just uploaded now uploaded this mix from a rare tape collector beyond compare
his own stuff ain't bad either -
https://www.discogs.com/master/1386383-S-English-Conscious-Walk - one of my favorite 2015 releases
"This program connects the dots between various lone wolves and outsider units operating on the outskirts of the nascent international mail art / audio cassette trading network of the 1980s and early 1990s. The selection zeros in on tracks that feature a tense, hypnotic dread using early drum machines, sampling technology, and blackbox electronics pushed to their limits in home recording studios all over the world. All tracks are sourced directly from painstakingly collected handmade original cassettes."
“Abandon hope all ye who enter here!
S. English lands on The Trilogy Tapes with something truly special. A mix so utterly deranged, blistered and devoid of comfort that we’re still trying to make sense of it all. After stalking the seemingly endless sprawl of outsider artists and splinter cell musicians operating on the fringe of the mail art / audio cassette trading network of the early 80s, English threads together an anxious 90 min trip of raw electronic dread and bombed out drum machine splutter. It’s a jaw-clenching experience that really emphasises how raw, undeniably punk and genuinely avant-garde the home-brewed proto-industrial scene really was. A time where scenes weren’t just a click away or a ‘DM to join’. Participation meant commitment, physical interaction and information exchange. Primitive electronics getting pushed to breaking point and rudimentary sampling, happening in bedroom studios around the world.
For what it’s worth, we don’t recognise a single track here and the track-list kindly provided is of no use. This is sub-sub-subterranean outsider music that requires supreme effort to collect and make sense of. Anyone who’s ever paid attention to any of the Light Sounds Darks stuff, Vox Populi, Vanity Records, Alain Neffe’s Insane Music series or just loves the weirdest most unhinged electronic music must check.”
"Untouchable selections from the ‘80s/early ‘90s DIY tape dungeons, racked up by industrial miscreant Shane English for fringe luminary/lunatic Will Bankhead’s TTT. 90 mins long, inlay includes a tracklisting.
Narco-Analysis is an expert guided tour of work form the tape mail-order network that begat and set the template for much of today’s noise and weirdo dance underground, which now takes place on the internet rather than via specialist magazine back pages. The 90 minute mix particularly leans toward those murky bits that land in the cracks of industrial music, connected by gristle, greyscale pallor and atonal ambiguity that TTT surmise as, “a tense, hypnotic dread using early drum machines, sampling technology, and blackbox electronics pushed to their limits in home recording studios all over the world.”
It’s the sort of stuff that will be recognised by the most ardent tape hoarders and which has surfaced in recent years via the likes of V-O-D’s archival excavations and found on the secretive Light Sounds Dark series, as well as many other, even lower key labels. Expect nowt but the grottiest gruel, lumpy with toiling rhythms and stewed vocals."
tracklist:
Side 0
Schuster - Socio [1986, UK]
Kees De Groot– Ankarax Video/Soundtrack 1 [1982, Netherlands]
Black Iron Prison - Luny Tune [1985, US]
Luis Mesa - Viaje Imaginario (Parte III) [1987, Spain]
32 Guájar's Fáragüit - Siameses & Wolframo (W) [1983, Spain]
M. Finnkrieg - Steady On Carmen [1989, Germany]
ai/ia/af - ia06 (Forbidden) [1983, Canada]
Baba-Lu - The Beach (Excerpt) [1987, Switzerland]
Atrophisme Interne Z - Init / Schlaguedanc! [1986, France]
Side 1
Ensemble Vide - Le Foie La Rate Et La Gesier: Magazine Sonore No. 1 (Excerpt) [1988, France]
La Nomenklatur - Zokt-A [1987, France]
Iron Sect - Plegic [1987, Canada]
W.U.R. - Akzent Auf Eisen [1986, Switzerland]
Le Syndicat - Rectitude (Version) [1985, France]
Les Trois Phallus - A White Depress On My Mind [198?, France]
Tuerca Mecanica - Yerto Y Danoso [198?, Spain]
Natural Disasters - Untitled [1986, Hungary]
Rongwrong - Epiphany (Excerpt) [1993, Poland]
Tecnica Material - Túnel [1989, Spain]
Madison County Sound Labs - Mammoth Industrial Hypocrisy [1988, US]
Croniamantal - Untitled [1991, Portugal]