"Bladder Flask were an oddball English collective (rather than a group) who were active in the early-mid 1980s and included a teenaged Richard Rupenus (who later formed The New Blockaders.) In 1981 Bladder Flask issued their one and only LP, 'One Day I Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met & Everybody Thought I Was Whistling' on their own Orgel Fesper Music label which was described as, ‘...A mind-boggling Fluxus, Dada, Improv, Sound Art lunacy as if Bladder Flask were possessed by some fevered desire to surpass the worst excesses of the lunatic fringe end of the United Dairies catalogue. A gibbering masterpiece.’ The LP quickly came to the attention of Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound who became an avid fan and today cites 'One Day I Was So Sad…' as his most favourite ever title. In fact, Bladder Flask just missed being included on the (in)famous ‘NWW list’ by a cat’s whisker (the LP was issued a few months after the list was compiled) and were invited to issue an LP on United Dairies in 1981 although (for various reasons) it failed to see the light of day. 'The One Day I Was So Sad…' LP is soon to be reissued by Finders Keepers (who recently issued the 'Strain, Crack & Break' 2LP compilation including several artists from the NWW list.) While recently dusting off the 'One Day I Was So Sad…' master-tape Rupenus unearthed two previously unreleased Bladder Flask tracks which were originally intended for inclusion on two compilations which failed to materialize. The tracks in question: 'I Am As I Have Spoken' and 'Zzeut-Ztt-Ztt-Zzt (Pour Chapeaux, Manteaux Et Parapluies)' (from 1982 / 1986 respectively) are issued together on a 7” in an edition of 198. Due soon is a collection of Bladder Flask reworkings by Steven Stapleton (provisionally entitled 'Nurse With Wound Play Bladder Flask') to be issued on United Dairies." - Anomalous.
After nearly a decade of false starts, multiple game plans veering off the rails, and a handful of shattered hopes and/or dreams, the odyssey is finally complete—the new Fusetron site is here.
This is the first phase of a multipart rollout that will span the next few months: the currently browsable stock includes miscellaneous new releases from the past 8+ months (we have a lot of catching up to do), plus approximately a third of our backstock. Note that we’ve reduced/slashed prices on many titles and will continue to do so in order to make room for new stock. We’ll also be expanding / tweaking / improving / debugging the site itself (for example, we still have work to do on the automated international postage system, not to mention the inevitable inventory discrepancies that come with transferring an ancient and massive database to a new system).
Over the next few months, as we take inventory, clean house, and delve into our storage, we will be uploading thousands of additional items, gradually, on a near-daily basis. This will include the majority of the LPs, as well as many titles, in all formats, once thought long-gone. Many currently “sold out” items are likely to resurface.
Finally, once our general backstock is up (probably in the next two or three months) we’ll begin making our extensive stockpile of rarities available online for the first time: tons of random out-of-print titles, "deadstock," warehouse finds, secondhand collectibles, etc., accumulated over the past few decades.
Frequent/returning customers will be getting early access to these items. Details to follow on how this will work (a priority mailing list? a 'frequent flyer'-like program?), but it will not be based on dollars spent. We want to reward those who consistently support us, especially in the discogs marketplace era (to those who show up trying to poach five copies of a one-off rarity, and nothing else, ever… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).
So—we suggest you take some time to dig through the site—even we’ve been surprised by what’s been turning up, and there’s much more to come.
