BLACK ZEPWARDS & CUT ARSESBest info on the first ten records or so is provided by Simon Harris of former "SPEEDER MAGAZINE", UK here It sums up almost everything released until 1997, when a second batch of releases came out. The final effort was to reissue "old school" weirdness and avantgarbage to attract a wider public, including albums by:
The above album by DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS led to a contract of a release of their old tape material in early 2003, a boxed set double album called "ANGELDUST" There are two editions of the set: 1) issued in 2003, approximately 200 copies, 220 Grams vinyl pressing in black innersleeve, each set containing 4 inserts: a two-sided tracklist, a two colour print, a handnumbered certificate and a rag with a "DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS"-label sewed on, some of the certificates were autographed by Prof. Müller, a few of the boxes (i.e. around 10-15) foiled in grey linen, 4 or 5 plain black boxes given away as promos 2) around 100 copies, late 2004, 180 Grams vinyl in white innersleeve, each set containing three inserts: a two-sided tracklist, a two colour print, a handnumbered certificate (overcounting 200), some copies in grey box again. The last 100 pairs of the set have become distributed in a simple, pasted LP-cover in 2008 without any certification or other artful gimmicks. In the meantime NORBERT SCHILLING of "PLATE LUNCH RECORDS" had died in 2001 and left some albums to be released, of which one part was given permission for release in the USA to Marc McNulty and some others to VERY GOOD RECORDS in Germany, including four albums by CONRAD SCHNITZLER:
Apart from the US "color plastic case issue" (which doesn´t count by legal means) it was planned to be remastered from an original vinyl record, but all attempts at private hi-end freak home studios, "CEDAR NO-NOISE STUDIO MARCKMANN" in Hamburg and some Japanese laser-turntable facility failed and just took a lot of money. Of these remaster tapes the "CEDAR NO-NOISE"-version was given an O.K. by Prof. Seessselberg to be released, but cancelled after the CD edition had come out at the beginning of 2003. Surprisingly then a tape-reel with an old recording of the album occured and was used for a second edition of the CDafter the first had been withdrawn, i.e. sent back to the author. (about a dozen copies of the first issue had been sent around for promotional and testing purpose) Copies of the second edition are still available. |
SHORT STORYHere´s a list of all records released since late 1994. The early ones had catalog numbers, but past No. 8 or so are not genuine. Some releases were planned and given cat.-no., but cancelled later. As releases became more sporadic or were co-productions with other labels, catalogue numbers seemed totally pointless. Most of those subsequent releases, i.e. past that COITS album, only refer to "VERY GOOD RECORDS" without stating any catalog number. A few of them were produced and distributed as "VERY GOOD RECORDS", but don´t refer to it directly, i.e. ZEBRA PUKE, and CHAOSFRONT (with a sticker put over original address on back). GOOSEWIND- Come Smoke A Cigarette, 12" LP, 500 copies, released February 1995, 40 test pressings w/ silkscreen cover (December 1994) GOOSEWIND- Model´s Ink, 7" EP, 200 copies, released February 1995, 10 test-pressing in coloured vinyl and color xerox sleeve TUOB- Don´t Fight At Gigs, 7" EP, 500 copies, released around May 1995, two different sleeves ENNO RHESE´S FRITZODELIA- same, 12" LP 100 copies, handnumbered, released around May 1995, collages recorded in 1988 using simple machinery (i.e. tape