Ministry Of Love - Wide Awake And Dreaming MLP

For those who like Red Temple Spirits: here's the band that came before them.
William Faircloth originally came from England and teams up with Roger Beall and multi-instrumentalist Mark Nine to deliver 5 tracks of postpunk with a strong 60's psyche influence. Early Pink Floyd comes to mind.
Ministry Of Love is a bit more psyche than Red Temple Spirits. They made a perfect mix of both styles on their 2 albums and the 'New Land' 7".

Wide Awake And Dreaming MLP (Underworld Records - R 9002-2 - 1987)
1. Nuclear Stone Age
2. Psychic Nation
3. You're Not On Your Own
4. Living In The Moment
5. This Magic Kingdom

Ministry Of Love

The Borobudur - Silent In The Empty Room MC

Time for some weird stuff out of Japan. Don't know anything about The Borobudur but I think it's just one person playing all the instruments. Sounds like coming straight from a mental institution.
Quite interesting.
Titles as found on the sleeve.
Trivia: Borobudur is a buddhist temple on Java, Indonesia. Discovered in the 19th century, it's one of the biggest buddhist temples found.

Silent In The Empty Room MC (Emblyo-E 0001-1985)
1. Thy Kingdom Come
2. Paralysed
3. The Dream Has Died
4. Painted Gray Or Black
5. Inspired
6. It's Nice Of You
7. Sitting Silently
8. By All Means I Will
9. Kinds Satiafy
10. Horrible Box & Me
11. A Pat Solution To A Problem
12. If Children Dance

The Borobudur

Sepher - City Hunter 12"

Unknown new wave (not cold) band from Marseille, France. Think this is the only release of Sepher.
Last song (and best IMO) is co-written by Patrick Martinez of Martin Dupont. He also produced this 12".

City Hunter 12" (Lice Records-ST 26-1985)
1. Indochis
2. Jenny Bondage
3. Magazine Game

Sepher

Fourwaycross- Fill The Sky LP

One of the better known LA underground bands from the late 80's. Great mix of postpunk with a psychedelic sound
'Fill The Sky' is the band's 2nd release after an 8 track tape (which was later issued on vinyl on Nate Starkman & Son).
This album is probably the last album of the 1st line-up with Tom Dolan as lead-singer. Later albums have Beth Thompson as lead vocalist.
Tom Dolan released a solo album as Doubting Thomas.
The album is pretty long (± 50 mins.) so it's a pretty big file. Scans of the insert are included.
This album also includes the 1st issue of Alternator magazine (not scanned).

Note: lots of tracks ripped as 1 track as I didn't want to disrupt the flow of the album.

Fill The Sky LP (Motiv Communications-Motiv Prod 2-1986)
1. Climate And Weather
2. Indy
3. Apologize
4. So For You
5. Losing
6. Dirty News
7. U.S.A.
8. Trench
9. Unconcerned
10. Dream

Fill The Sky

It's Raining - Radioland 12" + 7"

Learned to know this band by downloading this 12" from a blog now gone. And I did like what I heard so I tried to find this record as well as the harder to find 7".

It's Raining were from Huntington Woods, MI. , consists of 4 members. They have a strong UK postpunk sound, except maybe the vocals. No groundbreaking stuff here but a fine listen.
Not much info to be found on the band. Both records released by the band on Certain Records.
The 7" has good songs but sounds muddy probably of bad vinyl pressing.

Radioland 12" (Certain Records-CER 1001-1984)
1. Radioland
2. Different Light
3. Go Along With You
4. Looking Glass

The Party She Cried 7" (Certain Records-CER 1002-1986)
1. The Party She Cried
2. As If It Were Today

It's Raining

Blue Cross - Demo

Normally I don't plug new bands here as my focus is on 80's underground. But I make an exception here.
Blue Cross is one of the many side-bands of Ottowa punkband Germ Attak. Met these young punks at a gig here in Belgium and they are friendly guys.
Most of the sidebands are punk/hardcore sounding but Jo formed Blue Cross, a band with a strong early 80's goth/deathrock sound. Cool eerie guitars (flanger), tribal drums and female vocals, always a plus!
Only 3 songs but worth a listen.

And The Wizard posted a tape of another cool band of punks doing the goth thing: Bellicose Minds.

1. Everything I Despise
2. Tough Days
3. Face The Aggression

Blue Cross

Pump - Sombrero Fallout CD

For those who like the 1st album of Pump, 'The Decoration Of The Duma Continues', there's good news. A friend of mine released their unreleased second album 'Sombrero Fallout'.
Andrew Cox commented on my Pump post more than a year ago asking if someone was interested in releasing it. Suddenly Andrew passed away January last year. FDV of Plague Recordings took interest and got in contact with David Elliott through Andrew Hulme of O Yuki Conjugate. And now finally this great album sees the light of day. And as stated on the insert: it's for everyone out there, but really it's for Andrew.

More info on Pump and how to get this CD, go to Plague Recordings.

Seen Links - Schlösser Rechts - s/t 7"

Here's a pretty rare 7" of some weird NDW for you. Don't know anything about Seen Links - Schlösser Rechts. Heard them on some comp. tape posted elsewhere. They also appear on the 'Auftakt' comp. LP and 'Night Of The Banshee' CD.
Lyrics of 'Die Nacht' (by Otto Ernst Hesse) from the movie "Tanz auf dem Vulkan".
First song is Chinese for '(Wir Sind) Gute Freunde'.
One of the early Zensor releases.

Seen Links - Schlösser Rechts 7" (Zensor-CM 03-1982)
1. Tuō Men Xiōng Hǎopéngyou
2. Die Nacht
3. Kreisel

Seen Links - Schlösser Rechts