THE BADLEES Diamonds in the Coal 1991

by request

 

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Tracklist

1	Like A Rembrandt	3:35
2	Back Where We Came From (The Na Na Song)	3:26
3	Just One Moment	3:41
4	The Real Thing	3:57
5	Heaven On Earth	3:32
6	Interlude - Badlee Rap	1:21
7	Next Big Thing	3:42
8	Dirty Neon Times	3:49
9	Spending My Inheritance	4:37
10	Sister Shirley	3:45
11	Mystery Girl	3:31
12	Road To Paradise	3:42
13	Diamonds In The Coal	4:42

 

108 Songs of Separation 1994

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Artist Biography by Matt Kantor

Guitarist Vic DiCara, along with former Resurrection vocalist Robert "Rasaraja" Fish, was the driving engine behind 108, forming the East Coast-based band in 1992. DiCara was previously making waves on the West Coast with legendary hardcore metal group Inside Out, which also featured future Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha. The band was renowned for their frenetic live shows; their energy was captured in the studio on 1990's seminal No Spiritual Surrender EP. 108 furthered Inside Out's spiritual leanings in much more explicit terms, the direction an outgrowth of DiCara's study of Hinduism and professed adherence to the teachings of Hare Krsna. Despite being easy targets for criticism within the hardcore scene, 108 stayed true to their vision of devotional hardcore, releasing two EPs, two full-lengths, and a live album before breaking up in 1996. The band played their final show at CBGB's that summer, with DiCara returning to the area in summer 2001 to round out a new incarnation of Burn. Drummer Chris Daly further went on to form influential emocore outfit Texas Is the Reason.

In summer 2005, 108 had plans to reunite to play Syracuse's annual Hellfest. Though the festival was ultimately cancelled two days before the show, the band decided to continue forward playing gigs again. The "essential" lineup of DiCara, Fish, Daly, and bassist Trivikrama Dasa pushed ahead with East and West Coast shows and began writing new material. Meanwhile, Equal Vision Records culled together the band's entire past discography into the two-disc Creation. Sustenance. Destruction., released in summer 2006. Later that month, 108 released a limited-edition EP entitled Oneoeight. Working in the studio with Converge's Kurt Ballou in early 2007, the guys -- now with drummer Tom Hogan on board -- completed their first album in over a decade with plans to release it through Deathwish, Inc. later that year. 

Tracklist

	Viraha-Sangita:
1	Opposition
2	Deathbed
3	Noonenomore
4	Son Of Nanda
5	Woman
6	Shun The Mask
7	Thorn
8	Solitary
9	I Am Not
10	Weapon
11	Govinda-Virahena
12	Hostage:i
13	Request Denied
14	Pale

PROJECT KATE ...The Way Birds Fly 1996

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Artist Biography by Ryan Downey

Project Kate was a short-lived, New York-based project that centered around Kate Reddy, one-time guitarist for Hare Krishna-inspired hardcore band 108, that included many East Coast hardcore scene notables. Project Kate songs were acoustically driven, laid-back ballads expressing Reddy's private thoughts on her parents, marriage, spirituality, and love. Reddy recorded the album while eight months pregnant -- and the love, warmth, and affection she felt for her soon-to-be expanding family is evident throughout the simple, yet heartfelt, recordings. Reddy began playing acoustic guitar with her friend Shannon in Shannon's dad's basement in 1987. But the Project Kate concept never formally materialized until 1991, when she began jamming with the then-Quicksand rhythm section of drummer Alan Cage and bassist Sergio Vega, who himself would go on to release solo material in 2000. They jokingly referred to what they were doing as "Kate" as they goofed around in a basement rehearsal space. The trio recorded three songs for free in July 1991 at Centerfield Studio. That fall, Reddy recorded a song called "California" by herself at the same place. Around this time, Quicksand signed to a major label and began touring and recording with far more regularity, so Project Kate fell apart. Reddy joined the Hare Krishna organization and eventually the band 108, married Equal Vision Records owner Steve Reddy, and began running the label with him. The two of them decided they wanted to release the Project Kate demo, but it was lost. Original engineer Mike Maineiri would later find the tape behind a dresser during a move, but before that happened, Kate Reddy had already assembled a new version of Project Kate and re-recorded three of the original songs, along with five new ones, in December of 1995 and January of 1996. These recordings, made with producer Ray Martin, surfaced as the album ...The Way Birds Fly in 1996. the album carries a dedication to newborn baby Kaulini Reddy in the liner notes. The other musicians involved included then-Texas Is the Reason/later New End Original guitarist Norman Arenas (on the track "Simon Says"), bassist Vega, drummer John K., and violin player Ida Pearle. Texas Is the Reason/New Rising Sons frontman Garret Klahn was also involved to some degree. 

