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Falling A vaults & archives

25/5/2004

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Far from being exhaustive, here was an attempt at creating some kind of inventory of Falling A's history from the now defunct Dynamite Vision website. This discography was published in May 2004...

FALLING A DISCOGRAPHY

We are currently ploughing through our archives in attempt to produce a chronological record of our history. We have several crates full of letters, fanzines that we distributed or contributed to, cassettes and diy private pressing records that we either distributed or released and our intention is to gradually build a picture of the diy music movement of the early 80's in these pages. Eventually we'll have scans from some of the fanzines from the period and any significant letters as well as cassette / record covers and we'll also have soundfiles from some of those great recordings. We are also keen to get in touch with anyone from our past and if you have anything that may be of interest to place in the archive then all the better. If you have a site or know of a site that contains more information on these artists / fanzines let us know and we will add a link. This is a mammoth task and we hope that it will be of interest to you as it develops.

This discography includes several releases that were licensed to us from the bands or other diy labels. This was a common practice during the diy cassette years. We would duplicate and sell and then pass on a licensing fee (usually 50% of the profit). One or two of these releases were withdrawn because they had been licensed to us via a third party who was not authorized to do so. For the most part though, I am glad to say that the integrity of the diy music movement in the 80's was of a very high standard. Some of the dates given are approximate. It was a long time ago and we have failing memories. The current list is not the definitive list, there are lot's of significant omissions which we will gradually get to.


