8-30-2015

Setlist:

1. The Magits - Disconnect
2. Mobil-Mockingbird - I'm Waiting For The Man (VU Cover)
3. Ramleh - Leaving Here
4. Throbbing Gristle - Maggot Death - Live At The Rat Club
5. Michael Yonkers Band - Jasontown
6. Pissed Jeans - I Broke My Own Heart
7. Anode / Cathode - 立体お姫様

The Magits - "Disconnect"
Off the "Fully Coherent" EP released on Outer Himalayan Records in 1979.
An explosion of otherness, the one-off group known as "The Magits" consisted of Nick Blinko (later of Rudimentary Peni) and Martin Cooper. The "Fully Coherent" EP was the first release on Blinko's Outer Himalayan record label. The cover art features a paper mache (?)
"Magit," as Blinko and others would refer to them as.
The music is Outsider, yes, as is most of Blinko's other works. A more disturbed take on Synth Punk and Industrial, The Magits represent Nick Blinko's art better than Rudimentary Peni; I'd argue.

Mobil-Mockingbird - "I'm Waiting For The Man"

Off the "Basement D-Sides" CD released on Orange SLS Records in 2013.
Containing members David Montanye (covered on the 8/15/2015 show) and Mobil Joe, Mobil-Mockingbird are a folk rock duo (now trio) from up-state New York; as is most of the Orange SLS catalogue. Their first full length effort (well, it is only around 20 minutes) consists of Jeffrey Lewis sounding folk tunes coupled with some more "Punk" sounding songs and a Velvet Underground cover.
As you can tell, this is The Velvet Underground song. One of the better VU covers I've heard (of which there are many) in recent memory. 
I haven't been keeping up with Mobil-Mockingbird, but they're ready to release a new album.
Hopefully it's good!

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Ramleh - "Leaving Here"
Off the "Grudge For Life" LP released on Vis A Vis Video Arts in 1990.
Never wanting to stick to one thing or one idea, Ramleh started out as part of the UK's Power Electronics scene before shifting into Death Industrial and Drone in the late 80's. The 90's saw Ramleh fully shifting into a psychedelic Noise Rock mode: driving bass and warping guitar with no percussion, something that this album still gets alot of ridicule over. I think the lack of percussion was an educated decision: Power Electronics almost never has any sense of percussion or "beat," so I assume Ramleh was trying to do the same with Rock music. A beat gives you something to build your sound around, and who the hell needs that?
After the magnificent "Boeing" (1997) and "Elite Gymnastics" (1996) Ramleh would shift back towards industrial, but always doing a few Noise Rock live shows here and there. Ramleh very well could've started the micro-trend of UK 90's Noise Rock bands trying to sound like Rapeman and Albinicore in general, a bizarre trend forever encapsulated by Mclusky, Bodychoke and Mazey Fade.

Throbbing Gristle - "Maggot Death - Live At The Rat Club"
Off "The Second Annual Report Of Throbbing Gristle" released on Industrial Records in 1977.
Previously played on 8/9/2015.
One of TG's more out-rightly "bad ass" tracks, this take of Maggot Death is with out a doubt the best on Second Annual Report., without a doubt beating the other 3 versions. 
Much like when I played Slug Bait on the 8/9/2015 show, I should have to add much more. Chances are you guys are very familiar with Throbbing Gristle.

Michael Yonkers Band - "Jasontown"
Off the "Mircrominature Love" LP recorded in 1968 and released on De Stijl in 2003.
The opening track to Yonkers' 1968 LP (that didn't see a proper release until 2003), picking a track to put on here was insanely difficult - they're all gold! 
The Michael Yonkers Band was a short lived (but now somewhat reunited) act from Minneapolis, MN that was mostly active in the late 60's. Recording one album - Microminature Love - the group ceased to exist and Michael Yonkers went on to become a solo artist with a cult following. Hinting towards Noise Rock and Punk, (that ending to "Boy In The Sandbox" sounded like no other rock song in 68, not even Sister Ray got that vicious) Microminature Love would've taken the underground by storm if it was released in 1968.

Pissed Jeans - "I Broke My Own Heart"
Off the "Shallow" LP released on SubPop Records in 2004.

A definite change of pace from Michael Yonkers - Pissed Jeans is a more recent Noise Rock / Post-Hardcore group from Allentown, PA. Making intense, mid-paced noisey hardcore tunes is mostly what they specialize in - a drunken 20-something yelling over guitar feedback and repetitive bass-lines, Pissed Jeans certainly remind me of 80's noise rock more so than alot of other groups that have sprouted up in the last decade that, much like Pissed Jeans, want to be the next Drunks With Guns.

Anode/Cathode -  "立体お姫様"

Off the "PunkAnachRock" EP recorded 1975-1977 and released on Pinakotheca in 1981.

The entirety of the A-Side, (since I couldn't find names for individual tracks, and after looking at the liner notes, this is all one song) because I needed a good excuse to shove 9 minutes of Japanese proto-industrial noise rock down your throat. Weird, outlandish and unlike anything else in the universe, that's fer sure!