Brad Laner ‎– "Ligaments 03" (Captured Tracks ‎– CT/SP-057) 2019

The infinite possibilities of modular sound synthesis are dragged through the unpreditcable mind of Brad Laner for the third time. Reminiscent of those early electronic pioneers,this moves it on in a similar direction without resorting to cop out melodies. Edited like an action painting in sound rearranged to almost make sense,these electronic workouts  actually add something progressive to a genre that has remained virtually in stasis since the mid seventies,with a few exceptions of course,so don't shove a list in my face,or mention bloody Autechre!.....lets just celebrate.....Trump has Co-vid!

Tracklist:

A Ligaments 03a
B Ligaments 03b

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Brad Laner ‎– "Ligaments 02" (Captured Tracks ‎– CT/SP-056) 2019

Another rewiring of the ligaments in the ligature of a genre that could be, 'Modular Synthesis".

Personally the sight of wires gives me a migraine,and the cost of this new generation of Modular synths makes me wince. But, at least we have Brad Laner to do it for us.A better candidate to make sense out of this rich retiree's 21st century version of collecting butterfly's I cannot think of.

This second tape is at least far better,and nuttier, than tape one,which was in turn far better than most indulgers in this questionable pastime........and yes, the covers do look like those Industrial Records cassettes.....a tribute within a tribute?

Tracklist:

A Ligaments 02a
B Ligaments 02b

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Brad Laner ‎– "Ligaments 01" (Captured Tracks ‎– CT/SP-055) 2019

 Brad Laner, the step-grandaddy of Synth Punk, among many other OUT-there musical projects too numerous to mention, is,of course, still offending the musical sensibilities of the normals to this day.

More recently Laner has taken the inevitable dive into the ever-expanding universe of modular synthesis, taking many months to record dozens of hours of live improvisations and editing them together. “Ligaments” is the result and is intended to be an ongoing series.

Sure we've all now got a room dedicated to our modular synth collections,but few people on this crumbling rock have Laner's naturally abstract insight into what makes something challenging.

You can either end up sounding like Jean Michel Jarre, or like a disintegrating alien machine.I like my Modular synth workouts to be adequately fried and burnt on at least one side.This is what these things were intended to do.Except this cassette is fried on both sides.

Tracklist:

A Ligaments 01a
B Ligaments 01b

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Earth Dies Burning ‎– "Songs From The Valley Of The Bored Teenager (1981-1984)" (Captured Tracks ‎– CT-180)

 

Los Angeles gave us many things;some truly terrible singer-songwriters,some really quite good singer-songwriters(manily from Canada it has to be said),recreational cocaine abuse for the common man,cop-killing,some half-decent post-punk punk groups, the Los Angeles Free Music Society(LAFMS), Captain Beefheart,and.....Synth Punk!

Starting with the very great 'Screamers',it never really caught on,but Brad Laner was there at the begining as a teenager,with Nervous Gender, and after that came 'Earth Dies Burning'.

Mr Laner has been in nearly all the greatest LA Bands, like Steaming Coils, Three Day Stubble,Severed Head In A Bag to name but a few; as well as an integral member of the LAFMS.

'The Earth Dies Burning',is certainly a fine example of how to use Technology,which is, basically, take the instruction manual and burn the fucker.And also, they did a rare example of a PiL cover version!?.."The Flowers of Romance".So that automatically makes this a fantastic record does it not?....you should be saying 'Yes Jonny'!?

Tracklist:

1.Bored Teenager 0:55
2.Duck And Cover 0:39
3.Another Six Year Old 2:21
4.60 Minutes 0:36
5.Bowling For Food 1:39
6.Soaps 1:22
7.True Lovers Of Crime Anthem 1:51
8.Fish Sticks 1:22
9.Interlude 1:51
10.Haiti 1:17
11.Falwell Youth 1:09
12.Vegetables 1:34
13.America America 2:14
14.Pork Yogurt (Studio) 0:41
15.60 Minutes (Studio) 0:19
16.Another Six Year Old (Studio) 1:08
17.Mystery Bedroom Song 1:45
18.The Flowers Of Romance 2:19
19.The Safety Dance (Live At Bebop) 1:29
20.Disco Heroin (Live At Lhasa Club) 2:05
21.Power To The People (Live At Anticlub) 1:23
22.Pork Yogurt (Live At Anticlub)
23.60 Minutes / Duck And Cover (Live At Anticlub) 0:46
24.Psychotic Reaction /Kill The Fascists!(Studio/Live At Anticlub) 07:05

