Sharkbait - "Blowtorch Face-Lift" CD 1991

Raw human tribalized alt-industrial from the Bay Area. Cleanly produced, with bullhorn vocals, jungle beats percussed by white humans, occasional guitars, sludgier pained experimentation ("Queer Boy Behind An Iron Gate" is my fave track you fuckin' homophobes), eerie vignettes, probably lots of mushrooms and LSD too. This release wears it's era gleamingly on it's sleeveless shirt, but by Bush Sr's Illuminati cape has it aged well. Modern primitives, RE/Search magazine, and Bob Dobbs...VIVA GENERACION X!!!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zmtoz777yb99jul/Sharkbait_-_Blowtorch_Face-Lift_CD_1991.zip

Ripped Clit - "Brown Cow" 7" 1989 & "Intestine Casserole With Cheese" Demo 1988

19 minute 7" and studio demo of thrashy white trash grindcore similar to O.L.D. or Macabre's earliest output (and a special type of obscurity that'll convince you Giulio The Bastard has them on his brag list of die-hard discographies...which they aren't...yet). Professionally tight, and decently produced, but it'll be easy to hear how high school the note choices are. If I'm being extra pithy in this review it's only because the band is so easily (stupidly) satisfying.


Slab! - 3rd Peel Session March 7th 1988

The nigga Mahler continues to get no respect with his very kind shares, so here I am doing what's RIGHT! Top crusher of...noise rock? Godflesh archetype? Accidental Scorn? Slab! predated those groups, but it's no secret that Broadrick and Harris were fans of the band (Mick taped their 12"s for homies even in Napalm days). Organically groovy and methodically paced with no drum machines, zony Gira-ish vocals, and nearly grindcore-distorted bass (that dominates the songs, let alone the overall mix) take you to drug places minus the drugs. I'm not sure that this sound in general...which usually got relegated to the "industrial" bins...was really a part of ANY scene, but that only increases my own admiration and fervent curiosity! Taped off the radio by Mahler, remastered decades later by him, with Peel's one-man-greek-chorus left mostly intact. Fave track: Killer For A Country

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dbw88r8mi23ax3/SLAB_%28UK%29_John_Peel_session_%23_3.zip

C.F.D.L. / Denial - "One Finger In The..." Split Tape (Year?)

Split rehearsal tape from Crazy Fucked Up Daily Life (named for a Disorder song, with a musical emphasis on Mob 47 worship and Siege covers) and fellow countrymen Denial, who are so poorly boomboxed that their side sounds very similar to Control's output. Control? Don't remember them? "Confuse Ghost"? Yeah, forgettable of course. I ripped this for CFDL's side.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/xkauq22d0ke2w7h/CFDL_vs_DENIAL_Tape.zip
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