SoiSong - xAj3z (2009) [256]

Hooray, the new SoiSong album, it too surprises us with a bizarre shape. It's not nearly as fantastic as qxn948s, but it's definitely worth hearing for anyone who likes ambient / experimental electronic music.

download 256 (re-upload)

Okkyung Lee - Nihm (2005) [VBR209]

Jazzy cello improvs in an avant-garde modern classical spirit.

VBR - 209

Instrument Normal - Audible Incarnations of Shapeless Entities (2009) [V2/V0/320/FLAC]

Shameless self-promotion. Instrument Normal is Disexistentsium (me) and Hypochondriosis, and this is our collaboration. We are perhaps most coherently described as noise, with sound manipulation and distortion recurrent through the album, influence from industrial music. Elements of dark ambient can be clearly heard on some tracks. At times with hints of drone doom metal.

AISE is an experiment in extreme expression. Broken undefined soundscapes crafted through destructive processing on sound or body. Self-indulgent with lesser interest in accessibility or existing formulae. An attempt at creation through destruction. Uncompromisable, devoid of hope. Is it music? What is the point of music?

A loud disagreement with "musicality". How could you express anything if you restrict yourself to it? It seems cowardly, or perhaps you're just that uninteresting. I think I've misunderstood what it is to "express your feelings" if it means to play the exact same chords on the guitar the ones that came before played.

Tracklist:
1. Nifel (3:41)
2. Enter The Machinery (6:00)
3. Stones of Sala (3:55)
4. Defloration (10:21)
5. 0 (8:08)
6. Abrasion (30:05)

Download:
Folder

MP3 320 part 1
MP3 320 part 2

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2
FLAC part 3
FLAC part 4
FLAC part 5
FLAC part 6

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene (1976/2007) [V0]

I lied, here's another nostalgia album. This is the 2007 remaster for the classic pioneer electronic album from 1976. Impressive 100% synth, I want to call it ambient, it also has these catchy parts.

Uploaded for a friend.

V0

Shining - III: Angst - Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie (2002) [V0]

More black metal?

Shining is pretty famous, and even though I try to make a point out of not posting albums everyone already heard I decided to post this one. One of Kvarforth's earlier works released when he was only 19~ years old. While he is extremely notorious for his album "V: Halmstad", extremely acclaimed by fans and critics alike, I almost still prefer this one. I don't think everyone has heard this earlier album. It's more black metal ("Halmstad" actually being doom metal rather than black metal) similar to atmospheric black metal and mid-burzum ("Hvis Lyset Tar Oss", "Filosofem" etc.) through almost ritualistic repetetion, highly distorted guitars which almost only become a soundscape while still having legible melodies and riffs. With screams/growls on top. Simple yet effective production. It almost comes off as minimalistic. It definitely has a glow his other albums lack. In the same way it lacks some of what his later albums offer.

Speaking of Kvarforth as a person, I think he is hilarious. Not in the sense that I am laughing at him, rather I am laughing with him at all the little fuckers who take him seriously. He is the greatest troll ever to have existed.

MP3 V0 (tis a re-upload)

Okay, enough nostalgia for a while.

Vrolok - Resurgence III: Order of the Sphere (2007) [V2]

Okay, about time to actually make a post. Even though this album is so recent it feels very nostalgic to me, giving me flashbacks to teen years when I used to be "into" black metal. Today practically all black metal feels outdated, franchised or otherwise ridiculous. The first black metal bands did something interesting for their time but it quickly grew stagnant. For me Vrolok is something like rediscovering black metal all over, how it was supposed to be today, tortured, dark, dirty. Call it depressive black metal or call it industrial black metal or whatever, Vrolok is the epitome of black metal.

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Mental Destruction

Here's a few Mental Destruction uploaded mainly for a friend. They refer to their music as "Orthodox Industrial", their inspiration for lyrics lies in their devotion to Christ. A notable work of theirs which is not posted below is "The Intensity of Darkness" released 1991 on Cold Meat Industry, which my friend already had. It should be available on other blogs if it interests you. With releases dating back to 1990 they were indeed part of the growing early Swedish industrial scene. What is it with christian swedes and death industrial anyway?


Mental Destruction - When Madness Strikes (1995) [V0]
A '95 CD reissue on Cold Meat Industry of their somewhat infamous early '90 cassette.

v0

Mental Destruction - Straw (1996) [FLAC&V0]
Their most recent full-length, released on CMI, the band is still considered active.

