MUTANT SOUNDS: October 2011

Monday, October 17, 2011

VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION'S EYE PEELS & BRAIN PICKS LP SOLD OUT NOW ON PRE-ORDER(1 WEEK DELAY ON SHIPPING, ALAS) FULL A SIDE IN .WAV FORMAT BELOW

Vas Deferens Organization's Eye Peels And Brain Picks LP has now officially sold out on pre-order, though it will shortly be available from a handful of international distributors (listed below). Unfortunately, we detected a rather large printing snafu on the back panel somewhat late in the game, so there will now be a one week delay in shipping off copies to both buyers and distributors. They will now ship on Monday, Oct. 24th, instead of having gone out on their announced release date of Oct. 17th. We truly are sorry about this fuck up, but hope all of you find the results worth the wait when you finally receive them.

In the meantime (and for the benefit of those of you who didn't get a copy), the entire A side of Eye Peels And Brain Picks can be downloaded in .wav format Here

Because these corrected jackets ship out to distributors on the same day as regular buyers now, there will be a slight delay before these reach distributors and become available again. They will be available from the following:

Tedium House (USA)

Fusetron (USA)

RRR (USA)

Infinite Limits (UK)

Norman (UK)

Art Into Life (JAPAN)

AIR-S/T, LP, 1977, JAPAN

If you can skate around the insufferable Kozmigroov genre tag that's latterly been grafted onto this breed of free flowing cosmic jazz funk like some Cronenberg-ian tumor in the shape of a hackysack, this is really the prime article at hand here; this Japanese quartet with the all too common name (shared with everyone from Henry Threadgill's old 70's outfit to Herbie Mann's backing band to the French 90's electropop exports) having taken the most spectrally wandering implications from early 70's Miles Davis and teased them out yet further, 'til all thats left is windblown tracers shimmering in the ether; their attack placing them in immediate proximity to the distended and drug swaddled fusion burn of Australia's Quasar.

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JOSHUA-LIFE LESS LOST, CD, 1998, USA

Suitably blasted and introverted one man bedroom freak folk wander and stereo-panned string fumble from this one time member of Vermonster. Life Less Lost emerged in tandem with the first wave of artists flying a flag for a lo-fi and rawly immediate post-Incredible String Band aesthetic; in the process, ploughing a furrow that was being simultaneously worked at the time by folks like Six Organs Of Admittance and The Tower Recordings, both of whom the work Joshua Burkett's tunes bears traces of, albeit with enthusiasm sometimes trumping finesse.

Note: I've just been informed by the nice folks at Spirit Of Orr that this CD is in fact still in print and available from them (as is Joshua Burkett's Owlsleavesrustling LP), but they've generously allowed for the download link below to remain posted. Please check this great record out and then considering heading over to Spirit Of Orr here and picking up an original of this for yourselves.

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LEE GAGNON-JEREMIE (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK), LP, 1972, CANADA

This Quebecois symphonic funk rarity (the score for a ballet, apparently) hits several right notes and a few truly righteous ones over the course of this rare LP, though there's a consistent tension between the lacquerings of limpid orchestration (skirting into the territory of 70's Stayfree maxi pad commercials at its most unctuous moments here) and the funk outbursts, which range from tightly poppin' little numbers laced with Art Webb-ish flute-y flutterings to deeper funk investigations larded with growling and spitting acid wah.

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KLAN-MROWISKO, LP, 1970, POLAND

Overlooking the unfortunate spelling of their name (which presumably carries different and better connotations in Poland than it does here in the U.S.), this proto-prog spectacular from the nascent Polish underground scene sounds remarkably advanced for something emerging from these temporal coordinates. This crew were evidently steeped in both Brian Auger & Trinity and Vanilla Fudge, the first of which I can attest to, the latter of which seems mostly evident in the lashings of organ that suffuse these tracks, though Klan lack the dumbo DNA at the core of Vanilla Fudge's aesthetic, replacing it with a specifically East Euro tack from that era that's also audible in Yugoslavian proto-prog artifacts by the likes of Korni Grupa and Time; a sort of rustic and gruff proto-prog surface under which exists a goodly bit of musical nuance and sophistication.

