Ashra-Blackouts(1978)
Basically
this is solo work by Manuel
Göttsching
who
was probably one of the best guitarists around the Krautrock scene in
the early 70s. He was part of Ashra Ra Temple, but by the late 70s
was releasing solo work. All though some of the 80s tracks by him
sound a bit of the time, there is elements that almost predates music
that was to come. A strange person to compare him to...
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Rik Mayall-IM Evil .OTBT-102
Rik
Mayall-Im Evil(1982/3)
OK
so maybe not an artist in the true sense, but over his career there
was a musical output. Such a varied work of comedy from stand up,
young ones , ,Black Adder New Stateman and Bottom and so much more
besides. I was gutted when he died in 2014. I suppose most of the
true cutting edge comedy of the 80s and 90s featured his work. I like
this clip and would perhaps consider...
Okihide (Okihide Sawaki 佐脇興英) - Blue (Akio/Okihide - Scratches, 1995)-OTBT101
Okihide-Blue(1995)
For
quite a few years I have been running online shops. In buying the cds
you get promos and cds by artists you have never heard of. This is
the case with this artist, Okihide has only released one album and a
collabaration with another artist on a sampler. If anyone has any
firther information about the artist, let me know. In terms of the
track its almost like Japanese ambient...
Red - King Crimson (Live in Japan) (HD)-OTBT-100
King
Crimson-red(1974)
In
the previous post from Robert Fripp I use the word prog very lightly,
King Crimson were bunched in with that scene due to their early 70s
output. But in 73/74 there music became very complex. Really
intricate guitar work, shifts of tempo. This clip is instrumental,
features two drummers, 2 guitarists and 2 bass players. But they all
know their parts and dont over elaborate...
The The - Uncertain Smile No.99
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v08Si-3qN_0
The
The – Uncertain Smile(1983)Matt
Johnson announced in a interview a while back that he had retired the
project, but recently has activated the project for some live
concerts. In the 80s his output was an album roughly every 4 years.
Initially they were on 4AD but then moved to a some bizarre and onto
better distribution. My starting point with The The...
Mike Oldfield - Wonderful Land-OFTB Track 98
Mike
Oldfield-Wonderful Land(1980)
From
the QE2 album, but unlike most tracks on the album. Is in fact a
cover version of a track by The Shadows. I think Mike Oldfield music
had always been around, was always a safe option for early 80s TV
programs to play his instrumental works. It was good in 1992 that
the Orb remixed some of his tracks and I think this meant he sort of
reinvented his sounds,...
Cocteau Twins - Melonella _OTBT (97)
Cocteau
Twins – Melonella((1985)
This
is a track from the EP called 'Echoes in a Shallow Bay', which was
the first proper independent record I
brought. With the Cocteau Twins they had such complex music, in that
the lyrics were indecipherable but worked
and the guitar and bass was so layered, you could hear something new
with each listen. I look online now and there is an unhealthy
obsession with...
Human League - The Path of Least Resistance HQ-Off the beaten track 96
Human
League – Path of Least resistance(1979)
When
I say Human League don't think of the two women dancing around Phil
Oakey. Its hard to not visualize that as the success the band had was
in part due to production of their sound and their image. But go back
to 1977 there was a band called 'The Future'. The Future was made up
Of Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh, Phil Oakey and I believe Adi newton who
went...
The Police - Walking On The Moon -No.95 Off the beaten track
The
Police- Walking on the moon (1980)
I
think the Police in the late 70s and early 80s were a band that was
heavily international. By that I mean they toured worldwide and most
of their videos were filmed in different destinations. It was a
deliberate ploy by Miles Copeland, who was the bands manager. I got
into Sting around the 85/86 mark but I was drawn to the Police track
on his live album at...
Off The Beaten Tracks. No 1-93
On my facebook over the last few months I have done a set of video links to mostly clips and rare material that I come across. Initially it stemmed from a top 10 album post that was going on at the time, I was finding with all the group I was running there was all these videos that I could not share as they did not fall within the groups I was running. Initially all these video links were on wordpress...
Working in real time.
Now officially back on blogger and have decided to go for an uncluttered look. With intergration with twitter, pintrest and Facebook. Now apart from the spotify playlists I will upload I can get on with the wo...
