I love blogs that are dedicated to a particular theme or music period, because they are more often than not very well researched and erudite. One such case is the blog All My Ideas Are Stolen (link here) which is run by none other than the one and only Joe Murray aka Posset, the best dictaphone brain haemorrhaging drooler noise maker straight outta Tyneside, who I actually had the deep honor to meet in person some time ago in Newcastle. It was such a rock-star meeting/Santa Claus type of encounter for me as I have been raving about his stuff for a long time and he also brought a good amount of goodies, so I feel like a small child getting to meet his idol.
But enough of my Posset worship and onto his great idea of a blog that All My Ideas Are Stolen is, as it is devoted to exposing us to the awesomeness of the early 90s tape label Union Pole Tapes from Olympia, WA. In this blog not only does he write about the actual music made on the first 76 tapes produced by the label but in fact conducts interviews with the groups/artists. Can't describe what a great idea and execution this blog is, so I'm just gonna take my hat off before Joe and just post some links to a few Union Pole releases I really dig and note that you can get download the whole Union Pole discography for five dollars on bandcamp, so go over there and do your duty. Oh, don't forget to listen to Posset and his several incarnations, either on this blog or on his bandcamp.
Wallpaper - The Various Decorative Examples: noisy, skronky weird psych pop shoegazy fuckness
Wallpaper - Slow Love Songs About Drugs & Horsies: lo-fi Dinosaur Jr/Slint /blues hybrid
Wham-O - Confused Over Expressions / Impressions: Wham-O (along with Coits) has also been covered by me here, but this is way out, stretching over acoustic black metal ala Impaled Northern Moonforest to improvised noise rock to acoustic beauty.
Action Pussy - Hi!: mainly calm psychedelic rock with a Syd Barrett cover and great guitar work, not unlike the music of early Jim Jarmusch films. Kinda seems to me this thing had a great impact on early Dirty Beaches music.
Wallpaper - Domestic Landscape Activities Vol 5: far out noise garage surf madness.
Dancing Test Tubes/Cock E.S.P: Gerogerigege-y like live noisecore attack vs dictaphone harsh noise fuckery
Neil Campbell - Face Of Scurf: noisy drone and acoustic improv damage by a master
Coits - Construct Your Own Guitar: as it is well-known, Coits (check out other Coits posts here), is an awesome project of Joincey here doing everything from kitchen field recordings to acoustic guitar noise to excerpts from old techno songs.
Agreed - great read, thanks for the pointer!
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