the best of, by chuck & doug

the best of

by chuck & doug

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C80 tape with colour cover and inside print, black tape shells with gold print in snapcase.

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	1.	maybe i should have taken only one 01:44
	2.	love story 04:47
	3.	rapetales prologue 01:26
	4.	23 going on 24 04:06
	5.	dougout 06:22
	6.	goofy house track 05:52
	7.	lurk 03:44
	8.	tram & bus 05:05
	9.	duo for dentist drill and hellion 04:46
	10.	the circle decides 00:43
	11.	rapetales 16:18
	12.	ignoramus 05:24
	13.	chuckout 04:19
	14.	smurfbot boots 04:12
	15.	offhand 02:27
	16.	radio stations from hell 00:53
	17.	avian sex 04:23
	18.	waving goodbye sailing into the sunset smiling 01:11

about

doug & chuck are stephen thomas and dave phillips, who met in zurich in 1988 and created music together til 2000. both have since become notable as highly active musicians in various outfits – thomas perhaps most notably as a member of the dead brothers, phillips as a member of the legendary schimpfluch gruppe and as a solo noise artist –, but this 80-minute compilation goes way back in time, unearthing unpublished documents of their musical creativity, from an era when various experimental musical strategies were tried and tested with a sense of fun that seems almost tangible on the release.

back in the day, choud & guck recorded countless sessions from 1994 to 2000, but released next to no recordings. this compilation, culled from more than 33 hours of recordings, can be considered an important historical document – fully deserving of the heavy gilded frame on the cover worthy of a masterpiece in a museum. true to the spirit of the time when it was recorded, a cassette tape is the only adequate format for it.

choke & dog used samplers, drum machines, cd and tape players, a groovebox, guitar, bass, drums, voices – and they did it with a wild playfulness that not only appropriates found sounds (especially voices) in a humourously minimalistic way which seems typical of that age of analogue tape collage and limited sampler memory, but which also contrasts manic beats with ambient loops in ways that defy any categorisation. releasing the best of chug & duck is a true honour and pleasure for attenuation circuit, because the global experimental underground our label has been promoting for well over a decade owes a lot to the tape experiments of previous decades. in other words, the older among today's digital practitioners have emerged from the primeval mud of tape hiss and mulching low-end frequencies echoing through this release, but on the other hand this is also (in parts!) one of the most danceable attenuation circuit albums ever. surprised? we'd say it only goes to show that music has no boundaries.

file under: experimental, lo-fi, sound collage, electro, industrial

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released January 11, 2023

mastered by dan suter at echochamber.
thank you sascha & gerald!

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dave phillips Zürich, Switzerland

sound as communication in direct and primal form, a language, a tool of metaphysics, a conscience, a consciousness. works that oppose the omnipresent restriction and reduction of life, to activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden under the debris of this crumbling civilisation.
ritual protest music to curse homo sapiens out of its infancy. ... more