Coming up from LTM

I said the *Blues* Orchids above - Martin Brahmah trading 'licks' with BB King? Doh.

What's great about LTM in the US is that between them and Darla's distribution, the prices are kept lower than most domestic releases.

I'm very excited about the second of these two (the Peel Sessions one) but I wasn't very taken with "Diamond Age" and the songs I heard them play in '93 (or was it '92) weren't all that amazing either, so I won't be rushing out to buy that one.

That Thirst EP isn't *that* great. But their first LP is an absolute masterpiece. Someone should have reissued that in an enhanced form.

I'm very excited about the second of these two (the Peel Sessions one) but I wasn't very taken with "Diamond Age" and the songs I heard them play in '93 (or was it '92) weren't all that amazing either, so I won't be rushing out to buy that one.

That Thirst EP isn't that great. But their first LP is an absolute masterpiece. Someone should have reissued that in an enhanced form.

The 2nd Peel Session is just fantastic - Sun Connection/Bad Education/No Looking Back/A Year WIth No Head.

I never heard either Peel Session, so I don't mean to give a diminished impression of how excited I am about hearing them.

Did you ever hear the Aztec Camera cover of "Bad Education"? Surprisingly good.

Just me then.

The Miaw CD is out next week I think.

listening to it at the moment, bought on the strength of the two tracks i previously knew, 'belle vue' and 'sport most royal' and worth the tenner for those two alone.

andy

Don't agree with you about England Made Me, hazel. A quiet classic IMO. You must have the original release, because the new LTM one has both versions of Moves Like You.

I'll probably buy the Miaow anyway because I want LTM to keep re-releasing things.

http://www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/ltmnews.html

Marine -- LIFE IN REVERSE (LTMCD 2396) £10
This enhanced CD gathers together all Marine studio recordings for the first time, and also includes an extended QuickTime MP3 audio visual section featuring charming Super 8 home movie footage of a trip to London to perform at a Crepuscule 'party' night at Heaven in July 1981, plus shorts and rehearsal material.

Berntholer -- MERRY LINES IN THE SKY LTMCD 2403 £10
This enhanced CD gathers together all Berntholer studio recordings made between 1983 and 1985, and also includes an extended QuickTime mpeg audio visual section featuring video clips for My Suitor, Exterior Nuit and The Choice.

Anna Domino -- MYSTERIES OF AMERICA / COLOURING IN... LTMCD 2410 £10
Mysteries of America dates from 1990 and offers eight original songs by Anna Domino and Michel Delory, as well as a haunting cover of Isn't That So by Jesse Winchester. More acoustic than before, the album was recorded in New York and Brussels, and produced by Anton Sanko (Suzanne Vega). The evocative cover art comes courtesy of Benoit Hennebert. Says Anna: "It's a travelogue of sorts - starts with a memory from childhood and ends with the Big Sleep." In addition this expanded CD reissue also features the five track mini album Colouring in the Edge and the Outline. Released by Crepuscule in 1988, the set is unusual for Anna in that it experiments with a more electronic, sequenced sound than before. The final bonus track is a previously unreleased recording from 1987, an experimental cover of Stand Apart by The Hood.

Anna Domino -- EAST AND WEST / LIVE IN JAPAN LTMCD 2383 £10
The debut mini album by Anna Domino, originally released in 1984 by Les Disques du Crepuscule (TWI 187) plus rare b side track Repeating. Guests include Virginia Astley, Blaine L. Reininger and Luc Van Acker. Digitally remastered and including seven bonus tracks recorded live in concert in Tokyo in January 1987, two of them never recorded elsewhere.

Minny Pops -- DRASTIC MEASURES, DRASTIC MOVEMENT (LTMCD 2384) £10
Drastic Measures, Drastic Movement first appeared on Dutch label Plurex in September 1979. An uncompromising genre classic, the 13 track set mixes hard-edged electronica with modernist noise, and shares much in common with contemporaries Cabaret Voltaire, The Normal, Suicide and early Human League. As well as an early version of the classic Factory label single Dolphin's Spurt, the album also includes the junk-food satire MD Mania and a cover of R.U.21 by US punk band Novak. The nine bonus tracks include all three cuts from their debut ep Kojak, also released in 1979, and the 2003 remix of Dolphin's Spurt by Zip and DJ Smacker. There are also 12 superb minutes of vintage audio-visual clips featuring five live tracks recorded at the Amsterdam Filmacademie in 1979, playable on your PC in QuickTime format.

BLAINE L. REININGER "NIGHT AIR 2" (LTMCD 2314) £10
Night Air #2 is intended as a sequel to his keynote 1984 album Night Air, a bittersweet meditation on life in exile in a hostile city. The sequel, carefully selected from several albums recorded between 1989 and 1999, captures many of the same moods, ranging from cinematic on Night Ride, expatriate angst on Invisible and modern electronica on Arc en Ciel.

MUSICA FUTURISTA: THE ART OF NOISES LTMCD 2401

Musica Futurista: The Art of Noises is a 73 minute collection of music and spoken word from the Italian Futurist movement 1909-1935, including original recordings by Marinetti, Russolo and Balilla Pratella.

As well as vintage 'free verse' readings by Futurist figurehead F.T. Marinetti, the CD includes recordings of the celebrated intonarumori (noise intoners) created by Luigi Russolo, including the composition The Awakening of a City.

Russolo's public performances scandalized Europe in 1914 yet still resonate today. Although his extraordinary ideas met with fierce resistance, it is now clear he exerted a powerful influence on a number of leading avant-garde and experimental composers, initially Igor Stravinsky, George Antheil and Arthur Honegger, and later John Cage, Edgard Varese, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Harry Partch, as well as non-classical electronica and avant-rock.

As well as period recordings, the CD includes contemporary performances of other key Futurist works by Balilla Pratella, Antonio Russolo, Aldo Giuntini, Luigi Grandi, Silvio Mix, Franco Casavola, Alfredo Casella, Matty Malneck and Frank Signorelli.

TWICE AS NICE (LTMCD 2398) £10 (DLP = £12)
Twice As Nice is the sequel to our hugely successful 2003 compilation Cool As Ice. Produced between 1982 and 1986 for release on Factory Records and Les Disques du Crepuscule, the Twice As Nice tracklist runs as follows:

52nd Street Express 5.02 #
Cheyne Call Me Mr Telephone 6.27 >
Quando Quango Low Rider (400 Blows Remix) 3.47 >
Anna Domino Summer (Baker Remix) 7.26 <
52nd Street Look Into My Eyes 6.59 #
Quando Quango Genius (Part 2) 6.48 >
Marcel King Keep On Dancing 3.30 *
Shark Vegas You Hurt Me (version) 6.33 *
New Order Video 586 (edit) 6.10
Section 25 Sakura 3.58
Thick Pigeon Jess + Bart (remix) 3.12
RFATP Motherland (Remix) 4.44
52nd Street Cool As Ice (Jellybean Mix) 7.45 #

Those tracks marked with an asterisk* were jointly produced by Be Music (Bernard Sumner) and DoJo (Donald Johnson, of A Certain Ratio). # indicates DoJo alone. > indicates Mark Kamins. < indicates Arthur Baker. The others are all Be Music (New Order) productions. The remastered CD runs for 73 minutes.

