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Electro Punk '86 (35th Anniversary Edition with Bonus Tracks)

by Sheer Zed

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Fake Line 04:30
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Mr. X 03:26
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My industrial electronic album ‘Electro Punk ‘86’ was produced on a Scotch cassette tape. It’s the product of a wild, feral imagination with a blank cheque access to Yeovil College’s music department studio equipment at the time, namely a tape machine, a Yamaha DX7 keyboard and a 70s beatbox/drum machine that kicked out a series of pre-set beats and rhythms. I would often spend early evenings looking down onto a streetlight spangled Yeovil town working on tracks during down time. I pushed the equipment to its ultimate limits and ended blowing the amp up. Back in 1986 Rob Lepley and Kim Baston were the heads of the music department at the time and even though I was officially attached to the drama department on the same floor, they encouraged and supported anyone showing an interest in music and allowed me to experiment in the small studio space that was there. They were both kind, generous and nurturing. Rob’s Electro Acoustic Music class was a revelation for me; Philip Glass, Stockhausen, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (though my genetic coding had already been sufficiently mutated by the sounds of Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror films/TV, Doctor Who and numerous school’s programmes with their otherworldly audio constructions) were discussed. The album was originally released onto streaming platforms on 19th January 2011 and to this day has not had a physical release, some decades after its creation. One track from the album Take a Walk Down the Street has surfaced and is featured on the fascinating book & 2 CD release Cassette Culture – Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet-Age by Jerry Kranitz from Vinyl On Demand Records. “This is an intensive 320-page book including a double CD loaded with almost 160 minutes of Cassette-Culture/DIY Artists. The book takes a social history/analytical approach to the growth of the global cassette culture/homemade music network that sprouted and flourished from the post-punk era through the early 1990s.” (www.vod-records.com/-1-432-675.htm) With the download of this album my article Cassette Tapes, Mixtapes and Pop Anarchy in a Pre-PJ Harvey 1980’s Yeovil is included plus period bonus tracks that have been unavailable until now.

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released May 26, 2021

Hand drawn album cover art by Sheer Zed.
Produced directly onto C90 cassette tape in Yeovil College music dept. studio in 1986 in Somerset, United Kingdom by Sheer Zed.
Tape transfer by Adrian Finn at The Great Bear.

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Sheer Zed Bristol, UK

Sheer Zed is a writer, Buddhist shaman, musician and artist who has published articles on his experiences in the occult ritualistic aspects of shamanism and Thai Lanna Buddhism in Indie Shaman, Rituals and Declarations and the Folklore Thursday website. Music reviews: "Extraordinary" "immersive" & "exciting" - Louder Than War. "A tour de force" - TQ. "A veteran Bristol noise shaman" - The Séance. ... more

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