Label: Klanggalerie - gg337

ボーナストラックを追加した拡張版で遂に初CD化！！UKの重鎮David Jackmanの少部数カセット等を手掛けた伝説的レーベルSnatch Tapesの主宰者Philip Sandersonが、Steven Ballと共に1978年始動したデュオプロジェクトStorm Bugs。2011年に英Harbinger Soundが一度LP再発した、1980年リリースのユニット最初期作[A Safe Substitute]が初CD化!！Synthi AやVCS3、テープループにて編成されたオブスキュアなDIYホームスタジオ録音集となっており、全体を支配する不安定なビート、ユニークでありながらも腐敗が進むかの様なボロボロとした展開が魅力の超名作。なんと当時の音源3曲がボーナスとして追加されています。





Storm Bugs are an English post punk band formed in 1978 in Deptford, London, by Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball who had met in the Medway Towns, England. The band have been linked to a number of genres including: cassette culture, industrial music and DIY. Storm Bugs were initially active between 1978 and 1982 and reformed in 2001. Sanderson had experimented with tape recorders whilst still at school, after moving to London in 1978 he began to get out of hours access to the electronic music studio at Goldsmiths College and also purchased a Revox reel to reel tape recorder setting up a DIY home studio. It was using these facilities that Sanderson recorded much of the Storm Bugs output from 1978 to 1980 with Ball designing the artwork for the releases. The band released three cassettes albums on Snatch Tapes: A Safe Substitute (1980), Storm Bugs (1980) and Gift (1981). Further recordings were made in 1981/1982 but not released with the band effectively going into hibernation for 20 years. Storm Bugs were rediscovered in 2000 when they were included on the bootleg LP I Hate the Pop Group, on Vertical Slum Records. A year later Snatch Tapes reactivated and released a compilation of some of the bands finer moments from the past, entitled Let's Go Outside And Get It Over, this was the start of a re-issue programme that saw much of Storm Bugs original material being rereleased on vinyl. This is the first release of their debut album on CD, containing three bonus tracks.