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The Problemist – Pop Religion Is Love

Posted on July 14, 2009 by cranio

Pop Religion Is Love

The Problemist or Problemist was founded by William Davenport in 1980. During the 70′s William played in a few punk bands, and had worked with synthesizers and tape manipulation for making film soundtracks. The bands I played in were pretty traditional, and after a while I would get kicked out for being too strange with the way I wanted to play. So in 1980 I found myself very interested in creating punk music, but not melodic or linear like most punk.In 1980 I started using the name as a title for a series of performances. The performances had music as an element, but for the most part they were ‘psychotic improvisation’, more in a theatrical vein than musical. After the series was completed I decided to continue using the name and to concentrate on music.At first I was purely interested in creating an intense sound for live performances. I found it very difficult because the sound I wanted to work with, in fact it took me about 8 months to find the first members of the group version of Problemist. During that period of looking for members I made my first tape, and distributed it to various places and local radio shows. The first recordings were probably the most aggressive, and I really wanted to create a live sound that was comparable. Throughout the years my goals have become much more refined and focused to where the most important aspect now is the relationship of the materials. Now I’m thinking more in terms of creating varying moods, rather than one stream of intensity. Excellent cassette witch displays a mix of post-punk, no wave, electronics and samples. Pop Religion Is Love was released as a cassette by A.R.P.H. Tapes (AT #002) in 1982. See also there wonderful album I posted a year or two a go.

Tracks:

  1. A Thousand
  2. Don’t Worry About Me
  3. Why Was I Born
  4. Pop Religion Is Love
  5. Release Of Eden
  6. A Prayer
  7. 501
  8. Dear Monica
  9. Your Waiting
  10. No No..
  11. Hundreds Of Virgins
  12. Proper Priestly Training
  13. God Kills Fun
  14. Diet Of Worms
  15. Bolero Crash
  16. Human Accident
  17. Bolero Crash Cont.
  18. Rock Me To Sleep
  19. Superstitions
  20. Hector
  21. 5 Minute Affair / Shut The Tape Off

(Tracks 6 & 7 and 15 & 16 & 17 are recorded together.)

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Various – Hear The Roar Of Mountains Volume One & Two

Posted on October 3, 2007 by cranio

Excellent two cassette release by Audiofile Tapes, featuring famous and obscure bands and artists from the mid 80′s. A dive into the industrial, experimental, minimal synth and post-punk scene anno 1985. Hear The Roar Of Mountains Volume One & Two was released as a double cassette with booklet by Audiofile Tapes (aT 2A, aT 2B) in 1985.

Hear The Roar Of Mountains

Tracks:

  1. Mark Abbott – Yellow Jacket
  2. Samm Bennett – Shreds
  3. Elliott Sharp – Good For Business
  4. Controlled Bleeding – Untitled
  5. Problemist – Krank
  6. The Psychological Warfare Branch – U Do Or U Don’t Jane
  7. Gerechtigkeits Liga – Live In NYC Dec. 08, 1984
  8. Skoptzies – White Rabbit (Live At Antenna Nov. 04, 1984)
  9. Hidious In Strength – March Of The Blind
  10. Mystery Hearsay – Untitled
  11. F/i – Walls (From Lords)
  12. Port Said – Indian Ocean Voyage 2
  13. Band Of Holy Joy – First Hour Of The Day
  14. Constructive Terrorism – Open Wounds
  15. Smersh – This House
  16. The Haters – Brokess
  17. Sleep Chamber – Leviatan
  18. Erotic Psyche – What A Gasser She Was
  19. Smegma – Grumpy Tonsure
  20. If, Bwana – The Born Again
  21. AMK – Raw (Excerpt)
  22. J. Silverman – I Affect You

Hear The Roar Of Mountains

Tracks:

  1. Urban Oblivion – Excerpt From “Video Void” Soundtrack
  2. Monochrome Bleu – Love/Work
  3. Keeler – Cosmic Ferry
  4. Data Bank A – The Range
  5. Nomuzic – In The Shit Again
  6. Bene Gesserit – Nobody Is Perfect
  7. Hunting Lodge – Energyguide
  8. Amor Fati – 2 Or 3 Nights
  9. Audio Leter – Excerpt From “Audio Letter #65″ (Live At ABC No Rio)
  10. Herself – Audio Recording
  11. Chris Gross – Political Chemistry
  12. S. Gustav Hagglund – Percussion Music
  13. Architects Office – AO 218
  14. Viscera – Thinking Without Words
  15. Psi-Field – Last Rites
  16. Bob Feldman – High Technology Homeless

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