Big City Orchestra - Resurrection Men

Cassette, C60
Label : Seiten Sprung Aufnahmen, The Netherlands, 1990
Link provided by Alex T - El Topo

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Big City Orchestra - Everyman Is A Volume

Cassette, C60
Label : Korm Plastics, The Netherlands, 1988
Ripped by jan lazyman


This time this is a rip of the tape... Many thanks to jan !

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Big City Orchestra - Everyman Is A Volume

Cassette, C60
Label : Korm Plastics, The Netherlands, 1988
Link provided by an anonymous friend

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Big City Orchestra - Des Feurs

Cassette, C60
Unreleased, 1989
Gracefully offered by Das


The cover of that "Des Feurs" cassette is in the archives section of Big City Orchestra website but I was quite sure that We Never Sleep never released anything by them as I knew that label very well at the time... Recently, I wrote Das about that mystery and he answered that "Des Feurs" was supposed to be released by We Never Sleep but finally never was, though promo copies were sent. So I proposed him to offer it for free download, to close our long series of Big City Orchestra posts. Don't miss it, it's an excellent album, with good sound quality. Many thanks to Das for offering that wonderful gift and, again, to Wackelpeter for ripping those 22 rare Big City Orchestra cassettes !

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Big City Orchestra - Hand Of Fear

Cassette, C60
Label : Calypso Now, Switzerland, 1987
Ripped by Wackelpeter

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Big City Orchestra - Web Of Fear

Cassette, C60
Label : S.J. Organisation, France, 1988
Ripped by Wackelpeter

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Big City Orchestra - Long Term Stimulation

Cassette, C46
Label : SSS Productions, US, 1988
Ripped by Wackelpeter

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Big City Orchestra - Mind Of Evil

Cassette, C60
Label : The Subelecktrick Institute, US, 1987
Ripped by Wackelpeter

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Big City Orchestra - Massacre Again

Cassette, C60
Label : Tonspur Tapes, Germany, 1986
Ripped by Wackelpeter

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Big City Orchestra - Bob Hope's Fruit Loop Special

Cassette, C60
Label : audiofile Tapes, US, 1986
Ripped by Wackelpeter


Those who follow that blog know that Big City Orchestra is one of my favourite bands. And I'm not the only one who like them... Wackelpeter has ripped some of their cassettes that will be posted here during the whole month of September and maybe more. Many thanks to him for the hard work !
More Big City Orchestra here :
A Good Time To Start Something New [Cassette]
Animal Religion [Cassette]
Arc Of Infinity [Cassette]
Azimuth [MP3]
Beatlerape [CD]
Boom Crash Crash [MP3]
Can't We Just Have Sex Instead? [MP3] 
Dark At Night [Cassette]
Double The Trouble [MP3]
Drone Gnomes [10"]
Greatest Hits And Test Tones [CD]
Kismet [MP3]
Lullaby [MP3]
Magnetic Personality [Cassette]
Massacre Of The Innocents [Cassette]
Mile After Mile [Cassette]
Misterioso [MP3]
Our Life In The Bush Of Kate [Cassette]
Parade Of Idiots [Cassette]
Progressive Composition [MP3]
Signals And Code [MP3]
So Much Quicker Than Tomorrow [Cassette]
Sound Effects Library Vol. 14 [MP3]
Subito [MP3]
The Beatlerape [CD]
The Consumer [CD]
The Four Cassettes Of The Apocalypse [CD]
The Man Of Steal [Cassette]
Things Fall Down [MP3]
Trail Of Destruction [Cassette]
Trixxy Pixxy [MP3]
Tryst 7 [Cassette, Split W/ The Legendary Pink Dots]
+ Audio Archives (last.fm)
+ Audio Archives (archive.org) 
+ Visual Archives
+ Video Archives

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Big City Orchestra - Mile After Mile

Cassette, C60
Label : Sound Of Pig Music, US, 1987
Ripped by ctephin

From an old Sound Of Pig catalog : "BCO kicks in with their 2nd SOP release. One of my favourite bands working these days. Someone oughta give these guys a record contract. They clang, bang and loop their way into your heart and mind. Once there, you're hooked for life. And this tape is another injection. Make your score".