Dec 1977 Frenzid Melon - Frenzid Melon cassette album
May 1978 Frenzid Melon - Graffiti cassette album
Feb 1979 Frenzid Melon - Frenzid Melon II cassette album
July 1979 Frenzid Melon - Stop Acting cassette album
Aug 1979 Frenzid Melon - I don't wanna work in the wimpy bar cassette single
Sept 1979 Bazza - Songs in the key of death cassette album
Nov 1979 Frenzid Melon - The great roll & butter swindle cassette album
Aug 1980 Frenzid Melon - FM cassette album
Nov 1980 Frenzid Melon - Snippets cassette album (withdrawn for artistic reasons rather than permission)
May 1981 Frenzid Melon - Provisional Music cassette album
Jun 1981 Various - Dreams of reality cassette album
Nov 1981 Various - Ultimate visions suppressed cassette album
Dec 1981 Various - A bagful of midgets cassette album
Dec 1981 Various - The Falling A sampler cassette album
Jan 1982 Paul Kelday - Centuries cassette album
Mar 1982 The Cleaners from Venus - Blow away your troubles cassette album
Mar 1982 The Cleaners from Venus - On any normal Monday cassette album
Jun 1982 The electronic Sylvia Plath cassette album
Jun 1982 Various - The Falling A sampler vol 2 cassette album
Jul 1982 The Stray Trolleys - Barricades and Angels cassette album
Jul 1982 Various - The secret dreams of a kitchen porter cassette album
Sept 1982 The Insane Picnic - Four days in april e.p.
Sep 1982 E.G. Oblique Graph - The Piano room cassette album
Oct 1982 WE R7 - Dance to this cassette album
Oct 1982 E.G. Oblique Graph - Inhalt cassette EP
Oct 1982 The Ordinary - Conventional sound cassette album
Oct 1982 Steve Ainsworth - The best of Steve Ainsworth cassette album
Oct 1982 Steve Ainsworth - Laughing Mask cassette album
Oct 1982 DDHR / Keith Apter - Possibility soundtracks cassette album
Oct 1982 Various - Talfahrt sampler cassette album
Oct 1982 The Modern Art - Underwater Kites cassette album
Oct 1982 Various - Orgies in synth cassette album
Oct 1982 Various - Aural Catalogue volume 1 cassette album
Oct 1982 Various - Why buy a piece of plastic for a fiver when you can buy the real thing at a fraction of the price? the Falling A sampler vol. 3 cassette album
Nov 1982 Spasmodic Caress - Hillside '79 cassette ep
Nov 1982 262 - For fun and profit cassette album
Nov 1982 Waiting for Bardot - Shirley Bassey family shocker cassette album
Nov 1982 The Marine Girls - Beach Party cassette album
Nov 1982 Dave Anthony - 3D cassette album
Nov 1982 White Russia - First Rites cassette album
Nov 1982 Ludus - Pickpocket cassette EP
Dec 1982 The Cleaners from Venus - Midnight Cleaners cassette album
Dec 1982 Shiver - Boys stand tall cassette album
Dec 1982 Velvet Warrior - Get out while you can cassette album
Jan 1983 Various - Hideous cassette album
Jan 1983 The classification of vegetables cassette album
Feb 1983 Tone Death - Inhuman Funktions cassette album
Feb 1983 Reasonable Strollers - Secure cassette album
Feb 1983 Tone Death - An evening out with Tone Death cassette album
Feb 1983 The Shakers - Live Studio cassette album
Feb 1983 Various - The Falling A sampler vol. 4 cassette album
Feb 1983 New 7" Music - Ghost among the weeds cassette album
Feb 1983 DDHR - Treatment and design cassette album
Feb 1983 Various - What happens when we sing a song cassette album
Feb 1983 Sombre Reptiles - Paraphenalia cassette album
Feb 1983 Disco Complex 99 - Funtime cassette album
Feb 1983 Nick Swann - A hundred yards another time cassette album
Feb 1983 Bam Bam and the elasticated nappies - BBATEN cassette album
Feb 1983 Funeral Flower - Episode One cassette album
Feb 1983 Rectonob - There's an ape in the sky cassette album
Mar 1983 Spasmodic Caress - Four men one door cassette ep
Apr 1983 All Cats are grey - Over the edge cassette album
May 1983 The Insane Picnic - Romance / The forgotten promise single
May 1983 The Falling A mystery record
May 1983 The Inane - Still to see cassette ep
May 1983 Various - When the system sucks , Subway's greatest hits cassette album
May 1983 Various - Hatelijke Groenten 7" 10 track e.p.
May 1983 All cats are grey - Chance cassette ep
Jun 1983 Various - The Falling A sampler vol. 5 cassette album
Nov 1983 Various - The free for an sae and blank tape sampler. Falling A sampler vol.6 cassette album
Jan 1984 The Apostles - Christ, it's the Apostles cassette album
Jan 1984 The Apostles - Live at the Recession club cassette album
Mar 1984 Various - Music, Noise, Sound & Beat cassette album
Apr 1984 Throbbing Gristle - Nothing short of a total war cassette albumj
Apr 1984 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Live in Berlin 1980
Apr 1984 Rectonob - Spank that lobster cassette album
Apr 1984 30 Minutes cassette album
Apr 1984 Various - The Falling A sampler vol. 7 cassette album
May 1984 Severed Heads - Media Jingles cassette album (withdrawn oops!)
May 1984 Severed Heads - Side Two cassette album (withdrawn oops)
Jul 1984 Mob / Apostles - Live at LMC cassette album
Aug 1984 Various - Zink Zamler cassette album
Sept 1984 Various - The Falling A sampler vol. 8 cassette album
Sep 1984 Various - Meathouse cassette album
Oct 1984 North - Aurora Borealis cassette e.p.
Nov 1984 Third door from the left - Face the firing squad cassette album
Jan 1985 Various - The final Falling A sampler cassette album
Oct 1986 The Insane Picnic - Magistrates and Saints 12" (with Waterfall records)

 
FANZINES DISTRIBUTED BY FALLING A
One day we'll provide you with links to some scans of some of these fantastic gems of English literature!

Adventures in Reality

Apocalypse

Blam!

Body & Steel

Broken Skull

Caprice

Catch 22

Concrete Beaches

Cool Notes

Crash bash smash trash

Crash smash crack ring

Deadbeat

Enzine

Facsimile

Grapevine

Juniper beri beri

New Crimes

Operators Manual

Rouska

Rox

Satellite C.I.D.

Synchromesh

The Other Place

Tone Death

Underground Romance

Vague
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