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the social registry (usa) #tsr 066 cd

psychic ills “mirror eye” compact disc

  • mantis (10:47)
  • meta (4:21)
  • sub synth (2:09)
  • eyes closed (3:11)
  • i take you as my wife again (9:37)
  • fingernail tea (5:57)
  • the way of (4:52)
  • go to the radio (2:44)
january 2009 release ; second album from this prairie du chien quartet, led by tres warren ...

heard some things in their debut that i liked, this one raises the bar, goes much farther out than said ... love the short, sun ra-esque synth miniature(s - listen to the sound-sample) & the band-dynamic includes a kind of eastern-leaning flair that’s always a well-received touch ...
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psychic ills
mirror eye

the social registry: tsr066
street date: 01/20/2009

mirror eye, the second full-length album from psychic ills, is an altogether heady affair and as its title suggests, a perspective reflection. through the course of eight tracks, elizabeth hart, jimy seitang, brian tamborello and tres warren journey through a unique amalgamation of electronic explorations, improvised jamming and various sonic experiments that yield a record at once familiar and otherworldly - and unlike anything happening right now.

sprawling opener “mantis” sets the record’s tone with modulating synths and hand drums that give way to a loose groove, terrestrial guitar patterns and shamanic vocals. if you are still around when it rolls into its ending nearly 11 minutes later, its safe to say that you’re on board. following that, the open-ended trance rock of the second track, ‘meta’ fades up as if the band has already been jamming on it long before the listener has been let in. it departs in a similar fashion, save for a brief reprise of reversed tape and whatever remnants of the chorus’ “meta, meta, meta” are hanging around in the listener’s head like a contact high. “sub synth” is an off-the-cuff synthesizer splice that descends into the improvised space raga of “eyes closed.” “i take you as my wife again” continues deeper into the abstract with metallic synths and improvised electronics transitioning into organic percussion and whistles before ultimately arriving at its minimal techno inspired ending. “fingernail tea” is the most straight forward song and vaguely harkens back to elements of their previous full-length, dins. the hallucinatory next track, “the way of” is the album’s last burst of energy, forming out of spinning synths and clatter, and riding an eastern bass line and watery guitar riff before unravelling under percussion and goat scream mania. the final track “go to the radio” is a come down of sorts combining two main processed loops, an electronic tambura with a circular dubbed-out field recording of a man’s voice repeating the song’s name and message, and perhaps the album’s for that matter.

mirror eye is the imaginative culmination of a period of exploration for psychic ills. a transcendent combination of musics that symbolizes how far the band has and continues to evolve beyond genre - and a fun listen too. this release will be followed by a mini-lp in the winter of other unheard material from this period.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 065 lp

growing “all the way” long playing record

  • green flag (6:16)
  • wrong ride (6:13)
  • rave pie only (6:22)

  • innit (6:39)
  • lens around (5:30)
  • reconstruction (5:57)
september 2008 release ; growing’s debut full-length for the social registry ...

picking up where “lateral” trailed off, this ekes further dimensions still out of their twin-guitar array ; some of the gating-oriented tones remind me of “e2-e4” - others “baba o’riley” ... and yes, as the promo-texts not-so-subtly imply, there’s even a good bit of the ‘ol 4/4 thump ; as to get growing off the big, amplifier-worshipping stages they trounced whilst opening for boris and into the holy/decrepit brooklyn night-club backwaters / back rooms where, apparently, the “magic” happens (that’s probably taking it a little too far ; i think they’re going more for the kind of soporific low-pass thump of wolfgang voigt’s gas project than anything so dance-floor ready) ...

always love a new set from these guys ; frankly i’m glad that they’re trying out new things ... a couple of the more minimalism-inspired pieces (listen to the sound-sample for perhaps my favorite cut of the album) are amongst the best things they’ve done, and the amp-hum laden / practice-room fidelity contributes to a certain intimate charm ... not sure if this one is going to win over a new fan-set or not, but lifers will find much to rejoice over ...
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growing
all the way
the social registry tsr065

all the way, the debut full-length from growing on the social registry, concludes an epic trip. through six tracks kevin doria and joe denardo complete the conceptual arc initiated on their 2006 album, color wheel. if we still bought into genres, we would say that this record finally achieves a perfect balance of noise and pop, yet what we can say is that you’ll potentially hum melodies long after your headphones are out. recorded by barry london at his ocropolis studio during the 2007-08 winter, all the way sounds like some sort of frozen urban chaos taking place at a superclub on another planet.

