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Hunting Lodge - Unearthed + Son Of WILL CD
Full length album featuring the half-hour+ Skott/Diehl "dark ambient / noise" piece "Unearthed" from 1982, as well as rarities from the WILL era recording sessions ("Son of WILL"). This is an expanded edition of the 60 minute cassette originally released in 2018. Previously unreleased tracks include a new Rolaid Alpo Cola mix of "Sounds Like A Picture", an alternate full-length version of "Banishing Dirge" and a never before heard piece recorded at RCS studios circa March 1983. Yet another amazing restoration & remaster from Grant Richardson.
Glass mastered CD with 6-panel booklet featuring scans of Richard Skott's original equipment patch charts and his essay on the "Unearthed" session. Edition of 200.
This completes the "First Generation" Hunting Lodge 40th Anniversary series. Next year we will celebrate 40 years of the Nomad Souls / Tribal Warning Shot era with a slate of releases.
For digital version, visit: https://huntinglodge.bandcamp.com/album/unearthed-son-of-will
Hunting Lodge - "Shack" LP (SM-06/EL-020)
Recorded between 1985-1988, "Shack" finds Hunting Lodge in gritty 4-track mode, venturing into territories like booming metal percussion and tape collage, as well as songs later re-recorded in studio.
Originally released on the double cassette compilation "Insomnia Vol. 2" by We Never Sleep, remastered here for vinyl by Warren Defever (His Name Is Alive, Third Man Records) including two bonus tracks, all previously unreleased on vinyl.
Covers designed and printed by Bruce Licher/Independent Project Press to reflect the spirit of the original WNS release.
One time pressing of 300 hand-numbered copies.
All copies include a pro-duplicated CD including the full LP and several previously unheard bonus tracks.
SHAME, EXPOSURE: - "Bleeding Out" LP/bonus CD (SM-07 / EL-041)
Unreleased recordings from the short lived and under-documented early industrial project Shame, Exposure:. Recorded in the early months of 1982 into mid 1983 in Port Huron, MI and originally/loosely planned for an LP sometime in 1984, these recordings have sat unmixed and unheard for nearly 40 years on the original 4 track reels after Paul Steinborn, preoccupied with work obligations, left them and the project behind after his last show in July of 1984.
Re-discovered in 2019 by the engineer, these tapes shed further light into the focused and intense work of the artist, whose previously known recording history amounted to about an hour of material between one cassette and two compilations.
Edition of 300 copies with bonus CDr of material that couldn't fit on the LP, including a rough cassette mixdown of a 1981 piece by Hate/Grey, the prior industrial unit Paul was a member of (proper mixdowns of their recorded material to be released later).
Art direction by Lon C. Diehl in the spirit of the S,E: "Biohazard/Isolation" cassette, with unseen imagery of the period.
Digital version available at https://easylisteningmi.bandcamp.com/album/bleeding-out
More from Lon Diehl:
"Rob Corbin recorded many sessions for Paul Steinborn (as S,E:) in 1982-83 at RCS, Rob's studio in Port Huron, Michigan. When we tracked Mr. Corbin down a couple of years ago he informed us that he still had possession of the original recordings and kindly supplied them. After Knox Mitchell heard these tapes, he approached Paul Steinborn about a possible release. With guidance from Mr. Steinborn, Knox mixed down the multitracks, and the resultant recordings were sent to genius engineer Michael Rozon (Dais reissue of Hunting Lodge WILL LP, among many notable others) who mastered this for release on vinyl.
Knox suggested the project as the 2nd S/M Operations / Easy Listening LP release, and through sheer force of WILL made this a reality. We now have these LP's in hand, for release Day 339, 2020."
Problem + Hate/Grey - 1981-1982 CD
Previously lost recordings from Port Huron, Michigan industrial outfit Problem (later known as Hate/Grey), featuring future members of Hunting Lodge, Secret Chiefs, and Shame, Exposure:.
Long forgotten because of their lack of recordings available to the public, Problem & Hate/Grey were one of the first industrial bands in Michigan, if not the US. Forming in 1980 and lasting for less than a year, they were mostly known by their intense live presence, once described as "Antonin Artaud's Theater of the Absurd in pure sound".
After disbanding in 1982 the project was completely abandoned by all members, with recordings being rumored to be (and likely to have been) destroyed not long after being made. Between 2009 and 2019 several mixdowns, master reels, and a live recordings were unearthed.
Fully packaged silver CD with 12 page booklet featuring previously unseen photos, documentation, and extensive historical notes. Edition of 160 copies.
