The Return of the (God)DubHead

By 2004 when Shake the Nation: A New Breed of Dub was released, Dubhead had already shot their load, IMO. They only pulled together 15 tracks as opposed to the 16 tracks they offered on the first three New Breed comps.

Most of their A-team Dubsters were MIA, having gone on to various other labels or projects: Nick Manasseh & Etherealites - Roots Garden; Ryan Moore (Twilight Circus) - Twilight Circus Dub Sound System; Centry, Music Family, Bush Chemists, Singer Blue, King General,  (all under the wing of the fantastic Dougie ‘Conscious’ Wardrop - East meets West, Hydroponics, The Dub Specialists) - Conscious Sound; Hi Tech Roots Dynamics (teamed with Martin Campbell) - Log On! & Channel One (UK); Mungos Hi-Fi - Scotch Bonnet; & Zion Train - Universal Egg.

These following Soundclash Sessions are from the more fertile 1999/2000 period with a healthy dose of the above mentioned artists. I’ll feature some of the individual acts in the next post. Since I’ve already touched on some of the sweet sounds of Conscious Sound, Roots Garden, & Twilight Circus, I’ll try to offer some less well known but equally righteous musick. But for now, my final Dudhead compilation.

Various - Dubhead Soundclash Series Session One, Dubhead DBHD 012CD, 1999.
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Shaka Dub Plate - Twilight Circus
Jah Come - Messenjah
Get Conscious - Bush Chemists
Top Line Special - The I-Tones
Rejection (Festival mix) - Iration Steppas
Silence - Dub Specialist
Kik Loop 16 - Twilight Circus
Give a Helping Dub - Messenjah
Live Up - Bush Chemists
De Jah Vu - The I-Tones
Tribesman Dub (Dubplate Dub Dat mix) - Iration Steppas
My Thang - Dub Specialists

Various - Dubhead Soundclash Series Session Two, Dubhead DBHD 022CD, 2000.

Spirals of Dub - Urban Dub
Bitch Licks - Mad Professor
Sea Otter - Zion Train
Barking up the Wrong Tree (Bullseye mix) - The Love Grocer
Ahisma - Vibronics
Skenga Dubwise 3 - Manasseh
Everywhere I Go - Urban Dub
Jaffa Dub - Mad Professor
Trancedub 3 - Zion Train
Gure Ametsa - The Love Grocer
Samsara - Vibronics
Underground Dub - Manasseh

Enjoy,
NØ

36 Chambers Nike Dunk High

I have two more releases from Dubhead (Soundclash Series 1 & 2) & all the Dububerflow from those postings (All Nation Rockers, The Love Grocer, Etherealites & three more), but this just happened to come up.

Guess that pungent aroma is Morcheeba wafting on the breeze. Aid00 over at Welcome to Wherever You Are blog just posted several Morcheeba items.

 A few years back, I posted up Morcheeba’s Part of the Process. That posting got a big response (even two heads-up from Brotherhood of Dub OGs Ib & Jonder, both non-triphoppers) & one commenter hinted at more...well...cheeba as well as a request for Sneaker Pimps Becoming X. Sneaker Pimps are in my top ten trip-hop bands, but I felt at the time that Becoming was quite readily available elsewhere & so declined to follow up on the request. I briefly considered posting up Becoming RemiXed, but decided it was also around the interweb, so...

The other day I was reading an article about the Beastie Boys & their X-Large & sneaker love. The article used the term "sneaker pimp" to describe some nameless individual the Boys paid to dig for old-skool deadstock tennies. This leads full-circle back to Sneaker Pimps. According to Chris Corner (guitar, synthesizer, vocals), the band  took their name from said article.

Becoming X was SP's most popular release, due in large to the vocal stylings of Kelli Dayton. After the Becoming X tour, there was a parting of the ways between the boys (Corner, Howe, Pikering et. al) & Kelli. Splinter followed in 1999 & Bloodsport in 2001. Bloodsport has many of my favorite tracks, including the hyper-great "Loretta Young Silks".

Here is the album version of that song from Bloodsport, a trio of acoustic versions of other SP tunes, & the previously unreleased "Miami Counting".

Sneaker Pimps - Loretta Young Silks, Splinter Industries SP007CD, 2002.

