Duncan Harrison - Shit Barrel Scraping

A while ago, I went out to meet an old man for his birthday having made him a tape of junky shit as a token gift. The jams went on both sides of some Blackstreet cassette (which, truth be told, I was a bit sad to part with) and were cruddily recorded into a purple karaoke tape machine. I ripped it after recording incase anything good was on it and decided yesterday upon listening back that I'd upload it here for anyone who wants it. I quite like it, it's way lo-fi dumb collage shit that does all and everything. On here is creepy creaking, mock raga love, stupid tape looping and some other shit that is probably best described as a 100% Skaters cat-fest.

Whatever though, have it, hear it, do what you want with it. A lot of what's going on with these jams will probably be done live or on a recording again anyway, and I might take some of the best 'cuts' from this and use 'em elsewhere.

For now though,

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Illegible Thai mania

Wow, well this is an interesting one. On a charity shop voyage one often finds bizarre and intriguing cassettes penned in exotic, foreign alphabets that they can't read or understand for shit. Many times over these have turned out to be boring Eastern European pop ballad offerings which are good for a 30 second laugh then get taped over. I expected as much with this but got it anyway after being convinced by my friend that it was worth it. Plus it has a nice yellow box which is a plus.

Anyhow, when I popped this bad boy in I was instantly blown apart by the distilled cool which began to emit from my purple tape player. Imagine my delight when I found that in place of Eastern European cack lay a long tape of blissful and trippy Thai islander pop. All of these songs come over as a gorgeous and odd Thai take on fruity Calypso and skanky Reggae like jams, all the while retaining a very Asian quality. There is comical wailing from the male/female team, floaty clarinet and other horn work, metallic clang and rattle driving the rhythm and all manner of other tangible vibe creation. It's actually quite hard to do justice to with a description but this one is a beach banger that all the lofi ethnic weirdness lovers will die over.

Of equal interest to the music is it's mysterious, info free origin. What the fuck is this and how did it get here? The best I have been able to gather is that the label which put this out (Rota Records-Tapes LTD) is/was a Thai/Chinese manufacturer of all kinds of Asian music with releases that number in the hundreds. There is no English at all on the J-card and there is a handstamped 'Rota Records-Tapes LTD' emblem which, excruciatingly, becomes unreadable by the time it reaches what appears to be a date of release. GUTTED. Anyhow, I'm sure if I could read the cover it'd all become clear, so anyone who can help with that please get in touch. Also, anyone who can shed light on Rota or related stuff should also let me know.

P.S. Apologies for the shit photo and lack of titles/artist/album info. I hope the ID3 tage of 'Awesome thai thing' will suffice.

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The Rita, Toby Dammit, Fecalove - Collaboration

This collaboration between shark loving, Canadian noise hero The Rita and Italian pervs Toby Dammit & Fecalove came out as a one sided cassette a few years ago on Turgid Animal.
Limited to only 30 copies it sold out pretty quickly and I was definitely lucky to get one at the time, so what better way to give back to my community that to make a crusty rip of it and upload it to a sparsely visited blog?

The sound here is a nasty as you might imagine, having any prior experience to these artists. Rumbling and destructive low end meets sick, sexy eye-tie screech and vocalisations.
Being the morbid concept inclined cats they are, this kicks off with a track using samples from interviews regarding the case of Tommaso Onofri. Not nice at all, but you know how this shit works.

I divided this into the 3 tracks it claims to be made of in the inlay but might have gotten it wrong what with the pretty seamless flow of the tape. If you've got a problem with that let me know and I can try to advise you on how to be less of a fassy.


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Fuckin' Amateurs - Fuckin' 50? x6 CDR box set

Well well, sorry it's been such a long time since my last proper upload. To make it up, I decided to present to you this incredible box set.

Colour Out of Space 2009 was a magnificent highlight of the year, showcasing tonnes of incredible acts in a relaxed and amiable atmosphere for 3 days of drunk and sedated bliss. As well as a shitload of memorable sets and interchanges, something that made me leave the festival feeling pretty fucking good about noise and life was the fact that this beauty of a CDR box set was given to me for free by one of the nice guys manning the merchandise. Apparently he hails from in and around Newcastle where this set of Fuckin' Amateurs operate. Other than just recognising the name of the label and knowing of one or two bands that aren't Romance, my only real experience of noise from North East way is a chance meeting I had with a couple of lads at a Slogun show in London a few years ago. They danced, wrestled, knocked gear over and got accordingly choked out by a pretty tough American, but kindly found time to organise giving me a CDR with a razorblade dangling off it. The guy who made the music on the disc was called Wrest. He's on here beating the shit out of a bass guitar.

Over these 6 discs is spread an overwhelming plethora of music, all at once brutal, beautiful, bemusing and bootlegged. Amazing and powerful drone pieces lay sandwiched between crunchy harsh slices of din, oddball cut up found sounds and scuzzed out Brown Ale swigging trash blues. Not only that but you have a couple of discs which focus on live recordings of heads like Mechanical Children, Birds of Delay and Jazzfinger associates as well as terrifying and confusing dictaphone sleaze. But this really is the tip of the iceberg when considering what's packed into the whole set. A set which I can only describe as a true D.I.Y. labour of under appreciated experimental love. Fuck off.

I've had to break this down into 5 parts and the files might be pretty big, but that's what you get for high quality MP3 rips AND id3 tag track information I inputted myself from the inlays that I can't scan. It's very worth it in any event.

Other than that they put out free/cheap noise and enjoy drinking and bootlegging, I dunno much about Fuckin' Amateurs. Finding the act of Googling the bastards difficult to perform without invoking page after page of lewd and unrelated results, I'm happy enough to keep it that way. Still, they have a discogs page and anyone can feel free to contact me and fill me in on their grim legend.

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UPDATE: Turns out somehow I was able to make the RAR while missing out disc 1 entirely...weird. Anyway, here is the link for the missing disc. Apologies!

Disc 1