International Sound Communication (frequently abbreviated as I.S.C.) was a series of compilation cassettes, compiled and distributed as a mail art project by Andi Xport from Peterborough, England, in the mid-1980s. Fifteen volumes were issued, [1] and it was one of the largest and most versatile series of its kind.
The series was intended to provide an outlet for any kind of music from any country in the world. Most artists who appeared were not signed to a record label, but had released their music privately on cassettes sold via mail, and these were often the source of the material that appeared on the compilations. All volumes came with a list of contact addresses, with the exception of artists from "Iron Curtain" or Soviet Union countries whose addresses were not published, to protect them from government persecution, as the "importation" of Western culture and influences, and communication with artists outside the Soviet Union, without government approval were generally illegal. In those cases, a contact address for an associate outside of the Soviet Union was provided. As stated on the inserts, "All bands and individuals featured on I.S.C. comps have more music available, so get in touch now!" A slogan, "Communicate to Create" often appeared.
In addition to compiling the series, Andi Xport recorded under the name Man's Hate, which was also the name of his cassette label which distributed I.S.C. (plus 5 cassette albums by Man's Hate). [1] Xport was also a member of APF Brigade, and The Peace & Freedom Band. Xport claims that more than 3,000 tapes were sent to him, and many had to be stored under his bed due to space limitations.
Released on the same date as volume 13, an extra volume appeared as The Noise Collective which, although presented as an artist name, was actually another compilation project. All tracks were collaborations between two or more artists, most of whom had appeared previously on I.S.C. The collaborations were accomplished by having the artists send each other unfinished recordings through the mail. The tracks were edited to overlap and segue, forming a continuous suite on each side of the tape.
Volumes 1 to 8 were C-60 (60-minute) tapes, with a cover price of £1.00. The remaining volumes, including The Noise Collective, were C-90 with a cover price of £1.50. Volumes 1 to 9 used a fold-out insert, while volume 10 had a cardboard insert separate from the track list and contacts sheet. Starting with volume 11 (and including The Noise Collective), the outer cover was a cardboard sleeve wrapped around the plastic jewel case.
I.S.C. No. 1 (on front)
International Sound Communication (on spine)
not dated, issued 1984 or 1985
60 minutes
Comment on cover: "Music from Belgium, England, Japan, Norway, Scotland, U.S.A. & Wales. All the hits of the 80s on one great cassette!"
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | Viscera | USA | "Field Glasses" |
2 | Slaughter Tradition | Wales | "Passion Revolt" |
3 | Magthea & Insanity | Belgium | "Magthea & Insanity" (excerpt) |
4 | Maybe Tomorrow | England | "Undercontrol" |
5 | Opera for Infantry | England | "Europe the Haunted Land" |
6 | Unovidual | Belgium | "Gregorica Opstatica" |
7 | Kowa | Japan | "Fool & Poor" (excerpt) |
Side two | |||
1 | Absolute Body Control | Belgium | "Waving Hands" |
2 | Tender Loving Care | England | "Wasted Years" |
3 | F/i | USA | "Is It Worth It?" |
4 | Political Asylum | Scotland | "Cat's Eyes" |
5 | Man's Hate | England | "Flash of Flesh" |
6 | Datakluss | Norway | "(untitled)" |
7 | J. R. Smets | Belgium | "Take a Step to the Left..." |
8 | Ray the Poet | England | "Life's Destruction" (live) |
9 | Ray the Poet | England | "1984 (is Here)" |
10 | The Zanstones | USA | "The Subtle Art of Puddle Pushing" |
11 | Disstorrsshunn | "?????" | "Pain in My Head" (excerpt) |
I.S.C. 2 (on front)
International Sound Communication 2 (on spine)
16 March 1985
60 minutes
Comment on cover: "Ape shit maaan!"
