v.a -Still Can't Hear The Words: The Subhumans Covers Album -(Blackfish Records-UK-1999)

 Amazing cover album!! Many fantastic bands covering the songs by the mighty Subhumans. It came out with a long booklet reporting pics,info and ideas by the bands. A great album. Enjoy it.

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SWARAJ CHRONOS performing Paths @ The Hope And Anchor in Islington (N. London).[New and Unreleased-UK-January 2026]

 New and Unreleased track by this South London combo covered in this blog a few time already. Here they are playing at the famous Hope And Anchor in Islington (N.London). A fantastic night with great bands....

Enjoy it.

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CHAOS CALLING - Beyond Illusions -(Self Released-UK-2010)

 Great album by this british band playing  progressive metal with some funky bits. The folded cover sleeve reports info and lyrics and the recording is very good. I have little info about this band and I am not sure if they are still active. Enjoy it.

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ONE BY ONE - Fight - (Flat Earth Recs/Nabate-UK/Belgium-1993)

 Great 7inch by the mighty One By One:Newcastle, Leeds, Bradford based band who released two studio 7”'s, a Peel Session, an LP, and a split LP which never came out and an LP which never got mixed: A half studio half live 7" plus various comp tracks.
Completed tours of Europe, UK & the US.(from discogs)
This is another band including Sned, drummer and founder of the punk label Flat Earth.His blog about this label is here. 

The tracks on this EP are all mixed together and I left them as conceived by the band-you find them here as waves. Enjoy it.

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v.a.-Nothing To Lose...But Our Chains...(ABC/Counter Information-UK-199?)

 

90 minutes cassette compilation with lots of bands from the political British underground scene of the last century. It was a benefit for the Counter Information paper. The various recordings are pretty good, and there is very little information on the folded cover sleeve.

 A compilation very much from that era mixing HC Punk, Dub, and generally anarcho-punk in its various forms. Big thanks to Mark Terminus for this little gem of the lost and found underground world.Enjoy It.

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TOM TYLER - Asleep At The Switch- (D.C. Recordings-UK-2000)

A complex and underrated album by Tom Tyler. Fusing a range of influences that touch electronic jazz, Hip-Hop, and downtempo, it will transport you to another desert of bliss and void. Tom Tyler`s Youtube Channel offers us more amazing music. His Bandcamp page is here, from there this introduction :

From 1998 to 2005 Tom Tyler released a series of EPs & 2 LPs on J Saul Kane's acclaimed DC Recordings imprint, and remixed artists such as The Cinematic Orchestra and Sofa Surfers. He was also a member of Stromba, who released the LP "Tales From The Sitting Room" on FatCat Records.  click me

 

 

v.a. - BUAV Benefit - (Buav-UK-199?)

 BUAV stands for "British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection"! This extensive compilation tape features numerous bands active during the 1980s, primarily in the hardcore punk scene. It came out with a booklet, each band has a page containing lyrics, graphics and/or messages against vivisection. No date of release is stated anywhere, yet it is my understanding that it was released during the 90s. The quality of the recordings changes from song to song, as overall it is pretty good. Expect lots of HC punk in its various forms, some post-punk and Terminus playing some political folk songs. A big thanks to Mark Terminus for donating this great sampler to this blog. Enjoy it. 

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v.a. - On The Run!! 01 - (HSA- UK-199?)

 90 minutes compilation cassette benefit for Hunt Sabouters Association! A bunch of great bands  playing various form of punk. The tape is interspersed with talks about animal rights and/or against the bloody sports.Different kind of recordings but overall pretty good. Another good one from the collection of Mark Terminus.Big Thanks...Enjoy it.

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CRISIS -Reactor4 - (Syndrom Records-UK-2009)

The Crisis project came about in early 2009 after recording the album ‘Reactor4’. Reactor number 4 was the nuclear reactor that exploded within the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine, in 1986. It was considered to be the worst nuclear disaster in history. The disaster left the city of Prypiat abandoned. To this day the city remains an exclusion zone. The recordings on this album were made to create a soundtrack to the whole era, when in 1986 the Western world learned of the disaster.(Crisis are not linked to the early punk band of the same name).[from Discogs]

The project CRISIS hailing from the UK and came to life after the recordings for ’Reactor4’ were finished. The album got his name from the notorious “Reactor 4” that ultimately caused what is commonly referred to as Chernobyl. For most of us, this is merely a name we connect with a nuclear disaster that happened long time ago. But in fact, it’s one of the most horrifying nuclear catastrophes mankind has experienced in recent history and this album is for us to see it that way again.
If you push the play button, you’ll be entering a desolate environment. In the beginnings, it feels almost like you’d be sort of examining the remnants after the catastrophe with a team of specialists, so from a more detached view, but then a disquieting dread about the cold, dehumanized nature of this place overcomes you. You’re starting to feel the terror that still haunts these ruins, the fear the employees must have felt, the fear of dying. As you walk on you can hear voices all of a sudden; muffled voices buried under the dust of decades, desperate cries and alarms sounding through the corridors like all of this is just happening. ‘Reactor4’ revives all these past events in your mind; makes them horrifyingly real. For that purpose, the project employs cold industrial sound sculpturing coupled to an array of overdriven electronic noises.
Also the voices aren’t a product of a vivid imagination; this is indeed original audio material from the Chernobyl disaster. In my view this underpins once more the graveness of the compositions. All that’s left to say at the end now is that the debut album of this mysterious new project marks an ambient highlight in a year that’s drawing close to its end. I am already looking forward to the next release.(review taken from Reflections Of Darkness webzine)

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v.a - Shamanarchy In The UK - (Evolution-UK-1992)

 Great sampler with a bunch of fantastic artists playing music for the new age pagan shamans and thinking about Terence McKenna.I suggest to you all to read the introduction on the cover sleeve of the cd. Enjoy it.

