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Rip It Up, Issue 76, 1 November 1983, Page 22

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Various Artists Music to do the Dishes To Ima Hitt, PO Box 407, New Plymouth ($5.00) This is a compilation of Palmerston North music with 24 'songs' by 16 'bands', all from the Invercargill of the North and (nearly) all really neat. Unfortunately, a lot of the bands are dead and at least one (Skeptics Offshoot, Go Cats) deserves to be, but let's not carp at blatant attempts to be unlistenable and let's not mourn the passing of such fascinating sounds as Parasitic Host, Discipline and three or five others. Let's enjoy the quirks, marvel at the consistency, send the thin white Wafer at Ima Hitt his five bucks and thank Peter Cooke for having the good sense to put it together. This makes the great Sliazam Battle of the Bowel Movements farce look even more evil than at first we accepted and is cheaper than the "best of NZ bands'' live recording that Mr Schofield thrusts at us from our totelly tarian screens, so show your disgust for officially sanctioned NZ music and buy the "stuff that makes Peter Grattan shit his pants! (This had been a public service announcement, thank you.) ■ CK Goblins Geoff Harding, c. - lan McGowan. RD4, Springston. Canterbury 6.00) Now, you Goblin guys, I'd really like to like this, cos I like your humour and you do sound like you had a good time ... but ... it's a bit too much like Hello

Sailor (or something, can't put me finger on it) for my taste. You know, of course, that I'm an elitist, narrow-minded, puffed-up ol' hasbeen so I wouldn't take it too hard. There's some good moments ('Celtic Reggae' is a good idea) but overall it leaves me luke warm. Brazier fans, rush your cash, I bet you'll like it. Others, approach with caution. CK

James Chance and the Contortions Live in New York (ROIR)-

James Chance (a.k.a. James White) is a fusion of James Brown funk and the free form jazz of John Coltrane. Band members include, on trombone, the notable Joe Bowie from Defunkt and on guitar, Bern Nix of Ornette Coleman's band. The best tracks are the reworked Sinatra classic That Old Black Magic', a tortured version of James Brown's .'King Heroin' and Chance's own Contort Yourself'. If you want this or any other ROIR tapes, write to Reachout International Records Inc, 611 Broadway, Suite 214, NYC, NY 10012, USA. KB