Industrial Sponge, by Industrial Sponge

Industrial Sponge

by Industrial Sponge

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1.	Monsters In My Head 01:14	buy track
2.	Daddy Was a Brontosaurus 01:25	buy track
3.	Dinosaur Rap 01:42	buy track
4.	Dinosaur Scream 03:57	buy track
5.	Nazi's of America 03:52	buy track
6.	Just Do It 03:13	buy track
7.	Aural Sex 01:46	buy track
8.	Waves 05:52	buy track
9.	Lettah To Sarah Pt. 1 01:07	buy track
10.	Lettah To Sarah Pt. 2 08:05	buy track
11.	He Was Naked 04:18	buy track
12.	Scary Western 00:30	buy track
13.	Desert 01:58	buy track
14.	Bad Wrappers 01:09	buy track
15.	Sacrifice 02:41	buy track
16.	Could You Be Happy 04:13	buy track

about

Slithering out the fertile depths of Olympia, Washington circa 1985, Industrial Sponge “released” a lone 90 minute cassette onto the unsuspecting public. And by “released” we mean they would gift wrap the tape and leave it around Olympia and nearby Aberdeen at bus stops, on the sidewalk or in coffee shops, waiting for their bizarre manifestations to be discovered by whoever was in the mood for a mysterious free present.

Industrial Sponge was spearheaded by “Fearless” Frank Gunderson (who was also a member of Human Skab, with his pre-teen cousin Travis) and a number of his classmates at Evergreen State College, where they were attending at the time. Fueled by various illicit substances, Frank and friends would record their rants and raves for hours on end, the 4-track machine as their only witness.

Although lines can be drawn from Adrian Sherwood or PIL’s most scorched and dubbed out productions to Nervous Gender’s snot-nosed synth punk, Industrial Sponge’s racket was a sound all their own. With a sense of humor that would make more serious calamity searchers blush over their bowls of borscht, the ‘Sponge combined clattering drum machines, in-the-red vocals and dinky keyboards into a surprisingly catchy whole. For maximum effect, there were no spaces between any of the songs, everything crammed up against each other in a thick morass of sound.

Frank Gunderson is currently a professor of musicology at Florida State University with a focus on East African and Tanzanian music, where he recently filmed the documentary “Beloved Youth of Many Days: Stories About Milmani Park Orchestra.”

Concentric Circles is delighted to announce a first time reissue of this undiscovered, damaged gem. In their own words, this is “reptilian industrial music,” made by goofball antisocial freaks from the Pacific Northwest. In an attempt for digestibility, we decided to release only one side (side B, naturally) of the original 90 minute tape as a single LP. So grab a dozen frozen pizzas, a case of Jolt Cola and prepare for lift off.

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