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Various Artists ‎– "The Emergency Cassette- Lightbulb Magazine" (Los Angeles Free Music Society, 2x C-60) 1981

A huge and insanely diverse compilation of Abstract lunacy which came with the fourth edition of LAFMS magazine 'lightbulb'.
We've even got the Meat Puppets on here,and thankfully they don't sound like the Meat Puppets from later in the eighties 'cus they were shit; they aren't here.
We got 45 Grave, future LA Goth rockers who later sounded like a Beverly hills version of X-Mal Deutschland, but contained a member with one of the best stage names ever....Dinah Cancer.Their track here is in fact a rather marvellous sonic splatter painting,disguising the goth leanings like a Dazzle Ship.They could have been great!
The Berlin School of electronic musik makes an appearance too,in the form of Herr Asmus Tietchens,which is strange for a Los Angeles comp?
Of course there's plenty of unhinged experimentation from Rick and Joe Potts,Tom Recchion, Dennis Duck and the famous Doo-Dooettes to satisfy your craving for truly unique abstract madness.

Track listing:

Volume One:

01 Tomm Recchion And The Friends Of Leslie-I Walk Through Walls
02 Monique-Bathroom
03 Jad Fair-Kristy
04 Doug Snyder-Imaginary Descenders
05 Creatures Lives-Freedom Like A Burning Wall
06 Smegma-#2
07 Peepland-Mark Stuber
08 The Lunchmen-Rock With Three Eyes
09 John Duncan-LBMA
10 International Language-Angels
11 Duba/Sansome-Limbo Sock
12 30 Windswept Dimes-Nestor Carbuncles
13 Decayes-Dancehall
14 45 Grave-Bobby
15 Half Bodied Baby-The Bullfrogs
16 Human Hands-She Eats Bugs
17 Neef-Gondwanland
18 Glo-Bin Treeflip-No Title
19 Bachelors Even-Tes Lolos Tremolos
20 Rick Potts-Draw Spunky

21 Bridge-Countdown
22 Fragile Hats-Suddenly...
23 Fredrik Nilsen-Our First Date

Volume Two:

01 Jes Grew-Another Chance To Lose
02 B people-Give Up
03 Phranc-I Like Life
04 Asmus Titchens-Club Of Rome
05 Them Rhythm Ants-50 Opinions
06 Tiny Holes-Billy
07 Random Samples-Random Sample
08 Flap-Pablo Kwell
09 Tela Conversion-Take Possess
10 Meat Puppets-Meat Puppets
11 Doodooettes-That Moment
12 Pep Lester-It's No Fair
13 Bridge-Untitled
14 Cameron Hands Penis Envy-Room With A View
15 Dennis Duck-Dogs Don't Drive
16 Brent Wilcox-Santa Fe Dub
17 Planet Z-Jungle Rot
18 Arrow Book Club-Morris Time
19 Bruce Licher-Compositions For Computer#1
20 Slimy Adenoid & The Fab Pabs-Twist & Squirm
21 Rick Potts & His Riddle Orchestra-I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
22 The Tribal Fops-Blue Pork Chops
23 Bill Noland-Helen Does A Waltz
24 Foundation Boo-X-Land

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Various Artists ‎– "Blub Krad" (Los Angeles Free Music Society ‎– LAFMS 7) 1978

Blub Krad  sounded like a great name for a compilation,until I realised it was Dark Bulb backwards!
A shadier cousin to the LAFMS Lightbulb  magazine , it begins with the classic outsider punk of Half Japanese,or maybe 'Free Punk' would be a more accurate pigeon hole for this joyous noise.("The only chord I know is the one that goes from the guitar to the amp!"-Jad Fair).
It gets weirder from there with a succession of lawless musical rioting,punctuated by bizarre islands of  parody.
My personal favourite track is "I Walked With A Zombie" by The Yvonnes, a bizarre chimps tea party of competent incompetence where the chimps are given instruments instead of teapots and bananas. A kind of American "Weird Noise EP".

