Hoofbags Free Music

Stain's Dukebox. Imagine you're in Gran's loft, found a load of obscure LPs 'n dusty old record player. You might be curious how they sound: If you're this kind of person, this site's for you. Hoofbags is also the best free music resource on Webring in view of access ease, download/listening simplicity, added to the shear quantity/variety of music available. For years I've lugged acassette collection of amateur pop/rock groups, all having hoped to make it, with varying success. I made a habit of taking a recording device to every band rehearsal I got to hear about or was part of and have now Web uploaded . I can't compete with professional sites such as Spotify: my programming skills aren't good enough but if you'd like to listen to very obscure stuff, 'hear' you are! None of the contributors mind you downloading/propigating this stuff, after all, music is meant to be heard. Hyperlink to related sites is picture near to title. Note: Some songs got swearin': (!) if easily offended, so please be warned.

The five cells below are non-musical resources like electronic circuits that are used in our budget studio and other pictures that might be of interest to some folk

Geekie Stuff

Electronic circuits that may be of interest to sound engineers on a budget, some other radio related interesting pictures and anecdotes.

Stain's electronic projects and associated resources

J R's Family Pictures and some from artist: Sharon Holmes

Some photos & artwork of interest to those involved.

Annierak

Continued explorations with Gemma and her country/footpath walking Website.

<< Dear little Shrubbie!

Where would Hoofbags be without it's resident computer guru? The least I can do is to include a hyperlink to Annierak: her website about walking. Interested in getting fit, loosing a few pounds (in weight) and taking up the facinating hobby of country walking? Take a ganda!

16th June update: latest 6 new songs from the Electric Cheese Trolley!

John Merriman the lovely Dreggs Electric Cheese Trolley

Mr. Twangie's Open Mike Night Website

Want a virtual outing to Mr.Twangie's Open Mike Night at The Rooms? Click on the picture in the right for photos 'n songs from performers.

email comments or questions about this Website: click here

Free mp3s and other downloadable resources: just click on title to listen/watch, right-click to download! No registration!

m o s t r e c e n t s u b m i s s i o n s

Electric Cheese Trolley - Hall of the Johnathan King

Electric Cheese Trolley - Going Through

Electric Cheese Trolley - Going Through a Weird Phase, 1

Electric Cheese Trolley - Going Through a Weird Phase, 2

Electric Cheese Trolley - Going Through a Weird Phase, 3

Electric Cheese Trolley - Different Phases

for older stuff please check archived submissions index below

Flebbix 'n Sid - Cyberflux	Flebbix Trell 'n Sid - Tremors	Flebbix Sid'nFish - No Boundaries	Flebbix - Knees Up (!) Stain's cover of a traditional music-hall song
Flebbix Ellis 'n Sid - Mantle	Flebbix Ellis 'n Sid - The Oscillatrist	Flebbix 'n Sid - Sun Jam	Flebbix Fish'n Sid - Rotairaloniac
Flebbix Fish 'n Sid - Contrarock	Flebbix - Verbaltix	Flebbix - Wot's Goin' On	Flebbix - Ogceanic
Flebbix - Transtomp	Flebbix - Omlecca	Flebbix - Blanticon	Flebbix - Aquasphere
Flebbix - Hear Me Now	Flebbix - Igloobie	Flebbix - Stain Breaks	Flebbix - Toiletbowl Exploration
Flebbix - Sewer Blues (!)	Flebbix - Ain't Never Dun Nuffingk (!)	Flebbix - Dorial instumental dun on Sinclair Spectum / Ram Music Machine	Flebbix - Are You Alive? (!)
Flebbix - It Wozent Very Nice(!)	Flebbix - Huptoopfreep	Jas'nFlebbix - Masque-on Wardback	Flebbix - Permarock
Flebbix - Eparamel	Flebbix - Wassa Ma'ah (!)	Flebbix - Ur Ur Ergh! obscure political hypothesis	Flebbix - Akwahmoreen
Flebbix - Monotone Rock	Flebbix - AudiOnanism Stain on Bass/Lead/Drums	Flebbix - Incidental Pluck Session	Flebbix - Thoughts of a Rhyming Nature
Flebbix - Wired In	Flebbix - Phlebnal Green	Flebbix'n Sid - Rotaroloniac Treck Sid Remix

