Shockin' (1998) - Various Artists

Nice compilation of stuff from the Shock roster circa 1998. I originally bought it for the fact it had TISM, Screamfeeder, Sandpit and Gerling all in the same place, but the stuff is delivered in spades, with tracks from Fur, The Melniks and Turnstyle also highlights. The Gerling track is taken from their 1996 EP (A Day Of Research) released by Fellaheen, a release I'm still trying to track down (seems rare).

Bodyjar! TISM! Screamfeeder! Sandpit! Gerling! What more could you possibly want?

Oh yeah, speaking of Gerling, before I forget, here's a link to a cool fansite I thought I'd lost the link to.

1. You Say    3:40    Bodyjar
2. Yob    3:21    TISM
3. Static    3:18    Screamfeeder
4. Big Mouth    2:33    Big Heavy Stuff
5. Something Of Me Inside    4:24    Glide
6. Along The Moors    3:26    Sandpit
7. Neon Pressure    2:32    Fur
8. Alsour Vempire    3:31    Gerling
9. J55    3:19    Webster
10. Make The Little Flowers Grow    3:01    Snog
11. Telephone Song    3:23    V-Dub
12. 1000 Miles    4:40    Dirty Three
13. I Listen To The Night    2:54    Matt Walker & Ashley Davies
14. Flase Waltz    4:04    Lisa Miller
15. Sandvalve    4:55    Carbine
16. Balancing On A Pin    1:54    Adam Said Galore
17. Sunday Ride    2:36    Team Jedi
18. I'm A Bus    2:59    Turnstyle
19. Backdrop    3:25    The Melniks
20. Pogo    4:17    The Brown Hornet
21. Kransid    4:08    Orac

Shockin' (1998) - Various Artists

Wall Of Taste (1995) - Hexfarm

And now for a return after a long absence not updating this blog, something out of the left field. The jazz field that is. This was another op-shop find where I was entranced by the hand-scrawled typeface and the anti-Kennett posters in the front cover collage. You can't see this at the moment, because my girlfriend's scanner is playing up and won't talk to Preview on macOS. Hopefully I can rectify this because I'm sure the cover art is half the reason people notice new posts on here...

Though I assumed this was a sludge metal sojourn based solely on the artwork, what Wall Of Taste involves is an hour of free-jazz and fusion noodlings from a Melbourne (?) three-piece recorded straight to 4-track cassette, focusing on Phil Bywater's sax. If I can dig up more on the political background to this release, I will.

There's sparse information available on this release, aside from a mention in the aforementioned Phil's thesis (available on the UniMelb repository) and this sole upload to SoundCloud.

1. Cross Purposes    5:06
2. Is It Enough?    4:41
3. Compassion    5:07
4. The Curse Of The Flesheaters    4:34
5. If I Was A Spider...    4:04
6. 4000 B.C. Blues    4:38
7. Johnny Opens Up    9:37
8. 4a$    3:43
9. Schnitzel King    4:43
10. Excerpt From Rampant Sarcophagus    3:53
11. Coherent Drama    3:37
12. Someone Said It's All Been Said.    3:53
13. Legacy    3:12

Wall Of Taste (1995) - Hexfarm