Various Artists ‎– "The Emergency Cassette- Lightbulb Magazine" (Los Angeles Free Music Society, 2x C-60) 1981

A huge and insanely diverse compilation of Abstract lunacy which came with the fourth edition of LAFMS magazine 'lightbulb'.
We've even got the Meat Puppets on here,and thankfully they don't sound like the Meat Puppets from later in the eighties 'cus they were shit; they aren't here.
We got 45 Grave, future LA Goth rockers who later sounded like a Beverly hills version of X-Mal Deutschland, but contained a member with one of the best stage names ever....Dinah Cancer.Their track here is in fact a rather marvellous sonic splatter painting,disguising the goth leanings like a Dazzle Ship.They could have been great!
The Berlin School of electronic musik makes an appearance too,in the form of Herr Asmus Tietchens,which is strange for a Los Angeles comp?
Of course there's plenty of unhinged experimentation from Rick and Joe Potts,Tom Recchion, Dennis Duck and the famous Doo-Dooettes to satisfy your craving for truly unique abstract madness.

Track listing:

Volume One:

01 Tomm Recchion And The Friends Of Leslie-I Walk Through Walls
02 Monique-Bathroom
03 Jad Fair-Kristy
04 Doug Snyder-Imaginary Descenders
05 Creatures Lives-Freedom Like A Burning Wall
06 Smegma-#2
07 Peepland-Mark Stuber
08 The Lunchmen-Rock With Three Eyes
09 John Duncan-LBMA
10 International Language-Angels
11 Duba/Sansome-Limbo Sock
12 30 Windswept Dimes-Nestor Carbuncles
13 Decayes-Dancehall
14 45 Grave-Bobby
15 Half Bodied Baby-The Bullfrogs
16 Human Hands-She Eats Bugs
17 Neef-Gondwanland
18 Glo-Bin Treeflip-No Title
19 Bachelors Even-Tes Lolos Tremolos
20 Rick Potts-Draw Spunky

21 Bridge-Countdown
22 Fragile Hats-Suddenly...
23 Fredrik Nilsen-Our First Date

Volume Two:

01 Jes Grew-Another Chance To Lose
02 B people-Give Up
03 Phranc-I Like Life
04 Asmus Titchens-Club Of Rome
05 Them Rhythm Ants-50 Opinions
06 Tiny Holes-Billy
07 Random Samples-Random Sample
08 Flap-Pablo Kwell
09 Tela Conversion-Take Possess
10 Meat Puppets-Meat Puppets
11 Doodooettes-That Moment
12 Pep Lester-It's No Fair
13 Bridge-Untitled
14 Cameron Hands Penis Envy-Room With A View
15 Dennis Duck-Dogs Don't Drive
16 Brent Wilcox-Santa Fe Dub
17 Planet Z-Jungle Rot
18 Arrow Book Club-Morris Time
19 Bruce Licher-Compositions For Computer#1
20 Slimy Adenoid & The Fab Pabs-Twist & Squirm
21 Rick Potts & His Riddle Orchestra-I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
22 The Tribal Fops-Blue Pork Chops
23 Bill Noland-Helen Does A Waltz
24 Foundation Boo-X-Land

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Various Artists ‎– " Blorp Essette " Volume Two (Los Angeles Free Music Society ‎– LAFMS#10/11) 1980

More Van Vliet art in 'True Mono' for guitar players!.....you can't go far wrong with those three cosy niches overlapping each like a Venn diagram of  'wot is gud'. The central sector,where all three converge, forming the all encompassing brilliance of "Blorp essette"......volume two. Not forgetting that Volume One was fantastic also.
All the usual LAFMS contributors(the Potts, Recchion,Duck,Chapman,Smegma etc.) are, one assumes, present; plus some very un-PC lo-fi Punk from The Child Molesters, with their peon to the Hillside Strangler.....not the first peon to this mythical monster, but a fine noise indeed nonetheless!
Side 2 of LP1,is dedicated to those who would want to stretch the possibilities of the guitar to this versatile instruments uncharted limits.The picks being Mr.Foon 'untrendy' piece from 1977, and Henry Kaiser's abstract vision of Gary Moore's solo from "Parisienne Walkways"......not really, but a fine example for a compare and contrast moment; that is one is brilliant and innovative, the other pure shite......I'll leave it up to you which one is which.

