February 8, 2012

ike yard

Yankee act on Factory, halfway between Throbbing Gristle and Be Music … For an introduction, check the "1980-82 Collected" cd on Acute (ACT008, 2006) which features quite a bit of unreleased work from 1981-1982.
http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/WFMU/blog/New_York_Noise_legends_Ike_Yard_return
http://www.ithacatimesartsblog.com/interview-with-gregg-gillis-of-girl-talk/stuart-argabright-of-ike-yard-talks-to-popcorn-youth/
http://blog.bleep.com/2010/10/21/bleep-interviews-stuart-argabright-ike-yard/
http://everythingischemical.blogspot.com/2011/01/eics10qs-wike-yard.html
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/ike-yard/1980-82-collected.htm
http://desire-records.blogspot.com/2010/07/ike-yard-nord.html
http://www.factmag.com/2010/10/12/ike-yard-return-with-nord/
http://www.phisteria.com/phi020.html
http://cerysmaticfactory.info/ike_yard.html
http://myspace.com/ikeyard

February 7, 2012

robin crutchfield's dark day

Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day!
http://www.robincrutchfield.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Crutchfield
http://nowave.pair.com/no_wave/darkday.html
http://burningflameblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/robin-crutchfield.html
http://ripitupfootnotes.blogspot.com/2008/11/footnotes-5-chapter-4-contort-yourself.html
http://totallywiredbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2009/04/interview-with-robin-crutchfield-of-dna.html

January 14, 2012

crash course in video

It's been some years since a complete Crash Course in Science collection was announced by News … so where is it, or whatever went wrong?
http://crashcourseinscience.com/
http://crashcourseinscience.com/index2.html
http://www.darkentries.be/nl/interviews/?iid=179
http://www.bodybeats.be/?language=en&navid=547
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Course_in_Science
http://minimalwave.com/artists/artist/crash-course-in-science/
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/oct/19/crash-course-post-punk/

December 13, 2011

claudine not jacques chirac

Claudine Chirac, ladies and gentlemen! Of Grauzone and Starter fame ...
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Claudine+Chirac
http://www.ndw-wiki.org/index.php?title=Chirac%2C_Claudine
http://guteluft.blogspot.com/2008/11/claudine-chirac.html

December 12, 2011

swiss starter

From Switzerland / Svizzera / la Suisse / die Schweiz: it's Starter! Their (untitled) debut lp (recorded in Bern in 1981) has just been reprinted by Dark Entries (who have a very impractical site), cat. no. DE-016. Should you buy their reissue, see to it you get the A4 inlay ànd the badge too. Main reasons for purchase: "Lunapark" by the original Francis Foss + Claudine Chirac + Jet Harbour line-up, and the lone bonus track by the Foss & Gray duo "Victim" (1985) … plus the interview below, perhaps. Also, I'm guessing Starter's "Tanger" (co-written by Stephan Eicher) is where current Swiss act What's Wrong With Us? got their name from … (Curious for thèir new album "Not Enough", incidentally.)
http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/?p=1306
http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/?page_id=47/
http://blog.bomarr.net/2011/07/28/starter-baby/

October 23, 2011

indoor life

Indoor Life … from Frisco … as underrated as any … and in dire need of reappraisal and a reissue programme ;-) By way of consolation, "Voodoo" can be found on "A Man & A Machine III" (2011-09).
http://journalofweirdstudies.blogspot.com/2007/10/indoor-life-archaeology.html
http://campari0safari.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/indoor-life-jorge-socarras-catholic-patrick-cowley-simon-reynolds-brandt-brauer-frick-macro-records-berlin-elektro-guzzi-eternal-heroes-vienna/

October 18, 2011

carol with snowy red and a machine or two

Absolutely wanted to play Carol's "Breakdown" for ya - a track I'd already mentioned in my Snowy Red post, as he's backing her on this one. The track is also on the very excellent "A Man & A Machine III" v/a 2cd. The tracks by the Cabs, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Drinking Electricity are presented here in the compilers' original sequence, just to show how well Stéphane Ritzenthaler and Philippe Pierre-Adolphe can create a musical flow, apart from having impeccable taste in eighties wave and avantgarde … Do check their "A Man & A Machine" series, I urge thee!