opener “green flag” sets the record’s tone. instead of keeping the form free, a crunchy guitar texture oscillates through a drum machine, setting a distinct and danceable rhythm that forms the foundation for tone bubbles to peel off the edges of your speakers. the next track, “wrong ride,” might remind the listener of a never-ending roller coaster ascent – mixing subtle dub elements with interweaving sound sculptures reminiscent of the field. “lens around” continues to touch on abstract, whip-like dance rhythms in a refreshing organic context as the propulsive low-end mixes with a watery, melodic lead. “rave pie only” takes the band’s percussive exploration to its extreme – sounding akin to total life (solo project of kevin doria). the track throbs with a four-to-the-floor pulse that could conceivably stun listeners with how far the band has come from their fluid beginnings.

in a year with the social registry, the band has released a killer seven-inch single and the mini-album lateral – all while fuzzing-out faces across europe with japanese noise-kings, boris. all the way is the perfect culmination of this journey. it blows records of its ilk out of the water, and shows just how lazy and dogmatic the clones of bands like growing have become.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 065 cd

growing “all the way” compact disc

  • green flag (6:16)
  • wrong ride (6:13)
  • rave pie only (6:22)
  • innit (6:39)
  • lens around (5:30)
  • reconstruction (5:57)
september 2008 release ; growing’s debut full-length for the social registry ...

picking up where “lateral” trailed off, this ekes further dimensions still out of their twin-guitar array ; some of the gating-oriented tones remind me of “e2-e4” - others “baba o’riley” ... and yes, as the promo-texts not-so-subtly imply, there’s even a good bit of the ‘ol 4/4 thump ; as to get growing off the big, amplifier-worshipping stages they trounced whilst opening for boris and into the holy/decrepit brooklyn night-club backwaters / back rooms where, apparently, the “magic” happens (that’s probably taking it a little too far ; i think they’re going more for the kind of soporific low-pass thump of wolfgang voigt’s gas project than anything so dance-floor ready) ...

always love a new set from these guys ; frankly i’m glad that they’re trying out new things ... a couple of the more minimalism-inspired pieces (listen to the sound-sample for perhaps my favorite cut of the album) are amongst the best things they’ve done, and the amp-hum laden / practice-room fidelity contributes to a certain intimate charm ... not sure if this one is going to win over a new fan-set or not, but lifers will find much to rejoice over ...
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growing
all the way
the social registry tsr065

all the way, the debut full-length from growing on the social registry, concludes an epic trip. through six tracks kevin doria and joe denardo complete the conceptual arc initiated on their 2006 album, color wheel. if we still bought into genres, we would say that this record finally achieves a perfect balance of noise and pop, yet what we can say is that you’ll potentially hum melodies long after your headphones are out. recorded by barry london at his ocropolis studio during the 2007-08 winter, all the way sounds like some sort of frozen urban chaos taking place at a superclub on another planet.

opener “green flag” sets the record’s tone. instead of keeping the form free, a crunchy guitar texture oscillates through a drum machine, setting a distinct and danceable rhythm that forms the foundation for tone bubbles to peel off the edges of your speakers. the next track, “wrong ride,” might remind the listener of a never-ending roller coaster ascent – mixing subtle dub elements with interweaving sound sculptures reminiscent of the field. “lens around” continues to touch on abstract, whip-like dance rhythms in a refreshing organic context as the propulsive low-end mixes with a watery, melodic lead. “rave pie only” takes the band’s percussive exploration to its extreme – sounding akin to total life (solo project of kevin doria). the track throbs with a four-to-the-floor pulse that could conceivably stun listeners with how far the band has come from their fluid beginnings.

in a year with the social registry, the band has released a killer seven-inch single and the mini-album lateral – all while fuzzing-out faces across europe with japanese noise-kings, boris. all the way is the perfect culmination of this journey. it blows records of its ilk out of the water, and shows just how lazy and dogmatic the clones of bands like growing have become.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 064 lp

growing “lateral” twelve inch single record

  • swell
  • first contact

  • lateral
  • after glow
february 2008 release ; a new ep/mini-album from growing on their new home the social registry (these guys seem to switch labels an awful lot...) - four tracks of their special blend of twin-guitar attack & simple chordal void-shapes as run through like every imaginable pedal in existence ...

