Another Alain Neffe pseudonym that sounds very similar to anything he has to do with. Structureless electronics swirling around melodyless synth noodling, then it stops, and another starts. This is "Do It Yourself" music for people with no musical ability whatsoever.
Which is a good thing, because if Music was left to musicians, experimental music would probably not exist, except in a very exclusive high-brow world where Alain Neffe would be eternally exiled from. This is Punk culture in its purest form. The fact that these tracks were recorded between 1973 and 1978 makes this "proto-punk" and could well claim to be heavily influenced by various Krautrockers, probably Cluster more than anything else one believes. [SOURCE: DIE OR D.I.Y.?]
Hunting Lodge is the 80’s experimental industrial project of Lon Diehl and Richard Skott. Hunting Lodge began in the summer of 1982 when Diehl and Skott enlisted the assistance of Karl Nordstrom as well as his brother Thomas, who aided the band in their visual art realizations. Soon after, Hunting Lodge played their first show on September 9, 1982 at the now infamous Harrington Ballroom in Port Huron, Michigan. This show was recorded and then released as a private edition cassette later that year. After that performance, Hunting Lodge recorded and self-released their much-coveted '23 Minutes of Murder' cassette. Shortly after, Karl Nordstrom left the band, stripping the line up back down to the two original core members.
After releasing a cassette titled 'Exhumed' in 1983 on the German label Datenverarbeitung, Hunting Lodge pulled together and recorded tracks that would become their first full-length album entitled 'Will', which was put out by Diehl’s and Skott’s own label S/M Operations. Drawing references from Crowley, Nietzsche, and G. Gordon Liddy, Hunting Lodge collaged together industrial percussion patterns, live recordings, early sketches, and synthesized noise into nine compositions which also included vocal appearances by Andreas Muller of Datenverarbeitung, Francisco Lopez, and Masami Akita a.k.a. Merzbow. The final product would serve as a blueprint for later generations of industrial noise music and plant the influential seed for the large amounts of noise output that came out of Michigan in the following years. [SOURCE: DAIS RECORDS]
Guerre Froide was founded in Amiens (France) around 1980 by a group of friends who decided to start a band somewhere between Cabaret Voltaire and Wire. With drum machine, guitars and Korg MS20 they recorded their first 4 tracks. 50 copies of a demo cassette sold very fast. Despite a few line-up changes they kept on playing concerts and got more popular in the north of France and also Paris. The first 12″ EP with 4 songs came out in 1981 including the underground club hit "Demain Berlin". Something has happened shortly afterwards and in about 1982 the band split up.
Two of the main old band members reformed Guerre Froide again in 2006 and new albums came out in 2007 and 2010. The current line-up of the band is Yves Royer (Vocals), Fabrice Fruchart (Guitar & Keyboards) and Samuel Druon (Bass). Guerre Froide are playing concerts again and releasing new albums. [SOURCE: GENETIC MUSIC]
The Flesh Volcano was a side project of singer Marc Almond and Clint Ruin, also known as Foetus. Its sole release was the 'Slut' EP, which was expanded to album length in a number of reissues. Almond and Ruin were formerly bandmates in The Immaculate Consumptive.
The 1998 re-release of 'Slut' was described as "pretty much intolerable" by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic. Another AllMusic critic, Ned Raggett, called their collaboration "essentially nothing more or less than Foetus at his most industrial and clattering with Almond at his most theatrically pained and howling". [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
After playing together in other bands, Michael Hirsch and Pierangelo Maset founded Exkurs in Berlin in 1980. Musician and producer Michael Hirsch was also a member of the New Wave Band P1/E.
It took until 1982, however, when their LP 'Fakten Sind Terror' saw the light of day. Although "Warten" were a hit, Exkurs went under the majority of the commercial NDW.
Shortly afterwards Michael Hirsch left Exkurs and was replaced by Matthias Craver. With this new line-up the band gave some concerts until 1983, but unfortunately there was no new record left.