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Loretta Young Silks (Album version)
Empathy Low (acoustic)
M'aidez (acoustic)
Loretta Young Silks (acoustic)
Miami Counting

When SP were putting the finishing touches on Becoming X, they were still in search of a female vocalist. In a bar in Birmingham, they heard the band The Lumieres, a proto-pixie-punk group.
Kelli Dayton was the singer, songwriter, & guitar player. They talked her into working with them & Becoming X was the result.

Here is an ultra-rare three-track seven inch single from The Lumieres.

The Lumieres - Cinder Hearts 7", 199?.

Side A -
Cinder Hearts

Side B -
Starry Eyes
In the Blue (Special Murder Version)

Kelli Dayton has been using her father's last name Ali for her solo releases since leaving the Pimps. Here is her second solo release (I wanted to post this but couldn’t resist the super hot cover from Tigermouth above).

Kelli Ali - Psychic Cat, One Little Indian US OLI335, 2004.

Hot Lips
Psychic Cat
Speakers
Home Honey I’m High
Ideal
In Praise of Shadows
Graffiti Boy
Groupie
Voyeur
Last Boy on Earth


Back to the Sneaker Pimps.

Here is the SP4 demos from 2004. This was originally given to a record label, only to be refused thus making it unreleased. It's initial name was Recall, but was altered to SP4. This rejected fourth album was released on the Sneaker Pimps website, back when it was functioning.

Sneaker Pimps - SP4, not on a label, 2004

First & Careless Rapture
This Will Make You Love Again
Song of Imaginary Beings
One Method
Lolita
Ma Fille Concrete
Deviate
Kiss & Swallow
Sailor
Tigers
Mercy
Subway
Polaroids
Naked but Safe
Missile

Many of the songs on this album were reworked for the first two IAMX albums. Chris Corner was becoming X, now he is...I AM X he declares. Taken from Kiss & Swallow / The Alternative, IAMX's first two releases, the I am X versions of SP4 tunes (plus two bonus tracks).

IAMX - Song(s) of IAMXinary Being(s), Assorted Tastes.

This Will Make You Love Again
Song of Imaginary Beings - The Alternative

Kiss & Swallow
Sailor
Mercy
I Polaroids
Naked but Safe - Kiss & Swallow

Song of Imaginary Beings (instrumental)
Kiss & Swallow (Moonbootica mix)

Back in 2005/2006, a music player was found in a Russian bar, it contained seven tracks which were suspected to be from the Sneaker Pimps. The tracks circulated the web for years with uncertainty, but several years ago, Liam Howe (keyboards) confirmed that they are indeed SP tunes. Howe referred to them as The Magnificent Seven. The vocalist on the tracks remains unknown. Here is the mp3 rip of the album.

Sneaker Pimps - SP5: The Magnificent Seven, not on a label, 2006.

Samaritan
Sun Ate the Moon
Rush
The Shutdown
Satelite
Elias
Girl in a Box

Enjoy,
NØ

All Shook Up

Various - Shake the Nations!: A New Breed of Dub IV, Dubhead DBHD 036CD, 2004.

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Impact - The Dub Project
Cunjamal - Urban Dub featuring Fairshare Unity Sound
Jah Will Never Let I Down Dub - Sir Larsie I
Dinosaur - Vibronics
Circle Dub - Brain Damage
Revelations Dub - Iration Steppas
Everyone Dub - SISM-X
Centipede - Infantry Rockers
Burn Baby Burn - Dubphonic
Blessed & Dubbed - Sound Imperium
Roots Exotica - Trial Production
Temptation Island Dub - AB-10
Rockers Delight - Nucleus Roots
Spiritual Dub - Jah Warrior
Dub is What We Need - Twilight Circus Dub Sound System

Enjoy,
NØ

Nothin' 2 C Here, Keep Moving

Various - A New Breed of Dub Issue Three, Dubhead DBHD 025CD, 2002.

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The Truth Dub - Mungo’s Hi-Fi featuring Brother Culture
Under the Stars - Lover Grocer
Keep Moving Dub - Twilight Circus
Hard Time Pressure in a Babylon - Iration Steppas
Space Station Zion - Dubclash
Backs Against the Wall - Bush Chemists
Embers - Etherealites
Big Foot - Urban Dub
Skadroponics Dub - Hydroponics
Wickedness Version - Mungo’s Hi-Fi featuring Brother Culture
Firing the Phasers - Music Family
Trance Dub 3 - Zion Train
My Sound - Hydroponics & Singer Blue
Push Harder - Goldmaster Allstars
Set a New Course - Dubclash
A Little Version - Love Grocer featuring Cheshire Cat

Enjoy,
NØ

Last Call Pub is Really Dub

Various - A New Breed of Dub Issue Two, Dubhead DBHD 017CD, 2000.

