Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Prurient - Cocaine Death cassette

A JOKE

Q. Who is a cat's favorite noise musician?

A. Purr-rient.

Two song-length tracks on a C10 or sommat from Dominick Fernow, everyone's favorite power electronics hunk. If you'll let me get all Pitchfork on you for a second, this CS seems like it's a thematic precursor to his more recent, introspective work on And Still, Waiting. "Dog of Addiction" features Fernow howling and intoning over a calm-before-the-storm ambient soundscape, setting you up for the maelstrom B-side of "Cocaine Death" - similar sounds, but it gets harsher and more intense. Some of my favorite Prurient work, maybe it'll be yours too.

Prurient - Cocaine Death

As far as I can tell, only 46 copies of the CS this was on were released, but pick up other Prurient releases at Load or Hospital Productions, Fernow's store in NYC which caters exclusively to the extreme experimental connoisseur. There used to be a good reggae store upstairs, Jammyland, but apparently they were kinda dicks? I got a few Scientist and King Tubby LPs which have soundtracked many a reefer.

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