This is an auction for a set of 2 NEW never played, music cassettes on the bobok ltd label for fans of dreamscapes from a hauntingly powerful female solo artist .
First
SKINNERBOX "imaginary heart of" album.
Not to be confused with the NYC ska act, Skinner Box was the project of Julianna Towns, (RIP 1961-2019) dark music full of rich, dark melodies, featuring harps, synthesizers, and the ethereal voice of Julianna.
Skinner Box was one of the first bands to produce what was later often referred to as "heavenly voices", and inspired many of the bands that later became successful under this banner. She was later a vocal contributor and sometimes member of Black Tape for a Blue Girl (Projekt Records ). She is a musical prodigy, who can almost instantly master any musical instrument she picks up (source: B-Side magazine). With Skinner Box, Julianna created an otherworldly cabaret sound full of rich, dark melodies, featuring harps, synthesizers, and her ethereal voice. Around the time of her vocal appearance on black tape for a blue girl's a chaos of desire, Julianna's Skinnerbox released their second album. Skinnerbox is everything dark and light, hot and cold, full of opposites. Part horror movie soundtrack and part atmospheric epic, with Julianna Towns' really lovely voice keeping the whole thing in control. (BSIDE)
Tracklist
A1 She Drapes The Sky
A2 The Long Gun
A3 Sweet Release
A4 Murder In Calumnia
A5 Pictures
B1 Sibyl Vane
B2 March For Ezzelin
B3 The Imaginary Heart Of
B4 United Written-By –Throbbing Gristle
B5 Mother Fair
Also , the self titled debut which also features contributions from Mark Erskine of SAVAGE REPUBLIC
Here are some quotes from Julianna herself, descriping her experience with BLACK TAPE for a BLUE GIRL. "Before being laughingly 'ejected' from dark-wave guru Sam Rosenthal's excuse for a vanity project, 'black tape for a blue girl, I recorded music of my own, SKINNERBOX which inexplicably got pigeonholed as 'goth' (it is not) .
Leftover stock from the infamous punk store TOXIC SHOCK. Be on the lookout for the autobiography book Assassin of Mediocrity,a Story of Love, Loss and Loud Music by Bill Sassenberger. loaded with tons of rare photos, flyers and illustrations. Coming to better book and record stores near you!
Toxic Shock Records was an American independent record label based first in Pomona, CA, then in Tucson, AZ. The label was spawned from the record store of the same name, by its founders Bill Sassenberger and Julianna Towns in 1983, when they released the first of the "Noise from Nowhere" series of 7" EP compilations. For the next decade they released singles, compilations and albums by many notable and influential bands of the hardcore, noise rock and post-hardcore scenes.
Bill Sassenberger opened his first Toxic Shock record store in Pomona, CA in 1980. He specialized in underground punk records from independent labels. He expanded to mail-order soon after by advertising in music magazines. In 1983, he and wife Julianna Towns released Noise from Nowhere, a 7", 33rpm EP featuring four local underground punk bands: Kent State, Modern Industry, Manson Youth and their own band Moslem Birth (whose name was a parody of Christian Death). Noise from Nowhere featured cover art by Pushead. With this release, Toxic Shock Records was born.
Singles from Modern Industry, Peace Corpse (the renamed Moslem Birth) Massacre Guys, Red Tide, and much later Seattle's Skin Yard followed, as well as albums by Italian punkers Raw Power, Decry, Stupids, Corrosion of Conformity, th'Inbred and the Dayglo Abortions. In 1988 Bill and Julianna moved the label and the store to Tucson, AZ. From Tucson, they released albums by Hickoids, Hullabaloo, House of Large Sizes, Jesus Chrysler, Sloppy Seconds and Treepeople.
They also re-established the Noise from Nowhere' 7" EP as a series. Noise from Nowhere Vol. 2, released in 1989, featured cover songs performed by label bands Hullabaloo(Highway Star), Hickoids (Green Acres), House of Large Sizes (Half-Breed) and Sloppy Seconds (Candy Man).
They released a few more CD's under a new name -- Westworld -- including the Fells, Rhythm Pigs, Raw Power and Feast Upon cactus Thorns. plus the Decade of Disaster compilation chronicling the Toxic Shock years,but soon reverted their energy back into running the record store specializing in obscure, underground music, now renamed "Toxic Ranch Records since the move to Arizona..
Some bands that played Toxic ranch in-stores over the years include Alice Donut, Calexico, My Dad is Dead, Alice Bag, Andrew Jackson Jihad, F#ckemos, Hickoids, My Dad is Dead, Supernova, RAMBO, Doo Rag. the Fells, Feast Upon cactus Thorns, Grandaddy, Millencolin, Sex Prisonor, Lenguas Largas, Resonars, Smears, Swing Ding Amigos, Pork Torta, Drags, Bar Feeders, and many more