EtudeRecords

“In 1993, a year after I had moved to Seattle, I began a so-called label for buying or trading one–off cassettes , called Skin records. Made more as an experiment and most likely remembered by its’ roster as an exercise in pathos, it was gone before it began. During this time I placed a couple of ads in underground music magazines for it. A couple of months later, I received a package and hand written letter from Climax Golden Twins... The only unsolicited submission for Skin, as requested for in the ads. In the package, two cassettes with no names. The cover art on one featured a distorted color copy of a very skinny person in a strange pose, from some ancient land, the other, an obscure looking image of a man with his head on fire. When I listened… ‘a wastebasket’ was whispered, I was sucked through a portal into a multiple of dimensions, entranced, for the l ength of this 10 minute per side per cassette. Pure Genius! I wrote back, and placed the cassette in the catalog. After I had known CGT for a short while, or maybe the first time we met (I don’t remember), I gave them ‘skin’ stickers, after which their almost-first label that didn’t really exist evaporated. I’ve been hoping the early stuff would eventually get more exposure, and very happy that now more people will also get to hear it. To me, it’s as pure as the sources which inspired them, and at the same time, wholly unique in some way I just can’t define. When I got that first cassette, there was nothing quite like it; and today, 15 years later, I think this is still true…”

-Jesse Paul Miller (visual artist/musician/sound artist/nefarious miscreant/creator of the Secret Records/member of Factums/etc… (www.jessepaulmiller.com))

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