Wavetrain, 8th wagon

Hello, down to the 8th wagon already time for wailing of the other kind. Martha got stuck with one muffin who never liked that name but then alliterating jokes tend to stick. This is the iceage is their best album which should have established their career but didnt, instead it launched the producers career, Daniel Lanois, and they got the dropped by Virgin, thats what you get proving that manager wrong. Career was not what Jah Wobble had in mind but when his collegues in PIL seemed stuck in heavy drug and alcohol abuse, he decided to go his own way, in betrayal. Dalek I, sort of confused themselves and though their first album (still unavailable on cd) showed much promise they buzzed off in other directions to return 2 years later to add love you and that was it. Dave Ball has produced much music but just one solo album when he was in the Psychic TV clan and at the end of his collaboration with Soft Cell mate Marc Almond, In strict tempo didnt find a niche and maybe thats why it took 25 years to be released on cd. Urban Verbs should have been one of US's biggest wave bands, if only they hadnt come from Washington..


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Martha and the Muffins - This Is The Ice Age (81)
Jah Wobble - The Legend Lives On In Betrayal (80)
Dalek I - Compass (80)
Dave Ball - In Strict Tempo (82)
Urban Verbs - I and Early Damage (80/81)

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Martha and the Muffins - This Is The Ice Age (81 * 235mb)

The group's initial line-up came together in Toronto in 1977, when David Millar asked his fellow Ontario College of Art student Mark Gane to help him start a band. Millar recruited Martha Johnson to play keyboards; Johnson brought in a friend from high school, Carl Finkle, to play bass; and Gane's brother Tim signed on as the drummer. They chose the name "Martha and the Muffins" to distance themselves from the aggressive names adopted by many punk bands of the era. According to Mark Gane: "We decided to use it as a temporary name until we could all agree on something better." The name ended up sticking for the next 7 years.

In 1979, the band travelled to England to record their first album, Metro Music (1980). It contained their 'one hit wonder' "Echo Beach", that opened doors and created expectations. Later in 1980, the band released their second album, Trance and Dance, which was less successful and didn't give the band any hit singles.
In 1981, bassist Finkle left the band, and was replaced by Jocelyne Lanois, the sister of then-unknown record producer Daniel Lanois. After Jocelyne introduced the band to her brother, they figured Daniel was an ideal candidate to produce their next LP. However, in order to utilize his services as a co-producer, Martha and the Muffins had to agree to Virgin Records' demand that if they were going to insist on working with an unknown producer, they would also have work with a lower album recording budget.

Martha and the Muffins' 1981 album This is the Ice Age, produced by Daniel Lanois and the band, was recorded in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. More experimental than previous efforts, it also gained significant Canadian radio airplay . However, despite critical acclaim, the album didn't spin off any hit singles internationally, and Virgin dropped the band from their roster. Considering it launched Daniel Lanois' career as a sought after producer, it goes to show how little these music execs are in touch with music.

Dan Lanois produced the follow-up album, "Danseparc", recorded at Grant Avenue Studio during the spring and summer of 1982 with new drummer Nick Kent and the first of three albums to be recorded with Canadian indie label Current Records.With the release of "Danseparc" in 1983, the band embarked on another tour, playing dates in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. After the tour Martha & Marc broke up the band and went on together as M & M, one year later they'd score their biggest hit "black stations/white stations" it gave them the financial freedom to record at leisure. This led to an unbalanced next album (the world is a ball), and their record companies seemed to have lost interest, i.e no promotion. They packed up and moved to Bath (UK), for inspiration and to record Modern Lullaby an album no one has heard because their new rec company collapsed shortly thereafter. They released a babydaughter into the world aswell that year (90) Priorites change and for much of the 90's, they did film and television soundtrack work, but their recording artist days were history.