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Monday, October 3, 2011

VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION LAUNCH THEIR NEW LABEL PUER GRAVY WITH THEIR 100 COPY LP "EYE PEELS AND BRAIN PICKS": PRE-ORDER NOW!

A gilded lily pad for luxuriating polymorphs and a slapstick rug pull of a swami's magic carpet, Eye Peels & Brain Picks, the latest all points bulletin and consensus reality disruption from Vas Deferens Organization will be issued on October 17th, 2011 in a finite edition of only 100 numbered vinyl copies as the first salvo in the transformation of our record label into its new identity as Puer Gravy.

the LP's are priced at $25 a piece and pre-orders are currently being taken NOW at the new Puer Gravy site. Those who obtain a copy will soon hold in their mitts a lovingly appointed (gold printed, laminated plastic panel-bedecked, laser etched and 180 gram) artifact containing all manifestations of these further mysteries, though the merely curious can suffice with having the full A side of this album made available to them in .wav format on the day of its formal release.

'Til then, we invite you to open your collective earholes to our advance preview track (also in .wav format), "78 Revolving Potentiometers", which can be found here

In addition to further new Vas Deferens Organization titles emerging on Puer Gravy in the coming months (including a long-in-the-works split collaborative LP with the French band Audace and with the Italian nutter Ben Presto of Larsen Lombriki), there will also be 100 copy LP's released by Dominique Leone (ex-Pitchfork scribe with releases on Stromland and Important Records) and Philip Sanderson (Storm Bugs/Snatch Tapes)

There will also be two other new Vas Deferens Organization LP's in extremely limited quantities emerging before the end of the year, via two different German labels:

In mid-November, Pure Pop For Now People will release the first of two archival Vas Deferens Organization LP's from our original and extended late 90's formation in editions of 200 copies, the first being a 1997 collaboration between VDO and a now-defunct cosmic synth duo called Perihelion that featured David Price, ex-of The Red Tapes whose 1980 tape is posted elsewhere on MS and the Audion/Eurock promoted cosmic synthesist Tim Boone [R.I.P.]. This is titled The Science Of The Impossible and will be out in late November, with a second archival VDO LP to be issued on PPFNP early the following year.

And in late December, Hlava will issue a six track Vas Deferens Organization EP from 2004 titled "Keep Shoving Those Double-Thick Slices Of Electric Salad Down My Throat" in a 12" vinyl edition of only 150 copies.

AKABUSHI WITH BONJOUR! MADEMOISELLE-LIVE T-SHIRT KOTE KURE WITH BONJOUR!, CD EP, 1995, JAPAN

One of the more obscure noise/punk/comedy expulsions belched from the anarchic maw of the Boredoms tribe during their pre-kosmiche era, Akabushi itself (no idea about the Bonjour! Mademoiselle personnel) was Boredoms guitarist Seiichi Yamamoto's act that, according to a Boredoms reference site, " he could just sing lead for, and they are no longer active. According to Yamamoto, "All of the members ran away!". Akabushi would issue one other 3" CD before expiring, but given the unlikeliness that you'll encounter that micro-edition artifact, taking it in the kisser from the bukake-like bulldada geysers and speaker-panned punk mulch at hand is something any self-respecting and/or self-debasing 90s Japanese underground music fan should line right up for.

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STEVE MAXWELL VON BRAUND-MONSTER PLANET, LP, 1975, AUSTRALIA

For my second share of Aussie underground sounds today, it's time to highlight the highly lit sounds of Aussie space cadet Stephen Maxwell Von Braund. Mr. Von Braund's later activities in the more well know (relatively speaking) duo Cybotron would make him something of a name brand in cosmic synth circles during the 70's and 80's, but while Cybotron's arc went from rhythm boxed and Library-like confections to, latterly, hamfisted symphonic pounding, this first pre-Cybotron outing of Von Braund's (barring an anomalous but very Steve Hillage-like full band-abetted acid rock eruption on the first track) is mostly just signaling though the haze on the edge of time, with gurgling cosmic tides rippling past as attenuated synthetic strands coil off into infinity or churn menacingly in the foreground in a very Kraut-y electronic fashion.