Tracklist

A1	–1/2 Japanese	Someone I Care About
A2	–Vetza	1st Of Five
A3	–The Pablums	Under My Gums
A4	–Fredrik Nilsen	Elbow And Marcella
A5	–Tom Recchion	Brak R People
A6	–The Yvonnes	I Walked With A Zombie
B1	–Paul Is Dead	Crazy
B2	–The Square Haircutts	Affirmed By A Nose
B3	–The Fine Arts Dumpsters	Mr. Peanut Butter
B4	–Rick Potts	Ode To Archaeopteryx
B5	–Yoel	Yoel At The Fab Mab
B6	–El Trio Primero	The Sleepwalking

!EREH TI DAOLNWOD 

Various Artists ‎– "I.D. Art #2" (Los Angeles Free Music Society ‎– LAFMS #002) 1976

That Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) certainly know/knew how to put together a good abstract compilation record. This one dates from even before "Blorp essette" in 1976.
Back then the LAFMS had already deconstructed rock even before the 'Punks' had decided to destroy 'Rock' by playing....er.....Rock? Very little on here would even have been perceived as music in those ELP ruled days,even today this still has a very large capacity to annoy and frighten Mr and Mrs Henry Normal; and may even make John Q. Public angry(?). When confronted with Conceptual Art, the Hive mind can be easily confused and sent in to the defensive 'fight or flight' mode of a cornered animal.Frequently dismissing such  challenges to accepted norms as 'Rubbish'  or 'Not Art',backed up with violent urges. Its the difference between Constables' 'Haywain' and Picasso's "Weepin Woman",the difference between Craft and Art; the difference between ELP and  Smegma.

Tracklist:

A1	–Mac McCloud	A, Mac McCloud;B, Mac McCloud
A2	–Harold Schroeder	Silent Rituals
A3	–Greg Neutra / J.D. Elliot	Grieg Fatigue
A4a	–Smegma	Rrose Selavy Will Wait For My Washing Machine, Even
A4b	–Smegma	The Andalusian Dog Often Digs Into The Furniture With Onyx Fingers
A5	–Smegma	Potatoe War
A6	–Fredrik Nilsen	You Can't Hide From Aldehyde
A7	–Miles Forst	Art, Art, Art
A8	–Smegma	One Moment
A9	–Smegma	Pigface Blues
A10	–Doug Henry	View This Command As A Verbal Enactment Of A Command
A11	–Josie Roth	Heal, And Another Little Time
A12	–Joe Potts	I Don't Want To Go To The Farm
A13	–Otto Fick	Untitled
A14	–Smegma	Excerpt From: I'll Have Julie Nixon-Eisenhower For My Appetizer (Sour Lungs To My Surprise)
A15	–Karen Kato	Xmas 1952
A16	–J.J. Allen Vargas	Victim Of Racism
A17	–Dennis Guy Mehaffey	Busta Nosa
A18	–M/R/Zuniga	Vulnerability: Rape, Male Vs. Female
A19	–Mike Green	Martin Heiddeger Revisited
A20a	–Mehaffey	Introduction By Buckminster Fuller
A20b	–Mehaffey	I Stumble/You Laugh
A21	–Jules Lemelle	Untitled
B22	–Maureen Abbott	Untitled
B23	–Smegma	Take One
B24	–Dan Weiss / P. Hamilton Ross	A Bicentennial Tribue To America's Freight Trains
B25	–Mr. Foon	Timeless #1
B26	–Bertil Petersson	Monologue To Henry VIII
B27	–Amrein & Stoll	Untitled
B28	–Ace & Duce	Dogs Are Barking
B29	–Irene Dogmatic / Rose Tatoo	Untitled
B30	–Gordon Shields	Cotton Duck, Up And Back
B31	–Gary Beydler	Record Stick
B32	–Tom Kemp	Pasadena Subway Station Poetry Stills
B33	–Donald Spaulding	I Don't Want This To Happen
B34	–Janice Felger / Joan Hugo	One Minute Of Art News Update In 30 Seconds
B35	–Sue Farthing	Untitled
B36	–Waynna Kato	White/Noise
B37	–Jim Abuan / Peter Muzzey	Why Does Love Have To Be So Sad?
B38	–Juan Gomez	This Is My Country
B39	–P.J. Campbell	Untitled
B40	–Kathe Schreyer	Don't Make Me Laugh
B41	–Mary Dana Chodzko	Patty Smith By Mary Dana Chodzko
B42	–Gary Laskin	Have Sex With Rex
B43	–Jean Koller	Dream
B44a	–Le Forte Four	Discarded Portion Of The Soundtrack For Rick's Film "Burger Madness"
B44b	–Le Forte Four	From "The Origin Of Large Schrapnel"
B44c	–Le Forte Four	I Haven't Heard You For A Long Time…
B44d	–Le Forte Four	Fat Ape

