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August 6th 2013.

A Gitmix of the 12" of the track that was also on the LP Tackhead Tape Time.

Started work on this in 2011. Made it fifteen seconds in and stopped.

Yesterday I revisited the file and got to work again. Funny how imminent destitution is a great motivator to finish things.

Adrian Sherwood and the masters Wimbish, McDonald and LeBlanc, 1985. And the album Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Tackhead Tape Time, has never been bettered.

Tackhead - Mind At The End Of The Tether (Gitmix)

 Our best version of the classic Velvet Underground track. We tried about 10 times to record this song, but the results were never very tight. This version I think is strong enough to share.  Miss Mess and Sonny Blood absolutely back each other up to the very top, lots of support from the awesome Bryce Martin,  Tim Moore as well! At Patrick Jennings Underground Paradise Place, he calls it Unseasonable Sound Studio.

Venus in Furs

The Space Lady - Ghost Riders In The Sky

The Space Lady - Ballroom Blitz

As featured on Sherwood At The Controls Vol 2: 1985 - 1990, a slice of future funk laid down by Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald and Keith LeBlanc (aka The Sugarhill Gang) in collaboration with UK dub producer Adrian Sherwood. Exclusive edit by On-U archivist and DJ Patrick Dokter.

Order Sherwood At The Controls Vol 2: http://amzn.to/28MJS3p

Tackhead - Mind At The End Of The Tether (SATC 2 Edit)

Clan of Ximox - 7th Time

Kim Sun - The Man Who Must Leave

Hippo Lite

Real Outside

Clan of Xymox  - Imagination (Extended Mix).mp3

Another Thought

Arthur Russell - Keeping Up (arrayhost remix)

the 3rd neu! album, side one (1-3) mostly michael rother side 2 mostly klaus dinger

01 Isi  NEU!75

mostly listened in domodedovo.. 
but still here & there.. 


Xymox - Written In The Stars

A cover of the AR Kane's pop gem and taken off The Asphodells amazing album, "Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Lust" is "A Love from Outer Space" (also the name from Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston's growing London clubnight and dj duo). Mugwump have remixed it in slow-paced and raved-up motion. Out on Rotter's Golf Club as a bonus track to the album 's official release.

The Asphodells "A Love from Outer Space"  Mugwump remix (Rotter's Golf Club)

1000 Whispers

Algebra Suicide was a Chicago married duo of lyricist/vocalist Lydia Tomkiw and guitarist/keyboardist Don Hedeker formed in 1982. Their first four song EP "True Romance At The World's Fair" was self-released in 1982 and featured a 60's Vox Guitar Organ, a precursor to the synthesizer guitar, and a Multivox Rhythm Ace drum machine. In 1984 they released a second 4 song EP, "An Explanation For That Flock Of Crows" ditching the guitar organ but adding the Casiotone MT-40. The "Big Skin" cassette was released in 1986 and featured 13 new compositions  with more complex arrangements. A compilation album "The Secret Like Crazy" was released in 1988 collecting 20 tracks from the first two EPs and the Big Skin cassette plus unreleased songs.

"Feminine Squared" is a 18 track compilation that collects all 8 songs from the first two EPs,  4 songs from the "Big Skin" cassette, 4 songs from "The Secret Like Crazy", a song from the "Pas De Deux" compilation as well as an unreleased song. Tomkiw and Hedeker calls their approach "Avant Garage" citing inspiration from Patti Smith, Frank O'Hara, Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed. Don plays guitar in a hauntingly stark style like Glen Branca, Tom Verlaine or Vini Reilly. He then adds some Casio keyboards and minimal electronic percussion creating a moody, atmospheric backdrop for Lydia's poems. All "songs" are written without hearing the music, dictated  with a distinct midwestern accent and deadpan delivery. Lydia's words span a broad range of twisted, real-life observations; witty with an underlying sense of humor. 

All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The vinyl comes housed in a glossy black and white jacket featuring the cut up faces of Don and Lydia from  "An Explanation For That Flock Of Crows"  EP. Each LP includes a newsprint sine with lyrics, photos, liner notes and clippings. Also included is a full length DVD featuring a 12-song Algebra Suicide concert from 1984, recorded at the Noise Factory, in Chicago. Though Lydia passed away in 2007, her genius lives on in these recordings. Please respect her decadence. 


Xymox - Written In The Stars

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