Hoofbags

Hoofbags - Donkaa

Hoofbags - Imminent Human Extinction

Hoofbags - Squimipa

The truth about unsolicited promotional calls: If they’re trying to sell you double glazing they assume you lack the intelligence to decide for yourself and that you’re suggestible. If you need it just go out and buy. Lifestyle surveys are a means of getting information about you that they sell on to other companies who'll then never leave you alone. Tape record promotional calls and wind ‘em up via any means possible, then upload to the Web for a laugh. Contrary to what they will tell you, tape recording of promotional calls isn't illegal. Revision: Coz' I watched Slumbdog Millionaire I've decided to provide a hyperlink to Prashant Promotional's Vonage: I didn't know how tough it was for Indian Call Centrer Workers and they aint got no DSS. Click on PP's telephone picture.

Emotional Promotional

One way to avoid getting unsolicited promotional calls listen if you fancy a larf!

Seth Ifricen Promotional

An unsolicited promotional caller from South Africa gets wound up by a simpleton.

Prashant Promotional

An unsolicited promotional caller from India gets frustrated by the simpleton who he's canvassing.

Out Of Control were the most underrated punk band in the London 1980s. These recordings were done in a squat using a budget cassette recorder.

Out Of Control Shear Vanity

Out Of Control - All Your Yesterdays

Out Of Control - Fantasy

Out Of Control - Inside Out

Out Of Control - It Don't Make Sense

Out Of Control - More and More

Out Of Control - Run

Out Of Control - Secret Love

hoofbags host band: Electric Cheese Trolley: wiv' Sid - Bass, Stain - Drums, Ellie - Glissade, Kaz - Percussion n' guest appearances from others on drums as well as udder fings.

The Electric Cheese Trolley - Glissadecho

Music creations inspired by The Bograts Bassist:  Bassman Sid

The Electric Cheese Trolley - Wine 'n Cheese F. Ekt

Music creations inspired by The Bograts Bass player:  Bassman Sid

Left: a coastal road near where we all live.

Electric Cheese Trolley - Heinz Dry Fear

Submitted August '09

Stain, wot duz the Website, drummin' 'n sand ingin 'ere' in

Electric Cheese Trolley Captain Nibiru Semantic Dillemma

Submitted August '09

A.K.A: The Fish & ironically wiv 'is 'ed necst 2 a 'quarium !

The Electric Cheese Trolley - May Contain Nuts

Right : a church opposite where some of The Electric Cheese Tolley members live.

Electric Cheese Trolley - Old Socks

example of what Amstrad Studio 100 is really capable when used correctly

Electric Cheese Trolley - Sid's Old Boots Trilogy

11 minutes of cheesie mayem! Done with a Ion IED 01Drumkit 2 - 3

Electric Cheese Trolley - Bureaucrat Gone (It's Explitational)

Submitted July '09

Electric Cheese Trolley Overdrive

Sadly, one of our guest members: has blown his mind by taking too much skunk. Hope you get your head together soon Dan, but he won't be doing music with us again.

Electric Cheese Trolley Skunk Paranoia

Sadly, one of our guest members: has blown his mind by taking too much skunk. Hope you get your head together soon Dan, but he won't be doing music with us again.

Electric Cheese Trolley - Mean Pluck 'n Slide

Submitted July '09

Electric Cheese Trolley - Crash Development

Electric Cheese Trolley - Marklar

Inspired by and including audio samples from Saaf Park. Submitted July '09 13 minutes of Stilton Style Stereo Sound!

