Metamorphosis – "Great Babel Gives Birth" (Flowmotion – FM 003) 1983

It might seem a great leap sideways to go from Jandek to a forgotten Industrial group native of the east Midlands of the UK;but musically i think they would have made a very fetching couple if wedded in the church of unpopular music. The representative's ear wax rattling moan would have been the missing icing on this particular cake;so what we're left with is some backing tracks left to posterity like the room of a missing teenager left as a shrine to better days by their destroyed parents.

These experimental industrial funksters came from Nottingham if my memory serves me correctly.Normally I would be slagging them off about football,but recently Nottingham (pronounced Notts Forest to wind 'em up) Forest,a very shit footy team from Nottingham,had the audacity to knock the great Leicester City out of the cup 4:1.Leading to much humble pie being consumed by their more successful Modern Era rivals from twenty-odd miles down the A46.

Musically, Nottingham developed in a dumping ground for every genre of Metal you could name in 60 very dull seconds, and home to Earache Records.

So apart from Medium Medium, a gang of four-a-likey, they manged to produse a peripheral Industrial act in the same mould as the very inconsistent and unduly praised 23 Skidoo.

Nowadays Industrial means endless varieties of that 'Harsh Noise' stuff,but back in the post Throbbing Gristle world subtlety was the way,and more emphasis on the creepy rather than the crawly.

There's low budget Gamelan ,which certainly seem to be saucepans,some filled with water being struck here, and my personal favourite alt-synth device, the Short Wave radio.Of which there's not enough of in these darkening days.

With the impending fall of the new Iron Curtain, i'm hoping for more weird spy transmissions and persistent blocking dissonance to be sent skywards(.....check out the Conet Project numbers station post HERE!  )

They could have been 24 Skidoo if they had had a funky drummer,or maybe even 25 Skidoo if they had a Jandekian Singer.

Tracklisting:

A1 Untitled
A2 Untitled
A3 Untitled
A4 Untitled
A5 Untitled
A6 Untitled
B1 Untitled
B2 Untitled
B3 Untitled

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Those Little Aliens & This Little Alien ‎– "Recordings 1980-1981" (Vinyl-on-demand)

Gordon A. Hope and Ian Dobson, aka 'Those Little Aliens', were also founder of experimental music fanzine 'Flowmotion'; which is probably why LTA were on the Flowmotion compilation on ICR.
Classic cassette bound lo-fi electronica from the UK DIY underground of 80/81.
Talking about Aliens....
As i wrote a rant about thick xenophobia eg Brexit, a few posts ago, I now hear that Brexit is basically OFF, as May crumbles over the Irish border.Now the borders remain open, and Britain gets to pay the EU loads of money for getting no representation in the EU Parliament in return.....what a deal, what a waste of fucking time!!!???...all due to Those Illegal Aliens!
In the meantime we'll listen to something that is absolutely NOT a waste of time.......yes 'Those Little Aliens', what else did you think I was referring to?.....The EU anthem? (Beethoven's Ironic 'Ode to Joy' if you didn't know.


Tracklist:

01 Ismalia 3:03
02 Low Point X 2:45
03 Sentimental 1:57
04 Voortrecker 2:06
05 Incident In Moderan 2:26
06 4 To 4 Rumbling 4:55
07 Momente Über Statik 2:04
08 Aarg, Stop It 8:22
09 Metal Time Control 3:28
10 Out Of Sequence 2:42
11 Chattering Aliens 2:12
12 Stepping Backwards 5:23
13 Prarie Drifter 2:12
14 Your World 5:05
15 Dilemma 2:35
16 Debth Of Space 1:47
17 No Noise 4:57

01 from Various - Flowmotion
02 and 03 from Various - We Couldn't Agree On A Title
04 to 07 from Those Little Aliens - Incident In Moderan
08, 15, and 16 from This Little Alien - Synthesizer Specialist
09 to 14 from Those Little Aliens - Variable
17 from Those Little Aliens - York Tape

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Various ‎– "Flowmotion(An Album of Contemporary Electronic Music)" (ICR ‎– ICR 003) 1982

Well, as this compilation is over 35 years old, it can no longer claim to be an album of Contemporary anything, but it does have some electronic music on it ,by some of the bigger names of the UK's electronic underground of the early eighties. And I note that none of this lot have yet to retire.
A few of these tracks one would hesitate at calling them strictly 'Electronic'.Experimental pop with incidental electronics is good enough for Eyeless In Gaza,and Those Little Aliens hark back to the time when magnetic Tape manipulation was called 'Electronic' Music.I suppose anything made with machines that one plugs into the mains is technically 'Electronic' so there you are!?

