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This is a collaborative/split LP with one side Brutum Fulmen, one side Norway's Lasse Marhaug. We both created our pieces by reworking sound recordings in the studio, as opposed to "playing" the music on any sort of instruments. Lasse tended to leave more sounds in their raw form, so the original source is usually recognizable (at least if you'd heard the source). On the Brutum Fulmen side, I heavily manipulated more of the material so, for example, it would probably be fairly difficult to pick out all of the actual samples I used for "1951".

• Nine Thousand Things
  Lasse takes a hatchet to the entire Brutum Fulmen catalog on this cut-up piece. Lots of abruptly changing quick edits. If you hear a sound you like, remember there's more of it somewhere in the Brutum Fulmen catalog!
   
• Unmanned European Probe
  A remix of the Brutum Fulmen track "Unmanned Probe" from the Moon Boots 7" record. A calmer approach this time, rearranging longer chunks of the original mostly ambient material. Plus a surprising burst of something either completely transformed or from another source.
   
• Five Minute Walk
  Here the ingredients are old tapes, more Brutum Fulmen excerpts, random editing, and Ottmo's sampling virus. I'm not sure what it is that Ottmo's got, but it sounds like some I wouldn't mind getting.
   
• Music Has No Place in History
  Low frequency damage.
   

Brutum Fulmen side

• Lament of the Termite Queen
  This is a calm, sad and spooky piece. Sound sources are a large wooden power cable spool on pavement, feedback, sticks, and my old reliable metal shelving scraped on the metal cabinet.
   
• It Was 1951 When I First Contacted the Moon
  This is my Lasse remix. I used only sounds from "Five Minute Walk". Actually one or two of the sounds were actually samples that he took from old Brutum Fulmen pieces, so we've got several levels of inbreeding here it seems. By the way, remix is probably the wrong word for what we're doing, these are actually completely new works nothing like the pieces used as source. I had a fairly elaborate concept behind this piece/title: it was inspired by a kid I knew in the 80's who's family was stuck in the 50's. The dad was a major engineer nerd with a whole room taken up by a cobbled together Heathkit computer and HAM radio equipment. Anyway, the idea is that back in the 50's, the "I" in the title of this piece was a HAM radio buff who'd read too much sci-fi and was starting to read a little too much into the weird sounds/voices he was receiving on his HAM and shortwave radios. Or was he right?! ...
   
• Dawn
  This was the first piece I did for this project, and it was actually victim of the hard drive crash I had a while back. I lost almost all of the work I'd done. All that was left were a cassette mixdown of the work in progress and a DAT with some of the source sounds on it. I ended up using some of the cassette mix and reworking the piece quite a bit. Since one of the sources was cassette noise in the first place, I went a little further in that direction and incorporated more tape and vinyl glitches. The sources are: loose cassette tape rubbed onto the play heads of a dismantled walkman, tape deck hum, and feedback (all from live recordings) and vinyl surface noise.