BUTTE COUNTY FREE MUSIC SOCIETY : Induced Musical Spasticity - Buttecounty Free Music Society Twentyfifth Anniversary (1984-2009)

'Induced Musical Spasticity commemorates the nascent pollination ? in the musty shadows of the real ersatz Sherwood Forest, a couple hundred miles north of San Francisco ? of the Buttecounty Free Music Society, an apocryphal institution that encouraged anything and nothing, in musical and amusical contexts, sometimes intentionally, sometimes because no one knew any better or cared. Highbrow concept tracks by The Marques (brothers Cole and Steve Marquis) and the dramaturgical Unlikely Modernists, along with Ambivalent Dosage’s pre-Vomit Launch nihilism, mutter and howl next to mad paisley destructo by Dilwhip and the quartet edition of 28th Day, Hypnagogic Jerk’s overmodulated roar, and sweet, YMG-influenced instrumentals by Hallucinatory Companion (aka Barbara Manning and Cole Marquis). Ripe dementia by Experimental Artists, Lawrence Crane and John Young, and Tops Inc. stops rational people in their tracks, while turntable experiments, tape yoink, and high-lonesome electro-twarnk by Rory Lyons, Ziplok, Sidney Afrika, The Conduits, Lucian Tielens, and Richard Streeter shuffle the consciousness. And then you’ve got primitard rock dunt by The Flamboyant Offals, Walking Jock, Dead Boy 3, and shockingly raw 28th Day material that predates most anyone’s idea of the original line-up of that influential band. Four episodes of Matt Mumper’s serial radio play Beor The Friendly Thing appear, in all its inscrutable, deadpan glory. The Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble pollutes the lion’s share of real estate with a side-long tape cut-up a la Faust Tapes called “Goat Embryo (Covered With Glue),” and their entire live set from the Industrial Barbecue. Also here are the spot-on country lament “Plastic Jesus”; the electronic damage of “Mid-Range Phase/Link 3"Dome”; the Smegma-influenced “Lightbulb Incident,” infamous for its live, on-air sodomy; a KCSC radio interview that includes the group’s first recordings; and a handful of previously unreleased tracks. Two-thirds of the material here was previously released (translation: a few dozen cassettes were dubbed one at time and passed through the hands of people in the same rural Northern California area code 25 years ago). All the relics in this boxset are likely unheard by anyone not specifically mentioned above.'

Tracklist
A1 The Marques - New Leash On Life -
A2 Lucian Tielens - When We Eat Jesus -
A3 Ambivalent Dosage - Transcendence Of The Eggs -
A4 Richard Streeter - Cookies Shaped Like Kites (Edit) -
A5 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Tallulah Bankhead -
B1 28th Day - Let Go -
B2 Dilwhip - Do You Know How It Feels? -
B3 Hypnagogic Jerk - California Condor -
B4 Hallucinatory Companion - Glass Pumpkin -
B5 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Sakura Sakura -
C1 Flamboyant Offals - Wentz Market -
C2 28th Day - Reality Is Contraception -
C3 Walking Jock - Seven Year Itch -
C4 Dead Boy 3 - Yeah -
C5 The Conduits - Je Suis Un Chien Mort -
C6 Hallucinatory Companion - Tit Wax -
D1 Experimental Artists - Carnival Of Headache -
D2 Lawrence Crane And John Young - What's Your Beef? -
D3 Tops Inc. - Lumberjack Song -
D4 Hypnagogic Jerk - California Condor Slight Return -
D5 Hallucinatory Companion - That's When She Knew She Was One Of Them -
D6 Rory Lyons - Introduction To The Device -
E1 Conduits - (In Yugoslavia) Cigarettes Are God -
E2 Sidney Afrika - Fly Like An Algae -
E3 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Mid-Range Phase / Link 3" Dome -
E4 Ziplok - Excerpt From We Meet Under Blankets Performance Three -
F1 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Goat Embryo (Covered With Glue) -
- Industrial Barbeque
G1 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Opening Remarks -
G2 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - The Lion Sleeps Tonight -
G3 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - I Read Somewhere That It's Normal -
G4 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Noisy Texans Barf On Joan's Head -
G5 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - If It's In You -
G6 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Requiem For An Italian Waiter -
G7 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - TV Corn -
G8 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Rock’n’Roll All Night -
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H1 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Plastic Jesus -
H2 Unlikely Modernists - Rocks -
H3 Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - The Lightbulb Incident -
H4 The Marques - The Brothers -
1 Beor The Friendly Thing - Episode #2: Beor Gets A Cold -
2 Beor The Friendly Thing - Episode #4: Beor Goes To Jail -
3 Beor The Friendly Thing - Episode #5: Beor Goes To Court -
4 Beor The Friendly Thing - Episode #6: Beor Gets It Wholesale -
5 Rented Lips - Bren't Lewis Interviewed By Miss Thrasher -

Notes
Comes with four double-sided inserts and a TV Cheese poster.