This Heat - Live 80-81Formed in 1976 in Brixton, a multicultural, and at the time down at heel part of south London, This Heat were born into a music scene in rapid flux, first thanks to the punk explosion and then via new wave and its myriad offshoots into pop, rock and art rock. But while many sought to apply punk attitude to chart friendly sounds, This Heat were concocting some of the most experimental ideas ever committed to tape, taking influence from musique concrte,

even in sparse demo form

whilst the latter’s heavenly vocals and lush instrumentation sound like a hypnagogic re-imagining of a SoBE track

and disobedient elephants

the band had done some touring and recorded the Racer X EP and the start of the Il Duce 7"

'Harumi' is a classic double album of obscure Japan meets Greenwich Village psych with legendary producer Tom Wilson (Velvet Underground

Known for her prolific songwriting and soundcloud posting Rose Keeler-Schffelers debut album features eighteen powerfully but economically packed tracks

Holy Sons is Emil Amos

åÊCriminally under-appreciated

a snapshot of some hundreds of rare and often forgotten tapes from the most prolific

without hope

It's a dark morality play performed in a style where a barker from a medicine show is mysteriously transported to the weimar republic via tin pan alley

The Arkestra performed at The Foxhole in Philly many times from 1974