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Trinity - Twilight Circus
Mr. Politician - Messenjah
Rocker Dub - The Bush Chemists
Niyim One Drop - Hydroponics
A Little Rain - Cool Breeze Sound System
Rejection (Festival mix) - Iration Steppas
Last Call Pub (sic) - Manasseh
Garage Dub - The Truth
Rasta - Culture Freeman & The Bush Chemists
Dragon Dub - Urban Dub
Bord - Twilight Circus
Big Mouth - Music Family
Dubbing Places - The Bush Chemists
Dubutainment - Armagideon
Release the Chains - Centry meets Music Family
United - Dub Specialists

Enjoy,
NØ

Take Heed

For all you lurkers & leechers, if you're not much into the Brotherhood of Dub, this'll probably be a good time for a toilet break or a short nap. I'm bringing this years girls to fruition, so I have Dub blasting full-time. The young ladies can't  hear but they sure can feel the drums & bass so I give them a continuous diet of Dubwise. If it's good enough for them, then it's damn well good enough for this here juke joint.

16 track sampler from the makers of Dubhead.

Various - A New Breed of Dub, Dubhead DBHD 001CD, 1997.

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Strickley Roots - The Truth
Astral Flame - The Disciples
Heavy Dub - Dub Specialists
Firing Dub - The Bush Chemists
Over the Rainbow - East meets West
Conflict - Dub Gheckp
Meditation Rock (Horns version) - Jonah Dan
Take Heed - Armagideon
007 Dub - Dubplate Vibe Crew
Brain Damage - Iration Steppas meet D. Rootical
Tokyo Dub - Hi Tech Roots Dynamics
Hot Stepper Dub - King General
Right from Wrong - Dub Specialists
Falasha Dub - Jah Warrior
Dub Outernational - East meets West
Talking Dubheadz - All Nation Rockers

Enjoy,
NØ

In the Ol’ Family Tradition

One of our neighbors found three abandoned new-born kittens (about two weeks old) in the crawlspace under his porch. Black Dahli opened her humongous heart & volunteered us to foster one of the little suckers. So now we're bottle feeding Dusty Crusty Punk (we determined he was a small black male after we removed dust-balls bigger than he from his filthy coat - the name just appeared). This is a round the clock task for BD, Lao Elanya, & moi, so I haven't had any time for this here web-log. That said, here's the Dub I'm Dubbin' at the Casa Nada at the present.

This here is the 1980 re-release of the 1977 smash hit Tradition in Dub. Only the names had been changed to bend your mind a bit. Trillin’!

Tradition here are: Les McNeil - vocals; Chris "Buff Head" Henry - guitar; Paul "Echo" Thompson - keyboards & vocals; Paul Dawkins - bass; & Tony "Drummie" Matthews - drums.

Recorded at Gooseberry Sound Studio. Produced by David Tyrone

Tradition - High Risk Dub, Venture Records CUT 6, 1980.

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The In Side -

Groove One - Entrance Fee
Groove To -  Nasal Passage
Groove Tree - Intermediate Level
Groove For - Caucasian Occasion
Groove Sink - Tea Time

The Out Side -

Groove Sicks - There a Lot of it About
Groove Severn - Not as Easy as it Seems
Groove Ate - It Wasn’t Quite what I Expected
Groove Nein - All Comes Out in the Wash
Groove Off - I Thought it Would Never End

Dub fer the week-end,
NØ

Dread Pon Some, Jah Love Pon Bim

Bim Sherman (born Jarret Lloyd Vincent - February 2, 1950 in Westmoreland, Jamaica) was a musician & singer-songwriter hailed as "reggae's sweetest voice". Bim was gifted with a haunting, ethereal voice that reached into the very heart of his listeners.

