condition (record/cover): NM / NM (minimal foxing)

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A four-sided document of five years of Milwaukee's most sustained industrial experiment. Boy Dirt Car had formed in 1981 after Darren Brown and Eric Lunde met Glenn Branca at a Chicago festival, and by the time of this RRRecords double LP the band had circulated through a rotating lineup that included Keith Brammer and Dan Kubinski of Die Kreuzen alongside Dave Szolwinski and Dale Stamey.

The tracks here are live recordings culled from the 1983-1987 period, assembled by Ron Lessard for his Lowell imprint, the same year the original lineup would begin to dissolve with Lunde's departure. "He Tore Out His Eyes," one of the most disturbing tracks in the American noise-industrial catalogue, sets the tone: a headachey static bed punctured by far-off radio, a voice slowly chanting the title, another voice shrieking in response. Elsewhere the group sounds like an American counterpart to Einstürzende Neubauten, closer to the crude Chicago electroacoustic end of Illusion of Safety than to Some Bizzare glamour.

Lessard, contemporaneously running the first Merzbow release on American soil (抜刀隊 With Memorial Gadgets, 1986) and most of the decade's key noise documents, used RRR 047 to cement Boy Dirt Car's position within the emerging international industrial network. The rust-belt vérité of the Midwest captured at full noise, before the band itself went quiet for the better part of a decade.