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | Partners in Crime | England | "Falklands Factor" |
2 | Last Exit | England | "Funeral March" |
3 | 4 Thousand Million | Australia | "We are Not Lemmings" |
4 | 4 Thousand Million | Australia | "Advance Australia!! Where?" |
5 | Mass of Black | England | "Dead and Broke" |
6 | Final | England | "Vomit Eat" |
7 | Zanstones | USA | "God Come in the Flesh" |
8 | Zanstones | USA | "Possublee Abnormul" |
9 | S.O.D. | Sweden | "I Don't Want" |
10 | S.O.D. | Sweden | "Tānk Realistiskt" |
11 | S.O.D. | Sweden | "Let the Animals Live" |
12 | Magthea and Straggianopff 99 | Belgium | "Nachtmerrie der Goden" (excerpt) |
Side two | |||
1 | Stupids | England | "So Much Fun" |
2 | Stupids | England | "Waste Away" |
3 | La Masque | England | "Ethi'hope'ia" |
4 | A Technicolor Dream | Norway | "The Great Arcade" |
5 | A Technicolor Dream | Norway | "Closing Walls of Karma" |
6 | Dennis Carleton | USA | "Fill in the Blank" |
7 | Western Front | Wales | "Who's Girl Now?" |
8 | Ulf Knudson | Norway | "Hostland" |
9 | The Ym-Tribe | Norway | "Vi: Landet" |
10 | Unknownmix | Switzerland | "Jungle Jive" (excerpt) |
I.S.C. 3 (on front)
International Sound Communiqué 3 (on spine)
22 April 1985
60 minutes
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | Political Asylum | Scotland | "Fresh Hate" (live) |
2 | Autentisk Film | Norway | "Offer" |
3 | Skogvokterne | Norway | "(untitled)" |
4 | Lister | Norway | "Elifantz" |
5 | Mōrkelagt Bevegelse | Norway | "Compared to an Image" |
6 | Men of Courage | Norway | "Confronted With Life" |
7 | Miasma | England | "This is Halloween" |
8 | Sicky Spread | England | "New Forest Butterfly Farm" |
9 | Sicky Spread | England | "Teenage Sex" |
Side two | |||
1 | Master / Slave Relationship | USA | "I Feel Sick" |
2 | The Phallacy | USA | "The Phallacy" |
3 | Fremskrittet | Norway | "The Forest" |
4 | Fremskrittet | Norway | "Justice II" |
5 | Absolute Body Control | Belgium | "Is There an Exit" (live) |
6 | Earths Epitaph | Wales | "Yesterdays Child" |
7 | Savage Circle | Italy | "Bleeding Throat" |
8 | The Bristles | Sweden | "Nuclear Power" |
9 | Scientific Creative Intelligence | USA | "Music for the Expanding Universe" (excerpt) |
I.S.C. 4
Track list not available
List of artists (from advertisement): The Klinik; Unknownmix; Bloody Hypocrites; F/i; The Dreg; Unovidual; Electro Hippies; D.V.A. Minuta Mrznje; Les Bouseaux Pychedeliques; The Affairs; If, Bwana; Anathema; Synthetic Productions; Miasma; Pseudo Code; The Submensa's; M.A.L.; Narzisse
List of countries: Belgium; England; France; Northern Ireland; Switzerland; USA; West Germany; Yugoslavia
International Sound Communication 5 (on front)
I.S.C. 5 (on spine)
27 July 1985
60 minutes
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | Antibiøtic | France | "Les Revoltes du Bounty" |
2 | Philippe "Hot Bip" Laurent | France | "Rapide 4" |
3 | Ray Pearson | England | "The Media are Free" |
4 | Zone Verte | Belgium | "Pas de Panik" |
5 | Narzisse | Belgium | "Dogmamix" |
6 | Symbol of Freedom | Wals | "Seen It Before" |
7 | Unovidual | Belgium | "Left on the Shelf" |
8 | George Dimeco | USA | "It Could've Been Me" (excerpt) |
Side two | |||
1 | Máma Bubo | Czechoslovakia | "20 Stoleti" |
2 | Vita Noctis | Belgium | "Hade" |
