Skoptzies — On The Edge Of Insanity (1985)

6/16/2019

The final album of Southern Industrial Punk Space Rock by Skoptzies, and perhaps the best, is now online in an authorized archival reissue --http://www.haltapes.com/hr012-skoptzies---on-the-edge-of-insanity.html

Album page at the HalTapes website includes a review by Jerry Kranitz, and an interview with Chris Phinney by Jerry.

5 Comments

Leslie Singer

6/16/2019 22:50:18

Thanks to all for this great posting. The music is the stuff of legends. And what happened to the members of The Skoptzies would make a helluva movie.

Chris Phinney

6/17/2019 06:19:42

Thanks Leslie! A movie would be crazy cool nuts, as another story alltogether would have to be added & Jim (Bonham) Mallory his departure as well. My 3rd grade friend lol

Ditlev Buster link

6/17/2019 13:34:40

I would love to be in such a movie! All my acting experience comes from when I played a tree in an elementary school play though, but i can hold a camera!

Adam J Naworal

6/18/2019 23:09:10

Skoptzies = awesome! Would love to see this movie happen!

Juan Angel Italiano

7/8/2019 17:54:24

Very good album! Excellent rescue.

Chris Phinney

I used to run Harsh Reality Music, started the label in 1982 releasing my own music in various groups. They were Mental Anguish, Pungent Odor who became The Skoptzies, Misfeasance, Macroglossia, RSVP which became Cancerous Growth, Viktimized Karcass, Planet Zero.

Anyway I started releasing tapes by artists that I liked. Over 350 tapes, some vinyl, CDs, CD-Rs, and videos on VHS. Also did distribution of some LPs. Did some writing for mags, some mail art, I did a lot of compilations as well.

Helped run Tapegerm with Bryan Baker, Scott Carr & J Mundok, for 10 years or more, a collaborative site too intense to explain here.

Had my own domain for HRM, shut down the label due to several reasons around 2006 if memory serves.

You can see some of the releases on Hal’s site, the HRM section. Quit Tapegerm around 2010.

Took a 5 year hiatus due to personal reasons but came out of it & did Mental Anguish - Frozen Lake & a few Phinney/McGee microcassette releases.

I have collaborated extensively with Hal McGee, Carl Howard - Nomuzic, Mike Jackson, plus others Prescott, Jeff Central, Charlie Goff, John Hudak, Minóy, Alien Planetscapes, Lord Litter, Don Campau, Angwana which was with Al Margolis hence the name, Pat Grafik, Isaac Ersoff, & a CD-R with a PDF comic book by Matt Howarth released on his label!

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