01 - Swimming (3:52)
02 - Women Around The World At Work (3:47)
03 - Casualties Of Glass (5:09)
04 - Boy Without Filters (4:58)
05 - Jets Seem Slower In London Skies (2:34)
06 - This Is The Ice Age (7:11)
07 - One Day In Paris (3:57)
08 - You Sold The Cottage (3:55)
09 - Three Hundred Years (3:33)
10 - Chemistry (3:06)

M & M @ Base

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Jah Wobble - In Betrayal  The Legend Lives On ( 80 * 518mb)

Jah Wobble (born John Wardle) got his musical career started with John Lydon's post-Sex Pistols group Public Image Ltd (PiL). His trademark bass playing drew heavily on dub, which has remained an important feature of his music. Wobble left his signature mark on PiL's seminal second album Metal Box released in 1980. However, he grew increasingly frustrated by the lacklustre creative atmosphere in the band, besides differences in artistic vision, further conflicts were brought on in part by heavy drug and alcohol abuse in the band . Wobble then went on to recording and releasing his debut album The Legend Lives on - Jah Wobble in Betrayal, and found himself accused by other PiL members of having made unauthorized use of material from Metal Box for the making of Betrayal, there upon he then left PiL in late 1980.

Following his departure from PiL, he went on to a successful solo career, continuing to the present. He has has since collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, first evidence of this the 4 track ep How much are they ? (81) recorded with ex Can members, Hoger Czukay and Jaki Liebzeit. Followed in 83 with the Snake Charmer lp, however his critical stance towards the commercialization of the music industry, caused a clash and he dropped out of the music scene for the rest of the decade.

Encouraged by friends to resume music, the clean-and-sober Wardle has since collaborated with a wide variety of musicians. Wobble's explorations into World music predated much of the genre's popularity, his music has spanned a number of genres, including ambient music and dance music, and in 2003, reworkings of traditional English folk songs. Wobble has been quite prolific from the mid-1990s to the present. He now runs his own label, 30 Hertz Records, and tours regularly throughout England and Europe. He is married to the renowned harpist Zi Lan Liao.



01 Betrayal (4:52)
02 Beat The Drum For Me (4:01)
03 Blueberry Hill (4:15)
04 Not Another (3:13)
05 Tales From Outter Space (3:04)
06 Today Is The First Day Of The... ? (7:22)
07 Dan McArthur (5:21)
08 Pineapple (3:35)
bonus
09 Blueberry Hill (Computer Version) 4:19
10 I Need You By My Side 3:35
11 Message From Pluto 4:49
12 Sea-Side Special 7:39
13 Something Profound 6:07
14 Dreadlock Don't Deal In Wedlock 4:31
15 Battle Of Britain 7:59

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Jah Wobble @ Base

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Dalek I - Compass (80 flac rem 283mb)

The band was formed in Liverpool in 1977 by Alan Gill (Vocals, Guitar) and David Balfe (Bass, Keyboards). The name came about as a result of a compromise between the two members: Balfe wanted to call the band Dalek (after the Doctor Who Exterminate ! robots) and Gill wanted to call the band Darling, I Love You. In 1978, Balfe left , the line-up fluctuated over the next few years and band members included: Kenny Peers, Chris Hughes, Dave Hughes, Martin Cooper and, for a brief time, Andy McCluskey (the latter three would later be bandmates in OMD). The band was finally pared down to just Gill and Dave Hughes by the time they released their debut album Compass Kumpas in 1980 on the Phonogram label. Soon after the album's release, the band went topsy turvy and thus on hiatus. They reformed in 1983, meanwhile dropped by their recordlabel, they landed at Korova (echo and the bunnymen) they recorded "Dalek I Love You" this was a much more commercial sonic attempt , they dropped a lot of quirkyness, in the end it didnt work out,. Later Andy Gill served 18 months for distributing drugs. Note, Kumpass isnt available on cd



01 The World (2:24)
02 8 Track (2:52)
03 Destiny (Dalek I Love You) (3:38)
04 A Suicide (2:55)
05 The Kiss (2:00)
06 Trapped (3:57)
07 Two Chameleons (3:19)
08 Freedom Fighters (2:18)
09 You Really Got Me (1:52)
10 Mad (1:51)
11 Good Times (2:08)
12 We're All Actors (2:52)
13 Heat (3:12)
14 Missing 15 Minutes (5:40)
15 Astronauts (Have Landed On The Moon) 3:27
16 Happy 2:33
17 This Is My Uniform 3:13
18 Heartbeat 4:01

