It's 2023, and Illusion Of Safety enters now a fourth decade of existence, one as a constant state of flux. Those rhizomes and mutations were on display at their very beginning, as can be heard on this boxset. It must be said that any historical revisionism about Illusion Of Safety must recall how asynchronous they were in comparison to many of their contemporaries. The adoption of any given technology was put to a use that served the ideas for Illusion Of Safety, exposing the glitches and never compromising on what needed to be addressed through sound, through noise, through disruption, through distress. That remains true today in the research and development through dynamic splatter of IOS's late-period digitalia as it did with primitive sequencing on the earliest tapes. Yet technology is just a tool in the complication of meaning, or in the gleeful manifestation a sonic violence, or in the rupture of cultural references that required an explosion and subsequently mangled re-composition.
The origins of Illusion Of Safety within Industrial Culture are relatively well-known, the project having been sparked by the impact that Throbbing Gristle had upon a young Dan Burke during TG's final shows in California in 1981. Industrial Culture can (and should) be a deliberately vague term, one that may be best described as less as a set of aesthetics and more of litany of ideas put forward by the likes of Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Z'ev, Survival Research Laboratories, and many other provocateurs in the late '70s and early '80s. Cut-ups. Noise. Audio collage. Rhythmic assault. Secret messages. Cultural critiques by way of aggression and confrontation. The Death Factory. Cults of personality. Art brut. Ironic reflections of control tactics. Situationism turned very very grim. The queasy and troubling interface between man and machine.
Ideas such as these run through Illusion Of Safety's catalogue, coupled with numerous compositional detours, conceptual endgames, and deliberately contrary stances that confound expectation. That's clearly by design. I don't think there can really be something as an aesthetic framework that had been pinned onto IOS. If anything, Illusion Of Safety addresses an aesthetic of the schizophrenic - a shattering of signifiers whereby meaning is severed from experience. Sound dislocated from its origin and given over to a problematic, shifting, and scrambled agenda. An illusion of safety, indeed!
It's hard to qualify Illusion Of Safety as a "band," though numerous people have worked under the IOS banner. Dan Burke has been and remains at the center of Illusion Of Safety. For the latter half of IOS' history, he has more or less stood as the lone pilot; but in first two decade, he brought in a number of people from the Chicago underground with various backgrounds in improvisation, electro-acoustic composition, synth-punk virulence, and technical know-how (or lack thereof). Jim O'Rourke is the most widely recognized musician to matriculate through the ranks of Illusion Of Safety, with his studious approach to granular synthesis, razor-splice noise-rock, minimalist composition, and his many eccentric plunges into avant-pop. The O'Rourke-era albums from 1989 to 1993 - particularly Probe, Cancer, and Water Seeks Its Own Level - were pocked with pronounced segments of quiet and near-silence that stood in stark relief against the mediated brutality found elsewhere on those recordings. To be clear, Dan Burke has been responsible for the final compositional shape to every album. So, O'Rourke's sphere of influence upon the sound of Illusion Of Safety only went so far. Thymme Jones of Cheer Accident, Mitch Enderle of Dead Tech, and Chris Block also contributed mightily during these early works alongside a handful of other shadowy figures, whose histories appear murky to those looking from the outside in.
Burke offers three distinct periods for the cassette era, with the content and direction of each of these releases being his call, with some exceptions. The earliest incarnation was the equal collaboration between Mitch Enderle and Burke, embracing more of the TG ethos of primitive electronics. The second phase took a sharp turn toward improvisation with Burke joined by Jones, Block, and other members of a project called Dot Dot Dot. While this phase was not particularly well represented on the actual releases, much of the bonus material found on this boxset is culled from these sessions and live recordings. The third phase involved the main core of Mitch Enderle, Mark Sorensen, and Mark Klein.
The cassettes from this boxset are mostly new to me, as my discovery to Illusion Of Safety came by way of a feature in Option Magazine sometime around 1990. With the limited resources of a college student, the albums I began to explore were on CD, with the tapes from the previous decade being ignored, furthered by the misconception that the tapes were somehow lesser than the CDs. In hindsight, that was clearly a mistake, as these tapes are fully formed statements, even when using rudimentary tools.
The first cassette for Illusion Of Safety is It's A Dead Dog from 1986, self-released on Complacency. The tape begins with a common trope within Industrial Culture, that of the mocking critique of the self-righteousness of American evangelicalism. It's an easy target, but given the context of high profile TV preachers in the '80s getting busted with their noses in a pile of blow while being serviced by a streetwalker, it had more of an antagonistic thrust back then than it does today. Elsewhere on "Let's Cut The Small Talk," dilated trumpet tones cycle into a sinister piece of noir electronics that could easily be setting the mood for any given Giallo murder. Power tools, bashed metal, seering amp feedback, snarls of processed guitar drone, and peculiar tape machinations drive the freenoise expressionism of "Ethical Nihilism," adjacent to the collective improvisation of Morphogenesis or AMM. The tape is literal pandora's box of ideas that Illusion Of Safety has been wrestling with ever since.
