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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We're back for November with an EP from South Africa's WAPO Jije! If you're unfamiliar with WAPO's work you can find his music released on some of the regions most prominent Deep House labels. We also just had him on remix duties this past July for DJ Christian Bs "Find My Way EP".

His new EP with us features 2 beautifully deep tracks, "How Deep Can You Go" and 'Grand Rising" that both feature lush pads, catchy melodies and those head nodding bass lines. We hope you enjoy this stellar EP from WAPO, and stay tuned next month for the remixes from Matt Masters and Radic The Myth!

Out exclusively on Traxsource Nov.21

Produced by: WAPO Jije
Mixed by: Danny Ward
Mastered by: Rob Small

WAPO Jije - Grand Rising

Info:  
This track is part of "First Album" by Miss Kittin & The Hacker.

See details below or check discogs: http://www.discogs.com/Miss-Kittin-The-Hacker-First-Album/release/20345

Buy the track at:  
Zero Inch: http://www.zero-inch.com/artist/Miss_Kittin/track/Stock_Exchange/61122
Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/track/stock-exchange-original-mix/455186
Itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/album/first-album/id270122321?l=en

Lyrics:
Shaking Hands in the back of a Mercedes car 
Saying whiskies, colas, & business hotel bars 
The wheel of high heels tears me apart 
Like a Harvard Number One Broken Art 

AttachÃ©-Case change at my burdened arm 
Carry the last top secret lucky charm 
Sunglasses on my nose in the pouring rain 
Dreaming about a hot bath cutting my veines

Stock Exchange Woman 
Exchange 

Is it real this pink punk costume I wear 
All the time to seduce Japanese "hommes d'affaire" 
I can smell their expensive after shave 
When they touch my bum in the lift of the Empire State 

Stock exchange woman 
Exchange 

Madonna "Into the groove" in my cell-phone 
Ringing like a non-stop metronome 
My psy told me to go to a Spa 
But my jet is flying to Vienna Austria 

Stock Exchange Woman 
Exchange

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