Mad Miki - Streets at Midnight 7'' (1985)

If you're a fan of garage music you may be familiar with The Fuzztones or Link Protrudi and the Jaymen. The drummer for those bands -  Miki Cezkaj -  was involved with quite a few other projects before, and during those bands.

Here's one of those projects that you won't find much information about on the world wide internet.

This is a two-man band with Mike Czekaj providing vocals, drums, and guitars, and a bass player named Tom Alexander (who may, or may not, have provided bass for a disco artist).

The A-side is an okay rock/power pop song that could grow on you over time. It's the b-side that makes this Tone and Wave fodder.
Not exactly a ska song but it does have a noticeable ska influence.

 
A - Streets at Midnight
B - Leaving Again

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The Bong - Four Smash Hits 12" (1982)

Rare German ska - all lyrics are in English.

A1 - Ejah Man
A2 - Clean Girl
B1 - Skafighter
B2 - Rudy (On the Run)

"Skafighter"

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Vital Disorders - Zombie 7" (1982)

Female fronted British punk-reggae song. They released 3 singles and, later, a cd compilation, but I think this is their only ska/reggae influenced song.

A - Zombie
B - War Games

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In Search of the Ska

I recently had a friend visit from Germany. We hung out for a few days, drank a lot of beer, and listened to a lot of music. This guys musical collection is as extensive and impressive as my own.

I mentioned that he should start a blog of his own but he said he didn't have the time.
Apparently he found the time because this is his blog here:

In Search of the Ska

It follows in the Tone and Wave tradition of exposing those little known one-off ska songs by bands that don't usually play ska. A lot of it is in German, but I have been given a peek behind the curtain and I know a lot will be in English and other languages.

He just started it but it has potential to be a great blog.

The Great Train Robbery - This is Intensified (1987)

I once read that this is a New York band that only people from New York would know about.
This album was later re-released on cd with two extra tracks. I only have the vinyl version:

A1 Intensified / Protection
A2 Selling Guns to the Indians
A3 Hold Me Down
B1 How About a Kiss
B2 Little Persuasion
B3 Like a Building
B4 Police Feel So Tall


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Sam The Butcher - No Time 7" (1994)

Punk record with ska influences.

A1 - Tension
A2 - No Time
B1 - Circles
B2 - Sis Boy


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Skiptooth [REPOST]

Reposted by request...



Cool Ska Cool

1 Pachuco

2 Cuban Cigar

3 My Turn

4 Otra Vez

5 Preacher Joseyah

6 Rum and Coke

7 El Detectivo



Skiptown vol.1

1 My Turn

2 Reggae Man

3 Taxi Driver

4 El Detectivo



"Reggae Man"





"El Detectivo"



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Let's Go Bowling (1988 demo cassette) [REPOST]

Thanks Rikard!



1 Hair Tonic

2 Spy Market

3 Happy, Sad, Reggae

4 Cumbia del Sol

5 Bitch

6 Beat of the Dream

7 Y Jamaica Mess

8 LGB

9 Badminton on a Rope

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...and here's the "Rude 69" 7"

Skankin' Pickle 1990 demo cassette [REPOST]

People write to me every now and then and ask me if they can re-post something I've posted. My answer is always YES. Please help me put this stuff out there so that real ska fans have access to it somehow or another.



This tape is something that I know a lot of people will appreciate so if you have a blog by all means re-post this. It's Skankin' Pickles' first recording and is all but impossible to find. There are 4 songs that were never released on any of their later records as well as a studio version of Burnt Head which was only released as a live recording on Skafunkrastapunk.



(Oh yeah, on this version of "I Missed the Bus" he was watching a Panasonic, not a Magnavox. It's a strange world.)



1 I Missed the Bus

2 Pseudo Punk

3 Hand Twister

4 World's Falling Down*

5 Burn't Head

6 Nuclear Dance Bomb*

7 Anxiety Attack

8 My Hair (Look Like Dahn)

9 Peter, Piper & Mary

10 Shark Teaser*

11 Whatever Happened

12 I've Had Enough*



"World's Falling Down"





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*the four songs that are unique to this tape are marked

Crucial DBC - Dread Rock for a Long Time (1989) [re-uploaded May 30th, 2016]

Rare California ska from the 80s...

A1 - In this World
A2 - Mama, Mama
A3 - What's Your Trip
B1 - Right for My Heart
B2 - Universal Melody
B3 - Hold On

"Mama, Mama"


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Willo Selects - Rare Australian ska 1980 - 1986

Things have been extremely busy here at Tone and Wave headquarters so I haven't had much time to post anything. I do have lots of new stuff as well as re-posts but I just don't have the time this week.

             Working hard AND hardly working. You can do both. It's called multi-tasking.

Your friend and mine Willo J Irie has stepped up to the plate to provide an interesting podcast of rare Australian ska which are all unique rips. Never before posted on Tone and Wave or anywhere else on the WWW.

 Doing the Kangaroo Skank
Australian Ska 1980-1986

60 minutes of shit hot Aussie Ska all from vinyl!


