![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Wild About You! Tales from the Australian Rock Undergound 1963-68 [leda030] - Various artists
Bloodied noses! Car crashes! Police harassment! Jealous boyfriends! These were just a few of the hazards that faced the beat groups who roamed Australia during the mid-sixties. Despite these obstacles (perhaps because of them) a number of homegrown acts came to epitomise the down and dirty sound of the Antipodean underground. Released in 2004 by Melbourne Community Radio Station 3CR, the book (by Iain McIntyre and Ian D Marks) and accompanying tribute CD (featuring 19 of Melbourne's toppest cont...
Keywords: Garage Rock
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| 7 + 7 is - cheat death [leda018] - 7 + 7 is
GRINDING GRINDING GRINDING YAY! GRINDING GRINDING GRINDING YAY! Proteges of Palmer perhaps? Produced personally nonetheless. Everyone loves The 7+7is! Coz day be grinding! GRINDING! YAY! YAYYYYYYYYY!
Downloads: 4,406
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| The Barry Jeffries - Cisterns of Romance [leda003] - The Barry Jeffries
A bathroom suite in six movements. This record should be played in one sitting.
Keywords: lo-fi amateur pop
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| Pink Stainless Tail - Blood Sugar Dropping : The Movie [leda017] - Pink Stainless Tail
When Irving Gribbish (of Splodge Cinema fame) told me I had to check out Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (available from The Prelinger Archives) I got straight onto it. This guy knows his onions. It turned out to be some 1000% bizarre educational propaganda gizmo thing outta the Techfilm Studio, Moscow in 1940. Good so far, I figured. That night, I sat down to watch it with a pal and a 6pack - but a coupla minutes in I jumped up and yelled "fucking hell it´s the clip for blood sugar dro...
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| The Creeping Past [leda022] - The Creeping Past
It appears that something arises periodically from its ancient undersea dwelling off Hove, seeking to wrest the melodic being from the very throats of those who sing the tunes.
Keywords: Field Recordings; Yog-Sothothcore
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| The Fire Dept. - Elpee for Another Time [leda015] - The Fire Dept.
Without question, the greatest English psyche masterpiece ever! Well, since the advent of recorded music, anyway. Originally from Yep! of Hove in 1996 (surely you mean 1969? - ed.) - now available on LedaTape by arrangement with Cormorant Recordings.
Keywords: Epic Garage Rock
Downloads: 3,857
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| The Fire Dept. - L'Oeuf D'Or [leda014] - The Fire Dept.
Originally released in 1995 on Billy Childish's Hangman's Daughter label, this is the universally acclaimed debut LP of the legendary (in as much as they didn't actually exist) Hove (ex-Cambridge) group. Some call it garage, some call it punk, some call it garage-punk, and others leave out the hyphen. Who cares?! This is uh da bombe.
Keywords: Epic Garage Rock
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| Pink Stainless Tail - Free Software Song [leda032] - Pink Stainless Tail
The Free Software Song is a filk song by GNU/EMACS guru Richard M. Stallman. The song is usually set to the traditional Bulgarian melody of "Sadi Moma" but PST developed their own tune instead inna reverse-engineery stylee. This version has Chris Hughes (of Berlin's Methylated Spirits) on second git - except the solo which is by Sehguh Sirhc. Visit www.pinkstainless.net for more lifestyles of the Pink and Stainless...
Keywords: Richard Stallman; GNU; Linux; Free Software; Sadi Moma
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| White Ape / Threshold People - Split Single [leda027]
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| The Fire Dept. - History of Fen Punk Vol. III [leda009] - The Fire Dept.
The greatest English beat group of the last twenty years... Their First LP was put out by Billy Childish on and their second was on Yep! of Hove, and now this one here in association with Cormorant Recordings of Brighton, England... Whatever possessed them?? Maybe the Polaroids...
Keywords: Epic Garage Rock
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| Pink Stainless Tail - Lucy Leave [leda031] - Pink Stainless Tail
Voila! La fameuse album! Our meagre tribute to the unmitigated genius of Syd Barrett, the most important force in 20th century music bar none. His rendition of this tune remains unissued legitimately, so this is a previously suppressed full length version of our take (see www.pinkstainless.net for details). Now you get the song as well as the backwardsness and horse noises, but whether that rates as an improvement depends on if you have ears or not...
