DISMAL SYMBOL (effeminate louts within)

by Stock, Hausen & Walkman

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	1.	OFFICIOUS MOUNTAINS/drastic winds 00:20
	2.	TONKS 05:25
	3.	vulgarly inventive but useful persons 05:09
	4.	Poodle Temper Bad Music 09:09
	5.	SLOUCHING BLUE PORTERS 01:22
	6.	the HAM SANDWICH 14 00:58
	7.	IMBERB PEDANT 01:30
	8.	BLAST Joseph Holbrooke 01:11
	9.	PLAGIARISTIC PIGBELLY SLIPPERS 02:01
	10.	HAIRBALL Aperitifs 04:32
	11.	PURGATORY of SENTIMENTAL HYGIENICS 00:42
	12.	200db seductive ear whisper 01:33
	13.	Poundshop SATAN 01:52
	14.	BLAST years 1989 to 1994 03:57
	15.	Kerry Thornley's PERMANENT FLOATING VOLUNTARY 01:17
	16.	the ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS CODE 01:58

about

In the dark end of 1993 I was sent a huge parcel by Paul Smith head of the Blast First label , in it a plethora of back catalogue Vinyls and CDs with a carte blanche instruction to “Hack Away” and generate material for a CD of ‘remixes’ ( see DECONSTRUCT - BFFP105CD circa 1994 ). Others given the task were Christian Marclay, John Oswald, Bruce Gilbert, Poss/Stenger & Philip Jeck.
One of the first parts in this several month process was a visit with preprepared ‘cuttings’ and ‘samplings’ to Dan Weavers basement in Nottingham where the two of us could make as much noise as required. And so it went, with my own basic tape switchboard, sample pedal & Akai S01 augmented by Dans array of looping CD players , digital delay lines and broken turntables .. and our basic instinct to just improvise keeping us going.
Only tiny parts of the results of this session along with a further session with augmented personnel a few weeks later were cut’n’spliced and sequenced into the 3 tracks used on the Blast First CD ... those tracks were also rejigged for 1994’s Hairballs CD .. The DAT these sounds resided on has most likely not been listened to since and only in recently digitizing for the archive was i struck by how raw and pagan this plunderphonic poke in the eye was! not unsurprising bearing in mind the records Blast First had provided and were known for.. It’s possible at the time I regarded this First Blast Attempt as being ‘too close’ to the feeling of the original material and pushed to hammer and bend everything down until it genuinely felt remixed into something new and in keeping with the SH&W ethos. Sometimes it takes a while for things to sink in.
Now, in retrospect and with familiarity with most of the Blast First catalog long since faded, it seems a pure joy of dirty neo-acousmatic naivety.. noisy, ear aching, uncompromisingly tenacious and frustratedly perverse. Worthy of a Blast First release Paul?

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released November 5, 2021

Stock, Hausen & Walkman in this instance was: Matt Wand & Dan Weaver
improvised ‘on the fly’ by Wand & Weaver with thanks to all artists corralled here against their will.
graphics, edit, sequence & mastering: Matt Wand

thanks to Paul Smith, Bruce Gilbert, Russell Haswell, the often un-acknowledged BF underwriter Daniel Miller and the Vorticist's Hats.

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