on first listen i’m going to say that this isn’t their strongest work (the omnipresent gating-fx kind of get on my nerves) but there are some nice tonal beds & hazy color-voids buried deep w/in the 9-volt ground-hum / amp-bias mazes they’ve been building for the last few years ...
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growing
lateral

catalog number: tsr064
release date: february 19th, 2008
format: cd / lp

hot on the heels of their recent release for our 7-inch series, the social club, we are extremely pleased to present growing’s inaugural record with the social registry. lateral finds the band reflecting on their past two (may we add highly underrated) albums while gazing to the future with newfound rhythmic motifs and otherworldly heights to their sound sculptures. the textures are warm and inviting, tempting the listener to focus on stunning minimalist changes within growing’s dense aural fog.

lateral begins with ‘swell,’ a new mission statement for the band’s ever-evolving journey to craft the perfect drone. opening fuzz continues on the trajectory of ‘lightfoot,’ the album closer off vision swim, creating a sense of progression in growing’s work without seeming overtly nostalgic. the band slowly swells to extreme heights and then phase shifts into another galaxy. ‘first contact’ quiets the mood, demonstrating a preoccupation with rhythmic noise in the midst of more spaced-out, playful guitar melodies. from here, growing progress to ‘lateral’ which meshes the fuzzed out freeform and restrained horizontal composition qualities of the first two tracks. like a brooklyn response to the kompakt ambient series, textural rhythm and washes of atmospheric sound merge for the perfect pre-bed cocktail. finally, the album concludes with ‘after glow’ another woozy alien soundtrack that’s simultaneously relaxing and jarring in its beauty, creating a thorough trance through careful repetition. one chord from growing’s arsenal creates a mindblowing springboard to the stars and makes us think: if eno made music for airports, growing make music for spacestations.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 064 cd

growing “lateral” compact disc single

  • swell
  • first contact
  • lateral
  • after glow
cd version ; slightly less expensive ...
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growing
lateral

catalog number: tsr064
release date: february 19th, 2008
format: cd / lp

hot on the heels of their recent release for our 7-inch series, the social club, we are extremely pleased to present growing’s inaugural record with the social registry. lateral finds the band reflecting on their past two (may we add highly underrated) albums while gazing to the future with newfound rhythmic motifs and otherworldly heights to their sound sculptures. the textures are warm and inviting, tempting the listener to focus on stunning minimalist changes within growing’s dense aural fog.

lateral begins with ‘swell,’ a new mission statement for the band’s ever-evolving journey to craft the perfect drone. opening fuzz continues on the trajectory of ‘lightfoot,’ the album closer off vision swim, creating a sense of progression in growing’s work without seeming overtly nostalgic. the band slowly swells to extreme heights and then phase shifts into another galaxy. ‘first contact’ quiets the mood, demonstrating a preoccupation with rhythmic noise in the midst of more spaced-out, playful guitar melodies. from here, growing progress to ‘lateral’ which meshes the fuzzed out freeform and restrained horizontal composition qualities of the first two tracks. like a brooklyn response to the kompakt ambient series, textural rhythm and washes of atmospheric sound merge for the perfect pre-bed cocktail. finally, the album concludes with ‘after glow’ another woozy alien soundtrack that’s simultaneously relaxing and jarring in its beauty, creating a thorough trance through careful repetition. one chord from growing’s arsenal creates a mindblowing springboard to the stars and makes us think: if eno made music for airports, growing make music for spacestations.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 056 lp

samara lubelski “parallel suns” long playing record

  • have you seen the colors
  • taste the candy
  • meeting of the sun
  • snowy meadows ii
  • born from the tree
  • the cloistered palace
  • ego blossoms
  • spirit of the age
  • greener grass
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samara lubelski
parallel suns

with parallel suns samara lubelski has flown to a higher orbit with her merger of the fuels of folk, psychedelia and pop. they combine into a potent mixture that gives her compositions a vibrancy that shimmers in the reflection of their power. the music streams down and ends up in your ear through dappled arrangements that are warm and bright while still having them shaded with darkness from both the lyrics and sound.

