly, especially on tracks like "Reverend Lee". McDaniels recorded Outlaw with a rock/jazz band that featured legendary Miles Davis alum jazz bassist Ron Carter & ubiquitous 70s session guitarist Hugh McCracken. The group fleshed out the Rev's hippie-folk-funky dreams with smooth style. The band is largely responsible for the record’s pure cohesiveness, as they bring McDaniels disparate elements together into one of the most powerfully lasting statements of post-Aquarian Age culture.

"Under conditions of national emergency, like now, there are only two kinds of people – those who work for freedom and those who do not." -Mc D.

Eugene McDaniels – Outlaw, Atlantic SD 8259, 1970.

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Side One –

Outlaw

Sagittarius Red

Welfare City

Silent Majority

Love Letter to America

Side Two –

Unspoken Dreams of Light

Cherrystones

Reverend Lee

Black Boy

Outlaw's follow-up, 1971s Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse cover superimposes McDaniels' screaming face on a painting of a samurai battle scene. This release features a more jazz-inflected moodiness than Outlaw. While much of Outlaw was countrified blues, casually arranged, Headless Heroes is a much tougher, tighter, & more adventurous outing. With a distinctive two-bass attack supplied by the tag-team of prog hero Miroslav Vitous on acoustic & Gary King electric, HHotA is largely the work of seasoned jazzmen essaying early 70s funk.

Vice President Spiro Agnew allegedly called Atlantic to issue a verbal cease-&-desist order upon the release of Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse. Altantic pulled support for & finally sales of the album, though they cited "poor sales numbers".

Eugene McDaniels – Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse, Atlantic SD 8281, 1971.

Side One –

The Lord is Back

Jagger the Dagger

Lovin’ Man

Headless Heroes

Susan Jane

Side Two –

Freedom Death Dance

Supermarket Blues

The Parasite (for Buffy)

In 1975, Gene (once more) McDaniels released Natural Juices. Here McDaniels delivers his by-now perfected blend of Soul/Funk combined with his exceptional songwriting abilities.

Gene McDaniels – Natural Juices, Ode Records SP 77028, 1975.

Side 1 –

Feel like Makin' Love

Lady Fair

Natural Juices

Can't Get Enough of You

River

Side 2 –

Shell of a Man

Dream of You & Me

Waterfall

Honey Can You Know

The Perfect Dream

But just before he became a true Outlaw, McDaniels handled the vocal duties on my favorite Bobby Hutcherson release, Blue Notes's Now! from 1969. Here is that sometimes neglected gem. If you've come along this far with Eu/Gene, you should really enjoy this (I added some alternate takes as a bonus).

Bobby's band members: Bobby Hutcherson – vibraphone & marimba; Harold Land - tenor saxophone; Kenny Barron & George Cables – piano; Wally Richardson – guitar; Herbie Lewis & James Leary – bass; Joe Chambers & Eddie Marshall – drums; Candido Camero – congas; Gene McDaniels – vocals; Hilda Harris, Albertine M. Robinson, Christine Spencer, Eileen Gilbert, & Maeretha Stewart - backing vocals; Stanley Cowell – piano & electric piano; Manny Boyd - tenor & soprano saxophone; & Bobbye Hall Porter – percussion.

Bobby Hutcherson – Now!, Blue Note BST 84333, 1969.

Side One –

Slow Change
Hello to the Wind
Now!

Side Two –

The Creators
Black Heroes

+ bonus tracks –

Slow Change II
Now! II
Hello to the Wind (live)
Now! (reprise)

Enjoy,
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