Feb 8, 2017
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UNHOLY TRIFORCE: "SANDIN' YR VAGINA" (2010)
ABRASIVE, MOI?
Sometimes, like the Durutti Column's 'The Return of the Durutti Column' (which you can read about here), you can wear your abrasion on the outside of your sleeve to destroy the inferior music around you.
But with 'Sandin' yr Vagina' the abrasion is everywhere with emery board wrapping the cassette and sand filling it. Then, in a perfect meeting or sound and packaging, there is the abrasive music, described as 'metal, glass and wood noise with unrelenting harsh noise walls of junk-metal and disturbing silence'.
You can listen to a excerpt from the tape here, but you may want to make sure you have some rash cream to hand.
SHIDLAS: "SALIAMI POSTMODERN" (2010) "IS THAT SALAMI PACKAGING IN YOUR POCKET OR ARE YOU JUST PLEASED TO SEE ME?" Why make a CD look like a, well, CD when there are a million other round things you could make it look like? Such as packaged salami, for example. And who really cares what the music sounds like, when all you'll probably want to do with this is get the disc out at parties to impress your friends? (It's OK Lithuanian dubstep/rock, btw). Following Shidlas' lead, is a compilation from Fly Records offering a very British take on the meat packaged CD - a nice bit of shrinkwrapped ham (see photoset).
THE DURUTTI COLUMN: THE RETURN OF THE DURUTTI COLUMN (1980)
WEAR DOWN YOUR NEIGHBOURS
Initial copies were wrapped in the sandpaper sleeve you can see above. The brilliance of this concept was that your album would over time destroy the albums sitting next to it (which in this case may well have ended up being Duran Duran).
The sleeves were assembled by members of label mates Joy Division and limited to 2,000 copies. The idea to use sandpaper had already been previously floated for part of PIL's 'Metal Box' (to be featured in a later post), although their idea was to use the sandpaper for inner, rather than outer sleeves.