3 | X Ray Pop | France | "La Machine à Rëver" |
4 | X Ray Pop | France | "Alcool" |
5 | Terry Gray | England | "Something You Said" |
6 | Barry Edgar Pilcher | Wales | "Who Will Rouse the Sleepfish?" |
7 | New 7th Music | England | "Live at the Recession" (excerpt) |
8 | Berry Weinberg and the Blues Chargers | USA | "Somebody Get Me a Beer" |
9 | George Dimeco | USA | "It Could've Been Me" (2nd excerpt) |
I.S.C. 6
10 October 1985
60 minutes
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | Sombrero Galaxy | USA | "Existence" |
2 | If, Bwana | USA | "Pursuit of Happiness" |
3 | Zanstones | USA | "Green Waiter During Maybe Someday Suite" |
4 | JD3 | USA | "Oh My God" |
5 | Pete Bell | USA | "Big Physics" |
6 | Controlled Substances | USA | "Gleaming Towers" |
7 | Kevin Lytle | USA | "Castaways 1943 (excerpt)" |
Side two | |||
1 | Paul Kelday | England | "Balance of Terror" |
2 | Barry Edgar Pilcher + James Hill | Wales / England | "Saxophones of Reality" (excerpt) |
3 | Barry Edgar Pilcher + Clive Kingsley | Wales / USA | "Operation Jollification for Jane" (excerpt) |
4 | Barry Edgar Pilcher + Robert Rich | Wales / USA | "Saxophone Distortion" (excerpt) |
5 | The Day Rosemary Said She Was Pregnant | Belgium | "The Age" |
6 | Rat | England | "A Statement" |
7 | No Unauthorized | France | "Plus Personne" |
8 | Final | England | "A Message to Man" |
9 | Föreign Legiön | Wales | "Message From Nowhere" |
10 | Vacuūm | Holland | "Meat" |
11 | Vox Paris | France | "Jamais Trop Vite" |
12 | Crawling From the Wreckage | USA | "Plastic People" (excerpt live on radio) |
I.S.C. 7
Track list not available
List of artists (from advertisement): Alan Cornelius; Post War; Mystery Hearsay; Last Rites; Headcleaners; Famlende Forsok; Paranoid Visions; N.B.N.; Opera Multisteel; The Apostles; Face in the Crowd; Fever Heroes; Celestial Orgy; In ' 8; Compulsion Brothers; C'llaaps
List of countries: England; France; Ireland; Japan; Norway; Scotland; USA; Wales
International Sound Communication Compilation Volume Number Eight
1 January 1986
60 minutes
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | Comando Bruno | Spain | "De Tu Miedo (Of Your Fear)" |
2 | James Morrison | USA | "Vinyl Junkie" |
3 | Klaus Groh | West Germany | "Try is Life" |
4 | Chumbawamba | England | "Rap" |
5 | Danbert Nobacon | England | "Shovelling Shit" |
6 | Danbert Nobacon | England | "Westbury Toilets" |
7 | Danbert Nobacon | England | "Police State Blues" |
8 | De Fabriek | Holland | "(untitled)" |
9 | Society's Rejects | Wales | "It's Your Life" |
10 | Miroslaw Rajkowski | Poland | "Physical No. 2" (excerpt) |
Side two | |||
1 | Luca Miti | Italy | "The Preceding Chat" |
2 | Bill Pritchard | England | "Black Souls Under White Skies" |
3 | Paul Kelday | England | "Plight of the Butterfly of Peace in the Web of Hatred" |
4 | Dissollutio Humani Generis | Italy | "Il Grande Freddo" |
5 | The Mock Turtles | England | "One Fine Day" |
6 | Low Class | Belgium | "The Alienation Ballade" |
7 | The Horsemen | Scotland | "Hard to Grasp" |
8 | Filthy Christians | Sweden | "Mas-core" |
9 | Cauchy 138 | Belgium | "Obligation" |
10 | Barry and Eve Pilcher + Friends | Wales | "Spikey Hair" (excerpt) |
International Sound Communication Volume Number Nine
22 February 1986
90 minutes
Comment on cover: "It's like an electric chair in your living room!"