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Dave Ball - In Strict Tempo (82 * 258mb)

As a student of Leeds Polytechnic Fine Arts University Ball experimented with electronic sounds and synthesizers, a burgeoning technology at the time which was just beginning to gain acceptance with artists such as Kraftwerk and The Human League. He met fellow student Marc Almond, who, taken with Ball's unique take on avant-garde electronic soundscapes, asked him to help in developing music to complement his performance art pieces. The two cut a 4-track EP, funded by Ball, entitled Mutant Moments, and were soon signed to the small Some Bizarre Records. Working alongside Almond, who by this time had taken on the role of lead singer and lyricist, at Ball's suggestion, the band achieved massive success with their cover of the Gloria Jones's Tainted Love, which reached #1 in seventeen different countries and #8 in the U.S, the biggest-selling UK single of 1981.

Soft Cell remained major pop stars in the UK, releasing a string of singles which all reached the UK Top 5. Two more albums, arranged and scored by Ball, were released to critical success. The duo went on their seperate ways to pursue solo projects in 1983, just before the release of their third album, This Last Night in Sodom.

After the demise of Soft Cell, Ball released a solo album, In Strict Tempo, which failed to generate commercial attention despite positive publicity. In Strict Tempo features guest artists that include Gavin Friday (Virgin Prunes) and Genesis P.Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) , and is produced by Flood. Unsurprisingly it sounds rather unlike Soft Cell and it consequently failed to sell, it has been rereleased remastered this spring. Ball then went on to produce electronic dance music records alongside producer Ingo Vauk and collaborator Richard Norris. He eventually teamed with Norris to form the techno group The Grid, which enjoyed success with the minor hit "Swamp Thing".



01 - Mirrors (2:22)
02 - Sincerity (Voc. Genesis P-Orridge) (5:06)
03 - Passion Of A Primitive (4:09)
04 - Strict Tempo (Voc. Gavin Friday) (3:40)
05 - Man In The Man (Voc. Genesis P-Orridge) (3:42)
06 - Only Time (1:01)
07 - Life Of Love (3:00)
08 - Rednecks (4:31)
09 - American Stories (12:17)

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Urban Verbs - I and Early Damage (80/81 * 182mb)

During the end of an era of disco and the height of punk a Washington, D.C. the Urban Verbs emerged. Fascinating but tragically overlooked, Urban Verbs were an arty quintet whose lead singer was the brother of Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz. And therein lay the Verbs' problem: while guitarist Robert Goldstein guided the band through striking modern instrumental pieces of depth and quality with Roddy Frantz's urban-alienation lyrics. The Verbs' records showed great potential. . They were a group ahead of their time. They helped lead the 80's into the New Wave scene as well as the dominance of college radio. The members included Robert Goldstein (guitar), Danny Frankel (drums, ) Linda France, and Robin Rose. The quintet recorded two albums, 1980's Urban Verbs and 1981's Early Damage. Then they disappeared. Nothing was heard from the group until 1996 when they performed live again once. Their first album has been released on cd yet their second remains unavailable as such. With hindsight, why these guys didnt make it remains a mystery, maybe it was the dissociation with their (evil) hometown Washington. Whatever here's your chance, 2 great albums.



01 - Subways (3:36)
02 - Angry Young Men (4:10)
03 - Next Question (5:29)
04 - Frenzy (3:09)
05 - Ring-Ring (My Telephone's Talking) (3:42)
06 - Only One of You (4:48)
07 - Luca Brasi (5:38)
08 - Tina Grey (4:55)
09 - Good Life (4:27)



10 - When The Dance Is Over (1:25)
11 - Jar My Blood (3:53)
12 - Acceleration (4:31)
13 - Early Damage (5:31)
14 - Promise (5:28)
15 - For Your Eyes Only (4:57)
16 - Business & The Rational Mind (4:50)
17 - In The Heat (4:36)
18 - Terminal Bar (6:46)

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