Clock DVA - Buried Dreams

Clock DVA

Buried Dreams

1989

Industrial Post Punk EBM

England

Tracklist:


A1 Buried Dreams 4:01
A2 Hide        4:30
A3 Sound Mirror 5:43
A4 Velvet Realm 6:44
B1 The Unseen 5:19
B2 The Reign 5:19
B3 The Act        5:22
B4 The Hacker 7:23


     Clock DVA are an industrial music, post-punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978, with two members, Adolphus "Adi" Newton and Steven "Judd" Turner. Along with contemporaries Heaven 17, Clock DVA's name was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange; "dva" is the Russian word for "two". Adi had previously worked with members of Cabaret Voltaire in a collective called The Studs and with Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware in a band called The Future. Ian and Martyn went on to found The Human League.
     The group was originally known for making a form of experimental electronic music involving treated tape loops and synthesisers. Clock DVA became associated with industrial music with the 1980 release of their album White Souls in Black Suits on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records. The album Thirst, released on Fetish Records, followed in 1981 to a favourable critical reaction, knocking Adam and the Ants' Dirk Wears White Sox from the top of the NME Indie Charts, by which time the band had combined musique concrète techniques with standard rock instrumentation. "4 Hours", the single from "Thirst" was later covered by former Bauhaus bassist David J on his 1985 solo e.p. "Blue moods turning tail".
     The band split up in 1981, with the non original members of the band going on to form The Box.
     In 1983, Newton formed a new version of the band. First releasing the single "High Holy Disco Mass" on the major label Polydor Records under the name DVA, the band then released the album Advantage (with several singles) under the name Clock DVA. After a European tour, however, the band split acrimoniously.
     After the 1983 breakup of Clock DVA, Adi Newton formed The Anti-Group or T.A.G.C. They released several albums continuing in a similar vein to the early Clock DVA, yet more experimental.
     In 1987, Adi Newton reactivated DVA and invited Dean Dennis and Paul Browse back into the fold to aid Newton's use of computer aided sampling techniques which he had been developing in the Anti Group. The album Buried Dreams, an electronic album which received critical acclaim as a pioneering work. Browse left the group in 1989 and was replaced by R E Baker. The album Man-Amplified was the next album to be released, an exploration of cybernetics. Digital Soundtracks, an instrumental album, was the next release. Following Dennis's departure, Newton and Baker produced the album Sign.
     Adi Newton reactivated Clock DVA along with his creative partner Jane Radion Newton in 2008.

Frank Zappa - Broadway The Hard Way

Frank Zappa

Broadway The Hard Way

1989

Progressive Rock Jazz Fusion Avantgarde

USA

Tracklist:


"Elvis Has Just Left the Building" – 2:24
"Planet of the Baritone Women" – 2:48
"Any Kind of Pain" – 5:42
"Dickie's Such an Asshole" – 5:45
"When the Lie's So Big" – 3:38
"Rhymin' Man" – 3:50
"Promiscuous" – 2:02
"The Untouchables" (Riddle) – 2:26
"Why Don't You Like Me?" – 2:57
"Bacon Fat" (Andre Williams, Dorothy Brown, Zappa) – 1:29
"Stolen Moments" (Oliver Nelson) – 2:57
"Murder by Numbers" (Sting, Andy Summers) – 5:37
"Jezebel Boy" – 2:27
"Outside Now" – 7:49
"Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel" – 6:40
"What Kind of Girl?" – 3:17
"Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" – 9:15


     Broadway the Hard Way is a Frank Zappa live album recorded at various performances along his 1988 world tour. It was first released as a 9-track vinyl through Zappa's mail order label Barking Pumpkin in October 1988, and subsequently as a 17-track CD through Rykodisc in 1989.
     This album was compiled from Zappa's last tour in 1988, in a band format. Broadway is mostly focused on acute satire of contemporary figures, both political and social. Throughout the album Zappa's individual targets include Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan on "Dickie's Such An Asshole", Jesse Jackson on "Rhymin' Man", Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and Pat Robertson on "Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk", and Michael Jackson and his family on "Why Don't You Like Me?"
     The album contains a relatively large number of covers, from the jazz standard "Stolen Moments" to the The Police song "Murder by Numbers" (with a guest appearance by Sting himself). "Outside Now" is from Joe's Garage, and "Why Don't You Like Me" can be easily recognized as a remake of Zappa's "Tell Me You Love Me". "Rhymin' Man" is filled with melodic quotes from evergreens such as "Happy Days Are Here Again", "Hava Nagila", "La Cucaracha" and "Frère Jacques". In "What Kind of Girl" there is a line from "Strawberry Fields Forever" and also includes a part from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" while "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" quotes "Louie Louie", "Rock of Ages" and Marius Constant's Theme from "The Twilight Zone".

