Showing posts with label Integrated Circuit Records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Integrated Circuit Records. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 May 2022

Paul Kelday – "Centuries" (Music For Midgets – M.F.M.12) 1982



As one received a rare comment on a previous Paul Kelday post bemoaning the fact that as cosmic Paul's soul has now joined Sun Ra's orbiting one of the gas giants beyond the asteroid belt......no jokes about the gases of Uranus pleeze!....that most of his vast catalog of recordings will now never see the light again, or will be compacted into liquid hydrogen at Saturn's core rained on by regular showers of naturally occurring diamonds. And indeed Paul was a diamond,who spent the latter years of his life hiding away from society in general, and indeed giving up music altogether,leaving us with the disturbing suggestion that he may have binned all his tapes.
So,here's one that he didn't bin,and,more importantly, one I haven't posted before,called "Centuries",which surfaced on both Music For Midgets, and Integrated Circuit Records around the cusp of 1981/82.
Klassic Kelday,doing classic early Tangerine Dream meets the BBC Radiophonic Workshop....all captured on a Philips Ultra ferro C-60 bottom of the shelf cassette.

Tracklist:

A1 Legopolis (Nov. 81)
A2 Shadows In The Recesses Of The Subconscious (Dec. 81)
A3 Necessitarianism (Feb. 82)
A4 In The Air (Feb. 82)
B Centuries (Dec. 81)

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Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Various Artists ‎– "A Cage Went In Search Of A Bird (An International Compilation)" (Dark Star ‎– DS 1-2) 1985


A wide ranging compilation that included all the leading lights of the UK Electronic Underground.....aka a fancy way of saying 'Prog'......are collected on this c-90/c-60 double package.Compiled in 1985 by our chums from the Ultima Thule Record Shop in Leicester; whose own projects (Alto Stratus and Zircon etc) take up a hefty 20 minutes of tape time.....and why not?
A wide range of abstract experimentation is on display over these two and a half hours, ranging from Ambient electronics to mid range Industrial, to the madness of DDAA,categorised in the 'Other' category on iTunes.

Tracklist:
White Side
A1 –Paul Nagle-Skrying 8:45
A2 –Peter Frohmader-Pharaonische Grabkammar 9:10
A3 –Colin Potter-Potters Wheel 6:14
A4 –Region 5-In The Cage Of Crystal Moonlight 5:43
A5 –Conrad Schnitzler- 1·11·84 7:02
A6 –Adhara Alucian Landscape 6:58
Yellow Side
B1 –Ken Moore In The Field With Flowers & A Toilet 5:47
B2 –Kevin O'Neill The Claws That Catch 5:39
B3 –Peter Frohmader Sepulchral Choirs 11:28
B4 –Alto Stratus The Captive 14:56
B5 –Paul Kelday Timelord 5:06
Grey Side
C1 –Günter Schickert Powolerman/Suleika 8:53
C2 –Land Of Yrx Merman Ikon Bee 7:07
C3 –Bourbonese Qualk-Blackout 3:02
C4 –New 7th Music-Tlazolteotl 5:03
C5 –Hartmann-Forget The Past 3:08
Blue Side
D1 –R N Andrews- Humphrey's Final Words 2:06
D2 –Aussenminister-City Wolf 4:29
D3 –Zircon & The Burning Brains-Imaginé 5:16
D4 –Input- Heavy Street 4:19
D5 –David Gate-Nothing Isn't Everything 3:39
D6 –Rollkomanndo-Nude Picture 2:11
D7 –DDAA-Une Etude De Sonorisation Par Le Sol 4:50


Sunday, 3 December 2017

Paul Kelday ‎– "Eschatus" (Integrated Circuit Records) 1982


More electronic noises from downtown Bognor Regis that sound, variously, like amplified dentist drills and braking subway trains fed through a plethora of tape echos and plate reverbs units.
The bastard child of Bebe and Louis Barron ('Forbidden Planet') and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