Fall 2004 will also bring new CD releases from The Servants (Reserved), Anna Domino (Best Of), Revenge (Live), Severed Heads (Rotund for Success) (attention Dan and Donut B., even though you already have this of course!), Steven Brown (Half Out), The Room (In Evil Hour/Clear!), Kalima (Night Time Shadows) and some way cool goodies on the revamped Boutique label.

Suprised he's starting with Rotund for Success. Glad the Severed Heads are finally getting their revival/critical acclaim that's due. Tiger Sushi released a remixed version of Dead Eyes Open earlier this year and I think another Severed Heads edit found it's way on a Glimmer Twins mix, or Black Strobe related, can't remember.

I have the Berntholer 12" "He's My Suiter" or whatever, and it's quite wonderful.

But really, Marine were great, very similar to Josef K but more repetitive, funky and fun. I've always referred to their track "Animal in My Head" which was originally on the Crepuscule Fruit of the Original Sin compilation as the single greatest post-punk song ever. It's totally awesome, like a more accessible Josef K/Fire Engines/Pop Group but not twee like Orange Juice. Awesome.

Might have something to do with the rights. Is Nettwerk no longer involved?

I finally have some time, Ned. Your CDs will be in the mail shortly!

DVDs! Now that'll be cool. Word is that the Wake one is a Hacienda gig.

I can't wait to get the "Rotund" reissue, but I do hope they start poking backward in time after this reissue, instead of forward.

(and please, reissue with all the original Volition artwork... all due respect to S R Gilmore art on the Nettwerk releases.. please, use the original art for these.)

And I recall visiting James Nice in a Kafkaesque little house off the Cowgate in Edinburgh, and then at his flat in Brussels when he'd moved there to work with Crepuscule. Haven't seen him in yonks, though we share a Darla connection.

Anyway, pointless gossip...

James is always quite friendly whenever I talk to him on e-mail. He's a good sort and I'm really addicted to his label now, I honestly don't hate a thing on it, though some stuff I certainly play less than others.

James is a really nice man, son of the purser at Edinburgh College of Art and terribly organised and dapper. He's a fine example of... curation, knowledge, love, focus, persistence.

i'd assume this will be the case since Ellard is overseeing all the reissues.

James has been releasing some increasingly esoteric stuff -- which he's always had a bent for, of course, it's just that now he's really taking the plunge. I think part of it is that much though not all of the classic Factory back catalogue is now well and truly rereleased, so he's been busy bringing to light more material on Crepescule that's not as familiar, like Isabelle Antena, the spoken word Richard Jobson albums and even more obscure bits from the Tuxedomoon family tree. At the same time there's been the Sarah reactivation -- Field Mice, NPL, soon the Orchids -- and material from even further afield like Minimal Man and the Severed Heads reissues. To top it all of he's started a new sublabel called Salon which I guess is going to explore his concurrent passion for early twentieth century futurist and dadaist music, previously only showcased in three compilations. The first such effort focuses on a group of composers in France labelled "Les Six," who were associated with Cocteau and Satie. It's quite good, though my technical unfamiliarity with how they're approaching composition in their work can only offer general praise.

It's all been quite fascinating and I can't wait to see what happens next. Also, I STILL think he's got to do a Modern Eon reissue at some point if he can swing it!

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Meanwhile, in a 'holy fuck, how cool!' move -- he's rereleasing the first two Gina X albums!

Also this:

Spring 2005 will also bring new CD releases from A Certain Ratio (I'd Like To See You Again, Live in Groningen 16.10.1980), Tuxedomoon man Peter Principle (Conjunction) and Ultramarine (A User's Guide). After the summer expect the entire, expanded works of The Orchids plus a new one-off album from The Occasional Keepers, comprising Bobby Wratten of Field Mice/Northern Picture Library/Trembling Blue Stars, and Caesar of The Wake and Altered Images.

sweet holy jesus

Yeesh, there have been so many LTM releases I've wanted to buy over the years and I think I've only acquired four or five.

now in stock at LTM HQ are two new (sort of) CDs by cold wavers Tunnelvision, who recorded Fac 39 for Factory Records way back in 1980

some of you already own their "Guessing the Way" CD (LTMCD 2313), which we released way back in 1998, mixing demos and live tracks. At that time, we did not have access to all master tapes (some were then lost), and the rights to the Factory 7" single were in dispute.

since then much has changed, chiefly that the master tapes to both studio demos from 1980 and 1981 were discovered (thanks Peter Hook!), and the 7" is also available. LTM and TV therefore decided to remaster and reissue 2313, and the decided that it would be better still to split GTW into two expanded full length CDs.

so, we now have Watching the Hydroplanes (2409), which is essentially a studio CD with all the demo tracks (inc Hook mixes) and the Factory 7", in new artwork based on the excellent Fac 39 sleeve. and then we have Guessing the Way V2.0 (2313), which contains the complete Blackpool and Bristol shows, both New Order supports and both mastered from the original sound desk cassettes.

full details of both CDs can be fround from our updated News page on the website:
http://www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/ltmnews.html

you'll also see that we are carrying copies of the new Tunnelvision CD single, released this year

i hope that owners of the old version of 2313 are not too miffed, but interest in the band has grown steadily over the past decade, and we thought it would be best to give a more complete picture of the group, even though they only released one single first time round. hope you agree! as usual, you can order all 2/3 CDs from LTM by direct mailorder ahead of the store release dates

Yes, I'm still puzzling over the Northside reissue.

After the summer expect new CD releases from Gina X (Voyeur, Yinglish), Wim Mertens (The Belly of an Architect ost), Northside (Chicken Rhythms), Isabelle Antena (Best Of 1982-2005), Tuxedomoon man Peter Principle (all new album Idyllatry), Ultramarine (A User's Guide), Eric Random (double set Subliminal 1980-82), the entire, expanded works of The Orchids (Lyceum + Singles, Unholy Soul + Singles and Striving for the Lazy Perfection + Singles) and Erik Satie (Vexations).

Like to see them again? A Certain Ratio will be playing a few select UK dates over the summer. Catch the band at The Big Chill festival on 5 August 2005, London Cargo (Shoreditch) on 11 August, and Newcastle on 1 October. The London date will be ACR's first appearance in the capitol for two years and ticket sales are likely to be brisk. Book at www.muffjam.com

I gather that someone appeared on the BBC tv quiz programme Mastermind this week, answering questions on the Manchester music scene in their specialist round, with ACR, Blue Orchids, Northside and others appearing in the questions. Who was this brave soul? Does anyone have a tape?

Hot on the heels of Simon Reynold's superlative Rip It Up and Start Again book comes a less cerebral but no less fascinating tome from Martin Lilleker. Beats Working For A Living traces the history of the Sheffield music scene between 1973 and 1984, including excellent accounts of the genesis of groups including Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, Comsat Angels, Artery, Vice Versa (ABC), Pulp and a host of other lesser lights. No detail is spared, and Lilleker's large-format labour of love is to be loudly applauded. The book is published by Juma and comes with a free audio CD. Actually I purchased my copy from the producers of the rather wonderful Made In Sheffield film (Human League, Heaven 17, ABC, Cabaret Voltaire, Pulp and the birth of electronic pop) which is now available on DVD. I purchased the whole caboodle (book with CD/DVD/gratis poster) for just £34 including P&P, and urge everyone else to do the same. Check out the Made In Sheffield website at www.sheffieldvision.com for more details. Thanks Martin, thanks Eve.