Personnel

Frank Zappa – guitar, producer, main performer, vocals
Kurt McGettrick – baritone saxophone
Scott Thunes – bass guitar
Albert Wing – tenor saxophone
Ed Mann – percussion
Chad Wackerman – drums
Ike Willis – guitar, vocals
Eric Buxton – vocals
Paul Carman – alto saxophone
Walt Fowler – trumpet
Mike Keneally – synthesizer, vocals, guitar
Sting – lead vocal on "Murder By Numbers"
Bruce Fowler – trombone

Suicide Commando - This Is Hate! (Tape)

Suicide Commando

This Is Hate!

1989

Electro Industrial

Belgium

Tracklist:


A1 Clinical Death
A2 Inside The Head
A3 The Electrocution Of...
A4 Monotone Bullshit
A5 Pleasure
B1 Brain Surgery
B2 Suffocation
B3 Out Of Mind
B4 This Is Hate


     Suicide Commando is a Belgian electro-industrial act created by Johan van Roy in 1986.
     Johan van Roy, Suicide Commando's only member, began experimenting with electronic music in 1986. Three years later he released his first tape under the moniker Suicide Commando, and made an appearance on the vinyl compilation, Electronic. As van Roy continued self-releasing tapes, he landed more compilation appearances on Rotation II and Induktion, Varianz und Deren Folgen, both released by Kugelblitz records.
     1994 finally saw Suicide Commando's first CD, Critical Stage, released on the German label Off-Beat. Shortly after, in 1995, Suicide Commando released Stored Images, which contains to date one of van Roy's most popular songs, See You in Hell.
     1996 was the ten-year anniversary of Suicide Commando, and with it came the release of Contamination, as well as the limited boxed version, which contained a bonus 3" compact disc featuring previously unreleased material. Contamination was released a year later in North America by the now defunct Electronic Death Trip records.
     In 1998, Suicide Commando released the album Construct-Destruct and its sister release, Reconstruction including new clubhits like Desire and Better Off Dead, the former of which was picked up by Possessive Blindfold Records for distribution in North America with bonus tracks.
Van Roy was one of the founders of the dependent label in 1999. It was on this new label that Suicide Commando's next successful releases, two singles and one EP: Hellraiser, Comatose Delusion, and Love Breeds Suicide, accompanied Suicide Commando's 2000 release, Mindstrip, which reached the number one spot on the Deutsche Alternative Charts. Later the Mindstrip album was licensed and released in North America by Metropolis Records.
     In 2002 Suicide Commando released the DCD Anthology on dependent, a compilation of the best and biggest Suicide Commando hits to date, including club hits such as "Hellraiser", "See You in Hell", "Love Breeds Suicide", and offered some exclusive new remixes and rare versions.
     For Suicide Commando's next release, Axis of Evil, a special edition double single called Face of Death was released beforehand, selling out in two days. The regular edition of the single continues to sell, and Axis of Evil was voted album of the year (2003) by the Deutsche Alternative Charts. In 2004 Suicide Commando released another limited edition double single, Cause of Death: Suicide + One Nation under God.
     In 2006, Suicide Commando returned with the album Bind, Torture, Kill (also available as limited edition including a bonus disc, poster and sticker), featuring the single Godsend + Menschenfresser, released on Johan's own new label Noise Terror Productions, a new division of dependent. The album once again reached the top position in several alternative charts across the world and got voted album of the month in the German Orkus magazine.
     Released in 2007, one year after the band's 20th anniversary, the X20 boxset included 3 CDs (one remix CD, one best of CD and the Fuck You Bitch EP) and Suicide Commando's very first live DVD. The special remix CD and the best of album were later released as separate discs by Metropolis Records. At the end of 2007 Suicide Commando returned with the song Hate me, their first new material since the bind torture kill album, released on the noise terror volume 2 sampler on NTP/Dependent.
     In January 2010, Suicide Commando released their eleventh studio album, Implements of Hell.

