Various Artists THE SOUNDS OF SLIPPY TOWN (Gulcher 413)

Various Artists
SIMPLY GOOD TASTE:  THE SOUNDS OF SLIPPY TOWN
(Gulcher 413)

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Like a lot of things I like best in life, Slippy Town (the label) came about by accident. I had put together a bunch of cassette-only releases by my band Crawlspace in 1999, using the name Slippy Sound. When I bought a CD recorder the next year, I started doing the same with this new format, but using "outsidetheanthill" as the label name. After a few more of these, I released a Crawlspace CDR called BIRDS OF THE SOUTHERN REGIONS using the Slippy Town name. Soon after, Tony "Fritz" Rettman asked if I'd be into releasing a CDR by Big Whiskey, the New Jersey improv group he had just joined with brother Don Rettman and Dave Bryson. I almost wrote back to tell him that Slippy Town was just another outlet for Crawlspace, not really a label. Instead, I said yeah. Almost immediately, I thought that Bruce Cole would probably let me release the 1973 recordings of his duo, the legendary Screamin' Mee-Mees, jammin' with rock writer Scott Fischer. Bruce said yes, and I figured why not keep doing this! By the end of 2002, I had released 20 limited-edition CDRs, mostly as a result of people approaching me. "Accidents" keep it happening! Besides those inital releases from Crawlspace, Big Whiskey, and the Screamin' Mee-Mees, Slippy Town has burned three CDRs from English improv outsider Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) Jarvis/Joincey/Todd, Blackthorne Stick, and since this Gulcher comp was finished, To Suckle The Pups. There was also early ('92)weirdness by English drone master Neil Campbell and erstwhile partner Stewart Walden; a great disc by Italian no-wave/noise gals Allun; early recordings from Scottish low-tech electronics dude Ian Middleton (Remora); a live set by Czech post-punk/prog band Lebedung; a short disc by Joe+N (a.k.a. Joe Tunis, who runs Carbon Records and plays in Pengo out of Rochester, New York); the debut by Swedish living-room psych-distortion "band" Joshua Jugband 5 (really Jakob Olausson doing everything on his 4-track); even earlier sounds by the Screamin' Mees-Mees & Scott Fischer (from '72!); reissues of the two Mee-Mees LPs from the 90s; Bruce Cole doing a kinda fill-in version of the Mee-Mees called Not A Sonata (from 1986); and more stuff by my band Crawlspace. In addition to tracks from Slippy Town CDRs by the above artists, SIMPLY GOOD TASTE has a few unreleased things, including a couple groovy surprises. Allun mainwoman Stefania, boyfriend Bruno Dorella, and the rest of OvO contribute a wild slice of primo Italo-skronk; Joe+N clangs around awhile on a new track recorded for the comp; and Crawlspace goes totally infantile on the pre-school rocker "Five." Adding to the timespacewarpage that always stanks up Slippy Town real good are a couple unreleased 70s tracks from my personal past the first take of the Gizmos' "Hey Beat Mon!" (with MX-80's Rich Stim on sax), and a no-fi crack-up of the Yardbirds' "Shapes Of Things" done by Brooklyn's infamous O. Rex (Solomon and Jay Gruberger; Gizmos founder Kenne Highland; yours truly sittin' in on drums). Hope you enjoy 'em all as much as I do! (Eddie Flowers, slippytown.com) TRACK LISTING: 1. Stewart Walden & Neil Campbell Here It Comes (1992; Nottingham, England; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO12) 2. The Gizmos Hey Beat Mon! (take 1) (1977; Bloomington, Indiana; previously unreleased) 3. Allun Ottolaquilotto (2000; Milan, Italy; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO11) 4. Crawlspace Five (2001; Southern California; previously unreleased) 5. The Screamin' Mee-Mees & Hot Scott Fischer Final Solution (1973; St. Louis, Missouri; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO3) 6. O. Rex Shapes Of Things (1976; Brooklyn, New York; previously unreleased) 7. Joshua Jugband 5 untitled (2001; Landskrona, Sweden; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO17) 8. Joe+N Second Shift (2002; Rochester, New York; previously unreleased) 9. Lebedung Musique For Money (1999; Louny, Czech Republic; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO8) 10. Crawlspace Wimmen 'n' Chillen (2001; Southern California; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO13) 11. Allun I Wanna Be Your Dog (1999; Milan, Italy; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO11) 12. Big Whiskey Sabrina Getting Warm (2000; New Jersey; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO2) 13. Jarvis/Joincey/Todd Codification Of The Victim (2000; Stoke-On-Trent, England; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO4) 14. Joe+N Driving Thru The Lehigh Valley Tunnel (excerpt) (2001; Rochester, New York; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO14) 15. Not A Sonata Gotta Fix A Radio (1986; St. Louis, Missouri; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO16) 16. OvO Qui e L~~ (2001; Milan, Italy; previously unreleased) 17. Ian Middleton Human/Robot (1994/1995; Clackmannanshire, Scotland; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO6) 18. Blackthorne Stick The Miami Vice Boat Chase Rag (2001; Leeds, England; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO15) 19. Crawlspace Ain't These The Times (1994/1999; Southern California; from Slippy Town CDR SLIPTO5)