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | Magthea | Belgium | "Neptune Wakes Up" |
2 | E.S.P. Kinetic | England | "Metropoline" |
3 | Lyke Wake | Italy | "Bury the Dead for Fear" |
4 | Marc Pira | France | "(untitled)" |
5 | Areknuteknyterne | Norway | "Boiling Water" |
6 | Boiler House | England | "Four Star Chrome Maniac" |
7 | Statement | England | "King of the Castle" |
8 | Flushed Beyond Recall | England | "Polywater" |
9 | Urbain Autopsy | France | "Dis Leur (Dealer)" |
10 | D.C.A. | Japan | "(untitled)" |
11 | Dead S.P.K. | Japan | "Lust Dead" |
12 | Doc Wör Mirran | West Germany | "On My Walk to Work" |
13 | Doc Wör Mirran | West Germany | "Puddle" |
14 | Doc Wör Mirran | West Germany | "Living Oddly in a World" |
15 | Doc Wör Mirran | West Germany | "The Pen" |
16 | Doc Wör Mirran | West Germany | "MacDonald's is Pornography" |
17 | The Hive | England | "Bleed" |
18 | Paul Rance & the Peace & Freedom Band | England | "Love Genocide" |
19 | Costes Cassette | France | "Mother & Father Singing" |
20 | Jeff Laryngo | France | "Stop-Gap" |
Side two | |||
1 | F:A.R. Prosthesis | Italy | "Enfant Prodige" |
2 | Diet & Iko Schutte | West Germany | "Once I Was a Swallow" |
3 | Jive Kappelle | West Germany | "Eante 23" |
4 | M C H Band | Czechoslovakia | "Vylexl do Tretiho Patra" (live, excerpt) |
5 | Neurotica | West Germany | "Hell's Bells" (live) |
6 | Zeitgeist & the 7 Year Itch | USA | "Motionfilled" |
7 | Ark & the Ologists | USA | "Junk" |
8 | The Disturbed | Scotland | "Warfare" (live) |
9 | Swinebolt #45 | USA | "(untitled)" |
10 | Moly | France | "C'est est Difficile d'Avoir Rien a Dire" |
11 | Denier du Culte | France | "Gangrene" |
12 | The Joke Project | Japan | "Don't Stop Call Me" |
13 | Memphis 10 SC | Norway | "Be Bop" |
I.S.C. 10
6 April 1986
90 minutes
Comment on cover: "Stop pushing, there's enough copy's for everyone"
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | Split Second | Belgium | "Resignation" |
2 | Twilight Ritual | Belgium | "A Perfect Memory in Here" |
3 | Syndrome | Belgium | "Night Talk" |
4 | Linear Movement | Belgium | "Wired to the Machine's" |
5 | Photodrama | Wales | "Dan Dare - Where are You?" |
6 | Ideas Beyond Filth | England | "Rollercoaster" |
7 | Agencement | Japan | "Kazbuz" |
8 | Crawling With Tarts | USA | "Smak" |
9 | Ajynytyv | England | "Integration" (live, excerpt) |
10 | Die Schlaffen Affen | West Germany | "Back to Rock 'n' Roll" |
11 | Do Easy | England | "Knife in My Side" |
12 | Rudolf's Rache | West Germany | "Sommersprossensesicht" |
Side two | |||
1 | L.D.50 | England | "Your Country Needs You" |
2 | L.O.S.P. | France | "Life on the Floor" |
3 | Katharsis | USA | "Content Discontent" |
4 | Mystery Plane | England | "Find Somebody" |
5 | Wer7 | England | "I Was Not a Jew" |
6 | Modern Art | England | "Monochrome Dance" |
7 | La Créme de la Crime | Belgium | "Lipstick" |
8 | 10T | Japan | "Pandra Music" |
9 | Detwiehl | Holland | "Himalaya" |
10 | The Marvellous Roofs | England | "Them Scarecrows" |
11 | Len Liggins | England | "Leningrad" |
12 | Len Liggins | England | "All the Dead Men" |
13 | Solomonoff, Von Hoffmannstalh and Hoffman | USA | "Serenade in the Night" |
14 | Terry Gray | England | "Faith" |
15 | Stress | England | "Fist Comes Down" |
16 | F/i | USA | "Echo River" |
International Sound Communication Eleven
26 July 1986
90 minutes
Comment on cover: "What are YOU doing to protect yourself from: (Misinformation... Half-truths... Mind Rot...) MEDIA BURN, the Nation's leading mental crippler - Nothing? Then Turn On, Tune In, And Drop Out With I.S.C."
