The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 [Green Vinyl] (LP, UK)

23 March 2015

Bronzerat / Shove

BR42LP / SHOV19

A1. Funeral A2. Wax Dummy A3. Do The Get Down A4. Betty Vs The NYPD A5. White Jesus A6. Born Bad A7. Down And Out B1. Crossroad Hop B2. The Ballad Of Joe Buck B3. Dial Up Doll B4. Bellevue Baby B5. Tales Of Old New York: The Rock Box B6. Cooking For Television
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UK/Bronzerat ‘hot green’ vinyl edition (with download card) of Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 limited to 1000 copies in die-cut sleeve with printed inner-sleeve and download card. Also issued as a download, black vinyl, CD and available as part of a bundle with a Slip Mat and Tote Bag in both the US (TheJonSpencerBluesExplosion.com) and UK (BronzeRat.com). The rear cover photo was taken by Rick McGinnis in Toronto, Canada on 13 June 1993. UK: http://bronzerat.limitedrun.com/ US: http://thejonspencerbluesexplosion.myshopify.com/ The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 (CD, JAPAN) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 [Green Vinyl] (LP, UK) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 (LP, UK) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 (CD, UK) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 [Promo] (CD, UK) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 [Green Vinyl] (LP, US) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 (LP, US) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 [Test Pressing] (LP, US) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 (CD, US) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 (CASSETTE, US) Press Release: “New York City is a big place. A loud place. Some of that noise is music. And some of the music is noise. Sucking it all in and turning it loose with prejudice, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion takes a ferocious bite out of the Big Apple with their new long-player, Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015, the first record of the new era that demands to be stopped and frisked! Like the best sides that percolated up from the Bronx, the Lower East Side, and Greenwich Village across the 1970s and ‘80s – Freedom Tower is more than a high-octane dance party record, it is a document of New York City, a chronicle of grit and terror and love! It’s all here: The Hustler and The Trust Fund Baby, the Mosh Pit Casualty, the Celebrity Chef, the Crooked Cop, the Struggling Artist, the Sucker MC, the forgotten Sex Workers and Last-Chance Cinderellas. Within these grooves are cold-water tenements, blue-chip galleries, dingy Avenue B studios, and the last real warrior poet whose dark magick brings garage rock ghosts back from the grave! Freedom Tower is a radical portrait of New York City set to the savage funkacide of the Blues Explosion, locked and loaded with the most deadly, predatory guitar riffs that primitive magnetic tape can handle…. From start to finish, Freedom Tower is overmodulated, cooked with dirt, and finished in acid rain! Freedom Tower is packed with the kind of beats and rhymes that will make even the most reserved Walter Mitty jump back and say “damn!” For nearly a quarter-century the Blues Explosion have been sweating, freezing, eating, drinking, fucking, fighting, winning, and losing in New York City, perpetrating some of the most timeless moments of musical mayhem in the history of Manhattan and beyond. As ever, Jon Spencer tells the tales, Judah Bauer plays the blues, and Russell Simins smashes things to bits… And as always Blues Explosion stomp on the faux underground oasis peddled by bourgeois hipsters and marketing jocks to deliver the real deal — rock’n’roll that is unapologetically nasty and strong. Rehearsed and polished in a string of secret gigs and unannounced opening slots in theaters, hotel bars, and dives (often under assumed names), and then recorded at the legendary Daptone House Of Soul in Bushwick and mixed with hip-hop cult legend Alap Momin at the cutting edge of Harlem, Freedom Tower is the most provocative statement of urban pathos and panache ever recorded. Play this record at all-night rent parties, picnics, discotheques, and protests! There are eight million stories in the Naked City — but there is only one Blues Explosion! Freedom Tower – dig it now, while you still can!”
