Lola Fish n. 10-(Fanzine-France-199?)

Short fanzine edited by Bruno Pommey in Mainvilliers (France) mixing mail art,random artworks and reviews of fanzines and cassettes.In this issue also an auto-interview by the Italian mail artist Ruggiero Maggi and the French mail artist Jean Francois Robic + an interview to the German composer/musician and mail artist Harald Ziegler.
31 pages full of info about the very underground network of mail art and zines makers.

I guess it was printed in 1990 or  early 1991 although there is not date listed anywhere.

The flyer by Red Neon Tapes requesting artists for the very first compilation by this label moved me deeply.

Only in french...
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BRUTOPOP - Defrost - (Flop Records-Italy-2001)

Here the double compilation cd by the genius Brutopop-a very difficult band to review because they played for a long time changing style as the years were passing by...yet they kept their original aurea of proto punk/rap/hip hop/art rock and electro madness.

This double cd gives us a great compendium of what they managed to create in their life.

A very good example of creativity and exquisite fantasy. 
A discogs page about  Flop Records is here.
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ESTASI ACIDA - PornoHorrors - (BV Tapes-UK-c60-1994)

Another tape-work by the ghost collective E.A.,project covered in this blog many times already. Here the same info that I passed to Vita Ignes Corpus Lignum blog 5 years ago.
This tape was released in 1994 by BV tapes in England. It came out with a small booklet (A5 size) with copy art- works inspired by the subject of the title. Most of them were copy-art works that were also used for a few mail art projects, or as contributions to a few graphics zines. Also the tape was wrapped in “blood red” medical gauze, closed with a pin. (pictures included here).
The inspirational themes for this tape were ”pornography” thought as a lustful pleasure and “horrors” thought as fear/pain/suffering.
The music is a weird attempt to put together sound-collage, field recordings, percussions, and more random noises. A strange trip into the realm of torture and pain and pleasure/orgasms. For this project, E.A. means Acid Ecstasy. 
A  Discogs page about BV Tapes is here,
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Track listing:
Porno Side
A Untitled
Horror Side
B Untitled

MISSING FOUNDATION-Live In Island-Amsterdam-1989-(Not on Label-Holland-1989)

Missing Foundation is Industrial Noise outfit from NYC. Their logo shows a martini-cocktail glass turned upside down meaning "the party's over!". 

Missing Foundation made a point of fighting gentrification in New York's Lower East Side and other metropolitan areas. They left their logo painted on walls where ever they travelled. 

Walking around in major European cities in the late 80's/early 90's you would find this all over the place.(from their discogs page) and here a webpage where you`ll find more info and biography.
Here another post  about them.
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SEA SHEPHERD - What About Love ? - (Self Released-France-1994-c30)

Sea Sheperd was an anarcopunk band from France,focused on the animal rights and related issues.

This tape is self released and it has lyrics and graphix in the folded cover sleeve.

A discogs page about them is here.

Up the Punx.

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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES-Uhn-(Self Released-UK-1995)

Educational Resources seems to be the personal project by J.D. Boswell, he uses different media to deliver his messages: this tape is crafted with lots of artworks, a small fanzine with few interesting articles and pretty nice graphics too (all the scans provided here).

I have already posted another tape by this unknown project, here that post.

The music is an amazing sculpture of sonic dissonances, dronish sounds ,and noise ambient birds chants.

Enjoy it.
ps- this tape is not indexed
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AOS3 - Apparently We Had A Great Time - (Self Released-UK-1992)

AOS3 formed in Sunderland, UK in 1990, taking their name from the initials of Augustus Owsley Stanley III, LSD chemist and sound engineer. The bands logo comprises interlinked anarchy, peace, Om, and Yin Yang symbols, which together spell out ‘AOS3’. 
In the early 1990s before the 1994 Criminal Justice Act the band played on the free festival circuit throughout the UK including the infamous Castlemorton. AOS3 also toured regularly with bands such as Radical Dance Faction, Citizen Fish, Culture Shock and Back To The Planet.
Part of the anarcho punk movement, AOS3’s lyrics reflect the bands political stance. The songs ‘Battle of Trafalgar’ and ‘Dubbin’ Up a Riot’ describe the 1990 Poll Tax Riot in Trafalgar Square, and the bands’ cover of the The AK 47’s ‘Tottenham 3’ protests the innocence of the three men wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of PC Blakelock at the Broadwater Farm Riot in 1985. Other influences are more esoteric such as the works of Robert Anton Wilson.
AOS3 split in 1995, and singer John relocated to London going on to form P.A.I.N with Phil from Radical Dance Faction. AOS3 reformed in 2007, and have since toured with Citizen Fish, and are working on a third studio album.
Band members also played in bands:
Radical Dance Faction
P.A.I.N
Headjam
Legion Of Dynamic Dischord
less (London, England) [from discogs]
(ps-this rip is been re-worked on the 14th jan. 2016-it is much better now)
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