Tracklist :

A1. Mile After Mile (6:39)
A2. Lottery (4:25)
A3. Another Harmless Formula (18:23)
B1. Dragon Lady Wedding (10:37)
B2. Headache (14:26)
B3. Another Mile (5:27)

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Big City Orchestra - A Good Time To Start Something New

Cassette, C60
Label : Epitapes, US, 1988


For Alex.


Tracklist :

A1. If You Would Be Loved, Love And Be Lovable (26:03)
A2. You Will Enjoy Good Health (4:40)
B1. Life To You Is A Bold Adventure (9:40)
B2. Help Will Be Needed (21:16)

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Deathranch - A Prisoner

Cassette, C60
Label : Sound Of Pig Music, US, circa 1989


That cassette is a personal favorite of mine, especially the last track "Flaming Carrott".
Deathranch was Cliff Neighbors and Pete Leeming, two Big City Orchestra members as well. The first Deathranch appearance was on "Massacre Of The Innocents" (I've always wondered why it was not only a BCO cassette as the two Deathranch members are also BCO members...). "A Prisoner" is to my knowledge the only Deathranch release.

From an old Sound Of Pig catalog : "A band from the hand of BCO, Deathranch's "A Prisoner" takes none -- deep, dark, dreamless and dronish -- pretty much what you'd think a deathranch would sound like -- minus the horses-out-bloody-rageous".
I've found that recent description of Cliff Neighbors on the Net : "Cliff Neighbors has been making underground experimental and electronic music and sound design since 1981. Much of the work publicly attributed to him was actually done by someone else. Work that he did perform was often credited to other people, or not at all. He claims to have recorded, produced and performed various forms of sound art for radio, theater, film, dance, gallery and literary events, parties, pranks, and demolitions. Past affiliations include Mad Scientists, Deathranch, Big City Orchestra, Crawling With Tarts, Ham On Rye, Moving and Storage/Crash Burn and Die, The Haters, Peoplehater and Edgar Winter's White Trash".
More Big City Orchestra and Sound Of Pig posts soon or later !


Tracklist :

A1. The Chair (Joy Of Torment) (3:28)
A2. Love You (Dialectical Ephemeralism) (8:39)
A3. Dream (Texas Sex Virus) (5:26)
A4. Drone (Ranch Style) (6:19)
A5. Halloween (Oz On Mou, KZSC) (6:51)
B1. Headache (Serenade To Pain) (15:18)
B2. Princess Lucia (Castle Antics) (4:51)
B3. Flaming Carrott (Read Along With Issue #13) (9:53)

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Big City Orchestra & Deathranch - Massacre Of The Innocents

Cassette, C90
Label : Sound Of Pig Music, US, 1985
Ripped by Schraube


The beginner may be lost in front of the dozens of cassettes released by Big City Orchestra during the two last decades... "Massacre Of The Innocents" is a good place to start. It's still one of my favourite Big City Orchestra tapes since I bought it twenty years ago.

From an old Sound Of Pig catalog : "BCO & DR collaborate on a tape that is dark & ominous, at times even orchestral, yet humorous too. A new growth and a new step. Insanity rules!"

More Big City Orchestra and Deathranch music will be posted here in the future...


Tracklist :

A1. Blue Note Blue Noise (8:22)
A2. Tu Pa Pa Au (6:31)
A3. Cannibals (15:33)
A4. Iron Works (6:38)
A5. Cerebral Edema (4:26)
A6. Blind Bat (2:32)
A7. Warsaw (1:56)
B1. Burial (3:19)
B2. Norwahl (6:25)
B3. Whatever You Want (7:20)
B4. Relax (6:23)
B5. YAMC (Yet Another Madonna Clone) (3:48)
B6. For We Love No One (4:28)
B7. Womyns Muzik (7:57)
B8. Education (3:01)
B9. Biting Through (3:20)

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