MP3:
01 9:36:57 Po Srednjeevropskom Vremenu (15:08)
02 Avionom (12:17)
03 Nehaj (14:04)
04 Futur Egzaktni (18:40)
"There's nothing more satisfying than reeling in a big one after waiting all afternoon," said a friend of mine about fishing. Some dudes shoot huge animals out in the wilderness to satisfy themselves. Maybe I'm effeminate or something, but I'd rather hunt for weird records than living things. I won't lie and say there's no greater satisfaction, but it feels pretty awesome to discover an incredible band that nobody's heard of.
That's why the internet is kinda annoying for music fans like me. It makes everything too easy. If you have a keyword to google, you can find more than you ever wanted to know about any genre, band or label. It's like the fish jumped out of the water onto your boat, it just feels like cheating.
So my favorite way to discover new music has become to scour through used sections and chancing on what catches my eye. Maybe you'll say that I'm only judging a book (or record) by its cover. I prefer to imagine myself in the highlands of Ontario, shotgun in hand while my faithful Llewellin Setter follows the scent of the elusive Ruffled Grouse. The Llewelin Setter are the liner notes and the scent is the "what the fuck?!" factor.
The Ruffled Grouse is SAT Stoicizmo's Mah 2, one of my favorite catches. I found it a few years ago in the experimental section at Generation records in NYC. I won't give you the full dig on the band here, but you can look at the text from the liner notes or a good article recently posted on Last Sigh. For now, I'll just pique your interest by observing that they are the best Croatian futurist experimentalists to emerge in the early 80s – to my knowledge at least, but I guess I don't know that much about the Croatian futurist scene. Originally released in '85, the excellent Artware label repressed 480 (or 500, depending on where you check) double lps and 500 cds in '97; both of these are pretty tough to find today. I'll give my money back guarantee that you haven't heard anything like it before.
Also check out their Jacati Tijelo Sportom EP, which was recently posted on the Mutant Sounds blog.
- Contributed by: Nash Rose
Images: Front Cover, Back Cover, 9:36:57 Po Srednjeevropskom Vremenu, Avionom, Nehaj, Futur Egzaktni
Thank you.
Posted by: Ian | September 08, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Any possibility of getting recordings of the exit groove locked loops?
Posted by: Mickey Mephistopheles | September 08, 2007 at 11:12 PM
Although, they are my countrymen and I'm a noise fan, I have never heard of them. Sounds interesting.
Well I should probably ask some older friends of mine about them.
Posted by: bukoljubac | September 09, 2007 at 09:55 AM
Mickey - seems unlikely, since I only have the CD version. One time I saw a vinyl copy on ebay, it only went for like 20 bucks...or you could just refrain from taking the needle off of the record when you're done listening to side one of Frampton Comes Alive!...I'm pretty sure it sounds just like any exit groove.
Posted by: Nash Rose | September 09, 2007 at 03:39 PM
Severe GBH of the eardrobes. It's brilliant stuff. Thank you for sharing.
Posted by: Liam Baldwin | September 13, 2007 at 06:14 PM
I found a copy at the record fair Saturday at Psychedelic Pig's table. It's a dbl-platter so I assume it's a re-issue, number 78 of 485. I got for $23
Posted by: Grandpa Scorpion | October 27, 2008 at 11:53 AM
I doubled-checked the record. It's actually an original (on the Kvadratura Juga label) and it's number 78 of 480.
Posted by: Grandpa Scorpion | October 27, 2008 at 09:47 PM
Newly published article that Nash wrote about "Mah 2": http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/Article/SAT-Stoicizmo-Mah-2.html
Posted by: Michael | September 23, 2009 at 03:41 PM