subterranean/alternative tentacles. virus 3 / 4 tracks / 1981

D: zickzack. zz 50 / 1981

RI (CD): alternative tentacles. virus 3 / 4 tracks / 1995

Early German copies have a round promo sticker telling us who's playing on this record. Original 12” has a high contrast b&w picture while the CD reissue cover has more grey shades.

Jello and Ray of the Dead Kennedys teamed up with Christian Lunch and Morgan Fisher for this weird experimental project. It's basically some avantgarde electronics with some guitar chords and a surrealistic version of the Jello Biafra spoken word thing on top of it. However, it's quite entertaining; The Taser has pretty dark/funny lyrics, and Meat Beat is probably your only chance to hear Jello sing to a (wacky) Disco beat. [7]

Seltsames Experimentalprojekt mit Jello und Ray von den Dead Kennedys sowie Christian Lunch und Morgan Fisher. Avantgarde-Elektronik mit einigen Gitarrenakkorden, darüber eine surrealistischen Version von Jellos Spoken-Word-Texten. Das ist längst nicht so anstrengend wie es hier klingt, The Taser hat einen ziemlich düster-ironischen Text, und Meat Beat ist wohl die einzige Chance, Jello zu einem Discobeat singen zu hören.

Tracks: humanoids from the deep / the taser // trapped in the playground / meat beat