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Saturday, 25 November 2017

Colin Potter ‎– "See" (ICR ‎– ICR 028) 1990


A journey into ambient drone territory for the wizard of DIY underground electronica, Colin Potter; long before Harry Potter became the most famous Potter, overtaking Beatrix quite comfortably.
ICR(or Integrated Circuit Records) was probably the 'Hogwarts' of experimental keyboard-ism for the whole of the 80's, and C.Potter was its Dumbledore.
Here , Dumbledore goes Drone, before it became fashionable for every Wire magazine reader to have an experimental Drone project on the go. It's a genre that should be attempted once,preferably by one person only, never to be repeated and I'm quite comfortable with that 'one person' to be Colin Potter.
A 'Drone' album can be written produced and played in real time in one take without any musical expertise required whatsoever,and is basically not really for listening to.Its a kind of aural water to fill up your flotation tank to the brim, to assist you to cut yourself off from this cruel world and confront your inner id without influence from the ego.
I don't sense that Colin has any ego whatsoever,and as one of the instigators of the DIY movement and cassette culture he deserves massive respect;but I can't say I've listened to anything he's done since this outing in 1990, which I'm shocked to find out was 27 years ago!!!!....or is that 27 years ego?

Check out his series of classic cassette releases HERE!

Tracks:

1-A Drift (23:57)
2-Tide (23:36)
3-Untitled (15:50)

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Saturday, 18 November 2017

Rick Crane ‎– "Fuji" (ICR ‎– ICR 15) 1983


Rick Crane's second cassette on ICR is the usual pleasant melodic electronica in the DIY Berlin School style as championed by Dave Jones, Carl Matthews and the like.
Its the kind of proto-new age music that is perfect for your landscape video's, or as background music in a Florists.
 Gentle, inoffensive stuff......if that sounds like an insult it's unintentional. There's definitely a talent to making  minimal melodic electronic music for ignoring.

Tracklist:

A1 Rising Eastwards
A2 Fuji:Pillowbook Of Dreams
A3 Moondrawn
A4 Inner Struggle
B1 Fisher Of Souls
B2 Of Robots, Men And Zen
B3 The Shrine Of Harai


Thursday, 16 November 2017

Dave Jones ‎– "Second Attempt" (ICR ‎– ICR007) 1982


Not everyone took the Kraftwerk approach to the synthesiser you know? A plethora of medium length thinning haired bedroom nerds wanted to be Tangerine Dream.Which was now possible by 1980, as the price and size of the necessary equipment was rapidly reducing,and within range of your average 26 year old kosmiche musick fans and their warehouse job wage packets.
This stuff was far easier to make than it was for The Human League to produce 'Being Boiled'; a meandering structure using 'too many notes' rather than  using a carefully selected three note boot to the crotch.
Colin Potters Integrated Circuit Records was the natural home for this new wave of meandering fingers and knob twiddling.If Post Punk was the rebirth of Prog, this stuff displayed the grim reality that original prog had never really gone away, and Ironic that the DIY approach of Punk provided the very music that the 'punks' professed to despise with a vehicle for further existence.
This new lot of Klaus Schulz's never had the same interesting names as their Germanic forebears either.Rick Crane,Carl Matthews, George Garside, and Dave Jones, didn't have the same exotic allure of an Edgar Froese or a Dieter Moebius;but the music was a lo-fi and utterly homemade replication of those Krautrock legends.
So here's Dave Jones' second cassette release from 1982,and could easily have been used in Blade Runner or Chariots of Fire instead of Vangelis......again, it was the name that did for it.Who are you gonna choose, Vangelis or ....er...Dave Jones?

Tracklist:
A1 Black Mikado
A2 The Jade Temple
A3 Ro
A4 Necropolis
B1 Oh Prodigy
B2 G.F.I.
B3 Voyager
B4 Excerpt
B5 End Play


Friday, 31 January 2014

George Garside - "The Jester" (unreleased cassette) 1985



The original 1985 artwork
Lying casually in a box in Garside sleeve designer Peter Jolly's attic space,was recently found George's abandoned follow up to "Oasis", provisionally entitled "The Jester". Having been asked by George to design a cover for it, he had sent PJ a copy of the work, who then promptly designed the insert above.
Then Garside decided he wasn't happy with the music,and proceeded to dump the project. Leaving this sole copy to gather dust in Peter J's attic.
Peter has kindly digitized it, and reworked/redesigned the artwork, to better represent the theme of the composition.
I'll let Peter explain:

"Inside the folder you'll find the original cover that I made, with a cartoon pinched from Hunt Emerson. All on green card, and a bit boring, but he liked it enough to ask me to design the covers for his subsequent tapes. Bear in mind this was before PCs, so all done on Letraset and photocopier!

