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 mingling with shortwave band scrapes.
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Playlist
1. Milk From Cheltenham - El Toro Saldrà Cuando Suena El Clarin
from 'Triptych of Poisoners' LP (Alga Marghen, Italy) 2005 / 1983 reissue
2. …And The Native Hipsters - Emma Kalemma
from ‘Going Steady With Larry And Emma’ 7” (Plattekop Volume, UK) 1983
3. Pierre Bastien & Lukas Simonis - Ambiance
from 'Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames' CD (In-Poly-Sons, France) 2002
4. Hot Club Murphy - Hiding In The Forest
from '12 Minutes at the Hot Club Murphy' 7” (Milk & Alcohol, Hyped To Death, USA) 2011 / 1982 reissue
5. Dislocation Dance - You Can't Beat History
from ‘Unzipping The Abstract (Bands Of The Manchester Musicians' Collective)’ LP (MMC Records, UK) 1980
6. Modern Shit - Track 06
from 'Will Make You Ill' CD (Alga Marghen, Italy) 2008 / 1982 reissue
7. The Lowest Note on the Organ - Piggy Bank
from 'Woof - 7 Inches' CD (Ad Hoc, USA) 2004 / 1984
8. Valentina Ponomareva, Ken Hyder, Tim Hodgkinson - Sobaka-Music
from 'The Goose' CD (Megaphone Records, USA) 1992
9. Lenin Lads - Fantasma De La Vida
from 'Psst! Wanna Buy A Record?' LP (Not On Label, Belgium) 2015 / 1986
10. Amos & Superslick - Blue Pink Suits
from ‘Domestic Sampler UMYU’ LP (UMYU, Spain) 1982
11. Naïf - Nouvo Cante
from ‘S/T’ LP (Mirage Records, Spain) 1981
12. Sally Patience - Buried In My Boots
from ‘The Triangle Man’ 7” (Disc International, UK) 1984
13. Ground-Zero vs Xentos - Luk Ma Noh (Lepke B. remix)
from ‘Resonance Volume 6 Number 2: Cool In The Spool’ CD (Resonace, UK) 1998
14. Geoffrey Landers - It's Telling On Me...Test One
from ‘Habitual Features’ LP (Cauhaus, USA) 1983
Interjections and overlays courtesy of portable shortwave radio + The Dismantlers (Chris Weaver, Lepke B., Peter Rockmount) - Live at Raven Row June 16th 2011(Archive.org)
Tracks 2, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14 feature (respectively) Chris Cornetto, Richard Harrison, Bill Gilonis, Ken Hyder, Victor Nubla, Catherine O'Sullivan, Bob Drake who appeared on Bing Selfish & Murphy Federation related releases.
Track 3 features the voice of Resonance FM's Ed Baxter.
The rest are our PSST boys in some shape or form
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