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | Before Me | Sweden | "Former Individual" |
2 | Before Me | Sweden | "Hello I'm Back" |
3 | Before Me | Sweden | "Try Meg" |
4 | Compos Mentis | New Zealand | "No Practice No Play" |
5 | Schaum der Tage | West Germany | "Musique de l'Indifférence" |
6 | Cottage Industry | Canada | "Point on a Hill" |
7 | Mass of Humanity | Canada | "Nothing Past the Swan's (theme)" |
8 | The Reverend Mark C. & the Z Funk | USA | "Beans Over Brazzaville" |
9 | Anathema | England | "The Anti Apartheid Rap" |
10 | Basquadeck Shelf | England | "The Undying Factory of Resistance" |
11 | Heavy Discipline | England | "Heads of State" |
12 | Stasis | England | "Gerna - dorfia" |
13 | Jajje Sekoilia | Finland | "Five Penny Noise Opera" |
14 | The Hatefuls | France | "Unknown" |
15 | Bogart & Comando Bruno | West Germany | "Compulsion to Terror" |
16 | Seiei Jack | Japan | "Love Me Do" |
17 | Mystery-X | USA | "(untitled)" (excerpt) |
Side two | |||
1 | Mystery-X | USA | "(untitled)" (second excerpt) |
2 | The Psychological Warfare Branch | USA | "Capitalist Punishment" |
3 | No Unauthorised | France | "Guerilla" (live) |
4 | Inpull Caco | Japan | "Kirel Ni Naritai" |
5 | Synthetic Products | USA | "Nuclear Age" |
6 | Autumn | Belgium | "Doll Cries to Me" |
7 | Unovidual & Tara Cross | Belgium | "Like I Am / Comme - Je Suis" |
8 | Dietrich Cortier | Belgium | "La Chitara Schela" |
9 | Lust & Passion | Belgium | "The Day Before" |
10 | The Day Rosemary Said She Was Pregnant | Belgium | "Imaginary Girl" |
11 | Cauchy 138 & Riot System | Belgium | "Don't Talk to Me" |
12 | The Next World | England | "Too Many Hells" |
13 | Jajje Sekoilia | Finland | "Ice Hockey Jesus" |
International Sound Communication Twelve
18 October 1986
90 minutes
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | The Detective | England | "Green Eyes" |
2 | The High Tech Pagodas | England | "The First Stage" |
3 | The Dead Goldfish Ensemble | England | "Grey Earls" (excerpt) |
4 | Hapunkt Fix & Friends | West Germany | "I'm Thru" |
5 | Dora Benditz | West Germany | "Dance a Waltz" |
6 | Gunni | Iceland | "Endalokin (The End)" |
7 | S. H. Draumur | Iceland | "Eg Dansa Vid Lik" |
8 | Mario Marzidovsek | Yugoslavia | "Blast Furnace" |
9 | The Slips | France | "Fuck Vos Gueules" |
10 | R. S. Pearson | USA | "After the Crayon Rains" |
11 | Schlafengarten | USA | "And When U Sleep" |
12 | Hum | England | "Daring and Raring" |
13 | V-Sor,X | England | "Protection the Game" |
14 | S-Ink | Switzerland | "Elephant" |
15 | Z'aubérpine | Belgium | "L'armée" |
16 | Z'aubérpine | Belgium | "Anti-christ" |
Side two | |||
1 | Landishkrill | England | "The Eye" |
2 | Stalinstrasse | Poland | "Józef Stalin" (live in Castel, 11 July 1986) |
3 | Natchniony Tractor | Poland | "Red Plague" (live in Castel, 11 July 1986) |
4 | Sismoid and Tara Cross | France / USA | "Charlie" |
5 | Les Temps Anciens | Italy | "Much Farther Away" |
6 | Opera | Italy | "Broken" |
7 | Tom Burris | USA | "Blue" |
8 | The Starkman | England | "Disturbing the Peace" |
9 | S.O.R. | Yugoslavia | "Protekcija Zivali" |
10 | Tanze-die-Gemuse | France | "Contact" |
11 | Klimperei | France | "Kleine" |
12 | Ashes and Diamonds | Scotland | "Available" (live) |
13 | Allen Densen | Canada | "Airports 1/3" |
14 | Viktor Pavel | West Germany | "(untitled)" (excerpt) |
I S C Thirteen
21 March 1987
90 minutes
Comment on cover: "Unlucky for some"
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | Toshiyuki Hiraoka | Japan | "Koshikawa" |
2 | Rolando Chia | Mexico | "Gol" (excerpt) |
3 | A Low Fashion | West Germany | "2 Views Inside" |