On the CD Re-Release of 'Fakten Sind Terror', besides the original LP, there are some bonus remixes and some new songs Michael Hirsch and Pierangelo Maset recorded as Exkurs III in 2002. [SOURCE: ICH WILL SPASS]
Del Amitri's easy blend of Beatlesque pop and country-rock has made them a worldwide road and radio staple since the mid-'80s. Formed in Scotland in 1982 by bassist / vocalist / songwriter Justin Currie and longtime guitarist and collaborator Ian Harvie, the duo released 'Sense Sickness' on a small Glasgow indie label the following year. Through heavy touring and positive word of mouth, the band -which now included drummer Paul Tyagi and guitar player Bryan Tolland- managed to impress the suits at Chrysalis Records enough to offer the fledgling group a recording contract. Their Hugh Jones-produced self-titled major-label debut was released in 1985 amidst a tidal wave of hype, but their signature blend of new wave and country-folk isolated audiences and critics alike, resulting in their inevitable departure from the Chrysalis family.
Del Amitri rebounded with a self-financed U.S. tour that broadened their network of fans and landed them a deal with A&M. In 1987 the quartet expanded by one, adding keyboardist Andy Alston and replacing Tolland with David Cummings and Tyagi with Brian McDermott, and began work on 'Waking Hours'. Released in 1989, the Gil Norton / Hugh Jones-produced LP yielded the band's first British hit, "Kiss This Thing Goodbye", a song that also found success in the U.S. In 1992 the group charted with "Always the Last to Know" from the 'Change Everything' album, but it wasn't until the release of 1995's 'Twisted' and its infectious hit "Roll to Me" that Del Amitri could declare global victory.
Their follow-up, 'Some Other Sucker's Parade', relied heavily on the adult alternative jangle pop that made 'Twisted' such a success, but failed to generate any lasting hits. 'Hatful of Rain: The Best of Del Amitri', a much-needed career-spanning anthology that collected the prolific yet spotty group's best tunes, was released in 1998 along with a companion CD, 'B-Sides Lousy With Love'. Del Amitri released the soulful and melodic 'Can You Do Me Good?' in 2002. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]
The Stones were a New Zealand band from Dunedin named after The Rolling Stones. One of the earliest bands to record on the Flying Nun label, they helped form the style of music known as the Dunedin sound, along with label mates such as The Chills, The Verlaines and Sneaky Feelings, all of whom appeared alongside The Stones on the seminal Flying Nun release the 'Dunedin Double EP'. The band was a three-piece with Jeff Batts (bass, vocals), Wayne Elsey (vocals, guitar) and Graeme Anderson (drums). Whereas the other three bands to appear on this record went on to increased fame both in New Zealand and overseas, The Stones split up not long after its release, although all members of the band went on to success in other local bands. Most important of these was Wayne Elsey's time in The Doublehappys, a band which itself led to the formation of Straitjacket Fits. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
Sneaky Feelings was a 1980s New Zealand pop / rock band, led by Matthew Bannister, which recorded on the Flying Nun label. Initially recording with the line-up of Bannister (guitar), David Pine (guitar), Kat Tyrie (bass guitar) and Martin Durrant (drums), Tyrie was replaced by John Kelcher early in the band's career. Durrant left shortly before the band's demise, and was replaced by Ross Burge.
Sneaky Feelings were unusual among Dunedin sound bands in that all four members of the band sang and several of the members wrote material. The jangle sound of the guitars and layered vocals drew their influence from the music of The Byrds and The Beatles, and comparisons can be made with some of California's Paisley Underground bands. The band's name comes from a song by Elvis Costello, "Sneaky Feelings", which is on his first album 'My Aim Is True' (1977).
