BOY DIRT CAR
Format: CD Album
Catalogue Number: LEXDEV009
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WINTER / F/I SPLIT LP
| Price: | AUD$17.95 |
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Description:
Milwaukee's Boy Dirt Car were their good city's preeminent punk-noise-industrial outfit who roamed the state and country from roughly 1981 'til 1989. Formed by the disgruntled duo of Eric Lunde and Darren Brown after being inspired by a local cacophonous Glen Branca gig, they decided to gather a group of fellow miscreants from the Milwaukee punk scene with a mission to create a truly inspired, ungodly, riot-inducing racket. Roping in, amongst others, Dan Kubinski and Keith Brammer from local hardcore kings, Die Kreuzen (whose Touch & Go albums are some of the finest albums of their time), they formed Boy Dirt Car.
With a sound approximating some sort of bizarre stew of Throbbing Gristle, early Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Birthday Party, AMM and Einsterzunde Neubauten, they set about documenting themselves through a slew of self-released cassettes. Playing the circuit with everyone from Fred Frith to Flipper to Shockabilly to Screamin' Jay Hawkins(!), BDC caught the ear of noise aficionado, Ron Lessard, of the famed RRR label out of Massachusetts, who released the 1986 split LP with fellow Milwaukee space-rockers, F/i. Winning praise from the hipsters and running through a few pressings for its troubles, the band went and did it again in 1987 with their debut full-length, Winter. Both have these have been out of print for almost 15 years and never been given the CD treatment, until now.
Touring the Midwest and West Coast throughout 1987, the band impressed everyone from Jello Biafra to Bruce Pavitt to a duo of local Northwestern layabouts by the names of Kurt and Buzz. So impressed was Mr. Pavitt that he asked them to contribute a track to his debut release on his new label, Sub Pop. That track from Sub Pop 100 is also on CD here for the first time. Calling it a day in '89 after the recording and subsequent non-release (until 2001 on Lexicon Devil) of their latest studio effort, Heatrig, the band split up whilst members pursued other projects.
So why bother with Boy Dirt Car? For the simple reason that they are one of the great missing links in '80s US punk-noise underground culture. Listening to the CD is like revisiting a time in history that really drew a line in the sand: are you with us or not? It was a time when "getting in the van" was all a "challenging band" could do to survive; a time when Whitehouse and Black Flag were one and the same; a time when "industrial" meant more than some New Romantic reject churning out z-grade speed-metal riffs with a drum machine. It's all part of a link to a puzzle, and Boy Dirt Car, as obscure as they may seem, were truly one of those great links that need reinvestigating.
The Winter/F/i split LP CD has been newly remastered by the band and features over an hour of material that's been missing from public view for well over a decade. It's got a plethora of informative liner notes and is a one-time-only pressing of 500 copies. Get in quick, destroy some speakers and blow your mind.
Milwaukee's Boy Dirt Car were their good city's preeminent punk-noise-industrial outfit who roamed the state and country from roughly 1981 'til 1989. Formed by the disgruntled duo of Eric Lunde and Darren Brown after being inspired by a local cacophonous Glen Branca gig, they decided to gather a group of fellow miscreants from the Milwaukee punk scene with a mission to create a truly inspired, ungodly, riot-inducing racket. Roping in, amongst others, Dan Kubinski and Keith Brammer from local hardcore kings, Die Kreuzen (whose Touch & Go albums are some of the finest albums of their time), they formed Boy Dirt Car.
With a sound approximating some sort of bizarre stew of Throbbing Gristle, early Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Birthday Party, AMM and Einsterzunde Neubauten, they set about documenting themselves through a slew of self-released cassettes. Playing the circuit with everyone from Fred Frith to Flipper to Shockabilly to Screamin' Jay Hawkins(!), BDC caught the ear of noise aficionado, Ron Lessard, of the famed RRR label out of Massachusetts, who released the 1986 split LP with fellow Milwaukee space-rockers, F/i. Winning praise from the hipsters and running through a few pressings for its troubles, the band went and did it again in 1987 with their debut full-length, Winter. Both have these have been out of print for almost 15 years and never been given the CD treatment, until now.
Touring the Midwest and West Coast throughout 1987, the band impressed everyone from Jello Biafra to Bruce Pavitt to a duo of local Northwestern layabouts by the names of Kurt and Buzz. So impressed was Mr. Pavitt that he asked them to contribute a track to his debut release on his new label, Sub Pop. That track from Sub Pop 100 is also on CD here for the first time. Calling it a day in '89 after the recording and subsequent non-release (until 2001 on Lexicon Devil) of their latest studio effort, Heatrig, the band split up whilst members pursued other projects.
So why bother with Boy Dirt Car? For the simple reason that they are one of the great missing links in '80s US punk-noise underground culture. Listening to the CD is like revisiting a time in history that really drew a line in the sand: are you with us or not? It was a time when "getting in the van" was all a "challenging band" could do to survive; a time when Whitehouse and Black Flag were one and the same; a time when "industrial" meant more than some New Romantic reject churning out z-grade speed-metal riffs with a drum machine. It's all part of a link to a puzzle, and Boy Dirt Car, as obscure as they may seem, were truly one of those great links that need reinvestigating.
The Winter/F/i split LP CD has been newly remastered by the band and features over an hour of material that's been missing from public view for well over a decade. It's got a plethora of informative liner notes and is a one-time-only pressing of 500 copies. Get in quick, destroy some speakers and blow your mind.
Track Listing:
| 1. | Smear |
| 2. | Control Broadcast |
| 3. | Western Nile |
| 4. | Invisible Man |
| 5. | Forms Forced Surrender |
| 6. | What Never Ends, Begins Today |
| 7. | 10,000 Years |
| 8. | Winter |
| 9. | Prairie Fire |
| 10. | 23 |
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