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Golden Plates Vol. One

by Tulpamancers

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benwestdesign This is a mindfuque like only a weirdo raised in 80s intolerant Mormondom could have created. If you're looking for blasphemy, skip the newest black metal joint and toss a couple bucks at this release that exposes the ennui and general malaise of innocuous 80s Mormon culture, and how it did its best to stand on the throat of outsider culture that kept freaks like me afloat.
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Crypts of Curelom, Mezzomaniacs and Double Cumorah 23:09
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Altars of Cumom and 2112 Problems (Turn Me On, Lamar Taylor) 25:17
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Golden Plates Volume One

This is a slice of the fear-mongering, guilt, despair, wonder and head-scratching events many outsiders my age felt as a kid in 1980s Utah (and other places with small minds, of course). Everything we liked was deemed Satanic, morally erroneous, weird; we weren’t doing anything wrong, per se, but there was always some jerk or certifiably crazy mother-of-a-friend (i.e. Mrs. Litchfield who screamed at me for drinking hot chocolate) peeping around the corner, waiting to judge and narc. And that just made us want to rebel. This isn’t a pity party, just reality. Alienation due to not being part of a (boring) group shaped many people, for better and worse. Life isn’t supposed to always have a net to catch us – we only learn through failure. I digress.

Many of the samples in this are things that resonate through me to this day (also for better and worse). There is the blogger who advises that, to be a gay Mormon, you can either be celibate or (and) marry a person of the gender you are not attracted to; she has friends who do this and it’s “not about sexuality.” The “Cipher in the Snow” clip is a totally messed up thing to show a six-year old (me). This kid, Cliff Evans, dies from being “alone” during his parents’ divorce. The moral is to extend friendship to kids sitting in the corner staring at their hands. What person in the middle of a comfort circle is going to do that? All this did was make us recluses feel bad. Boo hoo.

But I’m not trying to smack anyone into action, and there is plenty of my goofy brain in here. The Golden Plates series is a curio installation: look at it, nod and understand, raise an eyebrow, or walk away.

Also I salute the guy who led “Communism, Hypnotism and The Beatles.” His hatred of children’s, teen’s and college kid’s music is paranoid hate-speech that provided the narrative for this volume. He also taught me the term "psycho politician."

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released August 26, 2017

Dave Madden: crate digging, samples, Dave Smith Evolver synth, bowed harp and cymbals and gongs, field recordings, feedback, Audiomulch, Reaktor, coughing.

Thanks to Ben West for record donations. Thanks to Dave Barratt for title donation.

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Tulpamancers Salt Lake City, Utah

"A Tulpa is a thought-form, or being created from the collective thoughts of separate individuals."

Dave Madden (aka dj_webern, nonnon, Tulpamancers) uses percussion, found objects, laptop, turntables and an obsessive bending of synthesizers.

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