Track Listing:

A1	Unknown Artist	Intro...
A2	–Bix Flent	Happy Birthday Behavior
A3	The Child Molesters	(I'm The) Hillside Strangler
A4	ace=1,aos c/s	Examining Upstart Art
A5	Amy DeWolfe	Frogsies And Fisheggs Zuking Mushroom Headtops In The Swamp. The Mushroom Headtops Walk Into The Unknown. The End (Beware Of The Zookies)
A6	–Rick Potts	Don't Think
A7	–Doo-Dooettes	From The Desk Of….The Doo-Dooettes
		For Guitar Players
B1	–Larry Fischer & Smegma	Introduction
B2	–Patrick Dutchboy Lubotamy	Delayedelusions 1-5
B3	–Henry Kaiser	Mal Qué Arroz
B4	–Reet / Craig	ACNoDE Ape
B5	–Mr. Foon	Non-Trendy Guitar Piece 1977
B6	–Electric Willy Trio	Truck-Drivin' Song
B7	–Larry Fischer & Smegma	Outro (Outake)
		Blorp Esettes Greatest Hits
C1	–Unknown Artist	Intro…
C2	–Dennis Duck	Evolution Song
C3	–Joe Potts	Heartphase Hotel
C4	–Smegma / Harry Halibut & His Band Renoun	Medley: Bubs Enter A Cold, Hard World / The Bub Walk
C5	–Electric Willy Trio	Cow Town Blues
C6	–Reverend Toad-Eater	Alden Street
D1	–The New Los Grifos Band / Dr. Id / Ju Suk Reet Meate	Medley: Joe Hall's Dead / Idpiece Codpiece / Hot's Bee's Head Hit The Wax
D2	–Patients	(Rodan)
D3	–Chip Chapman	Red Light, Auto Flight
D4	–Sucmeof The Spud	Betty Moons It
D5	–The Child Molesters	Muscle Beach Party (Live)
D6	–Charles Wasserburg	My Skateboard High

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Various ‎– "Darker Skratcher" (Los Angeles Free Music Society ‎– LAFMS#12) 1980

Classic American underground compilations are rather thin on the ground,but probably the best of them is the Los Angeles Free Music Society's “Darker Skratcher”.

It starts off with a bang, thanks to Boyd Rice and Daniel Miller (Non and the Normal), and a Rosicrucian Temple record set to a minimal electronic backing track.The Rosicruscian's were a quasi-religious sect who made records to hypnotise our children into good,clean, citizens.The best Boyd Rice track ever,and the second best thing Miller has ever done.(Don't ask what the best track by The Normal was!)

Other highlights are the Monitor track, 45 Grave's ,before they got too “gothy”, dark poppy effort,DennisDuck's Davey the Worm,and the repetitive synth-punk of Human Hands.

Amongst the more accessible material we get the usual bizarre mixed bag of strangeness from the usual LAFMS regulars, and a standard modern primitive outing from Jad fair,of Half Japanese 'fame'.

A hugely entertaining underground Californian variety show,and a great introduction for the uninitiated, into the murky darkly scratchy world of the Los Angeles Free Music Society. Enter at someone else's peril,because you won't regret it.

A1	– Boyd Rice & Daniel Miller	Cleanliness And Order	2:45
A2	– Jad Fair	XXOO	0:30
A3	– Vetza	Stale Puppy-Dog Tails	1:30
A4	– Rick Potts Band, The	Platform Swimfins	3:00
A5	– Monitor	Guardian	2:05
A6	– Doo-Dooettes	Pork Had Better Behave	2:05
A7	– 45 Grave	Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood	2:37
A8	– NON	NON-Watusi
B1	– Foundation Boo	Nap	2:10
B2	– Airway	Perpendicular Thrust	3:45
B3	– Dennis Duck	Davey The Worm	3:00
B4	– Le Forte Four	The Lowest Form Of Music	3:08
B5	– Human Hands	I Got Mad	3:00
B6	– Bpeople	The Other Thing	2:38

 

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Dennis Duck ‎– "Dennis Duck Goes Disco" (Los Angeles Free Music Society ‎– LAFMS#2425) 1977

Dennis Duck, drummer with the Doo-Dooettes (fuck me, he was also in the incredibly normal Dream Syndicate?!) invents turntable-ism, plunderphonics, and sampling in 1977.Probably pushing it a little bit,but there are elements to this cassette release that were unique to Dennis Duck(Dennis Mehaffey) before ,and including ,that great watershed year. TheResidents did similar things pre '77,not strictly sampling ,but this is twenty years before Plunderphonia had a name.Not to mention, Holgar Czukay and Rolf Dammers experiments in found sound from the late sixties.The extensive use of a turntable pre dates Hip-Hop's abuse of said tool,by a good four or five years however.

