Nero - Untitled (Dune Concept Record)

I'm sharing this early Temporary Residence release to celebrate today's official release of "Dune", which almost certainly will be the first film I'll watch in a theatre in more than 2 years. I remember very little about this record, except I discovered it in the CD drawers at WMUC during one of the early morning DJ shifts I had my year at University of Maryland. I think Nero was from Louisville; they were half of the first record on Temporary Residence, and, as you can tell by the title of this post, they did a record about "Dune". That's literally all I remember about this. Well, that, and I liked this enough to rip it almost 20 years ago AND save the CD in my stacks. Sometimes, an interesting concept is enough to earn you a place in history.

"Dune" is one of my favorite books. It's definitely my most watched David Lynch movie. I'll probably watch the shit out of Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, no matter what the reviews are. I'm hyped. And thus I have shared far too much.

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Sunspring - Orange

I wish I had something super clever or apt to write about Sunspring. But the fact is that this lives in my collection as a curiosity more so than anything else. I find the story of the Slamdek Record Company to be incredibly inspiring, and I always enjoyed anything that came out that Louisville punk/HC/indie axis. But my playback of "Orange" while writing this is probably the first time I've listened to these songs in about 10 years, and I can see why. It's rare I'd be looking for this sort of early 90s noisy Southern hardcore: not brutal enough for Victory, not fast enough for Revelation...just inspired by Revolution Summer, collage, and copious amounts of caffeine.

The songs here date primarily from the first few years of Sunspring's existence. It collects "The Sun Cassette" (1991), "Action Eleven" (1992), and some compilation tracks. About half the tracks feature a drum machine. Bandleader K. Scott Ritcher later parlayed his creative side and obsessions into several records as the Metroschifter, a pair of runs at political office in Louisville, and graphic design for a number of classic emo and hardcore records from the turn of the millenium. I hear he lives in Stockholm now and does music for European commericals; smart man.

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