LAFMS: The Lowest Form Of Music - Artist Edition

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Album Info

Release Date: 1996-05

Labels: RRRecords, Cortical Foundation

Numbered edition of 350 copies with extra disc, extra 8-page booklet and vellum back cover with Japanese text, in which it is entitled, ラフムス「音楽の原典(ザ・ロウェスト・フォーム・オブ・ミュージック)」. Additionally, this set is signed by almost everyone who appears.

Tracks 1-5 to 1-7 and 1-9 originally released on Le Forte Four - Spin 'N Grin.
Tracks 2-1 to 2-26 originally released as the LP Bikini Tennis Shoes.
Tracks 2-27 and 2-28 originally released as the LP Live At LACE.
Tracks 3-1 to 3-26 and 4-1 to 4-5 originally released as Le Forte Four, Doo-Dooettes - L.A. Free Music Society Live At The Brand.
Tracks 5-1 to 5-5 originally released on Various - Blorp Esette Volume One.
Track 5-6 originally released on Various - Blorp-Esette Volume Two.
Tracks 5-7 to 5-13 originally released as Smegma - Glamour Girl 1941.
Tracks 6-2 to 6-11 originally released as Doo-Dooettes - Look To This.
Track 7-1 originally released as the b-side to the 7" "The Residents".
Track 7-4 originally released on the cassette Music From Norway on Solid Eye.
Track 7-7 originally released on the compilation LP I.D. Art #2.
Track 7-9 originally released as a 7" record.
Tracks 7-10 and 7-11 originally released as a 7" record titled Beak.
Track 7-12 originally released on Dennis Duck - Dennis Duck Goes Disco.
Tracks 7-13 and 8-2 originally released on Various - Darker Skratcher.
Track 7-15 originally released on the Various - Blub Krad
Track 7-18 originally released on Various - Bethel.
Track 8-3 and 8-11 released on the LP "Big Holes" on Show Me Records & Tapes.
Track 8-8 originally released on the LP "Show Me Yer Belley" on Show Me Records & Tapes.
Track 8-9 originally released on Steaming Coils - Never Creak.
Tracks 10-15 to 10-17 originally released on the cassette Dinosaurs With Horns by Solid Eye.
Track 11-2 originally released on BDR Ensemble - Station Event.
All above released published by Los Angeles Free Music Society unless otherwise noted.

All other tracks previously unreleased.

Packaged in a foil stamped box with 36-page four color booklet of photos, 60-page book of extensive notes and essays, and poster discography.

Contributors to the booklet of essays are Dennis Cooper, Gary Todd, Byron Coley, David Toop, Jerry Bishop, Tony Mostrom, Takuya Sakaguchi, Fredrik Nilsen, Michael Uhlenkott, Juan Gomez, Tom Recchion, Kevin Laffey, Sarah Seager, Dennis Duck, John Duncan, Paul McCarthy, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Ace Farren Ford, and Dinosaurs With Horns.

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