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Superior Viaduct sub-label.

Distr. : UK - Boomkat
US - Midheaven
Style : industrial / wave / electro / early electronic /

ETAT 01 V / A HIGHLIGHTS OF VORTEX LP 04.2017

1. Trilogy
2. Chan
3. For The Big Horn
4. Logos
5. Rhythm Study #8
6. Notes On The History Of A World, Part 3
7. Loop Number 3
8. Electronic Kabuki Mambo
9. 350-2
(Note : LP , 500 numb. copies on clear vinyl)
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ETAT 02 TOD DOCKSTADER EIGHT ELECTRONIC PIECES LP 04.2017

1. Piece #1 02:01
2. Piece #2 03:06
3. Piece #3 04:12
4. Piece #4 02:31
5. Piece #5 04:32
6. Piece #6 03:09
7. Piece #7 08:01
8. Piece #8 09:08
(Note : LP , 500 numb. copies on clear vinyl)

An important cornerstone of American electronic music for many reasons, Tod
Dockstader’s Eight Electronic Pieces [1961] sees its first vinyl reissue in
50 years thanks to Superior Viaduct’s États-Unis series. Consider this an
essential addition to any collection of early electronic and tape composition!
(Note : LP , 400 numb. copies on clear vinyl)
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ETA 03 DIE TODLICHE DORIS "" LP 03.2017

1. Stümmel Mir 03:37
2. Posaunen Der Liebe 02:20
3. Der Tod Ist Ein Skandal 04:29
4. Panzerabwehrfaust 00:13
5. Wie Still Es Im Wald Ist 02:21
6. Sie Werden Nicht Beobachtet 01:50
7. Haare Im Mund 03:35
8. M. Röck: Rhythmus Im Blut 02:27
9. Kavaliere 03:42
10. Fliegt Schnell Laut Summend 02:48
11. Robert 03:09
12. Über-Mutti 02:21
13. In Der Pause 04:25

First ever reissue! Clear vinyl. Incl. colour photo insert and repro of the original
24-page booklet “Boingo Osmopol Nr.2”. Housed in spot varnish-printed jacket. Edition
of 500.
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ETAT 04 LE FORTE FOUR BIKINI TENNIS SHOES LP 03.2017

Clear vinyl. Includes fold-out poster. Numbered edition of 500.
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ETAT 05 JOE JONES IN PERFORMANCE LP 03.2017

First ever legit reissue. Clear vinyl. Includes fold-out poster. Numb. ed. of 500.
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ETAT 06 JEAN DUBUFFET MUSICAL EXPERIENCE LP 04.2018

The legendary French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet exalted naivety and spontaneity
in visual art, and his brazenly experimental recordings on Musical Experiences evince
the same spirit through sound. He once reflected, “Certain unexpected windfalls ...
come of improvising on an instrument one doesn’t really know how to use.” Dubuffet,
who famously founded the art brut (or outsider art) movement, began making music in
the early 1960s with avant-garde figure Asger Jorn. With no training, they played a
range of instruments: saxophone, bassoon, detuned piano, hurdy-gurdy, cabrette,
bombarde and so on. Soon, Dubuffet reserved a room in his home for making music and
bought two tape-recorders in order to manually edit the results. He wrote fondly of
the recordings’ crudeness and the sense that they “had no beginning and no end but
were simply extracts taken haphazardly from a ceaseless and ever-flowing score.
” Dubuffet’s discography begins in 1961 with the release Expériences Musicales, a six
10-inch record set produced in an edition of fifty with original artwork and
lithographed sleeves. Musical Experiences, compiled by composer Ilhan Mimaroglu and
released in 1973 on his Finnadar imprint, collects eight of the twenty pieces on the
much sought-after Expériences Musicales. First-time vinyl reissue. Limited edition of
500 numbered copies on clear vinyl.
https://midheaven.com/item/musical-experiences-by-dubuffet-jean
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ETAT 07 WARNER JEPSON TOTENTANZ LP 04.2018

