ugEXPLODE ug001: Weasel Walter - The Final Solution (1992)

I've had continual requests for a reissue of the first ugEXPLODE Records release, so here it is.

ug001 was originally issued on cassette in spring 1992 under the name "Javelin Bats" (a tag borrowed from my high school no wave band). It was released in tandem with The Flying Luttenbachers' "Live at WNUR 2-6-92" cassette sometime during the spring of 1992.

"The Final Solution" is an overdubbed duo of guitar and drums, performed by myself on two separate evenings. The guitar track was done on December 30, 1991 and the drum track was done on the next night. I believe I went to a fairly raging New Years Eve party afterwards and came home very early in the morning to mix the audio.

I suppose the inspiration for this music was "Interstellar Space" by John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, as well as later noise-out duos by Rudolph Grey with Beaver Harris. My chops were crude at the time, but youthful enthusiasm makes up for it. Essentially I was going for a marathon 45-minute explosion of energy and I believe I achieved it.

I remixed and remastered the audio around the year 2000 and briefly offered it in a generic cardboard sleeve as part of the "ugEXPLODE Archives" series along with many other titles. This is the 2000 mix.

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.

ugEXPLODE Related Artists Live Dates Dec 2012/Jan 2012

Friday, December 7, 2012
I-Beam
168 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY

8:30 PM Set
Protest Music (Yoni Kretzmer/Pascal Niggenkemper/Weasel Walter)

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Saturday, December 8, 2012
JACK
505 1/2 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Bassoon
Sarcaustic (Ron Anderson/Tim Dahl/Weasel Walter)
Elevator Rose
Blipvert

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Sunday December 9, 2012
Death By Audio
49 S. 2nd Street, Brooklyn, NY
9 PM show

Weasel Walter/Mary Halvorson/Peter Evans
Kid Millions/Jim Sauter duo
Finite State Machine

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Saturday, December 15, 2012
St Vitus
1120 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
9 PM show

Behold The Arctopus
Ocrilim
El Drugstore

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Sunday, December 16, 2012
The Haunt
702 Willow Avenue, Ithaca, NY
7 PM show $10

Behold The Arctopus
Sulaco
BRIAN!
Dialysis
Yakbak

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Sunday, January 6, 2013
Death By Audio
49 S. 2nd Street, Brooklyn, NY
9 PM show

Cellular Chaos
+ others

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY

Michael Foster/Chris Pitsiokos/Weasel Walter

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
JACK
505 1/2 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Brandon Seabrook/Chuck Bettis/Weasel Walter