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2
FLAC part 3

v0

Mental Destuction - Before the Night (2001) [24/96FLAC&v0]
A 2001 7" LP released on Ant-Zen. This is Side A only.

24/96 FLAC

v0

CoH - Enter Tinnitus (1998) [FLAC&V0]

Shaping sounds with the help of the synth. CoH will remind you of Ryoji Ikeda, yet being surprisingly listenable, at times even catchy. The odd minimal synths, the clicking, popping and bleeping rhythms together become an eerie soundscape.

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2

MP3 V0

Piirpauke - Piirpauke (1975) [256]

"Piirpauke is a Finnish band that combines folk music, ethnic and jazz in their music."

I uploaded this for a friend who couldn't find it, I haven't heard it myself yet, so I can't insure you that it's any good. I still thought I'd put it here for anyone else who couldn't find it.

mp3 cbr 256

Swans - Omniscience (1992) [FLAC&V0]

A swans live album which has with time become very rare. Compiled from their 1992 world tour. Featuring some tracks otherwise unrecorded or unreleased.

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2
FLAC part 3
FLAC part 4 (fixed link)

V0 part 1
V0 part 2

M.S.B.R. & Iuchi Kengo - One (1998) [256]

"We are finally releasing our long spoken of collaboration between Tokyo’s Koji Tano, AKA M.S.B.R., and Kengo Iuchi. The release features three live duets nested between a solo studio track from each artist.

Tano’s Molten Salt Breeder Reactor opens the disc with the epic Psychic Blue. Excellent harsh noise with strong influences of musique concrète and electro-acoustic. The great production on this 22 minute track makes it so powerful that it is frightening at times.

Kengo Iuchi’s style is the polar opposite to that of M.S.B.R. He describes it as death folk. It incorporates maniacal guitar clanging and insane banter in a style comparable to elements of Keiji Haino or Diamanda Galas in their most demanding moments.

During the collaborative work M.S.B.R. lays low providing spacy electronics with streaks of noise between the insane banter of Kengo Iuchi."

mp3 256 part 1
mp3 256 part 2

Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble - Dreams (2002) [FLAC&V0]

An avant-garde jazz album from Otomo Yoshihide, the guy behind Ground Zero among others. This is perhaps an easier on ears and more accessible album which I'd recommend for someone who is not quite comfortable with the more sinister side of him or for someone just looking to get into his work.

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2
FLAC part 3
FLAC part 4

MP3 V0

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I've not been updating the blog with the same frequency lately due to being busy with other things but hopefully I'll find time to post a shitstorm of albums later.

Kazumoto Endo - Never Gonna Make You Cry (2001) [FLAC&V0]

Some more Kazumoto Endo for you all. This one is really short. I also recommend hearing his album "While You Were Out" for anyone who hasn't already, it should be availible on some other blogs.

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2

V0

Hijokaidan - King of Noise (1985) [ABR224]

Freeform improvisation somewhat largely based around guitars and distortion, drowning in feedback. Hijokaidan is kind of a legend among japanoise and this is their, in my opinion, best album.

mp3 abr-224

Studio - West Coast (2007) [V0]

Mediterranean music from Sweden. Actual original release in 2006 on vinyl, but the CD was released in 2007. Thanks to uggabugga who pretty much single-handedly gave me hope about pop music.

V0

The Bear Quartet - Eternity Now (2006) [FLAC&v0]

Here's something for the pretentiousandlistentobandsfromaforeigncountrirdtoseemobscure hipsterfaggots. Technically I don't fit into this classification of hipsterfaggot as this band is not foreign to me. Swedish indie band goes experimental, disregards a lot what is typically seen as "musical" and manages to get alienated by large parts of their fanbase. It's hilarious, and this is their by far best album. Experimental pop.

I also wrote a review on this ages ago, I'll see if I can dig it up...

Ah, I found it, but nevermind, it was just deranged ramblings.

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2
FLAC part 3
FLAC part 4

Mp3 V0


Get real you fucking worms. (right click on it and "show picture" if you didn't catch that)


If I catch any of you motherfuckers using RYM, I'll see to it that you lose your ability to reproduce and get your skull bent in by a fucking sledgehammer.

Dissecting Table - Human Breeding (1997) [FLAC&mp3]

Uploaded by request.
In both FLAC and mp3. What can I say, I fucking spoil you.

Noise...-ish.

