"Another splendid album of avant hi-jinx and shreddery from keyboard whiz, Liz Durette. Primordial Soup is her fourth album (first was a cassette), and the second for Feeding Tube. It is the follow-up to 2020's most excellent Delight (FTR 504LP) and heads into somewhat different stylistic turf, whilst maintaining Durette's high levels of keyboard invention. If Delight was created while Liz was thinking about Romantic-era waltzes, then Primordial Soup owes some of its strategic approach to the delicate webs of ornamentation generated by French Baroque composers, as well as certain Eastern scales Liz was pondering. The pieces are all melodic as hell, but Liz describes them as having a 'simpler tonal structure' than her previous albums, even though they employ the Baroque habit of ornamenting the main lines with tangles of filigree. Of course, it sounds nothing like Baroque music per se, but the technical aspects of the style allow her the ability to expand basic themes in a variety of seemingly oblique directions. The music often veers off into other dimensions of there, before returning to the basic threads around which it was built. In this respect, Liz's approach recalls the weirder end of jazz-based solo synth improvisation, where a kind of retro-futurist duality often functions in a similar manner. But it would be wrong to infer that this is a serious sounding album, no matter how rigorous its dream-time infrastructure might appear. There are folkloric passages with inflections that are more in line with flute music from Rajasthan or Myanmar than any known Baroque figures, and the music on Primordial Soup has a taste of the same time-bending/shape-shifting qualities that powered the music of Warner Bros. cartoons. The results may not be as serious as your life, but they're a gas-and-a-half to listen to. So dig right in. The soup is fuckin hot." --Byron Coley, 2023 Edition of 500." - Feeding Tube.
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.
