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Batang Frisco // Batang Frisco LP

Batang Frisco // Batang Frisco LP

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This is a reissue record of the 1986 voluntary release album of new wave writer Batang Frisco. DL code included.Contains 8 songs from minimal wave to synth pop. DL code included.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Abstrakce Records / BFE Records releases available at Tobira. 

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Edition of 500.

BFE Records:

"Founded by Eric Jensen & the late Bill DiMichele (RIP), the lifespan of San Francisco based project Batang Frisco ('San Francisco Kids' in the Filipino dialect Tagalog) is inimitably distilled on this solitary self-titled record, an outlandish private press pearl of homespun minimal synth music.

Recorded over the course of 1985/6 and self-released in 1986, the one and only Batang Frisco LP was the product of an inconspicuous DIY existence spent in the margins of the Bay Area scene in the 1980s. A miraculous curio of haywire electronics, crude drum machines, raucous 80s riffage, glistening soundscapes, irreverent, surrealistic lyricism and doctored samples,'Batang Frisco' has since gained. well-merited cult recognition.

A story set before the first tech boom, in a San Francisco business district, described by the duo as a spiritual chronicle of Russian esotericism, magic, truth, and transcendence,'Batang Frisco' represents a bizarre harmony of raw experimentation and madcap humor, of bristling, sequenced rhythms, and beguiling, amorphous reverie. There are oblique anthems that veer into scuffed synth pop ('Power'), ersatz DIY disco ('Sewing Machine'), and dystopic industrial ('6th and Mission'), sinuous collages of austere synthesis and granulated cut- ups ('Care / Know'), as well as moments of heartfelt songcraft and, serene ambient ('Julie','Myth'). There are anomalies too.'The Fourth Way' is a crooked piece of rudimentary toy-like instrumentation and stark, doleful vocals, and'What Is Your Intimate Name' transitions abruptly between wild atonality and slow, introspective tones. Throughout DiMichele unfurls strange, striking imagery of xerox skies, electric vectors, malignant pressures, infidels, cults, drowned kings, and data floors, displaying a unique perspective and a wicked turn of phrase, amongst broader contentions with urban living, sex, consciousness, and dreams.

Although Batang Frisco may partly evoke the lurid, mutated preset punk of mid-period Chrome / early Damon Edge, as well as perhaps the playful, infectious Dadaism of Zru Vogue – something must have been in the water in San Francisco at the time – they 'Power' was featured on the Dark Entries retrospective compilation'Bay Area Retrograde Volume 1', and'Sewing Machine' has become a familiar favorite in the DJ sets. of Nosedrip (Stroom) and Interstellar Funk, who featured the track on the Artificial Dance compilation'Interstellar Funk Presents: Artificial Dancers --Waves of Synth'.

Yet, back in their own milieu and left to their own devices, the album Batang Frisco threw together for an unsuspecting audience is still the definitive portal into the singular world of these unconventional sons from SF.

Batang Frisco (Independent Minimal Synth) has an unusual place in the San Francisco music scene --we were gigging in coffee shops and nasty clubs as Batang Frisco while at the same time performing as the Outpatients (Noise Rock) and The False Gods (Cyberpunk) We actually opened for ourselves once; we recruited a few friends, and we all went at it. There was a tight bond among the synth minimalists; the crew was MX80, Modmach, Tuxedomoon, The Residents and Throbbing Gristle among many others, talented and not so talented – Bill DiMichele

Remastered from the original analog tapes. Including booklet with liner notes, reviews, photos .... "

Artist: Batang Frisco

Label: BFE Records

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This is a reissue record of the 1986 voluntary release album of new wave writer Batang Frisco. DL code included.Contains 8 songs from minimal wave to synth pop. DL code included.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Abstrakce Records / BFE Records releases available at Tobira. 

------------------------

Edition of 500.

BFE Records:

"Founded by Eric Jensen & the late Bill DiMichele (RIP), the lifespan of San Francisco based project Batang Frisco ('San Francisco Kids' in the Filipino dialect Tagalog) is inimitably distilled on this solitary self-titled record, an outlandish private press pearl of homespun minimal synth music.

Recorded over the course of 1985/6 and self-released in 1986, the one and only Batang Frisco LP was the product of an inconspicuous DIY existence spent in the margins of the Bay Area scene in the 1980s. A miraculous curio of haywire electronics, crude drum machines, raucous 80s riffage, glistening soundscapes, irreverent, surrealistic lyricism and doctored samples,'Batang Frisco' has since gained. well-merited cult recognition.

A story set before the first tech boom, in a San Francisco business district, described by the duo as a spiritual chronicle of Russian esotericism, magic, truth, and transcendence,'Batang Frisco' represents a bizarre harmony of raw experimentation and madcap humor, of bristling, sequenced rhythms, and beguiling, amorphous reverie. There are oblique anthems that veer into scuffed synth pop ('Power'), ersatz DIY disco ('Sewing Machine'), and dystopic industrial ('6th and Mission'), sinuous collages of austere synthesis and granulated cut- ups ('Care / Know'), as well as moments of heartfelt songcraft and, serene ambient ('Julie','Myth'). There are anomalies too.'The Fourth Way' is a crooked piece of rudimentary toy-like instrumentation and stark, doleful vocals, and'What Is Your Intimate Name' transitions abruptly between wild atonality and slow, introspective tones. Throughout DiMichele unfurls strange, striking imagery of xerox skies, electric vectors, malignant pressures, infidels, cults, drowned kings, and data floors, displaying a unique perspective and a wicked turn of phrase, amongst broader contentions with urban living, sex, consciousness, and dreams.

Although Batang Frisco may partly evoke the lurid, mutated preset punk of mid-period Chrome / early Damon Edge, as well as perhaps the playful, infectious Dadaism of Zru Vogue – something must have been in the water in San Francisco at the time – they 'Power' was featured on the Dark Entries retrospective compilation'Bay Area Retrograde Volume 1', and'Sewing Machine' has become a familiar favorite in the DJ sets. of Nosedrip (Stroom) and Interstellar Funk, who featured the track on the Artificial Dance compilation'Interstellar Funk Presents: Artificial Dancers --Waves of Synth'.

Yet, back in their own milieu and left to their own devices, the album Batang Frisco threw together for an unsuspecting audience is still the definitive portal into the singular world of these unconventional sons from SF.

Batang Frisco (Independent Minimal Synth) has an unusual place in the San Francisco music scene --we were gigging in coffee shops and nasty clubs as Batang Frisco while at the same time performing as the Outpatients (Noise Rock) and The False Gods (Cyberpunk) We actually opened for ourselves once; we recruited a few friends, and we all went at it. There was a tight bond among the synth minimalists; the crew was MX80, Modmach, Tuxedomoon, The Residents and Throbbing Gristle among many others, talented and not so talented – Bill DiMichele

Remastered from the original analog tapes. Including booklet with liner notes, reviews, photos .... "

Artist: Batang Frisco

Label: BFE Records