Showing posts with label artist: Yeast Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artist: Yeast Culture. Show all posts

va - Smorgasbird

 

This 3x7" has such a strange story that I'm just going to reprint the text from Discogs: 

"Pressed in edition of 400 copies sometime in the early 90's (probably around 1992). However, the records and their beautiful silkscreened envelope lay in storage in a basement in Seattle waiting for some as yet undecided element to finish them. Then in late 1996, they were finally unleashed, though only 100 copies, as it was decided that each batch of 100 would be a different variation on the set, and work on the each batch would seem to start only well after the last one had sold out. Through this long process, Mark Schomburg a.k.a. Abo of Yeast Culture varied the title of the collection as well as of the label, though essentially containing the same material. The artist on each side as well as the speed each side plays at (some are 33 and some are 45) can be figured out by listening to the spoken intros to each side recorded by Mark Andrew Schomburg and John Hubbard.

"Each record does have its own individual sleeve, and both are contained in a silkscreened envelope which is tied shut with string. For this edition, the original sleeves and labelled were supplemented with extra collage elements. Also, the title of the compilation was changed from the original "Circusirus" and the label changed from the original "Petri Supply", as well as giving different names for the artists [Birdturd instead of Strength Through Joy, and Yeast instead of Yeast Culture]. However, these are exactly the same two records contained in the earlier Circusirus on Petri Supply [from the same pressing in fact]." 

Released in 1996, 1997, 2000 and 2001 by Petri Supply, Incubator and Pseudosonic, which I think are all the same label. Tracks by Yeast Culture, Smegma, Strength Through Joy, Ultra, Dada Action Group and beyond that is anyone's guess. 
 

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Yeast Culture - Shit On A Shingle

 

As is obvious by holding, or even just looking at, any of Yeast Culture's albums, they take a very long time to produce. The sound is remarkable and unique, but the art and packaging seems so labor-intensive, it's no wonder the group has not released very much. But when they do, it's always worth the wait. This triple-cassette set was recorded in 1991 and released in 2013. The tapes come in two cedar shingles, everything screen-printed. The tapes themselves, the tape cases, the art book inside, all of it so complex that it's no wonder there was a decade+ gap between realizing the sound and making it available to the public. Here are sounds n' scans to tide you over until you hunt down a physical copy of your own. The husband and I have our YC art-objects on proud display in our home.  

Yeast Culture - Shit On A Shingle

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Yeast Culture, All Fours, Achim Wollscheid - Red Light Remixes


"Concrete assembly from live & field recordings made in Atlanta, Georgia at the Red Light Cafe for Suitcase Recordings' Paper and Plastic CD release event on Saturday, May 23, 1998. Field recordings were made around the Red Light Cafe and other Atlanta locations. Edited, produced and mixed July 2010 in Oregon. Both sides of the tape are the same." Released in 2010 as a cassette by Yeast Culture's own Incubator and Petri Supply labels (I'm not sure if those are different labels, or just two names for the same imprint) with YC's usual remarkable silk-screen art.

Yeast Culture, All Fours, Achim Wollschied - Red Light Remixes

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Yeast Culture - IYS Field Tapes

 

This elaborately packaged set of six cassette tapes contains the source sounds used for Yeast Culture's classic 1989 LP "IYS". As with all things Yeast Culture, the set was adorned with astoundingly complex silk-screen art that has to be seen and held to be believed. The package was screen-printed, as were each tape, the tape cases, and two books of text and art enclosed inside. The box itself was wrapped in an actual tree branch from (I presume) the Oregon woods where these sounds were foraged. But since only 30 copies of "IYS Field Tapes" were made, maybe you didn't get a copy of your own. 


part 1

part 2

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