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HTV Zine N14 - (Fanzine-UK-2018)

This is a nice zine made in London in 2018. It contains interviews with Chaos UK(London) and Nagrobki(Poland), a Wolf Eyes gig review, weird graphics, short stories, tons of music reviews, and strange pictures. It is messy, and somehow, with its broken language, it has its aura. It is definitely underground press from the very underground scene. Enjoy it. 

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v.a.- Tooting Bizarre - (Tooting Bizarre-UK-200?)

 Eclectic compilaton by this very creative label:Tooting Bizarre was a non-profit co-operative of gigging musicians in South London. We released much of our music for free:Art Rock. Math Rock. Prog Rock. Post Rock. Electric. Acoustic. Folk. Experimental. Ambient. Hardcore. Softcore. If you are curious to know more then an Internet Archive page is here. Enjoy it.

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ABRAXAS - Skin Thrills - (Total-UK-199?)

  Fantastic CD by this UK-based act active in the early 90s. This album is made with various influences, passing through ritual, ambient, experimental electronics, abstract, industrial, and noise. It is all a mash-up yet crafted with grace and beauty.

	Total was an audiovisual magazine, issues packaged with accompanying CD compilations, started by Robert H. King. Enjoy it. :f)a.r_a^w>a_y:  click me

HOVERCRAFT - Experiment Below - (Blast First/Mute-UK-1998)

 Hovercraft.A defunct band from Seattle, founded 1993 by Ryan Campbell (alias Campbell 2000) and Beth Liebling (alias Sadie 7, Eddie Vedder's former wife), out of the ashes of the band called Space Helmet, which also included members of Magnog. They gave their last concert 16th February 2001 in Seattle.

It is rumored that Eddie Vedder was a drummer for this band going first as full-time drummer under the name Jerome230 and then joining them on tour later on.

Together with Mary Hansen, they released an album under the moniker Schema (5).(from Discogs)  

On their actual webpage you can read old reviews, see the pics, get the full discography and download some live recordings too. Enjoy it.

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SUICIDAL SUPERMARKET TROLLEYS- S.S.T. -(Self Released-UK-1990)

 Second demo by this legendary band from London/Romford, I have already posted another tape by them released in 1993. 

This K7 came out with a lyrics sheet, recording is pretty good, lyrics are great and the music is  violent HC Punk.

 I left these tracks as waves and I am including a video of  1 of their classics.

Enjoy it.

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Matching Head 7 (Small Zine-Matching Head-UK-199?)

Another small zine by Lee Stokoe, the mastermind behind Matching Head tape and zine label!! This is not the first micro zine that I post here by him and I covered this label quite a few times already.

9 cm x 3.5 cm this is a micro-zine with comics and drawigs by Lee himself is a kind of classic by his label.

A little pearl of the undeground indipendent zine world of the 90s.

Enjoy it.

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AZALIA SNAIL - Escape maker - (Garden Of Delights-UK-1995)

 

Azalia Snail is an American avant-garde singer-songwriter and musician.^[1] She is a multi-instrumentalist active in neo-psychedelia, psychedelic folk, and indie rock,^[2][3] played a prominent role in the 1990s lo-fi music scene,^[4] and was dubbed the "Queen of Lo-Fi".^[3] She is one half of the duo LoveyDove.Snail recorded eleven solo albums between 1990 and 2006^{[1][needs update]} and has written film scores for several indie features and short films.^[4] She has toured the United States, Europe, and Australasia.In 2000, she won the Los Angeles LA Weekly Music Award for Best New-Genre/Uncategorizable Artist.^{[5]  (from Wikipedia)} 

^{This vinyl was released in 1995 by the Welsh label Garden Of Delights ,and it is not avaible of her Bandcamp page, where you can listen quite a few of her last productions. Eventualy I left these tracks as waves,Enjoy it.}

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MONSTER MAIL N7 -(Mail Art Documentation-Global Networking-1997)

 Number 7 of this ongoing mail art project launched by Evan Griffiths back in the 90s. Inside this zine many drawings, a short story, some comics and an extra lino print by Evan himself, all inspired by the subject:MONSTER. Evan was also running a punk distro called Mitsey Distro and a zine Gibbering Madness, you`ll find them clicking the link above. Enjoy it.

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v.a.-Here We Go, A Celebration Of The First Year Of The U.K. Miner`s Strike 1984-1985 (Sterile records-UK-1985)

 A great compilation with a few acts that will become very famous in the following years,it was benefit for the Miners during ther first year of strike. Sterile Records was a label founded by Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions) for own and related releases, active from 1979-1986 and then re-activated April 2021. On this page you can read about this album,info provided by Nigel Ayers. A Bandcamp page about Sterile Records is here. Enjoy it.

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SWARAJ CHRONOS - Gibberish Madness - (Self Released+CoDA zine-UK-2024)

 New CD EP by this London combo playing a sort of  twisted Post Hardcore, I have, already ,posted their debut album released  in 2021. I am attaching the review  taken from Raising Hell zine n29 and the video clip by Mario PunksNOtDeafRecordings. Enjoy it.

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