transmission 13

I'm still here! I just haven't really had the time to post lately, sorry---but here's something to hold you over until I get to posting more releases. It's a pretty diverse set of some of my favorite tracks I've found on blogs and the internet recently.

You should check out TheeBradMiller's TBM Radio site. He does something very similar to this , with some podcasts of great industrial musick and great exploitation film screen shots.

(I added some links for the tracks-- so you can go to the respective blogs I got them from and download the album)

tracklist:

Philippe Laurent - Desordre Et Distorsion
Kosa Nostra - For The Best
Brigade Internationale - Remember My Death
Moments Présents - A.D.
Le Syndicat - Le Statent Du Lepreux
Mad Tea Party - Modern Time's Pop
MLD - Perpetual Motion
Two Daughters - So I
32 Guájar's Fáragüit - Preterpret
Ain Soph - Credo (G. Kremmerz)
White House White - Africa Intrigues
Pierre Schaeffer - Etude Violette

P.S. -- This recorded at somewhat low volume for some reason... so turn it UP!!

download here:
transmission 13

Happy New Year!!!!

Y Pants post is re-uploaded.

Esplendor Geométrico

Sheikh Aljama (CD, Daft Records, 1991, Belgium)

1. Baraca
2. Trafica
3. Introspeccion
4. Medinati
5. Descontrol
6. Jeque de Aljama
7. Min Dahul
8. Animatriz
9. Sinaya

Heavy, heavy rhythms with a middle-eastern theme throughout the album. Released on Dirk Ivens' label Daft Records.

download here:
Esplendor Geométrico - Sheikh Aljama

re-uploads

Monoton
La Nomenklatur
Geile Tiere

transmission 12

I thought it would be fun to upload another podcast. I think I'll start doing these more often again. Thanks to enborRa, Sickness Abounds, Nostalgie De La Boue, 433rpm, and The Thing On The Doorstep.

Die Form - Sing Song
Esplendor Geométrico - Dinamo 3
Mecanica Popular - Daguerrotipo
Jacula - Triumphatus Sad
Order 1968 - Sturm
Geins't Naït - Vaclav
Gerechtigkeits Liga - Narkomanie
Pornosect - The Lie Becomes The Truth
Pacific 231 - Ma Douce Amie
P. Children - Social Life
Anne Gillis - Untitled

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transmission 12

Minny Pops post is re-uploaded.

La Nomenklatur

La Légende Des Voix (Cassette, Les Nouvelles Propagandes, 1986, France)

1. Ouverture
2. Ultima
3. Insure Post Mortem
4. Arth
5. Ouverture II
6. Merith.D.
7. Ankhare
8. Merith.B.
9. Exthrem.O.

Intense rhythmic industrial solo project of Philippe Escartin (aka Tiburce). You can read more about the Les Nouvelles Propagandes label here, at the excellent Nostalgie De La Boue.

download here:
La Nomenklatur - La Légende Des Voix

Vidna Obmana

Gathering In Frozen Beauty (Cassette, The Decade Collection, 1989, Belgium)

1. Dazzling Array 1
2. Lost In The Swirling Distance
3. Dazzling Array 2
4. Before Mutual Grace
5. Upon Steels Heaven
6. Into Grey Divides
7. Gathering In Frozen Beauty

From Discogs:

"Belgian composer Dirk Serries chose the name Vidna Obmana for his musical persona because it means "optical illusion." in Serbian language. Thirteen years hence, Vidna Obmana still finds that the name gives him a feeling of freedom to place his music first, before his own personality and philosophy. Like water, Vidna Obmana continues to change form over his musical career. As a self-taught electronic musician, Vidna Obmana explored different musical areas before discovering the techniques of looping and shaping harmonies, merging layers of sound and minimizing the configurations to a few notes. His style of atmospheric music creates trance-like states in listeners who understand the language of sound."

Gorgeous minimal ambient release.

download here:
Vidna Obmana - Gathering In Frozen Beauty

Oveo

Ancient TV (CDr, Self-Released, 2007, US)

1. Ancient TV

Here is a nice document of the experimental scene in my town- Denton, Texas. Oveo was a project of two prolific local musicians, Jason Moore and Andrew Michael. Ancient TV is their minimal dronescape masterpiece. They utilize various electronics and effect treatments. AM's signature Korg drum machine gives a pulse throughout the 18 minute long piece, while foggy, lush, meditative sounds wash in and out. For fans of any dark ambient music...

download here:
Oveo - Ancient TV

Re-Ups

I will be working on re-uploading some requests by some of you soon. Sorry for the lack of posting/replying. Right now I see that the Guerre Froide and Minny Pops are requested. Anything else?