Bim Sherman did not ascribe his love of music to any one person but rather to his family, with whom he would attend church services & Sunday school. But as he became older, he began going to the local dancehalls:

"I always knew I could make the music, ever since I was small and it was all I wanted to do. I remember growing up and listening to it, singing along with it and feeling the power of it, which is the other side of roots, and feeling light-headed"

In the early seventies the young Sherman swapped trades from fisherman to electrician when he moved in with one of his brothers in central Kingston. His closest musical friends were Keith Porter & Ronnie Davis, who would go on to form the respected vocal group the Itals, but his first recording experience was with his early mentor Gladstone 'Gladdy' Anderson at the famous Treasure Isle studios. Things did not work out as well as he hoped there, or as Bim once so eloquently put it:

"things just go boof!"

In 1975 his first single to be released was "100 Year" b/w "100 Year version" which was cut at the Federal studio with Sid Bucknor as the engineer, produced by one Jarrett Tomlinson (aka Bim Sherman) & released on Micron Music Limited. "Love Forever" followed the same year, a self-financed affair on the Elements label with the Soul Syndicate band. Then came a string of tunes now recognized as reggae roots classics on Sherman's own Scorpio, Red Sea, & Sun Dew imprints ("Valley of Tears", "Tribulation", "Golden Locks", "World Go Round" & many others). These singles met with a degree of local success & appreciation which convinced Bim to continue, but in Jamaica there was always too much pressure:

"Lots of people like Randy's or Joe Gibbs want to record me, and even producers before them like Coxsone (Dodd). But its not easy in JA to get what you want out of recording and those people have a range of tricks they use to oppress you..."

Bim's first full-length album Love Forever (billed as Bim Shierman) was released on the Tribes  Man Records label, produced by Bim & Jah Lloyd, & included the title tune plus nine other previous Jamaican singles. Jah Lloyd was Lloyd Blackford, who was born in Morant Bay, Jamaica & had moved to the UK in 1961 to start Sir Coxsone Outernational, an extremely successful UK Sound System named after Jamaica's Coxsone Dodd.

Like so many other young Jamaicans in the 70s (& with encouragement from Jah Lloyd), Sherman decided to try his luck in the UK after the end of 1979s Roots Encounter tour (where he performed alongside Prince Far I, Creation Rebel, & Prince Hammer).

He moved to London where he started a friendship & business relationship with the young maverick music producer Adrian Sherwood, a long-time admirer of the singer.

Regarding Bim Sherman, Adrian Sherwood sez:

"All great singers and vocalists have one thing in common - their voice stands out like a uniquely tuned instrument that only one person can play. Bim Sherman was a singer/songwriter with a truly golden tone.  I have been throughout his whole career a huge fan. I first heard one of Bim's songs while working in PAMA records Soundville Shop in Harlesden, London, in the mid 70s ... His was like a voice from the wilderness, the lyrics and fragile power ensured that in every subsequent batch of imports I was looking out for a new Sherman record. I wasn't disappointed."

Adrian went on to buy all of the 7" pre-releases which featured the voice of Bim Sherman. It was during this time that Sherwood was developing his business collaboration with the heavyweight Jamaican DJ Prince Far I. He encouraged Prince Far I to hook up with Sherman for recording purposes. Eventually tunes such as "Down in Jamdown" (HIT DD 12) with Jah Lion & "Love Jah Only" (HIT DD II) with Jah Buzz came into the UK on the Hitrun label, a partnership venture between the young English producer Sherwood & the veteran Jamaican toaster Far I.

As part of the post-punk reggae infatuation, Bim made a name for himself recording on Sherwood's On-U Sound label. He became part of various musical collectives associated with On-U Sound, such as New Age Steppers (teamed with Ari Up, formerly of The Slits), Gary Clail & Tackhead, Singers & Players (with Congo Ashanti Roy & Prince Far-I ), Akabu, Japan's Audio Active, Sabres of Paradise, Groove Corporation, Bomb the Bass, Dub Syndicate, & Justice League of Zion.

In September 2000, Bim was diagnosed with cancer & succumbed to it on November 17, 2000 in London. His voice, song-writing, & impeccable class will never be duplicated but can be easily appreciated through his bountiful output.  

Here's an early one I've always loved. Hope you do to...

Bim Sherman meets Horace Andy & U. Black - In a Rub-a-Dub Style, 

Yard International YI 05, 1979.

