Gus Coma - " Color Him Coma " (It's War Boys, £17) 1983

Our Last 'It's War Boys' release,is a recording of turntable manipulation and plunderphonia from Jim Whelton, a member of Homosexuals related outfit Milk From Cheltenham (the band whose name inspired Stephen Stapleton of Nurse With Wound to name his label United Dairies by the way,and whose recorded output gave him the inspiration behind the NWW sound), but really they had us at turntable manipulation and plunderphonia, and that's just what this is, split into a bunch of short tracks, this plays as a single sprawling dizzying epic, which apparently was born of multiple mixes of a song built from a ROOM SIZED 24 track loop, and it's a slightly unhinged listening experience.Sample voices, snippets of orchestras, pounding percussion, woozy strings, the sounds warped and warbly, distorted and a little crackly, booming reverbed pianos, creepy snippets of soundtracks, bleating horns, excerpts from some old language lesson tape, skittery jazz, constantly shifting pitches, lots of warble, the sounds themselves strange, but their condition, and their treatment, including what sounds like manual finger on the record manipulation, is what really makes this so psychedelic and tweaked sounding. Many of the sounds here were unused and remixed excerpts of recordings which would eventually become the title track of the Milk From Cheltenham 'Triptych of Poisoners'lp, which according to the label was "a tape collage of the live mixdown of 17 cassette recordings of locked record grooves, simultaneously, with stray radio and an infernal matchbox."

Track Listing:

Pro Walkabout Side:

.....Intro....A Word from dear Gus

A1		Gut Morning
A2		Very Smart (it was)
A3		Are You Swede?
A4		Tourist
A5		Meet Our Employees
A6		The Cup Is Clean
A7		Televisions
A8		New Broom
A9		The Infiltrators
A10		Sonar Too Good
A11		The Boss's Terrible Handwritting
A12		Avril Shower
A13		Topic Of Cancer
A14		It's 09754
A15		Say Aaah
A16		Advice To The Elderly
A17		Bak Seat Driver

Anti Walkman Side:

...intro/ Gus Coma Expands......

B1		No More Shoes
B2		Shopping List
B3		Mr. West Today
B4		Stay At Home Housewife
B5		On 99 o o oh
B6		His Own 2 Feet
B7		Bethlehem
B8		Inteligent
B9		Directions
B10		Lemonade 'N' Beer
B11		His Master's Vox
B12		The Wrong Guy
B13		G'Bye For Now

As explained on the insert:"Gus Coma is 6 or 7 years old but with a brain and stomach ulcers of a 34yr old xcekutiv. Fanx to every one."

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