     Side projects

Kombat Unit
Lescure 13


Discography


     Albums
Critical Stage (1994)
Stored Images (1995)
Contamination (1996)
Construct-Destruct (1998)
Re-construction (1998)
Chromdioxyde (1999)
Mindstrip (2000)
Anthology (2002)
Axis of Evil (2003)
Bind, Torture, Kill (2006)
X20 (2007)
Implements of Hell (2010)

     Singles/EPs
Comatose Delusion (2000)
Hellraiser (2000)
Love Breeds Suicide (2001)
Face of Death (2003)
Cause of Death: Suicide (2004)
Cause of Death: Suicide / One Nation Under God (2004)
Godsend / Menschenfresser (2005)
Until We Die / Severed Head (2009)
Die Motherfucker Die (2009)
God Is In the Rain (2010)
Death Cures All Pain (2010)

     Tapes
Suicide Commando (demo) (1988)
This Is Hate (1989)
Industrial Rape I (1990)
Crap (1990)
Go to Hell (album)|Go to Hell (1990)
Into the Grave (1991)
Industrial Rape II (1991)
Black Flowers (1992)
Electro Convulsion Therapy (1993)

Shooting Party - I Go to Pieces 12''

Shooting Party

I Go To Pieces 12''

1989

Italo Disco Synthpop

????

Tracklist:


01 - I Go To Pieces (Extended)     5:54
02 - Things That You Do     3:31
03 - I Go To Pieces (Instrumental)     4:30

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Pouppée Fabrikk / Ater Koma – Die Jugend / Depressiva The Voyage 7''

Pouppée Fabrikk / Ater Koma

Die Jugend / Depressiva The Voyage 7''

1989

EBM

Sweden

Tracklist:


A1 - Pouppée Fabrikk - Die Jugend
A2 - Pouppée Fabrikk - Needs
B1 - Ater Koma - Depressiva The Voyage


     Pouppée Fabrikk is a Swedish EBM band, started in 1988 by Henrik Björkk and Leif Holm, who both hail from Karlskoga.
     Initially, the music of Pouppée Fabrikk (PF) borrowed heavily from minimalistic electronic acts such as Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft and Nitzer Ebb, but with the addition of Jouni Olilla and Jonas Aneheim on guitar PF moved towards a more Die Krupps-style electronic/metal mix. The "Your Pain - Our Gain" CD was meant to be released in 1996, but due to differences in opinion between the band and the record company (Energy Rekords) it was delayed until 1999. In 1996 the band decided to take a break and PF was put on hold and the band members worked on various solo projects.
     In 2000 the band re-united for a gig at the Tinitus Electronic Festival and announced that they were making a comeback and returning to their roots. They released a four track mini CD entitled "Elite Electronics". A year later though, both Jouni and Henrik left the band to concentrate on their respective solo careers. PF disbanded shortly afterwards. After seven years of absence from the scene the band reunits in 2009, Christian R filling the place of former member Jouni Ollila. In October 2010, they once again re-united for a gig; this time at Bodyfest on Fryshuset.

2nd Communication - Locked in Truth 7''

2nd Communication

Locked in Truth 7''

1989

EBM

Japan

Tracklist:

01. Locked in Truth
02. Break Your Chains



     The project 2nd Communication is formed by Dossa Yun in the programming, samplers and voice; Trast C. Howard in the samplers and Toshiani Ishida in the metallic sounds.
     In 1989 they signed with the company KK Records and they throw their first LP "2nd Communication", in 1990 the single "The Brain That Binds Your Body" and their second LP "My Chromosomal Friend". Their style is located inside the Electronic Body Music taking a mixture of inciting rhythms with abundant samplers and distorted voices.

     This 7" came together with the music magazine "New Life" No. 46

Ramones - Pet Sematary 7''

Ramones

Pet Sematary 7''

1989

Punk Rock

USA

Tracklist:

01. Pet Sematary (Single Version)
02. Pet Sematary (Album Version)


     The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, often cited as the first punk rock group. Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the punk rock movement both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
     All of the band members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname "Ramone", though none of them were related. They performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years. In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played a farewell concert and disbanded. By a little more than eight years after the breakup, the band's three founding members - lead singer Joey Ramone, guitarist Johnny Ramone, and bassist Dee Dee Ramone - had died.