Pseudo Code ‎– "Potlatch Music Vol. 2" (Sandwich Records ‎– SR15) 1981

Alan Neffe's more abstract offshoot, was Pseudo Code, spanning the genres, Industrial, minimal Synth, ambient, avant garde,.....file under 'Other'.
If you want Potlatch Music Volume One......click HERE

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Bene Gesserit ‎– "Postcards From Arrakis" (Ding Dong Records And Tapes ‎– DDC 006)

We can't leave this long trip in Belgium without any Alain Neffe projects.....there are plenty other works that involve himself earlier in this blogs tenure....click here and see?
This C-30 is suitably Neffe-style eccentric Avant-electronica, packaged with two postcards and a couple of colouring pens. Its usually TV pension schemes that include a 'free' pen just for inquiring isn't it? If all releases included a pen, i'd certainly buy more of them, and this one had TWO, hold me back!!!.

Tracklisting:

A1 N.O.T.H.I.N.G
A2 Dedicated To Friends
A3 Words
A4 She Sells Sea Shells On The Sea Show
B1 Moki-Toki Oka-Owa
B2 Do What You Have To Do
B3 Gloria
B4 Be Happy

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Various Artists ‎– "Flanders' Tape-Ology - A Compilation Of Home-Tapes" (The Cassette Factory ‎– TCF 001) 1983

A virtual manual as to how to do it yourself for the home tapers of the Benelux countries,the spiritual homeland of Minimal Synth duo's. So, predictably there are plenty of Minimal electronic tunes on board,mixed in with bizarre post-punk derivatives.Some of the vocals are delivered with such perfect English accents that it could have been made in any small town in the UK.....I may be wrong,they might even be imported Brits,but I doubt it.
Included with the cassette was a booklet with instructions on how to make your own tape....Tape-ology.A Desperate Bicycles/Scritti pollitti style call to arms for the cassette underground in Flanders,and beyond.

Tracklist:

A1	–The Misz	Only Lunies Fall	4:12
A2	–Single Handed	The Morning Carrousel	4:25
A3	–The Int	Be Loose, Be Strained	2:33
A4	–King Koen	In A Funky Saloon	2:44
A5	–Mastic	The Judgement	3:19
A6	–J.R. Smets	Untitled	2:08
A7	–Fred Veranda And His Inferior Orchestra	The Idealist	3:31
A8	–Magthea	Song For The Rosenbergs	3:45
A9	–O.B. Minimax	The Peeping Tom	2:58
B1	–J. Blond	My Baby Took Her Pictures Back Home	3:03
B2	–O Veux	Beneath Shallow Graves	5:35
B3	–Experto Credo Roberto	Houden Van...	3:50
B4	–Folle Coche	Mr Brown	1:48
B5	–Absolute Body Control	Live At Sfinx	4:29
B6	–Maniacs	He Hates To	4:59
B7	–Autonoom Leger	I Walsje	5:46

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Pseudo Code - "Potlatch Music Vol. 1" - ( Insane Music) 1980

Was there ever a genre called Minimal Wave Dark Industrial Rap?......;If not, then this is it. The "rapper" sounds like a hybrid of Mark E. Smith and Genesis P. Orridge, or anybody else with a middle initial in their stage persona.
It scores a healthy 6 on the Industrial cliché scale for the image of Auschwitz on the front, but this is rap music for miserable young men with long black overcoats and longer black fringes. A genre defining tape if ever there was one!
Having said that the whole of side B is probably in the  Ambient Dark Industrial Rap sphere of influence; consisting entirely of a field recording of the "outside" world (by Alain Neffe), a sound of silence type experiment of the ambient noise of a city.A lost opportunity to have P Diddy lay some of his deep poetry on whitey!?....Maybe next time eh?

Track Listing:

A1		Steps On Pavement	2:04
A2		Last Security (I'm So Clumsy) I	2:40
A3		Nova Pattern	3:45
A4		Last Security (I'm So Clumsy) II	4:20
A5		Sequence 15	3:57
A6		(Something in Arabic)	3:03
A7		Flesh Shop	6:47
A8		Twilight Ode	3:55
B1		Surrounding 1 (07h / 07h30 Street) Recording A.N.	31:01

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Various Artists - "Integration" (Integrated Circuit Records ICR12) 1983

Excellent minimal synth/experimental compilation realised in 1983 on Colin Potter's Integrated Circuit label. Full of all the usual suspects, Alain Neffe, Colin Potter,David Jackman,it goes on. A classic DIY electronica compilation.

