For pete's sake, it's the year 1996. We recall the tactic: trundle off to visit the Scottish branch of our international cult, make a pile of recordings using a handy dandy Aiwa cassette recorder featuring the retractable mic, remix the sounds a couple months later on the pink boombox at BBF in Harpsie, Maine; then, finally, dash it off into the mail, maybe circa 1997 or so? and wait a few decades for it to re-emerge from the lichen curds of memetic cardboard & bubblewrap, liberated from its proverbial broom closet suite in Brighton, UK.
This purpling welt of a salvo was intercepted by our pal, Dylan Nyoukis, of Decaer Pinga & Chocolate Monk infamy. Mr Nyoukis not only stars as a darling co-collaborator in this brillo, we raise our stout coffee mugs to celebrate and acknowledge his generosity in digitizing a humble multi-mile cassette into a format that all of us can swoon to.
credits
released January 1, 1997
Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance, Dora Doll, and the entire, yes, ENTIRE Chocolate Monk family
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