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At The Gallop (CD)

GuerssenAdmin — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:00:00 +0000

Initially self-released in 1975 by the Drumcondra, Dublin-based Cromwell, At The Gallop is a blistering, heavy, loud’n’lascivious ten track offering (thirteen in this expanded edition) of proto-metal infused street rock’n’roll from a time when Ireland was still under the sway of conservative showbands, quasi-religious, sentimental pop pap and traditional Irish music.

Despite their cultural struggles, Cromwell crafted a creative and compact catalog–five fuzzed’n’ferocious 45s and this footlong–led by co-vocalist/bassist Michael Kiely’s come hither coo and fey Jagger pose’n’preen, the in-the-pocket drumming of Derek Dawson and minor-guitar hero moves of Patrick Brady, exercising taste, talent and towering mountains of fuzz’n’fury as comfortably as greasy ’70s raunch and rural modes. At The Gallop is a rare–fetching upwards of 400EUR when the original LP does appear–little heard classic in the pub/ fried rock’n’roll /proto-punk terrain.

RIYL: Teenage Head/Flamingo-era Flamin’ Groovies, Mott The Hoople, ’70s Stones, pre-punk American street rock and the Bonehead Crunchers series.

* First time reissue, including bonus tracks from the group’s rare singles.

* Insert featuring rare photos and in-depth liner notes by Jeremy Cargill (Got Kinda Lost Records / Ugly Things Magazine).

“Emerging from the giant shadow cast by the greatness of Thin Lizzy, this obscure band with a venomous guitar attack, and dual vocalists that kick ass and take names, puts the ‘ire’ in Ireland and delivers with a sound that’s not for the squeamish”
– Rich Haupt (Rockadelic Records / The Acid Archives)

Tracklist:

1. Ireland (The Wild One)
2. Down On The Town
3. First Day
4. You Got It Made
5. At The Gallop
6. Guinness Rock
7. Hoodwinked (Instrumental)
8. Nothing Left To See
9. Deal Me In
10. Dawson’s Fun Palace
11. Stomp Stomp Stomp*
12. You Hate It To Turn*
13. Guinness Rock (45 Version)*

*Bonus Tracks

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Undesirable Element (CD)

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:00:00 +0000

Arriving to the world for the first time, really--beyond the ears of the deep-digging few--Dale Jenkins' Undesirable Elements, issued privately in the Washington, D.C. area circa 1985, is a homespun effort deserving of the audience and attention it never received upon initial release.

Undesirable Elements--here expanded as Undesirable Element with appended bonus tracks--is a desolate and deconstructed album which touches on the subtleties and extremes of the human condition, and the nuances in between, across gnarled bits of proto-punk via abrasive, fuzzed guitars, and refracted mutant strains of British post-punk through a distinctly American underbelly sensibility.

Drum-led and in-the-red, Undesirable Elements is a loose concept album of sorts, from the sympathetic pen of an innately skilled commentator. The album displays polemical disdain for the behavior of humans, insular views, and blindly moving forward on simple suggestion, while carrying a keen eye into the many textures of the mindscape of man. While you may hear occasional tears at aiming at the trends of the times, Jenkins' direct, intensely personal and lyrically sophisticated material, combined with his charged attack, is in a realm all its own. Jenkins' lyrics are nearly cinematic, like bite-sized scripts, or character vignettes, filled with wizened, introspective and radicalized perspective. The self-contained home-recording maverick was searching, sensitive, subversive, topical, yet several steps from the soapbox.

Got Kinda Lost Records is over the moon to allow this unique, outsider singer-songwriter/psych-punk album another turn at its time in the shine...

RIYL: Afflicted Man, Kenneth Higney, late '70s Iggy Pop, J.T. IV, Peter Laughner, Sound Ceremony, Ariel Pink, Gary War, et al.

*First time reissue of this under-the-radar slice of dark, underground singer-songwriter/psych-punk.

*Carries an out-of-time sound referencing proto-punk and earlier post-punk.

CD includes eight previously unreleased bonus tracks.

Booklet features informative liner notes by Jeremy Cargill (Got Kinda Lost Records / NTS Radio), culled from interviewing long-time friend and bandmate Alan Benson.

