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Now 8 years old, Soul-Junk began with Glen Galaxy leaving Trumans Water (for which he had been a main screecher/songmangler from '91-'93) in the middle of their ascent to european & stateside touring & nice strange press hypefullness. The short-sweet version of what followed is: 1. the early junk years ('93-94) Glen does scads of recordings, laying down cardboard midrange stoked drums, simple cheap guitar triple octaves, doubled trip-over-self vocals, also leslie organ & bari sax freak-outs. Albums: 1950 (released early '94) 1951 (released late '94) + tapes & 7"s on Shrimper, Holy Kiss. 2. the rock crew blossoms ('95-97) Glen hooks it up member by member - a rock crew: first Ron E. on guitar, then Brian C. on drums, then brother Jon Galaxy on bass. Brian C. is erstwhile drumming for 7 other bands & steps back to let Nathan P. take over the kit, & Chuck P! joins as tape/loop manipulator. Barnyards full of improvisation & 4-tracked songs result, much live so-cal gigging, limited west coast tours. Albums: 1952 (released late '95), 1953/54 (released late '96 on Homestead}, 1955 (released early '99) + singles on Sub Pop, Karate, Homestead, Infinite Chug. 3. the beat hybrid mutates & festers ('97-99) Glen & Jon start off on long touring & the rest of the band stay home. Abe & Mia of the Lion fill in on drums & guitar respectively. They log a couple stateside tours with The Danielson Famile (Jon meets & marries Rachel of Danielson). Glen, Abe & Mia improvise on the regular whilst Glen & Jon (& sometimes Chuck P.) start piecing together their take on all the crazed drum-bass, electro, hip hop they've been soaking in. Glen & Jon tour Italy & France opening for Trumans Water. Albums: 1955 (the non-rock parts that is, released early '99) + tour split EP with Danielson released on Insound. 4. the 2-bottomed hydra blurts ('99-'00) Jon burns out from Glen's maniacal double-cd production needs, Glen starts recording & co-producing with Rafter Roberts (San Diego's finest barely-kept secret). The shift allows him to focus on the undie hip hop that he realizes all this beat-mangling has been pointing to. The relatively concise 1956 is recorded, Glen spends the summer & fall of '00 flying/driving all over doing pick up dates opening for friends' bands (mainly 5 Iron Frenzy) all across these united states. The idea of raw rock & raw hip-hop sitting sqare apart from each other as opposing song stakes (read: nothing like rap-rock fusion) becomes reality. Albums: 1956 (released mid '00) + 1943 (12" on Flapping Jet) 5. the 4-limbed eclec hydra emerges ('00-present) Glen decides touring & recording line-up need to intersect, invites SloRo to move out west & join. Live gigs become 2-turntablist, 1 guitarist affairs. Glen plays/sings/saxes/MCs whilst SloRo beat/noise juggles & either DJ 3rd Rail or DJ Mizzicah lay out the vinyla dopeness beats. the twin "pop" buttresses (Pretty Things-ish rock & Mad Lib-ish hip hop) become sister bottle rocket belchers (the rock giving way to free rock & Ayler-esque blarpings, the hip hop giving way to drum-bass & abstract hop mangles). Short east coast tours, a west coaster opening for The Black Heart Procession, a summer journey to Norway, Netherlands, & Germany take place. Albums: 1957 (released June 18th, 2002 on Sounds Are Active) + EPs on Sounds Familyre & Absolom. 2002 finds soul-junk (now effectively the duo of galaxalag & sloro) more fire-breathingly wide & prolific than all years previous rolled together: 1957 LP/CD being released June 18th on Holy Kiss Rex/Sounds Are Active (focus on strange hiphop), split CD with Viva Voce being released march on Velvet Blue (hiphop cut-ups, cut-up everything), 1958 LP (even stranger hip hop) due out on Red Carpet Ring/Sounds Are Active, 1959 LP (all improv) on Holy Kiss sometime thereafter, 1960 LP (raw atonal rock action) due october, plus EPs on Norwegian singles club, MP3IT.com, In Transit all before summer, plus live shows in italy spain & france in the spring. Focus on the music for now. A most purposeful interpolation between the most forward aspects of vital underground cultures - as interested in Mr. Dibbs as Arab On Radar as Other Dimensions In Music as John Oswald as The Zombies as Dose One as Royal Trux as Daktaris as Kid 606. Not the "mix-in-blender" approach, mind you - Soul-Junk sees the link betwixt & does the bloodhound. Then consider the spiritual base of all this...(of course the focus of 90% of Soul-Junk press so far, "hey they're Christians & they don't completely suck!")...suffice to say that the HolyGhost connection to the God they claim to be worshipping with all of this goes deep deep deep. Check out the artist's website: http://www.soundsareactive.com Track List: 1. Phalanx 2. Non-linear 3. Jelly Wings 4. Gotham 5. Ungst Func Slag Collision 6. Innerspace Man 7. Droptop Flouride 8. Horse Posing As Unicorn 9. Ruby Doomsday 10. Mercury 11. Jammy July Pike 12. Rap City Ark 13. Uqbar Orbis 14. Vesuvius Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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