Jump Vision - The Jump [1981]
Naughty Rhythms - Look Like Me [1981]
The Eighty Eights - She Fell in Love with James Bond [1980]
The Allniters - She Made a Monkey Out of Me [1981]
Paul Kelly & The Dots - Billy Baxter [1980]
Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons - Rub Up Push Up [1981]
Strange Tenants - Soldier Boy [1982]
No Nonsense - Titan [1982]
Strange Tenants - Hard Times [1983]
The Allniters - Solomon Gundie [1983]
The Girlfriends - Gone With The Wind [1983]
Naughty Rhythms - Without Your Love [1983]
The Allniters - Mr unioshi [1983]
Strange Tenants - Killer Zombies [1983]
Furious Turtles - Hard World Mad World [1984]
The Leftovers - Lemondade Song [1984]
Naughty Rhythms - Have Some Fun [1984]
The Allniters - So Long [1984]
The Leftovers - So Long, Farewell [1985]
Off The Shelf - OTS Tonight [1985]
Itchy Feet - Cliff Young Shuffle [1986]


Selected by Willo J Irie
2014

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I hope to post something in the middle of the upcoming week, but no promises.

(Thanks Willo for the Jump Vision track. I've never found my own copy yet. It's good to finally be able to hear it!)

If you have a podcast you'd like to submit send it to toneandwave@gmail.com.

Zzipp 7'' (1980)

I have been looking for this record for over a decade now. It was on eBay twice in the last several years and I was outbid both times. Three's a charm. It was on eBay a few weeks back and, in the end, I was the only bidder.

I have been trying to find any information about this band that I can but there's not much out there. I do know that they have 5 other songs that have been released on compilations but this is the only release of their own that I know of. I do have one other song of theirs called Masochism from a comp called Popmuziek In Doetinchem that I have included in this download

A - "I Quit"
B - "Footprints"
* - "Masochism"
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Club Ska - Live (1986)

Club Ska is an Australian band that only existed for a few years and in that time only released 3 singles.
This bootleg shows what a talented band they really were.

1 Darling Patricia
2 Rub Up, Push Up
3 The Tide is High
4 Soul Shakedown Party
5 It Mek
6 Let Your Yeah be Yeah
7 Intensified
8 Good Thing
9 Miss Jamaica
10 Money Worries
11 Montego Bay
12 Cupid
13 Soon You'll be Gone

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All three singles have been posted previously but if you don't have them, they're HERE



...as usual, much thanks to the original submitter!

Tiny Hat Orchestra - Put a Hat On it (1992)

Several of these songs were included on the "Noon at Nine" cd - same recordings. But here's their full first album with a few songs that were not included in later recordings.

1 Shoe
2 Skaface
3 Sing Sing Sing
4 Insomnia Cafe
5 Blank
6 Beyond
7 Yellow Bird
8 Empty Cup
9 Fine Thing
10 Taste of Honey
11 Long Shadows

"Shoe"

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I.H. Ska - Live EP (199?)

Here's their official site. 

1 Skankin' Town
2 Tin Tin
3 Cowboy
4 Flung Zum Mond
5 Sex Spider

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Regatta Sixty-Nine - Regatta Sixty-Nine (1992)

1 Byronic Hero
2 Bring Me Back
3 Somebody's Cadet
4 Micro Bus
5 Sometimes Things are Easier Said than Done
6 Rockin' in My Rocking Chair
7 I Would Rub Her the Wrong Way
8 Journey On
9 The World is Too Much with Us
10 Trouble
11 Breathe Clean Air
12 Time of Day
13 Taking My Chances on You
14 Addicted to Coffee
15 Someone to Cling to
16 Good Luck
17 Home All Alone
18 Slit Her and Sliced Her into Halves

"Sometimes Things are Easier Said than Done"

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Mahjun - Baby-Sitter 7" (1980)

A - Baby-Sitter
B - Emmène-Moi Dans Ta Rolls



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Spy Eye - Hot Pursuits (1990)

Unicorn Records classic. In 1994 it was released on cd as a split with Mr. Review's Walkin' Down Brentford Road but the last song "Everything Crash" was not included. This is the vinyl version with all 10 tracks.

1 VC 10
2 Neither Red/Black Nor Racist
3 Look Smart
4 Shake it Up
5 A Message to You Rudy
6 The Things I Feel
7 Phantoms
8 Morange
9 Reminds Me of Cairo
10 Everything Crash


This is the only album they released but they did record a demo in 1989 called "Have a Good Ska Stomping" that had 6 tracks:

1 Brand New Beat
2 Rude Boys
3 Me and My Shadow
4  These Boots are Made for Walkin'
5 Reminds Me of Cairo
6 I Hate You

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DOWNLOAD THE DEMO TAPE


 

RBs - Uruguay 7" (1982)

A - Uruguay (YouTube video)
B - Time

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Erector Set

A - Inside Out
B - No Room for Comfort

A1 - Imitation of Life
A2 - GI Jump
A3 - Potential Danger
B1 - Chinese Girl
B2 - Missing Peace

"Chinese Girl"

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