BASTRO Sing The Troubled Beast 1990

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 Artist Biography by Steve Huey

Bastro was the more prominent of guitarist David Grubbs' two immediate post-Squirrel Bait projects (the concurrently running Bitch Magnet being the other). Grubbs originally joined the Louisville, KY-based Squirrel Bait while still in high school, and was actually one of the oldest members of the group; when he and bassist Clark Johnson left for college, it effectively spelled the end of the band after two important releases. Grubbs went to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and formed an early version of Bastro in 1987 with bassist Dan Treado, who soon left. Even though Clark Johnson had gone to Chicago, he and Grubbs reteamed as the new core of Bastro, and pursued a more twisted and abrasive style of post-hardcore punk than their former band. Backed by a drum machine, they issued a six-song EP, Rode Hard & Put Up Wet, on the Homestead label in 1988. They subsequently played some tour dates with My Dad Is Dead, whose drummer at the time was Oberlin College percussion major John McEntire. McEntire wound up joining Bastro full-time for their LP debut, 1989's Bastro Diablo Guapo, which drew comparisons to the blistering extremity of Steve Albini and the precision and shifting dynamics of another Squirrel Bait offshoot, Slint. Their second full-length, 1990's Sing the Troubled Beast, found the group straining against their established blueprint to follow a relatively subtle and melodic path. Bassist Johnson subsequently left the group and was replaced by Bundy K. Brown; meanwhile, Grubbs relocated to Chicago to attend graduate school. Feeling limited by the extremity of their power-trio format and afraid of stagnating, Bastro tried to push into more atmospheric territory, and wound up deciding to retire the name altogether and continue as a completely different project, dubbed Gastr del Sol. Brown and McEntire appeared on Gastr del Sol's 1993 debut, The Serpentine Similar, after which the group became a vehicle for Grubbs' collaboration with Jim O'Rourke, as well as a touchstone of the post-rock movement. Brown and McEntire subsequently became charter members of the even more seminal post-rock outfit Tortoise.

Tracklist

1	Demons Begone
2	Krakow, Illinois
3	I Come From A Long Line Of Shipbuilders
4	Tobacco In The Sink
5	Recidivist
6	Floating Home
7	Jefferson-In-Drag
8	The Sifter
9	Noise / Star
10	Recidivist

GLAZED BABY

1995

 

1999

 

 by request

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Atomic Communists

Tracklist

1	1
2	2/3
3	Lucky 7
4	Dak's Jag
5	Whitewalk
6	Message For The People, By The People Against People
7	St. Valentines Day Massacre Blues
8	(Let Me Take You To) Chinatown
9	Chapter 11
10	Train Song
11	Flies

 

Ancient Chinese Secret

 

Tracklist

1	Lying On The Killing Floor	3:01
2	Soul Tiki Boogie	3:13
3	Elektrolux	4:26
4	With The Lights Low	4:39
5	...................	2:31
6	CWC	2:02
7	Jinx Remover	4:47
8	Crushed Red Pepper	3:35
9	Go! Dragon / Fly	3:57
10	Sons Of Liberty	3:34

 

 

RROPE Rrope 1994

by request

 

 Noise rock

Thanks to Baz 

 

Discogs 

 

Tracklist

1	Step Right Up	2:07
2	Mercury	6:19
3	Ok Nic	4:27
4	Mission Revue	3:21
5	#23	3:50
6	Battery Davis	4:26
7	W. Acre Lament	5:03
8	Stumpfingers	2:24
9	Axis In Collapse / Ivy Bottles	3:22
10	Only Around	3:03

 

LIGHTNING BOLT self titled 1999

 experimental noise rock

biography

[+] by Daphne Carr

Lightning Bolt emerged from Providence, RI, in 1995 as a three-piece art school project. Initially there was Brian Chippendale's explosive, nonstop drumming, Brian Gibson's Contortions-like basslines, and Hisham Baroocha's vocals propelling them in a fury of volatile noise and orgiastic tribalism. The group helped found Fort Thunder, a music and art collective, and recorded a self-titled album that was issued through Load in 1999. By 2001's Ride the Skies, Baroocha had departed (he eventually formed Black Dice). This left the vocal duties to Chippendale, who jammed the microphone into his mouth as he drummed. Lightning Bolt did a series of tours with bands like the Locust, Arab on Radar, Orchid, and Melt Banana, some of which were the focus of band documentary The Power of Salad, a 2003 film directed by Peter Glantz and Nick Noe. Their next studio album came in the form of Wonderful Rainbow, an album that embraced a more demented approach to traditional rock forms. The album did very well in underground music circles, and set up the release of 2005's Hypermagic Mountain. The band toured frequently, but didn't return to the studio until 2009's Earthly Delights, which was followed in 2012 by mini-album Oblivion Hunter.

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