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AIRTIGHT 014CD
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A seldom heard band existing at the end of the '80s comprising founder members of Stock, Hausen & Walkman and the drum/bass rhythm section from Nico's backing band and The Blue Orchids, and a maverick vocalist. All in turn under the influence of Allen Ravenstine, David Moss, Gareth Sager, James Blood Ulmer, Bootsy Collins, Herbie Flowers, John "Drumbo" French, Robert Wyatt, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Don Van Vliet, Gabi Delgado, etc., they attempted to meld the noisier end of free improvisation with a slightly more oblique and accomplished funk than the Manchester "baggy" sound of that era. An album release cobbled together from studio demo, rehearsal room, and live recordings. The Stretch M-Arkhives will appeals to enthusiastic listeners of: The Contortions, Boredoms, The Pop Group, the first Golden Palominos LP (1983), P-Funk, Pere Ubu, Clock DVA, Captain Beefheart, Defunkt, A Certain Ratio, Liquid Liquid, ESG, Material, The Birthday Party, DNA, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Chakk, Butthole Surfers, John Zorn's Locus Solus, 23 Skidoo, Rip Rig & Panic, Mr Bungle, Cameo, the Wee Papa Girl Rappers, and everything in the next three decades that milked those influences to curdling point!
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AIRTIGHT 014LP
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LP version. 180 gram vinyl. A seldom heard band existing at the end of the '80s comprising founder members of Stock, Hausen & Walkman and the drum/bass rhythm section from Nico's backing band and The Blue Orchids, and a maverick vocalist. All in turn under the influence of Allen Ravenstine, David Moss, Gareth Sager, James Blood Ulmer, Bootsy Collins, Herbie Flowers, John "Drumbo" French, Robert Wyatt, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Don Van Vliet, Gabi Delgado, etc., they attempted to meld the noisier end of free improvisation with a slightly more oblique and accomplished funk than the Manchester "baggy" sound of that era. An album release cobbled together from studio demo, rehearsal room, and live recordings. The Stretch M-Arkhives will appeals to enthusiastic listeners of: The Contortions, Boredoms, The Pop Group, the first Golden Palominos LP (1983), P-Funk, Pere Ubu, Clock DVA, Captain Beefheart, Defunkt, A Certain Ratio, Liquid Liquid, ESG, Material, The Birthday Party, DNA, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Chakk, Butthole Surfers, John Zorn's Locus Solus, 23 Skidoo, Rip Rig & Panic, Mr Bungle, Cameo, the Wee Papa Girl Rappers, and everything in the next three decades that milked those influences to curdling point!
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AIRRAID 013CD
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With Entertaining The Invalid, Matt Wand has put together something that simultaneously celebrates a little heard of record shop from an obscure suburb of Manchester, its links with the late '70s/early '80s Manchester music scene, some of the unsung characters that frequented that far-flung outpost of cultural delinquency, and their doomed plots to bring down the musical establishment. The music itself runs the gamut of minimal synth anthems, DIY jazz punk, grey industrial sci-fi, and new wave disco crossovers. All are linked by an outsider sensibility and also a determination that any skill deficiencies could be overcome by sticking to the new born mantra of the times, "Minimalist Music for the Masses". Matt escaped his post punk cassette culture past in the later eighties by forming the cartoon-improvising, electronic sampling beast known as Stock, Hausen & Walkman. Fans of his records include, Mike D (Beastie Boys), Autechre, Jarvis Cocker, Lady Miss Kier (Deee-Lite), Harry Hosono (Yellow Magic Orchestra), Matt Groening, John Peel, Thurston Moore, and probably a few others... But there is no guarantee any of those people share your taste or ineffable sense of style. Features: The Anti-Mann, Schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen, The Un-Normalized, The Baby Snatchers, Tooters, Tweeters, Strings & Beaters, The Flying Eyes, Diskette, Kleinstein, W2F, Muscle, Wetfinger!, Technicezna Nizkotopliwa, Miracle Fat Destroyer, Arthur Appliance & The Warm Suds, Gilbert Rubêc, Low Odour, Erec-Troniq, The Alkaloids, and Infomaniac.
