half alive! the eponymous 1980 solo album by martin rev, plus some bonustracks

  

i don't have to tell you who martin rev is, do i? and so i won't. 

the eponymous 1980 album on infidelity

01 - MARI

02 - BABY OH BABY

03 - NINETEEN 86 (listen directly)

04 - TEMPTATION

05 - JOMO

06 - ASIA (listen directly)

the bonustracks from the 1997 re-release on the belgian daft records label

07 - COAL TRAIN

08 - MARVEL

the bonustracks from the 2002 re-release on ROIR

09 - 5 TO 5

10 - WES (listen directly)

11 - DAYDREAMS

plus some more

the bonustrack from the cd-version of martin rev's 1985 clouds of glory

12 - ISLAND

two excerpts from the suicide box

13 - BACKSTAGEBANTER PARIS 1978 06 18 (EXCERPT)

14 - RADIO AD 1978 (listen directly)

download martin rev plus

(mp3 / all scans included / direct download)

 

einstürzende neubauten - solo bassfeder. a collection of solo recordings by members of the neubauten using the legendary bassfeder in 2005; plus some bonus tracks

recorded in 2005 and released on the mailorder-only musterhaus label in 2006, this collection of solo compositions by members of the einstürzende neubauten has become rather rare throughout the years.

please note: most of the music in this=here blog has been deleted by some fnording idiots; but by the time being all files in this=here post are available. please enjoy. 

solo bassfeder is a collection of tracks using the legendary bass spring almost exclusively in the most different and unusual ways.

 so her we go-go:

01 - BASSFEDER

02 - FEDER VICE

03 - GESCHICHTE DER F.

04 - DINGFEST (listen directly)

05 - SCHLAGKRAFT

12 RHYTHMEN FUER BASSFEDER

06 - Salsa

07 - Beguine

08 - Cascara (listen directly)

09 - ChaCha

10 - Guaguanc

11 - Slowsoul

12 - Guaguanc2 (listen directly)

13 - Mixed

14 - Motown

15 - Pasodoble

16 - Polka

17 - Samba1

18 - SPRINGTIME

19 - NUX VOMICA (listen directly)

as these solo bassfeder tracks are just summing up to a total of some fifty minutes, i decided to add some bonus tracks i found on the surface horizons of some of the black holes of my record collection; so here we go for your listening pleasure:

20 - einstürzende neubauten - meningitis (listen directly)

probably recorded way back in 1985 and found on the Q.E.D. compilation released in the netherlands in 1990.

21 - die haut - assisi machine

vocals by blixa bargeld; remix by deep space network. from the 1998 die haut_springer cd.

22 - fm einheit - der eroberer wurm

voice: sebastian hufschmidt / composition and electronica: fm einheit / bass and contrabass: volker kamp / drums: saskia von klitzing / found on the 2006 compilation edgar allan poe - visionen.

23 - blixa bargeld - ein gleiches
blixa bargeld spricht einen text von johann wolfgang von goethe; gefunden auf der 1999 compilation rosebud.

24 - die haut - assisi machine (listen directly)

vocals by blixa bargeld; remix by alan vega. from the 1998 die haut_springer cd.


download the bassfeder and the bonus tracks
(mp3 / all scans included / direct download)

alan vega live in hamburg 1982: free form rockabilly free from rockabilly

and he was so much younger than you when you tried to dare to disscry the punk revolution in 1976 and he still had not tried to reach your age and to dearrange your generation when he "died" 78 years old and you nerver jigseesaw the bleak and the blank and the noginerratioum orff hiss neveermind. alan vega was-is numb one of the two off the threefiveight that definerrorgated the multitaskfourthmind from the tootonemind and the limitatering pin and the id-entity-frying pong from the multitude of multitudinesses. gored grieve, he can't be asshumed by asshouldes end he reassured ass whole toregit-rit off the fourforpunktimes.

i could not find any assured evidence of who wass live on stage wass him when he wass live in europe in 1982 amnd 1983; so we jasst refer to the band ass alan vega. discogs hass some obscure informtion about the live concerts he executed in these times, but the hamburg concert from the 28th of may 1982 seems to be forgotten. so i thought you might like to listen ass least to a second generation tape copy of the event:

01 - magdalena

02 - goodbye, baby

03 - jukebox baby (listen directly in your browser)

04 - je t'adore 

05 - ??? (bongobaby?)

06 - ??? (outlaw?)

07 - be bop a lulu (cropped on the tape)

08 - sexy

09 - ghost rider

these alan vega tracks of course are followed by four suicide tracks that have been published on this-here blog a long time ago and lateron app-eared asss part of the suicide live box set; but i could not bear the heart to show the tape without letting you hear it.

download alan vega live in hamburg 1982

(mp3 / click left to listen, click right to download / don't forget to save the pictures)

unlimited systems, berlin, spring 1980: heroine driven rhythm machine and noise

i saw the unlimited systems once way back in west-berlin in 1980 and bought their ep directly from their singeress the moment their performance had ended: they were boring and inspiring the same time: pluckering early eighties machines built up a wall of noise and marianne vocalized way above in the ghastly manner women (were they selfconscious or not) had to mumble and scream in these days: we knew better, of course (nico, mo tucker, renate knaupp), but we still loved her. the unlimited systems in 1980 were marianne enzensberger on vocals, ian wright huddling tapes and homad electronic devices, lena japan on guitars and ulli reetz on saxophone: i have no idea who played the bass or the second guitar: but in the age of the extinction of the author (and this was ages before tekkkNO took place) this did not matter at all.

for your pleasure here is the ep i bought the moment the unlimited systems ceased to play that evening: you get:

01 - in the morning

02 - koks kino

03 - longueur monotone (listen directly in your browser)
 

koks kino, though it is embarASSing as it is, references to the velvet underground (as all of their music does of course), and longueur monotone is a way too short wonderful noise. the rest is up to you and you know it all: the 39 clocks, nico, suicide, die mütter, robert rental, silver apples and chicory tip. enjoy!

the unlimited systems ep berlin 1980

(direct download / all scans included / mp3 / 320 kbps)

martin rev and alan vega. suicide live in hamburg 1978.

martin rev and alan vega formed suicide in 1971. they obviously found their inspiration in the likes of velvet underground and the silver apples, but even more obviously they influenced and imbued the new and upcoming generations of psychedelic punks in music, style and attitude: wire, television, the 39 clocks, the jesus and mary chain, deutsch-amerikanische freundschaft, soft cell, spacemen 3 and many more of course. martin rev and alan vega still seem to walk this earth.

12 days after their legendary riot gig in brussels suicide visited hamburg on the 28th of june in 1978 for a very short concert. only four tracks of an audience recording seem to have survived throughout all those years: here is a second generation copy of that tape.

you may listen to adorable versions of

• rocket usa
• cheree
• harlem
• 96 tears

in rather airless sound quality.

DIRECT DOWNLOAD
(21 and a half minutes: mp3 with 224 kbps)