Considered as the first piece of electronic music to accompany a ballet, Totentanz is
the arrestingly abstract and mightily expressive result of Warner Jepson’s experiments
with tape and Don Buchla’s groundbreaking synthesizer, the Buchla 100. Totentanz,
originally self-released in 1972, reveals a composer relieved of convention. In the
1950s and 1960s, Jepson was part of an informal circle of Bay Area artists that incl.
Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Morton Subotnick and Steve Reich.
A fixture of the legendary San Francisco Tape Music Center, Jepson was among the
performers who realized the world-premiere of Riley’s seminal minimalist composition
In C and worked closely with postmodern dance figure Anna Halprin as well as the
Welland Lathrop Dance Company. Jepson’s affection for the performing arts meant that
he was thrilled to be commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet Company to compose a
piece to accompany Carlos Carvajal’s beguiling, danse macabre-inspired Totentanz.
Jepson, who passed away in 2011, incorporated concrete sounds from his collection as
well as creations on the Buchla 100, which had recently migrated to Mills College.
As the composer once wrote, “Don Buchla’s box ... offered numerous sound possibilities
without a map.” First-time vinyl reissue. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on
clear vinyl.
https://midheaven.com/item/totentanz-by-jepson-warner
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ETAT 08 REMKO SCHA MACHINE GUITARS LP 04.2018

1. Shake
2. Throb
3. Thrash
4. Switch
5. Stroke
6. Sweep
7. Slam
8. Brush

Gnashing, thrashing and teeming with enchanting microtones—Machine Guitars is the
definitive recorded work of Remko Scha, although the late Dutch artist didn’t play
a single note himself. Rather, Scha arranged a motorized, rotating wire brush and
saber saw in front of suspended electric guitars and let these metallic torrents flow.
Scha was a linguist and generative artist, enamored of computers’ capacity for
algorithmic creativity. A leading researcher at the University of Amsterdam, he also
cofounded the famed arts-space Het Apollohuis in a former cigar-factory in 1980.
This haven for intellectuals and underground autodidacts served as the recording
studio for most of Machine Guitars (as well as Ellen Fullman’s brilliant The Long
String Instrument), which originally appeared in 1982 on the small Dutch label Kremlin.
Machine Guitars, as the critic Byron Coley has noted, ranks among the best of the era’s
minimalist-inspired, avant-garde guitar statements by Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham.
The semiautonomous sound-making sculptures also evoke contemporaneous work by Christian
Marclay. Scha’s work falls somewhere between conceptual art and avant-garde music—a
total revelation for minimalists and No Wave fans alike. First-time vinyl reissue.
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on clear vinyl.
https://midheaven.com/item/machine-guitars-by-scha-remko
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ETAT 09 JOHN DUNCAN ORGANIC LP 04.2018

The inter-disciplinary maverick John Duncan emerged in 1970s Los Angeles as a
confrontational performance artist and, as the decade progressed, aligned himself
with the experimental-music collective Los Angeles Free Music Society. His sound art
appeared on various self-released cassettes and alongside artists such as Jim Pomeroy
and Yoshi Wada on the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art’s influential
compilation Sound. Duncan’s debut album, Organic, released in a tiny edition on the
artist’s own AQM imprint in 1979 and distributed through LAFMS, collects some of his
earliest and most absorbing noise experiments. Recorded live, Organic is composed of
two sidelong pieces: “Broken Promise,” a patient, murky dirge featuring Duncan on
tape and percussion, plus Michael Le Donne-Bhennet on bassoon; and “Gala,” a kinetic,
durational percussion piece featuring Duncan alone. The meditations on texture and
unpredictability, realized with unconventional and found sounds, anticipate his later
work with shortwave radio. First-time standalone reissue. Limited edition of 500
numbered copies on clear vinyl.
https://midheaven.com/item/organic-by-duncan-john
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ETAT 10 ANNEA LOCKWOOD GLASS WORLD LP 04.2018