Tracklist

1	Simon Says	3:12
2	The Way I Am (Or Not At All)	3:50
3	Stare At My Sky	3:05
4	Father	3:45
5	Mother Kaulini	2:36
6	California	5:02
7	Bobby	4:17
8	Disappeared	4:32

30FOOTFALL Divided We Stand 1995

pop punk in the vein of Rancid

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Tracklist

1	Divided We Stand
2	Popular Opinion
3	Heroin
4	The Happy Song
5	Fifteen
6	Boogers For Brains
7	The Way It Is
8	I Hate Punk Rock
9	Cotton Candy
10	Ton's O' Guns
11	Everything Is Gonna Stop
12	Dancin With Myself
13	Bonus Track

STEVE WYNN Kerosene Man 1990

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Artist Biography by Mark Deming

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Steve Wynn, as founder of the Dream Syndicate, almost single-handedly tuned the ears of college-age rock fans in the early '80s to the two prior decades of guitar-drenched rock that inspired him as one of the founding fathers of the Paisley Underground movement. After graduating from the University of California at Davis and following a stint with his requisite new wave band of that era, Suspects, Wynn took a cross-country trip in search of Alex Chilton, one of his spiritual musical mentors and a mysterious figure since his days with power pop legends Big Star. Interestingly, by the time Wynn found him and returned to California, the underground rock scene was in the middle of a full-on guitar rock revival, thanks in part to fellow Chilton devotees R.E.M. and the Replacements; Wynn took it as his cue to embrace the feedback-flooded sounds of the Velvet Underground. Borrowing his name from the VU's heritage, he called his new band the Dream Syndicate, after an early experimental group featuring John Cale.

Heralded as leaders of the Paisley Underground (the neo-'60s Southern California scene that included the Bangles, Green on Red, and the Rain Parade), the Dream Syndicate were by far the most outside band in the bunch, challenging audiences to feedback fests and endless jams. After four albums on four labels and a change in musical direction (less Lou Reed, more Neil Young), the Syndicate called it quits and Wynn embarked on a solo career. For Kerosene Man (1990) and Dazzling Display (1991), he relied on his steady songwriting, unique vocal style, and a bunch of friends (including Peter Buck of R.E.M.) for the recordings. Fluorescent (Mute, 1994) was a subdued, semi-folk record, but his side project Gutterball (including Bryan Harvey and Johnny Hott of House of Freaks and Bob Rupe of the Silos) was a loose and drunken rock & roll ramble. The solo work kept on coming: Melting in the Dark (1996), Sweetness & Light (1997), My Midnight (1999), and Momento (2000), the latter a collaboration with Australian Blonde, a Spanish alternative rock band led by Wynn's friend Paco Loco. But Wynn was ultimately destined to lead a band again, and with his combo the Miracle 3 he released the double-disc set Here Come the Miracles (2001), Static Transmission (2003), and the post-millennium panic-inspired ...Tick...Tick...Tick (2005). The same year as ...Tick...Tick...Tick, Wynn summed up his post-Dream Syndicate career to date with the accurately titled 17-track compilation What I Did After My Band Broke Up, which included a bonus disc of Wynn performing some of his favorite songs on piano.

