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Various Artists - ContraPop Festival 2018: The Third And Tidal Report

CD1

1 Laraaji - By The Laws Of Manifestation

2 Flower-Corsano Duo - Cocaa Mouth Paralysis

3 Sacred Paws - ust Kids

4 Massicot - Suri Gruti

5 Teeth Of The Sea- Field Punishment

6 DJ Airplane and Spaceship* - The Drum Slave

7 Molly Nilsson - American Express

 

CD2

1 Otherworld - Forgotten Light VII

2 Dave Kane, Alex Neilson, Chris Sharke, and Alex Ward

3 Yuri Landman - On The 1st Of Feb

4 The Storm Bugs - Take It To The Top

5  Adrian Sherwood - Just Programme It

6 Coldnose - Memories

7 Margenrot - Aghves / Zangezur / Spitak

 

Credits:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2019

Label: Extra Normal

Catalogue Number: TXN 010

Sleeve Design: Oliver Barrett

 

Notes:

ContraPop is a music festival which takes place in a marquee on the baech in Ramsgate, Kent, UK. To accompany the festival a CD is produced showcasing tracks from the previous year's festival, thus this 2019 CD includes the live performance of 'Take It To The Top' by The Storm Bugs from 2018.

 

Snatch 2

Side 1

Orchestral Introduction 

Beach Surgeons: Graham Massey & Friends

Mannequin Moves: John Arnold, Brian McCarthy

Vote Police: Sarah Pomeroy, Vivienne DeVoy

Orchestral Interlude

Mountain Stream

Sea of Wires: 2 Teas & A Funny Hat

 

Side 2

David Jackman

Scratch Dub: Beach Surgeons, John Cage, Scratch Orchestra with rhythm & loops by David Jackman, Philip Sanderson and Storm Bugs

Lemon Kittens: Danielle Dax, Karl Blake

Storm Bugs: Philip Sanderson, Sarah Pomeroy, Steve Ball

David Jackman

Cultural Amnesia Dub: G. Greenway, B. Norland

Garden Dwarves Dub

 

Credits:

Format: Cassette, 100 copies

Release Date: 1980

Label: Snatch Tapes

Catalogue Number: None

Sleeve Design: Photocopy onto white paper, design by Philip Sanderson & David Jackman, Alternate cover with floorplan design by Philip Sanderson (only one or two copies exist of the alternate cover)

 

Notes: 

Sanderson had already started work on Snatch 2 when he met David Jackman in spring 1980. Jackman was drafted in to help with the compilation of the tape, with the two creating the loops and assembling the tape in Sanderson's basement flat in Paddington.

 

As with Snatch 1 the tape cover lists the names of the artists but not the track titles, further details were included on a small booklet sent out with the tape. Here are some further notes.

 

Side 1

Orchestral Introduction 

A short tape loop made by Sanderson & Jackman

Beach Surgeons: Graham Massey & Friends

The Beach Surgeons was one of the many bands that Massey formed including: 808 State, Biting Tongues, and Danny And The Dressmakers. No know track title, not known either who the 'friends' are.

Mannequin Moves: John Arnold, Brian McCarthy

The track is called 'Think Of The Girls You Left Behind was also featured on the compilation Healthy Feet/Murky Depths (1981). The track was re-issued on the Snatch Paste (2006) LP on Vinyl on Demand as 'The Girls You Left Behind':

Vote Police: Sarah Pomeroy, Vivienne DeVoy

Vote Police was a Sanderson 'band'. A tape by Vote Police was released in 1978/79 (around 10 copies). One copy was sent to Indutstrial Records and was included in a list of "tapes received" in Industrial News. No copies of the tape are known to exist. Sarah Pomeroy was briefly a member of Storm Bugs and plays guitar on this track (via a VCS3) the synths and loops etc, are by Sanderson. The track is a mix/version of the Storm Bugs track 'Objective' which was later to feature on A Safe Substitute (1981), re-issued in 2011 on vinyl by Harbinger. Vivienne DeVoy is a Sanderson pseudonym.

Orchestral Interlude

A short tape loop made by Sanderson & Jackman

Mountain Stream

A short tape loop made by Sanderson & Jackman

Sea of Wires: 2 Teas & A Funny Hat

This track is called 'Endless Rainy Day', from the cassette Individually Screened (1981). The track was re-issued as part of The Sea Of Wires / Chris Jones (12) _- Recordings 1980-82 (2014) on Vinly on Demand.

 

Side 2

David Jackman

Jackman went on to release much highly regraded material as Organum. This track is called 'Untitled' and ia different mix was to appear on the Cherry Red compilation LP Perspectives And Distortion (1981).

Scratch Dub: Beach Surgeons, John Cage, Scratch Orchestra with rhythm & loops by David Jackman, Philip Sanderson and Storm Bugs

A VCS3 percussive sequence by Sanderson, on top of which was mixed snatches: of Cage (unknown piece), Scratch Orchestra (previously unreleased) and a vocal by Graham Massey, taken from the same Beach Surgeons tape as the previous track.

Lemon Kittens: Danielle Dax, Karl Blake

The track is untitled and was not otherwise issued.

Storm Bugs: Philip Sanderson, Sarah Pomeroy, Steve Ball

The track is called 'Thin Line Flash of Traffic' and is spoken and played by Sanderson, subsequently re-issued on the Storm Bugs LP Up The Middle Down The Sides (2005) on Fusetron.

David Jackman

The track is called 'Pulses', not otherwise released.

Cultural Amnesia Dub: G. Greenway, B. Norland

Notes: the track is a looped/tape delay re-working by Sanderson of an original Cultural Amnesia number called 'Cyberforms', which appears on Video Rideo (1981). The band refer to this version as 'Cyberforms Dub'.

Garden Dwarves Dub

Garden Dwarves were a creation of Leif Thuresson who also appears on the compliation Standard Response (1979).