This is so old one, that trying to remember everything exactly, is hard, yet I am under impression I had actually invited Ramirez to do 10" vinyl on FA. That is possible. There was few 10"s done before actual 12" happened on FA. One side great, other side at the time didn't feel so great. Proposition was changed, what if there was RR/Grunt collab LP. Both having solo material, but I'd work some collaboration pieces out of RR sounds of the less exciting track. This CD reissue is not only LP "as is", since there was no master tapes existing anymore. It has both of the original RR songs that he submitted (also the one that didn't appear on LP), and the collaboration and Grunt material is new mix-down from 4-track tapes. They are as close as possible to LP, using LP audio as reference for channel volumes and so on. Just had to do new mixdown as the original master was never returned from pressing plant.
Talking about attempts to remember what exactly was going on 30 years ago or even in recent times:
After Finnish Noisecast did interview of Grunt, in finnish, there were quite many people asking for subtitles / translation. Too much work in such thing. Instead, the boss of Noisecast decided to proceed doing more episodes in English. Recently there has been interviews with L.White/Sektion C, Human Larvae and more. Both very much recommended.
This new interview covers pretty tightly Grunt. Not label, distro, zines, scene history or such, but pretty much exclusively Grunt. Regardless of keeping it focused on just one thing, episode became quite long and is therefore published in three parts. Unedited casual and slow paced discussion.
Episode starts with Mika reporting from last weekend's noise gig at Joensuu. Interview was conducted previous night.
Parts 2 and 3 will follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJvMYDC2_o