4 | The Frog is Dead | West Germany | "Kill Gaddafi Kill" |
5 | Blue But True | West Germany | "In the Swirl of Life" |
6 | Taste of Decay | West Germany | "Factory" |
7 | Yellow Flip | Austria | "The Underground Masturbator" |
8 | The Paisley-hued Eucalyptus Corkscrew Pavillion | USA | "A Prophet on a Distant Planet My Mind Explodes" |
9 | The Why Band | England | "Life on the Beat / Aura Eaters" |
10 | Darren Copeland | Canada | "Color in Motion" |
11 | Iron Brotherhood | Scotland | "Night on the Tiles" |
12 | Die Wohnhaft | France | "Souvenirs in Our Times" |
13 | Alien Planetscapes | USA | "Spacerock" (excerpt) |
Side two | |||
1 | Paulo Bruscky & Caito Marcondes | Brazil | "Música para Electroencefalograma" |
2 | Syntax Error | Canada | "Elizabeth" |
3 | Tone Poets | USA | "Return of the Squeeze People" |
4 | Chaos S.A. | South Africa | "When the Battle is Over" |
5 | Lost Front | South Africa | "From Protest to Resistance" |
6 | Blind Gut | Czechoslovakia | "Icebreaker" |
7 | L.S.D. | Italy | "La Pioggia / Il Fumo Della Follila" |
8 | Gargantua | USA | "Rex & Sid & Nancy" |
9 | Blyth Power | England | "Folsam Prison Blues" (live) |
10 | The Astronauts | England | "Latin & Greek" (live) |
11 | Wat Tyler | England | "Hops and Barley" (live) |
12 | Hysteria Ward | England | "Peace Song" |
13 | Apple | USA | "Peace is Possible" |
14 | The Mousehounds | England | "Like a Child (in the City)" (live) |
15 | Thomas Struszka | West Germany | "The Intro / Flucht aus der Disco" |
16 | Thatcher On Acid | England | "Guess Who's Running the Show" |
The Noise Collective
Hello! Hello! Can Anyone Hear Me?
21 March 1987
90 minutes
Each track is a collaboration between two or more artists.
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | Allen Densen Terry Gray | Canada England | "Void" |
2 | John Graham Terry Gray Moses | unknown England unknown | "Genesis" |
3 | Inpull Caco Allen Densen | Japan Canada | "A Dropped Rose" |
4 | Barry Edgar Pilcher Allen Densen | Wales Canada | "Hello Piece" |
5 | Jezoz Hopkins Angus Brown Terry Gray | unknown unknown England | "Hello! Hello! Can You Hear Me?" |
6 | Inpull Caco Crawling With Tarts Phil Rodgers | Japan USA unknown | "12.16.86" |
7 | Andi Xport Inpull Caco | England Japan | "Cascade" |
8 | Ruund Janssen Viktor Pavel | unknown West Germany | "Heidi's Illness" |
9 | Flushed Beyond Recall Katharsis | England USA | "Nowhere in a Hurry" |
10 | Fenner Castner Andi Xport Zan Hoffman Barry Edgar Pilcher | unknown England USA Wales | "Slow Death of Rock 'n' Roll" |
Side two | |||
1 | No Unauthorised Barry Edgar Pilcher Alice Rainbow Pilcher | France Wales Wales | "X-tract (part 1)" |
2 | Berserker Katharsis | unknown USA | "Kathy Goes Berserk (part 1)" |
3 | Tom Burris Allen Densen | USA Canada | "Bump Cars" |
4 | Berserker Katharsis | unknown USA | "Kathy Goes Berserk (part 2)" |
5 | Inpull Caco Crawling With Tarts | Japan USA | "Return to 16" |
6 | No Unauthorised Barry Edgar Pilcher Alice Rainbow Pilcher | France Wales Wales | "X-tract (part 2)" |
7 | Inpull Caco Andi Xport | Japan England | "Train From Japan to England" |
8 | Katharsis Iron Brotherhood | USA Scotland | "Bated Breath" |
9 | Andi Xport Barry Edgar Pilcher | England Wales | "Lost on the Mountain" |
10 | Paul Rance Andrew Bruce | England England | "Three Men in London" |
11 | Barry Edgar Pilcher Allen Densen Jezoz Hopkins Angus Brown Terry Gray | Wales Canada unknown unknown England | "Hello! (reprise)" |
International Sound Communication Compilation Volume Number Fourteen
not dated, issued 1987
90 minutes
Comment on cover: "Load up with I.S.C., get a copy now!"
