TOTAL VERMIN 1: SMEAR CAMPAIGN - "THE EVIL SEED OF LUST" C30 (35 COPIES)
TOTAL VERMIN 2: KRAKEN C45 (9 COPIES)
TOTAL VERMIN 3: SMEAR CAMPAIGN - "SIMULTANEOUSLY BURNED AND ELECTROCUTED" CD-R (13 COPIES)
TOTAL VERMIN 4: THE CISTERN CHAPEL - "FRIGGER" CD-R (17 COPIES) TOTAL VERMIN 8: TACO BELLS - "KESÄUNELMIA" C27 (50 COPIES)
Current: (pictures soon)
TOTAL VERMIN 5: MUSCLETUSK/STUCKOMETER C20
Tape of doom. So long in the offing that the artist copies were presented to each of the bands on the respective occasions (one week seperated) of their final gigs before indefinte hiatus. Muscletusk's 'Vomit On The Mountaintop' is all descending bass rumble tenderising your intestines, while electronic/percussive scree slashes at your chest and throat with adrenaline tipped machetes. Stuckometer's '~' bobs and weaves and keeps you reeling with knuckledusted jabs and uppercuts to your stunned and bloody face. 50 copies on green tapes with screenprinted wraparound sleeves.
TOTAL VERMIN 6: PUFF - "PUT DOWN" CD-R
Latest work in Joincey's Puff continuum. Unworldly pop, power electronics and bubble wrap abuse, tinged with the desolation of a perverted rainbow. Spraypainted CD-R (5 tracks, 21 minutes) in card sleeve adorned in Joincey's vague visage, with photocopied insert. 50 copies.
TOTAL VERMIN 7: SMEAR CAMPAIGN - "ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT, ANOTHER JOYLESS WANK" C20
Recorded one lonely weekend in May, the unsightly and stinking produce of a navel-gazing loser with too much time on his hands. 50 copies on red tapes in red boxes with red photocopied sleeves.
TOTAL VERMIN 9: FORD MADDOX BROWN/SMEAR CAMPAIGN C30
Manchester's Ford Maddox Brown's new age synth mask hides an ugly brute of an ogre, threatening and cajoling, and fitfully sticking his scabby coarse tongue through their shiny strawberry lips. The other side is some kind of electric wall, crackling and buzzing and shocking our weaselly protagonist as his pathetic naked frame slides flaccid from repeated attempts to mount it. Lilac tapes and inlays, with artwork from Burial Suit. 50 copies.
TOTAL VERMIN 11: GHOST OF AN OCTOPUS - "4, 10, 9, 11, 6, 8" C40
Cracked guitar and deadweight bass duo from the minds, guts and sweaty blistered fingers of a Puff/Smear Campaign alliance. Blindfolded sketching in oil and blood. A ghastly nightmare wherein you cannot find that fucking kettle that is boiling over with some horrible goddamned corrosive and you know that the work surfaces will be ruined. 50 copies, pink tapes and inlays.
"6 TRACKS OF WAILING FREE TRUMPET, BLUDGEONING BASS, SCREAMING PERCUSSIVE CLANG AND PIERCING FEEDBACK HELL FROM MANCHESTER NOISE/STYLE GURU. TOTAL RUNNING TIME 33:06" Lea's description.
VERY Soon (within a week!):
TOTAL VERMIN 10: SERFS - "AT VICTORIA BATHS" CD-R
Strung out twin guitar explorations tying Fahey/Crazy Horse/Dead C venn diagrams into galactic knots of sound, enhanced on this live recording by the atmospherics of the Victoria Baths and the clatter and screech percussion of T. Hardman, P. Nicholls, B. Dean and S. Arnot. 48 copies on stencil-sprayed CD-Rs.
TOTAL VERMIN 12: MUSCLETUSK/SMEAR CAMPAIGN C24
Heady, and heavy, live aktion from the 'Tusk, pissing off the neighbours of Manchester's Fuel Cafe in October 2006. As powerful as one could wish for, while never falling down onto any 'harsh' cliches. Two Smear Campaign pieces, a cymbal workout, and a trumpet lament. Orange tapes, green cases, colour inlays, 50 copies.
TOTAL VERMIN 13: NACKT INSECTEN - "COUNTDOWN TO ECSTASY II" C37
Synth-drenched affair from Glasgow beacon of quality drone, Mr Ruaraidh Sanachan. Split into two pieces on each side, but it all works together to take you to some other place, and leave you there, basking in it's majesty, and maybe indulging in some hippy shit like marvelling at stars... Purple tapes, black boxes, colour inlays, 50 copies.
TOTAL VERMIN 14: USURPER TRIO - "PARTY TAPES" C37
"Easily the dumbest thing we've ever recorded". Ali and Malcy are joined by Grant from Muscletusk on this tape, where early japing gives way to some true out sounds. Comparitively low fidelity recording to some other Usurper releases removes the sounds from their sources, giving the listener a thorough brain-bending. Blue tapes, yellow boxes, colour inlays, 50 copies.
TOTAL VERMIN 15: GHOST OF AN OCTOPUS - "19, 21, 23, 14" C47
More heads-down fret fretting from Joincey and I. The first side (19) is one track with the both of us on guitar, a prolonged attack of double-soloing. If you know that John McLaughlin/Carlos Santana record, it's not like that. 21 and 14 see us in traditional guitar/bass mode, and on 23 we both play bass. It struck me the other day that GOAO sounds like an angrier Noggin. Without violins. White tapes, white cases, white inlays, 50 copies.
TOTAL VERMIN 16: PLUM SLATE - "ABRAXXXASS" CD-R
So, is this guy obsessed with Santana? Or what? All electric affair, and dissimilar to recent (and probably future) live outings. If you wish you only had to listen to Joincey in Ghost Of An Octopus (and I do), then pretend he's playing as well, and try to ignore what's actually happening. Or press stop, take the CD out, and put a Coits one in instead. Do what you like, I'm not your dad. Or your carer. 6 track, 35 minute stencil-sprayed CD-R in DVD case, 50 copies.
TOTAL VERMIN 17: SABOTEUSE - "APERCU" CD-R
There should be a cedilla under the C, but who'll know? Saboteuse is the parts of Sculptress with testes, i.e. Andy Jarvis and Joincey, joined on one track of this release by Pascal Nicholls of Stuckometer and that. A disparate clutch of guitar/drum tracks, with your boys swapping duties, I believe. Opens with some nice Stokey vocals from Joinson. 5 track stencil-sprayed CD-R in DVD case, 50 copies.
After:
KYLIE MINOISE cass, FILTHY SMEAR cass, PLUM SLATE cass, ROSES cass, RYAN JEWELL cass, CKDH, TUBE O' MOULD, ACRID LACTATIONS, COITS/PLUM SLATE LP (co-release with Face Like A Smacked Arse), PENGO/GHOST OF AN OCTOPUS LP, HOCKYFRILLA AND CHRIS CORSANO LP, WAGSTAFF AND THE BLOOD TURDS 2LP, etc
All releases £2 each, unless stated otherwise, plus postage to your part of the world.
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