Tracklist 

1	Tears Won't Help	4:55
2	Carolyn	3:57
3	The Blue Drifter	4:44
4	Younger	3:42
5	Under The Weather	4:20
6	Here On Earth As Well	4:36
7	Something To Remember Me By	3:49
8	Killing Time	4:28
9	Conspiracy Of The Heart	5:14
10	Kerosene Man	4:02
11	Anthem	5:42

CABARET VOLTAIRE Groovy, Laidback And Nasty 1990

by request

 

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Artist Biography by John Bush

Though they're one of the most important groups in the history of industrial and electronic music, Cabaret Voltaire are sometimes forgotten in the style's timeline -- perhaps because they continued recording long after other luminaries (Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Chrome) called it quits. Also related to the fact is that CV rarely stayed in one place for long, instead moving quickly from free-form experimentalism through arty white-boy funk and on to house music in the late '80s and electronica the following decade. The band, formed by guitarist Richard H. Kirk, bassist Stephen Mallinder, and tape manipulator Chris Watson, were influenced by the Dadaist movement (whence came their name) and as such, came closer to performance art than music during many of their early performances. After several years of recording with no contract, the group signed to the newly formed Rough Trade label in 1978 and began releasing records that alternated punk-influenced chargers with more experimental pieces incorporating tape loops and sampled effects.

Following Watson's departure, the remaining duo inaugurated a new contract with Some Bizzare/Virgin in 1983 by shifting their sound away from raging industro-funk and toward a more danceable form. The singles "Sensoria" and "James Brown" hit the indie charts in 1984, and Cabaret Voltaire moved to EMI/Parlophone in 1986 for The Code. Two years later, the band traveled to Chicago to record Groovy, Laidback & Nasty with Marshall Jefferson, one of the mavericks in the new house sound blowing up in the British charts. After another break of several years, the new-electronica label Instinct released a trio of CV LPs during 1993 and 1994, after which the band's future appeared cloudy. Kirk continued his solo career (recording as Electronic Eye and Sandoz, as well as under his own name), while Mallinder moved to Australia. A handful of compilations surfaced during the early 2000s: the two-volume The Original Sound of Sheffield sets (featuring A-sides, 12" mixes, and album highlights), Conform to Deform '82/'90 (a three-disc box containing B-sides, alternate mixes, and unreleased tracks), and Methodology '74/'78 (three discs of raw archival material). During the late 2000s and early 2010s, Kirk released a handful of live CV recordings and oversaw an extensive line of reissues, including the box set #8385 Collected Works 1983-1985 and the anthology #7885 Electropunk to Technopop, through Mute. 

 

Tracklist

1	Searchin'	6:40
2	Hypnotised	5:45
3	Minute By Minute	5:07
4	Runaway	6:38
5	Keep On (I Got This Feeling)	6:12
6	Magic	5:08
7	Time Beats	4:55
8	Easy Life	6:12
9	Rescue Me (City Lights)	4:35

 

YOU AM I Can't Get Started 1992

thanks to Matthew P.

 

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Tracklist

1	Grand Ted	2:33
2	Rational Hell	3:08
3	Goddamn	4:56
4	IOU2	2:39
5	Frog	4:39

FINAL One 1994

by request

 

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Artist Biography by John Bush

Final is the only solo alias among Justin Broadrick's many ongoing projects, which include Godflesh, Ice, Techno Animal and Painkiller. Specializing in malevolent space music of the kind also practiced by Bill Laswell projects on Axiom Dub and Subharmonic, Final began in 1993 with the release of One on Subharmonic. The inevitable 2 followed three years later, while The First Millionth of a Second appeared on Manifold in 1997. Broadrick has also contributed remixes to material by David Kristian. 

 

Tracklist  

1	Fall	3:30
2	Light Underground/Dark Overground	23:35
3	Awake But Numb	3:46
4	Despotic	8:05
5	Round Our Bodies	7:54
6	Hold Me	3:17
7	Death/Love Dealer	8:10
8	1983-1987 (Edits)	19:30

 

MOCKET Pro Forma 1999

by request

 

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1	Monitress	2:39
2	Reprise	0:38
3	Spelling Effect	2:56
4	Spot-For-Best-Vision	2:17
5	Bone Crusher	3:05
6	Law Of Averages	3:01
7	Un-Man	2:24
8	Saturnalia	1:00
9	Post Facto	2:00
10	Moot Point	2:38
11	Magic & Ecstacy	1:14
12	Flyspeck	2:55
13	David's Lib	4:38