Incredibly inventive, this tape doesn't lack a sense of humour. The Disco in the title, obviously refers to the abuse of vinyl discs rather than anything to do with the biggest selling musical craze of 1977. All the tricks are used, 78,45,33,and 16 rpm, using the cueing lever to create repetitive lock grooves; random stylus placing;mixing two decks together; all this utilising a stack load of unwanted thrift store records,which would have been mega cheap in 1977, but are now worth a small fortune; like this cassette?

Tracklist:

A1	Intro
A2	Do The Fence
A3	4xie
A4	Nice Shave
A5	French Numbers
A6	Chatter-Walk
A7	Miracle-Zone
A8	One O'Clock Jump
A9	Outro
B1	The Pants! Story
B2	All Skate
B3	Fan Club
B4	Bediboop

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Doo-Dooettes with Keiji Haino & Rick Potts ‎– "Free Rock" (P.S.F. Records ‎– PSFD-131) 1982

This is without doubt one of the finest pieces of music I have ever heard. A collaboration between Free Music's finest improvisers, The Los Angeles free Music Society and Fushitsusha's Keiji Haino.Recorded in 1982, and released, finally, in 2002 on the legendary japanese label P.S.F.

It does exactly what it says on the sleeve, it's free rock, very experimental Free Rock, but nevertheless Rock,albeit,Free of Rock as ballast to hold it down.

To some this sounds like several persons ,who can't play their instruments, recorded in seperate rooms. At times one is reminded of AMM's interplaying Radio and strings,which is praise indeed; but with the outsider rock of Haino,this is elevated to some self-proving musical M-theory,powered by the Dark energy of channeled 'out-there-ness'. This is all the proof I need that other membrane universes exist just nanometres away from us; we just need inspired artists to reveal them.

Or, it could all be just a complete fucking NOISE!......and what’s wrong with that?

Inspiration, Insight, Intuition, plus the opposite of Intelligence = real intelligence. Or I*+I#+I°+[-I]= I().

Tracklist:

1

Blueprint For The Shimmering Quivers Of The Deep Purple Ultraviolet Tuning Fork

34:54

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Doo-Dooettes ‎– "Look To This" (Los Angeles Free Music Society ‎– L.A.F.M.S.#14) 1982

Another strange group of LAFMS collaborators is The Doo-Dooettes, who seem to crop up in many bizarre places.

The music is a disparate mixture of modern composition, free improvisation, musique concrete,and Avant rock. Highly experimental indeed, shifting from one end of the musical spectrum to the other in the space of thirty seconds. Never a dull moment on this endlessly innovative,beyond fine album.

Tracklist: 

A1	Zombie
A2	I Got Right To Sing The Blu
A3	The Flying Eyes
A4	Baby
A5	Bird And Bee Orchestra
B1	Schlagerzeit (Tolstoy's Anemic)
B2	Dr. Phibes Visits Chicago
B3	Scrapyard
B4	Red Wrec. Said
B5	That Latin
B6	Yurei

Elaborations:
A1 - this is the music from an Italian film entitled "Zombie", this version is the 'Ettes testimonial to horror.
A2 - recorded live on KCRW, Los Angeles; 3AM, April 4, 1982, on Brent Wilcox's "FRGK" program.
A3 - this is an excerpt from a longer piece, presented here is the first ten minutes; no overdubs or edits.
A4 - no comment.
A5 - environment created live entirely by mouth and limb.(runs off into a lock groove).
B1 - this piece grew out of an annoying song Dennis used to play incessantly whenever he encountered a piano, by recording it in the studio and making it a big number we hoped we would cure him of the habit. It worked.
B2 - after working on "Zombie" in the studio and dealing with all that structure, we had to flex our improving muscles. Dr. Phibes was the result. If you listen carefully you can hear him speak as he arrives in town.
B3 - a condensation of 20 minute piece down to about three. A random sampling with flavor enhancers by Tom.
B4 - excerpt of a piece used by Doug Henry in his film of the same name. Title courtesy Doug.
B5 - our version of "Nights in the Gardens of Spain"?
B6 - is not listed on the cover or labels, only on the insert. this tracks starts at the end of the side and run into the lock groove.

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