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) or OGG (34MB)
Playlist
1. The Raincoats - Dreaming In The Past
from 'Moving' LP (DGC, UK) 1983
2. Xentos - By The Time You Get This It Will Be Dud (Symphony Of Unstruments)
from 'Resonance Volume 9 Number 2: Feedback' CD (Resonance, UK) 2002
3. UT - Stain
from 'Conviction' LP (Out, UK) 1985
4. Vince Quince & His Rialto Ballroom Detectives - Your Your Lay Lay
from 'No Cowboys' LP (Spec Records, USA) 1980
5. Die Trip Computer Die - Hot Stuff
from 'Blind Puppies' CD (No Label, UK) 2000
6. The Work - Crabs
from 'Live In Japan 1982' CD (Ad Hoc, USA) 2006
7. This Heat - Slither
from 'Made Avaliable (1977 Peel Sessions)' CD
8. Les Halmas - The Past
mp3 from 'The Miners Of Banal' digital release (Divine Records, UK) orig.1999
9. Sara Goes Pop - Sexy Terrorist
from 'Sara Goes Pop' 2x7" (It's War Boys, UK) 1982
10. The Orchestre Murphy - At The Arms-Dealers' Conference
mp3 from 'Frankincense' digital release (Divine Records, UK) orig.1991
11. The Momes - Mao
from 'Spiralling' LP (Woo Records, UK) 1989
12. Bing Selfish & The Super Notions - Health & Happiness
from 'The Legendary Conway Hall Concert (And Other Live Gems)' CD (El Frenzy, UK) 2004 / 1983
Interjections & Overlays courtesy of portable radio scanning across the bands +
Lepke B., Knut Aufermann and Chris Weaver - Two Improvisations
mp3 from archive.org, 2012
The Comic Strip Presents - Bullshitters (extracts)
from You Tube video, 1984, music by King Cobra
Macromassa - Darlia Microtonica
from 7" (UMYU, Spain) 1976
The PSST connections: Track 1 was written by Raincoats drummer Richard Dudanski, who was interviewed for the PSST booklet about his time in and around the same squat scene as our PSST'ers. This song is about his sister's suicide. Track 4 features John Glyn who played on Bing Selfish & Murphies related releases. Track 7 'cos This Heat were around. Track 11 features Bill Gilonis who played with Bing Selfish & The Ideals. Macromassa was a project of Victor Nubla who invited our boys to Barcelona. The rest feature one or several of our PSST'ers in some shape or form (e.g. track 3 was produced by Chris Gray in his day job, Amos was King Cobra).