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Various Artists ‎– " Blorp Essette " Volume Two (Los Angeles Free Music Society ‎– LAFMS#10/11) 1980

More Van Vliet art in 'True Mono' for guitar players!.....you can't go far wrong with those three cosy niches overlapping each like a Venn diagram of  'wot is gud'. The central sector,where all three converge, forming the all encompassing brilliance of "Blorp essette"......volume two. Not forgetting that Volume One was fantastic also.
All the usual LAFMS contributors(the Potts, Recchion,Duck,Chapman,Smegma etc.) are, one assumes, present; plus some very un-PC lo-fi Punk from The Child Molesters, with their peon to the Hillside Strangler.....not the first peon to this mythical monster, but a fine noise indeed nonetheless!
Side 2 of LP1,is dedicated to those who would want to stretch the possibilities of the guitar to this versatile instruments uncharted limits.The picks being Mr.Foon 'untrendy' piece from 1977, and Henry Kaiser's abstract vision of Gary Moore's solo from "Parisienne Walkways"......not really, but a fine example for a compare and contrast moment; that is one is brilliant and innovative, the other pure shite......I'll leave it up to you which one is which.

Track Listing:

A1	Unknown Artist	Intro...
A2	–Bix Flent	Happy Birthday Behavior
A3	The Child Molesters	(I'm The) Hillside Strangler
A4	ace=1,aos c/s	Examining Upstart Art
A5	Amy DeWolfe	Frogsies And Fisheggs Zuking Mushroom Headtops In The Swamp. The Mushroom Headtops Walk Into The Unknown. The End (Beware Of The Zookies)
A6	–Rick Potts	Don't Think
A7	–Doo-Dooettes	From The Desk Of….The Doo-Dooettes
		For Guitar Players
B1	–Larry Fischer & Smegma	Introduction
B2	–Patrick Dutchboy Lubotamy	Delayedelusions 1-5
B3	–Henry Kaiser	Mal Qué Arroz
B4	–Reet / Craig	ACNoDE Ape
B5	–Mr. Foon	Non-Trendy Guitar Piece 1977
B6	–Electric Willy Trio	Truck-Drivin' Song
B7	–Larry Fischer & Smegma	Outro (Outake)
		Blorp Esettes Greatest Hits
C1	–Unknown Artist	Intro…
C2	–Dennis Duck	Evolution Song
C3	–Joe Potts	Heartphase Hotel
C4	–Smegma / Harry Halibut & His Band Renoun	Medley: Bubs Enter A Cold, Hard World / The Bub Walk
C5	–Electric Willy Trio	Cow Town Blues
C6	–Reverend Toad-Eater	Alden Street
D1	–The New Los Grifos Band / Dr. Id / Ju Suk Reet Meate	Medley: Joe Hall's Dead / Idpiece Codpiece / Hot's Bee's Head Hit The Wax
D2	–Patients	(Rodan)
D3	–Chip Chapman	Red Light, Auto Flight
D4	–Sucmeof The Spud	Betty Moons It
D5	–The Child Molesters	Muscle Beach Party (Live)
D6	–Charles Wasserburg	My Skateboard High

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Various Artists ‎– "Blorp Esette Volume One" (Los Angeles Free Music Society ‎– LAFMS#05) 1977

