I feel like freak sounds like Big Ole Trees are suppressed by The Internet. In his hypothetical 2019 resurgence, JONNY HAHN would have a youtube channel or some shit, and maybe there would even be a flurry of activity as a track like "Proposed Land Abuse Action" went viral...but ultimately it would be lost in the white noise of digital data...much in the same way that I present it to you today. But to come across an artifact like this in it's physical form, to wipe the scum from the cover off on your pants while digging through detritus in a desert resale shop and wonder what world you are about to step into....? That is the magic of physical media. Of physical ephemera. An outlet for outsiders, independent cassettes were cheap and easy to reproduce, and for literally a few dollars the voiceless were amplified - and those voices still ring out. Like an '80s Berkeley castoff activist co-mingling with D.J. LEBOWITZ, Hahn peppered instrumental compositions with topical left wing jabs like "Oliver North" and "Who Killed Director Casey?" and sowed his seed in plastic shelled pods. One of those pods lay dormant in Arizona until recently...and now it grows. True freaks and outsiders only.
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