D: flex records. 16 / 9 tracks / jun 1998

This EP cost me my last bit of sanity; everything that possibly could go wrong went wrong, from rotting tape material to lost test pressings and fucked-up pressings. Most of the colored first press copies had little burnt vinyl chunks baked into the vinyl, so I sent back all the copies to have them destroyed and start over again. This first press had 9 test pressings on black, 493 regular copies on black and about 500 on various other colors; all the colored copies have been destroyed except for some playable copies: 7 on white vinyl, 3 on orange/white swirl, 5 on orange, 7 on red, 7 on multicolor white with red spots, 7 on multicolor red with white spots. The second attempt had different colors to the first press: 46 on grey/black marbled, 57 on (lighter) gray, 100 on opaque blue, 73 on clear, 95 on multicolor clear with black and red spots, 71 on neon yellow with green spots, 28 on neon yellow with green swirl, 2 on neon yellow with green and black swirl. This time there was a shortage of sleeves, so around 25 copies were sleeve-less. 4 of those come with a “Blood Edition” sleeve, 19 come with a “Final Edition” sleeve (both of these are just numbered reproductions of the original sleeve). A few scattered copies remained entirely sleeve-less, or had a plain xerox sleeve, or had a scanned/printed original sleeve. Pushead received 100 copies with original sleeves which he sold through the fan club; these copies (most on grey vinyl) had a numbered red insert that he made. Also there is a set of two playable 9” metal masters.

Bonus EP for Flex #10; sort of a Best of EP, Pushead let me choose my favorite SD tracks and added an unreleased instrumental (Claymind) which is in the style of the early SD recordings. Great cover art, too. [8]  

Eine Art Best-Of-EP, die dem Flex #10 beilag. Pushead ließ mich meine Lieblings-SD-Songs aussuchen und gab dann noch ein unveröffentlichtes Instrumental (Claymind) dazu, das im frühen SD-Stil gehalten ist. Nettes Teil für Sammler.

Tracks: sweat of a nightmare / core of reality / dysentery / thaw: cold world / never trust // insanity / terrorain / advantage / claymind