Truss + Instruments ‎– "79/80" (Self-Released C-60) 1980

Truus de Groot was in Dutch post-punkers Nasmak for a time, providing some electronic weirdness. She went on to do various stuff over the years, including this muddy electronic Industrial cassette.This tape was intended to be played in glorious Mono.Not recommended to listen to this on headphones in stereo, as everything is panned to the extreme right or left. For a ear damaged person like me it is most uncomfortable,and disorientating......but maybe that was her intention?.....Artists eh?

Tracklist:
A1 Lucky Day
A2 Music-zak
A3 How?
A4 Herhalingen
A5 You're A Man
B1 Dance
B2 Untitledimprovisation X9
B3 So
B4 Stratego

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Nasmak ‎– "4our Clicks" (Plurex Records ‎– PLUREX 2300) 1982

By 1982, in the proper recording studio world, Nasmak were sliding remorselessly in the direction that was inhabited by the 'Futurists', aka the New Romantics!....the main instrument of torture that every self-respecting bass player was scrambling for in 1981/2 was the god awful 'fretless bass', and Nasmak were not innocent of this crime against music.
Leaving behind the lo-fi post-punk of their recent past,they slipped dangerously towards the sci-fantasy world of Classix Nouveaux territory with this one....although one has to say not anywhere near as brain damaging.
A Sylvian-less Japan is a less insulting comparison; something they would slip further towards for their next album 'Duel',which sounds like....well....er.... Japan, complete with a whinier David Sylvian-a-like. So, I won't be posting that one.
It strange how following technological advancements and fashion can lead to one becoming more stuck in a past epoch, even when one undoubtedly feels one is pushing forward.This album therefore,is far more dated than their earlier work.
Fretless Basses, gated snare drums,Classix Nouveaux records and FM digital synthesizers should be handed in along with any unregistered firearms to your local police station as soon as possible!

Tracklist:

A1 Pilot In Charge 2:49
A2 Waiting Room 4:30
A3 I Hope I Am Gonna Rain Today 4:03
A4 Nothing But The Lyrics 3:29
A5 Sade M De 3:21
B1 Origins And Whereabouts 2:06
B2 No Touch And Go 4:35
B3 Take A Look 2:47
B4 Not Your Living Doll 3:12
B5 Nosedive 4:08
B6 4our Clicks 0:17

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Nasmak ‎– "Indecent Exposure 5 & 6 (Only This Day And 77 Others)" ( Plurex Records ‎– C 022) 1982

Only another 80 tracks to go in this Dutch Post-Punk extravaganza!
For these 'White Album/Sandinista syndrome' moments that groups have from time to time, when they feel an irresistible urge to bung everything they do,no matter how shite, onto one album.One usually feels a similar impulse to say, "Would have made a great EP"; but on this occasion I feel that this would have made a great quadruple album.....which it essentially is already, so i'll shut up.
However it's more like the Beatles 'Anthology' rather than the 'White Album', because its full of different takes of the same songs,and works in progress......not that i'm comparing them with The Beatles of course....that would be silly wouldn't it?.....Nasmak are far better.

Tracklist:

Indecent Exposure 5:
A1 F.M. Parade 1023
A2 Days 4
A3 Complicated Things
A4 Never Fool The P.A.-System
A5 Eyes 2
A6 Ne Me Quitte...
A7 I'll Never Do It Again In Hongkong 3
A8 2 Seconds Of The Flipside
A9 I Do 1
A10 Void 2 (Rehearsing 1981)
A11 Calypso Around The Clock
A12 I Do 2
A13 The Master Bait
A14 I'll Never Do It Again In Hongkong 4
A15 I Do 3
A16 Word
A17 Tudance 1
A18 I Didn't Do 1
A19 Vaseline Des Artistes (Rehearsing 1981)
A20 To Love The Fall In Djnepropetrowsk 2
A21 I Do 4
A22 Variations (2 Parts)
A23 Tudance 2 (2 Parts)
A24 I Do 5
B1 The Force Of Habit 2
B2 Roommates In Space Soundtrack
B3 I Didn't Do 2
B4 Beautiful Obscenery (Repeat Chorus 2) (Rehearsing 1981)
B5 Tudance 3
B6 I Didn't Do 3
B7 Birds (2 Parts)
B8 Fair 1 (2 Parts)
B9 I Didn't Do 4
B10 Origins And Whereabouts 3 (Crying)
B11 Labour
B12 I Do 6
B13 Cold Blood (Rehearsing 1981)
B14 Au 3
B15 Part V (Music For Movie "Do Not Title")
B16 Fair 2
B17 Ashes
B18 2nd
B19 Livin' Doll
B20 Sneak Through Any Window 2 (3 Parts)
B21 4th
B22 Now Minds Are Making New Cities
B23 Ich Liebe Dich
B24 Searching For One Hammer In Several Sheds

