Emergency Room Vol. 1

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2008

Labels: Grotesque Modern, Nominal Records

Limited to 916 (plus 14 test pressings).

Includes full-size, 20 page book of photos, art, and text.

Defektors is spelled "Defectors" on the back sleeve but correctly with a "k" on the inner label and booklet.

Booklet Foreword:

"This record is to document a year of one of the best alternative spaces currently operating in Canada. THE EMERGENCY ROOM is located in Vancouver's rat and drug infested Downtown Eastside. A literal underground, this basement warehouse is an indestructible fortress of creation, destruction and repair witha a philosophy of DANCE or DIE, piss your pants and puke on yourself!!! From its origins as a free, D.I.Y. all-ages, noise/performance art gathering in the basement of Emily Carr Arts Institute parkade, to its current existence in a former fish processing factory, the E.R. has consistently put on some of the weirdest, most alcohol-soaked, most elaborate, entertaining and ridiculous art and music shows in Vancouver's recent underground history. After a year of spray-painted walls, bizarre installations and art works, blood, fights, broken glass, punk rock, noise, art, make-outs and more, here is EMERGENCY ROOM VOL.1." [4]

-Justin Gradin