Label: Old Europa Cafe - OECD297

1996年にブルックリンで始動したJohn Balistreriによるソロ・パワエレ/ノイズ・プロジェクトSlogun。サイドプロジェクトを含め現在まで多くの音源を残しており、本作はそのディスコグラフィー中から3種の重要音源を厳選したイタリアOld Europa Cafeの編集版。2001年にCircle Of Shitより発表したCD-R[I Travel]、2002年にWhite Rabbitからリリースした10インチ[How It Ends]、そして2016年にOld Europa Cafeより限定23部で発表した12インチ[All But One]という、現在高額で取引されている音源を含む充実のセレクト。パワフルなアタックの連続でありながらも氏の根底にある独特の叙情性も感じ取れる名作集成。

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Old Europa Cafe is proud to announce the release “Less Traveled” by American “True Crime Electronics” icon Slogun, compiling three notable titles from his notorious discography.

The full-length CD brings together two titles born out of his 2001 appearance in Mombris, Germany, “I Travel” and “How It Ends”, as well as a rare EP celebrating his April 2016 appearance at the OEC Venue CONGRESSO POST INDUSTRIALE in Bologna, Italy, “All But One”.

“I Travel” was originally released in limited quantity by Slogun’s own Circle of Shit label for his show with Dagda Mor in Mombris, Germany on September 8th, 2001, just days prior to the terrorist attacks on his native New York City.
Comprising five tracks, they are a perfect example of Slogun’s style at the turn of the new century, utilizing his early harsh analog layering along with scorching walls of noise prominent in mid-2000’s titles.

“How It Ends” originally appeared as a limited edition picture 10” on the White Rabbit label in 2002, born out of his Mombris show, though NOT a live recording as many have mistakenly stated in the past.
More in line with his later works, the six tracks give you that unrelenting walls of noise attack that was Slogun’s style during the “touring years” between 2003 and 2007.

Finally, capping off the release are the two long tracks from the rare acetate 12” “All But One”, which was released at the Slogun appearance in Bologna, Italy in April of 2016 for Old Europa Cafe along with other heavy hitters Sutcliffe Jugend and The Rita, featuring a more structured sound evident in the final albums of Slogun’s run between 2010 and 2018.

Of course all these tracks rely most on Slogun’s distinct lyrical style: raw, ugly, non-conforming. Lifting the veil on the notion of “humanity” and the human animal.

“Less Traveled” celebrates a life off the beaten path, lived regardless of the price that had to be paid.
The realization that what was taught was false.
What was explained all a lie. What was directed just empty promises.
The myth of "best interest" blown wide open as self-realization snuffed out all the empty promises. F.T.W.

CD comes in 6 panels Digipak.

Tracklist:
01. filth
02. my close friend
03. insist
04. so pretty
05. jane doe number 5
06. watch me
07. every day i die
08. ritual cleansing
09. curfew
10. invisible
11. act o high
12. dead awake
13. charades