Frank Butters

CONDITIONING FOR SOLITUDE (CLEAR VINYL)

Too Many Squares

TMS 001

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For The Opening Ep From Too Many Squares, Frank Butters Manages To Gene-splice Together The Raw Dna From All Of The Ugly-beautiful Sounds Present In The Birth Of Modern Dance Music. -conditioning For Solitude- Is The Hum Of Dark Tubes, The Slice And Hiss Of Sharp Synthesised Percussion And The Scream Of Blissful Dementia. The Mutant That Existed For A Brief And Joyous Frozen Moment While Disco Was Still Birthing House. -body Burn” Is The Tropics With A Black Sun And Africanism With A Stopwatch Instead Of A Heart. Recalling Experimentalist Forays By The Likes Of Liaisons Dangereuses, Patrick Cowley And Karen Finley, The 2 Originals On Offer Manage To Recall The Raw Passion Of An Era Without Feeling Contrived Or Derivative. The Ep Is Rounded Off By Sheila Fleurraters Remix Of * 3 Minute Warning* Which Continues The Pioneer-ist Motif, Albeit Allying Itself With A Much More Early Industrial Aesthetic.