like all of her albums on the social registry the recording is a bi-continental affair with samara laying down the basics in germany at with members of metabolismus at their farm in the hills outside of stuttgart, the sumsilobatem compound. there both thilo kuhn and werner nötzel helped produce some of the initial tracks. she then brought those recordings back to the rare book room in brooklyn where the other instruments were added and the finished tracks were mixed by nicholas vernhes. once again this album sees a whole host of accomplished musicians lending their talent. along with thilo and werner this includes p.g. six, moritz finkbeiner, hamish kilgour, john colpitts, helen rush, dietmer köhle, and thomas schätzl who brought in everything from guitars to clarinet and even a recorder to top it off.

samara herself has a long history of playing with a diverse bunch of groups including the highly influential hall of fame as well as with tower recordings and metabolismus. she has also collaborated with white magic, sonora pine, jackie o-motherfucker, mv/ee bummer road show and used her engineering skills to record the fiery furnaces, double leopards, sightings, mouthus, religious knives & magik markers. she has recently been working with thurston moore on his solo record, trees outside the academy, alongside steve shelley and j. mascis.

all of these elements coalesce into a critical mass that blazes with the energy of their fusion. parallel suns becomes incandescent in its beauty.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 053 ep

octis “the social club nº 6” seven inch single record

  • navlt (3:59)

  • twelon (4:32)
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octis
the social club nº 6

this is the sixth release in the social registry’s ongoing series aptly titled the social club. dispatched monthly via letter-pressed/limited edition 7-inch vinyl and digital distribution, this series presents a full musical array: the established and the obscured, the noisy and the delicate, the tempered and the experimental.

mick barr’s guitar style is the sound of musical entropy. his compositions, nestled in that grey area somewhere between grindcore and classical, have the air of some sort of slow building chaos, seemingly spiraling out of control. but barr, here in his solo incarnation octis, maintains the poise of a classical composer. his style of heavily-distorted playing could commonly be deemed “shredding,” but the songs found on this installment of the social club are anything but mindless noodling. backed by an avant-garde pedigree, with work in bands like quix*o*tic, orthrelm, and a duo with zach hill of hella, barr makes intelligent music for the metal-inclined. (call it imm.)

the two songs found here, navlt and twelon, showcase the guitarist’s incredible virtuosity on his instrument, with barr playing lightning fast, traversing the fretboard with unparalleled skill and grace. octis is self-described as “mick barr underthinking,” and both songs reflect this frame of mind. this project finds barr working within a minimalist framework, taking repetition to its fullest potential. as a result, the riffs on this 7-inch resonate almost spiritually, with barr exploring phrases fully before altering them and moving on. these two compositions may be heady and experimental, but above all, they’re thoroughly enjoyable - barr’s mind-blowing talent and the ferocity in his playing leave listeners nothing short of awestruck.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 052 ep

metabolismus “the social club nº 7” seven inch single record

  • snowy meadows

  • lullabye
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metabolismus
the social club nº 7

catalog number: tsr052
release date: january 22nd, 2008
format: 7-inch

this is the seventh release in the social registry’s ongoing series aptly titled the social club. dispatched monthly via letter-pressed/limited edition 7-inch vinyl and digital distribution, this series presents a full musical array: the established and the obscured, the noisy and the delicate, the tempered and the experimental.

the metabolismus collective has been making music since the mid-1980’s, selfreleasing most of their early material on cassette and vinyl lps. the band comes from the town of stuttgart, germany and creates music that is rooted in the rich tradition of german experimental bands such as can, amon duul, popul voh and kraftwerk with touchstones in rock, folk and electronic music. with this release they are joined by samara lubelski and provide two beautiful tracks of arboreal shimmer with glimpses of soft 60s psychedelic sheen.

metabolismus do not see themselves as just a band. they evolved out of a typical east-swabian street-folk-punk-band into what they call an “exartperihoppmental workshop”. they released 33 tapes in the first ten years of existence and 33 records in the second, and are always in search of new sounds & experiences, concepts & structures, with absolutely no concession to commercialism. in this blend of purity in motive and inspiration grows the seed for “metabolismusic”, which can be grasped as a sort of musical time bomb. since 1982 they have seen their mission as evoking the ‘metabolic force’ through ‘metabolic love’ and it’s what they still attempt to express.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 040 lp

interference “interference” double long playing record set

  • excerpt #1, version 2 (4:32)
  • interlude 1 (2:17)
  • contempt (5:38)

