back to sing for free: danny and the dressmakers, alternative tv, the astronoughts, wilful damage, the sell-outs and more.

street level was a london recording studio that gave home to the anarchist hippie punk avantgarde that in the late seventies and early eighties of the last century evolved out of an undogmatic conglomerate of jamming improvisers and free music activists. loosely connected with veteran campaigners like the pink fairies, throbbing gristle, gong, colin potter, here and now, mark perry (ATV of course aka alternative t´television) and others literally hundreds of sensitive noise combatants and weird folk buskers aligned, played and recorded in the shelter of street level.

to share the music with their unconcious audience street level created (adequate and bona fide for those times, preposterous thirty years later) labels like "fuck off records", "wierd (sic!) noise", "organized chaos" and others to release mostly tapes and very few vinyl editions of obscure sonic aspects of revolutionary activism. the very first tape they released was "i´ll be back to sing for free again soon", indexed as "FUCK OFF 1 (STEREO)" and this is what you are about to listen to, of course. you may find some information on some of the artists involved on the aforementioned site of street level, some links and complementary information will be added whenever i find some and your complementing comments are very welcome.

street level and all artists involved encouraged every body to copy their releases and to disperse and distribute them for free or at leat not exceeding prime cost. so spurensicherung shares a second generation copy with you.

side a: slightly sanesville:

dick heley - void burstin
dick heley - photograph of feeling
astronauts - secret file
astronauts - all night party
astronauts - back to sing for free again soon
dick heley & blankspace - fantasy
anal surgeons - wheres that fag
dog ends - aint no free unless its free
alternative tv - terrified of dogs

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side b: crazytown:

wilful damage - you hang at midnight
wilful damage - no-one cares
wilful damage - fictitious
wilful damage - farewell to innocence
danny and the dressmakers - ernie bishops dead body
danny and the dressmakers - how hot is a match
danny and the dressmakers - john e begood
danny and the dressmakers - what the world needs now
danny and the dressmakers - whole lotta pinball
danny and the dressmakers - dont make another bass guitar
danny and the dressmakers - manchester united
the sell outs - rock + roll honcert
seventh angel - from a sly fox to a pack of wolves
amazing zeepee silent orchestra - no kung future
planet gong - psychedelic man
blankspace -

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original linernotes, almost obliterate...

and of course you waited for the bonus track:

alternative tv can be heard performing the uncut radio session version of "cold rain" in the kraut mask replica podcast.