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A Side -
It Must Be a Dream
Dreaming (Dub)
If I Can Make It
Make It (Dub)
Lamb of Judah
Judah (Dub)

B Side -
Dread Pan Some
Dread (Dub)
Tonight (Dub)
Power Chant
Chant (Dub)

A Side is Bim Sherman
B Side 1 & 2 is Bim & U. Black, 3 is Horace Andy, 4 & 5 is U. Black.
Mixed by Prince Jammy & produced by Jah Woosh.

Enjoy the heavy heavy soundz,
NØ

Unknown Cases of Leftovers

As this Pickwick Records presents: The Very Best(?) of Neu Wave series grinds to a halt (to never hear New Order, OMD, Flock o' Seagulls & their ilk evermore - so glad I was a punker, not a waver when this mess was danced around - Simple Minds actually weren’t so bad), I have a doggie bag of leftovers that I’ll dump here. Good diggin’...good eatin’.

Appetizer: w/ Blaine L. Reininger; Luc Van Acker; & Virginia Astley...

Anna Domino - East & West, Les Disques Du Crépuscule ‎– TWI 187, 1984.

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Side One -
With the Day Comes the Dawn
Land of My Dreams
Review

Side Two -
Everyday, I Don't
Trust, in Love



Soup
 

The Cassandra Complex - Grenade cassette, Rouska CXUS 001, 1986.

Side C -
March 86
Wonderworld
Presents (Come of Age)
Pickup
Power

Side X -
Report from the Back
Prairie Bitch
Motherad



Salad

The Unknown Cases - Cuba, Day-Glo DGCD 42, 1995.

The Traveller
Stop the Madness
Masimba Bele
Mountains
(I'm an) Unknown Case
Memowalk
If You Want Me to Stay
Nenem Auryn
T,M.Y.S.
She Knows It
Bogota Boogie (Dub) [written by Don Van Vliedt]
Travel to the Center of Paradise
Monkey Chant
Dal Martino



Main Course

Fra Lippo Lippi - In Silence, Uniton Records UNITON 003, 1981.

Side 1 -
Out of the Ruins
A Moment like This
In Silence
Recession

Side 2 -
The Inside Veil
I Know
Quiet
Lost



Dessert

Crash Course in Science - Cakes in the Home 7", GO GO Records GO GO 004, 1979.

Side A -
Cakes in the Home

Side B -
Kitchen Motors
Mechanical Breakdown

Th-th-aaattss all,
Folks

"Better Never than Late" Moltar

Various - New Wave Club Class-X8, Antler-Subway AS 5130 CD, 1997.
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Cars (Zeus B. Held remix) - Gary Numan
Coitus Interruptus - Fad Gadget
The Alarm - Nitzer Ebb
Wahre Arbeit Wahren Lohn - Die Krupps
Game Above My Head - Blancmange
8:15 to Nowhere - Vicious Pink
Putain Putain - T C Matic
Wishing (if I has a photograph of  you) - A Flock of Seagulls
Dark Compagnion - Tuxedomoon
T.V.O.D. - The Normal
Shout - Tears for Fears
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Nowhere - Snowy Red
The Bunker - The Bollock Brothers

Enjoy,
NØ

bonus blast...

TC Matic - TC Matic, Parsley PP005, 1981.

Side A -
Bye Bye Till the Next Time
L’Union Fait la Force
With You
Stop Rock
The Parrot Brigade

Side B -
I’m not Like That
Give Them a Leader
Viva Boema
O La La La
Pitie pour Lui

Rock stop,
NØ

Straight, no Chaser

Various - New Wave Club Class-X7, Antler-Subway AS 5120 CD, 1996.

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Making Plans for Nigel - XTC
I Love a Man in a Uniform - Gang of Four
Mind Your Own Business - Delta 5
You're No Good - ESG
It's Obvious - Au Pairs
Gathering Dust - Modern English
Mannequin - Wire
He's Read - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Soldier Soldier - Spizzenergi
The Wind Kisses Pictures - Christian Death
Fred vom Jupiter - Andreas Dorau & Die Marinas
Der Rauber und der Prinz - DAF
Yu Gung -  Einstürzende Neubauten
Collapsing New People - Fad Gadget

Enjoy,
NØ

At Last! The Beginning.

Various - New Wave Club Class-X6, Antler-Subway AS 5100CD, 1992.

