hmcd01 CD

Various Artists

Galaxies: An Excursion Through Technospace

Released 2/93 Full Color insert and booklet

$8.00 US

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Now you can hear what some of the world infamous Ranch Relaxo All-Stars^TM were doing in 1992! You'll hear the very first Prototype 909 release ever from when they were only two; as well as solo works by Dietrich Schoenemann and Taylor Deupree. Serotonin founder and x-rancho Jason Szostek teams with Taylor Deupree and give us two tracks from Decameron, their original techno outfit shortly before the final P-909 coalesced. Not to be overshadowed are early works by City of God and Axon.

The disc ranges from hard raving new beat Tekno to chilly musical soundscapes while always managing to remain a little off-center of the club music scene and quiet often accomplishing electronic uniqueness. Not just fun or historical value; it remains eminently listenable.

The year was 1992 and New York underground electronic label Havoc Music, unleashed by electronic mastermind Taylor Deupree, had gathered many of his electronic music friends on a cassette compilation entitled "Technocriminal Subcultures". Later that year we asked our friend Tom Gromak to help finance a CD compilation containing many of the same artists. With his help the CD was released in early 93 and helped many of us gain greater recognition for our work.

Not being the greatest marketeers in the world we still have a few left, a time capsule if you will, that provides an insight into the development of what are today much better known techno artists. To me its a funny thing, some of this older more "dated" material actually has more depth and staying power than many of our subsequent releases.

Perhaps it's because this CD catches us in a transition phase of our work, before we had been conditioned by the demands of the techno regime and its unflappable rules system borne out of its umbilical cord relationship to the club/rave setting. Many of us were more concerned with experimenting with sound and technology than with fitting into a marketing niche; but in the years leading up to 1992 we were becoming increasingly intrigued by techno/house grooves and their potential to assimilate new infusions and endlessly morph in forms.

Jason Szostek

Brooklyn, NY 1997

Artist/Track/Producers/Length

`X-Out`	.`The Letter E`	`Dietrich Schoenemann`	`4:20`
`Intentional Systems`	.`Bodybank(The Decameron Remix)`	`Ken Kirschner`	`4:13`
`Decameron`	.`Acid, Acid`	`Taylor 808` `Jason "bpmf" Szostek`	`5:19`
`Slave to External`	.`n-dimensional`	`Taylor 808`	`5:05`
`Virus Crack Team`	.`Lovechild`	`Virus Crack Team`	`4:12`
`Lunik`	.`Video Hallucination`	`John Adams/Taylor 808`	`4:58`
`Induced`	.`Circuit`	`Dietrich Schoenemann`	`5:54`
`Human Mesh Dance`	.`Heaven (recovered)`	`Taylor 808`	`4:06`
`Hydraulic Clownhead`	.`Chant of the Morning Clowns`	`Atom/Brad Cooper`	`4:56`
`Illuminator`	.`Trance Net`	`Taylor 808`	`5:26`
`Prototype 909`	.`I Don't Want to Grow Up`	`Dietrich Schoenemann` `Taylor 808`	`4:06`
`Axon`	.`Flux (The Tribal Mix)`	`Eric McCormick w/` `DJ Johnathan C &` `Rob Campanell`	`6:00`
`E-Sop`	.`Dream is a Shadow of Something Real`	`Jason Szostek` `Natasha Rethke`	`6:56`
`City of God`	.`IO`	`Darshan Jesrani` `Manish Sehgal`	`6:17`

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