1987's Geography And Violence is the prequel to the more well-known More Geography and Violence, which got an LP edition through Complacency in 1988 and a remastered CD version in 2002 on Die Stadt. Tracks such as "Katalavox" and "Fade-N-Die" might be seen as the industrial "hits" for Illusion Of Safety, the former being a track reworked from a Dead Tech number of proto-EBM rhythms and disembodied voices, thematically and conceptually linked to a cybernetic, voice-activating chair designed to help those with special needs. The track is loaded metaphors that can run the gamut from congenital mental illness, malfunctioning phantom limbs, and social alienation. Pick your poison. "Fade-N-Die" is a blunt-force-trauma piece of rhythmicist electronics and desperately bad vibes, built upon a sample from a woman blankly stating those eponymous words from the title. It's neither disparaging of another nor self-deprecating, rather it feels like an emotionless description of an inevitable existential condition. Both of these tracks got reprised and reconstructed on Inside Agitator from 1992.
Repairs was a cassette originally released by Sound Of Pig in 1988, and got a reissue on Notice Recordings in 2010. Most notable on the tape is the deliberately monstrous cover of Throbbing Gristle's "Discipline." Structurally, the IOS version keeps the pounding rhythm intact, but vocals take on an alpha-male posture akin to power electronics sloganeering, rather than Genesis P-Orridge's magnetic if unconventional delivery. As such, IOS's command and control leans into the confrontation and hostility where I had always felt TG to be imploring an communal experience. "I Was The Killer" foreshadows the true crime fascination that was so perfectly manifest on Historical. But, here the eponymous sample shatters the spectral drone and mediated samples almost like an unwelcome EVP.
The heavy tape hiss of Finance And Ideology from 1989 harkens back to Burroughs' tape experiments with the cut-up. But Burke has assured me that it was a Mirage sampler and not tape loops that were employed in the construction of this album. In these hulking sonic lurches, warbling sicktones, and unsettling home recordings on self-immolation, IOS revels in the wasteland of human greed disguised as religious piety and the tragic forms of domestic violence. On the original pressing of the tape, the title reads Chris Block's Illusion Of Safety Finance And Ideology. However, Block does not appear at all on this cassette. A deliberate piece of misdirection from Illusion Of Safety.
The 1991 cassette RVE (Robol Verification Exercise) is a reference to The Hafler Trio, who maintained a connection to Robol, the sound research laboratory in Sweden, founded by an eccentric acoustician named Dr. Robert Spridgeon whose improbable / parapsychological research into sound has been passed on to Edward Moolenbeek, one of the founding members of H30 with Andrew McKenzie and Chris Watson. All of that - Robol, Spridgeon, Moolenbeek - proved to be a very elaborate fiction, which added to the lore of The Hafler Trio's gnostic inclinations. As homage, IOS blasts forth lengthy tendrils of bleary, smeared grey noises and resonant drone constructs punctured with low-bit rate explosive noises and musique concrète errata. It's unclear if McKenzie took the homage as a compliment as it was intended. Better not ask.
The final tape in this box reflects the exchange of ideas that was prevalent in cassette culture. Trading tapes and sending source material along with hand-scrawled letters in the post with none of the instant gratification of social media or digital communications. The A-side finds Illusion Of Safety reworking source material sent by the Swiss aktionist Runzerlstirn & Gurgelstock (aka Rudolf Eb.er). The signature explosive noises, grunts, mechanical monstronisties, and plenty of unkempt bodily functions from Eb.er are heavily featured amidst dilated samples and kirlian echoes from Illusion Of Safety's re-engineering. It's an exhilarating listen. In turn, Burke sent material to Rudolf for his 1990 Stuhlgangblockade N! LP. The B-side features a few tracks from the 1990 Finite Material Context double cassette, which contained solo material from the extended Illusion Of Safety constellation. Some of this tape was collected on the Fifteen / Finite Material album, published by Functional / Tesco Organisation in 1993, and on this box, all of that material has now seen the light of day once again.
Through the revisitation of this material, Burke has begun to produce a new batch of recordings and a renewed desire to get out on the road. Call it a reanimation, a reinvigoration, a re-ignition, Illusion Of Safety's existential challenges remain vital and necessary.
