DI18
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Cat#: DI18 Artist: Hot Air Balloon Ride Title: Oktoberfest Date of Release: 11/20/2007 Edition Size: 100 (hand numbered w/ballpoint pen) Materials: C30 (BASF chrome stock in “smoky” 5-screw shell), full-color printed adhesive labels, photocopy on gray cardstock, soft polybox. Availability: Sold out at source. |
Description:
Fuck do I ever have some explaining to do! Hot Air Balloon Ride is the cult-favorite duo of Emeralds synth ripper John Elliott (aka Lilypad) and Thursday Club electronics wizard Ryan Kuehn. This release documents an epic and utterly wasted gig that went down about a month back at Cleveland’s Language Foundry, when our usual gaggle of stony customers undertook a voyage into the black heart of rust belt half-gentrification, and – unflinchingly, I might add – consumed its beers en masse. I seem to recall that in the midst of the Ride’s setup, a consensus was reached to listen to the remainder of this epic Indians/Yankees jam and somehow the radio was running through Ryan’s gear for a pretty heavy count of extra innings. This tape picks up like a looooong way into the process, fyi. Also, John wants me to write something in the description about how we saw a seriously fucking large spider that night while burning in an alley, but I’m not really sure what that has to do with anything. Flatteningly loud, at times even classically harsh black hole w/ radioactive gold leaf monosynth detail and shit-eating/knuckle-dragging posi vibes in equal measure. The fucking 1990s. If you think they kicked any kind of ass whatsoever, you weren’t there, pal. This tape is a phenomenal wrench to the craw of any/all kollektor skum who claim to have Cleveland filth more than like 40-45% sussed.
Notes:
Recorded live by Ryan Kuehn at the Language Foundry, Cleveland, OH.
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