(Side note, Jim -- when I ran into Architecture in Helsinki when they played in Glasgow, I said, "Yeah, I first heard of you guys when I was in Melbourne chatting with my friend Jim of Tugboat there," and they were all, "Yeah, Jim's great!" I think lead Lucksmiths dude also said something favorable -- he was handling the AiH merch table, having come up from London.)

At the Pressing Plant

Souvenirs from Egg Records - Bumper 27 track compilation of past, present and future releases. Samples and Track listing

Even As We Speak "A 3 minute song is 1 minute too long" early Australian singles collection CD - Mastered, working on sleeve

The Bats - "The Bats at the National Grid". New LP from Flying Nun legends.
In Production

The Widdershins "Good Songs" - retrospective including the "Ascension" Lp and singles. Mastered, Working on sleeve
In Planning

Remember Fun compilation CD - Remember Fun are rehearsing further to recording a new song or two!

The Bachelor Pad "on Egg" Cd - Working on track list

Lets Go Naked Compilation CD - early days, track listing decided, working on masters

The Lighthouse Keepers "Best of" CD - Track listing decided. Mastered, Working on sleeve

Riot of Colour Compilation CD - early days, working on track listing

Hopefully more from my Fav sounds from eighties Australia

If there any other old faces from the eighties indie pop world the

"my rising star" is an undeniable classic, but ...

I liked how Jim claimed hell would freeze over before that happened, so Satan must be skiing about now.

er. how about looking at ned's first post of 10/10/05? or maybe even, y'know, the title of the thread?

Okay, we all know the tragedy that Bachelor Pad are basically unreleased on CD (except for the unavailable Tales of Hoffmann and a couple of compiled tracks from your own label). It's cool that your doing an Egg-period cd. I'm wondering if the following is ever going to appear on cd:

1. The original Girl of You Dreams. Has anyone ever heard this without it being all crackly and warped sounding? (Didn't you have a hand in releasing it originally?)

2. The full seven song BBC concert, rather than the edited highlights that were on the ep.

3. The amazing unreleased stuff ("Excuses To Get High" etc).

4. Most importantly, The Warholasound stuff!!

Uhm speechless.

the occassional keepers album is kind of disappointing.

Umbrellas In The Sun - 23 rare clips from early Crepuscule and Factory videos including New Order, A Certain Ratio, Josef K, Section 25, Cabaret Voltaire, The Durutti Column, Crispy Ambulance, The Names, Marine, Berntholer and Antena. The definitive genre snapshot 1979-1987! 2 hours and 15 minutes.

... ah, found it. he warns that the durutti column track is not something new and exciting, but an existing track under another name.

i think he thought the rest of it was grate, then.

My Rising Star 12" mix
Moody Places 12" mix
Tour de World (live)
Yeah Man (live)
Who's to Blame (instrumental)
My Rising Star (instrumental)

grimly's post to mr egg was somewhat rude, i hope he doesn't get scared off.

The track listing is still undecided for various reasons .. however it will have the original version of "girl of your dreams" (from original tape) as released with my fanzine of the time "simply thrilled" (and others). Warhola singles maybe (anyone know the whereabouts of Mike Stout), rarities maybe. There is so many.

I have the 7 songs from the "frying tonight" concert will possibly release at some point maybe as a download "EP"... thats one of the reasons the track listing is still undecided, there too many options!

Remember Fun

I have "re-mastered" the original "train journey" etc demo, sounds fine, there seemed to a story around at the time of the matinee single that masters where lost - I had some (but not all). The guys are recording some new songs (original band) 'cos they wanted to.

Even As We Speak

Possibly rare/unreleased stuff, watch this space as they say but it all takes soooooo long.

I couldnt say why Oz labels are not interested (hey they know where I am if they want to help!)

I also have plans for releases from Lets Go Naked. Not as well known as EAWS/Lighthouse Keepers but excellent.

Thanks for the interest and yeah I found the "chicken rhythmn" reference, Its a long thread!

Jim

That right 17 tracks from the australian singles, 4 x 7" and the 12" on Phantom, Voyeur Records and BHP Records, 1986 - 1990

also charlottes and chesterfields reissues on cherry red.

Early in 2006 expect new CD releases from Wim Mertens (The Belly of an Architect ost), Antena (new album Toujours De Soleil), Lowlife (Permanent Sleep + Rain, Diminuendo + Singles, Eternity Road (compilation)), Erik Satie (Socrate), Northside (lost second album), Richard Jobson (The Ballad of Etiquette), Trembling Blue Stars (Her Handwriting, Lips That Taste of Tears), Francisco Casavola (Futur Lieder); Dislocation Dance (Music Music Music/Slip That Disc!, Midnight Shift), Benny Profane (Trap Door Swing/Dumb Luck Charm) and lots more besides.

Interesting mix of stuff! I've gotten the Devine and Statton reissues and am looking forward to hearing them (and will be reviewing 'em for the AMG).

(sorry)

(OK, I'm totally being an ass right now.. LTM is great.. I'm guessing the Northside thing is some nepotistic shit going down.. it's the only rational explanation.)

Anyway, it's still about wondering when Modern Eon might get reissued. Oh and the rest of those Severed Heads things.

What? Lost Northside album? I'll believe that when I see it.

So fackin' happy to see Lowlife in the spotlight again!!!

HOW have i managed to pass the last 22 years without hearing the almighty fucking genius that is "the only truth" by paul haig? since it first sashayed into my life at 6.30pm tonight, i've listened to it five times. what an almighty, almighty work of wonder: from edgy electro-funk to celestial sweetness in the space of seven glorious minutes, by way of amazing chic-style guitar and about 30 different melodic hooks. it is wonderful.

22 years! me and this song have a lot of catching up to do.

"The Only Truth" is indeed glorious.

The first single, Running Away/Back Home/Time is great.

Blue for You is great.

Never Give Up-Party Party is a bit silly, but great.

I like Big Blue World

Heaven Help You Now and Chance are great as well.

And the song Wild Horses on the Fruit of the Original Sin comp, totally classic. Like a funky demo version of Joy Division's Excersise One.

A second album is mentioned on the LTM site in the Northside biography. I have to warn you that one of the tracks, a proposed single with Fac no. ready and allocated, was called Want A Virgin (Cool Idea).

I saw Northside play a gig a few years after their chart fame. It wasn't very good and they didn't play any unheard material.

Amazon makes the whole affair confusing...man I feel for you. Can't you special order it through Darla if all else fails?

The _Shadowplayers_ documentary -- attention Factory/Joy Division/New Order/Manchester fiends!

what about hermine? or those under review dvds that are coming out on the smiths and joy division.

Due for release next month.

or those under review dvds that are coming out on the smiths and joy division.

Apparently still under review...

How is the Aberdeen CD?