Aube

Drip (Cassette, G.R.O.S.S., 1992, Japan)

1. Drip Part 1
2. Drip Part 2

"Original Live Recording At On Gallery Osaka 2. May 1992 'Water 1992' By Takashi Sasaoka.
Edited, Re-Recorded & Re-Mixed At Studio Mecca July & August 1992."

download here:
Aube - Drip

Kapotte Muziek

Real Time Music (Cassette, Midas Tapes, 1987, Netherlands)

1. Real Time Music 26/X/87 AA
2. Real Time Music 26/X/87 AB
3. Real Time Music 27/X/87 BA
4. Real Time Music 27/X/87 CA

Notes from Discogs:

"All sounds by Frans de Waard and his broken tape-deck.

Limited edition of 50 copies. First 20 copies in special boxed edition with parts from this tapedeck of Kapotte Muziek.

This tape was later re-released on 7" by Midas Music."

download here:
Kapotte Muziek - Real Time Music

Death Pact Mailmusic

Death Pact Mailmusic was a sub-label of Midas Music and Korm Plastics. They released 6 tapes (8 were planned), all of which were mail collaborations between prominent industrial/post industrial/noise artists.

Kapotte Muziek + The Grey Wolves

Death Pact 2 (Cassette, Death Pact Mailmusic, 1988, Netherlands)
1. Untitled
2. Untitled
3. Untitled
4. Untitled
5. Untitled
6. Untitled
7. Untitled
8. Untitled
9. Untitled

Vidna Obmana + Kapotte Muziek

Death Pact 8 (Cassette, Death Pact Mailmusic, 1988, Netherlands)

1. Untitled
2. Untitled
3. Untitled
4. Untitled
5. Untitled
6. Untitled
7. Untitled
8. Untitled

download here:
Death Pact 2
Death Pact 8

I've also re-uploaded the Peloquin/Sauvageau album here, by request.

Sorry for the long break....

Henri Roger

Images... (LP, Tapioca, 1975, France)

1. Images...
2. Au Delà Du Langage
3. Ataraxie
4. Asyle Cosmique

Instrumental cosmic music from France. Great sounds coming from early Korg synths, and some Yamaha organs. Very cool record to sleep to, or to do whatever to. Thanks to my friend David for turning me on to this record. Looks like Mutant Sounds has some other records from this record label, I'm sure those are interesting too.

download here:
Henri Roger - Images...

Diamánda Gálás

The Litanies Of Satan (LP, Y Records, 1982, UK)

1. The Litanies Of Satan
2. Wild Women With Steak-Knives

Excellent, scary, out there album. I'm sure this has been posted by many blogs before, but anyone that hasn't heard this needs to. It's not a record you listen to every day or anything. Side A is for voice, tape, and electronics. Side B is "for solo scream."

download here:
Diámanda Gálás - The Litanies Of Satan

NOTE: No more bickering from you little anon posters. If you don't like my subject matter, you can simply not come here. Start your own blog!

Ataraxia

The Unexplained (LP, RCA, 1975, US)

1. Tarot
2. Sorcerer
3. Deja Vu
4. Astral Projection
5. Seance
6. I Ching
7. Cabala
8. The Unexplained
9. Wind Dance

Ataraxia is one of the many pseudonyms that the prolific synthesizer composer, Mort Garson, goes by. This is said to be his "sequel" to Black Mass. Excellent synth tunes centered around occult themes, you can't go wrong! More early synth composer stuff to come...

download here:
Ataraxia - The Unexplained

Ridiculous Finds

An angel in the form of a Factory Records distributer came down to my local record store in Denton, TX, Recycled Books & Records, and sold a crate full of ORIGINAL, MINT condition records and cassettes. I nearly cried when I found these.



Ike Yard - Ike Yard (LP, Factory America, 1982, US)



Dominatrix - Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight (12", Streetwise, 1984, US)



Nasmak - 4Our Clicks (LP, Plurex, 1982, Netherlands)



Metal Urbain - Les Hommes Morts Sont Dangereux (LP, Celluloid, 1980, France)



Section 25 - Always Now (LP, Factory, 1981, UK)

WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

I had to brag a little.