Bassman Sid, this section's main inspiration influence, gives his approval.

Electric Cheese Trolley Cheese Roll

Electric Cheese Trolley - Different Phases

Zombiewind - I Can Smell Your Brains * (!)

Another one of Bassman Sid's

Electric Cheese Trolley - Going Through

Electric Cheese Trolley - Going Through a Weird Phase, 1

Electric Cheese Trolley Going Through a Weird Phase, 2

Electric Cheese Trolley - Hall of the Johnathan King

Electric Cheese Trolley Going Through a Weird Phase, 3

What we record this stuff on: Amstrad Studio 100

I got 2! So why do we still use it? Fundamentally, coz we're skint! The fact that this relic from the '80s still works is a credit to Amstrad who, at the time, had a reputation of cheap 'n nasty. A lot of their stuff was crap but occasionally Amstrad made a nice bit of gear. This studio 4-track wasn't cheap, though: it retailed at about £300 in the mid 80's. All reasonably priced multitrackers are only capable of recording two tracks at once but as The Electric Cheese Trolley has 4 members, we each need a dedicated track. When we've recorded a Tascam 4 into 2L and 2R, it's impossible to get absolutely correct settings for master mixdown. There is the Fostex MR8HD which is capable of recording on 4 of it's tracks simultaniously 'n as a recording hobbyist, I'm lookin' 2 get. To use this true 4-track correctly, assuming U can get a working one, ensure each channels VU meter adequately  responds to the input signal, not too often into the red. The function and selector switches must be set to 'STUDIO' and it's necessary to set the input channel REC/OFF/PLAY select, below

Fixed by Stain, a true 4-track studio: Love it!

Amstrad Studio 100 wot Sid took out a skip!

each.channel PAN knob, according with required task. You must repeat this action on the REC/PLAY/LEFT select over fader 6. Also, do the same on the REC/PLAY/RIGHT ones, above the MASTER fader. These actions must happen between every recording and auditioning attempt: a bit tiresome but you quickly get used to it. The upper cassette deck isn't much use and best avoided for recording purposes, at least it's the case with my example. Instead, use AUX out, via phono into another recorder. I enjoy the challenge of using a cheap bit of disregarded equipment and getting the best out of it. Additionally, it's interesting to give the various band members an opportunity to try different mixdowns to hear what they come up with. One problem here is that Studio 100's 4 track deck uses the ferric formulation, whereas most others are chrome. Sid mixes down the studio 4-track on a Fostex X-12, onto a standard stereo recorder. Playing a ferric tape on a chrome bias machine demonstrates no ill effects here but a user is

generally likely to run into difficulties if the chrome/ferric stipulation rule is ignored. A cassette tape costs about 98p whereas a similar length Smart Media card for the Zoom MRS 4 is £25 and you get comparable results. The Studio 100 also has a HiFi/DJ/Studio mode select switch. I've no idea what the DJ function does and there don't appear to be any downloadable PDF manuals for it. When Studio 100 was first available, it got poor reviews. It's an underrated piece of quality kit, a fact demonstrated by the sound quality of electric Cheese Trolley tracks when always used. All faults have been traced to any of the numerous pre-set pots being dirty 'n can be corrected by a tiny adjustment/application of Servisol. Drive-belts are very difficult to replace but so far this hasn't been necessary. Pity it's no longer made but they often appear on eBay for as little as £5. If you want to get into multitracking really really cheaply, snap one up while they're at this low price. Astrad = Alan Michael Sugar TRaDing: of Dragon's Den fame!

Chewnsmiff

Chewnsmiff - Makeastar

Chewnsmiff - Rayvenplayne

Chewnsmiff - Let's Go

Chewnsmiff - Stainblipper En Sopp

Poultice

Poultice - Space

Poultice - Tensinbeet

With Nial Bruner: Guitar

Poultice & Flebbix - Psyclesparsecond

Poultice reform 'n unite with Flebbix for this choon

Poultice - Roseka

Meditation experience in Epping Forest

Poultice - Stick 'o Rock (!)

