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Month: August 2016

Ninewood: Six songs, 1997

Ninewood: Six songs, 1997

PERSONNEL: Angela Coon: Vocals Chris Papa: Bass Karen Roze: Bass, b. vocals Mat Kolehmainen: Drums Recorded by Dan Rathbun at Polymorph Produced by Ninewood and Rathbun All songs by Ninewood ©1997 except words of Elephant Cadaver which were taken from Pachuco Cadaver by Don Van Vliet and words of Marginal Lullaby which were taken from Mark Strand. TRACK LIST: 1. Eaglet Shaper 2. Marginal Lullaby 3. New Can Of Ice 4. The Flume Atrocity 5. Elephant Cadaver 6. Bone Dirge…

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Formaldehyde Blues Train: Six songs, circa 1992

Formaldehyde Blues Train: Six songs, circa 1992

PERSONNEL: Hollis Fitch: vocals Dave “Jake Rancheroo” Weiss: guitar Richard Jean: guitar Murray Compton: bass Jim “the Lieutenant” Petropoulos: drums TRACK LISTING: 1. Backroads 2. Capt. Dog 3. Voo Doo Nectarine 4. Devil’s Eyes 5. St. Louie 6. The Swamp Song Way back when, in a very different Brooklyn, there was a red-hot music scene in, of all places, Park Slope. Centered on Lauterbach’s, a sketchy basement dive on Prospect Avenue, the Brooklyn Beat embraced an insane variety of musical…

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Not Mystery Friday: Chaos Oblivion

Not Mystery Friday: Chaos Oblivion

It’s Not Mystery Friday in this Universe, but we do have a mystery here. No J-card, just a cassette with the number 2 and “Chaos Oblivion” scrawled in pen on a gray sticker. Not in the DU DemoBase™, so pre-Internet. What does the “2” signify? Side 2? The album’s title? The band’s name? It’s ambiguous. I don’t know about you, but I’m kinda excited. Let’s assume the 2 means side 2, flip the tape over and listen to the (un-stickered)……

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Zone Of Control: Sunrise Sunset

Zone Of Control: Sunrise Sunset

PERSONNEL: Unknown TRACK LISTING: 1. Take Back Myself 2. Judgement 3. We Got Unity 4. One Life To Living Dead 5. Slave Away This tape kicks ass! Fierce metalcore, mostly, although “Take Back Myself” has that Nirvana post-punk/surf-rock vibe. Who were they? Where did they live? Where are they now? So many questions. TURN IT UP.

Thrillcat: Thrillcat 3, 1992

Thrillcat: Thrillcat 3, 1992

PERSONNEL: Doug Grober: Drums Mike Brayton: Vocals, ? Cam Brennan: ? Bill Rocamora: Vocals, ? Produced performed and recorded by Thrillcat Recorded during January 1992 at the MacColl 8-track studio in Providence, RI TRACK LISTING: 1. Somebody Hold Me 2. Honeyface 3. Will You Be There 4. Give Me The Reason 5. You’re Jaking Me Around 6. Don’t Make Me Blue 7. It’s Only Love “The band doesn’t play much anymore, to my dismay. Billy, one of the lead singers…

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Cessna 21: Noise Ethic, 1995

Cessna 21: Noise Ethic, 1995

PERSONNEL: Shane Baker: Everything TRACK LISTING: Side A 1. Song For Neal 2. Do You Think Of Me? 3. When You Go Home, His Hand Comes Down Again 4. 1st Aria Side B same as A “Cessna 21, a/k/a Shane Baker, is an old friend of Demorandum, having appeared in issues 66, 69, 77 (as Loveseat Glider) and 78. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard from him, though, so I was happy to get these two tapes in…

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Big Monster Fish Hook: 6 songs, 1995

Big Monster Fish Hook: 6 songs, 1995

PERSONNEL: Lisa Blanchard: Voice Mark Massaro: Acoustic and voice Brad Rigney: Electric guitar Engineered by Dave Produced by Brad/Dave TRACK LISTING: 1 – Big Monster Moon 2 – Cloud 3 – Super Ego 4 – Doll Face 5 – Vienme 6 – Discrete “A uniquely original band from Boston, MA. Formed by Mark Massaro around 1995, the group consisted of Mark (acoustic guitar, vocals), Lisa Blanchard (lead vocals, piano, pianosaurus, and acoustic guitar), and featured Brad on electric guitar on…

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Jeff Krebs: Crash Ballads EP, 1995

Jeff Krebs: Crash Ballads EP, 1995

CREDITS: All songs by Krebs except * by Krebs / Taylor / Rohrbach Recorded live to DAT at Black Eyed Pig, SF Engineered by Kyle Statham Cover illustration by Jeff Krebs J-Card graphics by Philip Keppeler TRACK LISTING: 1. Them Beautiful Strangers 2. Tuscaloosa Sam And The Crazy Pit* 3. Magdalena 4. Nothing 5. Another Piece Hailing from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, singer/songwriter Jeff Krebs played in numerous bands and trekked across North and South America in the early ’90s before…

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