Essential Logic

i do have caveats with the reissue though, the completist in my mumbling to myself about missing songs etc, which i would rather have had instead of the post-krishna logic.

What's left to release now from 78-81? EVERYTHING seems to be available again. In fact it feels like the first time for some of the Factory stuff that LTM is churning out, because you could never bloody find it back in the day! Justin is OTM about Delta 5, although See The Whirl is a little arid for me. Mind Yr Own Business of course is fantastic.

Return of The Giant Slits?

(where were you at the crispy ambulance/biting tongues reunion on thursday at the ica?)

Crispys/B.Tongues - I SHOULD have gone, I WAS going... b-but despite friends trying to drag me along Thursday found me deep amidst exam-revision panic and I skipped it. My friend D sez that the Crispys were awful but Biting Tongues were fantastic. Did you go?

Modern Eon?

I picked up the Homosexuals EP for £1 a couple of weeks ago and I'd like to hear the rest of that stuff, but that's a forlorn hope, I understand.

I think Carey's right, it's possible to find pretty much all those old Essential Logic releases without too much cost or difficulty. I must have had 15 copies of the "Wake Up!" EP in my time, because I liked giving it away to people. I never paid more than 50p for one, and I would feel optimistic about getting hold of one for downwards of £5 these days.

Restricted Code - what were they on? Pop Aural or something. Not postcard.

Homosexuals - I have a great track of theirs on a Cherry Red 'Seeds' compilation. Great lost stuff like The Past Seven Days, Marine, The Dragees etc. We've talked about this before. Well I have.

Those "Seeds" comps were good. I recall being surprised that anyone felt the need to anthologise that stuff at the time, because it was all relatively recent. I'm glad they did, now. Cherry Red could do worse than reissue those. But not the Rock one, that was rubbish. Mostly.

The four Axis singles (Bearz, the Fast Set, Shox, uh Bauhaus) that predated 4AD would be good to have on one disc.

I also wouldn't mind a Rema Rema anthology of some sort.

Seconding the Rema Rema collection. I still love the In Camera comp.

Actually if you guys download soulseek there is like 3-4 cd woroth of homosexuals tracks actually!

I prefer Lora logics solo record to essential logic.

No just the Raindance/Like Any Other (correct title?) single. There was a 12" version too. Fantastic!

**C: Restricted Code are (I think) the only Pop:Aural band I never heard. Are they good? Little bits hanging off the end of a Fast Product comp is not good enough coverage for Pop: Aural. (I'm not at all sure that the Fast stuff is available right now, although it's surely easy to come by.)**

Hell, I haven't got the RC single, and haven't heard it in years, but I remember a really wierd long acapella/spoken intro which lasts for half of the song. Alexander Blair to thread!! Where is he these days?

Pop:Aural/Fast stuff should be compiled and bunged out again, yes.

**Those "Seeds" comps were good. I recall being surprised that anyone felt the need to anthologise that stuff at the time, because it was all relatively recent. I'm glad they did, now. Cherry Red could do worse than reissue those. But not the Rock one, that was rubbish. Mostly**

Yes. Best one was "Art" which was the one I was on about upthread. I have that one. I'd kill for "Pop" (the first one I think), which IIRC was a sort of much better version of Pillows and Prayers. I shouldn't have sold it!

I can vaguely remember a SEEDS compilation. What was all that then?

Fancy calling your group The Homosexuals, etc.

Restricted Code is OK nothing fantastic, a bit like the go-betweens and stuff like that.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Hint: He also wrote the notes liner to the Logic Essential reissue.)

i only lasted one song of c.ambulance i'm afraid: i wanted to like em cz i always felt sorry for them, but oof

Listening to this right now, and a healthy chunk of the first disc is just fantastic - i like how ACTIVE the bass is as a melody instrument, not just sticking to simple dub/funk riffs like a lot of the post-punk bands tended to do (which isn't a bad thing at all, it's just nice to hear the bass take the lead in a different fashion than I'm used to when dealing w/bands of this era).

Essential Logic & Lora Logic's stuff is mind-bendingly fantastic. I even dig the 90s stuff, there's just something... uneven... in a good way, about it.

Just listened to Fanfare in the Garden today for the first time in a while, Lora/Essential Logic was so good. Really some of my favorite postpunk stuff.

https://louderthanwar.com/watch-this-essential-logic-post-video-for-brilliant-new-single/

I thought this was one of those Spotify errors at first, but...

Thanks----somebody way upthead was calling for KRS to do Delta 5, and they did eventually present 19 tracks, streaming freely: https://delta5.bandcamp.com/album/singles-and-sessions-1979-81
also Fanfare In The Garden: https://essentiallogic.bandcamp.com/releases
and https://kleenexliliput.bandcamp.com/album/kleenex-liliput
and https://kleenexliliput.bandcamp.com/album/live-recordings

New album incoming:
https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/essential-logic/land-of-kali

i hope it isn't as sad as the Poly Styrene hare krishna stuff ... as in, in comparison to X-Ray Spex

New single is ok, in a similar vein as the late 90s tracks on the "Fanfare" comp. But it all misses the sheer *strangeness* of the stuff from "Beat Rhythm News" and "Pedigree Charm".