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[ruinedholograms]

POWER INC. (1993)

[postpunkindustrial]

Keith LeBlanc – Stranger Than Fiction

Keith LeBlanc has just died. He has had a largely unseen but incredibly influential trajectory through music.

Starting out as a member of of the Sugar Hill Records backing band he was a part of the birth of Hip hop. And later on he would be a member of Mark Stewart and the Maffia.

But what he was most known for was his involvement with the band Tack>>Head. Although not super popular in the US they were incredibly influential. Nine Inch Nails sampled Tack>>Head heavily on Pretty Hate Machine (and subesquently Le Blanc and fellow Tack>>Head member Adrian Sherwood remixed Down In It on the single)

Check out his stuff.

You can download Stranger Than Fiction his Electronic, Industrial Electro and Dub infused project from my Google Drive HERE

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Newspaper advert March-April 1990.

Found this eBay listing & the layout was new to me.

[ourladyofomega]

📸 source: Wax Trax! Records (FB)

[chaoselph]

TACKHEAD 1989 (03) KING OF THE BEAT

[musickickztoo]

RIP Keith LeBlanc

[dead-set-goat]

Although spotify does it for you, i think it’s better to make your own music-year-review list. I want to share a few songs (and maybe a few words about them too) that have inspired, helped, impressed or spoke to me. This is also a very light personal year-review.

No particular order!

Every Day is Halloween by Ministry

Obviously, listened to this constantly in October but really works any day of the year, the message gets me going. Moving away from my parents and my hometown that very October, I felt free as all hell, free to be who I want to be, dress how I want to dress (or at least try!), it makes me want to fight for my skin :

I exclusively listen to music from an MP3 player when I’m out, fuck smartphones :))))))))), so the story of this: downloaded this whole album to my MP3 player for my trip to Greece this summer because I’d be out a lot, was just curious about ska punk, never listened to it before. And yeah, I fell in love with this, and Capdown. I listen to this when I’m on a rush always, gets me flying! (Yeah, nothing beats running and panicking about being late to an appointment to this)

Can’t recommend Swans early stuff enough! And the new stuff as well. Could swap this for Power for Power on Filth as well. Really good mechanic beats and cold lyrics, walking through a city as lively as it is decayed to this feels just right. A great inspiration for what I’d like to achieve with my music.

I quite enjoy (love with a burning passion) this album for the most part, I don’t listen to drum n’ bass on it’s own but, the metal combo to me hits just perfect. I think this song has the perfect amount of agression, melancholy, explosive distortion, and the best whiney guitar ever! I swear I can hear words of lament in that guitars voice… it’s awesome. It’s a very good song to drown out the noise of the Subway…

This album as a whole. My anxieties and anticipations for the future, my nostalgia and existential terror, agitated into soundwaves. Listening to this, on a suffocating late August afternoon while driving, feels like a thousand spent lifetimes.

I listened to this on easily one of the most emotionally charged days of my life. I was on a car trip across the country, it really hits different with neverending crop fields and rural sights and abandoned factories… For more context about the song, it’s a mockery of the former communist regime, the singer is posing as the dictator, singing about a carefree land preparing for winter, in which “everything is wonderful” and “perfect”.

This is a commuting staple. An industrial rock banger! I think the sound is easy to get into, good for guitars, good for the dance floors, a perfect combo. A fair bit of Machines of Loving Grace songs hooked me instantly.

Absolute dance staple. Strapped it to a wall in the hall of dancing-with-your-last-breath.

I had a panic attack while driving to this, on a bridge. That was an exciting time. I was going to the beach. In the winter. All the vibes were off that day, but in the best way possible. And this song took them all, it’s preserving them like alcohol. Oh also, saw a guy at the gym near my house that had a HEALTH tshirt and I was like, yoo, cool! Because really, rarely do you see people with taste here hah.

One of my industrial fascinations. Not exactly the eye opener (I’ll have that guy show up later), but my, sound has never felt so powerful and it’s not even booming-lound. I highly suggest listening this surround, but even stereo, it’s such a disorienting, enveloping experience.

OH SHIT. Audio limit for this post???

Look out for part 2

[mrbopst]

Good News: A new episode of the Bopst Show, the only variety music radio show/podcast that gives as good as it receives, is now available for free public consumption on Podomatic or wherever you get your podcasts.

Music variety show hosted, mixed and recorded by Chris Bopst featuring words and music by Aziz Harun & Aisha Retno, Chester Vomit & The Dry Heaves, Aldous Harding, Tackhead, Pizzicato Five, Popchor Berlin, King Tubby, Erica Freas, Neu!, Claudes Channes, Alan Wilkis, Teddybears, Hal Vincent, and Antiprisma. BROADCAST SCHEDULE: The Bopst Show airs Fridays 4 & 10 PM, Saturdays 4 & 10 AM & PM, and Sundays 4 & 10 AM on WRWK 93.9 The Work FM. The Bopst Show airs Monday-Fridays, 4-5 AM & PM, on Slack Radio. Social Media: Facebook, Bluesky, Tumblr, Pinterest, X Until Next Time, Stay Clean PS: Electric Football rules.

[ruinedholograms]

POWER INC. (1993)

[postpunkindustrial]

Keith LeBlanc - Major Malfunction

RIP Keith LeBlanc

Heavy Drum Programming Electro and Dub Influenced Industrial.

Get it from my Google Drive HERE

[rastronomicals]

4:31 AM EDT September 13, 2024:

Tackhead - "Don't Let Me Down" From the album   Fab Gear! Mojo Presents 15 Customised Beatles Covers (November 2021)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[ourladyofomega]

Remembering Keith LeBlanc.

📸: Keyvan Behpour

[radiomaxmusic]

In Memoriam: Keith LeBlanc (1954 - 2024)

Keith LeBlanc (1954 – April 4, 2024) was an American drummer and record producer who was a member of the bands Little Axe and Tackhead. His record “No Sell Out” was one of the first sample-based releases. The song was a success, charting at No. 60 on the UK Singles Chart, and becoming the single of the week for several major music publications. His career started out on Sugar Hill Records…

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Sounds That Have Been made, EP 112: Keith LeBlanc + Malcolm X "No Sell Out"

Back in August of 2023, I had put this entry into my drafts folder (I have about 100 or so STHBM posts floating in my WordPress queue; anytime a song or artist comes to mind) and figured I would get to it once I finished an illustration I’ve had brewing for far longer, based on the Keith LeBlanc solo track Taxcider. That will have to wait, because I wanted to listen to this today. Keith LeBlanc…

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tackhead -- ticking time bomb

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Tackhead - what’s my mission now?