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INTERSYSTEMS - Intersystems

Format: 3 x LP BOX
Label & Cat.Number: Alga Marghen plana-I 37NMN.093
Release Year: 2015
Note: "A Trip without LSD" - re-issue of the 3 existing LPs of this Canadian experimental / multimedia art group (which had 4 members), originally released 1967-1968; electronic sound collages, noise, tape experiments, dystopian narratives, heavily influenced by psychedelic drug experiences... comes with great 132p. 12" x 12" book feat. diverse articles & texts, photos and other found stuff, + a 24 page "comic power" booklet; wonderful edition & incredible music! Lim. 500
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"3LP Box including 132-page book, 24-page Comic Power. One-time pressing limited to an edition of 500 copies only! First historical edition!
“Number One Intersystems” LP, presenting the correct side sequence and featuring for the first time the original tracks sub-section divisions. Original 1967 avant-press sleeve designed by Michael Hayden.
“Peachy” LP, including for the first time the correct tracks separations, timings and titles.
“Free Psychedelic Poster Inside” LP, presenting for the first time the original (double) title-tracks. Silkscreened envelope reproducing the 1968 sleeve.
All audio works re-mastered by John Mills-Cockell for this edition. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi for vinyl transfer.
Also including a 132-page LP-size book with the detailed chronology of all the Intersystems Presentations as well as 110 full-page images illustrating for the first time ever the story of this essential collective, also through the following essays:
“How the Mind Excursion came to be” by Michael Hayden (Intersystems founding member) writing in the details on Intersystems Presentations and meetings with Andy Warhol, Lou Reed and John Cale, Tim Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner, John Cage and Robert Raushenberg, Allen Ginsberg & Co.
“Intersystems” by John Mills-Cockell (Intersystems founding member), introducing his sonic adventures from early encounters with Ann Southam and Udo Kasemets to the accomplishment of the Intersystems multi-media works.
“Selected Poems” by Blake Parker (Intersystems founding member).
“Notes” by Michael Hayden on Intersystems esthetics and design, on Frank Zappa and VU, on Comic Power and vanishing archives…
“Network” by Bart Schoales and John Mills-Cockell, on the Intersystems early mixed-media Presentation with the same title and meeting with Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman founders of the Yippie Movement.
“Intersystems” by Nick Storring, including a short introduction to Blake Parker as well as analyzing Intersystems sonic productions in relation to their historical context.
“Radically Rethinking Art” by Dennis Reid, analyzing the chronology of Intersystems Presentations in relation to the Contemporary Art Domain.
“Intersystems and Allied” by Jack Boswell (founder of Allied Records).
“Intersystems and Moog” by William Blakeney.
“Recalling Intersystems” by Tom Recchion.
“The 60s: something happened but what?” by Ed Fitzgerald.
“Memoir” by Russ Little, on John Mills-Cockell.
“Notes on the mastering of Intersystems recordings” by William Blakeney.
Finally this box edition includes for the first time an exact reproduction of the 24-page Comic Power originally published by Intersystems for the Mindex Department Store within their 1968 Mind Excursion Centre.
One time pressing in heavy cardboard box limited to 500 copies." [label info]