Track | Artist | Country | Title |
---|---|---|---|
Side one | |||
1 | En Manque d'Autre | Italy | "Je t'Adore" |
2 | Spheric Corner | West Germany | "No More Machines" |
3 | Le Pendu | England | "Strength Through Rage, Neptune" |
4 | Ethnic Acid | England | "Cut One" |
5 | JFK | England | "Volunteer" |
6 | Jazz Bacon Slicer | England | "Godstar" |
7 | Aneurisma | Italy | "Dierum Festorum Traditionum" |
8 | La Sonorite Jaune | France | "Patrick McGoohan" |
9 | Context | West Germany | "Product 9" |
10 | Rhetoric | England | "Take My Life" (live) |
11 | Eli Talgam | Israel | "Sonate for Small Organ & Receiver" |
Side two | |||
1 | The Spinoza Sisters | England | "Public Mass & Cantata" |
2 | The Severn Bores | England | "Guitars 2" |
3 | Eneik-shis-doh | Japan | "Force" |
4 | Aritasamansa | Japan | "Soul Train" |
5 | SD | Japan | "Cavellini" |
6 | Rabid Defiance | Canada | "Acting" |
7 | Noche en Bombay | Spain | "Good-time Halma" |
8 | Extranos Dias Felices | Spain | "Afonia II" |
9 | Psy Falange | Spain | "Live 31.3.83" |
10 | Die Socken | Austria | "Africa" |
11 | Rattus Rexx | West Germany | "Feed for the Hungry" |
12 | Dreaming of Beauty | Canada | "Pieces of Me" |
13 | Wilde Spiele | West Germany | "Ich Geh Wiedor Weg" |
14 | The Wickermen | England | "Gub Introduction Time" (live) |
I.S.C. 15
Track list not available
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The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. It was developed by the Dutch company Philips in Hasselt, Belgium, by Lou Ottens and his team. It was introduced in September 1963. Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a prerecorded cassette (Musicassette), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. Both forms have two sides and are reversible by the user.
Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise within a musical context. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical sound. Noise music includes a wide range of musical styles and sound-based creative practices that feature noise as a primary aspect.
Art of Noise were an English avant-garde synth-pop group formed in early 1983 by engineer/producer Gary Langan and programmer J. J. Jeczalik, along with keyboardist/arranger Anne Dudley, producer Trevor Horn, and music journalist Paul Morley. The group had international Top 20 hits with its interpretations of "Kiss", featuring Tom Jones, and the instrumental "Peter Gunn", which won a 1986 Grammy Award.
Punk-O-Rama was the title given to a series of ten compilation albums published by Epitaph Records. The first volume was released in 1994, the second in 1996, and the rest annually from 1998 to 2005. The albums included artists from Epitaph's roster as well as from its subsidiary label ANTI- and its partnership labels Hellcat Records and Burning Heart Records. In total the series included 257 songs contributed by 88 different artists.
Cultural Amnesia (CA) are an English post-punk music group, first active between 1979 and 1983 as participants in the so-called cassette culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s in the UK. During this first period the band released three cassette albums: Video Rideo (1981), The Uncle of the Boot (1983) and Sinclair's Luck (1983) on English and German record labels, and contributed to a number of compilation albums. Early on in his career, CA worked with the late Geff Rushton of Coil, who wrote a handful of songs for them and who was an important supporter and enabler due to his contacts as editor of Stabmental magazine, arranging most of their releases and providing constant encouragement. The band has become more widely known since 2000 following release of a number of compilations of their early '80s music in which the members of the group have been fully involved. Since the late '90s the band has also been occasionally active in the recording of new music and there have been a number of releases of new material since the early 2000s.
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records played at 33+1⁄3 rpm.
Now That's What I Call Music! is a series of various artists compilation albums released in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Sony Music and Universal Music which began in 1983. Spinoff series began for other countries the following year, starting with South Africa, and many other countries worldwide soon followed, expanding into Asia in 1995, then the United States in 1998.
