Various Artists ‎– "A Very Large Array" (Sound Of Pig ‎– SOP 152) 1987

Well, I have seen larger array's than this,but its a jolly good array of the usual abstract electronica and left field avant-industria that lurks in the shadowy world of pig (sound of...).
Again it features my favourite minimal composition student and word collage-ist ,Roberta Eklund,she good,she very good. The excellent,and prolific Big City Orchestra contribute the ironic 'making a Living as a Musician', and Europe is represented by the fine Dutch industrial act Zombies Under Stress.
Its hard to understand why a band called The Swimming Behaviour Of The Human Infant were never snapped up by CBS or any of these other awful, clueless ,culturally bankrupt record companies,who are the very definition of Zombies Under Stress. Thankfully there are a diminishing Array of these hideous capitalist leeches due to the power of the internet; its usually people like me who get the blame for 'Musicians' not making a living,when its the corporate nazi's  who have been stealing from musicians and music fans for decades.Internet sites are nothing more than digitized versions of the John Peel Show, magnified.Providing the biggest shop window that has ever existed for underground music of the past and future. DIY/underground/alternative musicians have never made a living as a musician,but there exists an opportunity by playing live......ie Work. 
Another way is repackaging the 'free' music of the past as limited editions and selling them to the middle classes at an exorbitant rate. As a certain  German based re-issue label does,and seems to feel free to slag me off,and others,  using my pseudonym in certain public communication forums,setting himself up as some kind of Tape collecting Jesus. We're doing the same thing except we don't do it for money,and put ourselves on a pedestal for doing it.
How talking about a band called 'the Swimming Behaviour Of the Human Infant' led to this rant I have no idea, so apologies to all.....except Herr Maier who seems to share the same traits as thee most famous German/ Austrian ever......altogether now, "FEGELEIN!" (if you've seen Downfall that is.)Or in this case......ZCHIVAGOOOOOO!

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Various Artists ‎– "The World Does Not Fit On A 21" Screen" (Sound Of Pig ‎– SOP 42) 1986

The modern version of this would be "The World does not fit on a 110inch screen",as Televisions start to take over at least one room in the home of today.
From the home's of the late 20th century,when the cathode ray still ruled, transmits this beyond fine compilation from the impeccable Sound Of Pig label,with a superb collection of the weird and wacky.Worth the entrance fee alone for one of Roberta Eklund's excellent word collages, among the abstract industrial,minimal synth and post hardcore avant rock tunes.
It's Sound Of Pig, you know what to expect by now, so I'll shut up.

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Roberta Eklund ‎– "Go Tell It On The Mountain" (Eklund cassettes) 1984

Right....get a loada these notes from the insert of this tape:

"The cover illustration is a graphic representation of the anal stage. Notice the two hills representing the buttocks, respectively. Also, the placement of the mountain, a double meaning, either the feces or a penis. This could be interpreted as "loss of self" or the "completion of self"."  (!)

Is this this high quality Irony or turgidly pompous Bollocks?
Now we know what the cover means, because we're obviously too dumb to work it out for ourselves. I don't know about it being interpreted as "Loss of self"? i would interpret it as "patronisingly pretentious" myself. It makes Patti Smith  seem in touch with the street.
Doubtlessly, Ms. Eklund would have loved to have been a part of the NYC SoHo art glitterati, but more likely came from the Boise Idaho art set.Which is in some way, kinda preferable?
Toe curling pretentiousness aside,(Never explain your 'art',rule number one), the spoken word collages are great,but lofty, Philip Glass inspired minimalism. Love it...a lot.

Tracklist: 

A1	Consumer
A2	Mate
A3	Some Days
B1	Manifesto
B2	Ha-Ha

Also included in the download is Eklund's other,not so good, tape from the following year,where she tries to actually be Philip Glass. Still pleasant enough repetitive,and largely wordless, minimal keyboard compositions.It could have been written by a student of modern composition in some east coast university around 1985.....mmmm the same year as this cassette!?

Roberta Eklund ‎– "The Process Of Recognition"

Tracklist:

A1	Running	13:00
A2	Bedtime	10:16
B1	Fear Of Intimacy	7:03
B2	Murmurs	7:18
B3	That Sound Can Be Easily Explained	2:22
B4	Scarlet Park	7:03

 
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Various Artists ‎– "Cabbage 4" (Cauchy Productions) 1986

Another from the Cabbage series of compilations, containing the usual mixture of Minimal Synth,Industrial,post-punk hybrids and sub genres. Starting off with a bona-fide classic of Minimal Wave from Unovidual and Tara Cross which you can do a robot dance to and imagine you're 'Hip'. There's a couple of enjoyable Fall-alike facsimiles, a muffled bedroom poet called L.d.50,and some decent US Industrial from Smersh. All this among much more anything goes experimental pop forms,framed by the odd bit of New York sub-glass inspired minimalism from Roberta Eklund and high brow chums. Not a bad track on it,and should appeal to vegetarians and meat eaters alike; full of essential experimental music fatty acids,and the stuff vegetarians don't get in their diets.Eat your cabbage.

Tracklist:

A1	–Unovidual & Tara Cross	Like I Am / Comme Je Suis
A2	–Psychological Warfare Branch, The	Six Pack Musak
A3	–Bondage Boys & The Beast	Plastic
A4	–Friendly And The Southern Comfort Style	She Was So Pretty
A5	–L. D. 50	Sten Guns In Aldershot
A6	–Luca Miti	Plouton (Prologos-Parados)
A7	–Twilight Ritual	Tears On The Wall
A8	–Smersh	Hollow Promises
A9	–Man's Hate	President Botha Kills Children As Well
A10	–Temporal Pain	Waves Hit
B1	–Dissolutio Humani Generis	Spettri
B2	–Sekte Der Schlammfische	Schicksal Der Ironie
B3	–Psychological Warfare Branch, The	Arbeit Macht Frei
B4	–Tara Cross	No More Drugs
B5	–Roberta Eklund & Jane Arfinson & Todd Kennedy	And Again
B6	–Bogart	Sound Of Thrown Scum 1
B7	–Temporal Pain	Baptist Girls
B8	–Swinebolt 45	The Ever Developing Ordeal

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