-Jim Haynes
BANDCAMP:
nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/ios40
personalarchives.bandcamp.com
illusionofsafety.bandcamp.com
linktr.ee/illusionofsafety
illusionofsafety.net
released November 3, 2023
IOS 40
no part of it/complacency/personal archives #P/A//210
Tape 1. CPC-01 -Its a dead dog 1986
Tape 2. CPC-03 -ecstatic crisis 1986
Tape 3. CPC-09 -my mind is killing me 1986
(with bonus tracks from live @The Cubby Bear Chicago on 2-5-84 end of both sides)
Tape4. CPC 07 -live sound IOS post effects 1987
Tape5. CPC-13 -violence and geography 1987
(with bonus tracks from live @The Cubby Bear Chicago on 2-5-84 end of both sides)
Tape 6. SOP 223 -repairs 1988
Tape 7. CPC-14 -in 70 countries 1989
Tape 8. SJ org0 -finance and ideology 1989
Tape 9. CPC-25 -RVE 1991
(bonus from More Altitude than attitude on We Never Sleep WNS-07 1988.
side A inc. trk-A5 The Architects Office. side B inc. trk-B1 Untitled)
Tape10. CPC 2023 -forced cohesion/finite material context 1990
Side A -R.I.G. Forced cohesion & *Dark Current (*trk. A2 from More Altitude Than Attitude)
-Side B -FiniteMaterialContext Tape 2
IOS 40
no part of it/complacency/personal archives #PA//210
DUE OUT IN AUTUMN:
40th anniversary 10 TAPE SET, in black case edition of 40, includes the first IOS releases on tape from 1986-1991 + bonus tracks from the second IOS performance in 1984, + live performances in Colorado 1988 taken from the More Altitude Than Attitude tape on We Never Sleep + digital files with many rare flyers and photos pre-1991 & more.
Tape 1. CPC-01 -Its a dead dog 1986
Tape 2. CPC-03 -ecstatic crisis 1986
Tape 3. CPC-09 -my mind is killing me 1986
(with bonus tracks from live @The Cubby Bear
Chicago on 2-5-84 end of both sides)
Tape 4. CPC 07 -live sound IOS post effects 1987
Tape 5. CPC-13 -violence and geography 1987
(with bonus tracks from live @The Cubby Bear
Chicago on 2-5-84 end of both sides)
Tape 6. SOP 223 -repairs 1988
Tape 7. CPC-14 -in 70 countries 1989
Tape 8. SJ org0 -finance and ideology 1989
Tape 9. CPC-25 -RVE 1991
(bonus from More Altitude than attitude on We Never Sleep
WNS-07 1988. side A inc. trk-A5 The Architects Office.
side B inc. trk-B1 Untitled)
Tape10. CPC 2023 -forced cohesion/finite material context 1990
Side A -R.I.G. Forced cohesion
+ bonus *Dark Current -(*trk. A2 from More Altitude Than Attitude)
Side B -Finite Material Context Tape 2
releases November 4, 2023
CPC-1A: IT'S A DEAD DOG (1986) (draft)
A1 Cast It To The Potter 3:50
A2 GBU Rehearsal 3:49
A3 You're Going Down 3:37
A4 Let's Cut The Small Talk 4:10
A5 Ethical Nihilism 14:57
Performer – Dan Burke, Mark Klein, Mark Sorensen, Mitch Enderle
PC-1B: IT'S A DEAD DOG (1986) (draft)
B1 Untitled 4:57
B2 Untitled 4:50
B3 It Shall Be Done 3:53
B4 James 5:35
B5 Don't Take This As 3:11
B6 Intention Without Obsession 1:45
B7 In Your Eyes 2:00
B8 Eight 2:29
Performer – Dan Burke, Mark Klein, Mark Sorensen, Mitch Enderle
CPC-3A: ECSTATIC CRISIS (1986) (draft)
A1 Directed Action 5:20
A2 Ceraunoscopy 4:10
A3 You Figure It Out 1:30
A4 Anger And Hatred Are Very Powerful Emotions 3:10
A5 Music W/Out A Film II 2:20
A6 Confusion 2:40
A7 Flowering Blossom To The Full Moon 7:20
A8 Make Everybody Think You're; (Of One Thought ???) 4:37
Performer – Chris Block (tracks: A6), Dan Burke (tracks: A1 to A7, B1 to B6, B8), Mark Klein (tracks: A2, B7, B8), Mark Sorensen (tracks: A2, A7, B7, B8), Mitch Enderle (tracks: A7, B3), Thymme Jones (tracks: B4)
CPC-3B: ECSTATIC CRISIS (1986) (draft)