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In the Beginning - The Slits
Death Disco - P.I.L.
Rema-Rema - Rema-Rema
No Tears - Tuxedomoon
Final Solution - Pere Ubu
De Dag dat het Zonlicht neit Meer Scheen - Arbeid Adelt!
4 Hours - Clock DVA
October Love Song (remix)
Dreiklangsdimensionen - Rheingold
Beep Beep Love - Gruppo Sportivo
The Fashion Party - Neon Judgement
Ball of Confusion (UK version) - Love & Rockets
To Cut a Long Story Short - Spandau Ballet
Madame Butterfly (un Bel di Vedremo) - Malcolm McLaren

Enjoy,
NØ


Sticking with last post's cyberpunk (& FLAC) meme, today's bonus lossless blast...

Clock DVA - The Hacker / The Act, Wax Trax! Records WAXCD 8068, 1990.

The Hacker
The Act
The Connection Machine
The Hacker (Hacked version)
Re/ Act
Sonology of Sex
Re / Act 2

Anyone Recognize Pattern?
NØ

What? You Just Can’t Get Enough? KMFDM

Various - New Wave Club Class-X5, Antler-Subway AS 5090CD, 1992.

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White Wedding Pts. I & II (Shot Gun mix) - Billy Idol
(It's not Me) Talking - A Flock of Seagulls
A Day - Xymox
Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo mix) - Depeche Mode
Electricity (Martin Hannett mix) - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
2000 Light Years from Home (Stones cover) - The Danse Society
Premonition - Simple Minds
Art of War - Siglo XX
Moscow Idaho - The Cassandra Complex
Don't Try to Cure Yourself - They Might Be Russians
C30 C60 C90 Go - Bow Wow Wow
African Reggae - Nina Hagen
Jah War - The Ruts
Masimbabele - The Unknown Cases

Enjoy,
NØ

bonus blast (anything but Billy Idol - - - right?)...

Wrong!

IMS(tupid or hitty or omethin’)O (& yes I am a closet cyberpunk junkie), an over-looked under-rated great & possibly Billy Boy’s best, even with its miss-steps & flubs (hell, he's got Doug Wimbish on bass, come on, people, ease up on The Snarl).

To add some sweetener to the pot - FLAC 24bit 96kHz suckas.

Billy Idol - Cyberpunk re-issue, 20x files FLAC, Not on a Label, 2017.

Intro
Wasteland
Interlude 1
Shock to the System
Tomorrow People
Adam in Chains
Neuromancer
Power Junkie
Interlude 2
Love Labours On
Heroin
Interlude 3
Shangrila
Concrete Kingdom
Interlude 4
Venus
Then the Night Comes
Interlude
Mother Dawn
Outro

William & Bruce & Neal...oh my,
NØ



added bonus -

The Unknown Cases - Masimbabele 89 (Adrian Sherwood remix)

On You,
Sound

Altered Images are the ANTI-CHRIST (& not in a Good Way)

Various - New Wave Club Class-X4, Antler Subway AS 5080CD, 1992.

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Human Fly - The Cramps
Warm Leatherette - The Normal
She’s Lost Control - Grace Jones
Everything’s Gone Green - New Order
How Much are They? - Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit & Holger Czukay
Acid Tabla - Suns of Arqa
She’s in Parties - Bauhaus
I Can’t Live in a Living Room - Red Zebra
Calcutta - The Names
Heartbeat - Psychedelic Furs
Our Darkness - Anne Clark
LetbYour Body Learn - Nitzer Ebb
Happy Birthday - Altered Images

Enjoy,
NØ

for the bonus blast I had expected Grace Jones or Jah Wobble (coupla my faves from the above set) but what really blasted me was...

It certainly could have been Paul Haig with the "Heaven Sent" scorcher. Here's an obscure 12" by Dub Organiser, also known as Paul Haig, (Josef K, vocalist).

Dub Organiser - I've Got a Weapon b/w It's Insane, Play Hard Records DEC 12, 1988.

Side A -
I've Got a Weapon

Side B -
It's Insane


but babee...
jump ahead in time just three short years to this blast, BLAST, BLAST,BLAST

Suns of Arqa - Total Eclipse of the Suns, Arka Sound ARKA 2108CD, 1995.