The Iconic compilation from the abstract world of the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS),complete with faux naive  artwork by none other than Don Van Vliet; that very over-rated painter formerly known as Captain Beefheart, the very under-rated musician.
All the usual combinations of LAFMS members are here,plus an exclusive track from none other than, no not Don Van Vliet, but The Residents, from during the height of their creative summer.
It may have been 1977,but you won't find any Punk Rock on here; having said that, you won't find any Punk Rock as Punk Rock as this either.The boundaries of the definition of music are stretched like the loose elastic of Meat Loafs sweaty underpants. So much so, that when The Residents track appears, they sound like Top Ten material......which of course they should have been?

Track Listing:

A1 - 'Intro' - Unknown Artist
A2 - 'Neil Schneck' - Dr Odd
A3 - 'Her Father's Love' - Electric Willy
A4 - 'Somebody Pooped In Their Pants' - Daniel Stewart
A5 - 'The Lubricated Braggarts Countdown' - Cheezit Ritz
A6 - '(LA(WEBSTER7)0)' - Reet/Craig
A7 - 'Excerpt from "I Smell Smoke" - Smegma
A8 - 'Oktaaves' - Mr. Foon
A9 - 'Whoopy Snorp' - The Residents
A10-'Half magic' - The Patients
A11-'Outro/Wolf Loop' - Unkown Artist

B1 - '2or 3 unclaimed Negros Corpses' - The Professor
B2 - 'Still Life' - D.K.,Reet Meate
B3 - 'Japanese Super Heroes' - Le Forté Four
B4 - 'The return Of The Pyramidal Oinksnovs' - Gods Of The Pits
B5 - 'Ya Gotta Geek The Geeker' - Smegma
B6 - 'HEA/AOS' - ACE=1,c/s-Helena Armand
B7 - 'Reet Solo Real Bass' - Ju Suk Reet Meate
B8 - 'Microphobia' - Mr. Foon's Bandaloon
B9 - 'Just Don't forget,Frank Is The Real Boss' - Frank Bedal

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Various Artists ‎–"L.A. Mantra II" (Trance Port Tapes ‎– trance 8) 1984

Afterimage (see previous post) were on "L.A.Mantra "1, so here's "L.A.Mantra II", and there's even  another Brit influenced post punk-a-like group on here,the Abecedarians (they even got signed to Factory for a short while in '86!?)
Be not afraid, for there are many other early 80's shoebox's emptying their contents onto two cassettes, for your enjoyment,or otherwise. We got minimal synth, Minimalism, avant rock, mutant disco,ambient, modern composition, avant garde,drone, and plenty of LAFMS hangers on adding their ten cents.
All in, its a great compilation of interesting musics, equal in quality to its predecessor,but in better packaging.
(Thanks go to Carlo for this by the way.
ps....download includes the  booklet pdf file.)

Tracklist :

		Region I-
A1	–Marina La Palma	Mi Ni Parolas
A2	–Randall Kennedy	Never Ending Night
A3	–John J. Lafia	Queen Of The Nile
A4	–Abecedarians	They Said Tomorrow
A5	–Psi-Com	Psi-Com (Theme)
		Region II-
B1	–17 Pygmies	Moment In Ceylon
B2	–Rick Cox	S P
B3	–Anthony Teti	Winter Arriving
B4	–Bay Of Pigs	Child's Lament
B5	–Repetition Repetition	Over & Over, Pt. 8
		Region III-
C1	–Chas Smith	Beatrix
C2	–Scott Fraser	An Act Of Control
C3	–Apes Of God	The Discovery Of Fire
C4	–John Trubee	Crawling Down The Hallway
C5	–Carl Stone	Wave Heat
C6	–A Produce	Dorian Imaginagion
C7	–Tom Recchion	Metallic Bow
		Region IV-
D1	–Brad Laner	N-Counter
D2	–Brent Wilcox	Secret Of Cargo
D3	–Points Of Friction	Midnight Globe
D4	–An Bene	March To Miramol
D5	–D.D. Dobson	Agua Y Tia
D6	–Fluxus Appliance	Accidents In The Home
D7	–Bruce Licher / Chez Voz	Bridge

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