With the plan to include a cover version in each programme throughout 2023 I decided to dig out my copy of X-TG's "Desertshore" album and play a track from it. The broadcast opens with "Desertshores" which is not a cover version per se but a 're-imagination' of Nico's work. I didn't know this, apparently the track "Desertshores" is not on Nico's "Desertshore" album. Perhaps I should have known this?
I have met Nico twice. Once in the backstage area of Deeside Leisure Centre during 'Futurama 4' in 1982. I wasn't playing (ha!), I just bumped in to Lawrence Diagram, who was in Nico's backing band at the time and he invited me backstage for a drink and a chat. Then, a few years later, I went for a game of pool in The Spinners pub in Hulme (the one at the end of William Kent Crescent) and Nico was sat alone in the pool room waiting for her man (as it were). Strangely enough I was friends with 'her man' and managed to sit next to her so in years to come I could say 'I sat next to Nico once' .... I (honestly) could not remember when 'Futurama 4' took place ... what year, and I was surprised to find out it was in 1982. Looking at the list of bands. artists that played ...
I forgot that China Crisis played. On the first night Blancmange headlined because they 'turned up late', but I guess I had become a little tired of New Order by then. Dalek I Love You played in the foyer at the same time as The Durutti Column were on in the Main Hall. (I opted for the latter). Naafi Sandwich were good and I think The Wake played on the first day too. Punching Holes and The March Violets were great on the Sunday. Southern Death Cult started playing on stage 2 whilst Nico was still playing on Stage 1. Nico was turned off but refused to leave the stage. I don't remember seeing The Famers Boys or The Room. The Damned were, by this time, pure 'Music Hall' ... they even did "Happy Talk". Dead Or Alive and Dance Society were awful, as was Sex Gang Children who had a 'dancer / fire eater' wearing a skeleton suit and rasta wig which he accidentally set on fire .... Oh how we laughed.
The Mark Vernon track is from "Everywhere Is A Negative Mirror" on the Greek label 'Granny Records'. https://grannyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/elsewhere-is-a-negative-mirror. To me it has a hint of Rimbaud (Robin not Arthur). I have no idea who the Mollbury Medical Research Centre is or are. What did lean me towards this cassette was that it is on the Sensory Leakage label, and I always find their releases fascinating. In the past Grey Frequency, Tippex Christ and Andreas Brandal. have put out outstanding sounds on this label, and their 'sister label' Remote Viewing. Discover great sounds at : https://sensoryleakage.bandcamp.com. Blood Rhythms is the project of Arvo Zylo.
For the past fifteen years or so Arvo has been operating the 'No Part Of It' label. Blood Rhythms is Arvo's project of collaboration and participation. "Horror Pilations" is a series of six albums with artist and musician Leslie Keffer. Released as download, vinyl LP and CD. I love the sounds, like drifting sand across the desert, always moving, changing directions. The series was one of the highlights of last year. More details about the project can be found at :
https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com. I am a collector of Drone Records 7" singles. Spiarcle's "Exusiai" was released in 2010. Spiracle is the solo project of Japanese sound artist Hitoshi Kojo. Hitoshi is based in Switzerland.
The Spiracle project seems to have ceased with the lat releases being a re-issue of the 2006 album "Ananta" by Helen Scarsdale Agency in 2009 and this 7" on Drone Records in 2010. Hitoshi can be contacted through his website at :
https://www.omnimemento.com/kojo/.
Lu is the project from Italian musician Gianluca Porcu. Gianluca also goes under the alias of LU-PO. The two tracks here are from the 2002 album "B-Interrail" on the lovely Italian label Small Voices. The voice on "Inter Rail 5" brought in to mind the voice of René Halkett and his collaboration with Bauhaus's David Jay. René was a founder member of 'Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar' in (I think) 1923. He died in Camelford, North Cornwall in 1983.
I was (and still am) a big fan of Bauhaus 1979 to 1982. Anything and everything up to the third album "The Sky's Gone Out", and the "Press The Eject And Give Me The Tape" live album. I saw them a few times up and down the country and rate the gig they did at Nottingham Rock City in October 1982 as one of the best gigs I have ever been to. It did help that The Birthday Party and Vic Goddard & The Subway Sect were supports. Rather like Nico's "Desertshore" album, Brian Eno's "Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)" is an album I have never heard and is where the track "Third Uncle" comes from. I have no idea if the Bauhaus cover version is close to the original. Bloody good song though.