Over the next few months expect new CD releases from Virna Lindt (Shiver; Play/Record), cult compilation A Young Person's Guide to Compact, Steven Brown (Brown Plays Tenco), Section 25 (new studio album, and live DVD), Erik Satie (Cubist Works), art and architecture set Bauhaus Reviewed, Blaine L Reininger (Elektra/Radio Moscow soundtracks), Wyndham Lewis (The Enemy Speaks) and lots more besides.

I went through quite a bit of trouble to get my copy (in fact it was only because I happened to know someone), though thankfully not nearly the high price I would have paid if I'd even managed to get it on ebay, where I (painfully) lost an auction for it. Mine says Crepuscule on it, it was the one with the Martin Hannett track. I know there was another version but I didn't want that.

http://home.wxs.nl/~frankbri/cremain1.html

The only one I saw with my own eyes was I think the (shortened) Belgium CD from '89. I taped it from the radio station long ago and eventually the tape broke and I was very unhappy, but even that one didn't have the Martin Hannett. So anyway, suffice to say it's been a mighty long road for me with this album, and even the cassette release I have now has bad sound in some places so I'll be happy to get the LTM one anyway.

is this really wise, i wonder?

i sincerely hope so.

But I still have hopes...

thing is (rambling grimly nonsense alert): although they are probably my favourite band of all time ever, a bit of that is personal (the blackpool connection, the jenny connection) and a little part is down to the notion that, all in all, they were this wonderfully heroic failure, and i adore that about them.

i mean, almost every note they ever played resonates within my heart yadda yadda but a few key tracks aside (anyone who doesn't bow down and weep at the majesty of the hilltop megamix needs shot) i wouldn't expect many people to ... i dunno, "get" them. and that's not because they're some wonderfully obscure, "difficult" band that you have to be "clever" to like; it's simply because i know that what they did isn't to most people's tastes.

and while i hear "love and hate" and think, oh, the melodies, the heartbreak, the fatal lack of production, if only factory had invested in them, if only the band had pushed harder, mrs fiendish hears it and says: "it sounds really weedy". and she's right too. it's just i hear past that :)

there was a magic about them that i genuinely find intangible. they were far, far greater than they ever knew, and fuck knows how or why. i think any attempt to recapture that might end in abject failure.

but yes, i too still have VAST hopes ...

Some of it is, yeah, the Jez & Vini (Reilly) track "Sleep Will Come" is gorgeous (although he bills it as Durutti Column here), the Thomas Dolby Airwaves version is good too and unavailable elsewhere, the Kevin Hewick/New Order song kicks ass, and I recall the Bill Nelson being good too, but to be honest I'm looking forward to hearing the whole thing properly in its entirety. There's just so many cool people on this thing. I will say though that the Martin Hannett track didn't strike me as good as the two he did for the flexi that came with The Return of The Durutti Column (which are also on the CD of that).

Oh, fuck yes. Great record, great band, great fun.

Now if only they'd start a NDW subset and get the Neonbabies records reissued. . .

The only difference between the re-issue and the original From Brussels with Love is that the re-issue leaves out an ACR track. I suppose due to copyright. It doesn't matter that much though since you can get the missing cut quite easily on the Soul Jazz CD's.

LTM release an interesting synth-pop album in April: Future Conditional - We Don't Just Disappear

LTM is pleased to present the debut album by Future Conditional, the all-new electro-pop project from Piano Magic mainstays Glen Johnson and Cedric Pin.
Drawing inspiration from classic analog synth-pop by the likes of New Order, Kraftwerk, OMD and Section 25, the album updates the retro-futurist mix with a stellar selection of guest vocalists, including Melanie Pain (Nouvelle Vague), Bobby Wratten (Field Mice/Trembling Blue Stars), Angele David-Guillou (Klima/Piano Magic), Carolyn Allen (The Wake) and Dan Matz (Windsor for the Derby). The 10-track album was produced by Glen and Cedric in 2006. Standout tracks include Switchboard Girl (sung by Melanie), Broken Robots (sung by Angele) and the title track, featuring Bobby.

"Future Conditional isn't just an exercise in nostalgia. We are, in some way paying homage to the groups we love and inspire us, but we're also experimenting with the glacial electro/human emotional interface. The future is a robot with a human heart." (Glen Johnson)
DUE OUT: APRIL 2 2007.

listen on myspace: Future Conditional

There's a new French Impressionist CD coming. I really want to hear that. I just heard the Adventure Babies LP, "Laugh." I think it was one of the last things Factory put out before the label went into receivership. I knew nothing about the band and my expectations were quite low since the later Factory stuff can be quite dodgy, but I was pleasantly surprised. The record's a well produced slice of catchy, quirky folk-pop. There's nothing on there ground breaking, paradigm-shifting, or particularly innovative, just solid performances. I can see now why it was ignored since it's a record that sounds completely out-of-character for Factory. I hope LTM re-issues someday. If they can revive Northside, then why not these guys.

That Virna Lindt album is pretty amazing.

Hehe, I was literally just about to revive this thread to talk about the Lindt stuff -- there's two albums, plus the Compact label comp, which came in the mail the other day.

According to the news page, the Severed Heads best-of and the Fruit of the Original Sin comp should be out shortly, as is the new Section 25 DVD, while this is upcoming:

After the summer expect new CD releases from Gavin Bryars (Hommages), cult compilations Ghosts of Christmas Past and B9, new studio albums from Gnac, Hermine and The French Impressionists, a Digital Dance retrospective, an Isabelle Antena DVD and lots more besides.

I've never heard any Compact Organization stuff. I always was under the impression they were at bit like El. If that's the case I'll probably like it.

It's definitely got a bit of that feeling but less...hmm, what is the word? Less self-limiting, maybe? It's good, in any event!

Damn this _Fruit From The Original Sin_ compilation is stellar. Absolutely gorgeous performance of "Clair De Lune". I must get more 20th century minimal piano stuff!

They're also reissuing the _Ghosts Of Christmas Past_ compilation. The only issue is I'm Jewish, I don't buy Christmas albums! Should I make an exception for this one?

From Darla.com):
v/a - GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST CD (LTM (UK): LTM2426: 5024545473421) $14.99

COMING 11/19/2007
EXCLUSIVE. 22 tracks. LTM is proud to announce the first complete CD release of the classic compilation album Ghosts of Christmas Past, first released on chic Belgian indie label Les Disques du Crepuscule in 1981. Originally released as on 2 December 1981, Ghosts of Christmas Past (Chantons Noel) featured 13 exclusive festive tracks from the international avant garde and new wave, as well as the celebrated Factory Records and Postcard rosters. Then, as now, the contributing artists include The Durutti Column, Aztec Camera, Paul Haig, Tuxedomoon, Wim Mertens, Cabaret Voltaire, Michael Nyman, The Names, Thick Pigeon and Simon Topping of A Certain Ratio. The original album now features nine bonus tracks drawn from later editions of the album released between 1982 and 1986. These include seasonal contributions from The Pale Fountains, Antena, The French Impressionists, Winston Tong and The Arcadians (aka French pop polymath Louis Philippe), as well as extra tracks from Paul Haig and The Durutti Column. The booklet features original artwork by Benoit Hennebert and Jean-François Octave, as well as a facsimile of the insert featuring Christmas postcards, and detailed liner notes. The original ‘bauble’ cover art by Hennebert is widely recognised as one of his finest designs. This new CD edition has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes, and features 74 minutes of material. Most of the featured tracks remain unavailable elsewhere. The CD follows on the great success of our 2006 re-release of the 1980 Crepuscule compilation From Brussels With Love.

