This Heat
In 1976, Charles Hayward joined with Charles Bullen and Gareth Williams to form This Heat. Though arising from art-rock and the British school of fusion jazz, This Heat quickly developed into an experimental band largely dependent on tape loops and production tricks. This Heat dissolved in 1982-1983.
In 1976, Charles Hayward joined with Charles Bullen and Gareth Williams to form This Heat. Though arising from art-rock and the British school of fusion jazz, This Heat quickly developed into an experimental band largely dependent on tape loops and production tricks. This Heat dissolved in 1982-1983.
Member of: Gareth Williams
Deceit
*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024* stock Final album from the This Heat period. This is an intense and unparalleled work that further evolves the multi-layered structure that combines songs, strong rhythms and sound manipulation that was developed on ‘Health & Efficiency’, and lays bare the intense politics and anger towards contemporary society. While maintaining an uncompromising experimentalism, the appeal of…
Health and Efficiency
*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024 stock* Expanded reissue of the EP released between their two albums. The title track is the most direct and coolest song in This Heat's history, with a more clearly song-like appeal than the first and even more intense rhythmic bursts. On the other hand, the acoustic drone ‘Graphic/Varispeed’ is also included, and is a perfect example of the two sides of This Heat's sound. Graph…
This Heat
*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024 stock* Long-awaited reissue of the first This Heat, an astonishing band that displayed a unique musicality where strong beats, heart-stopping songs, improvisation and relentless sound manipulation all coexisted! Their sound, which is a legitimate evolution of progressive rock from the likes of King Crimson and CAN, but with added impulsiveness/physicality, responds to the post-p…
Out of Cold Storage
** 2024 Repress. The complete official lifetime releases of This Heat: This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficiency, Made Available and Repeat, re-mastered and re-packaged, with a substantial (48pp) book of interviews, recollections, information, documents and photographs in a sturdy box, PLUS a new CD of concert recordings ** This Heat were born in the years immediately preceding punk rock. Severe young men Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward were making things go pish-ding-whoosh on London’s free-…
Flaming Tunes
2023 repress. Post-punk, rising like a phoenix during the second half of the 1970s, was a movement that few could have anticipated or foreseen. Sophisticated, and impossible to nail down, bands like Wire, P.I.L., The Pop Group, The Fall, A Certain Ratio, Pere Ubu, Throbbing Gristle, and dozens of others, wedded forward thinking radicalism and the focused energy of punk, with revitalized forms of experimentalism that rethought the terms and ownership of the musical avant-garde. Of post-punk’s fi…
This Heat discography
Few copies back in stock. 1st press, gatefold cover, black vinyl. This Heat Three Album Bundle contains the albums This Heat, Deceit and Health and Efficiency. With their self-titled debut, This Heat sowed the seeds of post-punk, avant rock, noise rock and post-rock. The album took the trio – Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward and Gareth Williams – two years to create, and placed them at the forefront of experimental music. The follow-up, the 20-minute Health and Efficiency, proved to be a less la…
Live 80/81
In many ways, the nuanced sound worlds created in the studio by This Heat
are tailor made for sedentary headphone listening. But pulling off such
complicated, genre defying compositions live was surely something to
witness. Until now, there was no real official document of the group’s
live performances. Compiled by Charles Hayward and Charles Bullen from
rough cassette tape recordings of European gigs in Tilburg, Nijmegen,
Ärhus, Apeldoorn, Vienna and Rheims between April 1980 and June 198…
Repeat / Metal
Recorded from 1979 – 1980 Repeat / Metal is essentially This Heat’s third proper album, although it was released posthumously in 1993. Arguably their most radical work, Repeat / Metal features side-length tape experiments ranging from the dubby drum loops of “Repeat”, a 20 minute edit / reworking of their landmark piece “24 Track Loop”, to the gamelan-inspired sounds of “Metal”, an electro-acoustic work recorded outside of their studio, Cold Storage, and helmed by member Gareth Williams.Formed i…
Made Available
Formed in 1976 in Brixton, a multicultural, and – at the time – down-at-heel part of south London, This Heatwere born into a music scene in rapid flux, first thanks to the punk explosion and then via new wave and its myriad offshoots into pop, rock and art-rock. But while many sought to apply punk attitude to chart-friendly sounds, This Heat were concocting some of the most experimental ideas ever committed to tape, taking influence from musique concrète, krautrock, the burgeoning industrial sce…
Repeat
Limited copies, shrinkwrapped.
Repeat is This Heat's fourth album proper, posthumously released in 1993. It harbours the most extreme musical side of This Heat's experimental tendencies on disk, and is assuredly the band's most radical offering. The title track is an oxymoron: An extended/edited version of the piece "24 Track Loop", which had been previously issued on the Recommended Records' double-disk sampler in 1981, heard here sans the harmonizer effect. The original tracks were produ…
This Heat in bundle
[FIRST PRESS w/ GATEFOLD COVER] This Heat Three Album Bundle contains the albums This Heat, Deceit and the 12" EP