1. Micro Glass Shaken
2. Glass Rod Vibrating
3. Turning Gong
4. Mini Mobile
5. Wine Glass
6. Water Gong
7. Two Ribbed Discs
8. Rod Across Edge Of Pane
9. Glass Bulb
10. Glissandi
11. Spinning Discs
12. Dialogue: Bottles & Jars
13. Vibrating Pane
14. Bubbling
15. Breathing Machine
16. Water Jars
17. Rod Roll
18. Micro Glass On Goblet
19. Micro Glass Along Pane
20. Cullet: Two Glass Rocks
21. Medium Mobile
22. Bottle Tree Showered With Fragments
23. Deep Water Gong

New Zealand-born sound artist and composer Annea Lockwood received formal training at
various institutions before exploring the sonorous potential of glass in a series of
performances in the late 1960s. With plates of wired glass, glass discs, chunks of
green cullet glass, glass tubing, sheets of micro-glass, glass jars and other
incarnations of the material, Lockwood elicited a staggering array of sounds, some
subtly uncanny and others as outlandish and alien as anything emitted from the era’s
early synthesizers. Lockwood’s glass concerts yielded a text-score published in
Northern California new-music journal Source: Music of the Avant-Garde and attracted
the attention of South African producer Michael Steyn, who encouraged her to record
the glass pieces for his label Tangent. They worked for two years in a small, resonant
church in London to document a veritable catalogue of the materials’ tone and timbre;
Lockwood wished to present each sound as if it were a piece of music in and of itself.
Glass World originally appeared on Tangent in 1970. “I wanted to entice people into
really listening intensively,” Lockwood once reflected. “Into really listening.
I wanted a deep immersion in the sounds of themselves, for the audience.” First-time
vinyl reissue. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on clear vinyl.
https://midheaven.com/item/glass-world-by-lockwood-annea
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ETAT 011 LP THE TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS : JULY 15, 1972 LP 11.2019

1 The Taj-Mahal Travelers Between 6:20 - 6:46 P.M.
2 The Taj-Mahal Travelers Between 7:03 - 7:15 P.M.
3 The Taj-Mahal Travelers Between 7:50 - 8:05 P.M.

This first-time vinyl reissue is limited to 750 numbered copies. Comes with poster.
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ETAT 012 TERRY FOX LINKAGE LP 12.2019

1 Drumming
2 Pulling
3 Bowing
4 Beating
5 Scraping
6 Ether
7 The News
8 The Vicar And The Cowboy
9 The Bear
10 Sign Off

(Note : LP , reissue LP on États-Unis. Ed. of 750 numb. copies. Comes with booklet)
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ETAT 013 YOSHI WADA : Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The LP 11.2019
Elephantine Crocodile

1 Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine
Crocodile (44:22)

1. A Few Reasons To Stay - A Few Reasons To Split
2. Barcelona Tango
3. Schizo
(Note : LP , 750 copies, housed in numbered sleeve)

Fluence is the brainchild and first release of sound artist / provocateur Pascal
Comelade. Recorded in Montpellier, France in 1974-1975, the project consists of
exploratory electronic pieces in the Fripp & Eno vernacular with a Kosmische tinge.
https://boomkat.com/products/fluence
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ETAT 015 PASCAL COMELADE SENTIMIENTOS LP 09.2020

1. White Light 01:29
2. Approximative But Fair 02:48
3. Wyatt Ah Um 03:57
4. Lettre De Mozart A Sa Petite Cousine 01:39
5. Still Life With Goldfish 00:57
6. The Grey Velvet Gentleman 01:29
7. From DC By PC 01:16
8. Taking Tiger Mountain 05:16
9. Habanera 02:33
10. Carmen 03:42
11. Avant-Midi 01:52
12. Sicilia 01:47
13. Again 02:21
14. White Heat 00:56
15. Distant Pianos 03:06
16. Paralelo 01:50
17. In A Lebanon Park 02:50
18. Courant D'Air Sur Le Pommier Du Japon 05:12
19. La Opera 01:03
20. Barret 02:28
(Note : LP , 750 copies, housed in numbered sleeve)