Was always confused about various editions with different covers and slightly different tracklisting.

Do you have the Cabaret Voltaire comp 8 Crepuscule Tracks? Because if you don't, then one extra special reason to buy this is their contribution, Invocatioin, which is truly one of the most haunting and beautiful pieces the Cabs ever recorded.

My younger, less enlightened self sold that Cabaret Voltaire compilation. I suppose I'll have to let a little Christmas into my house...

That Xmas comp seems great. All those Crepuscule comps are actually worth getting actually. I've been listening heavily to their 'Hommage à Duras' comp lately.

Digital Dance are coming!
First Bimble finally gets his arse together enough to post a DD track on his blog:
http://windyweather-bimble.blogspot.com/

Then Bimble finds that a mere 3 days later, LTM has announced the Digital Dance CD at last!:
http://www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/ltmnews.html

Also relevant is this thread.

Has anyone heard this yet, B9 Bis"Belgian Cold Wave 1979 - 1983"
http://www.discogs.com/release/1113348

I have it, I've been slack on listening to it. Also need to hear the Christmas album reissue.

i boiught it a couple of weeks ago and just listened to it yesterday. really enjoyed it despite the severe lo fi ness of some of the recordings. quality sleeve notes too.

bought!

I might check this out, although I already have a few Belgian new wave comps that I rarely bother listening to. The only great thing I discovered from these is the amazing Jo Lemaire.

Invocatioin, which is truly one of the most haunting and beautiful pieces the Cabs ever recorded

OTM

I'm sooo frustrated, saw some amazing Durutti Column CDs and went to iTunes to see if I could download them, because I noticed huge chunks of the LTM catalog are on iTunes plus now, but couldn't find them. Went back to the LTM site to discover it's due out in February 08!

I was *wondering* when someone would reissue Circuses and Bread. Held on to my original CD issue all these years.

No Bene Gesserit, no credibility.

reissue Circuses and Bread

*joy*

I have Circuses and Bread on vinyl, though the bonus cuts look great, but it's that Lips That Would Kiss reissue that's really got me excited, I have the Lips That Would Kiss 12", but not the other stuff being tacked on, looks like a fun comp. I think it includes the DC tracks from Fruit of the Original Sin.

On first listen, the B9 comp didn't thrill me much aside from Rel Rex (which sounded kinda like Dead Kennedys to me) and Allez Allez. I tried it a second time and the first couple tracks sounded better, so hell if I know.

I never took the slightest interest in Circuses & Bread oddly enough...the track(s) on the Valuable Passages comp turned me off to the idea of owning that one.

There used to be a comp. called Lips That Would Kiss that had a whole bunch of previously unreleased tracks on it, and then it got really hard to find. I'm not sure how much the LTM reissue duplicates that comp, though.

LTWK reissue is exactly the same as the original Crepuscule issue from around 1991/2.

About half of it is unreleased now. For example 'Take Some Time Out' is available on the Sporadic Recordings and also the Return of The Sporadic Recordings, as 'We Stumble'. 'Danny' and 'Enigma' are on the Factory Too CD of LC, 'All That Love and Maths Can Do' and 'The Sea Wall' are on Without Mercy, 'Madeleine' and 'Lips That Would Kiss' are on 'Return Of'. Danny and LTWK are also on Greatest Hits, 'Piece for An Ideal' is on From Brussels with Love, and 'Experiment in Fifth' is on The Fruit Of Original Sin.

any word on that gnac/mark tranmer + female vocalists album that was mooted?

(and what vocalists would you suggest?)

i'd suggest quigley, but he's not particularly female

So I got the new _Ghosts Of Christmas Past_ reissue but it seems sometimes LTM can't get the rights to everything they'd like or they have to trim the tracklisting to keep it on one disc. I like to rebuild missing tracks when I load it on my MP3 player, hence I added the Orange Juice track back onto my rip of _The Fruit Of The Original Sin_. Anyone have rips of the following tracks:

WIM MERTENS For Christmas Only
MIKADO - Un Noel Ensoleille (from the 1982 cassette)
MONKS IN THE SNOW - A Tune For That Special Evening (from the 1988 CD)

Also looking for:
KAREL GOEYVAERTS - Ach Golgotha (from Japanese _From Brussels With Love_ LP)
RICHARD JOBSON & TUXEDOMOON - Orphee (as above)

I have the original Crepuscule release, and I'm afraid none of those appear. Sorry. Which Orange Juice track is it?

There was an Orange Juice track on Fruits of the Original Sin, "Three Cheers for Our Side." I don't remember any Orange Juice Tracks on Ghost of Christmas Past.

Right, that's what I said. That Orange Juice track (an early version of that song) is the only thing LTM couldn't get the rights for for _Fruit_. It seems they were less successful with _Ghosts_ as the Cabaret Voltaire track was left off.

I feel I must d/l the Orange Juice track.

i'd like a tranmer / ian masters thing that was widely available. like winged disk only available.

yes ... but ... that's not ladies, is it?

Wait...Ian Masters. Please explain what you are talking about. I haven't followed him for years. Thanks.

anything new in the works for LTM?

a buncha durutti reissues
section 25 best of
another occasional keepers cd (although the first one was deathly dull)
more crepuscule comps
i assume there must be more severed heads stuff on the way

Doubtless (and the Durutti reissues are great).

i wonder if there will ever be a follow up to shadowplayers

Wouldn't it be nice. But without Mr. Wilson, sadly.

time to get moving on those blueboy and another sunny day reissues!

would be nice.. i'd just be happy for the blueboy singles to join their album counterparts on emusic.

though ned at least some of the interviewing may already have been done? hmmm..

Perhaps...

i like that they're releasing new stuff too, like future conditional... i hope they continue with that.

a buncha durutti reissues
...
more crepuscule comps

details plz

If LTM ever get the rights to reissue the albums that were put out on Factory Once, with original artwork, I will be a happy man (and that much closer to a complete collection of Factory albums). Especially LC and Without Mercy- never understood why those two, and only those two, went OOP so fast...

did you mean more durutti reissues beyond the four they've just released?

deets here:

http://home.planet.nl/~frankbri/index.html

i must have been lucky with LC, i managed to find it relatively easily.. i also just managed to get a hold of the sordide sentimentale 45 for sod all because it was missing the magazine. yay!

i am v v happy that the circ & bread reissue has the lindsay song on it

time was gigantic is hard to find these days as well, but nothing like without mercy, which never even seems to pop up for sale at any price.

the reissued CD, i mean. the vinyl is legion.

I wanna see the "Hommage to Duras" crépuscule comp get reissued!

Actually so do I, that last Dislocation Dance track was a real beaut.

Does somebody have that Richard Jobson collection?

