This Heat "Horizontal Hold" from "This Heat" (1979) aka The Blue and Yellow [ThisIs!1]

"A landmark recording by one of most important British bands, full stop. This, their first release, tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. First, the music: without precedent, then, the musicians: all extraordinary, all uncompromisingly radical, then the way it was all put together: endlessly surprising, hammeringly intense, and the sound: hard, radical, crafted, rich, with complete control of the frequency range. Beautifully recorded, radically mixed, this was breathtakingly present . Stripped back to the bone but never simplified. And it hasn’t aged. This is deep, complex work that creates its own world, anticipating much that was to follow in the next 15 years. A luminous release out of print (for almost a decade?). Re-mastered by the group for this re release." http://bit.ly/1iajmyp

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This Heat "S.P.Q.R." from "Deceit", 1981 [ThisIs!2]

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This Heat "Makeshift" from "Made Available - John Peel Sessions", 1977 [ThisIs!4]

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[Official] Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward, Gareth Williams. "This heat was formed from the collective desire of its individual members not to be in other peoples groups"

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