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Hello,. Today a series that will be running into the new year, 24 episodes of Elvenquest.

Eclectic music, metaphysics, (pre)history, conspiracies against humanity, the environment.

Hello, Today the last US Aetix, a split post No Wave Funkers smothered with praise but never got anywhere as orinairy as a career, they left us this collection to enjoy, they are coupled here with another group that forgot to go places with the acclaim they got, they left us two extended albums to NJoy xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx The minimalistic funk of New Yorks Liquid Liquid consisted almost entirely of percussion grooves with a smattering of bass, plus congas, marimba, and the occasional vocal thrown in.

The quartet consisted of Scott Hartley (drums, percussion, talking drum), Richard McGuire (bass, percussion, piano, guitar), Salvatore Principato (percussion, vocals), and Dennis Young (percussion, marimba, roto toms).

The band released three EPs during its existence -- 1981s Liquid Liquid and Successive Reflexes, and 1983s Optimo.

The latter contained the track Cavern, which became the basis for Grandmaster Flashs White Lines (Dont Do It).

In 1997, Grand Royal Records released a collection of those three EPs, plus a 1982 performance, Live from Berkley Square.

While the Grand Royal comp added four tracks from a 1982 performance at Berkley Square, this disc features a handful of outtakes, as well as roughly 15 minutes from a 1980 gig.

There are no real revelations for those who have known the original releases for decades, but those tracks remain as relevant in the 2000s as they did in the 80s.

With an often surreal sound that paired the same sort of serpentine, angular instrumental work and emotive, off-kilter vocals characteristic of Television and Gang of Four with a disco-informed rhythmic bounce, Pylon came off like an even weirder, artier, yet somehow less pretentious Talking Heads.

One of only two full-length albums released during the groups original early-80s run (Pylon would eventually disband and re-form a number of times as the members moods and lifestyles dictated), Chomp was just as taught, exciting, and spooky as its classic predecessor, Gyrate, but benefited from a step-up in production values.

Kicking off with the throbbing, guitar noise-infused K (a strangely unsettling tribute to the board game Scrabble), the record inhabits a murky alternate universe dance party where Gloria Gaynor and Donna Summers melodic RB vocals have been replaced by lead singer Vanessa Briscoes Yoko OnoPatti Smith-style growls and yelps, and Studio 54 has set up shop in Andy Warhols Factory.

Considering how challenging this music remained decades after its release, Chomp is surprisingly accessible.

Laced with undeniable hooks, it also includes the bands best-known song, Crazy, which was famously covered by R.E.M.

The members of Pylon always considered themselves less a traditional rock band and more a collective of artists who happened to work in the medium of music; Chomp showcases the unit at the peak of its craft, painting musical abstractions in bold and influential strokes.

This is Pylon at their purest, mixing the spartan angularity of Gang of Four with a playfulness missing from similar U.K.

Au Pairs or the early Mekons (or indeed from Gang of Four themselves) as well as the irresistible danceability of their Athens, GA, compatriots the B-52s.

Yet Pylon never quite sounded like anyone except Pylon; their nave instrumental style -- guitarist Randy Bewley claimed that he didnt even know the names of any notes or chords -- and singer Vanessa Briscoes inimitable voice (moving from a flirtatious coo to a Meredith Monk shriek in the space of a line) and inscrutable lyrics are so idiosyncratic that they probably couldnt sound like anyone else any more than another band could tackle a Pylon song.

Remember the botch R.E.M.

Crazy) Highlights here include the spirited opener Volume, the evocative instrumental Weather Radio (probably the prettiest song on the record), and Briscoes impassioned Feast on My Heart.

Later pressings of this album replace the first track on side two, Driving School, with Recent Title.