I picked up a most peculiar 7" today, allow me to describe it in detail:
The front side of the slip cover has a photocopy of a female 'scientist'
examining a Pyrex container of dark liquid. She is surrounded by
beakers and undoubtedly in a chemistry/biology laboratory.
Atop her photocopied picture are the 'credits':
Research and synthesizing: Kim Karli.
Assisting theoritician<sik>: Gunther Ellis.
Developed at: Reactor Engineering, United States
Personnel liaison and administration: William Scott Jr.
Telephone: 313-571-6723.
Dataphysix Engineering, United States: Copyright holder.
Hinged to the front is a 'head shot' (like the kind stars tote around to
autograph) of what may be the same female 'scientist'.
On the flip side of the slip cover are the words "dopplereffekt' and a
photocopy of a cellular phone followed by the tracklist and credits:
SOUND SURFACE 1: BbICWNN PACA (*see notes below*)
SOUND SURFACE 2: CELLULAR PHONE
SCIENCE OFFICERS:
KIM KARLI
GUNTHER ELLIS
The label is black and marked only by the following text:
cellular
MDX1 45 MDX2 45
TIME 3:04 TIME 4:19
(Inner etchings confirm the same MDX1/2 information. Nothing more.)
And now into the grooves!!!
MDX1 plays like a "deep sea dweller" out take. Bouncy funk fours of
electro and old school synth, supplemented by perky handclaps and
screecy Drexciyaesqe stabs. The final seconds nearly confirm that this
is in fact DREXCIYA. A sample of our 'lab girl' proclaims in a voice
which sounds sneakingly like the "cruiser control bubble one" gal
(introduced again by noises I've only heard in other DREXCIYA records)
in true tongue and cheek cadence: "sit-ting in the lab-ora-tory
con-duc-ting ex-per-iments ana-lyzing data."
MDX2 kicks in with a quick 'dial-up' and more funky electro beats roll
on out. Eight o eight and I bring this bad boy home to meet my stylus.
DREXCIYA waves and plink plonk supplemental chirps hit and vibrate. The
track sinks slinky and slightly in and out of submersion (ala Carl
Craig) and instantly I'm out of my chair and in my wreck room dancing.
Fat funky stoopid fly and all that. Read it and weep.
Teep
BbICWNN PACA*
There is an accent over the 'b' and first 'a' as well both 'N' are
backwards...is this Slavic? (For obvious reasons) this word is
handwritten.
PS: FYI, I've called the phone number and gotten the standard "yo I aint
here leave a message" deal sandwiched by some old masters at work riffs.