Organum & The New Blockaders - " Salute " (Frux Records) 1984

This is the sound of sinking oil tankers breaking their backs as they founder in a deep ocean.The screeching of metal as it rips and scrapes against massive machinery struggling to operate as an onslaught of sea water compromises its functionality (sorry for this americanism).
A thousand refuse lorries emptying their rotten cargo into a bottomless landfill site, to a cacophony of malfunctioning electricity pylons.
Beaten to the punch ,maybe by Whitehouse and Non, this is a pityless march into the forbidden realms of extreme noise, only matched by the 90's work of Merzbow.
David Jackman's Organum, joining forces with arch-nihilists, The New Blockaders, set a new benchmark for ear bleeding noise, gauranteed to send any normal citizen running to the nearest suicide leap point........which is a highly recommended objective in art; and this is art,not pop.

TRACK LISTING:

A1		Part One
A2		Part Two
A3		Part Three
B1		Part Four
B2		Part Five
B3		Part Six
B4		Part Seven
B5		Part Eight

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David Jackman and Phillip Sanderson - " 0° North " (Aeroplane Records AR04) 1982

Scraping ambient noises, with abundant repetitious tin can percussion, adequately descibes what you are hearing on this cassette release on David jackmans Aeroplane label. Following his contributions for Sanderson's Snatch Tapes compilations; it seemed only right that he should collaborate with Sanderson and release it on his own imprint.
For some reason, 'Under Press of Sail' makes its third appearence,albiet a more ambient version, (see Snatch 1 and Snatch 3), and 'Ashes and Diamonds' makes another too. I suppose its easier than making a new track, and you may not have heard its other manifestations,so why not?
The title track,'Zero degrees north, sounds rather unimaginitively like the north pole,lots of windy synth effects.Pretty uninspiring, but there's plenty else to be inspired by on this C30.


Track Listing:

A1	David Jackman & Philip Sanderson –	Ashes & Diamonds
A2	David Jackman & Philip Sanderson –	Terrain
B1	David Jackman & Philip Sanderson –	Zero Degrees North
B2	Philip Sanderson –	Under Press Of Sail
B3	David Jackman –	Fade Of Light

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Various Artists - " Snatch 3 " - (Snatch Tapes TCH 300) 1981

More avant garde sound sculptures from Phillip Sanderson's Snatch Tapes. The man himself appears a few times on this tape, including another version of 'Under Press of Sail', and as Claire Thomas, and probably Ice Yacht too; and why not,it is his label after all?
Avant Garde legend David Jackman contributes two drone-fests,as befits a man of his stature in this field.
The Alien Brains get funky??,Orior get Ambient, Steven Ball turns from experimental to library party music in one fell swoop;M.P.Denton is in bedroom comtemporary composition mode, and Nigel Jackson gives us a tape collage buried under a mountain of cotton wool.
This just leaves Mental to perform a Sax,tape, and sequencer improvisation in someones toilet block.......and rather fine it is too.
Various artists/various musics is the key word on a Snatch Tapes compilation, which is as it should be one supposes.

Listen to the two hour radio special podcast, by Collective Voice Radio, on Snatch Tapes HERE!...it includes many extremely rare Snatch Tapes releases,and an interview with Mr. Sanderson himself. Its a recommended listen.

Track Listing:

		Turquoise Side:
A1	Steven Ball –	60"/60"
A2	Mental (2) –	"Sound 2"
A3	Ice Yacht –	0° North
A4	Nigel Jacklin –	Song
A5	Philip Sanderson –	Under Press Of Sail
A6	David Jackman –	World
		Pink Side:
B1	Claire Thomas –	Ashes And Diamonds
B2	Steven Ball –	Dressing For The Party
B3	David Jackman –	Blues
B4	Alien Brains / + Instruments –	Untitled
B5	Orior –	Call
B6	Michael Peter Denton –	Part 3

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Various Artists - " Snatch 1 " (Snatch Tapes 1979 )

