Entertaining The Invalid: 80% Falschwave Blitzkrieg!
A spectacular comp of previously unheard D.I.Y. anthems from an assortment of stray producers brought to life/compiled by local polymath Matt Wand, he of Stock, Hausen & Walkman fame, an artist much loved by everyone from Beastie Boy Mike D to Autechre, Pulp, Matt Groening, Harry Hosono and John Peel, returning here 15 years since he was last in action.
He corrals a uchronic psychobiography of “synthetic post punk for the bedridden or terminally indolent” with this possibly apocryphal compilation dedicated to now-defunct Urmston record shop, Spin-A-Disc, an off-centre hub of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s Manchester music scene whose influence still resonates today.
Covering minimal synth anthems, D.I.Y. jazz punk, grey industrial sci-fi and new wave disco crossovers by a roll call including suspicious characters such as Schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen, Wetfinger! and Technicezna Nizkotopliwa.
The music is full of first rate musty nuggets of the ilk you’d find stuffed down a threadbare sofa in Whalley Range or a record shack that only opens under the full moon of the third month of a leap year. We’re talking bleepy post punk polka such as the Joystick Jerk by Diskette and DAF-alike EBM raunch from Kleinstein, thru to the jazz-ponk blurts of Arthur Appliance & The Warm Suds’ Cheese Thieves and the belgian-coloured cold wave of The Baby Snatchers, which all touches on such a breadth of styles that it couldn’t possibly be the work of just one obsessive music fiend with a legendary arsenal of equipment, could it?
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A spectacular comp of previously unheard D.I.Y. anthems from an assortment of stray producers brought to life/compiled by local polymath Matt Wand, he of Stock, Hausen & Walkman fame, an artist much loved by everyone from Beastie Boy Mike D to Autechre, Pulp, Matt Groening, Harry Hosono and John Peel, returning here 15 years since he was last in action.
He corrals a uchronic psychobiography of “synthetic post punk for the bedridden or terminally indolent” with this possibly apocryphal compilation dedicated to now-defunct Urmston record shop, Spin-A-Disc, an off-centre hub of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s Manchester music scene whose influence still resonates today.
Covering minimal synth anthems, D.I.Y. jazz punk, grey industrial sci-fi and new wave disco crossovers by a roll call including suspicious characters such as Schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen, Wetfinger! and Technicezna Nizkotopliwa.
The music is full of first rate musty nuggets of the ilk you’d find stuffed down a threadbare sofa in Whalley Range or a record shack that only opens under the full moon of the third month of a leap year. We’re talking bleepy post punk polka such as the Joystick Jerk by Diskette and DAF-alike EBM raunch from Kleinstein, thru to the jazz-ponk blurts of Arthur Appliance & The Warm Suds’ Cheese Thieves and the belgian-coloured cold wave of The Baby Snatchers, which all touches on such a breadth of styles that it couldn’t possibly be the work of just one obsessive music fiend with a legendary arsenal of equipment, could it?