Apparently this one is in the works:

TWI 643 VARIOUS ARTISTS Crepuscule Collection 1 Jan 86
The Quick Neat Job

LP: BE 1986 (Crepuscule TWI 643)
LP: UK 1986 (Operation Afterglow OPA 008)
LP: JP 1986 (Crepuscule Au Japon/Victor JVC VIL-28048)
CAS: BE 1986 (Crepuscule TWIC 643) *

3:10 BE MUSIC - Theme
6:29 CHEYNE - Call Me Mr. Telephone
7:05 PAUL HAIG - The Only Truth
4:34 KID MONTANA - Love May Be Blind
5:46 JAMES CUTS - Sexify You *
5:07 THE EXECUTIONER - Theme *
3:40 PLEASURE GROUND - Life Of Jade
4:28 ANNA DOMINO - Sixteen Tons
3:17 THE WAYFARERS - Arabesque
3:46 PLEASURE GROUND - Wait
6:50 PAUL HAIG - Big Blue World
4:04 BLAINE L. REININGER - Mystery And Confusion

I could be wrong, but I think this would be the first CD appearance of the Wayfarers.

The Quick Neat Job was one in a series, I think of 3? I have 2 of them. They have great movie poster style sleeves.

eee

I've loved all the Crepuscule comps so far, this looks promising. I assume Be Music is referring to some combination of New Order members here?

this is odd:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51v%2BOxn2mHL._SS500_.jpg
the reissued Moving Soundtracks

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-247467-1082726853.gif
the original Moving Soundtracks

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-211389-1184860671.jpeg
the original Crepuscule Compilation 2

Hopefully the image Amazon has for the reissue is just a placeholder, otherwise that's kind of a weird and arbitrary change to make...

er, never mind, looks like Discogs doesn't like me deep-linking images. Just suffice to say that the reissue cover is the original cover from Crepuscule Compilation 2.

Alright well I'm totally confused. I had a Crepuscule comp on vinyl (can't remember if I still have it, don't really care) called State of Excitement that had the same sleeve as that. So my question is what the hell is "Moving Soundtracks"?

Moving Soundtracks is another Crepuscule comp consisting of Crepuscule artists covering film music. LTM are reissuing it soon. The full title of the comp you have is Crepuscule Collection 2: State of Excitement- there were four in the series, and it looks like LTM have begun to reissue them as well.

Okay I have totally flipped over this Durutti Column "Lips That Would Kiss" thing. The tracks here I have not heard before are fucking ace, and there's plenty of them, especially since I was not lucky enough to own the original release.

In the meantime I was delighted to read that LTM is releasing a DVD of the Factory night they had back in December at Plan K in Belgium w/Crispy Ambulance, Section 25 and Peter Hook, etc.

8 tracks. NTSC Region 0. LTM is pleased to present a DVD souvenir of A Factory Night (Once Again), the memorable live event staged at Plan K in Brussels in 15 December 2007 featuring live performances by Section 25, Crispy Ambulance, The Names, Kevin Hewick and Peter Hook. Shot in High Definition with five cameras and a digital stereo soundtrack, the live section of the DVD features 2 hours of in-concert highlights (28 tracks) from all four bands, as well as the encore of the New Order classic Temptation by Section 25 and Peter Hook. Bonus features on the NTSC format Region 0 DVD include poster and photo galleries, as well as a rare 1981 television interview with Annik Honore exploring the early history of Plan K, Factory Benelux and Les Disques du Crepuscule. The 2007 event marked a return of these several original Factory Records artists to the legendary Plan K venue in Brussels after a gap of more than 25 years, during which the venue (a former sugar refinery) had ceased staging live gigs. The event was also a tribute to the late Anthony H. Wilson, the Factory founder who died a few months earlier.

That's from the Darla website. I read on another site this was coming out as soon as March 31, even if LTM site says "later this year".

Also, though few would likely care, but I've gone back to posting obscure post-punk records on my blog.

http://windyweather-bimble.blogspot.com/

does jim k still post? i want to know if he ever got my email suggesting rabbits wedding reissues

LTM is keeping my compilation jones in check with these tasty treats:

Various Artists - Auteur Labels: New Hormones (LTMCD 2492) | due out July 7 2008
Various Artists - Auteur Labels: Les Disques Du Crepuscule (LTMCD 2517) | due out July 7 2008
Various Artists - Auteur Labels: Factory Benelux (LTMCD 2521) | due out July 7 2008

I wonder what other labels will get a similar treatment!

Here's a site where you can hear the Decorators 7" from the New Hormones one. I've got the second Decorators 7" but wasn't really considering it for my blog because I don't remember it being very good. Maybe I should reconsider, though.

I hope they do something on the Object label.

Hell yeah, but I'm not holding my breath! ;)

I just noticed that Durutti's "Piece For An Ideal" on the _From Brussels With Love_ reissue is actually "Experiment In Filth", Vini's contribution to _Fruit Of The Original Sin_!

Well I took a comparative listen and indeed you are correct. I also went back to my original cassette copy of the From Brussels With Love compilation (must be very careful with it...it's old and fragile) and I can confirm that the flub was not made there, that indeed the song you hear on the original cassette is "Piece For An Ideal", a song with which I am much less familiar than the tried-and-true "Experiment in Fifth".

Although your typo led us to believe there might be a song actually called "Experiment in Filth", which I imagine was (or should have been) the name of an album by some great industrial band circa 1987 who were influenced by the Swans.

But we all know that the Kevin Hewick/New Order song "Haystack" is absolutely one of the top 10 heavenly musical moments on earth, right?
Has this not been confirmed yet? I must have heard it over ten years ago and I never tire of it.

Also I never actually owned Fruit of The Original Sin. I think I taped a couple songs off it from the radio station I DJ'd at but I can't remember what tape I put them on which is weird cause normally I can pretty easily remember that kind of thing.

Bimble, thanks for cluing me into the Decorators. To me, they were nothing more than an obscure, but intriguing entry in an old Rough Trade catalog. (I wish I'd kept those ancient Rough Trade and Wax Trax booklets....sigh.) Anyway, I hadn't heard any of their records until now. It turns out they're pretty good, and according to their discography, there's more out there. If there's ever a LTM re-issue, I'd snap it up. Good stuff that has really grown on me.

You're welcome, leavethecapital! I tried to email you recently through the ILX email system, did you get it?

Revive!

I just bought the "A Factory Night (Once Again)" DVD thing, of which you can see slices of brilliance on You Tube:

right???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imNqRZTr67A

I just want Crispy Ambulance to play at my funeral. I want them to be playing live in heaven when I die. Thanks.

Also I have no idea if this clip is from the actual DVD or not. And I don't care. After all, it won't come to me in the post until early next week.

Anyone have any opinions on the new Auteur comps? I'm sorry to say I didn't feel inspired to buy any of them from the tracklistings. Been there done that.

Grimly Fiendish! Are you out there? Have you seen the Section 25 bits on this DVD yet?? Any thoughts??

Same Crispy Ambulance song, better sound quality/performance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE_pa9r__9Q&

I still can't believe I didn't go to that Factory Night...

dude. i was going to fly across specially for it and didn't. we all should have tried harder. (though, admittedly, you have less excuse than me.)

bimble! i could sense your presence, calling me. NO, i've not seen ANY of this yet, and i MUST. i'll have a look at the clips, then buy the fucker.

I KNOW!!!! I was going to fucking fly over there for it too!!!!!
But when I found out about it, it was too late to get a fucking passport and there was this huge delay at the time to get passports here. Which I've already lamented at length on You Tube, but never mind.

Good to hear from you, Grimly!

