I can die now. I finally found a copy of this EP (let's not talk about how much i paid for it, right?).
Members from this short lived band moved on to Adam & The Ants, Renegade Soundwave, and Wolfgang Press. But this EP is more pummeling, loud, and droney than all three could possibly be, put together. This sounds at times a bit like what England's take on the Swans would be like...(ahem, early Swans). Think PiL's "Theme" but much louder, more weird noises, and longer.
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
― JC (JC A.), Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:50 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
REMA REMA - First (real) 4AD release re-issued on CD
23 years after this record launched 4AD as a label under Ivo's exclusive guidance, REMA-REMA's 'Wheel In The Roses' is being re-issued in a strictly limited edition of 1000 CD's.
― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 1 November 2003 01:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 November 2003 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 1 November 2003 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
― duane, Saturday, 1 November 2003 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 1 November 2003 18:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 February 2006 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link
I recently got The Cravats first single, which I have been looking for for about 20 years.
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 9 February 2006 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Thursday, 9 February 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 February 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
That said, apparently Renegade Soundwave, Marco Pirroni, Adam Ant, and ex-Wolfgang Press guys have all stayed pretty close to this day.. according to Ascquith's label Le Coq Musique.
― Dom iNut (donut), Thursday, 9 February 2006 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link
dude, post the link to that interview with the guy from Wide Boy Awake who was also part of that circle. I posted it to the RSW thread.
about to go watch Adam Ant in Jubilee...
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:09 (eighteen years ago) link
It's always nice to hear of new converts to Rema Rema. Welcome, Ned.
I actually meant to watch Jubilee again a few months ago and then it slipped my mind. Haven't seen it for nearly 10 years now.
― Bimble brings a lawn chair to antartica so he can sit and drink silver coff (Bim, Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bimble brings a lawn chair to antartica so he can sit and drink silver coff (Bim, Thursday, 9 February 2006 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Greatest EP ever?
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Just realizing that, for each of the four songs, there's something the band is deliberately "holding back" doing purely to infuriate. I kinda take back the Swans comparison. They were more like Flipper in approach, though very different in delivery. But both bands knew exactly what they were doing as for their, for lack of better term, mission.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I never realized that the up-tempo part of "Feedback Song" matches the frequency of the tremelo electronic noise! (which then falls out of it without warning.)
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm, I should give this a relisten. That and the Mass reissue.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I sold mine when I was broke last year, then instantly regretted it.
― Mike McGooney-gal, Thursday, 14 February 2008 09:18 (sixteen years ago) link
You could only get this CD reissue through the 4AD online shop.
Do they have any left I wonder? Not that I care, I have one.
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 February 2008 09:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I got this 12" for less than a fiver inc shipping on Ebay a couple of years ago, did I just get really lucky or something?
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 14 February 2008 09:48 (sixteen years ago) link
No, but that Big Black single cover version is the $80 thing.
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 February 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Great interview with Gary Asquith about his younger/punk days
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-strange-elevation/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
and, unreleased rema rema tracks on 7"!!
http://inflammablematerial.bigcartel.com/product/rema-rema-international-scale-7-defiant-pose-8
― stirmonster, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
That looks fantastic! Was a time I'd go to record stores and empty out the 4AD bin.
Hope I can still get my hands on this when I get out of prison.
A fun idea that would encourage people to buy hard copy is including real artwork and published material.
― Maps of Ohio I Have Loved (I M Losted), Monday, 28 July 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/BJy2LP4.gif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BjphnoC9Og
― am0n, Monday, 11 July 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
Well I am all about this
https://4ad.com/releases/892
The debut album that never was, Fond Reflections, comes almost forty years after their debut EP and has been culled from the band’s rich archive of reel-to-reel and cassette recordings, with member Gary Asquith and mixing engineer Takatsuna Mukai painstakingly working on them to make this collection as cohesive as possible. The ten tracks pretty much reflect the band’s live set and is the closest to what their debut album could have sounded like. Worth noting too that although all their 1980 EP tracks are present on this album, they are different recordings.The CD edition comes with a second disc entitled Extended Wheel in the Roses. As its title suggests, it’s the four EP tracks as they were plus ‘Entry’ (taken from the same studio session as the EP’s A-side of ‘Feedback Song’ and ‘Rema-Rema’) and ‘No Applause’ and ‘Murdermuzic’, two more tracks recorded at the same Albany Empire, London show in 1979 as the EP’s B-side, ‘Instrumental’ and ‘Fond Affections’.
The CD edition comes with a second disc entitled Extended Wheel in the Roses. As its title suggests, it’s the four EP tracks as they were plus ‘Entry’ (taken from the same studio session as the EP’s A-side of ‘Feedback Song’ and ‘Rema-Rema’) and ‘No Applause’ and ‘Murdermuzic’, two more tracks recorded at the same Albany Empire, London show in 1979 as the EP’s B-side, ‘Instrumental’ and ‘Fond Affections’.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
oh my! I thought everything that existed had been put out over the last few years but i am so psyched to hear there is more.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 01:26 (five years ago) link
Yeah, totally with you there -- what a find.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 02:56 (five years ago) link
wow, thanks for the heads up here
― sleeve, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
If I remember correctly from some interview or chat with Gary, the aforementioned murdermuzic ended up as Murder Music on RSW’s Soundclash, one of my all time favorite songs, so I’m pretty psyched to hear this.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
This is very cool news, I dig the single a lot. Their eponymous song always seems to elicit a 'who's this?!' reaction when it pops up in mixed company.
― A Nugatory Excrescence (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
Very good article on Rema-Rema as the What You Could Not Visualise documentary is releasedhttps://warpedrealitymagazine.com/2023/02/visualizing-rema-rema.html
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 February 2023 08:23 (one year ago) link
(trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umjV8Py27FY
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 February 2023 08:24 (one year ago) link