SONG CREDITS:
Writers: Spencer / Explosion Published: Dirty Shirt, BMI Recorded at Daptone Records House of Soul, Bushwick, NY Chief Engineer: Wayne Gordon Tape Operator: Simon Guzmon Some overdubs recorded at NY Hed with Matt Verta-Ray Mixed: Uptown Mixers, Harlem, NY by Jon Spencer and Alap Momin Mastered at Kevorkian Mastering, Hell’s Kitchen, NY by Fred Kevorkian
SLEEVE NOTES:
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Freedom Tower New Wave Dance Party 2015 1. Funeral = Respect / Funeral (Pay Respect) 2. Visine = Wax Dummy / No Shame 3. DRE = Get Down / (Do The) Get Down / Rufus! The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Freedom Tower New York Dance Party 2015 1. Funeral = Respect / Funeral (Pay Respect) 2. Visine = Wax Dummy / No Shame 3. DRE – Get Down / (Do The) Get Down / Rufus! 4. Betty = Tales of Old New York: The Skin Trade / The Hustle 5. So Fun = Stick To The Facts / White Jesus 6. Born Bad 7. Down N Out = Tales of Old New York: The Poor / The Destitute / The Broke Young Artist 8. Dance = Crossroad Hop / Dance In Blues / Blues Dance / Crossroads Dance 9. Six Days = The Ballad of Joe Buck 10. Doll Up = Dial Up / Dial Up Doll 11. Baby = In My Brain / Bellevue Baby 12. Memphis = Tales of Old New York: The Rock Box 13. Guarantee = Chatterbox Judah Bauer!! guitar Russell Simins!!! drums Jon Spencer! vocals, guitar Recorded at Daptone Records House of Soul, Bushwick NY with Chief Engineer Wayne Gordon & Tape Operator Simon Guzman Some overdubs recorded at NY Hed, LES NY with Matt Verta-Ray Mixed at Uptown Mixers, Harlem NY by Jon Spencer and Alap Momin Mastered at Kevorkian Mastering, Hell’s Kitchen NY by Fred Kevorkian All songs by Spencer / Explosion (Dirty Shirt, BMI) NYC 2015: the world of the FUTURE Filmed by Rick McGinnis on location in Toronto Judah Bauer!! guitar Russell Simins!!! drums Jon Spencer! vocals, guitar NYC 2015: the world of the FUTURE Total Expense 18,364.85 0.0018,364.85 BR42LP The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Freedom Tower No Wave Dance Party 2015 side one 1. Funeral 2. Wax Dummy 3. Do The Get Down 4. Betty Vs The NYPD 5. White Jesus 6. Born Bad 7. Down And Out side two 1. Crossroad Hop 2. The Ballad Of Joe Buck 3. Dial Up Doll 4. Bellevue Baby 5. Tales Of Old New York: The Rock Box 6. Cooking For Television Judah Bauer!! guitar Russell Simins!!! drums Jon Spencer! vocals, guitar THANK YOU: John Allen, Jon Barry, Xavier Benoit, Loren Chodosh, Jennifer Czin, Mike Edison, Adam Fayers, Lou Flanagan, Norio Imai, Miwa Kuroki, Nan Lanigan, Cristina Martinez, James Murphy, Jo Murray, Hilary Nielsen, Tim Pittman, Elizabeth Rossa, Thaddeus Rudd, Rich Sandrok, Naoki Shimizu, Clifton Taylor, Jonathan Toubin, Gianluca, Dave Viecelli, Peter Wright, Minoru Yokoo, Andy Zammit, Shira Zisook Income 0.00 Expense 6173 // Fees Check 06/23/2014 9999 XXXXX XXXXX 2014 Album 1,306.26 1,306.26 Check 06/24/2014 9999 XXXXX XXXXXXX 2014 Album 4,134.75 5,441.01 Total 6173 // Fees 5,441.01 0.00 5,441.01 6174 // Fees-XXXXX Check 08/15/2014 3900 XXXX XXXXX in:1268 2014 Album 100.00 100.00 Check 08/15/2014 3902 XXXX XXXXX 8/19/14 2014 Album 100.00 200.00 Check 09/08/2014 3903 XXXX XXXXX 9/3-9/5/14 21 hours @$40/ hour 2014 Album 840.00 1,040.00 Check 09/15/2014 3906 XXXX XXXXX 9/8-9/12/14 29 1/2 hrs/$X0/hour
DETAILS:
ARTWORK: Jon Spencer BARCODE: 5 051083 087407 RUN-OUT GROOVE ENGRAVING: A: “TIME SHIFT! K SST NOISELAND 14-0965A MPO” B: “STRICTLY UNDERGROUND FUNK K SST 14-0965B MPO”