Also here is an amazing fanzine that every Factory Records fan must have. The pictures of Tony Wilson alone are to die for, let alone everything else in the damn thing.

OK, guys:

Section 25 and Peter Hook of Joy Division/New Order have announced the first of a series of joint live concerts, at the Ancienne Belgique venue in Brussels (Belgium) on Friday 7 November 2008. Further dates in France and Germany will be confirmed shortly. Their combined set will include highlights from the combined catalogues of Joy Division, Section 25, New Order and Monaco, as well as a sprinkling of new material. Songs will include Transmission, Temptation, Looking From A Hilltop, Shadowplay, Dreams Never End, What Do You Want From Me?, Dirty Disco, Love Will Tear Us Apart and Blue Monday. Section 25 will also perform a separate opening set. Section 25 and Peter first gigged together in 1979, during the heyday of Factory Records, when Section 25 often supported Joy Division in London and the North-West. After a gap of two decades, Section 25 again performed as guests of New Order in Blackpool in October 2006, while Peter performed the classic Temptation with SXXV at A Factory Night (Once Again), the sold-out live event staged at Plan K in Brussels on 15 December 2007. "I'm scared to death, but it'll be great to do a full gig. I've missed playing too much!" (Peter Hook); "It's a privilege to perform these songs with Hooky and the band. There will be power and passion" (Larry and Vin Cassidy)

we should do this.

although ...

and Monaco

er. thanks, peter.

hah - yeah, lol

I watched the Factory Night DVD this weekend and it just threw me into a whole Crispy-fandom frenzy all over again. They are still, STILL some of my fave music ever in the whole world and my second or third fave band in the world. And what kills me the most right now is "Lucifer Rising". That song has a life that just keeps on living and giving, and it never dies.

The Section 25 stuff on that DVD is great, too, though, don't get me wrong. And when Peter Hook plays Temptation with them and dedicates it to "Tony Wilson, Ian Curtis & Martin Hannet" I just absolutely died.

Does anyone know if Peter Hook also played with Section 25 on their separate DVD on LTM? I played a song yesterday where I thought it sounded like him on that, but I could be wrong. I'll have to check the credits closely when I get home.

I hope they do something on the Object label.

-- leavethecapital, Monday, 7 April 2008 22:52 (4 months ago) Link

Hell yeah, but I'm not holding my breath! ;)

-- Bimble, Monday, 7 April 2008 23:38 (4 months ago) Link

I am completely surprised and delighted to learn that LTM are releasing not only a compilation of stuff on Object music, but all the Spherical Objects albums AND the Noyes Brothers double album. Wow, I thought I'd never see the day and I adore that stuff, which is why I paid so much money to get these albums on vinyl. The Object music comp even has a Steve Solamar solo track I don't have!

http://www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/sphericalobjectscat.html

And indeed the Object material is a treat. Reviewed some of it for the AMG already, more forthcoming.

They're also rereleasing more of the 23 Skidoo catalog (Seven Songs, Urban Gamelan and a new career retrospective comp) and there's a brief note on the news page saying "In early 2009 expect archive sets from Bernard Szajner and Isolation Ward, and lots more besides."

The Auteur Labels Object comp looks like the best of the lot so far. And people will finally be able to hear the Manchester Mekon song ("Cake Shop Device") that provided the progression that would become "Love Will Tear Us Apart." I believe Joy Division even asked for permission....

Anyone heard the new Gnac/Tranmer?

there's a without mercy reissue cd on ebay right now...

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200280635803

auteur labels comp of factory stuff looks pretty good, though nothing much new to me on there

new sxxv and wake albums this year!!

factory auteur labels tracklist

01 MARCEL KING Reach For Love (New York Remix)
02 NEW ORDER Lonesome Tonight (7" Edit)
03 THE WAKE Talk About The Past (7" Edit)
04 SECTION 25 Reflection
05 52ND STREET Can't Afford To Let You Go (Unorganised Mix)
06 QUANDO QUANGO Atom Rock (7" Edit)
07 RED TURNS TO Deep Sleep
08 SHARK VEGAS Pretenders Of Love
09 THICK PIGEON Hank
10 STOCKHOLM MONSTERS Terror
11 THE DURUTTI COLUMN Duet
12 KALIMA The Smiling Hour
13 SIMON TOPPING Chicas Del Mundo
14 ABECEDARIANS Smiling Monarchs
15 STREETLIFE No More Silence
16 LAVOLTA LAKOTA A Prayer

'thick pigeon' is a TERRIBLE band name!

verrrrrrrrrry interested to see LTM've put out bernard szajner's some deaths take forever, which i downloaded a while back on the strength of the amazing synth vs guitar epic 'welcome to deathrow'.

yeah bernard szajner is pretty goddamn cool from what I heard on that compilation or other.

'thick pigeon' is a TERRIBLY FANTASTIC band name!

Nothing new on that collection but good to see "Terror" get a run instead of the usual couple of singles that get stuck on these things to represent Stockholm Monsters.

haha i was going to complain about terror being comped for the umpteenth time

Smiling Monarchs is the best thing happening, there. I won't buy it, though.

Wot? It's usually "Happy Ever After" or "Partyline", innit? (xpost)

true.. tho when the reissues came out terror was on both ltm and darla comps at the time

i like smiling monarchs but deep sleep is far and away the lost classic here

the b-sides of that amazing 12" are just as good as the a-side

Yeah, it's nice, I put that 12" on my blog long ago, but Smiling Monarchs is better I think.

I'd consider that comp just for the new (to me) Shark Vegas track, but first I need to hear it and see if it is anywhere near as amazing as "You Hurt Me."

I've never been all that happy with Shark Vegas. Sometimes obscure Factory stuff...is just obscure Factory stuff :)

Thick Pigeon put out a fantastic first album, but I'm kinda past it now. I'd love it if folks heard them who hadn't heard them before, though.

I'm more interested in this Bernard Szajner thing. "Welcome to Deathrow" was the song I heard, too, off So Young So Cold, and I was surprised how modern sounding it was. I didn't even believe it was recorded back in the post punk days. So he has a whole CD out now??? Must investigate.

Also was far more impressed with Delmontes lately than I thought I'd be. I want that CD, too.

Playing Abecedarians' Smiling Monarchs now. Don't miss this one, kids. Fucking fantastic track.

Shark Vegas "You Hurt Me" is quality though. So I'd like to hear "Pretenders Of Love"

wow. red turns to on CD...

I love the Red Turns To 12 inch. I wish there was more.

the RTT track was comped once before, on a factory retrospective cd that london put out called different colours different shades or something like that.. it also had a vinyl-sourced version of the abecedarians track which sounded like shit (lazy on their part because the masters still exist(ed))

seems RTT recently played a reformation gig and are potentially releasing more stuff.. http://www.myspace.com/redturnsto

the full deep sleep ep is up on itunes now too

I really like that "Holding Angels" song. I'm guessing that's a new one. I was amused at the trivia concerning the record itself. It's nice to know one of my records is really valuable, too.

Bimble now that it is on itunes, you should remove it from your blog so the band can make some money to record some new stuff.

