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MESSTHETICS GREATEST HISS: the DIY cassette-scene vol.1

1. Jelly Babies - 'Soylent Green'

2. 391 - 'Jet Plane'

3. Instant Automatons - 'Gillian is Normal'

4. Event Group - 'Concussion Edit'

5. Missing Persons - 'Sign of The Times'

6. Danny & The Dressmakers - 'Eggs on Legs'

7. Gravity Craze - 'Song For M'

8. Farming Jim - 'Cats in The Kitchen'

9. Chromosomes - 'Hi Fi Know How'

10. Mike Jones - 'Reckless Policies'

11. Living Dead No.5 - 'Never Give In'

12. Storm Bugs - 'Car Situations (Nasal Passage)'

13. Colin Potter - 'Power'

14. Digital Dinosaurs - 'Baby Snakes'

15. Twizlers - 'We are The Twizlers'

16. Casual Labourers - 'A Lapse is Due'

17. Midnight Circus - 'Suburbia Nervosa'

18. Aconite - 'The Truth about Cable'

19. Milkshake Melon - 'Walk Oates Walk!'

20. Cultural Amnesia - 'Repetition for This World'

21. The Get - 'The Leaders'

22. Stripey Zebras - 'Walking Home'

23. Funhouse - 'Teenage Bedrooms'

24. Danny & The Dressmakers - 'Kif Kif's Magic Hat'

25. Chimp Eats Bananas - 'Shopping List'

 

Bonus MP3's

Chromosomes - 'Rot all Rulers'

Dean Johnson - 'Another Letter'

Digital Dinosaurs - 'Elephant Germs'

Farming Jim - 'New Years Eve'

Jelly Babies - 'Candy Bricks'

 

Credits:

Format: CD. 500 copies

Release Date: 2008

Label: Hyped to Death

Catalogue Number: Messthetics 10

 

Notes:

Includes a 24-page booklet with histories, photos, artifacts and an essay from Mick Sinclair, who wrote the original Cassette Pets column for Sounds.

 

The Storm Bugs track is 'Car Situations (Nasal Passage)' from the A Safe Substitute Cassette.

 


Storm Bugs - Table Matters

Side 1

Cash Wash

Eat Good Beans

Make Customers Matter

 

Side 2

Window Shopping 

Our Main Objective

 

All tracks by Philip Sanderson.

 

Credits:

Format: 7-inch EP. 500 copies.

Release Date: 1980

Label: Loop records

Catalogue Number: 

Sleeve Design & Photography: Steven Ball

 

Notes:

The Storm Bugs 7-inch EP on black vinyl in a printed cover with white labels featuring a small sticker. The cut up sleeve shows photographs taken in and around Charring Cross Rd circa 1979. The image of the mannequins in the top left and right corner was used for the labels of Up the Middle Down the Sides. The image at the top of the page is of the printed sleeve but there were two other alternate photocopied sleeve designs. The records were pressed a couple of months before the printed sleeves were ready thus the first 50 copies (or so) came with a folded screen printed insert. One or two copies were also sold with one-off collages by Sanderson. The remaining 450 copies have the printed sleeve.


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).

 


Various - I Hate the Pop Group

Side A

A1 Prats - Prats 2 

A2 The Janet And The Johns - Let Bygones Be Bygones 

A3 Brent Wilcox - 8 Parts Leisure 

A4 Noh Mercy - Caucasian Guilt 

A5 Storm Bugs - Cash Wash / Eat Good Bean 

A6 The Door And The Window - I Hate Sound 

A7 AK Process - Post Town

  

Side B

B1 Men/Eject -Draw 

B2 Sellouts - Ballad Off The Fuck Off Records 

B3 Danny And The Dressmakers -Truth About Unemployment 

B4 E.g Oblique Graph - Black Cloth Behind De Gaulle's Wax Head 

B5 File Under Pop -Heathrow 

B6 Band T Plus Instruments - Words 

B7 Orchid Spangiafora -Trapped Heir Suite Part One 

B8 Doof (2) - (Treat Me Like) The Man I Am / Brighton Pt One

 

Credits:

Format: LP, 300 copies

Release Date: 2000

Label: Vertical Slum Records

Catalogue Number: R-44

Sleeve Design: Unknown

 

Notes:

Bootleg compilation of UK & US DIY singles from the 70s and early 80s