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http://www.passportlabel.com/img/artists/rowland-s-howard/Rowland-photo_429x285.jpg As you already know Rowland S. Howard passed away the end of last year on 30 December 2009. I'd like to write up something here on last.fm and going to try to put together something fitting for him. I've got some old interviews with him I'd like to include here and I'm going to quote a couple of people said. I've included a bio and bits which some people have forgotten or maybe they just focus on one part of his life too much. I would like to write a well rounded one for him. I'll see if I can do this, and you can tell me if you like it or not in the comments below.

I'll start with a interview from 1999 and published in a great book called BLUNT, A Biased History of Australian Rock by Bob Blunt. It's a very small interview but Rowland is quick to the point in it. It also skips his early work which I'll get to later on. This was about ten years ago and Howard talks about forming and then the break…

MIXTAPE FOR MARCH 2009 - THE YEARS MIX


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Eccentric And Influential .... And Some Music That You Can Dance To


1. Neu! - Isi 1975
2. Sparks - Music That You Can Dance To 1986
3. Grace Jones - Art Groupie 1981
4. Richard Davis - Common Sense 2005
5. Telefon Tel Aviv - Helen Of Troy 2009
6. The Magnetic Fields - The Man Amplifier (Young Marble Giants) 1995
7. The Legendary Pink Dots - When Lenny Meets Lorca 2000
8. Luke Haines - Going Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop 2006
9. Jah Wobble - Il Jevedro Il Oblacno 1998
10. The Residents - Loss: Neediness 2002
11. Mercy Arms - Kept Low (Cut Copy Remix) 2007
12. Klaus Nomi - Lightning Strikes 1985
13. The KLF - Last Train To Trancetral 1992
14. Van She - Kelly 2008


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MIXTAPE FOR APRIL 2009 - THE PICTURE MIX


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Aya Hirano: 涙 NAMIDA ナミダ (single)
noodles: SNAP
Scandal: DOLL (single)
Mami Kawada: PSI-missing (single)
GO!GO!7188: 2マンTour 徹子のHair+Open Night Family~夜明けの家族~ (CD+DVD)
GO!GO!7188: 六・二一事件 (DVD)
Mark E Smith & Ed Blaney: Smith and Blaney
Nikki Sudden & Rowland S. Howard: Kiss You Kidnapped Charabanc / Live In Augsburg
ai otsuka: 愛 am BEST (CD+DVD)
Jolin Tsai: Jolin's Final Wonderland (3CD+DVD)
Marc Almond: In 'BlueGate Fields' - Live At Wilton's Music Hall (DVD+CD)
Syd Barrett: The Radio One Sessions
Elvis Costello & The Attractions: The Best Of Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Oingo Boingo: Only A Lad
Colleen: The Golden Morning Breaks
Dreams Come True: Sing Or Die
These Immortal Souls: I'm Never Gonna Die Again
Nurse With Wound: Alien 7"
Current 93 / Coil / Nurse With Wound: England's Hidden Reverse (book + CD)
David Bowie: The Man Who Sold The World (Ryko)
Sid Vicious: Sid Sings
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers: L.A.M.F. The Lost '77 Mixes
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The other night I was having a bit of a tidy up and I found some old cassettes of various bands from about 1991-1992. One compilation tape I called "Weird and Wonderful" featured songs by bands like Kitchens of Distinction, The Chameleons, Cranes, Power of Dreams, and Crime And The City Solution. The sound quality of the tape has diminished over the years, but the memories that the songs bring back are so clear. It was around that time that I got my first place of my own, a dingy basement flat with mould growing in the bathroom, and a pretty intense relationship with a bloke from Nottingham called Andrew (in fact I think he made the tape for me). It's been good to find some of these songs on last.fm and hear them properly again.

I saw this on someone's journal and decided to try it out. It's cool, but demands patience.