Keywords: syd barrett
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| Pink Stainless Tail - One Take, Take One (videos) [leda019] - Pink Stainless Tail
Two live clips, shot by David Cox. 1. The Function of the Gorgon (Found Project Gallery, Fitzroy, 21/12/2001) 2. Godtsar (Rob Roy, Fitzroy, 15/01/2005) Four years pass like nothing for Pink Stainless Tail, one take, one shot, we keep it rolling...
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| Pink Stainless Tail - WaY! Live "High"lights [leda013] - Pink Stainless Tail
Includes a reasonable live take of "St Annes Wells Gardens" - complete with interminable intro-banter - plus "Time will Come" with Peter Rechter (Tol-Puddle Martyrs) on vox.
Keywords: Psychedelic
Downloads: 438
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| Hobbs Lane Arrival Committee - Shopgirls of the World Undress [leda008] - Hobbs Lane Arrival Committee
Simon Strong and David Cox try to be The Smiths and fail admirably.
Downloads: 1,132
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| The Barry Jeffries - Fuck Off Edie [leda001] - The Barry Jeffries
TBJ´s aborted debut single, a sorry saga of lost lust and eternal punishment. The polar opposite of Lou Reed´s "Femme Fatale", and (maybe) the most notable rockument of Warhol's Silver Factory. Compared to "Songs for Drella", it´s a towering masterpiece, even though this admission damns it with faint praise. What is that? A Tuinal? Give it to me immediately...
Keywords: lo-fi amateur pop
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| The Barry Jeffries - Human Torch Songs [leda002] - The Barry Jeffries
These recordings have been ruthlessly suppressed for 15 years. Have a listen and you´ll know why.
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| Simon Strong and Neil Palmer & the Whole Fucking Shithouse - Selections from (The Motion of the Cane) [leda004] - Simon Strong and Neil Palmer & the Whole Fucking Shithouse
This work was conceived as an expansion of the S-aspect of my novel "A259 Multiplex Bomb 'Outrage'" (CodeX, 1995). Pragmatic concerns dictate that these are the only tracks that can be released at the present time - assuming there is such a thing.
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| Simon Strong - Angels and Pinheads [leda005] - Simon Strong
In a dark dark wood, there's a dark dark spooky mansion, in the dark dark spooky mansion, there's a dark dark old Bontempi organ with a TOTALFUCKENFRUITLOOP doin the biz. Check out the Robert Wyatt inspired take of "T'Red Flag" - which side are you on, boys?
Keywords: Naive
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| Simon Strong - (The Hideous Shame of the) Ringpull Man [leda007] - Simon Strong
Packaged here for 7" release with "I Go Twang". These are arguably the least worst of the surviving "Hove Bedsit" recordings. My first attempts at songwriting were inspired by chaps like Ivor Cutler, Wild Man Fisher and late-period Syd Barrett (as then only accessable via crappy bootlegs). Hard going, but rewarding perseverance... in your dreams!
Keywords: Beyond Classification
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| The Shades of Meaning - Back in the Day [leda020] - The Shades of Meaning
PM of Xmas Day 2004, I returned alone to my garret to render myself insensible. I was making simaltaneous headway through a six-pack of Melbourne and several million bytes of encoded tunes. As my reptilian cortex gained dominance, the playlist criteria grew more arcane. Suddenly from the tiny tinny speakers blared thisness... unreleased(?) diamond from the oeuvre of N. Palmer esq. - he had forgot to inform me of its existence...
Keywords: Faustian
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| The Shades of Meaning - A.S.B.O. [leda026] - The Shades of Meaning
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| The Thrupenny Bits - Brightfastness / Disturbance [leda028]
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| Pink Stainless Tail - Blood at the GB [leda012] - Pink Stainless Tail
At last, this sought-after PS[T] "curiosity" is available to the public! We wanted to play "Blood Sugar Dropping" but Harry broke a string. I would've rather been at home watching the Saturday Night Cult Movie on SBS, and I said as much. Twenty bucks in the rider for four of us; never again...
Keywords: Improv
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| Pink Stainless Tail - The Function of the Gorgon [leda011] - Pink Stainless Tail
The head of the medusa occupies a distinctive but ambiguous place in the symbology of overhyped French philosopher Jacques Lacan. We took the words for this from a poem by Percy Shelly about the painting by Da Vinci of a scene described by Ovid, amongst others. The legend of Perseus and Andromeda is a bit of a hobby horse for me I'm afraid. The name of the song is a pun on Wilhelm Reich.
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| Pink Stainless Tail - 5-6-7 [leda021] - Pink Stainless Tail
A poignant song about love affair between a man and a porno cinema. Includes vintage videogame noises for no readily explicable reason.
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