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packaging: extra heavy wooden boxset w/ 8x 3"cds and inlay
essay by heath k. hignight

tracklist:

cd1. lusine icl

cd2. solarx [masters of meanders]

cd3. lowfish

cd4. gridlock

cd5. psi spy [lost and found]

cd6. snog [seven hymns for the worker bee]

cd7. hecq

cd8. mad ep [eine kleine madmusik]

download pressrelease.pdf

travel sickness. topic overview

travel sickness (ts) is a potentially deadly cultural illness, a virus found in the heart, mind, body, and politics of certain humans. people can become infected by:
- willingly engaging in meaningless, emotion-based movements spawned by corporate interests.
- the purchase and consumption of personal image products intended to mask individual creativity and independent thought.
- being exposed to disingenuous, uninformed, or other culturally retrograde concepts, often conveyed by parents, education systems, and peer groups.

ts causes people who are born healthy and without prejudice to slowly become very ignorant. shortly after birth (about two years), humans are generally infected with the virus through parents and extended family, often developing a gradual distrust of thought and analysis and increased reliance upon received information (via hosts such as parents, peers, and educators) and factual regurgitation. other symptoms of ts may include:
- difficulty accepting human uniqueness and individuality
- propensity toward mindlessly repeating information culled from any media or source of authority (assumed, presumed, or otherwise).

without treatment, ts may cause death of the soul. most spiritual deaths caused by ts occur within humans who live too long without an appropriate degree of intellectual and emotional development.

once a person develops ts, treatment for the illness is self-actualization and personal awareness, including focused attention to intellectual and emotional development to foster a sense of true individuality (as opposed to the individuality presumed in the assumption of dead political and socio-economic lifestyles). yet this treatment, while self-administered, usually gains potency only upon consistent application and usage throughout adulthood.

travel sickness. treatment

this portion of the document chronicles the various treatments for ts set forth by renown electronic musicians, available exclusively from hymen records as a special 8cd box set:

lusine icl - laptop-generated sonic dementia with crisp percussive pounding; attributed to direct contact with seattle-based jeff mcilwain, who has also infected labels ranging from u-cover to isophlux to ghostly international
www.lusineweb.com

solar x - of hearty soviet origin, solar x’s roman belavkin has been mutating synth beat genes for the likes of worm interface, art-tek, defective, hymen, and lo recordings since the mid 90s
www.solarx.net

lowfish - gregory de rocher’s crisp, clean, punishing electro has seen the light of day on suction, satamile, and ersatz audio; lowfish is the bane of coffeehouse smarm purveyors around the globe
www.lowfish.ca

gridlock - the break art madness of mike wells and mike cadoo is often mistaken for similar-styled infectious agents funkstorung and funckarma, but gridlock, which originated in the us, is more virulent thanks to precision sonic imaging and robust melodic maturation during the aural incubation period (note: these are the last tracks from gridlock, which ceased sometime in 2005)
www.5-25.com/gridlock

psi spy - electrodigital melodies abound in the work of mike wallis, one-half of the duo known as crunch, who’ve released on music aus strom, delikatessen, and their own colony productions imprint
www.colonyproductions.co.uk

snog - in the style of bob dylan - but actually relevant to a generation burned out on corporate greed and consumer culture - david thrussell’s disarmingly smooth guitar tech ballads untie the tangled web of state-sanctioned lies that make up our daily existence
www.worldwentdown.com/imcc

hecq - humid and thundering, the sole contribution by hecq - benny boyson - is an unrelenting epic phantasm of broken breaks, haunting thought samples,
and sagacious ambient orchestration
www.hecq.de

mad ep - matthew peters owes nothing to the marketplace from which he derives the acoustic mayhem that is mad ep; he implodes worthless culture
detritus through cut-up pastiche, inspiring contemplation
www.mad-ep.com