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LE SCRAMBLED DEBUTANTE - Devils in heavy Sirup

Format: MC
Label & Cat.Number: Attenuation Circuit ACT 1025
Release Year: 2013
Note: re-issue of CDR from 2008 with heavily processed tape material that is wobbling and staggering in a strange way with titles like "Little Baby Devil Jesus"... like RESIDENTS with a reel-to-reel recorder as the info says? we don't know. but its weird stuff! Lim. 25 copies only!!
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"The Californian LSD collective strikes again. This reissue of a 2008 release on Power Silence brings more of their hermetic experiments with tape loops, cut-ups, and – well, perhaps? – “minimalist psychedelia” to the shores of Europe. Imagine what the Residents would have sounded like if the only instruments they’d had would have been a reel-to-reel tape recorder (for manipulating the tape across the head), some microphones, voice, and their weird sense of humour.

Roughly 20 minutes on each side of the tape make for a good, rather compact introduction to the strange world of LSD. The pieces, called “Little Baby Devil Jesus” and “Satan Eggs,” are less cut-up in style than much of LSD’s other recordings. Here, sound ideas are allowed to develop over the course of several minutes, instead of being intercut with other stuff at staccato pace. This sound takes some getting used to, and these two nice studies do actually give listeners the time to do exactly that." [label info]


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"Although Le Scrambled Debutante exists since the 80s, as a project by Allan Zane, also known as Sir Bear Trapper, and Sid Redlin, both core members, here assisted by Ms Joey Pan Day and LCDN. Unlike their previous release, also on the same label, the music here is less of a collage and more of a continious drone like sound matter. It's also a release that is much more recently recorded, in 2007, and the one thing I can't get out of my head: it all sounds not unlike the good HNAS. Who remembers that? Tape-collage which is not unlike Nurse With Wound, but perhaps all a bit in a more crude vain. Let's say one tape recorder and one microphone, instead of a cheap studio set-up as in the early NWW days. But it's all less chopped up and transformed, and more continious than before. They do a nice job at that. It's lo-fi and psychedelic, LSD - the band's name of course refers to such things - music for the true underground. I imagine - romantic notion coming up - these boys and girls in their
cold squat, sitting around a reel-to-reel recorder, producing noises on this long tape-loop thing, very slowly amassing more information and maybe whatever is cooked up in this dimly lit surrounding. Spacious, but dirty. Dirty, but very nice. I think I enjoyed this over their previous release, as it all sounded much more coherent, more structured and less chaotic. Just like how I like these noise things." [FdW/Vital Weekly]