Tracklist:

A1 Trevor Wishart -Anna´s Magic Garden

A2 Muslimgauze -Afrikaner

A3 Paul Kelday -Towards A New Clear Age

A4 David Jackman- Last Estuary

A5 Ampnoise - Floppy Disk Drive

A6 MFH - To Give Painless Light

A7 New 7th Music - Untitled No. 7

A8 Andrew Cox - Ritual Dance

A9 Andrew Cox - Silent Moorings

B1 Ian Boddy - Sundance

B2 Subject - What Happened To You?

B3 I Scream - Menace

B4 Human Flesh - Delon Enlarges

B5 Carl Matthews - Power of three

B6 Carl Matthews-Harmless Thought

B7 Monoplane - Fin

B8 Citizens Of Science - She Moves Like A Machine

B9 Colin Potter - Hills

B10 Stratis - By Water

B11 Dave Jones - Memories Of...

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Bene Gesserit - "Live in Belgium and Holland" ( Insane Music INS21/ Calypso Now ) 1983

Daddies of Beligian minimal wave, Bene Gesserit, show us how it should be done in a live environment, with their best tape. Full of raw analogue electronics, and plenty blood-curdling female screaming, especially at the end of side A. This is how you do it basically, a lesson in technology abuse from Alain Neffe and partner(s), and should be played to a teenager near you.
This is the version released on Calypso Now from Switzerland; there at least five other versions, including one on Alain Neffe's own Insane Music label.
Tracks A2, A3, A4, A6, A7, B3 and B4 recorded live at the Riches-Claires, Brussels, 9/4/1983 at
Tracks A1, B1, B2 and B5 recorded live at the Plan K, Brussels, 30/4/1983 at 3.00 am.
Tracks A5, A8 and B6 recorded live at Paard van Troye, Den Haag, 12/2/1983 at 01.00 am.

Track Listing:

A1		From The Plan K. With Laughs
A2		Same Old Story
A3		Tonight
A4		Alles Ist...
A5		Erg Habbania
A6		Le Rapt
A7		Rock Yoko
A8		Crazy Monkees
B1		Insanités
B2		Neon Lights!!
B3		Death Is Not A Betrayal
B4		Moki-Toki Oka-Owa
B5		Little Lady
B6		From Dune, With Laughs

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Bene Gesserit - " Best Of " - ( Insane Music ) 1981

Bene Gesserits debut release on Alain Neffes Insane Music label,featuring...well...Alain Neffe!.
A twisted form of experimental synth pop is what we have here. The highlight for me being the first track on side B ("Kidnapping"), which sort of invents euro-rap,and its at least a year before Grandmaster Flash hit the european airwaves.
As much as I detest all Rap from the last 25 years, in its early incarnations it did have a DIY charm that was quite infectious. I`ve always loved the White Rap of Mark E. Smith and John Cooper Clarke; and I like the white Rap moments of Bene Gesserit!
Apparently the black kids in the ghetto were witnessed breakdancing to Gary Numan tracks in 1980, they should have been doing the same to Bene Gesserit. If only one of the 50 plus copies of this made it to the Bronx in 1981, the kids could be dancing to a different, more bizarre, tune.(although Gary Numan rules,lets not forget that!)

Track Listing:

A1 Epitaph For A One-Way Love
A2 Hymne Au Ver
A3 Gloria
A4 Fly To Hell
B1 Kidnapping
B2 Erg Habbania
B3 Gppm
B4 Orchestral Story
B5 Live In China

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Cortex - " Souvenir / Souvenirs " - ( Grafika Airlines GRA 20) 1984

Another classic from superb Belgian label Grafika Airlines.
Basically it`s Alain Neffe, of Bene Gesserit and the Insane Music cassette label fame, with various sultry voiced female francophones, recorded from an astonishingly early 1975 to 1982.
Minimal is the word, and reminds one of the two Kluster albums from 1970/71.
A stark one tone electronic backing, fronted by  part narrated/ part sung, dialogue provided by the various girlies listed on the inlay card above.
Those Belgians sure know the meaning of the mantra: "Its not what you put in , its what you leave out".
And Cortex certainly left out a lot on this proto-Minimalist relic of a future that never happened.

