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Consumer Goods - Human Experimentation

2024 Lives: solo\/duo/\trio

All performances took place in Bloomington, IN recorded and mastered by Ben Myers cover painting found in a trash heap, unknown artist https://xylocept.bandcamp.com/ https://kylequass.bandcamp.com/ A: Lather // August 13, 2024 at I-Fell Urine Angel and Learn Not To also played. NÜDE was on the bill but had to cancel due to illness. Local Hypertext // October 16, 2024 at Walkover Sounds Local Hypertext=Lather+Xylocept (Ben Myers and Hazel Benton) Al Margolis (If, Bwana) / Tom Law - solo and as Duo Denum, and Drekka also played. B: LXQ // October 18, 2024 at Backspace Gallery LXQ is Ben Myers, Hazel Benton, and Kyle Quass. The Sera-Tones, Crab Jackson, and Erica Dawn Lyle also played.

Drekka/Lather Live: Concentration Club

Performances from the first and last Concentration Club events, held at Cat Head Press in Indianapolis, IN. Concentration Club was an event to explore acoustic sounds with little to no amplification, hosted by John Collins McCormick. Drekka: "intermittent glorps [and] mystery acoustics...Fantastic!" Lather: "conventional 'drone'...[with] a pleasing gloss of instability" -Howard Stelzer, http://www.vitalweekly.net/1170.html "With a flare for the dramatic, this feels like it could be out of a Hitchcock movie if it was slightly scarier- more about the horror than the suspense. I think of Bela Lugosi being directed by Hitchcock, for example, some sort of combination like that...Though it might not be exactly the same on both sides, you should enjoy both of these pieces by Drekka and Lather as they are both disrupted drone." -Joshua Macala, https://raisedbygypsies.blogspot.com/2019/02/cassette-review-drekka-lather-live.html DREKKA Live performance from the final Concentration Club Cat Head Press, Indianapolis, IN, 15 JUN 2018 Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mkl Anderson at Bluesanct HQ LATHER Live performance from the first Concentration Club Cat Head Press, Indianapolis, IN, 12 May 2017 Implements: prepared Audion Interlude, plastic bags, heatsinks, metal bowl, styrofoam, bow, screws, plastic object Recorded by Lather & John Collins McCormick Mixed by Lather & Adam Sommer Cover images captured by Carrie Weaver and John Collins McCormick Edited by Mkl Anderson and Ben Myers

Beyond Faded b/w Morning Tinnitus

25 recycled cassettes distributed to friends and peers. A document of fuckin' up. "...the sound waves of LATHER float through and become whispers of another time. And then soon? there is music...Listening is an experience. There is much going on and we want to put our finger on all of it. Yet. And yet we cannot." -Ricky Lemonseed, https://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2018/12/lather-beyond-faded-morning-tinnitus.html "...combines TNB-lineage junk rattling around in a dryer with Myers’ aggressively stage-whispered vocals (imagine Etant Donnes without the pretentiousness or incest) and bedrock of bedroom-acoustic non-fidelity." - Howard Stelzer, http://www.vitalweekly.net/1170.html Recorded at home during 2017. A. Beyond Faded recorded on 4-track cassette, mixed analog B. Morning Tinnitus recorded to microcassette & digital handheld mixed + altered digitally