V-Effect - Stop Those Songs (1983)

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V-Effect - Stop Those Songs! (1983)

This is my personal rip from my copy, one of those 'this looks neat let me check it on the old demo turntable' thrift store buys. Mutant Sounds posted this about three years ago but took it down because some label said they were going to re-release it. Since they never did (so far as I can tell), here it is again. I'll knock it down when someone links me to a press on forced exposure or wherever.

V-Effect straddle the no-wave and downtown scenes, though I imagine they didn't see it that way. The downtown people probably didn't see it that way either, since Mori is still with that downtown set and none of the people involved with this record seem to have kept an explicit presence within the "downtown scene" (or anywhere else I can find). Background established, this is... well... likely an album unlike anything you've heard before. Somewhere between no-wave and post-punk, free jazz and actual revolutionary sentiment. Call and response, self-taught sax squeal, analog clap pads on mic stands to add to the drummers' repertoire, thoroughly DIY and anti-capitalist.

This is what w-burg hipster bullshit should be right now. Enjoy.



first your feet... then your back... then your mind... then heart attack...

 

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V-Effect

Artist: V-Effect

LP: Stop Those Songs

Song: "Lavaplatos"

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Fred Frith adds some guitar bits at "crucial moments" on this terrific 1983 V-Effect LP that one blogger calls "exhilarating, pulse-pounding art-rock genius." In case you don't speak Spanish, "Lavaplatos" means this, which is what I was doing while listening to this record yesterday afternoon.