Terre Thaemlitz - Raw Through A Straw / Tranquilizer (Reissue 2)

Tenth anniversary re-issue of "Comatonse.000" with bonus material. On transparent blue vinyl.

Track B1 consists of a live performance of "Raw Through A Straw" which was only recorded on the left channel by accident. Another live version was later played for the right channel and the two were cut to vinyl together.

On the sleeve:

In 1993, my first record "Comatonse.000" was self-released with no particular hopes or plans. Much to my surprise, it gained the attention of select DJ's and collectors, and has become a cult item of sorts.

Given my dislike of live stage performance, it wasn't until ten years later, in 2003, that these tracks were actually performed live for the first time ever. It took a week of piecing together old computers and hacking old software just to know if it would be possible. Then, as fate would have it, I was invited by a special friend to perform "Raw Through A Straw" for a second time just two weeks later. Given the support "Comatonse.000" and Comatonse Recordings has received in Japan, it only seems right that both performances here - first in the North, then in the East. (While I can't print the names of events or venues here, I'm sure the collectors can figure them out easily enough.)

The 1993 Side of this record contains the original "Comatonse.000" recordings, un-remastered, un-re-anything. The 2003 Side of this record combines all live recodings of these tracks to date. Unfortunately, faulty wiring during the taping of the Eastern performance of "Raw Through A Straw" left me with only a recording of the right channel's sound. Rather than discard the tape, I decided to sync the right channel of the Eastern performance with the left channel from the Northern performance, resulting to the "Double Live" version on this record. While the "Double Live" version is intended for stereo playback, you can also use the L/R balance control on your stereo to seperate the two performances and listen to them one at a time. "Tranquilizer" was only performed once, in the North.

A little over ten years later and Comatonse Recordings still exists with no particular hopes or plans, just an irregular trickle of music whenever I have something good enough to release - and that's the way I like it.

Many thanks to everyone!

Love, Terre (a.k.a. Comatonse.000)

1993 Side

1. Raw Through A Straw 11:00

He is troubled by his oddly displaced excitement
In witnessing the birth of a world
Where the only cum safe for his ingestion is his own

2. Tranquilizer 13:00

"Emerging from the clouds a sixth time
The moon floods the lilac fiels with icy blue light"

2003 Side


1. Raw Through A Straw (Double Live) 9:30

L: Live In The North
R: Live In The East

2. Tranquilizer (Live In The North) 12:50

Featuring Comafidelity Multi-Channel Sound.
Produced, mixed and arranged by Terre Thaemlitz.
1993 Side programmed and recorded at Meow, NYC, 1993.
2003 Side recorded live in Japan 2003, mastered at Meow, Kawasaki, 2004.
No fucking-sticking-licking-sticking without latex.
Rinse your works with bleach and water.
Do not attempt any parts of this product as a safer sex device.
(c) 2004 Comatonse Recordings
(p) Urbana Arts (ASCAP)

C 000 R2 (Comatonse.000 Re-issue 2)