for the fan of obscure new art no new and cold

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for the fan of obscure art cold no new wawe bands
i recommend to you the meshthethics compilations
available a hyped to death records

http://www.hyped2death.com/aH2Dwelcome.html

an extract of their catalogue


The U.K. "D.I.Y." sound from 1977-1981: amazing home-made gnarling, grinding and flat-out bashing from England, Wales, Scotland & Ireland. Our little Messtheticisms essay may help explain, or you can check out Johan's top 100.

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Steve Treatment ­25 "A"-Sides / Your Friends Are in the News double CD (Messthetics #202/203) "All my songs are 'A' sides." 140+ minutes of brilliant DIY'n'roll from 1977-1979 including all of Steve's singles, plus later highlights of his incredibly colorful career, including almost all of the songs that were headed for Steve's never-released LP. We couldn't afford the full-color 16-page booklet we were hoping to bring you, but it's all really handsome anyway. (We've also put a few choice color pix online in our S.T. gallery.) The bio, meanwhile, covers Steve's interactions with Marc Bolan, the Swell Maps, the Moors Murderers, Derek Jarman, and Paul McCartney's brother-in-law ...among others.


Digital Dinosaurs ­Extinction: 1979-1982 CD (Messthetics #207) The 'Dinosaurs were leading figures in the cassette-swapping world of turn-of-the-decade D.I.Y. "Extinction" is selected by the band from most of their nine cassette releases, but they did 45 tracks and appeared on countless collections as well. Here's "Red Fire Engine" and several other utterly splendid/stellar DIY romps, but there's also a bunch of really pretty ballads, and a fair chunk of material where we find the 'Dinosaurs expertly and effortlessly channelling the spirit of the late, great Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band. Th'CD includes song-by-song commentary, photos and pix of their incredibly-handsome DIY cassettes... More color pix & cassettes & info here.



Animals & Men -Terraplane Fixation CD (H2D/Messthetics #201)

21 songs from 1978-1982 including their three singles and unreleased sessions. Female-vocal DIY/postpunk sorta like if the Vaselines happened in '78: it's somewhere between the Au Pairs and the Rezillos, except that the guitarist and sometime harmonica player keeps doing this Yardbirds thing... Photos of Animals & Men and their later edition as the Terraplanes, and a stirring reminiscence of their glorious career narrated by Ralph and Susan (which you can read here).

(The original volumes #1-8 to the Messthetics series are all still available, but we'll be re-compiling them as soon as we can. Caveat procrastinator.)


Messthetics #1 CD [H2D#5] UK DIY bands R & S, 1978-81. 29 tunes, 24 bands. Record Players, Scrotum Poles, Royston, Scritti Politti, Six Minute War, Scabs, Reducers, Reacta, Restricted Code, Czechs, Six Minute War, Scrotum Poles, Sema 4, The Rest, Scritti Politti, Scissor Fits, Second Layer, Seize, Sara Goes Pop, School Meals, Reflections, Scissor Fits, Schizoid, Decadent Few, Nigel Simpkins, Ripchords, Reducers, Paul Reekie. "Anti-masterpieces on the order of the Scrotum Poles, Pick the Cat,s Eyes Out,, a three-chord wonder that can,t decide whether to chug or strum, with the singer at a loss as to how to sing the title after 16 repetitions" Franklin Bruno, L.A. Weekly.

Messthetics #2 [H2D#15] UK DIY bands S-to-Th: 1978-82. 22 bands, 26 songs: Steppes, Andy Stratton, 35 Mm Dreams, Teenage & the Wildlife, Spherical Objects, Thin Yoghurts, Sods, Spitfire Boys, Tagmemics, Stockholm Monsters, Strutz, Spunky Onions, Tv Personalities, Take It, Stereotypes, Predators, 35 Mm Dreams, Stepping Talk, Tea Set, Terraplanes, Take It, Surgeons, Slight Seconds, Stolen Power. "Lost gems from the prime of punk: everything here is DIY." Steve Y, Shredding Paper #10.

Messthetics #3 [H2D #25] UK DIY bands Ti-to-U: 1978-82. 26 songs from 21 bands: Tronics, Tiny Town, Steve Treatment, Trwynau Coch, Thermometers, 23 Skidoo, Trance, Thought Police, Twelve Cubic Feet, Tronics, The Turn, Vandells, Vacants, Trwynau Coch, Hugh Volk, Vdus, Tiny Town, U.X.B., Treatment, UK Decay, Toys, Two Fingered Approach, Steve Treatment, They Must Be Russians, U-Turn.

Messthetics #4 [H2D#35] UK DIY bands V-to-Z: 1978-81. 27 tracks by 25 bands. "The Messthetics bands flail around and make awful mistakes, because they know they're on the verge of something really exciting and that's the only way to get there." Douglas Wolk, The Boston Phoenix. Vacants, Vitamins, John Voysey, Wimps, Zipps, Wasteland, Visitors, YMG, Walking Floors, Vital Disorders, XS Energy, Victimize, Xpozez, The What, Wild Beasts, Hugh Volk, Zeitgeist, Wild Beasts, X-Defectors, Wavis O'Shave, Versatile Newts.

Messthetics #5 [H2D#45] UK bands, ALL from the letter "A": 1978-81. Article 58, The Arnold, Astronauts, Afflicted, Anorexia, Autopilot, Attic, Armed Force, Addiction, Artery, A Sudden Sway, Animals & Men, Again Again, Acid Drops, Avocados, Aquila, Alvaro, Animals & Men, Art Failure, The Atrix, Anorexia, Atoms, A Certain Ratio, Auntie Pus, Keith Armstrong.

Messthetics #6 [H2D#49] UK DIY bands from A & B: 1978-81. Our current favorite kicks off with the legendary Beyond the Implode... Also the Bloated Toads, Bleach Boys, Blanks, Base, Bouncing Czechs, Buzz, Balloons, Bee Vamp, Honey Bane, Bearz, B-Film, Big In Japan, Beach Bullies, Big Sleep, Beevers, Basczax, Brills, plus a couple that wouldn't fit last time! The Ankh, Avant Gardeners, Airmail .

Messthetics #7 [H2D#55] UK DIY bands, ALL from the letter "C": 1978-81. With five of Johan's all-time top 100 DIY singles (see if you agree!). Contact, Cravats, Commercials, Current Obsessions, Carl Gustav & the 84's, Czechs, Crash Action Winners, Cherry Boys, Alan Clayson & the Argonauts, Captain Swoop & the Fabulous Wonderfuls, Cracked Actor, Clockwork Criminals, Cold War, Colours, Chefs, Cinematics, Club Tango, Camera 3, Cindy & the Barbi Dolls, Collective Horizontal, Concrete, Crazy English...

Messthetics #8 [H2D#59] UK DIY bands from 1977-81: ALL from the letter "D"... Astounding DIY gnarling and scrubbing, including 4 tracks previously available on cassette-only. Desperate Bicycles, Devil's Hole Gang, Different I's, Dry Rib, The Dogmatic Duo, Dogma Cats, Divert Off Centre, Dolphins, Dislocation Dance, Dum Dum Dum, Diagram Bros, Dangerous Girls, Discount Chiefs, Delmontes, Disturbed, Deep Freeze Mice, The Dad, Desperate Bicycles, Danny & The Dressmakers, De Tian, Denizens, Digital Dinosaurs and The Dole.

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