Tracklist:

A1 –Chris & Cosey-Devil God
A2 –Those Little Aliens-Ismalia
A3 –Eyeless In Gaza-Dusky Ruth
A4 –Eyeless In Gaza-Through Eastfields
A5 –David Jackman-Do The Dog
A6 –Ian Boddy-Follow
A7 –The Legendary Pink Dots-Hanging Gardens
B1 –Ian Boddy-Skylights
B2 –Paul Nagle-A Journey In The Dark
B3 –Carl Matthews-As Above, So Below
B4 –Colin Potter-Rooftops

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Legendary Pink Dots ‎– "Premonition" (Flowmotion ‎– FMC09) 1982

I would gladly class these Anglo-Dutch neo-psychedelic Syd Barrets on casio's as Dutch; they are based there after-all? 
I never understood why this lot were always on Industrial compilations with their home organ versions of a lost album from a certain acid casualty that was formerly in the Pink Floyd. Their tunes are not unlike a bontempi translation of the songs that knob who takes an acoustic guitar to a party sings,insisting on showing everyone how fucking clever he is while everyone sits in awkward pain,thinking of excuses to leave.
That's how I feel when I listen to a LPD cassette.
They are ,however, legendary indeed, as prolific members of the DIY cassette underground at the turn of the eighties,and therefore earns respect.
They do indeed have a large and loyal fanbase,and can still be seen today touring?!
This ,I have to say, is one of their less painful albums.....gotta go now,I left a chicken in the oven!

Tracklist:

1 As If...
2 Splash
3 Submerged
4 Amphitheatre
5 Voices
6 Odd
7 Premonition 1
8 Digital
9 Dying For The Emperor
10 Oceans Of Emotion
11 Intruder 
12 Premonition 2

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Metamorphosis - "Conception 1982" (Flowmotion FM 004) 1982

Being a native of the East Midlands in the UK, namely Leicester, I was guilty of missing some pretty essential gigs at the turn of the eighties; like Joy Division, The Pop Group,The Fuck Off Records tour, The Good Missionaries, Pere Ubu,The Disco Zombies, to name but a few. Not listed among these was Nottingham's own Metamorphosis, of whom I was unaware ever played a gig at all?Where they appeared in my place of birth I don't have a clue;but the evidence is here. An all encompassing tour of the East Midlands, taking in Nottingham and Derby too, such heights,only missing out Peterborough!

One was only previously aware of a single recorded outing on the "Elephant Table" compilation; but no, there's more!? A live compilation of the “high points” of this tour is preserved for a finite eternity on this Flowmotion C-45, “Conception 1982”.

They played a passable version of that funky Industrial stuff, with funky drumming and echo laden trumpets, patented by such higher profile luminaries as 23 Skidoo, 400 Blows and Bourbonese Quark. It has a limited danceable effect,but one can imagine several of the sparse audience in attendance dancing to it. The drummer is no Alex Turnbull and fails to play within his limitations,frequently struggling with the funky snare fills that 23 Skidoo could do with ease.

I've never really dug this direction of the funkier strains of Industrial music,or Industrial Disco. Living in an Industrial Environment is not funky or about dancing; unless its about recreating the pounding rhythms of factory machines, and dancing is reflecting the repetitive movements of the workers on the production line in this prison without walls ? I prefer the title “Dark Funk”, aligning it more with Miles Davis's early seventies period rather than William S. Burroughs. Even if the clichéd mantra of “Pay it all Back” is chanted at some moment during the performance, it still sounds too A Certain Ratio at times for me(Flesh trade is Sextet or what?).

But, i'd still sooner see Metamorphosis than Showaddywaddy(famous Leicester pop atrocity) any day,.....terrible drumming though!

Track Listing:

A1_Searching For A Secret (Leicester 18.6.82)

A2_Improvisation (Leicester 18.6.82)

A3_Canal Music (Leicester 18.6.82)

A4_We Better Pray (Nottingham 26.01.82)

B1_Fertile Ground (Derby 3.6.82)

B2_391 (Derby 3.6.82)

B3_Flesh Trade (Leicester 18.6.82)

B4_Intense (Nottingham 26.01.82)

B5_Cactus Land (Nottingham 26.01.82)

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Cosey Fanni Tutti - "Time To Tell" (Flowmotion) 1983

Whoe!...steady on boys......this is "ART",and definitely NOT the exploitation of female sexuality!

A Special release on the Flowmotion label.
A one-sided C60 with a newspaper magazine featuring articles, readings and interviews on Cosey Fanni Tutti, Throbbing Gristle and CTI.
Cosey's first solo release, a foray into early dark ambient territory,with sultry spoken word passages.Good for flotation tank dwellers.
And as normal with Industrial genre releases, there's plenty of multi-media content to entertain.Especially lovely is the full length shot of the Industrial Queen herself, bedecked only in a pair of wedgey sandals.
This is far more wholesome soft-porn than the relentless Sexual Propaganda we see today from the likes of Miley Cyrus and Rihanna; or should I say the shape-shifting reptilian hybrid psychopaths behind them. Brain washing our children to be lazy sex obsessed obese morons directly attached to a Sony PS3 or X-Box by the cerebral cortex.
The soft porn here is more likely a statement of these facts,and also that a woman can retain her sensuality and be clever?
It also doesn't harm the sales figures either,but hopefully that is a byproduct.
Basically it satirizes the exploitation of both men and women by the media.
 
Track Listing:

A1		The Secret Touch
A2		Ritual Awakening

Bonus Track "Time To Tell" (from the cd reissue)

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