Indecent Exposure 6:
C1 Hobby Horse (Rehearsing 1981)
C2 Tudance 4
C3 Cocacola
C4 Stop
C5 F.M. Parade 1203
C6 F.M. Parade 1203
C7 Picture
C8 Other Places And Sea Sons (2 Parts)
C9 Won't Ye Com' Over (2 Parts)
C10 Lilly Marleen
C11 F.M. Parade 0123
C12 Tudance 5
C13 Team Spirit 2 (Why Talk Of - ) (Rehearsing 1981)
C14 Only This Day
C15 "Chocolat" 1
C16 Dead Slow 1 (Live 1981)
C17 F.M. Parade 1204
D1 F.M. Parade 1024 (4 Parts)
D2 I Do 7
D3 Before Being Born(e) (3 Parts)
D4 Better 1
D5 Soul
D6 Au Pair (Live 1981)
D7 A Shop
D8 Saw My Own Doubt Leaving
D9 Post
D10 Lilly Marleen
D11 Thank You
D12 "Chocolat" 2
D13 Announcement
D14 Inside Down 2 (Live 1981)
D15 4our Clicks (Live 1981)

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Nasmak ‎– "Indecent Exposure 3 & 4 (The Smell Remains)" (Plurex Records ‎– PLUREX C021) 1981

Here's the next part of the trilogy of double cassettes from Dutch Post-Punk experimentalists Nasmak.Remarkably good stuff and loads of it!......and there's even more to come!?

Tracklist:

Indecent Exposure 3
3-01 Take A Look 2 2:48
3-02 Kindness 0:44
3-03 Dino 1 (2 Parts) 2:15
3-04 Madrid Central 1:33
3-05 Public Call 1:33
3-06 Rubber Bubble Vs Vital 5:28
3-07 Cocko (2 Parts) 1:37
3-08 Rhapsody In Ankara 1:09
3-09 Maxaret 1 0:37
3-10 Budapest Disco 0:59
3-11 See No More 0:47
3-12 Origins & Whereabouts 2 2:07
3-13 Rubber Bubble Vs Vital 4:25
3-14 Berlin Polka 1:38
3-15 Luggage 2:52
3-16 Dino 2 0:56
3-17 Lily Marleen 1:20
3-18 Valse Paris Minuit 5:25
3-19 Dino 3 1:04
3-20 Void 1 2:08
3-21 Dead Slow 2 1:47
3-22 The Force Of Habit 1 0:49
3-23 The Force Of Habit 1 (Continued) 0:29
3-24 Dino 4 (2 Parts) 1:36
3-25 Void 3 2:31
3-26 How Are You 1:15
3-27 Void 4 1:28
3-28 Origins & Whereabouts 1 (Trying) 2:36
3-29 Hanza 1:55
3-30 Exactly So 2:35
3-31 Violint (2 Parts) 0:52
3-32 Inside The Box (It's So Hard For Me To Shout) 2:50
3-33 Violin Maxaret 0:51
3-34 Dishhunt 3:57
3-35 Entree 0:11
3-36 Kimono 1 (The Girl In The Pink?) 2:59
3-37 I Want To Know (2 Parts) 0:59
3-38 Bo Dance 5:06
3-39 Can You 0:11
3-40 So What 1:42
3-41 Days 1 1:26
3-42 Take A Look 1 3:46
3-43 I'll Never Do That Again In Hong Kong 1 2:54
3-44 Days 2 0:29
3-45 Team Spirit (Why Talk Of?) 1:30
Indecent Exposure 4
4-01 Team Spirit (Why Talk Of?) 3:33
4-02 I'll Never Do That Again In Hong Kong 2 (2 Parts) 5:00
4-03 Days 3 0:26
4-04 Strangers In This Night 2:31
4-05 To Love The Fall In Dnjepropetrowsk (3 Parts) 4:04
4-06 Kimono 2 (The Girl In The Pink?) 4:29
4-07 To Love The Fall In Dnjepropetrowsk (5 Parts) 6:12
4-08 Spring In Tomsk 1 2:38
4-09 Common Sense 0:38
4-10 Sneak Through Any Window 1 (2 Parts) 3:18
4-11 Spring In Tomsk 2 0:57
4-12 Perque? (Why Pickups) 2:48
4-13 Maxaret 2 4:05
4-14 Spring In Tomsk 3 1:10
4-15 Little Secrets (We've Got No Time) 3:51
4-16 Waiting Room (Repeat Chorus 1) (8 Parts) 7:52
4-17 Inside Down 1 1:04
4-18 Spring In Tomsk 4 0:21
4-19 Smell Remains 2:30
4-20 F M Parade 1023 (To Be Continued) 1:33

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Nasmak ‎– "Indecent Exposure 1 & 2 (Music For Brass, Woodwind, Drums & Violins)" -(Self-released C60+C90) 1981

