Various ‎Artists – "L.A. Mantra" (Trance Port Tapes ‎– Trance 1) 1983

Another classic Californian compilation is the “L.A. Matrix“ c-60 compilation from 1983.

The fact that it features one of the best band names of all time,(Fat and Fucked Up) is recommendation enough; but it has everything you could wish for from an underground comp from the post punk period.

We got Motorik style krautrock revival from Still Life, minimal electronic primitivism from If-Then-Else, dark ambient, Post Punk, Avant Rock, you name it, it is probably in here somewhere.

Not quite up there with 'Darker Skratcher' or 'Live at target', but its pretty close.And there are tenuous LAFMS connections,and an appearance by Brad Laner on the Debt of Nature track

 Tracklist:

A1	– If-Then-Else	Hey Big Oil
A2	– Stil life	Rubrica
A3	– Afterimage	Afterimage
A4	– Rand Kennedy*	Enorma Jones
A5	– Debt Of Nature	L.A. Weekly Is God
A6	– Rich Evac	A Scanner Darkly
A7	– Tunneltones	Last Line For Love
A8	– Mark Bucholtz	Winds From Nowhere
A9	– A Produce	Erosion
B1	– An Bene - Pierre Lambow	Robot Jungle
B2	– Savage Republic	Attempted Coup: Madagascar
B3	– If-Then-Else	The Wedge
B4	– Fat & Fucked Up	Fugue B
B5	– Chas Smith	October '68
B6	– Rand Kennedy*	Smith's Room
B7	– Afterimage	Idol
B8	– Michael Le Donne-Bhennet	Vaporous Architecture #3

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