Tracklist:

1. Blind Faith 2. Article Two [The Handgun Song] 3. Depression 4. Love And War (Alternate Version)* 5. War Was Raging On* 06. Non-Surgical Lobotomy 7. Breathe In Deep 8. Paranoid Song* 09. Destitute 10. Another Day 11. Stranger (Acoustic)* 12. Don't Believe In* 13. Love And War (LP Version) 14. Lovin' You* 15. Houses Of Brick* 16. Where Is The Fire* 17. Lovin' You (Acoustic Version)* 18. Sylvia* 19. Raga*

*Bonus Tracks

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Islands In Space (CD)

GuerssenAdmin — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:00:00 +0000

“…we can make [enough] progress inside our heads and the heads of our friends to lay the foundations of an intergalactic life more meaningful than our earthbound condition…” – John Peel, International Times

Mirroring the sentiment of the prescient UK radio legend in his Vibrations column for the International Times in the ’70s, LightDreams leader Paul Marcano took one further step beyond his intimate colleagues and chose to spread his ideals concerning peaceful outer space colonization to all with open ears. Islands In Space, dotted with acoustic jams, backwards guitars, lyrics alluding to the British progressive era, smoking hot electric leads, synths galore, and the dreamiest of melodies, is both Marcano’s love letter to the work of science-fiction author Gerard K. O’Neill and the psych-tinged folk explorers who came before him such as McDonald & Giles.

Originally privately-issued in 1981 in an edition of 1,000 copies, Islands In Space explores space travel and cosmic ideology making for a sci-fi psych odyssey and is filled with atmospheric, lysergic creations atop a hybrid of sounds from the cosmic-psych/progressive-folk/new age spectrum. Home-recorded (yet hi-fi), Islands In Space carries a singular quality, defies easy categorization and has long been savored over by collectors of otherworldly joys.
Got Kinda Lost Records is absolutely ecstatic to allow this singular, beatific work another chance to shine from Earth’s surface to the outer reaches of the galaxy.

RIYL: Dreamies, Donovan, Pete Fine, Robert Lester Folsom’s hazy, synth-led moments, McDonald & Giles, Ramases, Simones, and the out-of-time bliss of Bobb Trimble, et al.

“The album’s free floating dreaminess is grounded in solid songwriting and impressive arrangements, [making Islands In Space] one of the better albums from the era; consistent, talented and transporting in a friendly psychedelic way.” – Patrick “The Lama” Lundborg (The Acid Archives)

Highlights:

First time reissue of this under-the-radar masterpiece, with remastered sound.

Recorded in 1981 while having more in common with ’60s and ’70s psych and folk innovators, providing the album an “out of time” quality.

Insert features informative liner notes by collector Jack D. Fleischer, culled from interviewing the artist, full lyrics and rare photos.

CD edition features a full-color booklet.

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Win Or Lose (CD)

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 22:00:00 +0000

First time authorized reissue of this killer slice of privately-pressed Midwestern hard rock.

Insert features in-depth and informative liner notes by Jeremy Cargill (Got Kinda Lost Records / NTS Radio), culled from interviewing several band members.

Introduction penned by the late Patrick “The Lama” Lundborg (The Acid Archives)

Remixed and remastered from original sessions reels.

Featuring Tom Stevens (of LONG RYDERS fame) on bass!

First time authorized reissue of Rust Belt hard rockers MAGI’s (pronounced ‘ma-¿ji) 1976 privately-pressed, hard rock nugget, Win Or Lose, originally issued on the infamous Uncle Dirty’s Sound Machine label. Win Or Lose carries similar glimmers to other vulgar, pre-PC, mid-Amerigan rock whose stock-in-trade boy meets girl early rock’n’roll topicry could easily be pulled from the Rock 101 playbook, but MAGI was more than mired in muscle and machismo. MAGI displayed the general insouciance, hormones, and discontent of their age, but also a concerned and wounded heart underneath the veneer, much less common to the field.

While essentially a meat-and-potatoes hard rock record, the album flies closer to the early ’70s beginnings of the genre (with nuance and psychedelic hangover in tow), when the definition was less rigidly and generically defined, and is additionally expertly sequenced across its eight strong tracks, improved by a masterful mix and remaster by T. Dallas Reed (Electric Wizard, Iron Claw, Mos Generator, Orange Sunshine, Poobah, Saint Vitus, Treepeople, Truth And Janey, et al.), utilizing a reel-to-reel from the original recording sessions. In-depth and informative liner notes by Jeremy Cargill (Got Kinda Lost / NTS Radio) and Patrick Lundborg.

As the uncredited seeker who penned the original rear sleeve text expressed… “Energy is apparent, the subtleties are there, listen, there’s no question how they feel! Feel it with them! Feel the MAGI!”

“…quite contemporary in style for its 1976 release year. Regional and local bands tend to lag behind dominating music trends by a few years, but MAGI’s sound seems entirely in line with then popular acts like Aerosmith, early KISS, and maybe Ted Nugent.”
– Patrick “The Lama” Lundborg (The Acid Archives)

RIYL: AEROSMITH, BÖC, ’70s ALICE COOPER, ETERNITY, FOGHAT, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, JAMES GANG, LED ZEP, LODESTAR, (early) TED NUGENT, ORANG-UTAN, et al.