Durga Dub (Zombie remix)  - 5:07
Juggernaut (Youth & Greg Hunter remix)  -  7:23
Gavati (Bleeper & Booster remix)  - 11:18
Govinda’s Dream (United Spirits of Rhythm remix)  -  6:30
Beyond the Beyond (Yam Yam remix)  -  8:35
Inca Man (Zombie remix)  -  5:29
Tabla School (Zombie remix)  -  7:30
Acid Tabla (Adrian Sherwood remix)  -  7:35
Sully’s Reel (Swordfish remix)  -  5:27

Totally,
Dude

C is the Vitamin

Various - New Wave Club Class-X3, Antler-Subway AS 5070CD, 1992.

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Nag Nag Nag - Cabaret Voltaire
Flying Turns - Crash Course in Science
Are Friends Electric? - Gary Numan
Gioconda Smile - Poesie Noire
The Model - Kraftwerk
What We All Want - Gang of Four
Je Veux ton Amour - Section 25
Oh La La La - TC Matic
Walls of Jericho - Virgin Prunes
Shake the Mind - C Cat Trance
Rhythm - Anna Domino
Back to Nature - Fad Gadget
Magnificent Seven - The Clash
Where’s Captain Kirk? - Spizzenergi

Enjoy,
NØ

bonus blast...

Crash Course in Science - Signals from Pier Thirteen, Press Records P 2001, 1981.

Side A -
Cardboard Lamb
Crashing Song

Side B -
Flying Turns
Factory Forehead

C Cat Trance - Screaming (to be with you) 12" EP, Ink Records INK 1223, 1986.

Side One -
Screaming (to be with you)[Volta Rouge mix]

Side Two -
Let Me Sleep
Dangling on a String

Use with Care,
NØ

Hope is the Dope

Various - New Wave Club Class-X2, Antler-Subway AS 5060CD, 1991.

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Passion of Lovers - Bauhaus
London Calling - The Clash
Westworld - Theatre of Hate
Sleeper in Metropolis - Anne Clark
U-Men - Front 242
A Full Rotation - Repetition
Shack Up - A Certain Ratio
Mars on Ice - Slab!
Eisbaer - Grauzone
Zanna - Luc Van Acker with Anna Domino
Is Vic There? - Department S
Suicide Commando - No More
Horror Movies - The Bollock Brothers
The Ant Can See Legs - Severed Heads

Enjoy,
NØ


bonus blast (these are for jon hope)...

Anne Clark - Hopeless Cases, 10 Records DIXCD 48, 1987.

Poem Without Words I - The Third Meeting
Homecoming
Up
Cane Hill
This Be the Verse
Now
Hope Road
Armchair Theatre
Leaving
Poem Without Words II - Journey by Night

Repetition - The Still Reflex b/w Fade Out 7", Les Disques Du Crépuscule TWI 012, 1981.

Side A -
A Still Reflex

Side B -
Fade Out

Sarah Osborne (later of Allez Allez) - vocals, Peter Petrol ( Spizzenergi) - guitar, A.S.D.H. (Andy Hooper) - synthesizer, Nicolas AWOL - bass, & Tim Transe - drums.

Department-S - Going Left Right 7", Stiff Records BUY 118, 1981.

Side A -
Going Left Right

Side B -
She’s Expecting You

Severed Heads - Goodbye Tonsils 12" EP, Ink Records INK 129, 1985.

Side One (45rpm) -
Goodbye Tonsils

Side Two (33 1/3rpm) -
The Ant Can See Legs
I Stand on My Head
ACME Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit


Submissions of a Hope Fiend,
NØ

Flem ish de Narcotica

Got some great responses to the compilation in the previous post so decided to offer up some more from said series.

W. - This one's for you.

Various - New Wave Club Class-X1, Antler-Subway AS 5050CD, 1991.

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Modern English - Life in the Gladhouse
Executive Slacks - The Bus
The Neon Judgement - T.V. Treated
Fehlfarben - Ein Jahr(es Geht Voran)
Polyphonic Size - Mother’s Little Helper (Stones cover)
Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore the Machine (remix)
Medium Medium - Hungry so Angry
Snowy Red - Never Alive
Arbeid Adelt! - Death Disco
Marine - Life in Reverse
The Bollock Brothers - Harley David (Son of a Bitch)
Nacht und Nebel - Movoco Syntaca
1000 Ohm - A.G.N.E.S.
Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore the Machine (original)

Enjoy & more to come,
NØ

bonus blast...