Warning: offensive language

Poultice - Broken CountRe (!)

Jaye Griffiths 'swearing' on prime time TV

Poultice - IVF Kid

Poultice - Stainverb

miscellaneous

Rubie Benjamin - Listen

Rubie Benjamin - Can You Say

Kaz'n Liz - Ritual Drum

Heavy Wood - Jam Session Guitar by Nial Bruner with Simon, bass

T Chest Blues - Baby Let's Play House

T Chest Blues - Track 3

T Chest Blues - Heartbreak Hotel

Dead Town Cats - Hastings

Chris Simpson - Ruph String

Baird House Rockers - They Broke In

Scalmeanie

Scalmeanie - Teenage Vampire

Scalmeanie - Countdown To Christmas

Scalmeanie - Wakey Wakey Anchors

Scalmeanie - Playing With Myself

Cry Havoc - Executioner with Scal of Scalmeanie: Bass

Sinclair Spectrum Music Group

The 80s was the birth of and an exciting time for home computer music. The Sinclair Spectrum had a great MIDI add-on called the Ram Music Machine. It's unknown whether this group still exists but my Music Machine and +2 Amstrad Spectrum still work and is a useful music composition tool. The six music submissions immediately below are taken from tapes sent out to all the club members. Lower in this table are ten of my own that appear elswhere on this page.

MM User Group - Members submission	David Etheridge - Revolution	Dave Sheriff - Coventry
Simon Daw - Delightful	Simon Daw - Play With Acid	Simon Daw - Leaving Love

Host artist Ram Music Machine compositions

Stain'n Shrub - Carisbrooke Beat	Lazerettes - Synfony Electronique
Lazerettes - Cloigue!	Lazerettes - Maypole Robots
Lazerettes - Flintipod	Lazerettes - Frantic
Lazerettes - Gemluv	Lazerettes - Skitsofrenik
Ecos - Chocolate	Flebbix - Dorial

Truncheon Meat Squad

Truncheon Meat Squad - 19 Magdalen Road

Truncheon Meat Squad - Silly Noises

FMS Band

FMS Band: Nick Lyne, Bable Wallace, Bob the Slob Tony Jackson and Crispin, bored students having a laugh when no money for beer.

Band formed for a concert during Anti-Nazi week in about 1978 Location: Kingsway Princeton College, Camden, London. Submissions are rehearsal sessions rescued from cassettes.

FMS Band

FMS Dou - Loaf a Bread

FMS Dou - Doggie Blues

FMS Band - Worried Man

FMS Band - They're Watchin' Me

FMS Band - Geeza

FMS Band - Innit

FMS Band - Paranoiacca

FMS Band - A Quiet Taste

FMS Band - Walkin' Daan 'T Street

FMS Band - Guvnor

The FMS Band songs are included for interest of those who remember them when they used to rehearse near the canteen at Kingsway Princeton College, N London. Tony Jackson, bass, didn't turn up because he was working as a sewerman during rehearsals: hence the evident lack of this instrument on these 1977 recordings. The band did a performance at the Anti-Nazi League, Kingsway college rally that was really good. This recording however, has been lost. Band line-up: Nick Lyne - Guitar, Bob the Slob - Guitar, Babel Wallace - Vocals, Crispin - Drums, and Tony Jackson. FMS = Film and Music Society, affiliated to the Student Union for the purpose of allocating funds for the purchase of amplification equipment.

Hibiscus

Kev was a bass guitarist/vocalist in Hibiscus, living in a student block, Wapping Wall, London, early 80s. I borrowed a cassette tape with Hibiscus music on it, copied it and uploaded it here for all to hear. The copy was done on 2 home-built cassette machines and, at the time, CB radios were very popular. It is just possible to hear a conversation within the backgfound noise, owing to the inadequate screening of my machines: Living in Hackney, I was even poorer then! All members were superlative musicians, notation capable. Kev was later in a band called A-Level.