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HOT AIR008
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"Hard to pin down... Matt Wand returns under yet another pseudonym, with a collection of tracks roughly hewn from the very rock beneath us... On the face of it this could be popular music, but popular music made by banging large rocks together, recording it into a computer and grinding the numbers until they resemble rough diamonds mixed with gravel. This is definitely 'Missing Link' music... somehow succeeding in bringing together Primitive Space Rock, 'the Cut-up Beat Technique', Laptop Distress & the Archeology of Ancient Video Games and more importantly getting them all to talk to each other. This record is possibly also the missing link between the Totally Misunderstood pioneering past of Stock, Hausen & Walkman and the Absolute Unrepentant Future of Mr Wand. As the title Carbondating suggests this album has many layers of compressed noise history, it sounds quite Unforgivingly Modern but every once in a while a small piece of the Barbaric Musical past will erupt upwards and present itself for the listener to test his Anachronism Spotting capabilities. This is the Anal Record Shop Assistants perfect filing Nightmare, should it go under 'Avant Rock'? or 'BIP-HOP'? or 'Nihil-Reggae'? or 'Electronic Cranial Beat Jugglers'? or perhaps 'Techno-Primitive Hoe-Down' well perhaps 'New Releases' would do for a start and after that just file under 'Hot Air' the home of the unclassifiable and the un-reviewable."
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HOT AIR004
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"A very fine 14 track CD by Mr. Matt Haines, this is nothing like the 7" release Why Do Birds Sing? also out on Hot Air, it contains NO whistling and instead sways back and forth between highly electrical surge spike rhythms and perfect serene electro-dub, quite often within the same track. If sometimes the more abstract noises in this release sound vaguely familiar that's because Matt is also responsible for much of Atom's (Rather Interesting) Kyma patch programming, ie; he made a lot of those weird digital sounds for him... Not to worry the rest of the CD has a catchiness all its own, sound so clean you can eat off it and more rhythmic twists, morphs and mutations per track than the wildlife surrounding Sellafield. Definitely a Brain of two halves."
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HOT AIR003
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"21 track CD in printed card wallet. Contains selections from the first 12 Medical Milestones 7" vinyl releases plus some tracks (and versions of tracks) not released on the original vinyls due to restriction of space. Also a couple of extra bonus tracks from Japanese only releases thrown in just to confuse the issue." Artists include: Vomit Lunchs, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Los Sampler's, Seminconductor, Gino Robair, Dummy Run, Speedranch, Birmingham, The Rip-Off Artist, Stahlgren and Ferguson, Janek Schaefer.
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HOT 79
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"Birmingham is in fact Nic Birmingham, one half of the Surfcore Sample Rupture Duo otherwise known as Dummy Run. Dummy Run are famous for remixing Parasite Eve and various other Vid Game theme tunes and are often mistaken for being Stock, Hausen and Walkman without the OAP bus passes. This five track EP release sees Birmingham getting round the back of the fridge, pulling all the wires out and sampling the results, the tracks have the same manic, itchy rhythmic momentum as Dummy Run but with a more broken electronic toy sound. A genre busting , electronic crossroads classic!"
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HOT 78
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"Mr Vomit Lunch takes his big stick to Stock H & Walkman and then to Dummy Run and beats them to an unrecognizable pulp, then SHW retaliate by making Vomit Lunch take a lead role in an unsane Bollywood soundtrack climax. Yes, its remixes."
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HOTCD4LUNCH
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1998 production of tracks by Japanese artist Hironori Murakami, available as a quaint little 3" CD or 10" picture disc vinyl release. Cover art for both is quite gnarly, proving pornography is very much legal in the UK domain after all. Harsh cut-up noise-arrays at full volume & speed.
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HOTBSECD1
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"First album from this combo, a more beat-obsessed take on SH&W (with whom they share member one: Andrew Sharpley) style anti-context and random cultural spatter (Read: Plunderphonics for the freak-beat set). While trying to refrain from using the word 'wacky', I've decided that it's probably the most apt tag one can place hereon. A decidedly different approach from the more dance-floor concerned end of breakbeat sonics. And a sense of humor (the track 'F.D.' chronicles the media-misconceptions of sample-based music through various timestretched host-idiot-comments before breaking into the chorus of the 'A-Team' theme). If any of you are confused on how to turn a 'musical spoons' record into a tearing drum n' bass steppa, look no further." -- Hrvatski.
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