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Fresh Deceit

by Scopdom Scop

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1.
I've Wasted My Life 10:28
2.
Clean And Clean 24:08
3.
Still Born Again In The USA 10:05
4.
Dark Ointment Between 05:07
5.
Of Lunabreed 09:42
6.
Is That You? 24:06
7.
Down In The Well 06:01

about

Our fifth (or sixth) release, and the second of three double-LP releases for that year. We were in the deep end of our pulp phase, cranking out tunes as fast as the open reel could capture them.

A suspicious number of our tracks from this period run at almost exactly 24 minutes. This wasn't deliberate, but rather a result of the running time of an 1800' reel of recording tape running at 15 inches per second. We were recording at a disused rubber factory at the time, and gotten into the practice of recording each member as far apart as possible: guitarist on the loading dock, keyboards on upper loft, lead singer in the men's room etc. This kept communication to a minimum, and often the song continued long after the tape ran out. It was a pretty streamlined system and often led to unexpected results (our shitty version of Eno's Oblique Strategies perhaps).

Semi-interesting recording trivia: The backing vocals for "Of Lunabreed" and "Down In The Well" were recorded backwards - the singers emulating the backwards playback of the lead vocal to simulate a "forward vocal". At the time, I was unaware of anybody else who ever did this. Years later, I noticed this effect on an episode of Twin Peaks (the dream sequence midget's "Let's Rock"). David Lynch has never paid me for this.

The remaster is pretty much a straight transfer from the original finished master, with the exception of "Is That You?" which is taken from a first-generation source tape (for better fidelity).

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released September 2, 2013

Written, performed, produced by Scopdom Scop.
With Scott Vaszily and Robert Zasada.
Recorded at The Plant, 1985.
remastered 2011.

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Scopdom Scop Chicago, Illinois

Scopdom Scop ('shōpdəm shōp) are three Midwestern audiovisual experimentalists. Active from 1983-1999, they have produced hundreds of films, videos, recordings and multimedia projects under several different names.

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