OUTER HIMALAYAN RECORDS P.O.Box 59
*********************** London N22 1AR
UK
Owner : Nick Blinko and Martin Cooper
Distr. : UK/US -Southern
Style : anarcho-punk / punk / new wave / synth pop / experimental /
hardcore /
OH 1 THE MAGITS FULLY COHERENT 7" .1980
Fragmented / Disconnected // Disjointed / Detatched
(Note : SRTS/79/CUS 401)
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OH 2 S-HATERS Death Of A Vampire // Research 7" .1980
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OH 3 RUDIMENTARY PENI RUDIMENTARY PENI EP 7"EP .1981
Media Person / Him Hymn / Blind Dogs / B-Ward / Crazy
Chain / The gardener / Teenage Time killer / Hearse /
(.mov/quicktime) / Dead Living / Black President /
Tower Of Strenght / Play
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OH 4 SOFT DRINKS Pop Stars In Their Pyjamas 7" .1982
Cinzano Wet Dream
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OH 5 S-HATERS : Stories As Cold As The Irish Sea / Drift 7" .1982
/ Industry & Nature
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BOOBOO 1 RUDIMENTARY PENI RUDIMANTARY PENI 7" .1981
A1 Media Person
A2 Him Hymn
A3 Blind Dogs
A4 B Ward
A5 Crazy Chain
A6 The Gardener
B1 Teenage Time Killer
B2 Hearse
B3 Dead Living
B4 Black President
B5 Tower of Strength
B6 Play
(Note : reissue of OH 3)
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BOOBOO 2 RUDIMANTARY PENI CACOPHONY LP .1982
BOOBOO 2 RUDIMENTARY PENI CACOPHONY CD .1987
Nightgaunts / The Horrors In The Museum / The Only Child
/ Archectonic And Dominant / The Evil Clergymen / Brown
Jenkin / Crazed Couplet / Sarcoghagus / Lovecraft Baby
/ DReam City / C12 H22 O11 / Zenophobia / Sunset Of The
Lords Of Venus / Beyond The Tanarian Hills / Imps Of
The Perverse / The Dead Loved / Periwig Power / Kappa
Alpha Tau / American Anglophile In The World / Turned
Upside Down / Memento Mori / Better Not Born / Arkham
Hearse / The Old man Is Not So Terribly / Misanthropic
Gentlemen Prefer Blood Sonia / The Day The Universe
Ceased (march 15th 1937) / The Crime Of The Century /
Music In Diabola / Shard / Black On Gold
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BOOBOO 3 RIDIMENTARY PENI THE EP'S OF RP CD 09.1994
Madia Person / Him Hymn / Blind Dogs / Crazy Chain /
The Gardener / Teenage Time Killer / Hearse / Dead
Living / Black President / Tower Of Strenght / Play /
Sacrifice / Cosmetic Plague / Subdued Violence / Only
Human / The Bile Ball / Farce / Bloody Jellies / Mice
Race / Defined By Age / Zero Again / Bubble
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BOOBOO 4 RUDIMENTARY PENI DEATH CHURCH CD 04.1994
Blissful Myth / The Psycho Squat / Rotten To The Core /
Poppycock / Cosmic Hearse / The Cloud Song / Vampire
State Building / Blasphemy Squad / When You Are A
Martian Chucrch / Pig In A Blanket / Inside / Nothing
But A Nightmare / Flesh Crucifix / Slimy Member / Love
Is Not / Radio Schizo / Happy Farm / Alice Crucifies
The Paedophiles / Army Of Jesus / Dutchmen
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BOOBOO 5 RUDIMENTARY PENI : POPE ADRIAN 37TH PSYCHRISTIATRIC CD 10.1995
LP.CD 05.2013
Pogo Pope / The Pope With No Name / Hadrianich Relique
/ II Papus Puss / Muse Sick (Sic) / Vatican's City
Hearse / I'm A Dream / We're Gonna Destroy Life The
World Gets Higher And Higher / Pills , Popes And Potions
/ Ireland Sun / Regicide Chaz II / Iron Lung
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BOOBOO 6 RUDIMANTARY PENI ECHOES OF ANGUISH 12".CD 04.1998
Flame Of Insanity / In Memory / Dissolution / Only
Death / Womb So Scorned / Time Passing / Echo / Voice
/ Stone / Trial By Separation / From The Heart / Your
Secret Life
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BOOBOO 7 RUDIMENTARY PENI THE UNDERCLASS 7".CDS 09.2000
Captive Of Atrophy / No Other Truth / Essence / Bequest
/ The Mirror / The Underclass / Unchanged / As Nothing
/ Choice Of Evils / The Internal Censor / The Ocean
Of Misery / Clandestine Harem
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BOOBOO 8 RUDIMANTARY PENI ARCHAIC EP 10".CD 06.2004
LP 03.2014
CD 09.2013
One And All / Suffer / In Crematorium Flame / Lost /
The Rain / Mercy Of Slumber /The Curse /The Enlightened
Dreamer / XN.H.S. /Farewell Tomorrow /House Of The Void
/ Rehearsal For Morality
LP/2014 issue : LP on 180g black wax and features gatefold sleeve, 6 full size double
-sided art cards, bonus poster, and download card
CD/2013 issue : CD version in gatefold wallet with 16 page art / lyrics booklet.