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2
FLAC part 3
FLAC part 4

MP3 V0

Killer Bug - Beyond The Valley of the Tapes (2005)

A compilation of early Kazumoto Endo material under "Killer Bug". Sounds kind of like Government Alpha and Masonna combined, but a lot better.

Disc 1:
-Tracks 1-3 from Killer Bug self-released demo tape 1994.
-Track 4 from Side A of Brutal Rainbow tape originally released on Noise 1995.
-Tracks 5 and 6 from Cunt Explosion! EP originally released on Releasing Eskimo 1995
-Tracks 7 and 8 from Your Wife Is Mine EP originally released on Self Abuse Records 1995.

Disc 2:
-Track 1 from Side A of Steaming Gash tape originally released on B B Tapes 1995
-Track 2 from Side A of Vaginal Disco tape originally released on Mother Savage Noise Productions 1995
-Track 3 from Side B of Brutal Rainbow tape originally released on Noise 1995 (the first Killer Bug live at Waseda University, November 6, 1994)

MP3 320
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Mars - The Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977-1978 (2008, flac & mp3)

Back to posting some no wave. Mars is another one of those no wave bands who never actually properly released anything major, in this case just an EP, and we'd need some compilation later on to actually be able to have something to listen to. Even though we love these studio recordings, most no wave bands considered themselves to be live bands, which is possibly why they never really released much studio material, or maybe it's because the capitalist interest in no wave was ZERO, and I guess it's far too late to experience them in their full live glory. This is as close as we get. From parts similar to that of DNA's noise rock to a more purely post-punk sound and even sometimes as far as some weird soundscapes.

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2

MP3 V0

Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs (2009)

Hyped? Yes indeed. Here it is anyway, for all of you who've waited.

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Kazumoto Endo - Brick and Mortar (2003)

So yeah, here I am uploading some Kazumoto Endo. I was talking about him so much in the last post I thought it was the only possible course of action. I haven't seen this around on any blogs so that's why I decided to upload this one which is just an EP. But "While You Were Out" is a fucken great album if you'd like to check it out. Kazumoto's noise is explosive, intense as fuck, destructive, yet in moments somewhat upbeat and cheerful, but in a sick, twisted way.

Shitty 224 kbit/s quality, but I haven't found any better.

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VA - Nietzsche's Electronic Music (2001, flac)

Normally I wouldn't post something like this, but Nietzsche makes me look so post-modern and existentialist, fuck yeah. Anything featuring Kazumoto Endo must be worth having too. I thought it was gonna be more noisy though, but this is just tracks of glitch / experimental electronica with only a few noisier parts.

I dislike compilations, I do, some forms of compilations are all right, when it's mostly unreleased material by bands who never really released any albums, like DNA on DNA or a Mars compilation (I will post one later). Worst of all are the "best of" compilations though, it's unbelievable how people buy those.

Anyway this album is from Japan dedicated to Nietszche. Since it's a VA and most of these artists are really obscure, the quality is of course unpredictable, but most of them were at least decent. I was expecting more from the Kazumoto Endo one though.

1 QT? - Untitled
2 Kazumoto Endo - Untitled
3 Sunao Inami - Untitled
4 Masayuki Akamatsu - Ink On The Reconstructed Typeball
5 Minoru Yonemoto - Untitled
6 Daruin - Teinszech
7 Koichi Watanabe - 2001
8 Wheaton Research - Untitled
9 Lukazs Szalankiewicz - Untitled
10 Tetsuya Toshimitsu - Empty Voyager
11 Seiji Nagai & Koji Kawai - Meta-Chaos
12 Black Dot Corporation - Belief In The Sickness As Sickness

FLAC part 1
FLAC part 2
FLAC part 3
FLAC part 4

V0 part 1
V0 part 2

Flux Information Sciences - Private/Public (2001, FLAC & mp3)

TITS!!!!!!

Anyway, if No Wave really was a genre and not restricted to a certain time, I'd definitely call this this a No Wave band. Since this industrial noisy (post-)punk album was released in 2001 it's not, but it certainly gives you that no wave vibe. Cryptic vocals, abrasive outburst, bizzare & schizophrenic soundscapes, while containing a spirit of post-punk.

Flac part 1
Flac part 2
Flac part 3

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DNA - A Taste Of DNA (1980) & DNA on DNA (2004)

DNA is one of the best things ever happen to no wave. This particular EP is incredibly short, just about 10 minutes long, this could make it a lot easier to digest for people to typically acquainted with such dissonant music. Sadly this is the only "real" release by the band. The compilation album released in 2004 "DNA on DNA" is great too, and it actually has this EP on it anyway and it lacks this EP's only weakness, the length. So unless you're a wimp who wants some easy listening, just download the compilation album instead.

