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Visible and Invisible Persons Distributed in Space (LP)

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Ten incredible albums culled from the deepest, weirdest co-op of record enthusiasts ever gathered under one banner. We’ve spared no expense packaging these, pairing the idea of the Art of Compilation with living and breathing art, creating little fortune cookies baked in a factory of forgotten dreams.

Video games, pyramids, trading cards, matchbooks, mazes, lottery tickets, film canisters, yearbooks, and various other exercises in design absurdity. P-Funk and Prince & the Revolution led the world through the last stellar evolutionary stages of soul music as it was transmogrifiedthrough the pulverizing lens of the 1980s, when African-American culture gave way to an advanced African-Interplanetary civilizations.

Self-actualized artists and visionaries followed, reflecting and refracting their own interpretations as if translated by Samuel Delaney or Octavia Butler. This unwieldily titled collection documents ten successful experiments in privately-issued scifi soul music, lonely transmissions from a planet in a state of cultural fugue. Packaged in a one-way portal to the further limits of expression. Some assembly required.

Details
Cat. number: NUM104
Year: 2019

This edition

Packaged in a gold metallic sleeve. Sleeve can be opened up and assembled to form a pyramid. Hype sticker with barcode

Release notes

Compilation of privately-issued sci-fi soul music.

Tracklist
A1Just Wish You Were Here
A2Metropolis
A3Alibi Eyes
A4You Make Me Feel Brand New
A5Candles
B1First Time
B2Now You Sit Alone
B3Stay
B4Spaced Out On Your Love
B5Real Life

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