Well!?...where does, or can, one start? Here we have part one of a triptych of double cassettes(a C60 and a C90!) by Dutch Post-Punk band, Nasmak, from Eindhoven.
The shear weight of stuff on this double cassette alone tests ones 21st century attention span to the limit. Thankfully , its largely very interesting and good stuff, constantly inventive and at time even catchy and danceable!?
Twelve Dozen(That's a gross by the way!) tracks captured live and in rehearsal;and there's also Indecent Exposure parts 3,4,5,&6 to follow, which even outdo's Danny and the Dressmakers' 4 and a half hour Rock Opera,"200 cancellations", by about five hours!???
Prolific isn't the words, but its all quality ,classic, post-punk experimentation of the highest lo-fi order.
This is what it says on the insert:

"INDECENT EXPOSURE + 144 minutes of music for brass, woodwind, drums, violins and cellos. recorded by nasmak, roland smits, theo kleintjes and dick verdult between july and december 1980. some pieces were recorded on a portable mono cassetterecorder, others on stereo equipment. all recordings live at gigs, rehearsals/jams and in dressing rooms in holland and germanu. nasmak at that time were: joop van brakel - guitar, voice; toon bressers - drums, syndrums; theo van eenbergen - bass, basspedals; truus de groot - voice, cracklesynthesizer, guitar; henk janssen - guitars; roland smits."

Tracklist:
1A01 B.T.P. 2 / A.T. 2 9:17
1A02 W.V. Middendorp 1:53
1A03 Chairslide 2:08
1A04 Wastepaperbasket 1:16
1A05 I(nn)ocente 1:04
1A06 Koudstromendwater 0:17
1A07 A.A.E. 1:01
1A08 Radiator 1:47
1A09 (How Can It Be You Can Be So) Rough 1:43
1A10 Back To Peace 2:58
1A11 Kill A B.T.P. 1:48
1A12 Vital Virus 1:48
1A13 1st Love 2:19
1A14 The Rubber Bubble
1B01 Chivalry On The Balcony 1:02
1B02 Ducktalk 1:16
1B03 Things Funk 2:59
1B04 Things Sweet 2:33
1B05 A.T. Things 3:32
1B06 (You Cannot Feel The) Things I Feel 1:58
1B07 Kill 3:20
1B08 Adultery In The Dormatory 2:15
1B09 Big Man 4:25
1B10 You're A Man 3:50
1B11 Sceptic
2A01 A.T. (2) 2:42
2A02 Sweet Bananas 2:41
2A03 Piano 1:12
2A04 Paquador 1 En 2 3:50
2A05 Old Circus 1:24
2A06 New Circus 1:24
2A07 Circus 1:24
2A08 Words 2:03
2A09 Swimming Pool 1:04
2A10 Love 3:42
2A11 Helicopter (Flying To The West) 6:01
2A12 Afspraken 0:30
2A13 De Vink Is Dood 2 1:10
Rehearsal Recordings:
2A14 Inadequate Possibilities 0:47
2A15 12 B.B. (The Smell Remains) 6:07
2A16 Indecent Exposure 2 2:20
2B01 B.T.P. 1 (Si Ta Tête) 3:51
2B02 Intermezzo 1:16
2B03 Helicopter 2 (Flying To The East) 5:35
2B04 You're A Man 3:15
2B05 De Vink Is Dood 3:19
2B06 Daily Life 3:27
2B07 Patchwork Window 1 2:28
2B08 Patchwork Window 2 0:42
2B09 Possible Harmonics 1:28
2B10 Ayatollah Shuffleh 4:15
2B11 They Are Growing 1 2:46
2B12 They Are Growing 2 1:42
2B13 Au / Ja Toch 2 3:28
2B14 No Circus 0:38
2B15 Spy / Eyes 4:54

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Nasmak ‎– "Nasmak Plus Instruments, Instruments Plus Nasmak" ( Plurex Records ‎– Plurex 1800) 1980

Rather excellent debut LP from electronic flavoured Post Punk band from Eindhoven in the Netherlands.For their short lifespan of just three or four years, they managed to record enough material and release it all which would fill up many a long career for most groups.

It's all very 1980, which is officially the best year ever for rock/pop music.....yes?.Classic Post-Punk restless experimentation , stretching boundaries, challenging taboo's, and striving to make something new that we haven't heard before,whilst at the same time rejecting the past. Something that we could well do with today in the mainstream music culture,but then again was it ever like that? There was still total crud in the charts in 1980, but the underground scene was never more healthy.Todays underground music scene is undoubtedly thriving, but it suffers from ease of access and the shear quantity of it all.Its all high quality too,but most of it is derivative of something past.1980 had a freedom to find a future that had never existed in the past.The 21st century was the future, but some of 1980 still sounds like the future to these heavily damaged ears and brain cells.The modern era is mostly an exercise in disguised archaeology, and passing it off as inspiration.....its good but it doesn't interest me much.....its a kind of Avant-Cabaret rather than progressive. For me music died around 1983,or even earlier.Post-punk was its death rattle......discuss.

Tracklist:

A1 (Song To A) Dummy
A2 Notions
A3 Food For Thought
A4 Stratego
A5 Neckermann
A6 Pig Problems
B1 Eyes
B2 So
B3 Big Man (The Soundtrack)
B4 Spy
B5 Special Agreement
B6 Heartbeat
B7 Eleven

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