
Do you remember those garage pyche comps from the seventies, Nuggets (compiled by that hideous long hair from the awful Patti Smith Group,Lenny Kaye), which featured a load of american bands doing impressions of British invasion bands and/or Bob Dylan?
Well, if there was a similar series featuring bands doing impressions of the big industrial bands, called maybe "Blood Clots", We Be Echo would be included.
They/he sounds like a lost attic tape of Cabaret Voltaire, even down to an almost note perfect rip of the Western Mantra called "It Was You".
Like Nuggets, this is no bad thing, because you've heard the originals so many times, you crave another release from the original artist that you have never heard before.
We Be Echo sounds exactly like Cabaret Voltaire circa "The Voice Of America" album, and how we wich the Cabs always sounded like this, and never went Disco.
We Be Echo evolved out of "Third Door From The Left"(featured very soon on this Blog) who sounded exactly like Throbbing Gristle; they'd be on "Blood Clots" too!
I think I may compile this series, its a good idea me thinks.
Many thanks to P.J. for this great tape.
Track Listing:
Sexuality
| Punish You | |||
| No Going Back | |||
| Death Row | |||
| A New Day | |||
| I'm A Gambler | |||
| It Was You | |||
| Micropenis | |||
| Dirty Harry | |||
| Survivalists II | |||
| Knechtschaft | |||
| This Hour's Mine | |||
| I Want | |||
| Got You | |||
| Paranoid | |||
| House Of Punishment | |||
| Manson | |||
| Kick |
DOWNLOAD these Cabs wanna Be's HERE!
6 comments:
The guy from Patti Smith's group is Lenny Kaye and in my opinion deserves credit for rescuing previously forgotten psyche/garage music and presenting it to a new generation that would not otherwise have heard it. Not actually a million miles from where this blog is at.
I respect what you do and your opinions but feel the need to offer a different perspective.
All the best.
Fair enough, but you don't have to respect my opinions. The main difference is the bands on his (Lenny Kaye) comp's were only from 6 years before, whereas here, we are talking thirty years in the forgotten past. It seems einsteins theory of relativity applies to music too.
Cheers.
Brilliant!!!!
Thanks for all minimal-industrial casettes!
Can you post other tapes of We Be Echo?
Thanks Pawel. Sorry,I have No more We Be Echo tapes.
I actually did use a tape of Cabaret Voltaire's drum machine that Mal sent me for some tracks. On the special edition of Ceza Evi, Genesis P. Orridge and IHAM played Tibetan thighbone trumpet.
We Be Echo can be found on the limited edition vinyl release album Decades (VOD Records). There's also a limited edition webeecho 25th anniversary double CD out there.
Thanks for the info Kev.
Hope you weren't offended by my review.I did say it was a great tape after all!
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