Hibiscus - Instrumental 2

Hibiscus - Instrumental 1

Hibiscus - Gravity

Ecos: songs on an environmentally friendly theme

DJ Kirsty B and Stain got together in the 90s and wrote songs. These were put onto some cassettes, named Ecos and sold to raise money for Women's Environmental Network campaign funds.

Ecos - Mahogany Is Murder

Song about the Mahogany trade and it's damage on ancient rainforests

Ecos - Carbon Monoxide & Hydrocarbons

Ecos - Waves

Instrumental track done by Stain to help fill up the Ecosounds tape.

Ecos - Global Warning

As it sez on the tin

Ecos - Urban Polar Flight Mix

Music to Youtube vid (below) about urban farming

Ecos 'ounds - We Gotta

Ecos members getting together for a studio session with Tony Zanvliet from Holland on drums

Ecos - Chocolate

Electronic music arrangement with vocal track about coco pickers exploitation: Ram Music Machine.

Ecos - Borial

About the Borial forest destruction caused through paper wastage.

Ecos - Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Rap

Song 'bout illniss wot Stain supharz fwom, innit!

Ecos - Acid Rain

To View D.J. Kirsty B's Youtube video: left click on picture >>

Ecos - Save The Earth

The Possessed

Dave Roberts - The Possessed - Greed

The Possessed - I Think You're Hot

from the album Cat's Life

The Possessed - Sad Sad Sea

Another track from the album: Cat's Life

The Possessed - Pain

Another track from David Roberts' band

David Alan Roberts' CD

The Possessed - Cat's Life. Hoofbags is a strictly free music resourse but if you wish to buy the Cat's Life CD (£5) please click HERE for 45 second samples & details.

Dave Roberts - The Possessed occasionally plays at Mr Twangy's Open Mike at The Rooms: see above.

Dave Roberts (The Possessed) has given hoofbags another CD album to upload, the contents of which will be here soon; as soon as I can find it, so there's a lot more to come yet!

Words to Greed: Screens go blue screens go red There's a demon in your head You've been piling up your cash Screw the people, make that stash That's gree-ee-eed! That's gree-ee-eed! There's a man who wants a loan For a house that he can own Lend him money, then lend him more Doesn't matter if he's far too poor That's... That's... Get rich quick, that's your goal Sell your country, sell your soul Make the deal for all it's worth Doesn't matter if it costs the Earth That's... That's... Bankrupped thinking, bankrupped world Flag of Mammon stands unfurled It's my money, bull or bear No-one said that it was fair It's gree-ee-ee-eed! It's... (What's that?) It's... (What's that?) It's GREED!

Psi-Nukli

Eye became Psi & when Psi Steve arrived, and eventually evolved into Nukli. Mostly improvised anarchic rock, some planned compositions or mixtures of both. Band name depended pretty much on whoever turned up and when, at various squats where band members lived, and when Linda Isvara, guitar/singing, there we were Antakarana/Akashatak. Majik Mark was the key member and played in all these bands: initially drums, later bass guitar and later still; bass/vocal. They're still going, click on Majik hyperlink picture below. Got loads of their stuff still to go!

Psi-Nukli - Psi Theme (Sep'84)

Psi-Nukli - Raw Improvisation (Sep'84)

Psi - Excerpt from Psychelektra Trip Projectcta

Psi-Nukli - Sunshine (Sep'84)

Psi-Nukli - Psi Steve Choon (Sep'84)

Psi-Nukli - Side Effects Track1

Psi-Nukli - Hoo-Ha

Psi-Nukli - Invented Then (Sep'84)

Psi-Nukli - September Improrock 1984-2

Psi-Nukli - Wild Jam (Sep'84)

Psi-Nukli - September Improrock 1984-1

Eye - Dawn Break