To Get to the Other Side [2019] - Digitalia Records
Artist: Digitalia Records
Album: To Get to the Other Side
Year: 2019
Label: Digitalia Records - DR04A
Format: Cassette (Single)
Track-list:
- To Get to the Other Side
- Little Horn Dub
Companies:
Polehouse: Recorded at, Mixed at
Personnel:
Eureka Brown: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Turntablism
Elmo Townsend: Bass, Programming
Beat Sinclair: Drums, Percussion
© 2019 Digitalia Records. All rights reserved. Written, performed, & recorded by Eureka Brown, Elmo Townsend, & Beat Sinclair at Polehouse.
Notes:
Official Cassette Store Day 2019 release (10/12/19)! This selection was approved after Brooklyn Vegan's premature "full list of exclusive titles," but just in time for the original deadline—the last selection of the last CSD (before the demise of Burger Records); the secret tape. To see the hidden list—ie the real (actual) list of titles and stores—go to the source: Titles, Stores
Related: Paradiso lead single To Get to the Other Side was preceded by an early, shorter version of Shampoo Banana, without the "quasi-skiffle" orchestration, the old school UC hip hop intro, or the High Street cameo outro, heard exclusively on this blog. Released on banana scented scratch 'n sniff CDs, with Santa Rosa Records (out of Texas), the now obsolete discs were sold at Chi's Tacos in Eugene, and then given away for free when the banana scent mostly wore off, like expired produce, separated for the compost heap. Still, it was the first release to feature the updated Digitalia logo.
However, Santa Rosa opted out of the sticker for its version of the design, since there's apparently no way for anyone to sniff an mp3—although the cassettes they made would have been perfectly sniffable, if they had been so inclined. But whereas Digialia has eschewed all the digital streaming platforms, in favor of physical format innovation, Santa Rosa has embraced them, leaving their early tapes in the dust. As far as we know, Shampoo Banana was their 13th and final cassette.
Dropping days after CSD 2018, it barely missed a shot at Brooklyn Vegan's "full list of exclusive titles," which included a full 9 tapes from Santa Rosa Records. Although it lacks the references to both Bob Dylan linked Champaign-Urbana themed songs, the 217 touch tone, Beginning of the End, and Hal's shut down speech in the beginning, as well as the cameo from POO's Scooter in the end, it has the text-to-speech Daisy Bell that inspired Clarke, as well as the cawing crows of Pi Omega Omega infamy—Jack White's shared infatuation aside. Plus, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls trailer dialogue, and the dial-up internet sound. In short, it sought to "Bring the Paign," albeit, a less concentrated dose. The album version, here, has all of the above and sooo much more:P
Dropping days after CSD 2018, it barely missed a shot at Brooklyn Vegan's "full list of exclusive titles," which included a full 9 tapes from Santa Rosa Records. Although it lacks the references to both Bob Dylan linked Champaign-Urbana themed songs, the 217 touch tone, Beginning of the End, and Hal's shut down speech in the beginning, as well as the cameo from POO's Scooter in the end, it has the text-to-speech Daisy Bell that inspired Clarke, as well as the cawing crows of Pi Omega Omega infamy—Jack White's shared infatuation aside. Plus, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls trailer dialogue, and the dial-up internet sound. In short, it sought to "Bring the Paign," albeit, a less concentrated dose. The album version, here, has all of the above and sooo much more:P
While the super fuzz walking bass line of the prototype was a tribute to Living In Blue's Pink Fuzz Blues (there were rumors, early on, of Joe Prokop throwing down), the wah-pedal, spray paint can, sampledelic intro on the album is reminiscent of Harsh's Eat Up track, Hocus Pocus. The outro splice, future rocksteady tape experiment, features EWI stylings by Eureka Brown, riding out on "Blue Gene," with an air horn decked arena rock opera bang. It's Viper meets The Blackouts, in the basement of Nargile, when the DJ's played the same night as the bar bands, with a Tube of Gloom and beeping trucks that sound like UFO's, and a drum set getting sucked into the waterphone vortex.
(The) Digitalia Records (Band) was tentatively scheduled to play Santa Rosa's music festival in Texas, which was postponed again and again; renamed, and presumably called off. We can't say for sure, having been out of the loop now for some years. While we are pleased to have become acquainted, through a single phone conversation, besides the mutual interest in super underground music, Digitalia, in numerous ways, is philosophically unaligned. Still, you have to admire any commitment to the DIY scene that's as inclusive of its outer-most reaches.
(The) Digitalia Records (Band) was tentatively scheduled to play Santa Rosa's music festival in Texas, which was postponed again and again; renamed, and presumably called off. We can't say for sure, having been out of the loop now for some years. While we are pleased to have become acquainted, through a single phone conversation, besides the mutual interest in super underground music, Digitalia, in numerous ways, is philosophically unaligned. Still, you have to admire any commitment to the DIY scene that's as inclusive of its outer-most reaches.
