I had not heard Ramleh until PURE/RRR issued the discs. I joined the "scene" when PE Ramleh was long gone and at first I was really not into the rock era at all. I kept trying to sell the pure discs to Finnish audience and always remembered to tell "fuck that guitar rock era stuff".. hah.
Their delay drenched vocals were among main influences of my own works in mid 90's, along with Masonna screams.
Eventually, I actually like a lot the guitar rock era. From the new stuff, I think that new rock 10" beats easily the new PE CD.
There is just released limited mCD for Japanese gig. Getting few copies for sale soon, but it appears to be little pricey. Still curious how it will sound like!
One could perhaps also mention in the topic Ramleh related bands/groups. Kleistwahr, which did great stuff early on. Supposedly very limited LP reissues on its way. Horrid comeback album can be forgotten. S.P.I.T.E. also great raw PE/noise. LP is just as simple reissues as good PE can be! His contributions in Skullflower, Toll, Male Rape Group and such would be of course worth to check out. MRG in VOD box, Toll reissued by Cold Spring. Skullflower easy to find as 2nd hand copies I guess.
Ethic Acid was long time Ramleh member Anthony Di Franco's solo. Brilliant stuff. There is several tapes. I released 2xCD kind of best-of release on Industrial Recollections, but there is also more vocal heavy PE type of stuff. Great stuff on many tapes what in my opinion would deserve to be issued in their full glory. I consider all those early works better than AX or Novatron, etc. JFK has very good 7"s though!
