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Original Release / Optimo Music / OMDIYLP
Uploaded by smallpaul 14 hours and 15 mins ago
Artist: Various
Album: [cease & desist] diy (cult classics from the post-punk era 1978-82) [2015, Optimo Music]
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Year: 2015
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RIAA Radar Status: SAFE
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Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
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Avg Bit Rate: 320 kbps
Posted by: smallpaul
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Compilation info
This could be worth squeezing into the stockings of discerning post-punk fans. Compiled by JD Twitch this is a collection of unheard by pretty much anyone who wasn’t around to buy obscure 7″s around the turn of the ’70s into the ’80s.
Sometimes I think for the good of future production of music we should ban the internet for awhile. Back when people only had cardboard boxes to hit for entertainment of an evening they were certainly creative. The best bits come early the Waitresses-like parp of the Tesco Bombers is swiftly followed by ‘Sexy Terrorist’ by Sara Goes Pop which has similarly comedy horn parps amidst a Slits-like rattle. My favourite thing is People in Motion who recall the Raincoats and may I go as obscure as to say Limbo District? I think I might. Meanwhile ‘C’est Fab’ by Nancy Sesay and the Melodaires is just that.
The comp can’t quite keep up the quality of the first four tunes but is still full of interesting things. Indeed the sides seem to be split into styles. Side A (as described previously) skewed girl pop, Side B is full of the Normal/Cabaret Voltaire oddness. Side C is dubby experimentation until you get to the marvellous ‘Violence Grows’ by Fatal Microbes which sits somewhere between PIL and X Ray Spex. Finally Spunky Onions belie their name with some excellent ahead of it’s times indie pop, the D side being scratchy indie culminating in the Prats scuzzy ‘Disco Pope’ .
Overall it sounds like half of a particularly good episode of the John Peel show circa 1980 with plenty of lost gems.
Track Listing
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[01/13] break the ice at parties (tesco bombers) (1:56)
[02/13] sexy terrorist (sara goes pop) (2:24)
[03/13] c’est fab (nancy sesay and the melodaires) (4:24)
[04/13] private plane (thomas leer) (4:02)
[05/13] electric heat (visitors) (3:48)
[06/13] fed up skank (the murphy federation) (4:56)
[07/13] never never (the distributors) (3:17)
[08/13] tea machine dub (the cro-tones) (3:34)
[09/13] violence grows (fatal microbes) (3:14)
[10/13] how i lost my virginity (spunky onions) (3:26)
[11/13] look-out (the fakes) (3:21)
[12/13] meltdown situation (the 012) (3:31)
[13/13] disco pope (the prats) (2:43)
Total playing time: 44:36
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