Instead of playing their instruments in an traditional manner. They set out to make weird sounds and sounding as different as possible.

A taste of DNA

Features the track off No New York and A Taste Of DNA as well as plenty of other good stuff.

DNA on DNA

Swans - Filth (1983)

Swans' album first album was revolutionary heavy for it's time. At their early years they were called the loudest band on earth. In my opinion this album serves as the best representation of their early aggressive period. It's extremely dirty and sludgy. Sludge fans should hear this out too.

v0
Part 1
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Various Artists - No New York (1978, FLAC & mp3)

A legendary compilation with 4 no wave bands, 4 songs each, produced by Brian Eno. Lydia Lunch I could do without, but this is still pretty much a must-hear.

A1 James Chance & The Contortions - Dish It Out
A2 James Chance & The Contortions - Flip Your Face
A3 James Chance & The Contortions - Jaded
A4 James Chance & The Contortions - I Can't Stand Myself
A5 Teenage Jesus And The Jerks - Burning Rubber
A6 Teenage Jesus And The Jerks - Closet
A7 Teenage Jesus And The Jerks - Red Alert
A8 Teenage Jesus And The Jerks - I Woke Up
B1 Mars - Helen Fordsdale
B2 Mars - Hairwaves
B3 Mars - Tunnel
B4 Mars - Puerto Rican Ghost
B5 DNA - Egomaniac's Kiss
B6 DNA - Lionel
B7 DNA - Not Moving
B8 DNA - Size

FLAC
Part 1
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Part 3

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v0

Kill Your Idols (2004, film)

Swans, DNA, Foetus, Suicide, Flux Information Sciences, James Chance and the Contortions, Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, Liars, Black Dice etc.

A 2004 documentary about the New York music scene. Especially the short-lived No Wave movement which came into life somewhere along the mid 70s and died in the early-mid 80s. With a comparison to the NY music scene of today (or rather 2002). Which leads to many pretentious rants by the old timers, especially by the oh god so awful Lydia Lunch (also in Teenage Jesus and the Jerks). It's fine though, we still have Michael Gira (Swans) and Arto Lindsay (DNA) to save the film.

Kill Your Idols Part 1
Kill Your Idols Part 2

For those of you interested I will in continuation be posting a series of no wave albums during the next few days.

Related posts
No New York
Swans - Filth
DNA
Flux Information Sciences - Private/Public
Mars
8 Eyed Spy

Phaenon - Submerged (2007)

A one-track dark ambient album. A little spacey, but nothing overly exaggerated. Deliciously evolving, while still having some forms of repetition.

320 part 1
320 part 2

Infidel?/Castro! - Bioentropic Damage Fractal (2005, FLAC+mp3)

(Bumped for FLAC)

Anyone who is acquainted with me has probably heard me mention this album one time or another, a personal favorite of sorts, and as suggested I'm posting it here. It's a very eclectic album ranging from avant-gardian grindy sound collages over a gnarly drum machine to psychedelic noise to long droning ambient tracks. It's a recommendation I almost give to anyone (unless your taste in music is awful). It's a gloomy, malicious, melancholic, chaotic double-disc opus which - if something - would suit as a soundtrack for the decay of mankind.

download mp3-v0 part 1
download mp3-v0 part 2

I've uploaded a FLAC rip with log/cue now too.
Megaupload

Enjoy.

Torturing Nurse - Eerie (2007)

Ching chong China chnoise. Torturing Nurse is a religion.

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NON - Blood & Flame (1987, FLAC & mp3)

Works a lot with repetitive sound manipulation and sometimes take on a more chaotic approach. Some songs feature repeated words as sound source, where the mind would start interpreting them and hearing different words or just plainly interpret them as a rhythm and not hearing words at all.

Download FLAC
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Or
Download v0

Mika Vainio & Lucio Capece - Trahnie (2009)

Electro-acoustic? Free jazz? Noise? Glitch? Drone? I guess it's a bit of all. Features a magnificently manipulated sax, droning soundscapes, and distorted outbursts.

Download mp3 320
Part 1
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Coil - Horse Rotorvator (1988, FLAC & mp3)

Everyone should have this already, but I was asked to upload it. Ranks among Coil's best albums. Enjoy your FLAC.