Club Moral is a Belgian artist collective and noise band formed in 1981 by Danny Devos and Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven based in Antwerp, Belgium. They are known for their controversial performances and imagery. In 2001 "Dylan" briefly joined the band. Between 2003 and 2011 Mauro Pawlowski joined the band. And in 2010 and 2011 Aldo Struyf played bass and Orphan Fairytale played harps in the band. Since 2012 Devos and van Kerckhoven are the sole member performing music concerts.
Hits - also commonly known as The Hits Album - is a long-running compilation album series containing contemporary chart music. It originally ran in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe for over twenty years from 1984 until 2006. It was compiled as a joint venture, variously between the compilation arms of the Sony Music, RCA/BMG, and Warner Music groups to rival the Now That's What I Call Music series that had launched a year earlier in 1983, compiled by rival companies EMI and Virgin. Initially, the Hits brand was arguably as popular as its main rival and all of the first eight volumes achieved at least a platinum BPI award, with several of the very early albums going multi-platinum.
Walls of Jericho is the debut full-length studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1985 on LP by Noise Records. It is the only album featuring Kai Hansen as lead vocalist until 2021's Helloween, although he would continue to act as guitarist on the two following albums.
Richard Youngs is an English musician with a prolific and diverse output, including many collaborations. Based in Glasgow since the early 1990s, his extensive back catalogue of solo and collaborative work formally begins with Advent, first issued in 1990. He plays many instruments, most commonly choosing the guitar, but he has been known to use a wide variety of other instruments including the shakuhachi, accordion, theremin, dulcimer, a home-made synthesizer and even a motorway bridge. He also released an album which was entirely a cappella.
Big City Orchestra is a long-running art/anti-art group based generally in California. They have an ever rotating cast of musician and nonmusician members. They were formed in 1979 as the house band for a network of artist residences in the South Bay area of Los Angeles.
Merzbox is a box set compilation by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It consists of 50 CDs spanning Merzbow's career from 1979 to 1997. 30 discs are taken from long out of print releases, while 20 are composed mainly of unreleased material. The box also contains two CD-ROMs, six CD-sized round cards, six round stickers, a poster, a black long-sleeve T-shirt, a medallion, and the Merzbook, all packaged together in a "fetish" black rubber box. It is limited to 1000 numbered copies. A Merzbox Sampler was released in 1997.
Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day is a series of music compilations containing chiefly one-hit wonders and lesser-known pop and rock music songs from the 1970s. The first fifteen volumes were released on cassette and on CD, in 1990 by Rhino Records, covering the years 1969–1976. Compiled by Gary Stewart, David McLees, and Bill Inglot, each CD comes with an eight-page booklet which includes five pages of liner notes by Paul Grein. Follow-up volumes appeared in 1993 and 1996, extending the time period to 1979 and with additional songs from the 1972-76 period, available on cassette or CD. Each volume has twelve songs. Despite the greater capacity of compact discs, the running time of each of the volumes is no longer than the limit of vinyl records in the 1970s, from 38 to 45 minutes long.
Pebbles is a compilation of US underground and garage single record releases from the mid- to late-1960s. It had a limited original release in 1978 and a more general release in 1979. It was followed by several subsequent Pebbles compilations and albums. This album is nowadays known as Pebbles, Volume 1 and was originally issued in 1978 as Pebbles, Volume One: Artyfacts from the First Punk Era, an obvious riff on Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, a similar, groundbreaking compilation from 1972.
The RēR Quarterly was an English "quarterly" sound-magazine comprising an LP record and a magazine. It was published at irregular intervals between 1985 and 1997 by Recommended Records and November Books, and edited by English percussionist, lyricist and music theorist, Chris Cutler. It was sold internationally by Recommended Records via mail order and in specialist record shops.
Marnie Jaffe is an American singer/bassist. She was an early member of New York City noise-rock band Live Skull, and performed on its albums Bringing Home the Bait (1985), Cloud One (1986), Don't Get Any on You (1987) and Dusted (1987), and EPs Live Skull (1984), Pusherman (1986) and Snuffer (1988). She left the group in 1988.
British electronic music duo Autechre have released fifteen studio albums, seventeen EPs, and five singles. They have also released two collections of live recordings as digital downloads through their online store.
Stanley Keith Bowsza, better known by the pseudonym Minóy, was an American electronic musician and sound artist. He was a major figure in the DIY noise music and homemade independent cassette culture scene of the 1980s. He released over 100 compositions.