The Neon Judgement - Mabu Cage, Play it Again Sam Records BiaS 28, 1986.

Side A(over) -
Awfull Day
The Man
He’s Gonna Drop
Be Nice to Me

Side B -
Rise! (I Hope One Day)
1958
Voodoo Nipplefield
Dead Friend’s Body

Late,
Nate

Che is the Narcotic

This has been a winding way. I was listening to a heavy streak of Fats Comet. I thought I remembered some song Fats Comet had done, a different more cut-up version of what became "Heaven on Earth" on Keith LeBlanc's Major Malfunction album. It turned out to be "Be My Powerstation" which had been released as a 12" single in 1983 by St. Che & later on the 1989 full-length release Narcotic by Che.

Che turned out to be Alex Johnson aka Alix Plain. Alix was a founding member of Modern Eon, a new wavish post-punk band that was part of the "New Liverpool Scene" that sprang up in 1979-1980 around Eric's Club (in a basement opposite The Cavern Club of Beatles fame). Others belonging to the "New Liverpool Scene" included Echo & the Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark, Dead or Alive, Pink Military & others.

Modern Eon had a few compilation tracks & then a minor hit with "Euthenics". In June 1981 they released their only album, Fiction Tales. The songs are fueled by powerful tom-tom driven, inventive drumming provided by the band's new drummer, 17 yr. old Cliff Hewitt. Their music differs from their musical peers by occasionally adding odd analog electronics & saxophone while Alix's vocals are bathed in reverb & delivered with a smooth eloquence yet are barely intelligible. The music is moody & melodic but a certain harshness bursts through that always leaves a vaguely mysterious impression.

Following the release of Fiction Tales, a tour was arranged supporting The Stranglers. But, during rehearsal sessions Cliff Hewitt, whose drumming style had become such an integral part of the bands sound, seriously injured his wrist. He did contribute to scheduled appearances for the John Peel, Richard Skinner, & In Concert Radio One radio shows, but it soon became apparent that the rigors of a tour would be too much for him. A suitable replacement could not easily be found. The solution was that they toured with Cliff's drum tracks on a tape machine which Cliff operated.

The end of 1981 found Modern Eon at work on demos for a second album with Cliff back on his drum stool but sadly, Modern Eon faded away, never to release a follow up album.

Modern Eon - Fiction Tales, Dindisc DID 11, 1981.

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Side One -
Second Still
The Grass Still Grows
Playwrite
Watching the Dancers
Real Hym
Waiting for the Calvary

Side Two -
High Noon
Child's Play
Choreography
Euthenics
In a Strange Way
Mechanic

Both the single "Be My..." & Narcotic are a druggy mixture of dubby funk & big beats that came about as the result of Alix meeting Adrian Sherwood (who produces three songs - "Fireflies", "Imperfections", & "Be My Powerstation") & Tackhead (former Sugarhill Gang legends Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald, & Keith LeBlanc who provide all the music).

Che - Narcotic, Siren CDSRN 16, 1989.

Scream like a Swift
Fireflies in Summer
I Wish He Didn’t Trust Me So Much
Moving the Silence
Imperfections
Be My Powerstation featuring Fats Comet
Jerusalem
View from a New Perspective
Celebrating Life


& as a bonus, here's a compilation from 1993 that has a track from Modern Eon (as well as Legendary Pink Dots, Comsat Angels, Tuxedomoon & various other NSS alumni, which is really why I added it).

Various - New Wave Soft Class-X1, Antler-Subway AS 5085, 1993.

It's a Fine Day - Jane
Night & Day - Everything but the Girl
The Treasure - Fra Lippo Lippi
I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives - Television Personalities (listed as Sid on back)
Spock's Missing - Spizz Energi
Tonight - Patrik Fitzgerald
Waiting for the Calvary - Modern Eon
Sister Europe - The Psychedelic Furs
Dark Parade (BBC Session) - The Comsat Angels
La Fête Triste - Trisomie 21
Final Day - Young Marble Giants
The Wedding - The Legendary Pink Dots
My Sex - Ultravox
Iceberg - Shoc Corridor
Burning Skies - Tones on Tail
The Stranger - Tuxedomoon

Enjoy,
NØ