It works like this:
Put your music player on shuffle.
Post the first 40 songs that come up. You can repeat artists if you want. If you have any repeats, skip to the next track. Then answer the upcoming questions!

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01. Die Krupps - Lärm Macht Spaß
02. David Sylvian - The Good Son
03. Yoko Ono - Turned the Corner
04. Kings of Leon - Happy Alone
05. Sinéad O'Connor - Isaiah (If You Had A Vineyard)
06. Koji Kondo - Ending Credits
07. Emilie Simon - Chanson De Toile
08. Groundswell - Chronic
09. Patrick Wolf - Accident & Emergency
10. Crime & the City Solution - The Last Dictator I
11. David Sylvian - Thalhiem
12. Yoko Ono - Will I
13. The Pogues - Haunted
14. Einstürzende Neubauten - GS 2
15. Sinéad O'Connor - Óró Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile
16. The Mars Volta - the bible and the breathalyzer
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18000. Martyna Jakubowicz - Specjaliści od wojny [20.01.2011]
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17000. Madonna – Secret [2.07.2010]
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16000. Van Der Graaf Generator - Into A Game [19.04.2010]
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14000. Cocteau Twins - Strange Fruit (John Peel Session) [31.12.2009]
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13000. The House Of Usher – Stars fall down when Gods awake [23.10.2009]
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12000. Neil Young – Heart of Gold [2.07.2009]
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11000. Blondie – The Hardest Part [21.04.2009]
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10000. Butthole Surfers - Kuntz [17.03.2009]
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9000. Zombie Ghost Train – In The Shadows [16.02.2009]
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8000. John Frusciante – One More Of Me [29.01.2009]
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7000. Dead Can Dance - Song of the Dispossessed [22.11.2008]
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6000. 布施明 - Tsumikino Heya [27.09.2008]
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5000. Einstürzende Neubauten - Ruckwartsparken (Rudi Moser remix) [29.08.2008]
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4500. Deine Lakaien - Life Is A Sexually Transmitted Disease [11.08.2008]
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4000. A Flock of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away) [13.07.2008]
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Nothing to do at work, so I thought I'd try to make a proper journal entry for once. Here are some of the best records I've bought this year, in chronological order (by purchase date):

Various Artists - Labrador 100 - A Complete History Of Popular Music (2007)
February 9, mail-ordered from Labrador, four-CD box set, €22.
Five hours of brilliance.

Ronderlin - Wave Another Day Goodbye (2002)
February 16, mail-ordered from Labrador, CD, €15.
After listening to the above compilation a few times, I noticed that Reflected was the best track on it. The entire album is a perfect, makes me happy and sad all at once.

Raymond & Maria - Hur mycket jag än tar finns alltid lite kvar
March 15, Second Hand Swamp Music (Tampere, Finland), CD, €8.
Great, cute pop songs from a cute Swedish band. Hmm, I just realised that all the records I've listed so far are Swedish. This is purely coincidental...

Shack - Zilch (1988)
March 15, Second Hand Swamp Music, LP, €5.
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Great wiki by foetusized

In his past lives, PIG war lord Raymond Watts was known variously as Raymond Scaballero in Foetus, an icy addition to Psychic TV, a savage PA destroyer in Einstürzende Neubauten, and a founding catalyst of KMFDM. Watts began his arrest record in London where he was most likely pissed off about something and doing sound manipulations, loops and live sound for Psychic TV. He soon crashed into Einstürzende Neubauten (probably in a strip bar) and escaped the smug complacency of the English music scene by moving to Hamburg, Germany and setting up his Building Site studio in a bunker of munitions factory, where he invited in artists including Sprung aus den Wolken, Die Haut, and christiane f. In his pursuit of a cutting edge music scene he sought out like-minded souls to create terrorism instead of tonality. Playing on European/American Neubauten tours, he quickly earned a reputation for destroying PA systems -- the security guards sent by the PA companies to protect the gear were not amused. …