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  Screaming Trees - Tangiers [12NTV 34 UK 1988 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Last ripped back in 2011 for ESWA, here is another single from Sheffield's Screaming Trees. Very much more electronic in feel, Tangiers holds a remarkable resemblance to what New Order & Depeche Mode were doing in the mid-eighties. This is a great single with a powerful sound and a more commercial edge with catchy hooks and more reserved vocal style. This was to be the band's final act as Screaming Trees, as they shed a few members to become Success (something which eluded the band throughout their career) and then Count Zero.  A1 Tangiers A2 Fade Out B1 MbAaIsNsLlIiNnEe

  Screaming Trees - Asylum [12NTV 24 UK 1987 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] I last ripped this single over ten years ago for my old ESWA blog, I had forgotten just how entertaining it is, so here is a brand new rip for all those who might be expecting a Pacific Northwestern psyche/grunge band named Screaming Trees. This particular Screaming Trees were an industrial influenced indie rock band who moved into more electronic music, ripping up a few musical rule books as they went. Asylum could well be one of the finest 12" singles ever to come out of Sheffield, England. Engineered & mixed by Hula's Alan Fish, recorded by Screaming Trees and their buddies Workforce at Vibrasound & produced by former ABC fringe Stephen Singleton. This single was released a few months after The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu launched 1987 on an unsuspecting world, and the new craze for well placed subtle sampling of commercial artistic properties is duly used & abused to epic proportions on an in...

  Screaming Trees - A Fracture In Time [NTVLP 29 UK 1987 24-Bit FLAC] The original Screaming Trees came from Sheffield in South Yorkshire, this is an important distinction which I needed to get right. I wouldn't want to upset anybody from any other areas of this proud county. The original Screaming Trees also have nothing to do with that other hairy bunch from the Pacific North West who borrowed their name a few years later. Two years before Renegade Soundwave and Meat Beat Manifesto mixed samples and cut-ups with heavy duty beats to great acclaim, Sean Maloney and Mark Swancott released their debut album with a bit of help from Alan Fish and former ABC sax-playing fringe, Stephen Singleton. These indie-funk-industrial-dance pieces are interlaced with pompous orchestral strings, pop & hip-hop samples, film soundtracks, throbbing bass lines, a grand piano, a horn section, James Brown, Beastie Boys, Madonna, Bowie, ACR, John Barry, Ealing comedies, Bogart and Kraftwerk....

Screaming Trees - Release [NTV 6 UK 1986 24-Bit FLAC] First of all, anybody looking here for a Pacific Northwestern grungy alt-rock band will be sorely disappointed, here's the debut EP by Sheffield's Screaming Trees. With a borrowed bass line from A Certain Ratio and plenty of screechy & distorted guitars this one should go down well with the massed ranks of blog followers. The band were going to mellow as time moved on introducing dance beats and samples but here is where it all started. Enjoy! A1 Release B1 Incinerator B2 Razors In My Mouth