Tag Archives: Helicopter
Damion Romero — It Gets Worse CD/Digital (HEL 93031, Helicopter)
Available March 15, 2013
Sissy Spacek/Smegma “Lipscomb b/w Absentia” collaboration 7-inch with 5 color collage portfolio by Oblivia (Helicopter)
Hive Mind “A Stagnant Plague Cast Through Shallow Earth” CD/Digital (Helicopter)
iTunes
Available November 15
The Haters – These Things Happen • Volume 1 CD (Helicopter, HEL 92091)
The Haters – These Things Happen • Volume 2 CD (Helicopter, HEL 92092)
Order both to receive a discount and exclusive bonus DVDR.
When you decide to launch a new series, where better to start than with a recently discovered box of DAT masters from The Haters? Helicopter is proud to present a two-volume collection of rare works by The Haters to inaugurate it’s new series focusing on West Coast artists.
These two volumes are an absolutely crucial collection of classic Haters entropy. Volume 1 collects works from 7-inch releases, while Volume 2 collects pieces originally submitted to compilations. Includes several impossibly rare and unheard works. All tracks have been newly transferred and remastered from the original DAT tapes.
Available on CD or Digital.
Hair Stylistics/John Wiese – Neu Dimension 7-inch + 2xCS (Helicopter, H 63)
This collaboration combines two sessions, one recorded by mail in 2004, and one recorded at a studio in Shinjuku, 2009 while Wiese was visiting for his Tokyo Tech residency. Alternating between sharp cut-up collage and fleeting junk sounds to hard electronics, noise, and vocals. Packaged as a boxset containing a 7-inch and two cassettes. Cover art and design by John Wiese, with many inserts from Masaya Nakahara (formerly Violent Onsen Geisha). First US-release from Hair Stylistics.
Available as a Boxset or Digital. Edition of 200.
Interview with GX Jupitter-Larsen
A few questions about These Things Happen, two CDs collecting 90s-era 7-inches and compilation tracks by The Haters.
JW—I like the clock tick that you’ve added in between tracks on these collections. Do you feel that these tracks represent concepts that need tying together? My impression is more that all Haters work is ultimately to the same conceptual end.
GX—If I overindulge in repetition, it’s because I’m trying to invent a more personal clock.
JW—How were you producing most of your work in the mid-90s? Four-track?
All on tape, I presume? Do they all correlate to a performance activity?
GX—It was mostly on a four-track. Some are obvious montages, while others are based on performance objectives. The titles give indicate which is which.
JW—Where were you in the 90s when most of this work was produced?
GX—Mostly in San Francisco.
JW—Blast of Beauty was a mystery when you were looking at the box of DAT tapes, do you remember more about this piece after hearing it?
GX—No. I still don’t have any memory of it. Either doing it, or what I might have done it for. It’s a complete romawave.
JW—Can you tell me more about your relationship with Little Fyodor?
GX—Little Fyodor and I have been good friends ever since we first met in Denver in 86. Little Fyodor is what you’d get if Tiny Tim and Woody Allan could have somehow conceived a child together. You really just have to see him live to understand the act. Every time I saw him perform in the 80s and 90s, the audience always started out hating him, but by the time the show was over, everyone was a huge fan.
JW—Who’s Mark Brooks [credited on one track]?
GX—Mark Brooks is one of the main guys behind Metalocalypse on AdultSwim, but we first met back in Denver in the 80s. He was involved with the Warlock Pinchers at the time, and then later on with Foreskin 500. He was at most of the messier performances of mine back then. It was with him when I first visited LA back in 88. Any how, the Blotch 7-inch came about because I wanted to see what would happen if Mark got to remix and process my sounds without any input from me. I’ve always wanted to work with him again, but he’s a very busy man.
JW—These Things Happen has also been used as a title for a novel and an early video, can you tell me about those pieces?
GX—The novel is mainly about an archaeologist in an abandoned subway tunnel. His tunnel is seemingly endless. The video also takes place inside a subway tunnel. Nothing happens except for a lot of walking. Tick, tick, tick.
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These Things Happen • Volumes 1 & 2 are available September 15th from Helicopter.
Installation view at 100 Seven Inch Records By John Wiese at The Taut And Tame, Berlin, February 2012
100 Seven Inch Records By John Wiese monograph available for pre-order now.
144 pages, hardbound. Essay’s by Sam McKinlay and Brian Roettinger.
Ships at the end of October.
