In a ... or so, L'étranger will be launching a bold yet foolish re-issue of 1986 DIY ‘(s)avant-pop’ C90 cassette compilation ‘Psst – Wanna Buy a Tape?’. Containing brittle sounds honed in the housing co-ops, squats and tower blocks of radical London, the tape was released as an annexe to the infamous underground comic El Frenzy.
Expect musical fragments imploding from the post-punk-DIY-off the radar-avant universe of participants on the tape.
Download audio of the show as mp3 (54MB)
Scrambled along with busted portable radios:
1. Milk From Cheltenham - The Unloved
from 'Domestic Sampler UMYU' LP (UMYU, Spain) 1982
2. Richard Harrison - DC.26.97a
from 'Drone Hill 225' (Hot Air, UK) 1999
3. Up Murphy Street - Bald Progress
from S/T CD (El Frenzy, UK) 2010 / 1986 reissue
4. Philip Johnson - Habit
from 'Radio City' Cassette (No Label, UK) 1983
5. The Astronauts - Bodies In The Bath
from 'Only Fools & Optimists' Cassette (All The Madmen, UK) 1983
6. People In Control - When It's War
from 7" (Crammed Discs, Belgium) 1981
7. Charles Hayward - This Misunderstanding
from 'Survive The Gesture' LP (Ink Records, UK) 1987
8. Die Trip Computer Die - Loyal Telly
from 'All Shag Ringo' CD (No Label, UK) 1999
9. The Hat Shoes - Tom-Ta-Kati-E-Ta-Cote
from 'Differently Desperate' LP (RecRec Music, Switzerland) 1991
10. The Good Missionaries - Fellow Sufferer In Dub
from 'Fire from Heaven' LP (Depford Fun City, UK) 1979
11. Lindsay Cooper, Chris Cutler, Bill Gilonis, Tim Hodgkinson & Robert Wyatt - Moments Of Delight
from 'The Last Nightingale' LP (Rē Records, UK) 1984
12. Bill Gilonis, Tim Hodgkinson - November
from 'I Do - I Do - I Don't - I Don't' 7" (Woof Records, UK) 1980
13. Horrible Nurds - Consuming Passion
from S/T 7" (Half Wombat Records, UK) 1980
14. Thinking Plague - I Do Not Live
from 'Early Plague Years' (Cuneiform Records , USA) 2000
15. Amos & Sara - The Genderizer
from 'Sing The Private World Of Amos' cassette (It's War Boys, UK) 1982
16. Bing Selfish - I Hate Water
from 'Songs Of Inexperience' CD (El Frenzy, UK) 2011