Note: link removed, as this is soon due for reissue on Aztec Music.

MAESTROS AND DIPSOS-UNRELEASED RECORDINGS, 198(?), AUSTRALIA

More unreleased archival post punk goodness from the deep recesses of the Aussie early 80's scene (courtesy, long ago, of Phil Turnbull of the superb No Night Sweats site on Aussie underground music), and it's some pretty prescient goodness at that, with Maestros And Dipsos seeming to have both absorbed some of the least wayward lessons from The Raincoats and used that logic to create tunes that seem to anticipate the sound of (early) Throwing Muses in the process. I feel well assured that this traces forward to other less savory dimensions of femme-y indie-land jangle with its relatively unfettered musical stance (I wouldn't care to plumb those depths to make sure I'm right), but at this stage of the game, it's still a pretty damn agreeable set of sounds and associations and one that'll undoubtedly grip lots of you.

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TRANSISTER-ZIG-ZAG, LP, 1979, NETHERLANDS

This was Supersister grand magi Robert Jan Stips' top notch art pop cum new wave unit following his post-Supersister activities in Stars & Stips (also posted on MS) and (briefly) Golden Earring, and the unfettered flights of fancy you'd anticipate in one of his projects is certainly to be found here, albeit in rather more measured and pop-structured doses. The results on their lone outing here are a high caliber form of high gloss late 70's pop eccentricity vaguely in the ballpark of something like the first few Godley & Creme albums and The Tubes during their brilliant early career phase, but infused with a specific species of whimsicality that is very much Stips' alone.

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ASMUS TIETCHENS/ARCANE DEVICE-SPEISELEITUNG, CD, 1996, GERMANY/USA

From his early rhythmic electronic confections on Sky Records to a vast discography of subsequent radical (and frequently very abstract) sonic interventions, Asmus Tietchens remains one of the towering figures in recent German electronic music history, and one whom I've shared work under multiple guises by before. Speiseleitung was his second horn lock (following 1993's DBL_FDBK CD) with fellow arch avant garde-ist David Lee Myers, whose hand-made feedback generators and processors formed the basis of his work, a perfect pairing in the sense of Tietchens' own claim to make "absolute music", i.e. music without recourse to any other frames of reference. Together, they funhouse-mirror reflect whistling peals and tintinnabulation tangles of feedbacking excrescence through the ether in each others general direction.

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WELCOME BACK, JIM!

Before I put up any other posts today, I just want to take the opportunity to say welcome back to the original founder of this blog, Jim Mutantsounds, who's been away for quite some time, but who you can thank for the four excellent looking new posts below.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

V.A.-The Class of '81,LP,UK,1980

Excellent and rediculously rare UK DIY compilation , with great amaturish punk,powerpop and post punk tunes.Released iun 1980 under Upper Class label.

Tracklist:

A1 Void– Pop Love

A2 Exeros–Accident

A3 The Troopers–Love You

A4 Emil & The Detectives–Girl

A5 Bino–Dream (For My Sake)

B1 Picasso's Optician–Given Up Frying

B2 The Fringe–New Day

B3 Emil & The Detectives–Instant Magnet

B4 Exeros–Chita

B5 The Innocent Vicars–Starship 22

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V.A. -Never Trash A Pretty Face, tape ,1986,GREECE

Excellent lo-fi DIY compilation from Greece,released in Thessaloniki, in 1986, through the Rollin Under fanzine and the radio station Radio Utopia. Musically it varies from late 70s-early 80s punk/anarcho punk with greek lyrics,garage punk, to post punk sounds and some minimal synth.

Tracklist:

A1 Keli 13 - Ploio Stasiastwn

A2 Keli 13 - Mavra yalia

A3 Aganaktismeni Polites - Mesos Anthropos

A4 Aganaktismeni Polites- Favlos Kiklos

A5 Venericna Bolest - Piriniko Katafigio

A6 Venericna Bolest - Antithourios

A7 Allothi - Pente Lepta Prin

A8 Adreas Troussas & Aprosopoi - Na se kala

B1 After Death - The Exorcist

B2 After Death - The Birth of Darkness

B3 Final Solution - Point of View