From the den of pre-scientific iniquity in which Baltimore sound\r\nactors thrive on non-planning, the stately emergence of professional\r\nharsh acousticians in five-part harmony, a brash romp through the New\r\nFrictionalism, The New Spectralism, and The New Ritualism. Bowing.\r\nRubbing. Scraping. Squealing. Squeaking. Screeching. Moaning. Silence.\r\nAnything else. Nothing else. Sound fixations waiting to unfix in the\r\nact of observation/measurement. Go ahead, measure them. Then flip to\r\nside B and watch your numbers float away in a muddy stream of ink. All\r\nsounds were made without electricity. Its portable music. You can\r\neasily move from now to the time when there was no emotion, just its\r\nprecursors of permanently lingering urgency._Ç Paul Neidhardt,\r\nCatherine Pancake, Dan Breen, and Andy Hayleck caress their idiophones\r\nuntil theyre lost in backporch lullabies\r\n of terror. Audrey Chens\r\nvoice also gets lost, swallowed by its mechanical half-kin and trapped\r\ninto the shadow world of forbidden overtones. In the center we find a\r\nsteaming hunk of dry ice, hosting the sounds of molecular frenzy at\r\nthe interface of hot and cold. Metal. Wood. H2O. Larynx. Danger. Safety. They say its built into the limbic system. - Ehse. Instrumentation: bowed metal, dry ice with heated metal, musical saws, percussion and voice.
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.