Snatch Tapes,one of the corner stones of DIY electronic experimentation, released many fine but obscure releases from 1979 to 1981; some impossibly obscure. The sound policy seemed to embrace lo-fi electronic exploration, verging on the ambient and straying into the realms of Noise.
The brainchild of Phillip Sanderson, who contributes to this cassette under the guise of Clare Thomas and Susan Vezey, Snatch Tapes was the starting platform for the prolific electronic composer David Jackman(not on this tape),who has released loads of obscure stuff over the ensuing 30 years.
The excellent Storm Bugs, another anderson Vehicle, are the stand out here.With a distorted shortwave radio electric swirl, set to a metronomic thud.Early Cabaret Voltaire is a reference point here.
Lots of the classic DIY sound here, muffled ferric oxide sound quality, cheap drum machines, budget effects units being abused to breaking point; the bizarrely monikered Karl's Empty Body sounds akin to being in your kitchen while some awful band are tuning up deep underground.......heavenly!
Steven Reynolds actually does sound like a numbers station recording(check out 'The Conet Project:Recordings od Numbers Stations' Here!), as do the Storm Bugs and A. Clough!

Mediafire have removed this file for some bullshit reason....fuck em, i've defected to the intriguingly named, 'Cram It In!', a file sharing site not intimidated by the F.B. fucking I. Wankers.

Track Listing:

A1	Karl's Empty Body –	1441
A2	N4s* –	N4's
A3	Storm Bugs –	Hodge
B1	Steven Reynolds –	Untitled
B2	Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey –	Under Press Of Sail
B3	A.Clough* –	Untitled

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Throbbing Gristle - " 24 Hours " (Cassette Version) Industrial Records 1980

(Please note that this has now been completely RE-UPPED, so feel free to download at will.)

T.G. were always at their best in a live environment, no performance being exactly the same, each 'song' in a different version. Therfore listening to 24 hours of T.G. is never boring, and is a throughly recommended pastime. I wouldn't give the same recommendation for listening to 24 Hours of Dire Straits for example......in fact that very thought gives me suicidal, or even genocidal, urges. Why Knopfler hasn't been tried for crimes against humanity I'll never know!!?

I cannot pick out one of these cassettes as superior to the other, all are superb live documents of a band at their peak, making a type of music that was never heard before; this is (non) musical history in the making.

Limited to just 50 numbered copies, each one personalized to the buyer and dated. Each copy is unique with hand-made collages on each of the primary (signed) information card. Each set also came with three color-copied inserts (color copies were very expensive and rare in 1980 when these were made). One featured an informal shot of the band while another was a collage by G P-O of the proposed "Industrial Records HQ". Copies also contained 2 full-sized b&w original photos: one a classic press shot and the other an informal image of the band being interviewed (by a small radio station in US). Some copies came with two cassettes of interviews,.....but not this one.
Each set retailed for 88 UK pounds (for UK) or 99 UK pounds rest of the world (postage paid).
This is, by far, the most collectible of all official TG-releases.

Click on the Titles in the track listing to download:

Track Listing:

IRC 02		At The ICA London
IRC 03		At The Air Gallery Winchester
IRC 04		At The Nag's Head, High Wycombe
IRC 05		At The Brighton Polytechnic
IRC 06		At Nuffield Theatre, Southampton
IRC 07		At The Rat Club
IRC 08		At The Highbury Roundhouse
IRC 09		At The Art School Winchester
IRC 10		At The Rat Club The Valentino Rooms
IRC 11		At the Brighton Polythechnic
IRC 12		At The Architectural Association
IRC 13		At Goldsmith's College
IRC 14		At The Industrial Training College
IRC 15		At The London Film Makers Co-Op
IRC 16		At The Crypt Club
IRC 17		At Centro Iberico
IRC 18		At Ajanta Cinema
IRC 19		At Now Society
IRC 20		At The Factory
IRC 21		At Guild Hall
IRC 22		At The Y.M.C.A.
IRC 24		At Butlers Wharf
IRC25		At Leeds Fan Club
IRC26		At Scala Cinema, London