FOUND ON THE ELEVATOR 1969 Private 10" Electronic Psych
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Found On The Elevator 205 W. 57 2/11/69 10"LP
Original 1969 US private pressing on no label (catalog # NONE, matrix # CG-7867), with insert.This inexplicable 10-inch record from 1969 is one of the strangest and most obscure private pressings you could ever hope to find. It contains a 24-minute psychedelic message from the distant future, presented with intermittent bursts of electronic music, feedback and ambient noise.
This recording is an "unauthorized experiment" that was made in the year 2058 C.D.S. (Carbon Dating System), a "blue verbal data feed" sent backwards in time to "retro A.D." by Decker, T. L., index J-3, CMR 00965 of T-Group Roaring Vectors 252, a human cyborg who suffers from a malfunctioning number nine electrode in his head which causes him to have an emotional breakdown as he records this message. It's a secret message to a past world he has trouble imagining, a retro world of foreign substances like metal, plastic, animals, soldiers... a world all "physical and slow," "all mechanical and disunified, before major coordinations."
An 8½" 20RPM disc containing this recording was found on the elevator at 205 W. 57th Street in New York City on February 11, 1969 by the composer Clark Gesner.
The only other known copy of this record resides in Box 44 Folder 7 of the Clark Genser archive at the Princeton University Library Manuscripts Division: http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=C1163
A 1973 issue of Radical Software magazine (Vol. II Nr 3) contains a partial (inaccurate and rather poorly comprehended) transcript of a little over half of this recording, as well as a letter from Mr. Gesner declaring this recording to be a part of the public domain: http://www.radicalsoftware.org/volume2nr3/pdf/VOLUME2NR3_art10.pdf
Download an mp3 of an excerpt from Found On The Elevator, 205 W. 57, 2/11/69 and for more mp3s from obscure records and tapes check out the ampnoise audio blog, and search ampnoise records eBay store for listings with mp3 downloads.ampmp3 CONDITION: Cover G / Vinyl VG++ cover has split at top seam and is split a few inches at bottom seam, it shows its age, has browned at the edges; insert is VG+, has some finger smudges and light aging; vinyl is excellent, not much wear, several very light surface scuffs, plays extremely well. Graded conservatively using Goldmine standards [G / G+ / VG / VG+ / NM / ]grade only used if record is brand new.
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