recorder, radio frequency modulations and turntable) STILLUPPSTEYPA- Car Dirty With Jam On A Busy Street, 12" LP, 500 copies, relaesed around May 1995 first album by this band originally from Iceland, moved to Netherlands later BAND OF PAIN- Phoenix b/w Last Laugh 7" 300 copies, released May 1995, a "SPLINTERED"-offshot PRICK DECAY- Guidelines For Basement Non-Fidel, 12" LP, 300 copies, relased in 1995 (no exact date known) handmade music and covers (all different) COCK ESP/DOGLIVEROIL- split 7" EP, 500 copies, released 1995 COCK ESP was from USA, recording to commemorate "ORNETTE COLEMAN´s" birthday- DOGLIVEROIL was from UK feat. PHIL TODD of "BETLEY WELCOMES CAREFUL DRIVERS and ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS" COITS- These Are The Noices You Will Hear In Your Head, 12" LP, white vinyl, 100 copies, unnumbered (?) made it Number 1 in German "OLDIE-MARKT" for one month then TENZENMEN- Quarrychase, 12" LP, pink vinyl, 100 copies around 1996 SOF TILLIN´S AND - The Very Good Misrepresentation Album, 12" LP, 500 copies, don´t remember which year (96 ?), withdrawn for various reasons. (Probably not more than 100 copies were distributed, various issues include triple album box or art-objects like two copies glued together) A LIFT TO...NOWHERE- s/t, 10" EP, pink vinyl, 100 copies, around 1996 solo electronics from France, some Rhythm, some Noise OTTOMATIK- Akt, 12" LP, 100 copies, late 1996, black vinyl, packed in record mailer with lots of inserts Compositions for electric guitar and 4-track recorder and lots of effects ACTION- same. 12" LP, 1997 600 copies (100 green vinyl), recorded at KERSTON-Studios 1971 and live on stagearound the same time, PROGRESSIVE ROCK with English vocals, hammond organ etc., not on record before STEVE ANDREWS- Sound Of One, 12" LP, 500 copies, early 1997 (I think there´s still a box of records left that I owe to the artist) AUTOFICK- Kopf zu, Finger in den Arsch, Pogo ...,12" LP, 100 copies, incl. booklet, summer 1997 (definitely not a bootleg, authorized by Ralf Siemers) RE of cassette only release of 1982 ...you might want to know of, i.e. THE DAMNED´s "Stab Your Back" in German,"Ich stech´ Dich ab", performed by band/project AUTOFICK from Tübingen in 1982. You can find more info on the AUTOFICK cassette at PUNK-DISCO in the cassette section. It´s a real novelty item. Side One is a spoken word lesson on how to punk rock with repetitive song sample of "Stab Your Back" in German, while side two is 30 minutes of Throbbing Gristle´s "Discipline", performed live, also in German ("Durchhalten"). PROJECT D.A.R.K.- Excited By Gramophones, 12" LP, blue vinyl, 100 copies, summer 1997, numbered One of the earlier works of ASHLEY HEADBUTT´s project, featuring compositions of gramophone surface noises. OTTOMATIK- Pizza A Go-Go, 12" LP 100 copies, yellow vinyl, summer 1997, all covers have a different colour motive A "random home recording" of a group of people at a party talking, drinking, laughing. recorded and mixed by OTTO OTTOMATIK - as close to "ZWEISTEIN" as "PIZZA PEA-SOUP" gets to "TRIP - FLIP OUT- MEDITATION" EHE- ERRARE HUMANUM EST, 12" PICTURE DISC LP 100 copies, 3-D EFFECT PIC DISC incl. 3-D glasses, 2000, originally entitled "Introduction To Fractal Mediations", recorded 1995 by UWE from Bochum, 100 copies were pressed, most of them warped and therefore impossible to sell. COOPERATIONS WITH OTHER LABELS/MOONRIVER RECORDS:CHAOSFRONT- Freiheit Durch Widerstand, 12" LP, 1996,500 copies, "GRIND´N´GROWLS of The Westerwald" some refreshing clear speech here (MOONRIVER did a 7" by "GROWN APART" in 1996 or so, melodic punk from Ulrike-Meinhof-Stadt) /CATATONIC RECORDS: ZEBRA PUKE- 12" LP, 199?. 