MX 80 SOUND MX-80 Sound  THE RECORDS



teh best recordings, from teh best records...no bullshit



MY VINYL->CDWAVE->FLAC-> you



1

2

3 Man on the move

4 Kid Stuff

5 Fascination

6 pcb's

7 Tidal wave

8 You're not alone

9 Civilized/Demeyes

10 SCP

11 Theme from batman

12 Metro teens

13 Possessed

14 Withe night

15 It's not my fault

16 Follow that car

17 Fender bender

18 I walk among them

19 Someday you'll be king

20 Metro teens

21 Promise of love

22 Das love boat





1-2   First ep 1976  ( from tape, first gen from record)

3-10  Hard Attak LP Island records 1977  ( From my Vinyl copy)

10-11 from CD Instrumenmtals  1975/1980

12    demotape 1979 ( unedited!)

13    From "subterranean modern"  Ralph records 1980 ( My vinyl copy)

14    From 7" Ralph records 1980 ( My vinyl copy)

15-20 From "Out of the Tunnel" LP Ralph records 1980 ( My vinyl copy)

21    from "Crowd control"  Ralph records 1981  ( My vinyl copy)

22    From CD 1990









Origin Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.

Genres Experimental rock, noise rock, acid punk, post-punk

Years active 1974–present



Members

Dale Sophiea

Rich Stim

Dave Mahoney

Jeff Armour

Bruce Anderson (this mas was a genious)



MX-80, also known as MX-80 Sound, is an eclectic American art-rock band founded in 1974 in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, by guitarist Bruce Anderson. Considered “one of the most out of step but prescient bands of its time",[1] MX-80's signature sound consisted of breakneck metallic guitar combined with atonal chord structure, cross-rhythmic percussion and dispassionate vocals. Notoriously difficult to categorize—the band has been labeled noise rock,[2] post-punk,[3] acid punk,[4] and heavy-metal[5][6]—MX-80's sonic melange set the stage for bands such as Swans, Sonic Youth,[7] Codeine, and Shellac.



Hard Attack



Hard Attack, also produced by Mark Bingham at Gilfoy Studios in Bloomington, was released only in Europe. Like their late-1970s midwestern compatriots Pere Ubu and Debris,[9] MX-80's initial recording had little commercial success and critics were unsure what to make of them. Glenn O’Brien writing in Interview said of MX-80's debut, “[It] should establish MX-80 as either the most Heavy Metal Art Band or the most Arty Heavy Metal Band.” Chuck Eddy called Hard Attack "a distorted free for all that set some eternal noisecore standard."[10]







MX-80 relocated to San Francisco in 1978, a tumultuous year when the city reverberated from the Dan White shootings and subsequent riots (reflected in the track "White Night") and the Peoples Temple mass suicide (the band performed at the nearby Temple Beautiful soon after the tragedy, overlooking a parking lot filled with the victim's cars). MX-80 also performed at prominent punk venues such as the Mabuhay Gardens, Deaf Club, and Savoy Tivoli but the local reception was not enthusiastic and the band was considered out of sync with the punk and new-wave sensibility of groups such as Germs, Dils, and Avengers. Disheartened by the reaction, drummer Jeff Armour soon departed, reducing the band to a quartet.



In 1979, The Residents signed MX-80 to their label, Ralph Records, and two releases followed. The first Ralph recording, Out of the Tunnel (1980), was recorded at Mobius Music Studios, again with Mark Bingham producing. The album's back cover art was photographed by Kim Torgerson at San Francisco's now-buried Ocean Beach tunnels. Ira Robbins, writing in Trouser Press, said "Out of the Tunnel may well be MX-80's high-tide-mark, featuring convoluted breakneck melodies, cross-fed musical genres and Anderson's white hot soloing."



Their second Ralph release, Crowd Control[11] (1981), was recorded at New York's Celebration Studios and was their final collaboration with producer Mark Bingham. Though Crowd Control contained two love songs – "Obsessive Devotion" and "Promise of Love" – compared to Out of the Tunnel, it was considered “a darker album, from a much darker year, [7]” and in general, “found the quartet simplifying some of the arrangements without losing the sense of crackling intensity and playful-while-being-serious performing of earlier efforts.[12]”