  • she said destroy (4:22)
  • interlude 2 (2:25)
  • number four (3:30)

  • disambiguator (bubblyfish & glomag remix) (3:04)
  • interference vs the 13 devils of syncopation (david last remix) (6:03)
  • all or nothing (doily remix) (2:56)

  • qpe #5 dub remix (qpe remix) (4:13)
  • globalization report mixx (bingsang remix) (6:12)
  • interferix (criterion remix) (3:09)
january 2010 release ; neat work-up of this short-lived “downtown” art-punk group, featuring david linton (who’s all over those early glenn branca lps), anne demaranis (who co-curated the legendary 1981 white columns noisefest with thurston), and michael brown ... along with contributions from elliot sharp (whose bass clarinet playing kind of makes the two more “out” “interlude” pieces herein) and the swans’ sue hanel ...

given linton’s subsequent involvement with the late-90s soundlab scene, it’s no surprise that there are some remixes tacked on to the original 1982 material, but it’s only broklyn beats’ heather & crito that “get” that this is already dance music ; their mixes jsut add a more pre-eminent thump to the esg / liquid liquid / contortions punk-funk goings-on ...

a pretty crucial set, esp. if you’re a student of this whole era / locale ... very nicely done edition with the two lps each housed in their own printed inner “disco” sleeve, slapped in a double-wide with a stapled / xerox’ed insert reprinting flyers and associated ephemera ...
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interference
interference
the social registry tsr040 2xlp
street date: 01/26/2010

in recent years there has been no shortage of people trying to shine a light on the downtown nyc music scene of the early 1980s. a redrafting has occurred with each book or box set, with a cast list being based upon whatever recordings become commercially available. though this release might implicate us in this transgression, we would hope it at least challenges the convention, adding interference to that list and suggesting that revisionists might have left a few stones unturned.

forming out of the musical insurgence that was the noisefest at white columns gallery in 1981; interference coalesced around three key figures of new york’s downtown scene: anne demaranis, david linton and michael brown. demaranis had just parted ways with an early incarnation of sonic youth and co-curated the noisefest with thurston moore. linton had headed to nyc a few years earlier with then school/band mate lee renaldo, eventually hooking up with rhys chatham for a three year stretch. brown, then a twenty six year old phd candidate at nyu, had recently broke rank with rhys chatham and drafted a wholly unconventional percussive approach to the fender bass.

from their inception through their eventual fragmentation 30 months later, interference charted their course across the stages available to them: cbgbs, the mudd club, the kitchen, etc., ultimately swelling to a quartet with the addition of fellow rhys chatham veteran joe dizney. in 1982 they recorded this lp at radio city, engineered by don hunerberg (blondie, kiss, the ramones, sonic youth, live skull) and with guest appearances by elliot sharp and sue hanel (the swans). originally slated for release on josh baer and glen branca’s legendary neutral records, the record has remained unreleased, aside from a scant number of self-released cassettes.

after the bands demise, linton remained entrenched in the new york underground art and music scene, through involvement with the kitchen, the wooster group, and soundlab, which lead him to the early 21st century downtown electronic scene. it was from here that david recruited the remixers which make up the forward thinking companion lp of this release: david last, doily and criterion (broklyn beats), binsang aka toshio kajiwara (phenomena), qpe (agriculture) and the 8-bit gameboy tag team of bubblyfish & glomag.

this music, a quarter century old and born out of new york’s early eighties downtown music scene, still resonates with undiminished invention, and its merits are far beyond that of a musical artifact. with that the social registry is pleased to present the music of interference in its entirety for the first time. this deluxe double lp set includes both the original unissued lp, painstakingly remastered from the original master tapes, and couples it with an additional remix lp.


