CONTAGIOUS ORGASM · SALT. a strange illustrated guide.
12" vinyl lp / digital album. raubbau raub-096 / ant-zen act430
available on bandcamp:
https://raubbau.bandcamp.com/album/a-strange-illustrated-guidehttps://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/album/a-strange-illustrated-guidetracklist:
01. contagious orgasm - last sketchbook
02. contagious orgasm - abrupt
03. contagious orgasm - intertwined tongue
04. contagious orgasm - black lingerie
05. salt - abrasion
06. salt - blanket
07. salt - impermanent
CONTAGIOUS ORGASM . track 1-4
composed and performed by h h. and fts. recorded and mixed at cool anatomy and
yard cemetery, 2022
www.sssm.bandcamp.com
https://www.discogs.com/artist/13259-contagious-orgasmSALT. track 5-7
art by salt. engineered by dan courtman. mastered by anatoly grinberg.
www.instagram.com/salzfabrik
https://www.discogs.com/artist/6728-salthttps://www.facebook.com/stefan.althttps://www.behance.net/salzfabrikpure black 12" vinyl. matte black die-cut sleeve and two inlays: handcrafted
cutup collage & block print - each piece has a unique design. numbered edition
of 100 copies incl. digital download-code. design & print by stefan alt & a.
lawrence. this is ant-zen act430 & raubbau raub-096. release date: 19.04.2023
long before streaming platforms revolutionised the way music was delivered, a
small object captured a new wave of music and pop culture, carrying sounds that
otherwise wouldn't have existed, the cassette tape. "cassette culture", refers
to an international music scene and network that developed in the wake of punk
in the second half of the 1970s and featured a large number of amateur
musicians outside the established music industry. since 1987, contagious orgasm
and his label sssm from japan has been active in many diverse areas,
intersecting experimental electronic noise and was part of various
international tape noise scenes. without any electronic ways of communication,
this network was the meeting point of the like-minded with their love of
experimental music. it was the place, where stefan alt aka salt met contagious
orgasm for the first time and it was the beginning of a long and intimate
friendship. it's a strange feeling, thinking back to how it was, sending tapes
with music, handwritten letters translated with the help of a dictionary, to a
person you barely know, to a country you've never visited, whose language you
don't understand - literally on the other side of the planet. it worked out so
well and intensely, that we met several times in nagoya, japan and regensburg,
germany - music was just the beginning.
"es wird immer weitergehen - musik als träger von ideen". this legendary
sentence from kraftwerk has proven true once again - thank you, music for
bringing us and our thoughts together. the music label ant-zen was established
30 years ago as a platform for experimental music and art and has been part of
the cassette culture network. today we celebrate the 30+ years friendship of
contagious orgasm and salt with the split lp "a strange illustrated guide". one
soundtrack in two chapters showing the perception & consistency, deviation &
continuity with swirling sounds, intoxicating psychedelia and crude samples,
found rhythms and harmonies, concrete sounds and ambient noise. the logo
artwork and cutout of the vinyl sleeve contains the initials of both artists,
while the collage work harks back to the cutup methods used for covers of many
cassette culture releases. it includes a lot of detail from the travels to
nagoya and regensburg, plus several thoughts and experiences we had together.
feel trapped in our unique sonic unreality.
raubbau
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www.facebook.com/raubbau.label ·
www.raubbau.bandcamp.comant-zen. audio & visual arts
www.ant-zen.com ·
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www.ant-zen.bandcamp.com
