"What's The Hubub Bub" - Sortie le 2 décembre

“What’s The Hubub Bub” originally appeared in 1980/1981, and was so far ahead in its approach to songwriting, performance, recording, and presentation that we’re just now catching up. Issued at the height of the British post-punk renaissance, on cassette only, it presaged the DIY underground movement in this country by several years, and until now, has been more rumored than heard. Recorded mostly live to cassette, the album has an astonishing breadth, taking in and transmuting savage rock’n’ roll, tender ballads, tape experiments, and in the case of “The Shark Fucks”, bona fide anthems. Ziro Baby (now known to comrades as Zarjaz Baby and fronting the incredible group FREAKAPUSS) and his songs have held sway with hundreds of the underground cognoscenti for decades now, cassettes of Tronics albums being passed around like secret handshakes. It remains a singular example of true self-expression, whilst at the same time rocking harder than (fill in almost any band‘s name here).

TRACKLIST: 1. How Do You Do Again 2. Helsinki 3. Hard On Me 4. Raw Reggae 5. Space Message 6. The Other Man 7. Alone 8. Shark Fucks Intro 9. The Shark Fucks 10. I'm A Diver 11. Galaxy Bar I 12. Galaxy Bar II