01. All These People Around Me by Wareika ( Taken from the album 'Wternal' out now via Visionquest)
02. Bang the Box (Bang the House Remix) by Matt Warren (Taken from the album 'Jerome Deradji presents Bang the Box! The (Lost) Story of AKA Dance Music. Chicago 1987-88' out now via Still Music.)
03. To Hell With You by Sleigh Bells (Taken from the album 'Bitter Rivals' out now via Lucky Number.)
04. Redlight ft. Nathaniel Pearn by Robinn (Taken from the album 'Multiphonia' out now via Compost.)
05. Jump Over Barrels by Crash Course in Science (Taken from the album 'Trevor Jackson Presents Metal Dance 2' out now via Strut.)
06. Me & U by Shine 2009 (Taken from the album 'Our Nation' out now via Modular.)
07. Postman by Melissa Laveaux (Taken from the album 'Dying is a Wild Night' out now via Naive.)

05. Jump Over Barrels by Crash Course in Science

Covergirl (1985) Single version

Severed Heads are one of the longest standing bands to have emerged from the Australian post-punk and experimental scene. They began in Sydney in 1979, and were an early outfit to incorporate elements of 'industrial' noise-generation, tape cutting & looping and electronic sound synthesis. As the project developed, song-structures and vocals were employed in a more-or-less recognizable mutant electro pop style. After many line-up changes featuring Gary Bradbury and psychedelic guitarist Simon Knuckey, Severed Heads became the solo vehicle for composer Tom Ellard. 
In 1983 they released a C-60 cassette called “Since The Accident” that grabbed the attention of Ink Records, a subsidiary of Virgin in the UK.  Ellard added a throwaway track at the last minute to fill out the cassette, not wanting to leave an unseemly gap on a C60 tape. This track, “Dead Eyes Opened” was catchy enough to get a lot of airplay on the main non-commercial radio station in Sydney. The band was asked to make this song into a 12” single. For this extended version, Tom Ellard and producer Patrick Gibson went to M Squared studio and passed the multitracked recordings through various EQ's and delays. “Dead Eyes Opened” features samples from a radio program narrated by Edgar Lustgarten, a crime journalist from England, referencing a double murder case that occurred in 1924. The rhythms are made by a TR-808 drum machine and an SH-1 synthesizer. A KORG PolySix was used for strings and additional atmospheric elements. The lead solo was a Casiotone run through an Octaver foot pedal. On the B-side are two solo compositions “Bullet” and “Mount” that Ellard recorded at Terse Tapes in 1982. 

All songs are remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Housed in the original jacket featuring the iconic photograph of a girl with a painted face wrapped in some cloth by Juilee Pryor. Each copy includes a fold-out newsprint poster with a large photo of the band wearing Art Unit skull shirts on one side and liner notes and press clippings on the other. 30 years later Severed Heads are still paving the way for powerful, imaginative, and challenging music.

Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened extended 12" mix

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Disco Bilecik

11-deux - game and performance

Songs of Love & Lust

Talk To Me

Driving Blind

Walking Through Heaven

Retrouvez les titres diffusés dans la salle d'écoute de l'exposition Lyon capitale du rock 1978-1983 (15 mai-21 septembre 2019)

Deux - Felicita

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