Good point. Shall do forthwith.

ooh thx for reminding me, off to buy it now

I cannot believe what you have to go through now to order from Darla. You used to be able to pick what you wanted and give your info and go. Now they want a whole bunch of rigamarole. Section 25 and Robin Guthrie/John Foxx, I hope you're fucking happy at the shit I went through to order your goddamn CD's. I could have had them from soulseek in a couple of clicks! What a crock of shit.

Blurt's debut and early singles get compiled by the ever vigilant Mr. Nice in November.

i note there is also an IPR auteur labels series coming soon

it better come in a letterpress sleeve ^_^

looks like the other two stuff is being reissued too

still wondering when the new wake album is coming out

coming up from LTM...

a trip to LA!

http://acuterecords.com/blog/?p=169

James Nice is one of the DJs at the festival (I am another), and there's going to be a pre-part saturday at the Standard roof pool with bands signing things and more DJing. Info here:

http://www.parttimepunks.com/

oh man that PTP festival will kick ass for sure. major jealousy.

Oh I didn't even know about the San Francisco mini festival the day before, gonna order my tickets right now.

Lasts to 3AM? I hope Section 25 plays early, leaving after them.

the other two reissues out 25/1/10

also:
A full lenght bonus disc featuring rare mixes and unreleased tracks by The Other Two is available only to LTM Mailorder customers who buy The Other Two & You and Super Highways together.

can i confess i was actually unaware there was a second TOT album

LTM's IPR compilation looks like a good one

ndependent project records
auteur labels series
LTMCD 2544 (£10)

The ongoing compilation series Auteur Labels profiles independent record labels with a unique and enduring sound, vision and design sensibility, usually guided by one or two directors, and concerned more with art than commerce. To order CDs click here.

...

'Outstanding compilations, sophisticated scholarship' (The Wire, 08/2008)

Full tracklist:
1. SAVAGE REPUBLIC the ivory coast
2. HUMAN HANDS dilemmas
3. PARTY BOYS jim jones
4. TEN FOOT FACES don't want love
5. CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN take the skinheads bowling
6. FOR AGAINST shine
7. DECEPTION BAY fence and flag
8. ABECEDARIANS benway's carnival
9. SAVAGE REPUBLIC o andonis
10. WOO down town suburbia
11. INDIAN BINGO separation days
12. RED TEMPLE SPIRITS new land
13. AUTUMNFAIR so far from god
14. FOURWAYCROSS halloween
15. HALF STRING eclipse
16. TONE the power of introspection
17. ALISONS HALO dozen
18. SCENIC sage
19. JEFFREY CLARK exploded view
20. SPRINGHOUSE moving van
21. BRUCE LICHER life begets a reprise
22. PROJECT 197 nine
23. BRIDGE underground, part 4 + bridge

AUTEUR LABEL: INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS

If you've never witnessed a 50-year-old Vandercook No. 232 Proof Press working at full-on, finger-crushing capacity, then you've never heard a noise like this: SKREE CHUNK KA-CHANK SKREE CHUNK KA-CHANK SKREE CHUNK KA-CHANK. And you've never seen the primitive, industrial sensuality of rollers, bearings, plates, wheels and belts moving in greased tandem to produce a single sheet of letterpressed paper. In today's cold world of computers, watching an anachronistic contraption like the Vandercook is damned near erotic. Still, it's hard to imagine that a machine so - well, so mechanical - could act as an artist's palette; for Bruce Licher - graphic designer, printer, musician, record label entrepreneur - that is exactly the case.

Last night I had skinheads on my lawn.

IPR was an incredible label in every sense and i'm so happy LTM has done this compilation

Of those I'm only familiar with Savage Republic, Human Hands & CVB. Those are all good though so I'll be interested to hear the other stuff.

off the top of my head... for against are in my top 5 groups of all-time. half string did good dreampop/shoegaze stuff. scenic are post-savage republic instrumental dreamy post-rock. alison's halo also great shoegaze.

i have fourwaycross, autumnfair and deception bay records but i'm not as familiar with them. all fairly heavily in debt to the 4AD/factory side of things but well done all the same

I haven't heard about anything new coming up. Anyone have the scoop?

there's usually a bit of advance notice here: http://home.wxs.nl/~frankbri/

"Due out Fall 2011: new albums from The Wake and Section 25, and an archive live CD/DVD set from Minny Pops. "

curious to see what sxxv without larry will be like

there's a live Minny Pops album/dvd out. i think they're doing a one-off show soon to promote it..

also:
"Over the next few months expect albums from The Wake and X-O-Dus, and a double vinyl edition of From the Hip by Section 25. "

i think this wake album is starting to enter 'loveless remaster' territories

Yeah, they're playing next week in London (Minny Pops). I'm thinking about it, a bit skint at the moment though.

ltm now releasing stuff as factory / factory benelux now i see

lovely to have short stories for pauline as a proper release finally

sure, why not?

SORRY FOR LAUGHING + THE TV ART DEMOS LTMLP 2549 £20.00
The first ever vinyl release of Sorry For Laughing, the legendary first album by cult Scottish guitar group Josef K, recorded for Postcard Records but destined to become the great 'lost album' of the post-punk era. Recorded at Castle Sound Studios (Edinburgh) in November 1980, Sorry For Laughing should have been issued as Postcard 81-1, but was shelved after the band and label boss Alan Horne decided the 12-song set sounded too polished. Perhaps two dozen white-label copies in unmade sleeves exist, and have sold for as much as £1,000 amongst collectors. This remastered vinyl-only edition replicates the original Robert Sharp artwork, with detailed sleeve notes on the inner bag and the added bonus of a 12 track CD, The TV Art Demos, featuring all tracks from the band's very first recording sessions in 1979. Full tracklist: (LP) Fun 'n' Frenzy, Heads Watch, Drone, Sense of Guilt, Art of Things, Crazy to Exist, Citizens, Variation of Scene, Terry's Show Lies, No Glory, Endless Soul, Sorry For Laughing; (CD) Chance Meeting (take #1), Terry's Show Lies, No Glory, Final Request, Art of Things, Romance (take #1), Torn Mentor, Night Ritual, Heads Watch, Chance Meeting (take #2), Sense of Guilt, Romance (take #2)

Reviews: "They were The Sound of Young Scotland, together with Orange Juice, whose guitars were also radiant and brittle, whose rhythms were also scrubbed and blunt, whose vocals were also proud and serious, but who sounded like another group entirely" (Paul Morley); "In retrospect, their aborted attempt at a debut album feels much superior to what was finally released. The early versions of the songs sound superbly coiled and keen, the sublime poise of Endless Soul their truly timeless blaze of glory" (Simon Reynolds)

Oh shit, they just reissued the Deux Filles albums (and also put them on Spotify)! The first one, Silence & Wisdom is one of the greatest um...ambient isn't the right word, and the songs are too short to be soundtracks or whatever. It's a weird thing unto itself, featuring two guys pretending to be two girls and making little fuzzy organic sound things in an attic. The only record I can think of off the top of my head that's kind of like it in spirit is "The Yellow Box" by Peter Gordon and David Cunningham (which is probably even less well known, so not a useful reference). 2nd album, Double Happiness, has this really creepy recording of insane woman ranting that still freaks me out a bit. Can't recommend this highly enough.

Yeah, strange/fun little release, that was an unexpected thing to see in my inbox.