various | the may queen in july

this is the best tape compilation i did, and i never bloody released it. i spent 2 years compiling it, was very excited about it, but then its completion coincided with the collapse of my tiny empire in 2000. oof.

anyway, at 2 x c60 it's a monster - 42 tracks in all - and it's basically dedicated to four-track pop, so expect lots of hiss along with the tunes.

and there really are plenty of tunes to be had here, from:

::: charlie mcalister
::: father
::: southern charm pageant
::: remora
::: crayola summer
::: inca eyeball
::: girlboy girl
::: mad planets
::: courtis
::: werewolves on hashish
::: in tundra
::: tegan fraid (age 3)
::: hood
::: caleb fraid
::: 50holehead
::: jalopy
::: michelle glaw
::: fink
::: plundershop
::: warser gate
::: smirkworthy
::: elk
::: catkins of jazz
::: food
::: november 1959
::: frank peck
::: will simmons
::: drekka
::: i hail taxis
::: cocker spaniels
::: ring
::: mandorris
::: crosseyed
::: my place in space
::: shy rights movement
::: swingset
::: wagstaff
::: princeton reverbs colonnial
::: george willard
::: fernando

2 x c60 nearly released by kylie productions in 2000.

part 1.
part 2.

inca eyeball | he has a brain the size of a fifty pence piece

this record blew me away at the time just by its very existence - an actual 12" lp by inca eyeball?! they're an acquired taste i guess, one that i acquired on my very first listen.

"for best results, pretend that you like this record."

it has 117 songs.

lp released by fusetron/carburetor in 1995.

get.

inca eyeball | quattro symbolos

inca eyeball go digital - 99 tracks on shiny cd proudly recorded on the usual crappy tape deck. nice.

cd released by spirit of orr in 1997.

get.

inca eyeball | leave the country

if you don't know, inca eyeball was a duo from stoke, comprising phil of betley welcomes careful drivers/ashtray navigations and joincey of face like a smacked arse/millions of other bands. their modus operandi was simple: put tape in cheap tape recorder, press record, hit things and sing, release it. all their songs are very very short, which means ripping their releases, only one of which made it to cd, is not for the faint-hearted. thankfully crayola is made of stern stuff and he's ripped a couple of them.

this particular release was a co-release between bwcd and my own kylie label. but thanks to the royal mail i never got my copies of it. this loss proved to be the final straw for me and i packed things up soon after.

but the record is great - i belive it's the one and only inca release to have been recorded in stereo - an impressive feat. sadly i never got a single copy of the 7", just a preview tape. ah well, fuck the music business.

7" released by betley welcomes careful drivers/kylie productions in 1994.

bah.