When I ripped the tape I thought that I would try to find some titles for the tracks, so I've named them all after famous historical jesters. While I was researching I found a Joker playing card that I though would make a better cover, so I've upgraded.. All ripped in 320, volume corrected and tagged.
"

The music itself is your usual Garside minimal melodic synthesiser symphonies,with all those georgeous (sic) warm analogue electronics; like a bedroom Edgar Froese.
The best album Integrated Circuit Records NEVER released!

Track Listing:

 Side A:

1 Triboulet
2 Will Somers
3 Touchstone
4 Feste
5 William Kempe

Side B:

1 Puck
2 Thomas Skelton
3 Yorick
4 Herlequin
5 Rigoletto

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Friday, 17 January 2014

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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Thursday, 16 January 2014

Colin Potter ‎– "A Gain" (Integrated Circuit Records ICR008) 1982


 What more can I say say about Colin Potter? You know its good,and always interesting? So its time to download another great ICR tape, and bathe in the electronic beauty.

Track Listing:

A1 On Entering York Minster 10:00
A2 Rooftops 7:30
B1 You Tell Me 7:54
B2 Mainland 8:36
B3 All Reel 3:00

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Colin Potter ‎– "Two Nights" (Integrated Circuit records ICR004) 1981


Two side long untitled electronic compositions done in two takes on two nights,as Colin says goodbye to his old studio.As always, inventive and great sounding from one of thee hero's of DIY.

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Colin Potter ‎– "The Where House?" (Integrated Circuit records ICR005 ) 1981


Colin Potter,one man electronica factory, and founder of ICR amongst many more achievements within the medium of experimental do it yourselfness, and his third cassette release from 1981.
You know what to expect; plenty of lovely phat vintage electronics with an experimental edge rarely found in this genre today.
All Hail the Potter!

DOWNLOAD direct from the where house HERE?

Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Rick Crane – " A Long Week In Houston " (Self Release Cassette) 1982

A Superb analogue electronic bubble bath, full of warm transistor driven curves, captured on smooth ,hissy , chrom-dioxide tape. You won’t miss the harsh spikes and square edges of the binary hell of the digital medium, because this is what Kosmiche musick should sound like.You are highly recommended to check out Rick’s work for Integrated circuit records posted earlier in this blog; “Kolyma”. A work of equal magnitude from analogue heaven.

Track Listing:

Side A – Hals Blue Period – Nine Years Meditation
Side B – A long week In Houston

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Rick Crane ‎– "Kolyma" (Integrated Circuit Records ICR 13) 1983

Next Batch of early electronica comes from Rick Crane.More similar stuff to Colin Potter and Dave Jones, from the primaeval electronic soup of Integrated Circuit Records.

Track Listing:


A1 Magister
A2 Aerobia
A3 If The Saucers Should Land
A4 In The Jungle
A5 Give Me A Reason
A6 The Arcadian
A7 Sloth
Winterbreak By The Kolyma River (Siberian Suite)
B1 Intro - The Fall
B2 Abduction - Steppes To Another State
B3 Overnight Stop
B4 Dreams Of A Past Life
B5 Troika
B6 Interragation
B7 Scene In A New Light
B8 Outro - Another Loose End
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B9 The Maddener (Runaway Girl)

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Dave Jones ‎– "Room Thoughts" (Integrated Circuit Records ICR014) 1983


More warm foamy bath of lush analogue electronics from the record label full of warm foamy baths of lush analogue electronics.....Integrated Circuit Records.
Lovely proggy electronic melodious soundscapes from the Welsh Valleys.

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Dave jones - "Midnight in the Birlec" (Integrated Circuit records IRC011) 1983


The next artist (after Colin Potter)to appear on ICR records/tapes, was Dave Jones. More of the same Experimental Electronics, full of warm analogue sounds from the early 80′s. Lovely stuff.

DOWNLOAD from the birlec HERE!

