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This Heat
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Brixton, South London (1975 – 1982)
This Heat were an experimental British rock band widely considered a link between progressive rock (especially krautrock) and such later experimental genres as post-punk, post-rock, and noise-rock. They were formed in late-1975 in Brixton, South London by multi-instrumentalists Charles Bullen (guitar, clarinet, viola, vocals, tapes), Charles Hayward (percussion, keyboards, vocals, tapes) and Gareth Williams (keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals, tapes). Their music touched on numerous different styles and genres, and was frequently confrontational and politically charged.
Their first radio airplay came from legendary DJ John Peel, to whom they sent a demo tape (recorded in a disused meat factory known as Cold Storage) in early 1977. During this time, they also recorded a session with Ghanaian musician Mario Boyer Diekuuroh, parts of which later appeared on a 1982 split cassette with Albert Marcoeur, released by the French experimental rock magazine TAGO MAGO.
Their self-titled debut album was recorded between February 1976 and September 1978, and surfaced in August 1979. It was characterized by heavy use of tape manipulation and looping, combined with more traditional instrumental performance, to create dense, eerie, electronic soundscapes and dub-inflected experimental rock. Also released in this period was an EP, Health & Efficiency, which foreshadowed the more rock-oriented sound of Deceit (1981), the band’s second and final album.
Their first radio airplay came from legendary DJ John Peel, to whom they sent a demo tape (recorded in a disused meat factory known as Cold Storage) in early 1977. During this time, they also recorded a session with Ghanaian musician Mario Boyer Diekuuroh, parts of which later appeared on a 1982 split cassette with Albert Marcoeur, released by the French experimental rock magazine TAGO MAGO.
Their self-titled debut album was recorded between February 1976 and September 1978, and surfaced in August 1979. It was characterized by heavy use of tape manipulation and looping, combined with more traditional instrumental performance, to create dense, eerie, electronic soundscapes and dub-inflected experimental rock. Also released in this period was an EP, Health & Efficiency, which foreshadowed the more rock-oriented sound of Deceit (1981), the band’s second and final album.
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Tehpaco wrote:
Repeat and Deceit are my favorites. These guys got me started with the whole low-fi thing I suppose.
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punxtr wrote:
Thankyou Sleepytime Gorilla Museum! It took me a while to get used to low-fi music again, however. The self-titled is still my favorite, but Made Available really helps when I'm tired of low-fi.
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Vairiant wrote:
cenotaph. badass title, badass song.
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butteredcat wrote:
you tellin me they are gods?! well yeah, they are!
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youJeen52 wrote:
эта музыка трахает мой мозг
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SixShooterSam wrote:
lol get over yeselffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff f f fffffffffff
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heyletsgetknown wrote:
i love it when people make comments like "wow these guys are catching on, huh? i remember them barely having any plays" a.k.a. i'm special because i was listening to them before the rest of the internets music social networking community was. get over it.
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Tehpaco wrote:
Yeah, I'm gunna have to say they are way ahead of their time too.
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taka-yon wrote:
black magic
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gabimonster wrote:
So interesting.
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roccophonie wrote:
wrote it 3 years ago and feel forced to write it again: ze best band for a long fucking time!
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phillip360 wrote:
Glue the estrus 'pataphysics group and absorb time machine lecture #6
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Martinchus89 wrote:
Orgasmic
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youngcosmonaut wrote:
wow these guys are catching on, huh? i remember them barely having any listens
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geluwzever wrote:
I agree with madstringbean. I love most of what they've made, but the peel sessions are really something.
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busysignalbeats wrote:
↓ lol
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UliQue wrote:
animal collective ripped these guys off nicely
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madstringbean wrote:
Peel Sessions rocks hardest
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Mario_Tennis wrote:
woah deceit is fuckin' great i must get their complete works now
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SOLOMUSIKA wrote:
......*♫♪ ♫♪ ♥♥♥
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