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BOOBOO 9 RUDIMANTARY PENI NO MORE PAIN LP.CD 07.2008
A Handful Of Dust / No More Pain / Eyes Of The Dead /
Prayer For The Unborn / The Death Of The Author / Grave
Subject / Doodle Bug Baby / Annihilation / Sublime
Fantasy No.1 / Pachelbel's Canon In E
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DE 205 V / A : OUTER HIMMALAYAN PRESENTS LP 04.2018
1 Soft Drinks Pop Stars In Pyjamas
2 Soft Drinks Cinzano Wet Dreams
3 Soft Drinks Dangers of Drink
4 Soft Drinks Misconception
5 The Magits Fragmented
6 The Magits Disconnected
7 The Magits Disjointed
8 The Magits Detached
9 The Magits A Pawn In The Game
10 S-Haters Death Of A Vampire
11 S-Haters Research
12 S-Haters The Deepest Of Reds
13 S-Haters Drift
14 S-Haters Industry & Nature
15 S-Haters 1980
Dark Entries and Sacred Bones team up to release the early discography of UK synth-punk
and Deathrock label Outer Himmalayan Records. Between 1979 and 1982, Nick Blinko and
Martin Cooper’s Outer Himmalayan Records released 7-inches by three short-lived bands
– The Magits, Soft Drinks, and S-Haters – who would nonetheless cast a massive shadow
on the UK’s burgeoning post-punk/anarcho punk scene. Outer Himmalayan Presents
collects all of the music found on those original records, along with rare and
unreleased tracks by all three bands. It’s a snapshot of a period of frenzied
creativity by some of the UK’s most thrilling experimental punks.
Before Blinko went on to found the essential anarcho band Rudimentary Peni, whose
storied body of work also appeared on Outer Himmalayan, he and label co-founder
Cooper were The Magits. The lone release by the minimal synth-and-vocals duo, Fully
Coherent, was the inaugural release on Outer Himmalayan — and, in fact, Blinko and
Cooper’s impetus for starting the label. The four tracks on Fully Coherent are short,
sharp bursts, comprising a total of four minutes. Here, they’re presented alongside
the five-and-a-half minute “A Pawn in the Game,” a song that sees Blinko and Cooper
get truly weird with the extra space the longer runtime afforded them.
The next release on Outer Himmalayan was S-Haters’ Death of a Vampire 7", which the
quartet quickly followed with Stories as Cold as the Irish Sea. The band was
recognizably a deathrock act, their gothic punk in the same lineage as Joy Division
and PIL’s Metal Box, but it showed the same sonic adventurousness that characterized
the rest of Outer Himalayan’s output. “1980,” an oddity taken from the rare Another
Bouquet on the Grave of Free Enterprise cassette comp, shows the most experimental
flourish, with dueling male/female vocals and a prominent acoustic guitar.
The final Outer Himmalayan release before it became strictly a Rudimentary Peni
label was Soft Drinks’ Popstars in Their Pyjamas 7". Popstars ended up being the
tongue-in-cheek synth-punk trio’s only release before their breakup, though they
would also record “Dangers of Drink,” for the Bouquet of Barbed Wire comp and
included here, as well as the one-off track “Misconception,” previously unreleased
but now available exclusively on Outer Himmalayan Presents.
All songs have been mastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios.
Cover artwork features a collage by Eloise Leigh and each copy includes a 20-page
zine featuring liner notes and ephemera associated with the original pressings plus
never before seen photos.
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