11-22-2015

Setlist:
1. Art Guy - Where You Wanna Go
2. Children's Hour - Slaughterhouse 
3. Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Muskel Kraft 
4. Dawn Of Humans - Horse Blind
5. Occult - Slaughterhouse
6. Treatment - Watched
7. Alberich - Infrared Commando
8. Stephen Cornford - Pinched Tapes #1

 Art Guy - "Where You Wanna Go"

Off the "Teenage Millionaire" single released on Valiant Records in 1966.
Not-too-experimental Garage Rock from 1966, Art Guy is a group with no names attached. Only releasing one 7" in 1966 (which was marked as being promotional,) we may never know more about the group. Oddly enticing.

Children's Hour - "Slaughterhouse" 
Off the "Flesh" 12" EP released on Flying Nun Records in 1983.
New Zealand's 'Children's Hour' took the aestheticism of Death Rock and merged it with the budding genres of No Wave and Noise Rock. The result is a disorientating, atmospheric and confusing mixture of sound from 4 very strange men.

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - "Muskel Kraft"
Off the "Live Weisbaden Wartburg 18.6.1981" tape.

Cult band DAF, from Germany, have seen many bootleg tapes through the years but the "Live Weisbaden Wartburg" tape has to be the best.

Dawn Of Humans - "Horse Blind"

Off the "Slurping At The Cosmos Spine" released on Toxic State in 2015.
Quirky modern art punk a la Lumpy And The Dumpers or the Minneapolis Uranium Club Band. Fun while it lasts.

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Occult - "Slaughterhouse"

Recorded in 1985 and released on the "Occult / Agathocles" split on Not Very Nice Records in 2007.

I don't know what to say, really. A 1 minute track off their 1 minute and 30 second demo (the 30 second track being "Bloodthirsty,") Occult is a common band name in the metal world, but this is something far from common. Some weird type of Blackened, Grindy metal featuring a drum, what sounds like a bass and a VERY agitated vocalist is what makes up this recording. In the 30 second masterwork "Bloodthirsty," the vocalist yells "Hail Satan, Hail Satan... I want you to die!" 
Weird to think this recording is 30 years old. If only we knew where these gentlemen ended up.

Treatment - "Watched"

Off "Tape 1," released at an unknown date.
Most easily compared to The Coneheads, (featured on 9-22-2015) Treatment's aesthetic combines skate punk with late 70's art punk and the DIY. The sound is also similar. Playing shows yet remaining oddly distant and reclusive, who knows were treatment will lead us.

Alberich - "Infrared Commando"

Off the  "NATO Uniformen" LP, released on Hospital Productions in 2010.
Combining the flow and rhythm of EBM with the menace of Power Electronics and Death Industrial comes Alberich, a new-comer in the decade ole genre and somehow able to bring a new sound to the table. Minimal Synth beats between booming vocals and stirring mixers provide an outlandish, yet refreshing experience in an often stagnant genre. Alberich's creativity and visionary style have led some to call it "Heavy Electronics."

Stephen Cornford - "Pinched Tapes #1"
Off the "Pinched Tapes #1" tape released independently in 2009.
Merging a string recording by John Cage with a tape of Jack and The Beanstalk, Cornford's tape, limited to 6 copies, combines a weird feeling of nostalgia and loneliness. Something to be expected from Cornford.