'Souls of Black' was the first thing I heard by them. The bassline on that song made me buy the LP.

hell yeah!!!! that bass line is awesome!

Art Of Noise – Closing
Gaye Bykers On Acid – All Hung Up
Bogshed – Jobless Youngsters
Acid Reign – Humanoia
Anne Pigalle – Intermission
Fields of the Nephilim – Moonchild (second Seal)
Natural Life – Strange World
Ice Cube – We Had To Tear This Motherf***er Up
Age Of Chance – Kiss
Art of Noise – Egypt

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Tears For Fears – Empire Building
Big Stick – Jesus Was Born (On an Indian Reservation)
Propaganda – p:machinery (beta)
Scorpio Rising – Watermelon
Funkmeister – War Dance
Steinsky and Mass Media – The Motorcade Sped On
Alien Sex Fiend – The Impossible Mission
The Bambi Slam – Don’t it Make You Feel…
The Barmy Army – Sharp as a Needle

Excellent.That's capturing a moment in time.

I don' t believe you mate.And i thought that i was the only saddo who ever bought a sheep on drugs record.I have never known anyone to mention their name,let alone liking their music.WOW!!!!

How intriguing that two of the tapes (Hip Priest's and mine) in round one contained Age of Chance's "Kiss". Could the time be right for their reformation?

I can't talk right now,sonicl.There is something rather odd going on in this round.

Sheep on Drugs were really good I thought. I first heard them on a free tape with Deadline magazine - 'Mary Jane' the track was. I've got an etched 10" copy of 'Let the Good Times Roll', which is fairly nice I suppose.

Do you remember the Natural Life track? Corker ofa song, that one.

Scorpio Rising were a band from my part of the world, they played with the likes of PWEI and the Neddies. Should have been big, I tells ya, but things went wrong. There's some American dance band who use the name Scorpio Rising now.

Scorpio Rising – Watermelon?
I wonder if you knew that Stewart kickstarted the short- lived romo movement?They were from Liverpool,right?

SONICL SIDE TWO:

Track one is a trippy/dubby type thing. Is Adrian Sherwood involved? Like a lot of the On-U stuff but with trumpet that sounds like Miles Davis. I went through a stage of loving On-U, for a brief period late 80's/early 90's they were just great. This probably isn't On-U at all though is it? Good though. Alas no vocals to comment on.

Track 2. I recognise this I think. Very dancy. Wait a minute, I'm going to take a stab in the dark: Adamski. Nice & acidy.

Track 3: An instrumental Mazzy Star-like track. I know it's not MS, that's the only band I could think of. I would guess British early 90's but I don't know. Not a great track on its own, but fits in well. Lets me have a sit-down after my dance to "Adamski".

See above for Scorpio rising.I remember chatting to Stewart and some of his groupies in Camden's the Good Mixer some years ago.haha,excellent Hip Priest!!!

From Birkenhead, in fact. On the Wirral. I sort of knew them, in fact! It's stunning that soemone else has heard of them now. Their records are so good (a few Eps and a mini-LP). Such a shame things went wrong. I picked Watermelon because of the kicks-ass bassline and the wah-wah type solo.

The track is Rhys Chatham and Martin Wheeler. Although Rhys Chatham is most well known as a guitar-based composer, he also plays trumpet, and much of his more recent work is trumpet based. I think the trumpet was played through a wah pedal on this one - as you say, very Miles Davis.

This one is the New Zealand one-man band Gate. Michael Morley discovered laptops in the late 90s and decided to stop doing distorted guitar stuff and start doing laptop stuff instead. I can't remember the name of the album, but if you want to know I'll tell you later. If there is a laptop set by Gate at ATP (seeing as Michael Morley will be there with The Dead C) I will be very happy.

I can't remember what this was. I really should have written out a track list.

Wow, that is a surprise. I've only heard very early Chatham and it's obviously nothing like this. I've just rewound & started the tape again to give it another listen.

I'm not entirely sure I've ever heard any Rhys Chatham.

Incidentally, apologies to Glice for the liquid-papered cassette - I had to record over a pre-recorded one, as I had no blank cassettes. I have now though. In fact, I'm considering making a 120-minute epic for round two.

I hope i'll get that Hip Priest.

Not a problem. I am a liberal soul.

How's the review coming along? ;)

My motivation at work today, besdies money, was the thought of coming home and seeing a package in my mailbox containing my mix tape, but sadly the postal services have failed me.