The Hair & Skin Trading Company 1992-1995

The Hair & Skin Trading CompanyДискография

Жанр: Experimental, Psychedelic, Industrial, Space, Drone, Noise Rock
Носитель: CD
Страна-производитель диска (релиза): UK, US
Год издания: 1992-1995
Издатель (лейбл): Beggars Banquet, Freek Records
Страна исполнителя (группы): UK
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks+.cue, tracks
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 02:45:04
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The Hair & Skin Trading Company were a British experimental rock group formed in 1991 by ex-Loop members Neil Mackay [vocals ~ bass] and John Wills [now Pumajaw (drums). Joined by ex-Savage Opera guitarist Nigel Webb, they released their debut album Jo in Nine G Hell on Beggar’s Banquet in 1992.
Their early work mixes fairly generic early-‘90s alternative rock with strong influences from post-punk and the work of Swiss industrial rockers The Young Gods.
By their third album, 1995’s krautrock-influenced Psychedelische Musique had dispensed with all conventional rock elements for an extremely abstract post-rock sound.

1993 - Jo In Nine G Hell

Label: Beggars Banquet
Catalog#: BEG 66136-2
Продолжительность: 00:48:50
Трэклист:

01. Elevenate 3:36

02. Flat Truck 3:29

03. Torque 4:38

04. Monkies 3:24

05. Kak 4:47

06. Where's Gala 4:24

07. Ground Zero 3:13

08. $1000 Pledge 6:02

09. The Final Nail 5:13

10. Pipeline 9:58
Album infoVocalist/bassist Neil Mackay and drummer John Wills left Loop in 1991 and joined guitarist Nigel Webb on the experimental noise-rock trio's debut album, Jo in Nine G Hell. Over Valence, the band's second LP, appeared in 1994.
Starting off a debut album with a brutal, slow rock punch and the heavily echoed lyric 'Some people deserve to die' might not sound like the easiest way to win friends and influence people. Given that two members were refugees from the collapse of Loop, though, it was par for the course for Hair & Skin Trading Company. Jo in Nine G Hell, if nothing else, shows that while Robert Hampson might have wanted to leave behind his old band's formulas, Mackay and Wills were interested in finding out what could still be done with them. Webb proved to be a sympathetic partner, if not one who could completely erase the memory of Hampson's noise freakouts, and perhaps as a result ,Jo in Nine G Hell is centered much more around the Mackay/Wills partnership. With production from Roli Mosimann emphasizing the brutal rampage factor of the two -- much of the album sounds like the fierce Can team of Holger Czukay and Jaki Leibezeit out to stun -- the results are a heavy-duty trip. Mackay and Webb are as much non-singers as Hampson, concentrating on mantra-like lyrics and short, harshly whispered or sung performances, letting the music speak first and foremost. 'Ground Zero,' the band's debut single, is the most immediately conventional track, a viciously catchy spaghetti western theme gone to a freaked-out hell, while the occasional song ('Monkies,' 'Pipeline') serves up some hooky crunch here and there. Otherwise, the emphasis is on exploration rather than singalongs, the songs coming across as evil-minded psych-stoner monsters out for blood and not caring what gets in the way. Points for credit as well for the flat-out nutty vocals to 'Kak' that sound like merry dwarves down in a mine that is about to collapse.

1994 - Over Valence

Label: Beggars Banquet
Catalog#: BBQCD 141
Продолжительность: 01:04:05
Трэклист:

01. On Again Off Again 3:49

02. Go Round 4:04

03. K-Funk 4:30

04. Loa 4:32

05. F.D.M. 5:07

06. Machine Gun 5:27

07. Take Control 8:19

08. Carrier Wave 5:51

09. Levers 4:14

10. Lock-Up 1:46

11. Take Control II 2:55

12. Sub Surface 6:48

13. Static 6:38
CreditsBass, Vocals - Neil Mackay
Drums - John Wills
Guitar, Vocals - Nigel Webb

1995 - Psychedelische Musique (Lava Surf Kunst)

Label: Freek Records
Catalog#: FRR 011CD
Продолжительность: 00:52:08
Трэклист:

01 - Ichneumen Fly (2:16)

02 - * (2:49)

03 - Kinetic (2:31)

04 - S (0:37)

05 - MJGJGJ. DXFVAZLK, HG. AWSEL* AS (6:49)

06 - Tor (2:34)

07 - ZZZ (1:55)

08 - Conscious Ucons:..?*U12 (0:45)

09 - Knife Fright (2:05)

10 - Untitled (1:14)

11 - DDD (8:17)

12 - Untitled (3:34)

13 - Untitled (5:23)

14 - ESQ (11:20)
AllMusic Review by Charlie Wilmoth
The Hair & Skin Trading Company cast a strange spell on their 1995 self-titled album. Rich layers of static abound here, but listeners able to fall asleep to Psychedelische Musique won't have good dreams: repetitive, odd samples and creepy, whispered vocals underpin the noise, and the group frequently shifts from section to section without warning. The music is distant-sounding and forbidding, making this record a difficult one to feel comfortable with: 'Conscious Ucons:..?*U12' sounds like a bad death metal record skipping on a faraway radio station, and on 'TOR,' Swans-like bass explosions interrupt a whining drone and a buried rock riff. Psychedelische Musique sounds like a cross between the billowing noise of Flying Saucer Attack and emotionally elusive records like Disco Inferno's D.I. Go Pop or Public Image Ltd.'s Flowers of Romance. Psychedelische Musique isn't easy to get into, but patient fans of the aforementioned bands will find it a pleasantly unpleasant listen.