Life Functions Terminated

Demo (MP3, Not On Label, 2008, US)

1. Wage
2. Take Back The Artifact

download here:
Life Functions Terminated - Demo

Drexciya

Bubble Metropolis (12", Underground Resistance, 1993, US)
1. Aqua Worm Hole
2. Positron Island
3. Beyond the Abyss
4. Bubble Metropolis
5. Danger Bay
6. Welcome To Drexciya

An early record of the prolific Drexciya. Check out tons of information about them at Drexciya Research Lab.

download here:
Drexciya - Bubble Metropolis

What I've Been Working On

Sorry for the lack of posting lately. I have been working on many different projects, and working close to 50 hours a week. I can offer you a few things to check out if you're interested. A long time friend/bandmate and I have been trying to get a small electronics business off the ground. In the last couple of weeks we've finished our first prototype-- a 3 octave monophonic synthesizer, the LZX Industries Monolith. We made a video demo of it, and were excited to find out that it was featured on Matrix Synth the next day. You can check out that video here:



We've also been working under a new title musically, and we've cut a few new tracks which you can listen to here:

PHANTASTES

Both tracks were recorded live in our studio with:

LZX Monolith (above)
8Z8 (Our Roland TR-808 Clone)
CGS Cynare
Thomas Henry's UD1 & Clangora
MFOS Oscillators & ENV Generators
MIDIbox SEQ v3

I've been busy! Now that internet is on at my new place, I'll be getting back to posting shortly.

Hembrug

VA - Hembrug (Cassette, Finger In The Dike, 1982, Netherlands)

1. Sluik - You've Got To Listen To Me
2. Sluik - I Felt A Bit, I Was
3. Sluik - Back To Burnsley
4. Sluik - Open Window
5. Sluik - Never Ending
6. Ma Colle - Funeral
7. Ma Colle - Toys
8. Ma Colle - Rotterdam '41
9. Opel - Untitled Construction 1
10. Opel - Untitled Construction 2
11. Rob Van - On The Road
12. Rob Van - Grey
13. Rob Van - Ind. Imp. 1
14. Rob Van - Sounds, Words, Visions
15. Rob Van - Biofeedback
16. Paay - 1a
17. Paay - 4
18. Paay - 3b

Wonderful compilation of synth experimentation from 1982. This was previously posted by No Longer Forgotten Music about a year ago, but it was unindexed, which made it pretty difficult to differentiate between bands/songs.
Minimal Wave reissued the Sluik tracks from here on to a 7 inch, but it looks like they're all sold out.

Get this. It's wonderful.

download here:
VA - Hembrug

I'll be back in a bit

I started a new job this week, and I'm moving into a new place next week.

I'll get back to posting as soon as I can.

-Shane

Duet Emmo

Or So It Seems (CD, Mute Records Ltd., 1992, UK)

1. Hill Of Men
2. Or So It Seems
3. Friano
4. The First Person
5. A.N.C.
6. Long Sledge
7. Gatemmo
8. Heart Of Hearts

More from Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, this time collaborating with Daniel Miller of Mute Records/The Normal/Silicon Teens/etc. This was originally recorded in 1981/1982.

download here:
Duet Emmo - Or So It Seems

C.K.C

20h25 (7", Ponce Pilate, 1981, France)

1. 20h25
2. Tous Les 7 Ans

Cool French synth punk-ish no wave-ish tunes.

download here:
C.K.C - 20h25

Coldreams

Morning Rain (7", Rock Hardi, 1986, France)

1. Morning Rain
2. Eyes

Very nice melancholic postpunk/wave single.

download here:
Coldreams - Morning Rain

Los Iniciados

La Marca De Anubis (LP, Dro, 1982, Spain)

1. Obertura
2. La Marca De Anubis
3. La Comitiva Celeste
4. Maritatón y El Nilo
5. Isis y Osiris
6. Resurrección
7. Atlas
8. Mantis Religiosa
9. Ella Es Intangible
10. El Hombre Sin Nombre
11. Peter Pan
12. Soy El Vacio

Goofy Egyptian-themed side project of El Aviador Dro, I'm sure everyone's seen that video by now. Nice synth bloops and bleeps.

download here:
Los Iniciados - La Marca De Anubis

Dome

Will You Speak This Word (LP, Uniton, 1982, UK)

1. To Speak
2. To Walk, To Run
3. To Duck, To Dive
4. This
5. Seven Year
6. Atlas

Peculiar experimental/industrial album from Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis. Really hard to explain this one, it's pretty out there. I'm not sure if the "industrial" tag is even correct. "This" is one of the strangest/coolest songs I've ever heard.

download here:
Dome - Will You Speak This Word

Violent Squid

I wanted to take a minute to talk about an artist from my town, Denton, TX.

This brain-melter culture-jammer improvisational group is probably one of the most interesting things going on around here. My friend, Ty Stamp, is the main instigator. A while back he made a mix that I posted here. The music may or may not be any direct influence on Violent Squid, but it's a pretty bizarre mix of sublime frequencies style foreign tunes, and some more contemporary experimental artists.