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the social registry (usa) #tsr 024 cd

psychic ills “dins” compact disc

  • east (1:39)
  • electric life (5:26)
  • (4:25)
  • january rain (5:38)
  • inauration (1:57)
  • i knew my name (8:33)
  • witchcraft breaker (2:12)
  • another day another night (8:08)
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psychic ills
dins

din’s is the first proper full length release from psychic ills, a band which took shape in nyc during the late days of 2003. their first foray into the public ear came via a self released 7” bearing the title “mental violence i”; two tracks of drum machines, vocals and guitars which pushed and tugged at the senses with an undeniable sense of urgency. they followed it with another limited edition vinyl only release; a twelve inch ep bearing the title “mental violence ii: diamond city” which contained three more sonic explorations, a remix by sonic boom and served as the prerecorded debut of the four-piece incarnation.

dins plays like a revelation of sorts and was recorded by charles burst who has worked with bands such as black dice, gang gang dance and the double. with a long string of bombastic performances behind them psychic ills entered the studio ready to create a record out of the incendiary compositions they had been perfecting. the result takes the band well beyond their astounding live dynamic of circular rhythm and guitar theatrics as they seamlessly blend non-traditional instrumentation and studio improvisation with a surging rock dynamic into an incredibly heavy debut.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 013 lp

electroputas “three” long playing record

  • international harvest
  • aa
  • echo temptation
  • master triangle
  • minicar
  • profound rosso
  • starsoul
  • never been more in love
  • silver moon/golden sun
  • kaptain crazy & the crazy crazygame
  • more
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electroputas
three

electroputas are the perfect example of how a group can constantly be evolving without ever losing the essence of what made them a band to begin with. this three piece has been through transitions since they got together in the late 90s, but without question anybody who has seen them over this time knows that they have maintained an organic integrity that has them honing their sonic attack to a razor sharp point.

this band is also a sign of how a love for obscure music can bring people together from all over the world. joe frivaldi is hungarian, jaiko suzuki and akio mokuno are from japan. they formed the trio in their adopted home of new york city. it is here in the incubator of the under the radar music scene in the big apple that the electroputas was birthed. they played at spaces and clubs ignored by the mainstream usually at the end of an evening due to their work schedules. the putas used their diverse taste to make exigent, aggressive, and can’t get that that groove out of my head sets that made it worth the wait.

influences dive in and out of their music - noise, avant-garde, psychedelic, japanese freakout, krautrock, no wave – the list could go on. but to try and classify them by what they listen to would be missing the point of what makes them worth listening to. they capture the compelling spirit of creating while willing to take chances. their pieces are like a turkish taxi driver speeding up a mountainous road, always on the precipice of falling down but making it to its destination. exhilarating.

but what would one expect from a band who has played with black dice, secret machines, william parker, pan sonic, arto lindsay, no neck blues band, caroliner rainbow, and james chance to name a few? unfortunately if you have not seen them live it has been almost impossible to hear them. they have one cd that was released in 1999, 6 or 7 special operations that was recorded in their early formative days. another album was recorded with jim sclavunos (teenage jesus and the jerks, 8 eyed spy, nick cave and the bad seeds) that has been in limbo for a few years. only their piano bloom ep, a part of the social registry’s 12” series has had wide distribution.

but that is all about to change. after releasing piano blooms the band began working on material for a full length. in october of 2003 the band set up shop for a long weekend at junkyard studios with sean maffucci of icewater scandal running everything into the tape machine. what was supposed to be a handful of days turned into a nights and weekend affair, spanning 6 months: deconstructing all the material and rebuilding it. as they went along the band’s ideas flowed & expanded, the resulting work is a cohesive set of material culled from over five hours of final mixes. brining in a range of guests including josh diamond (of gang gang dance), zulemma castillo & abdel kader ouedraogo (not to mention some multi-instrumentalism by sean maffucci) electroputas took their hit-you-in-the-kidneys-can inspired philosophy and reoriented themselves. using 3 to start a new direction for the band.this trio will always be experimenting, like a shark always moving.

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electroputas “piano blooms” twelve inch single record

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the social registry press release...
electroputas
piano blooms ep

catalog number: sr008
release date: july 2nd, 2003
format: twelve inch ep
released in an edition of 600

the electro-putas are finally ready to unleash the spatial sound groove attack from their modern era with this the second release in the the social registry’s 12” series. think krautrock in the realm of can with dashes of no wave, free rock, and just plain freakiness. this is the antidote to all of those bands who are “pushing the envelope” with all the force of baby sloth. these three songs will put the frizz back in your hair and have you checking your smoke for flakes of something else besides tobacky. joe, jaiko and akio combine their love of psychedelia, full force blasts, and ramblings along the noise path on this limited edition chunk of vinyl. this is for the people who swing their hips in more than just one direction. sure to be playing on your turntable until the needle gives out or your mind does.

this releases is the second in our ongoing 12” series and, as always, is limited to 600 copies.

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