'On This Day' in 1980 Swell Maps released the instant classic 7"EP "Let's Build A Car".
The Kneecapped track is from the Swell Maps tribute album "Deconstructed / Reconstructed (Slicing, Slabbing, Fuzzyfying)" released on cassette by UK label Industrial Coast in April 2022. "Robot Factory" originally appeared on the LP "...In 'Jane From Occupied Europe'" in 1980.
The cassette album also features Hauras, The Prestidigitators, Nigel Ayers, Stalingrad and Graphic Varispeed amongst others. Kneecapped are from Bradford, they are the experimental side project of members from the hardcore punk outfit Stalingrad. About 30 years ago I came in to contact with Stalingrad as one of their members, Richard, was setting up experimental evenings at the 1in12 Club in Bradford and I got in touch asking to play (as Dieter Müh). Richard started the 'Fifth Circuit' nights with his friend Jamie. Dieter Müh played two Fifth Circuit evenings alongside Zoviet*France and Scorn. I have a memory of Jamie moving down South and starting the World Feedback label sometime in the mid 90's.
On the day we played live with Scorn we turned up early to play pool and have a walk around Bradford and we caught Stalingrad rehearsing on the stage at the 1in12. I still I have a demo tape of Stalingrad from that period. The Fall track is another "
On This Day" entry. "Hip Priest" first appeared on the LP "Hex Enduction Hour" LP released on February 16 in 1982 on Kamera Records. I don't own a copy of the LP so I play the live version from "A Part Of America Therin, 1981". The track was recorded live in Chicago. 2022 was a busy year for Love Rosenstrom's Ochu project. In May Hatband released the cassette "Amoknagen / Abgangsgenom" followed in August with the cassette "Lähmung Des Wartens", a C26 on the Verlautbarung label. A 12" vinyl version appeared in December. The track played here is from the cassette version of "Lähmaung Des Wartens". Love operates the Millstone Vinyl mail order service where you can pick up Ochu :
http://www.millstonevinyl.se/verlautbarung/
Two pieces extolling the talents of Alice Kemp. I dug out my copy of the excellent compilation album "Appliance 3" released on Appliance Japan in 2004. The album features Germseed (Alice's sound project) alongside artists such as Freiband, Dual, Rudolf Eb.er and Brown Sierra amongst others. The LP was limited to 100 copies and probably sold out by now. Dual were formed in the 1990's, a splinter movement from the band Spleen, by Colin Bradley and Julian Coope. "Casein" is from the 2001 album "Keimar Sty" on Coombe Records and features music constructed by Alice Kemp. Dual material can still be gotten hold of at :
https://dual.bandcamp.com/album/fall although I think the project has ceased to exist.
Another artist who released a cassette and a 12" of the same tracks is The Haxan Cloak. In December 2010 Aurora Borealis released "Observatory" on cassette followed a few weeks later (in 2011) on 12" vinyl. The Haxan Cloak was the short lived project of Bobby Krilic. Since 2016 Bobby has been working as a soundtrack artist including the great film "Midsommar".
Thanks for listening:
Playlist :
01: X-TG : "Desertshores" (Industrial Records) 2012.
02: Mark Vernon : "Answers To Questions That Don't Need Asking" (Granny Records) 2022.
03: Mollbury Medical Research Centre : "The Dissemination Process" (Sensory Leakage) 2022.
04: Blood Rhythms : "Horror Pilations #5 (Side A)" (NO PART OF IT) 2022.
05: Spiracle : "Exusiai" (Drone Records) 2010.
06: Lu : "Consapevolezza Della Riouzione" (Small Voices) 2002.
07: Lu : "Inter Rail 5" (Small Voices) 2002.
08: René Halkett & David Jay : "Nothing" (4AD Records) 1981.
09: Bauhaus : "Third Uncle" (Beggars Banquet) 1982.
10: Swell Maps : "Let's Build A Car" (Rough Trade Records) 1980.
11: Kneecapped : "Robot Factory" (Industrial Coast) 2022.
12: The Fall : "Hip Priest (Live)" (Cottage Records) 1982.
13: Ochu : "Spuren Am Ufer : Entfernt, Verwischt" (Verlautbarung) 2022.
14: Germseed : "Skin, Eyes And Clothing" (Appliance Japan) 2004.
15: Dual : "Casein" (Coombe Records) 2001.
16: The Haxan Cloak : "Observatory" (Aurora Borealis) 2011.
17: The Haxan Cloak : "Hounfour (Temple)" (Aurora Borealis) 2012.
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