DEFENCELESS GADGETS UNDERMIND CONTROL
L.P. CASSETTE
1995
wE GO AGAIN. THIS TIME IT WAS 1995. i BELIEVE IT WAS SUMMER OF 1995. iN A SMALL ROOM WE ASSEMBLED WHAT IS NOW THE ALBUM DEFENCELSS GADGETS.  A COLLECTION OF NOISE AND AMBIENT EXPERIMENTS WE RECORDED FROM MOSTLY IMPROV JAMS AT NEUROSUCTION LABORATORY IN dENVER..  tHE ALBUM WAS RELEASED ON DAUNTLESS RECORDS IN A LIMIT OF 50 CASSETTES. tHE COVER ART IS A COLLAGE MADE FROM MAGAZINE ADS BY cHRISTOPH tURNER. tHIS WAS OUR FIRST FULL LENGTH RELEASE, AND OUR SECOND RELEASE AT THAT TIME. NOOKLEPTIA RECORDING SESSIONS AND LIVE PERFORMANCES IN THOSE YEARS OFTEN WERE ONE TIME IMPROV PERFORMANCES. WITH VERY LITTLE OF THE RECORDING SESSIONS EVER BEING PLAYED IN A LIVE SETTING. aCTUAL LIVE PERFORMANCES WERE WALLS OF NOISE AND SONIC ASSAULTS ON THE AUDIENCE. i CAN ONCE REMEMBER LOOKING UP FROM THE MIXING BOARD AND SEEING THE sTAGE SPEAKERS SPARKING FROM THE LEVEL OF SOUND WE WERE PRODUCING.....HAHAHA.
cHRISTOPH
NSL JULY 2005