Sneaky Feelings was one of four Dunedin bands to reap the benefits of the newly formed Flying Nun label with the release of the 'Dunedin Double EP', alongside The Stones, The Verlaines and The Chills. The multi-voiced harmonies of the band's sound were not well-suited to the primitive recording conditions of early Flying Nun, so it is rarely captured at its best on the albums they released. The band's biggest hit was with the single "Husband House" in 1985.
After the demise of Sneaky Feelings in 1989, Bannister moved to Auckland where he founded The Dribbling Darts. He later worked briefly with The Mutton Birds alongside Ross Burge, and has since formed a new band, The Weather. He also wrote a book about the experience of being in a band during the heyday of the Dunedin sound movement, "Positively George Street". Pine has returned sporadically to music, notably in the Dunedin-based band Death Ray Cafe in the late 1980s, but his involvement in music has been largely curtailed by his work in the New Zealand diplomatic corps (as of 2012 he is New Zealand's High Commissioner in Malaysia).
Sneaky Feelings briefly re-formed in 1992 to record several extra tracks and to tour to promote the CD release of 'Send You'. They also re-formed to perform a one-off concert as part of a celebration of Dunedin music, held in that city in 2006. In early 2008, Kelcher formed The South Tonight with Richard James, who had also been in an early Flying Nun group, Mainly Spaniards. Kelcher later stood as a candidate for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in the 2014 New Zealand general election, for the Christchurch seat of Ilam. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
Boots for Dancing are a post-punk band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in late 1979 by Dave Carson (vocals), Graeme High (guitar), Dougie Barrie (bass), and Stuart Wright (drums). Showing influences from the likes of Gang of Four and The Pop Group, they signed to the Pop Aural label for their eponymous debut single, receiving airplay from John Peel. In the next two years, the band had more line-up changes than releases, first with ex-Shake and Rezillos drummer Angel Paterson replacing Wright, to be replaced himself by Jamo Stewart and Dickie Fusco. Former Thursdays guitarist Mike Barclay then replaced High, who joined Delta 5. The band also added ex-Shake / Rezillos guitarist Jo Callis for second single 'Rain Song', issued in March 1981. Callis then left to join The Human League, with no further line-up changes before third single 'Ooh Bop Sh'Bam' was released in early 1982. Barrie then departed, his replacement being ex-Flowers / Shake / Rezillos bassist Simon Templar (b. Bloomfield), and ex-Josef K drummer Ronnie Torrance replaced the departing Fusco and Stewart (the latter forming The Syndicate). The band split up later in 1982.
Between line-up changes, the band recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC radio show, in 1980 and 1981. In 2015 they reformed and released 'The Undisco Kidds', an album of recordings from the 1980s. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
An uncompromising avant-garde rock band consisting of Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, and vocalist extraordinaire Dagmar Krause. Frith and Cutler were longtime members of the seminal English radical political avant-garde art rock band Henry Cow, while Krause sang primarily with the fine German band Slapp Happy and in Henry Cow's latter years. The Art Bears were intended as a short-term project, but, even so, their three-year existence resulted in three excellent albums that relied more on shorter, more traditional, almost pop-oriented song forms than huge, complex musical and lyrical extrapolations. The political tinge of the Henry Cow years never went away, and it was unsurprising that Marxist rhetoric and anti-capitalist diatribes formed much of band's lyrical firmament. Frith, as he proved in Cow, was (and is) a guitarist of astonishing ability, combining a searing, complex technique reminiscent of the free music improvisations of seminal British guitarist Derek Bailey with a boyhood love of blues and early British rock & roll. Cutler, a pop music theorist as well as drummer, skittishly plays his trap kit, providing a propulsive rhythmic base upon which Frith can dazzle. Admittedly, Dagmar Krause's quasi-operatic, very German style can take some getting used to, but she is a daring singer, unafraid to bend and twist her voice into knots or screech with uncontrolled passion and exuberance. Their life was fleeting, but the Art Bears wrote and recorded bold, challenging, idiosyncratic music that, despite its occasional difficulty, is ultimately very rewarding. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]