George Garside – "Oasis" (Integrated Circuit Records ICR16) 1984

The instructions on how to listen to this cassette use the immortal phrase, “….best listened to on headphones.”Betraying a barely concealed,or controlled ‘prog’ tendency. This is a good thing, because despite all the ‘Punk propaganda’ that has seared itself into the brains of even the most enlightened townies; Prog was the real anti-rock movement of the seventies. It had its rebirth in 1978, and rechristened itself ‘Post-Punk’, and it still perseveres to this day.
This bedroom based one man Tangerine Dream, conjures up an alternative soundtrack to ‘Blade Runner’ for us. If only he had a more exotic name, instead of salt of the earth George Garside from Leeds; if he called himself Dimitrius Dingleberry from the Maldives, for example,he’d have been making horrific albums with Jon Anderson from Yes, instead of these lush analogue soundscapes for Integrated Circuit Records.
all considering, this is a pretty good prog album that would have gone down a storm in 1974. Ten years too late George!

Track Listing:

A1
Journey To Oasis 17:59
A2
Landscapes 13:12
B1
Gates Of Oasis 5:40
B2
Oasis 5:09
B3
The Traveller 4:06
B4
Trapezium 5:57
B5
Riverside Dub 3:22

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George Garside – "New Land" (Self Released Cassette GAR 02) 1986

Flotation tank music verging on the new age. A bit too defined melodically to be called ambient, but very pleasant on the ear. Music for bathing to, or accompanying a testcard.
Check out George’s superior outing for Integrated Circuit records, “Oasis”, earlier in this blog.


Track Listing:
A1
Xingu 5:01
A2
Tides 5:49
A3
Letting Go 5:30
A4
New Land 3:59
A5
Dawn 3:05
A6
Lizard Point 5:04
B1
There And Back 7:40
B2
Tranquil Dominion 6:26
B3
Amnesty 4:21
B4
Red Square 3:19
B5
Duplex 5:51

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George Garside – "Mind Over Matter" (Self Released Cassette GAR 03) 1987


Another one for your Flotation Tank. Let’s all walk towards the light source, dispel your ego, and meet some dead relatives.Discover the inner ‘you’ with George Garside and his dancing synthesizers.
All this and another magisterial sleeve from Peter Jolly.

Track Listing:


Lemma
A1
Cerebellum Transfer 7:27
A2
The Mind Of Descartes 4:49
A3
Metaphysic 4 5:15
A4
Pulse To Ontology 5:59
A5
I Think, Therefore I Am 6:11

Acumen
B1
Mind Over Matter 6:26
B2
Echoes In Parallax 3:55
B3
The Levitator 7:25
B4
Nirvana Star 6:02
B5
Zeitgeist 2:38

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Andrew Chalk – "Crescent" (Integrated Circuit Records ICR 21) 1986


One of my favourite ICR tapes is this early C-30 release from Andrew Chalk. Dark ambient Industrial soundscapes which reminds me of some of Delia Derbyshire’s more creepy work for the BBC. Sounds rather like listening to the nightshift at a quarry through miles of steel piping.
That is a recommendation to my fucked up ears.

Track Listing:


A1
Crescent


A2
Old Hive


A3
Browney Dyke


B1
Slip

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Andrew Chalk – " Harvest " (Integrated Circuit Records ICR 22) 1988

This is the mirror image of Neil Young’s “Harvest”, same title, completely different effect.
Two years between ICR21 and ICR22!…but worth the wait. Andrew Chalk’s recycling of his work with Organum, into a minimal version of a thousand bomber raid. Side B’s especially resplendent Luftwaffe Dronescape, descending into a series of thuds and clangs, before building slowly up again to a malfunctioning machine finalé. This is ground-breaking stuff for 1988.
Nowadays everyone and their granny has a Drone project going on.One can trawl the internet and find thousands of Drone based cd-r’s,;but this was the beginning of the flood. Not forgetting the long shadow of Lamonte Young’s Eternal Music Ensemble, and Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Chalk and his peers developed a more quiet and sinister form of drone, that still echoes on today.
Recorded at IC Studio 1986-88. Special thanks to David Jackman.
Re-worked and newly produced recordings using material from Organum’s “Kanal” sessions.

Track Listing:


A
Untitled
B1
Untitled
B2
Untitled

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