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Excellent tape from 1988 released on Peyrere (Pey 86) , a mix of experimental , post-punk, spoken word and industrial. Not much info to be found about the lesser known bands. Band Of Holy Joy formed in London by Newcastle singer Johnny Brown in 1984. The band split up in 1992, shortly after issuing “Tracksuit Vendetta” recorded under the name Holy Joy. In 2002 as Band Of Holy Joy again they released “Love Never Fails” CD. Rowland S Howard is a member of The Birthday Party and gives us a track that could have been from The Birthday Party. The band Total is a different one than the Total of Matthew Bower of Pure and Skullflower. Dau Al Set (U.K.) is completely unknown to me. Derek Jarman was the maverick radical of the British cinema during the late 1970s, ’80s, and early ’90s. His highly idiosyncratic form of avant-garde art cinema managed to sustain itself due to his personal reputation as an auteur, as an enfant terrible, and to his more or less public private life. Jarman was an artist of many dimensions: an author of autobiographical journals, a poet, a painter, a scriptwriter, a film director, a cinematographer, and a set designer. Jarman was at the same time a modernist and a Renaissance artist. His scathing attacks on present-day British politics and challenging use of aesthetic forms as well as images from popular culture were combined with a neo-romantic fascination for and a subversion of traditional English high art. Jarman’s fame, however, mostly derived from his outspoken homosexuality, his never-ending public fight for gay rights, and his subsequent personal struggle with AIDS.

Tracks:

1. Band Of Holy Joy – City Of Tales
2. Rowland S. Howard – Still Burning
3. Lydia Lunch – Dear Whores
4. Nurse With Wound – Alas The Madonna Functions
5. Total – All Night Long
6. Test Dept. – Total State Machine
7. Dau Al Set – Strange Pain
8. Dau Al Set – Dream Scum
9. Total – Pump
10. Derek Jarman – Untitled
11. Current 93 – Anti-Christ Anti-Christian
12. Pure – Untitled
13. Coil – Dream Photography

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