Mike Rep And The Quotas - Hellbender 1975 - 78 LP Jazz to the recent Thistle Group

to the recent Thistle Group 7”

providing the soundtrack to the rave culture that sprung up in the UK in the 90s

evoking a sense of vaulted space

As Adam Wiltzie told Sadness Is In The Sky fanzine

it's "epic" and "brutal" and really just astonishing in a way I can’t convey

Mike Rep And The Quotas - Hellbender 1975 - 78 LP Jazz to the recent Thistle GroupA full primal serving of mostly previously unheard MIKE REP AND THE QUOTAS chaos, recorded between '75 and '78, that will no doubt cause future generations to marvel at just how one could be so brutally honest, raw, and wasted yet, live to chronicle it all. Describing the allure of the mid 70s Ohio sound to the uninitiated isn't too difficult. Take the freaked out post 13th Floor Elevators to Velvet Underground to Stooges to RFTT Pere Ubu barbed wire