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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.

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2	S.P.Q.R.	221
3	Triumph	206
4	Sleep	205
5	Makeshift Swahili	189
6	A New Kind of Water	183
7	Cenotaph	182
8	Shrink Wrap	142
9	Horizontal Hold full track	134
10	24 Track Loop	132
11	Radio Prague	128
12	Independence	119
13	Not Waving full track	104
14	Water	81
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Zopwx2 wrote:
Sunday evening

apparently Charles Hayward is on the new hot chip album

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polymorphous71 wrote:
Saturday morning

Salvation lies within --->http://www.last.fm/group/Oblique+Satellites

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Tehpaco wrote:
last month

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:
last month

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:
last month

cenotaph. badass title, badass song.

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butteredcat wrote:
last month

you tellin me they are gods?! well yeah, they are!

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youJeen52 wrote:
October 2009

эта музыка трахает мой мозг

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SixShooterSam wrote:
October 2009

lol get over yeselffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff f f fffffffffff

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heyletsgetknown wrote:
October 2009

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:
October 2009

Yeah, I'm gunna have to say they are way ahead of their time too.

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taka-yon wrote:
October 2009

black magic

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gabimonster wrote:
October 2009

So interesting.

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roccophonie wrote:
October 2009

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:
October 2009

Glue the estrus 'pataphysics group and absorb time machine lecture #6

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Martinchus89 wrote:
October 2009

Orgasmic

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youngcosmonaut wrote:
September 2009

wow these guys are catching on, huh? i remember them barely having any listens

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geluwzever wrote:
September 2009

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:
September 2009

↓ lol

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UliQue wrote:
August 2009

animal collective ripped these guys off nicely

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madstringbean wrote:
August 2009

Peel Sessions rocks hardest

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