Set backs and Health
FEBRUARY 14, 2018 EDIT"SETBACKS AND HEALTH"
Setbacks and Health
Not one to normally talk in personal terms on my web sites. For those of you who check my Fb groups and pages, there was a massive delay caused by outside influences.On the whole up until my 40s I had not experienced any health issues at all. If I got anything like a cold, I would be able to shrug it off with out any issues....
Orbital
FEBRUARY 12, 2018 EDIT"ORBITAL – LEGACY BUT HARDLY ANY RECOGNITION"
Orbital – Legacy but hardly any recognition
Orbital are one of those band that made a move away from being part of a danc e scene to moving towards more abstract Electronica. I always feel that in some ways Orbitl never truly get the recognition they desereved in terms of the legacy of their music. I think in some ways it...
The Police-1979
FEBRUARY 7, 2018 EDIT"THE POLICE -PEEL 1979- STEWART COPELAND DRUMMING."
The Police -Peel 1979- Stewart Copeland drumming.
The thing with the Police I am old enought to remember when Sting was so up himself in terms of the message and politics of the music. So normally you overlook what was obvious, that you can be blinded by the messages but overlook the music.
I think many of us , over...
Human League-Band 4
FEBRUARY 4, 2018 EDIT"BAND 4. HUMAN LEAGUE (1977-1980)"
Band 4. Human League (1977-1980)
Now its easy to think of the Human league as ‘Don’t you want me’ but the band 2 years before that track. Were more experimental in nature than the later commercial efforts. Human league was formed in...
A Grumh-Band no.3
Band 3. A grumh
In many articles about A grumh they were a band that were linked to the EBM scene as much by the bands they toured with. But their sound was almost beyond EBM, to the harshness of early Nitzer Ebb. Mixed in with a bit of imagery aka Throbbing Gristle, you got a unique band that...
LFO-band no2.
FEBRUARY 4, 2018 EDIT"BAND 2 : L.F.O"
Band 2 : L.F.O
Not to be confued with the Light Funky Ones. LFO were originally a duo who worked on drum machines and basically produced mix tapes which they gave to their friends. The band gave one of the tapes to a local DJ who mixed it into his sets....
New Order-Band 1
FEBRUARY 4, 2018 EDIT"BAND NO 1: NEW ORDER."
Band No 1: New Order.
Before I start. In these discussion threads the opinions are my own. If there is things I miss feel free to add comments at the end. Now starting with New Order in the discussion thread I feel i quite logical a band...
Credit Reference Agencies-An Unfair system
ARCH 4, 2018 EDIT"CREDIT REFERENCE AGENCIES – AN UNEVEN AND UNFAIR SYSTEM."
Credit Reference Agencies – An uneven and unfair system.
Now Im not one for trying to push forward my own political agenda onto people. So in this article I am not pushing the blame at any one politcal party as this problem has been there for some time. looking at facebook I can see people have entrenched political...
Kraftwerk-Birmingham Hummingbird
Kraftwerk-Birmingham Hummingbird July 1991 …..
Everyone on the Kraftwerk group has a starting point. The part where the interest in a band becomes slightly obsessional or the interest deepens. For me the story of Kraftwerk in my life as a major part was sealed by the policy of the tape libary of...
Chicane-
Chicane…Relisten/re-evaluate
Been listening alot to their material. In about 2008/9 I got hold of a rare version of the ‘somersault’ cd. Which had better tracks. The video Im posting below is the album from 1997 called ‘Far from the madding crowds’. I was suprised to see the full album there as normally Chicane is quite hot on stuff being shared.
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Is everything online now only temp
Is everything online now only temporary
Its very strange writing this post. Forgive me for a bit of naiveity but normally when you publish something it stays online for a long time. Well it would seem it does in the UK, but not on US sites. Over the past year I have had 7 different accounts on tumblr closed, for the one reason that a photo was shared that had a copyright issue. Then Youtube decides...
Album art and reasoning
Album Art Reason and Design(2013-2017)
https://albumartreasonsanddesigns.blogspot.co.uk/
In the first of many links these are the web sites that I ran up until recently, just sort of posting them as a link so they are easily reachable from this site.This is a web site that was interlinked with...
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