Bitchin Bajas

The ‘Rebajas’ box set is a 7CD, 6 hour and 42 minute journey through the Bitchin Bajas catalogue to date, including all 11 of their solo releases: eight albums and the Bajas sides of three split records. The music on the ‘Rebajas’ box represents the dawn and early period of Bitchin Bajas. In the time of their conception, none of these releases were issued on anything other than vinyl. Maybe a cassette too, for some of them.

"It made sense: analogue synth music recorded on analogue tape - why wander from the warmth of the original signal path? It sounded great. So why now? Well, there’s finally enough material to make a really deep listening experience. The limitless vast that Bitchin Bajas’ music implies even in its smallest sampling is well-served by a multi-disc set: put all of it in your CD changer and let it rotate endlessly. Go with the music, away from the world for an interminable amount of time. It will still be here when you get back and your mind will be quieter when you return. 

From the beginning, Bitchin Bajas have made music to enhance the moment they and you are sharing and details above and beyond that have been relatively unimportant. In the time since then, they’ve gone from a one person band to a duo, then a trio. That information, plus the recording and original release details, the additional personnel and the original jacket, label and insert artwork for all the releases is included here, along with a few schematic details, to provide a true overview into the parameters of their world. What’s more, additional information can be heard in the material in its transferred-for-CD form, which has corrected inadequacies in several of the original pressings.

Plus, all the Bitchin Bajas material can now be heard without any surface noise. If you ever worried that scuffs and scratches would take you out of your sensory deprivation bliss-out (in or out of the tank), that ends here. So too ends the first Bajaian epoch - when the band return with new music, it will be moving away from even the most recent material on ‘Rebajas’, released earlier this year. Moving, always flowing - but with ‘Rebajas’, the whole Bitchin Bajas thing to date is captured in the unending amber of digital sound."