{"id":3036,"date":"2009-11-14T14:37:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T13:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2009-11-14T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T14:09:43","slug":"danielle-dax-the-initial-recording-company-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/danielle-dax-the-initial-recording-company-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Dax – The Initial Recording Company – 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bed Caves \/ Everyone Squeaks Gently \/ The Wheeled Wagon \/ The Stone Guest \/ Here Come The Harvest Buns<\/a><\/p>\n

The Shamemen \/ Kernow \/ Numb Companions \/ Tower Of Lies \/ Cutting The Last Sheaf<\/a><\/p>\n

An almost perfect debut LP release from the ex Lemon Kitten, released by the tiny Initial Recording Company record label. Danielle performed all the instrumentaion on this LP as well as creating the artwork for the sleeve, which was quickly changed for subsequent pressings due to stores not wanting to stock the LP with sections of Danielle\u2019s \u2018Meat Harvest\u2019 art project on the outer sleeve!<\/p>\n

Text ripped without permission \u2018bandit style\u2019 from allmusic.com.<\/p>\n

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A performer whose enigmatic and experimental work reflected the strong influence of Biblical mysticism and Middle Eastern musical textures, Danielle Dax was born in Southend, England. After a short modelling career \u2013 she won the \u201cMiss Evening Echo\u201d competition in 1976 she made her musical debut in 1979 as the keyboardist in the seven-piece Amy Turtle and the Crossroads; the group disbanded after only one performance, but it brought Dax \u2014 who took to the stage clad in nothing more than a knit cap and lab coat \u2014 to the attention of Karl Blake, who asked her to design the cover for an EP by his Surrey University-based band the Lemon Kittens. Within a week, Dax was a full member of the group; neither she nor Blake actually played music, but they managed to release two highly experimental LPs, 1980\u2019s We Buy a Hammer for Daddy and 1982\u2019s The Big Dentist, while also establishing a reputation for their notorious live sets, in which they frequently performed sans clothes.<\/p>\n

Upon the Lemon Kittens\u2019s 1982 split, Blake formed the Shock-Headed Peters, while Dax mounted a solo career. She debuted a year later with Pop-Eyes, a true solo effort for which she wrote and performed every song alone, even handling mixing and production duties and distributing the record through her own Awesome label. While her heavy makeup and colossal hair aligned her with the thriving \u201cBatcave\u201d scene, she steadfastly avoided easy pigeonholing, even making the leap into film with appearance\u2019s in Neil Jordan\u2019s adult fable The Company of Wolves; she also appeared in Chimera, a film by Holly Woodlawn, the photographer whose work adorned many of Dax\u2019s record covers. After reuniting with Karl Blake, Dax returned in 1984 with the Jesus Egg That Wept EP, which also featured the first appearance of guitarist\/keyboardist David Knight, who subsequently became a frequent collaborator.<\/p>\n

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Lemon Kittens debut LP uploaded on this site may be listened to HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bed Caves \/ Everyone Squeaks Gently \/ The Wheeled Wagon \/ The Stone Guest \/ Here Come The Harvest Buns The Shamemen \/ Kernow \/ Numb Companions \/ Tower Of Lies \/ Cutting The Last Sheaf An almost perfect debut LP release from the ex Lemon Kitten, released by the tiny Initial Recording Company record […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3040,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}