katharsis / live at the 455 / 1988

katharsis - live at the 455 (tape 1988 SSS Productions sss16)

Katharsis was a band from San Francisco, formed by: Daniel Malson , Jano Sanguine , Mary Andre and Tim Vickers (from 1988). Daniel Malson also got a side project: Bast, that released a tape through The Happiest Place on Earth. Here we find a tape each side got a different live recording but both at the same place the 455 gallery in SF. 

Side-a was recorded in october 1987. I don't know if the photo of the cover is the real band...hovewer Katharsis are an industrial band with punk attitude, is more in the power electronics vein, they don't have a lot of percussion..zero percussive..it's only about the fatness of the noise sound..the thickness, about the low frequencies. 'Imitate' is the best track. 'Fate' the most post-punk, 'Hostile Witness' the punkest, 'My father's Dead' the scariest...

Released on the Pittsburgh based label: SSS Production.

seite A / Live 10/17/1987: 1. Intro, 2. Imitate, 3. My Father's dead, 4. Fruits of Toil, 5. End

seite B / Live 1/29/1988: 1. Hostile Witness, 2. Just Passina.., 3. ..Through, 4. Leviathan, 5. Fate



get the tape here (ripped by Sickness Abouns now Sickness still Abouns [great blog!])
!!! listen loud.

various / music for the sloth / c60 / 1988

 various - Music for the sloth (yape c60 1988 Nailed to sound CS-001)
First release for the Nailed to Sound, Delawares label, founded by the electro-industrial act Batz Without Flesh. It's compiled by Claude Willey, singer and composer of BWF, and included bands or project that was going to be featured on the new label.
BTF open the tape with a slow industrial-rock bomb 'Sinking platfom', then we find a shorter version of 'Repairs' by Daniel Burke's noise project Illusion of Safety, already released by Sound of Pig. The third track is a killer industrial-rock song by Spit [aka Vinnie Spit], with taped vocals about profit and business over a ground of metal rhythm percussion and damaged guitar chord, a cyberpunk gem. Bobs Strauss and Sloth (BTF guitarist) closed the side with two experimental tracks.
The b-side is more rhythmic with the funky-industrial weirdo shit of Smersh, an obscure electro ballad by 911 and a groundbreaking techno-ebm track by Sinister Attraction. BTF and Crowded Krypt delight us with bleeding industrial-rock stuff while The Torture Fence close the tape with an ambient noisy suite.

seite A: 1. Batz Without Flesh - Sinking Platform, 2. Illusion of Safety - Repairs, 3. Spit - Profit, 3a. unknow artist - hidden track, 4.  Bob Strauss - Release, 5. Sloth - Concerto No. 73 Four Guitars
seite B: 1. Smersh - The Nether Master, 2. 911 - Always Watching, 3. Sinister Attraction - Fragment Onslaught, 4. Batz Without Flesh - Disturbing Trend, 5. Crowded Krypt - Study In Black, 6. The Torture Fence - Ramification

get the tape here .