Tracklist: 1. Win or Lose – 2. Undecided Man – 3. I Didn’t Ask You – 4. Steve’s Jam – 5. Fryin’ Away Time – 6. Snow Bound – 7. Runnin’ Low – 8. Everytime I’m With You

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Promise (CD)

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:00:00 +0000

If you’re continuously searching the margins for lost artifacts of the pop pantheon, you can find your daily dose in late period exponents of pure, lean, Beatlesque early ’70s power pop, Promise. Originally issued in 1980 on the Boulder, Colorado, area band’s own Cumulus label, their eponymous debut is filled with melodic, beatific blasts of pure pop, replete with ringing, jangly guitars, and rollicking crunch. Co-led by singer-songwriter’s/guitarists Curt Mangan and Danny Mey-with aid provided by the just right rhythms of bassist Randy Jones and drummer Gary York-the group created an album with precious little allying it to the punk-inspired power pop or prescient “New Wave” of the time, instead choosing to hone in on a classicist pop sound highly indebted to those famous moptops from Liverpool.

Abetted by the fact some of the group’s members had been playing together since their teenage combo’s of the mid-’60s the album carries an “out of time” flair across surging rockers and mournful balladry.

Got Kinda Lost Records is ecstatic to give this benchmark of privately-pressed power pop another chance to shine.

RIYL: Badfinger, Big Star, early Cheap Trick, Emitt Rhodes, Raspberries, Liverpool Echo, the Scruffs, Shoes, Dwight Twilley Band, etc.

“An exciting, terrific British Invasion-styled guitar pop album full of catchy, memorable hooks, displaying a tougher, ‘rock’ edge than most of its ilk and some excellent softer songs. Equally recommended to power pop and ’60s rock fans.” – (Aaron Milenski, The Acid Archives)

Highlights:

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Rocket Robert (CD)

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 22:00:00 +0000

Those who’ve dirtied their fingers searching high and low for analog synth nuggets can rejoice at the arrival of under-the-radar synthesizer maverick “Rocket” Robert Moore.

Less a reissue than an exhumation-what with a scant, hand-screened 142 copies produced in 1982 that circulated little outside the confines of Oregon state-Rocket Robert drifts in the backward-looking sounds of early synth innovators, while equally mining the kraut-tinged moments of punk-era instro synth explorers and the first breaths of synth-pop, rather than carrying similarities to the “New Wave” that was then talking hold of the masses.

Issued by Moore’s own Salem, Oregon-based Future Records in 1982, his eponymous debut is simultaneously light-hearted and shot-though with ominous oscillations and offers up a darkly-throbbing, other-worldly vibe that is sure to ensnare synth-heads, beat-diggers and those searching the margins of the private-press alike.

Got Kinda Lost Records is over the moon to allow this singular, unique album another chance to shine.

RIYL: Delia Derbyshire, Fad Gadget, Mort Garson, Gershon Kingsley, Martin Rev, Morton Subotnick, etc.

“Unclassifiable outsider synth-damage not unlike Bite-era Bruce Haack and Damon Edge of Chrome collaborating, or weirdo proto-new wavers like Ghostwriters, Pulsar, Todd Tamanend Clark, or a non-operatic Klaus Nomi. Better yet, imagine a Grandmaster Flash-obsessed Kluster retreating into a stoney basement with Richard Pinhas-if that makes no sense, you’re on the right path.” – Steven “Plastic Crimewave” Krakow (Galactic Zoo Dossier)

First time reissue of this under-the-radar synth nugget, with original master tape sound.

Recorded in 1982 while having more in common with ’60s analog synthesizer innovators or ’70s German followers of the flame, providing the album an “out of time” quality.

Includes two previously unreleased spaced-out-electro-pop songs from the album sessions.

Insert features informative liner notes by Dave Segal (Staff Writer for Seattle’s alternative weekly The Stranger), culled from interviewing the artist and rare photos from Robert Moore’s archives.

CD edition features a full-color insert with many images not featured in LP edition.

Tracklist:

Space Bass Blues – Star Flight – Walking in Space – Space Shuttle – Journey Into the Unknown – I’ve Got My Helmet On [Bonus] – Terrestrial Beings – Docking in Space – Creations Beginning – Dance of the Droids – Deltoids in Space – Bottomless Pit of Space – Living in This Station [Bonus}

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Rocket Robert

GuerssenAdmin — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 22:00:00 +0000

Those who’ve dirtied their fingers searching high and low for analog synth nuggets can rejoice at the arrival of under-the-radar synthesizer maverick “Rocket” Robert Moore.

Got Kinda Lost Records is over the moon to allow this singular, unique album another chance to shine.

RIYL: Delia Derbyshire, Fad Gadget, Mort Garson, Gershon Kingsley, Martin Rev, Morton Subotnick, etc.

First time reissue of this under-the-radar synth nugget, with original master tape sound.

Recorded in 1982 while having more in common with ’60s analog synthesizer innovators or ’70s German followers of the flame, providing the album an “out of time” quality.

Includes two previously unreleased spaced-out-electro-pop songs from the album sessions.

LP housed in an old-school-style tip-on sleeve.

Tracklist:

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