I've seen Violent Squid as a drum trio... a small army of musicians playing guitars/electronics/phototheremins/metal boxes with springs... a "turntabalist" was involved one time (and it was not as stupid as that sounds!)... I even jam with them on occasion. The only constant member is usually Ty.

I caught them last Saturday at a local club. I was a bit too inebriated to pay attention, but thankfully, Ty recorded the whole thing.

You can find that recording, a funny video, and almost ALL of their other live and studio recordings for download at Ty's blog:

violent squid autopsy

I'm going to be posting some more releases from my favorite dfw artists in the near future.

Trevor Wishart

Journey Into Space (CD, Paradigm Discs, 2005, UK)

1. Birth Dream
2. Journey
3. Arrival

Self-released originally in 1973 as a 2xLP, then re-released by Colin Potter's label, ICR, on cassette and then once again on this disc. Strange experimental tape collage music, certainly way ahead of its time. Reminds me of some Nurse With Wound or Étant Donnés at times. This album's a pretty big head trip.

More Trevor Wishart can be downloaded here.

download here:
part one
part two

Blue Mathue

Perfect Pictures (12", Uniton, 1983, Norway)

1. Perfect Pictures
2. In Our Dream
3. The Vision

Bad ass proto-electro, and excellent utilization of the TR-808. I'm going to try to post more from the "Uniton" label later.

download here:
Blue Mathue - Perfect Pictures

Greg Vandike

Clone (7", United Artists, 1979, UK)

1. Clone
2. All Of The Girls

Nice synth-pop single.

download here:
Greg Vandike - Clone

Discussion

I recently put up an album that I found in SoulSeek. I uploaded it here, because I liked it. I did not rip the mp3s myself. Is there something wrong with that? The person that ripped these files and put them in their SHARED folder, seemed to think so.

I'm very frustrated with this unwritten "rule book" for music blogging. I am doing this because I love music, playing music, music is MY LIFE. I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes. I'm not trying to say I'm better than anyone, and I'm not trying to get cool points. I'm not attempting to take credit (?) for uploading things first. I'm not even sure what "taking credit" for uploading music that isn't your own means anyway.

If anyone has anything to say about this... leave a comment. If not, that's fine too! I'm going to continue doing what I do.

-Shane/Soundhead

Portion Control

Simulate Sensual (LP, In Phaze Records, 1983, UK)

1. Simulate Sensual
2. Bombay CID
3. Electrotechnik
4. Moving Towards A Waste
5. The Pressure Is High
6. New Phaze
7. Le Crunch
8. If I Could Spit
9. Return To Situation
10. He Is Patriotic
11. Come Alive
12. He Is A Barbarian

Excellent collection of various studio and live tracks from 1980-1982 from the classic EBM pioneers.

download here:
Portion Control - Simulate Sensual

Esplendor Geométrico

Necrosis En La Poya (7", Tic Tac, 1981, Spain)

1. Necrosis En La Poya
2. Paedophile Information Exchange
3. Negros Habrientos

Early single from one of my favorite bands. Passionate rhythmic industrial from Spain.

download here:
Esplendor Geométrico - Necrosis En La Poya

Ike Yard

Ike Yard (LP, Factory America, 1982, US)

1. M. Kurtz
2. Loss
3. N.C.R.
4. Kino
5. Cherish 8
6. Half A God

Absolutely essential dark no wave electronics and voice.

Acute Records put out a fantastic collection of Ike Yard songs. If you like this record, buy the CD from them HERE.

At the request of Acute Records, I've taken the download link down for this. Don't miss this... order the CD from them,

Rational Youth

Cold War Night Life (CD, EMI Music, 1997, Canada)

1. Close To Nature
2. Beware The Fly
3. Saturdays In Silesia
4. Just A Sound In The Night
5. Le Meilleur Des Mondes
6. Ring The Bells
7. City Of Night
8. Dancing On The Berlin Wall
9. Power Zone
10. I Want To See The Light
11. Coboloid Race

CD reissue of the 1982 Canadian synth-pop record. Includes a couple other tracks (9-11).

download here:
Rational Youth - Cold War Night Life

Logic System

Logic (LP, EMI Music, 1981, Japan)

1. Intro
2. Unit
3. Domino Dance
4. 天変地異 (Convulsion Of Nature)
5. XY ?
6. Talk Back
7. Clash (Chinjuy Of Sun)
8. Person To Person
9. Logic

Awesome arpeggios and synth soundscapes. Reminds me of YMO at times, which I'm sure they were influenced by. I'm a sucker for great monotone vocoder... there's some of that in here too. Great Japanese proto-electro!

download here:
Logic System - Logic