Don't be surprised I'm slightly behind replying mail. Amongst other things, on last stages of preparation following titles:
*GRUNT "Archive : 90" 10 x CD + booklet (69.00,-) NEWIntent to celebrate GRUNT 20 years was slightly delayed. Box is still on last stages of preparation, but should be complete by end of week and therefore ready for pre-orders! Thick and heavy box material, yet package itself is slim and compact. Inside is found 5 double CD digifiles, each including information insert & scans of original tape artworks. Roughly 700 minutes of playtime, includes lots of rarities and also completely unreleased songs recorded between 1993-1999. Also included in box is 52 pages booklet that includes report of GRUNT activities 1993-2013. General history, discography with liner notes from all releases, live action list and photos. This is LIMITED EDITION BOX ! In future all 5 discs will be available separately for those who don't like boxes or prefer to pick some particular era of Grunt. However, it is cheaper to buy the box than individual CD's.
Due size & weight (almost 1kg!!) , this item doesn't belong to 3 euro shipping rate! Europe = 10 euro, World = 23 euro. For overseas customers it's adviced to take this along bigger (LP) order.
What is in the box?
#1)
-song from GRUNT / TOTAL HEADFUCK split tape
-song from GRUNT / ANH split tape
-"Industrial Madness" tape (couple tracks removed)
-split with Futile Existence (one track removed)
-"One Animal Above The Others" tape
-"Collapsing Welfare State" tape
-split tape with Oral Climax
#2)
-split tape with Wanting To Work With Clay
-040695-080895" tape
#3)
-"The New Form Of Organic Machine" 2xtape
#4)
-"The New Form Of Organic Machine" 2xtape
-split tape with Pile Of Eggs
#5)
-split tape with Outermost
-split tape with T.D.B.
-split tape with Gestörte Nachbarn
-split tape with Japanese Torture Comedy Hour
-split tape with Yggdrasil
#6)
-"Night Havoc" tape
-split tape with Krachgau
-"Two Episodes" tape
-split tape with Lasse Marhaug
#7)
-split tape with Alchemy of the 20th Century
-"Theories Of Dream Machinist" tape
#8)
compilation tracks from 8 compilation tapes, including unreleased submission.
#9)
-"On The Other Side Of The Walls" tape
-split tape with Deison
+ 4 songs from compilation tapes
#10)
-Grunt / MSFN collaboration 2 tracks (unreleased)
+ plenty more unreleased and published compilation tracks.
What more to say?
In respect for the spirit of Grunt in 90's, there is no damaging editing. Songs appear pretty much as they were on tapes, including all the dynamics, all the potential flaws of decades old masters. Same goes for artwork and design. Apart from neat box and stylish silk-screened digifiles, it is all the well known directionless youthful enthusiasm. To catch the spirit of those days, despite real factory pressed CD's, each box has been personally assembled together. Each cover silkscreened and copies assembled. Everything has very involved & self made feel, just like sound of the release.
While many may know Grunt 90's works from already done re-issues like Europe After Storm", "Someone Is Watching", "Terror & Degeneration" or such, this box set exposes the high diversity of material. In finest tradition of those days - box is simply FILLED. Semi-chronological order, pretty much everything what has not appeared on CD or vinyl before. Only selection (=leaving material out) was done in very earliest material from '93/94, which would have been pointless to publish entirely.
More could be written about personal importance of many tracks and releases, but one finds plenty of that text in booklet. Also I could underline how impossible vast majority of releases is to find. Some releases are not even listed in popular market places such as discogs and may have been manufactured merely couple dozen copies back in the day.
There are plenty of tracks what theoretically should have been part of some much more well known release, but wasn't. Spontaneous and unplanned nature of early works resulted that many songs that would have created perfect album, were scattered to different releases and compilations. While listening this material for couple of years now, I'm convinced some of the materials are actually among very best what Grunt has ever recorded! This was among reasons why with seeminly modern & complex "World Draped..." album Grunt returned to use some of the same methods & equipment as in 1993-1997!
Due hand-made nature and high costs of production of this release, it is intended most of all for retail sale!
TAPES*CALIGULA031 "Bachelorette Party" tape (7.00,-) NEW8 March, hen night, bachelorette party. Take a bunch of ladettes, get them drunk on cheap booze, bring them to a club where flamboyant dancers strip themselves waving your beloved country flag. Arm them with whipped cream dispensers, turn up the volume and these soon-to-be-wives will do the rest. CFNM - Many men dream about it for many different reasons, but basically because they are in need of somebody who get in charge of their pleasure and existence. And everybody is a winner. CALIGULA031 focus on male-objectification fetish, a fendom illusion, a joyful example of exhibitionism, a possible vehicle of mononucleosis and STDs. Italian analog-oriented power electronics assault. Regular edition cover is several panel J-card that includes all lyrics.
*CALIGULA031 "Bachelorette Party" SPECIAL EDITION tape (12.00,-) NEW8 March, hen night, bachelorette party. Take a bunch of ladettes, get them drunk on cheap booze, bring them to a club where flamboyant dancers strip themselves waving your beloved country flag. Arm them with whipped cream dispensers, turn up the volume and these soon-to-be-wives will do the rest. CFNM - Many men dream about it for many different reasons, but basically because they are in need of somebody who get in charge of their pleasure and existence. And everybody is a winner. CALIGULA031 focus on male-objectification fetish, a fendom illusion, a joyful example of exhibitionism, a possible vehicle of mononucleosis and STDs. Italian analog-oriented power electronics assault. This version limited to 69 copies (retail only) box set with extra booklet and trophy. Booklet includes additional text and artwork. IOPS.
*UMPIO "opium electronix" 2 x tape (13.00,-) NEWThese are throbbing movements through electronic storms, at times so slow and seismic that the listener needs some time to let the pulses start to work properly on a psychoacoustic level. Opium is also an anagram of Umpio, which brings out the meditative/sedated aspects of these pieces, aimed at erasing all sense of time and presence. From noisy to empty, here are the first 3 volumes compiled on chrome tapes: Vol.I has been augmented with 2 new pieces from the same source material, vol.II has been slightly shortened to fit on tape (couple minutes), and vol.III is unaltered.
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