Originally released in 1982, Pascal Comelade's Sentimientos is one of the most elusive
and sought after LPs in the French composer's vast catalogue. Recorded on a two-track
Revox machine, the album is an eclectic series of brief pieces – only two of the
twenty tracks exceed four minutes – showcasing his poetic imagination and impressive
range.
https://boomkat.com/products/sentimientos
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ETAT 16 V / A I.D. ART #2 LP 03.2022

Mac McCloud - Untitled
Harold Schroeder - Silent Rituals
Greg Neutra / J.D. Elliot - Grieg Fatigue
Smegma - Rrose Selavy Will Wait For My Washing Machine, Even
/ The Andalusian Dog Often Digs Into The Furniture With Onyx
Fingers
Smegma - Potatoe War
Fredrik Nilsen - You Can't Hide From Aldehyde
Miles Forst - Art, Art, Art
Smegma - One Moment
Smegma - Pigface Blues
Doug Henry - View This Command As A Verbal Enactment Of A Command
Josie Roth - Heal, And Another Little Time
Joe Potts - I Don't Want To Go To The Farm
Otto Fick - Untitled
Smegma - Excerpt From: I'll Have Julie Nixon-Eisenhower For
My Appetizer (Sour Lungs To My Surprise)
Karen Kato - Xmas 1952
J.J. Allen Vargas - Victim Of Racism
Dennis Guy Mehaffey - Busta Nosa
M/R/Zuniga - Vulnerability: Rape, Male Vs. Female
Mike Green - Martin Heidegger Revisited
Mehaffey - Introduction By Buckminster Fuller / I Stumble/You Laugh
Jules Lemelle - Untitled
Maureen Abbott - Untitled
Smegma - Take One
Dan Weiss / P. Hamilton Ross - A Bicentennial Tribute To
America's Freight Trains
Mr. Foon - Timeless #1
Bertil Petersson - Monologue To Henry VIII
Amrein & Stoll - Untitled
Ace & Duce - Dogs Are Barking
Irene Dogmatic / Rose Tatoo - Untitled
Gordon Shields - Cotton Duck, Up And Back
Gary Beydler - Record Stick
Tom Kemp - Pasadena Subway Station Poetry Stills
Donald Spaulding - I Don't Want This To Happen
Janice Felger / Joan Hugo - One Minute Of Art News Update In 30 Seconds
Sue Farthing - Untitled
Waynna Kato - White/Noise
Jim Abuan / Peter Muzzey - Why Does Love Have To Be So Sad?
Juan Gomez - This Is My Country
P.J. Campbell - Untitled
Kathe Schreyer - Don't Make Me Laugh
Mary Dana Chodzko - Patty Smith By Mary Dana Chodzko
Gary Laskin - Have Sex With Rex
Jean Koller - Dream
Le Forte Four - Discarded Portion Of The Soundtrack For Rick's
Film "Burger Madness" / From "The Origin Of Largie Schrapnel"
/ I Haven't Heard You For A Long Time / Fat Ape
(Note : LP , 500 copies + insert)
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ETAT 17 LE FORTE FOUR/DOO-DOOETTES : LIVE AT THE BRAND LP 03.2022

Le Forte Four - Birth Of Largie Schrapnel
Le Forte Four - The Very First Song I Ever Wrote
Le Forte Four - M-M-M
Le Forte Four - Keep That Point Up
Le Forte Four - 4,000 Holes In Blackburn, Lancashire
Le Forte Four - Telethon Returns
Le Forte Four - From The 12 Pages
Le Forte Four - Tree Shredding Blues
Le Forte Four - Do The Crow
Le Forte Four - Balanced Comfort
Le Forte Four - Telethon Returns
Le Forte Four - Internal C.B. Breakage
Le Forte Four - Good Friday Tape Dumb Session #1
Le Forte Four - Reel World
Le Forte Four - Columbia-Princeton Low Priority Soybean Meal
Le Forte Four - Telethon Returns
Le Forte Four - Down The Congo In A Backward Canoe
Le Forte Four - Telethon Returns Continues
Le Forte Four - Welcome To 35 South Raymond
Le Forte Four - Darker Scratcher
Le Forte Four - Diaramma I
Le Forte Four - Diaramma II
Le Forte Four - HHHMMM
Le Forte Four - Telethon Returns
Le Forte Four - Good Friday Tape Dumb Session II
Le Forte Four - Shoe Spot
Le Forte Four - Meet The Detectives
Le Forte Four - Simple Circus
Doo-Dooettes - Mojave
Doo-Dooettes - Silver Hours
Doo-Dooettes - Twenty-Four (24)
Doo-Dooettes - Children Undressing Animals (Part One)
Doo-Dooettes - Children Undressing Animals (Part Two)
Doo-Dooettes - Green
(Note : LP , 500 numb. copies + insert)
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ETAT 18 V / A BLORP ESETTE VOLUME 1 LP 03.2022