Download flac with log/cue
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Or download v0

Disc - GaijinCD4 (1998, FLAC & mp3)

"Glitch? Oh well I do quite enjoy the pleasant melodious Kashiwa Daisuke ^^"... NO, this is GLITCH. The stuff that could make someone go "oh shooks, the cd is broken".

Even though never really particularly distorted, it is very dissonant and makes little musical sense enough for me to actually call it noise.

Download flac with rip log and cue sheet
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Or download v0
Part 1
Part 2

I'll also recommend another album by them entitled brave2ep, I'm not sure which one I enjoy the most, they're both great. It's available from here.

Time to Burn - Starting Point (2005)

Uploaded this for my friend who couldn't find it, and well, I thought I might just put it out there for everyone.

I haven't listened to this one yet so it could be complete shite but I did enjoy their most recent album entitled Is.land which is decent, available from here.

Ignore the genre he put on it, it's actually Post-Hardcore/Sludge (fuck yeah capitalize genres) something.

Download mp3 cbr-224 (UGH)

Incapacitants - As Loud As Possible (1995) [FLAC/V0]

Noise is probably the form of music where you'd most definitely want it in FLAC. Where as "normal" music don't use the extreme frequency spectra to an especial degree, which happens to be where mp3 lowers the definition in order to compress, noise most certainly does and intentionally, or perhaps intentionally unintentional as would be the case with these. This is one of my favorites by Incapacitants. An essential album. Sketches toward "pure" noise.  

FLAC

V0 Part 1
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BBBlood - BBBlood (2009)

20 minutes of chaotic noise experiments from British project BBBlood.

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Ground Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera [Ver.1.28] (1996, FLAC & mp3)

Features like a billion of japanese/east asian samples, I can't udnerstand what's being said, but a Japanese woman once said "vibrator", I could understand that much. The best way to describe it is perhaps to call it "avant-garde jazz", very random, but also stays focused at times, so it's more in doses and processable. Has some mind-exploding noise bursts as well.

Download flac lossless
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4

Or
Download shit (mp3 vbr v0)
part the one and only

Keiji Haino With Boris - Black: Implication Flooding (1998)

Uploaded for my silly friend who doesn't have this already. It's more a Keiji Haino album than it is a Boris album.

Download mp3 vbr v2 part 1
Download mp3 vbr v2 part 2

Galax - Never Ending Space Trackin' (2007)

A very playful psychedelic, spacey, drone-ambient album, composed mainly of a bunch of manipulated delay, from guitars and whatnots. Though the actual instruments are never really what confronts you about it, they are instead somewhat pushed back to a background. Rarely ventures into more distorted drones, but it's there. In the end not a masterpiece but certainly fun.

Download mp3 320
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Astromero - Astromero (2005)

A spacey drone/noise/industrial album. Varies between realms. Sometimes leans more towards sound manipulation, sometimes towards the more distorted and sometimes towards droning soundscapes. Yet they are all an integral and constant part of the overall picture portrayed.

Download mp3 cbr-256
Part 1
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Steve Roden - Crop Circles (1997, flac & mp3)

CROP CIRCLES seems at first impression to be very flat just random repetitive crackling. But turn up the volume and eventually what reveals itself is a very opressive and claustrophobic soundscape. Seemingly repetitive but constantly morphing. Made only with a microphone and a speaker. Steve Roden is famous for coining the term "lowercase" to describe his music. Lowercase music is composed of sounds normally inaccessible to the human ear, such as the sound of plants growing or underground ant colony chambers, these are amplified to a hearable level.

Download flac lossless with log
Part 1
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Or download lossy mp3 v0

Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street (2009)

His new album, on ECM (gotta love ECM). This album is a lot darker and slower than it's predecessor (which I coincidentially posted here just a few days ago), takes a more noir approach and is inspired by world music to a much lesser extent.

download mp3 vbr v0

Incapacitants - Box Is Stupid (2009)

Another box? This time, it's 10 discs, 8 hours and 15 minutes of noise. Remastered versions of previously released cassettes from 93-97. Fuck yes Incapacitants are awesome.

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part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
part 6
part 7
part 8
part 9
part 10
part 11

11 parts. That's a new record. Well, the Henry Cow one is technically 14 parts if you want to download the whole set but I split that one up in volumes so that doesn't really count, it would probably have been like 8 or 9 parts if I had not split it.

