Charlies - Buttocks, 1970

The Finnish scene didn't have much to offer back in the early 70s beside Wigwam and Tasavallan presidenti. I thought so for a very long time until this band came along. Charlies a 5 piece unit that made this album somewhere in the first half of the period in a recordingstudio in Lahti. I think this album was originally released on a private label, until Hell records (nice name for a label) re-released it on newpress. Buttocks is a heavy, hypnotic, progressive album with elements of Jethro Tull Aqualang era and great guitarwork. Some odd instrumentation on it like Sandballs(!), Tambourine, flute, Moroccan clay drums and a cowbell. Beside Jethro Tull there is also elements of early Sabbath, Grand Funk, Captain Beyond etc. A highly interesting extremely rare album, check it out.

A stunning 8 tracker from Finland here. And I always thought ELONKORJUU was the heaviest album from the early 70's from the land of the seas !! This amazing album features loud and wild guitars, screaming vocals, and can easily be described as the most outrageous Finnish album of the 70's not far away from Jimi Hendrix style. Very good!

One of the best prog LP's to come out of Finland,

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The Sperm - 3rd Erection, 1968, Finland

This is the same Sperm/Pekka Airaksinen that released the amazing Shh! LP. Not much to say about this one, this is the only other release besides their LP that I'm aware of (excluding some compilation tracks, which might get uploaded in the future). This is actually their first release too.

I can't seem to find a cover...any help?

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Woorden - S/T, 1968, Netherlands

Info seems to be almost non-existant. Too bad, because this is a great LP, and there's nothing like it.

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Pole Records, (almost) complete discography, Part One (NWW List)

This is the French label that released albums by NWW List greats Pole, Pataphonie, Verto and about a dozen others that aren't even included on the list but just as worthy of hunting down and hearing. This is the first five records, by Pole, Pataphonie, Philippe Besombes, and Henry Roger. Some of the earlier stuff may be available elsewhere, but most of it isn't so I'm just going to put up everything I have from the label (13 of 15 records, though one of them hasn't been ripped yet). The Pole discography is as follows:

0001 POLE Kotrill

0002 POLE Inside The Dream

0003 PATAPHONIE Pataphonie

0004 Philippe Besombes Libra

0005 HENRY ROGER Images...

0006/7 POLE Bezombes - Rizet

0008 FLUENCE Fluence

0009 VERTO Krig Volubilis

0010 POTEMKIN Foetus

0011 MELODY Come Fly With Me

0012 TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS Living For The Rock And Roll
0013 MAHOGANY BRAIN Smooth Sick Lights

0014 PHILIPPE GRANCHER 3000 Miles Way

0015 SUBVERSION Subversion

The two I don't own are the Subversion and Trans Europe Express albums, so if anyone would like to help me out I'd appreciate it. (The Melody album is the one I haven't ripped yet, and like I've noted earlier, it might be awhile before I ever get the proper equipment again, so if someone already has it and would like to help me out that would be great).

I particularly recommend the Verto, Pole, Pataphonie, Henry Roger, and Fluence albums but they're all great gems of 70's French electronic avant-garde experiments.

Here are the first five records:

Pole - Kotrill (link fixed)

Pole - Inside the Dream

Pataphonie - S/T

Philippe Besombes - Libra (with bonus tracks from the reissue)

Henry Roger - Images...

Lydia Lunch - Hysterie (Teenage Jesus, 8 Eyed Spy, Beirut Slump...)

Out of print compilation containing all her most important no-wave stuff, including the entire Teenage Jesus & 8-Eyed Spy LP's and others...a necessity for the no-wave genre, get it here:

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GX Jupitter-Larsen & The Haters - A Song For Nihilism Now 7", 1980

The very first Haters release...not much info can be found but this is just all-around minimal, frightening greatness from Larsen, different from a lot of the later stuff he was involved in.

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Snatch - Joey/Red Army EP + Snatch LP

Great no-wave related group that collaborated with Brian Eno at some point or another...The thing of interest here to NWW List collectors is the EP, as the tracks on the EP are more experimental, jumping from weird funk/blues to punk rock to proto-techno from track to track. The EP was released on Fetish records, who put out other great records by 8 Eyed Spy, z'ev, and others. Note that the versions of the tracks that appear on both the EP and LP are completely different.

Red Army is quite possibly my favorite proto-techno track released in any decade, even including Tolerance and other obscure greats.

Snatch were originally if the News of The World was to be believed going to be called Cho-Cha before the sexually ambiguous name of Snatch was settled on. Snatch was Patti Palladin and Judy Nylon, a pair of US expatriates:

Live Speakeasy 1977
"I met Judy on the phone. I was having a transatlantic conversation on the phone with a friend in London. I was in NY at the time, and Judy was in his studio. When I came to London in about '74 we became good friends. We were trying our best to get something going, we were both creative chicks... We both had ideas of sorts.

For 2 foreign chicks living in London, what is there really to do? So that's why Rock & Roll! It was the obvious thing to do out of boredom. We thought about forming a band together. We worked on basic lyrics and melodies and things. But it was hard trying to find people who understood where we were coming from. At that time all the punks were suddenly beginning to appear. Everyone was into saying, "I'm a punk. I'm cool, I'm aggressive, we're going to change it" and all this shit. " John Savage Interview. Search & Destroy #8

They certainly had a refreshingly blasé attitude to the rock'n'roll business. Sporadic gigs and sporadic singles when they felt the need spanning from 1976-80 and a collaboration on a Brian Eno single. They even reached #54 in the charts with All I Want but made no effort to cash in. Both Judy and Patti were strong willed and committed individuals who never exploited their sexuality or the music industry they found themselves in unlike most of their punk contemporaries of the time. It was all on their terms.

Snatch was never a permanent set up. In fact it was really a collaboration between Patti, Judy and whoever else. Eventually they went their separate ways. Both are still recording and in the arts to this day.

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Sphinx Tush - Crashville

Yes, this is only one track, taken from the Pop & Blues Festival '70 live compilation. Sphinx Tush are one of two NWW List bands that have available only one track (the other one being Dadazuzu of course). And this is it. Maybe it's odd to only upload one track, but a lot of people don't seem to have this one...All I know about these kraut rockers is that they contained members of what would eventually become Tomorrow's Gift.

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Moolah - Woe Ye Demon Possessed, 1974, U.S.A.

This has already been put up in a couple places, namely curved-air, but the links are dead now...I know I've said this about several items already, but this is really one of the best items on the NWW List. Here are a few reviews that should give a glimpse at how amazing this thing really is:

http://curved-air.com/2006/06/25/moolah/
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/1276
http://gnosis2000.net/reviews/moolah.htm

From the back cover:

“by the mystic fire
ye wait . . . . yor hide
glistening with sweat
of strange endeavors
performing dances
to the sun and moon
licking blood drinking tears
sacrificing love on the
altar of tomorrow
eating fruits of stolen vineyards
with withered young mouths
that sing old songs
which were forbid

the whirlwind . . . . . . !”

“look the dark clouds
gathering
on the horizon of doom
winds cross trees uproot
plagues of flies invade
the land at hand
o day of judge men
see ye children
of the accursed
what sown be reaped
given ye gods ye chose the beast
and eternity plays the tune
of unnamed horror
for terror is real
and so is hell!”

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Blog running again + Mate & Vallancien post updated

As the title says; posts should be coming again soon. The Mate and Vallancien post has been updated with a cover and tracklisting from lsettal, so thanks to him as well as everyone else that's contributed or left comments in the past couple days.