The Manchester Mob
 

Manchester produced some of the finest post punk. It's up to you to decide who is to be crowned Kings of oop t'north.

I...don't understand.

The Drones i had never heard of.I went for The Fall.

Song From Under The Floorboards is by Magazine, in case you didn't know.

I had you down as a Cabaret Voltaire fan...?

It was difficult let's put it this way.My mind would go for Cabaret Voltaire but my heart will always go for The Fall.Hang on a sec,what are Cabaret Voltaire doing on a thread about Manchester bands?

Guys go to this link and download the mp3s.There is some really good music to be found there.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/0..._cuts_fro.html

Because they are quite famously from Sheffield you mean. Oh Pookie you twat. And I voted for them as well.:o

Especially this band.Awesome!!!
Datetenryu

Nevermind.Sheffield is not that far from Manchester.

Are they from Manchester, Japan?

August 09, 2006

Masashi Kitamura RIP / Some Japanese 1970's Underground Clips and MP3s

 

Jordan Mamone emailed me the news of the passing at age 50 of Masashi Kitamura recently, a major visionary in Japan's underground music scene from the 1970's to present. Kitamura was founder of the great band YBO2 ("Ibo Ibo") which served as a home to various members of well known later groups like Zeni Geva, Ruins, and Ghost. He was also the publisher of Fool's Mate magazine, which connected the dots between prog and punk and was massively influential in the late 1970's and early 80's, and also ran several influential labels like SSE, Eastern Works/Chaos Records, and Trans Records which were all instrumental in the first releases by the Boredoms, Merzbow, and Ruins. His presence in the scene will be missed greatly, and I hope someone takes up the slack and focuses on getting a good YBO2 catalog retrospective happening stateside. They are long overdue. In some ways, YBO2 were a mirror of sorts to what was going on in early 1980's NYC with Swans, Sonic Youth etc., but bringing in some bent prog elements to their punk noise that NYC probably was hoping to forget at the time. Needless to say, KK Null helped mutate those ingredients beyond belief with his way-ahead-of-its-time guitar pyrotechnics. Here's some real Audio of "Dogla Magala II" from the Dead Tech compilation LP. You Tube video of the same song as well!

 

In other Japan-related (though not necessarily Kitamura-related),You Tube is really starting to deliver the goods from the Land of the Rising Sun. There's Gedou, the somewhat glammed predecessors to the King Brothers kicking out the jams (thanks to Tom Lax and the unknown listener who both sent this link to me), plus absolute legends Les Rallizes Denudes live in 1976 and also 1967 spraying shards of Sister Ray feedback everywhere. Also snagged a few choice MP3s, the first from Murahachibu's Live Mitasai record from 1972 (MP3), a chunky blast of amped-up Stones-meets MC5/Stooge action. Plus, Mark Morgan hepped me to a 1971 live track from Datetenyru (translated: "cool flying dragon"); they were a Kansai prog-psych outfit whose studio records haven't done much for me, but totally slayed live it seems (MP3). Cities On Flame With Rock and Roll blog has the whole LP here too. Finally, on a quieter side, I was going to save this one for a post on some Japanese 70's folk MP3s, but it's too good to wait. Sachiko Kanenobu's folk stylings were very much based in West Coast USA foundation while incorporating all kinds of global vibes in a totally pure way. Her 1972 debut Misora (produced by and featuring a young Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra) was a very different kind of approach for a female singer-songwriter in Japan, and just as it looked like she was hopping the fame train, she left to live stateside with her American husband and left the music scene behind. Of all people, it was author Philip K. Dick who encouraged her to get back into music in the 1980's (he was even slated to produce her album before he died!), and now Australia's Chapter Music has reissed the classic Misora. Check out "Leave It To Time" (MP3), gorgeous stuff.



Posted by Brian Turner on August 09, 2006 at 02:29 PM in Brian Turner's Posts, MP3s, Music | Permalink

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Sounds like good stuff. Do you have stuff by the bands mentioned? (excluding the obvious SY etc.)

Somebody gave me a Ghost CD recently, but I really didn't like it. I passed it on to somebody else.

Obviously the Fall. Any other answers would be wrong. I wouldn't've chose City Hobgoblins, but they still win.

I love Manchester, we go there regularly. It's a great city.


The Fall. Of their earlier tracks, 'City Hobgoblins' is one of my favourites.

I voted for "At A Later Date," because that tune rocks.
Had you included "Where Have All The Bootboys Gone" by Slaughter and the Dogs, I may have gone for that one. I loved that song when I was 14.

what, no durutti column?


i see you wisely avoided including the smiths though.

Yeah, sorry HP, it was meant to be a joke. It wasn't funny, so I've removed it.

There was no need, it was funny enough - I just wished to state my love of all things Mancunian (well, most things). I know loads of people who dislike Manchester, as it happens, but I think that's to do with living so close to Liverpool.

The fight would be between the smiths and the fall but this i'm not gonna comment on because deep down i know the answer.