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ROTOR 039CD
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$23.50
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RELEASE DATE: 5/8/2026
Certainly one of the greatest UFOs in the history of music, Cromagnon and their 1969 concept album Orgasm were the precursors of what was to come thirty years later: industrial, metal, and experimental music bathed in improvised experiments on LSD. "The project couldn't be smooth, otherwise humanity would be lost. There's room for computers, but the soul is gone." Cromagnon is: Brian Elliot , Austin Grasmere, Salvador Salgado, and The Connecticut Tribe. Brian, Bob and Sal were responsible for lyrics, and Brian was the biggest contributor. Bob, Vincent, Peter, Gary, and Louie all helped create the music (writing chord changes etc.)
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Originally released in 1969. Certainly one of the weirdest experimental psychedelic albums out there, with noise and industrial moments, first released by legendary free jazz label ESP-Disk' in 1969 (ESPDISK 2001CD/LP). An absolute psychedelic UFO of proto-industrial noise, with a pioneering touch of Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Whitehouse, and Test Dept mixed with something fully stoned . . . way ahead of its time in the '60s. Remastered with the same real rough sound and the same feeling sought at the time, but with more volume added. 180-gram LP in deluxe heavy-duty silver chromium gatefold sleeve. Limited numbered edition of 333.
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ROTOR 039PIC-LP
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Picture disc version in deluxe window sleeve with PVC inner sleeve. Limited numbered edition 500. Originally released in 1969. Certainly one of the weirdest experimental psychedelic albums out there, with noise and industrial moments, first released by legendary free jazz label ESP-Disk' in 1969 (ESPDISK 2001CD/LP). An absolute psychedelic UFO of proto-industrial noise, with a pioneering touch of Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Whitehouse, and Test Dept mixed with something fully stoned . . . way ahead of its time in the '60s. Remastered with the same real rough sound and the same feeling sought at the time, but with more volume added.
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180-gram silver and black LP version in deluxe heavy-duty silver chromium gatefold sleeve. Limited numbered edition of 777. Originally released in 1969. Certainly one of the weirdest experimental psychedelic albums out there, with noise and industrial moments, first released by legendary free jazz label ESP-Disk' in 1969 (ESPDISK 2001CD/LP). An absolute psychedelic UFO of proto-industrial noise, with a pioneering touch of Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Whitehouse, and Test Dept mixed with something fully stoned . . . way ahead of its time in the '60s. Remastered with the same real rough sound and the same feeling sought at the time, but with more volume added.
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2021 restock; originally released in 1969. Also known as Orgasm, this 1969 album has long been hailed as an underground classic. Included in Spin's 2013 list "The Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s." Finally available again on vinyl in an ESP-Disk' 50th Anniversary Remaster version. "Two frustrated pop songwriters and the mysterious seven-person 'Connecticut Tribe' hole up in an Upper West Side studio and yell and moan and convulse until they discover a place more primordial than hardcore. The lone album from Cromagnon is true body music -- mostly a primal outpouring of wet swallows, warm gulps, creepy whispers, and glottal jungle animal noises; the feral yowls of sex, pain, or warfare -- but also occasionally grabbing people in the hallways to bang broomsticks on plywood. Its seven-minute bouts of throat'n'throttle anticipate the howl-and-hertz of power electronics and the full-contact gargle of '90s Japanese noise. But Orgasm's real claim to fame will always be opening track 'Caledonia,' a throbbing bagpipe-and-trash junkyard clangbanger that anticipates Einstürzende Neubauten, Nine Inch Nails, and Ministry in four raspy, thudding minutes" --Christopher R. Weingarten, Spin, "The Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s." "An aural stew of experimental vocal sounds (tribal chanting, eerie whispering, animal-like screeching, monster sounding growls, ghostly howls, outright screaming, violent puking sounds, etc), various effects (over-dubbed sound bites played backwards, old sirens, common household sounds, manipulated electronics, field recordings) and the occasional use of a conventional instrument (spooky bagpipes, frantic rhythm guitar, scratchy fiddle) that are all meshed and held together with various forms of primitive percussion. A couple tracks have no rhythm instruments and are simply gravity defying acts of freeform music. Surprisingly, after being subjected to over 30 minutes of unintelligible voices, Cromagnon finally reap the benefits of evolution and use coherent words from the English language on the final two songs on the album. Cromagnon is ominous and experimental tribal music for the bad acid trip" --J. Scott Brubig, The Acid Archives. Austin Grasmere (lead vocals, music); Brian Elliot (lead vocals, music); Connecticut Tribe: Peter Bennett (bass), Jimmy Bennett (guitar, bagpipes), Vinnie Howley (guitar), Sal Salgado (percussion), Nelle Tresselt (honorary tribe member), Mark Payuk (vocals), Gary Leslie (vocals, multi-sound effects). RIYL: The Godz, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry.
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Already commercially successful as tune-smiths for teenyboppers, Austin Grasmere and Brian Elliot approached Bernard Stollman looking to focus their talents on something more original and unrestrained. Stollman asked, “What would be your theme?” and Elliot replied: “Everything is one.” Bernard said, “Go do it.” What followed was Cromagnon's (Grasmere, Elliot and the Connecticut Tribe) non-linear journey through the subconscious, weaving together bizarre instrumentation and meter with a psychotic blending of musical styles. Bagpipes, pounding percussion, blood-curdling yelps, chanting, laughing, and billowing subterranean rumblings create the otherworldly soundscape that is Cave Rock. Heralded as one of the best freak-out records of all time, Cave Rock was ridiculously ahead of its time and brings to mind the savage sound-fuckery of Nurse with Wound and Throbbing Gristle as well as the hallucinations of early Red Krayola.
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