"Skull" side of the split with Government Alpha. Screen printed artwork by crippaXXXalmqvist and Anna Lilia Konishchev, printed at La Commissure. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates, Berlin.
Le Petit Mignon is Berlin Staalplaat store in-house imprint:
www.staalplaat.com/lpm
Review in Vital Weekly #720:
"I reviewed a previous L.P.M. release in VW689 where if anything my praise was not up to the mark in terms of just what can be produced as a release of a certain kind of "music" or art. The crucifix gatefold sleeve is once again an excellent piece of craft, of image and color by crippaXXXalmqvist and Anna Lilia Konishchev printed by La Commissure. However the printing is by a superb set of layered silk-screens which work wonderfully with the graphic, the record itself (Mastering by Rashad Becker at Dubplates, Berlin) is a beautiful bright pink- a Barbie pink! Has two sides (sic) a Bomb! Side which is Government Alpha (Yasutoshi Yoshida) and a Skull Side, Evil Moisture (Andy Bolus). I'm more familiar with the work of GA than Andy Bolus -- a multifaceted "artist" who is here I guess working with home made electronics and modified electronic toys, which appear to function in his sonic activities, as well as modifying/moderating these? With meat, and in one case the meat is in the form of a girl "live girl meat". A series of noises, squeaks and crashes, like some monstrous Acme machine which rampages rather than revolves around the disk. As this could be described as Baroque noise or rococo the Government Alpha in its solidity is more Michelangeloesque, of sharp feedback across the spectrum, yet even here an intrepid space invader occasionally falls into GA's meat grinder. Both on there own would form an interesting comment on the development of noise and its themes, thankfully away from the dreaded earnestness of some (no names) to the more relevant in its critique of the present in its playful irony. A work of splendid and beautiful irreverence, an aesthetic heresy at its finest. The sound art and printed art fit together beautifully in an a Escher like way, neither illustration of the other and both illustrating the other. A perfect pink paradox. Everyone involved in this production should be commended for their work, its very rare that the various talents, intentions and forces of artists, producers, distributor come together as an organic whole, and when they do as here, a genuine art object, a jewel, in brought forth." (Jliat)
Evil Moisture / Andy Bolus:
www.soundimplant.com/achessex.html
Government Alpha:
governmentalpha.blogspot.com