The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set (2009)

Fuck yes, you heard me, another box set. This one is from avant-garde/progressive rock band Henry Cow. The links here are Volume 1 to 9. EXCLUDING volume 10 (a live DVD), the bonus CD as well as the subscriber exclusive 3rd box. Total length is roughly 8 hours and 45 minutes.

I decided to split the downloads to volumes so you don't have to download the whole box if you just want certain volumes, on the other hand this forces you to click more links if you want the whole thing, but whatever, the amount downloaded in bytes remains the same anyway.

All volumes are in mp3, vbr v0 quality.

Box 1: The Road, Volumes 1-5

Volume 1: Beginnings
Extracts from rehearsal and other tapes from 1971-73. Tracks 1,2,5 are from rehearsal tapes, recorded by Jack Balchin before Legend. Other tracks are from various unmarked tapes, 1971-73.

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Volume 2: 1974-5
A collection of live performances from 1974 and 1975. Tracks 1-5 are from an unmarked tape, 1974. Tracks 7-23 are from a concert at the Verenigingsgebouw in Halsteren, 26 September 1974, recorded by Jan Smagge on a stereo reel-to-reel. Tracks 24-32 are from a concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, 8 May 1975, with live mix by Sarah Greaves.

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Volume 3: Hamburg
Recordings from the March 1976 Hamburg, Germany concert. Tracks 1-13 are from a public concert recorded for the NDR Jazz Workshop, Hamburg, 26 March 1976. Track 14 are from a concert at the Piazza Navona, Rome, 27 June 1975, mixed by Sarah Greaves. Track 15 are from a concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, 8 May 1975, with live mix by Sarah Greaves.

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Volume 4 & 5: Trondheim
This is probably my favorite in the bunch. A double CD of a complete concert recorded in Trondheim, Norway in May 1976. All tracks from a cassette recording made by Henry Cow at the mixing desk at a concert at Studentersamfundet, Trondheim, 26 May 1976, mixed by Joel Schwartz

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Box 2: The Road, Volumes 5-9 (excluding the vol.10 video dvd)

Volume 6: Stockholm & Göteborg
Swedish Radio recordings of concerts performed in May 1976 in Gothenburg and May 1977 in Stockholm. Tracks 1-7 and 12-14 were recorded for Tonkraft by Sveriges Radio at a concert in Stockholm on 9 May 1977 and broadcast on 8 June and 11 June 1977; the programme producer was S. Vermalin. Track 8 was recorded for the NDR Jazz Workshop in Hamburg on 26 March 1976. Tracks 9-11 were recorded for Tonkraft by Sveriges Radio at a concert in Gothenburg on 28 May 1976 and broadcast on 14 July and 17 July 1976; the programme producer was Christer Eklund.

(SECOND re-upload)
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Volume 7: Later and Post-Virgin
A collection of live performances from late 1976 and 1977. Tracks 1-3 were recorded on cassette from the audience at Wandsworth Town Hall, London, 13 February 1977, live mix by Jack Balchin. Track 4 was recorded on cassette from the audience at De Plek, Vlissingen, 22 May 1977, live mix by Jack Balchin. Tracks 5-7 were recorded on cassette from the audience at Salle des Fetes, Chaumont, P 25 November 1976, live mix by Jack Balchin. Tracks 8-11 were recorded on cassette from the audience at Melkweg, Amsterdam, 16 December 1977, live mix by Jack Balchin. Track 12 was from an unidentified cassette recording, probably Italy, May/June 1977.

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Volume 8: Bremen
Extracts from a Radio Bremen radio broadcast in March 1978. Recorded for New Jazz Live at a public concert at Sendesall, Studio F, Radio Bremen, 22 March 1978, produced by Bernd Meier, concert mix by Jack Balchin.

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Volume 9: Late
A collection of performances from June and July 1978, plus Henry Cow's set at the inaugural Rock in Opposition Festival in March 1978. Tracks 1-4,10 are from a source unknown, probably outdoors in Italy, June or July 1978, live concert mix by E. M. Thomas. Tracks 5-9 are from the Rock in Opposition Festival at New London Theatre, Drury Lane, London, 12 March 1978, recorded by Hasse Bruniusson of Samla Mammas Manna, live concert mix by Jack Balchin. Track 11 was recorded on cassette from the audience at Cervia, 23 July 1978, live concert mix by E. M. Thomas.

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Oh wow, what a beautiful wall of text. I could've added cover art for each volume, but that would just be mean.