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Pseudo Code - "Remains to be heard Volume 1" (Insane Music INS14) 1984

More Pseudo Code in a kind of free form minimal electronique-concrete mood.There`s even the odd suggestion of a pop tune here and there, maybe even some danceable beats; if you`ve got one leg shorter than the other and have an inner ear problem.Throw in a healthy portion of Noise and you`ve got a fine slab of experimental Electronics for most of the family to hate!
The vocals sound like they`ve been recorded on the shittest cassette they could find,and the musiky stuff on a top quality multitrack unit; even though they would only have used 2 tracks out of the 24.
A classic of experimental unpopular electronics.

 1, 2: 19/5/81
3 : Live at the Cool Gate, Brussels, 8/5/81
4: 19/5/81
5: Live at the Beursschouwburg, Brussels 3/4/81
6: ?/?/81
7: 19/5/81
8 : Live at the Cool Gate, Brussels, 9/5/81
9, 10: Live at Zaal St. Elooi, Brugge, 20/3/82
11: ?/?/81
12: Live at Jacobiberg, Arnhem, 3/4/82

Track Listing:

1		One Day	10:50
2		White Beast/Black Beast	2:25
3		Monarch In My Kingdom	5:50
4		Democracy Leads To Excess...Fascism Too...	1:20
5		Little Big Man	4:20
6		Fascination	4:25
7		Slow Disaster	1:55
8		The Crook Of Your Heart	5:40
9		Surrounding	1:15
10		One Night	3:20
11		Névrose Obsessionelle	11:25
12		Slaves	4:00

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Pseudo Code - "Remains to be heard, Volume 2" - (Isane Music INS15) 1986

Almost structureless free-ish electronic minimalism; some would call this Industrial, dare I say Jazz, as fronted by Mark E. Smith soundalike Xavier Stenmans. Non-Music made by non-musicians for non-musicians.
 The very fact that I am struggling to categorise this fine animal is a testament to some fine experimental music. It should be the aim of all experimental musics to escape definition as much as possible, and I think Pseudo Code have achieved this. Minimal free Industrial Jazz Rap anyone?......or have I "had too much to think"?(Don Van Vliet, 1980)
Feel free to invent your own pigeon hole for this cassette. All suggestions can be published in the comments section below.

Material from 1980-1982.
4: Live at the Beursschouwburg, Brussels
6: Live studio version
7: Live at the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
9: Live at Zaal St. Elooi, Brugge 

Track Listing:

1		Immoral Facts Now	4:35
2		Slow Down To The Hypothalmus	6:27
3		Rebirth (To An Honest Man)	2:31
4		The Sweetest Energies	5:44
5		Refuse The Punishment	1:25
6		Disfunctional Guy (Live Studio Version)	4:26
7		...Contre Tous...	4:24
8		Outside Cruising (The Worst)	2:14
9		Dangers	5:40
10		No Explanation	1:19
11		Worth Of The North (Live Studio Version)	15:01
12		Toi Et Moi (La Peine)	4:16
13		Organic Posts	2:04

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I Scream - "Tomorrrow is Another Day" - (Grafika Airlines GRA21) 1986

Another Alain Neffe pseudonym I wager. 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.


Track Listing:

A1		Scars	3:10
A2		Nothing To Do	5:20
A3		Tomorrow Is Another Day	1:40
A4		L'Arabe Est Le Juif Du Juif	2:40
A5		European Death	4:40
A6		Tarang??	3:00
A7		Feudal System	1:50
A8		Never Say: "Die!"	2:10
A9		Why Do I Scream??	1:20
A10		Take Your Headphone And Dance!	3:00
B1		Cyclical Music Part 1	5:40
B2		Cyclical Music Part 2	8:10
B3		Cyclical Music Part 3	5:40
B4		Cyclical Music Part 4 (Excerpt)	10:00

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