Unknown Artist - Intro
Dr. Odd - Neil Schneck
Electric Willy - Her Father's Love
Daniel Stewart - Somebody Pooped In Their Pants
Cheezit Ritz - The Lubricated Braggarts Countdown
Reet / Craig - (LA (WEBSTER7) 0)
Smegma - Excerpt From "I Smell Smoke" (Second To Last Part)
Mr. Foon - Oktaaves
The Residents - Whoopy Snorp
The Patients - Half Magic
Unknown Artist - Outro/Wolf Loop
The Professor - Two Or Three Unclaimed Negro Corpses
D.K., Reet Meate - Still Life
Le Forte Four - Japanese Super Heroes
Gods Of The Pits - The Return The Pyramidal Oinksnovs
Smegma - Ya Gotta Geek The Geeker
ACE=1, c/s - Helen Elana Armand - HEA/AOS
Ju Suk Reet Meate - Reet Solo Real Bass
Mr. Foon's Bandaloon - Microphobia
Frank Bedal - Just Don't Forget, Frank Is The Boss
(Note : LP , 500 numb. copies + insert)
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ETAT 19 SMEGMA GLAMOUR GIRL 1941 LP 03.2022

1 Difference
2 1980 A.R. (After Radiation)
3 Prowing Nose
4 Die Wo-Wo
5 I Am Not Artist
6 Ladies Nite At The "Ortho Lounge"
7 Half A Billion

Portland-via-L.A. collective Smegma released their debut album "Glamour Girl 1941"
in late 1979 on the Los Angeles Free Music Society label. A riotous collision of
rock instrumentation with noise, synths and experimental recording techniques like
tape loops, it became a key influence on Portland’s punk scene.
Edition of 500 numbered copies. Includes insert.
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ETAT 20 V / A SOUND LP 03.2022

Jim Hobart - Maraca Instrument
Bob Bates - Force Field
Richard Dunlap - The Rubber Band
Joan La Barbara - Q-uatre Petites Betes
Ron George - Improvisation
Ivor Darreg - Composition For Turkish-Fretless Banjo
Bob Wilhite - Two Spinners
Jim Gordon - Piece For Synthesizers, Computers And Other Instruments
Paul DeMarinis - Pygmy Gamelan Goes To Art
Jim Pomeroy - Back On The Ladder, The Beat Goes On
Yoshi Wada - An Adapted Bag With Sympathy III
Christina Kubisch - Tempo Liquido
Gerald Oshita - Water Preludes
Tom Jenkins - One Man Band
Bill Fontana - Kirribilli Wharf
Doug Hollis - Aeolian Harp
Tom Marioni - Drop Brushing
Terry Fox - Labyrinth Scored For II Cats
Tom Recchion - Solos
Alex Bernstein - L.A. Proper
Karen Wolff* / William Kingsbury - Double Crossing
Bruce Fier - Score For Eleven Infinite Rainbows
Susan Rawcliffe - Trix Ocarinas
Will Parsons / Grace Bell - Road Runner / L.A.
Dennis Evans - Location #2
John Duncan / Michael Le Donne-Bhennet - Koko Weef 6038
(Note : LP , 500 numb. copies + poster)
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