This month's DJ comp harkens all the way back to 2001 (and 21 years further back from there), from the late great program Rhubarb Cake. Here is Douglas' marathon premium from that year, titled Obey The New Wave - 1980 and all that-- UK DIY, etc. Here's how Douglas described it at the time: 23 blurts of intense, delicious, mysterious and staggeringly unusual UK DIY and art-post-punk, circa 1980. Grab this comp quick - these tracks will be up for one week only.
Nancy Sesay and the Melodaires - C'est Fab | Blurt - Get
Furious Pig - I Don't Like Your Face | Androids of Mu - Bored Housewives
Gerry and the Holograms - Gerry and the Holograms | The 49 Americans - Newton's Laws
Diagram Brothers - We Are All Animals | Fish Turned Human - 24 Hour Shop
Electric Chairs - So Many Ways | The Suspicions - The Laughing Policeman
General Strike - My Body | Hermine - Torture | Michael Nyman - Mozart
The Flying Lizards - Hands 2 Take | Galactic Symposium - Money
"Fatal" Microbes - Violence Grows | Gl*xo Babies - Christine Keeler
People In Control - When It's War | Dum Dum Dum - Dum Dum Dum
The Filmcast - Admission (Yours) | Aqsak Maboul - A Modern Lesson
thanks, this is c00L.
but
IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE MISSING TRACK # 21.
Posted by: fred g sanford | October 10, 2006 at 10:47 PM
A modern lesson is a whippie little track. I also dig torture and Violence grows. It had made my grow too (violently). more cake!
Posted by: koblodstad.romero | October 11, 2006 at 02:40 PM
Nice, but Where's Track 21?
Posted by: Master Evil | October 11, 2006 at 03:23 PM
i was in Aquarius Records today and saw this great DIY compilation
on Cripped Dick Hot Wax.. same label that released the GRLZ comp last
year..
Various Artists - 7" UP! (singles only, UK 1978-1982)
01. Mark Beer - The man man man
02. Glaxo Babies – This is your life
03. Contact – Constant beat
04. I Jog & The Tracksuits – Redbox
05. Gerry and the Holograms - Gerry and the Holograms
06. Brian Brain – Jive, jive
07. They must be Russians – Don´t try to cure yourself
08. Moondogs – Imposter
09. Thomas Leer – Private plane
10. Cult Figures – Zip Nolan
11. Monochrome Set – Eine Symphonie des Grauens
12. Henry Badowski – Making love with my wife
13. Weekend – Drumbeat for baby
http://www.crippled.com/index.php
Posted by: josh | October 11, 2006 at 06:34 PM
Thanks for making these available...fabulous!
Posted by: Tim | October 11, 2006 at 08:23 PM
excellent stuff... nice to see Furious Pig on there; they were always my favourite retard yodelling band from the West Country... if only mash-ups had been going then.... them there acapellas woulda been seams of gold...
Posted by: Loki | October 14, 2006 at 03:30 AM
Great stuff, really exciting to find this. Thanks so much for posting! The whole site, which I have not looked at in a while, is amazing.
Posted by: Bob Trombetta | October 14, 2006 at 01:11 PM
Thanks!
I was looking for Galactic Symposiums Money for years.
Posted by: wieL | October 25, 2006 at 08:26 PM
Anyone else notice the similarity between Gerry & The Holograms and the later released Blue Monday by New Order?
Posted by: Dave | November 05, 2006 at 03:35 PM
Hi, I missed this, and it's too bad the tracks are up only one week. Why? This assumes that people aren't discovering WFMU every day, like I did just today--and it kills me to have missed these tracks because this is just the kind of music I have been searching out, and I know I won't find it anywhere else. Is there a mirror elsewhere for these tracks? Thank you. J in LA
Posted by: Duelist | January 16, 2007 at 02:52 AM
Henry Badowski! Boy, how I loved his album "Life Is A Grand..."
If anyone knows where I can find mp3s of it, PLEASE email me!
Posted by: Hell's Donut House | August 22, 2007 at 02:09 AM
Whew! Great.
Posted by: Andrew | March 03, 2008 at 06:02 PM
can i purchase a copy of obey the new wave compliation cd
Posted by: richard rye | May 26, 2010 at 08:18 AM