100 copies, FREE-JAZZ session recorded in 1981 WARSER GATE- Endless Run, 12" LP, 1998 (?) 200 copies, printed sleeve (wow !), second album by "hört sich an, als ob besoffene Klempner auf den Rohren ´rumkloppen" (CATATONIC RECORDS later did two more records on their own: one by METABOLISMUS- Live (200 copies) and a 7" EP by "ECHO IS YOUR LOVE" from Finland) /KRACHSCHWINDEL: V/A- BACK TO PUNK, VOL. 1, 7" EP, 1996, 500 copies, songs on record for the first time: TIN CAN ARMY "Führer befiehl", PLATZANGST "Vier Kugeln zuviel", ABZESS "Immer Bereit" + "Stadtguerilla", MAF "Kein Beton", KRIEGSVERBRECHER "Hinter Dir" + "Neo Nazi" V/A- BACK TO PUNK, VOL. 2, 10" LP, 1997 1000 copies, incl. many exclusive songs RAZZIA "Abschaum Erwache", TBC "Punk", "Badeträume", NO RESPECT "Deutschland" + "Millionen Hirnzellen", DUNKLE TAGE "Auf die Gesundheit" + "Nehmt Euer", SACKGASSE "Vergeltungsschlag", MANIACS "Alice In Wonderland", "Tanz der Lebenden Toten", BLUTSTURZ "Schweigen" + "Ignoranten", URLAUB IM ROLLSTUHL "Alkifeten" + "Wir scheissen drauf" (auf die Amis und die Russen) TBC- 7" EP, 1997 500 copies, BERLIN PUNK ROCK, recorded in 1982 (?) KRACHSCHWINDEL did some more records and was later called ASSEL RECORDS see elsewhere for PLATE LUNCH items. SOME COMMENTSSTEVE ANDREWS Sound Of One PICTURE--IF YOU WILL--A WELSH NEIL YOUNG (PART "HARVEST", PART "STARS AND BARS"), A SMATTERING OF DYLAN, AND A TOUCH OF SPACE ROCK! STEVE ANDREWS, Sound of one (D/97 Very Good) This a guy from Cardiff who does all instruments and voices on the LP. Most are blues-tinged, but there are some unexpected songs too. A fine loner record this is. CONTACT : STEVE JOHNSON, 3 DUNCAN CLOSE, ST. MELLONS, CARDIFF, WALES) (s.o.) Iceland´s Stilluppsteypa began its life as a guitar-bass-drum trio. Their earliest long player, 95´s "Car Dirty With Jam on a Busy Street" LP on Germany's Very Good Records sees them sounding like a more restrained, garage rock-influenced Boredoms, playing a spastic music full of shrieks, tribal drums, surf guitar riffs, tape collage, and a penchant for the absurd. TROYA- Point Of Eruption, 1976/2002: official RE of rare krautrock private pressing from 1976 in original cover - including six tracks by progressive artrock quartet with nice guitar, organ, some flute and English lyrics - comparable to early NOVALIS or EPIDAURUS - sesselberg:Seesselberg Synthetik 1 Private pressing SYN 1 Düsseldorf was the electronic / industrial wasteland that spawned Kraftwerk, Cluster and Neu. It was also the stomping ground for Eckhart and Wolf-J. Seesselberg who partly produced this excellent album there (the other location being Hamburg). Rather than go for extended electronic drones, however, the brothers came up with a selection of shorter pieces, adding variety to their record which others failed to imitate. Seesselberg have been compared (somewhat clumsily) to early Kraftwerk and Conrad Schnitzler's Kluster, but to my ears they have more in common with New York's Suicide and The Silver Apples (minus the vocals natch!) than any of their German contemporaries. There is pure avant-pop being played out here and someone should reissue this classic pronto Only 600 copies* were originally pressed up in 1973 and these have long been snapped up by collectors or overpaid disc jocks who feel the need to sample stuff like Seesselberg into their retarded backing tracks for E-guzzling dancing fools. * (the CD-booklet refers to an original vinyl edition of 1000 copies though) A pox on them! |
Mittwoch, 28. November 2007
VERY GOOD RECORDS 1994-2005
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