B1 The Patient Tolerated The Procedure Well 5:05
B2 Religious Sexual Spasm 1:30
B3 Castrated Anxiety 6:00
B4 Toneline 3 3:20
B5 Dedicated To... Well, That Seems Rather Obvious 1:08
B6 Mors Justi 3:02
B7 Mother 6:00
B8 Tenet 4:20
performer – Chris Block (tracks: A6), Dan Burke (tracks: A1 to A7, B1 to B6, B8), Mark Klein (tracks: A2, B7, B8), Mark Sorensen (tracks: A2, A7, B7, B8), Mitch Enderle (tracks: A7, B3), Thymme Jones (tracks: B4)
CPC-9A: MY MIND IS KILLING ME (1986) (WITH BONUS TRACK: LIVE EXCERPT AT CUBBY BEAR 02-05-1984) (draft)
A1 Jet Head
A2 Beauty Of Decay
A3 Collapse
A4 Americas Favorite Pastime
A5 To His Purpose
A6 You Think You Know
A7 What Name Do You Call Him
A8 Movement Twenty Third
A9 Toneline
A10 Not Tell Us All
A11 Toneline
A12 Ill Have You Committed
A13 You Need Help
Dan Burke (tracks: All Tracks),
Jay Closser (tracks: B5, B11),
Mitch Enderle (tracks: A5, A6, B6, B8, B12)
Voice – Elaine Rangel (tracks: B3)
Recorded On Tour Track Cassette From July Of 85 To March Of 86
A7 Is All Voices
Other Sound Sources: Synth Guitar Tape Casio Trumpet, Bass, Metal Effects Edges Bow Plastic Movie Camera, 300 Gallon Drum Samples, Tape Machine, Drum Rythm, Stringed Objects, Paper Voice, Waterphone, Music Concret, Film recordings
BONUS: excerpt of Illusion of Safety Live at The Cubby Bear 2-5-1984 Chicago
Performance #2 of the Dot Dot Dot & Dan Burke Project, later known as Illusion of Safety
Jef Bek
Chris Block
Daniel Burke
Thymme Jones
Ross Feller
CPC-9B: MY MIND IS KILLING ME (1986)(WITH BONUS TRACK: LIVE EXCERPT AT CUBBY BEAR 02-05-1984) (draft)
B1 Music Without A Film
B2 Fumble
B3 Aggress
B4 Like Everybody Else
B5 300 Gallon Loop
B6 If You Don't Do What I Want
B7 Extreme State Of Fear
B8 Underlying False Assumption
B9 So You Think About It
B10 Convulsive Sexual Spasm
B11 Violent Agressive Action
B12 Whos In Charge
B13 Request Palm
Dan Burke (tracks: All Tracks),
Jay Closser (tracks: B5, B11),
Mitch Enderle (tracks: A5, A6, B6, B8, B12)
Voice – Elaine Rangel (tracks: B3)
Recorded On Tour Track Cassette From July Of 85 To March Of 86
A7 Is All Voices
Other Sound Sources: Synth Guitar Tape Casio Trumpet, Bass, Metal Effects Edges Bow Plastic Movie Camera, 300 Gallon Drum Samples, Tape Machine, Drum Rythm, Stringed Objects, Paper Voice, Waterphone, Music Concret, Film recordings
BONUS: excerpt of Illusion of Safety Live at The Cubby Bear 2-5-1984 Chicago
Performance #2 of the Dot Dot Dot & Dan Burke Project, later known as Illusion of Safety
Jef Bek
Chris Block
Daniel Burke
Thymme Jones
Ross Feller
CPC-7A: LIVE SOUND OF I.O.S. POST EFFECTS (1987) (draft)
Complacency Cassette c-60 -A document of our live sound from 11/23/86 through 1/24/87. Dan Burke, Mark Sorensen, Mitch Enderle, Mark Klein, Chris Block, James Johnson
CPC-7B: LIVE SOUND OF I.O.S. POST EFFECTS (1987)
Complacency Cassette c-60 -A document of our live sound from 11/23/86 through 1/24/87. Dan Burke, Mark Sorensen, Mitch Enderle, Mark Klein, Chris Block, James Johnson
PC-13A: VIOLENCE & GEOGRAPHY (1987) (WITH BONUS TRACK: LIVE EXCERPT FROM CUBBY BEAR, 02-05-1984)
A1 Katalavox 4:06
A2 Haydn And The Jets 1:50
A3 Deadgirl And The Man
(Trunk Of The Car Over The Weekend) 9:22
A4 Fade-N-Die 2:38
A5 Untitled 3:52
Complacency 1987
BONUS: excerpt of Illusion of Safety Live at The Cubby Bear 2-5-1984 Chicago
Performance #2 of the Dot Dot Dot & Dan Burke Project, later known as Illusion of Safety
Jef Bek
Chris Block
Daniel Burke
Thymme Jones
Ross Feller
CPC-13B: VIOLENCE & GEOGRAPHY (1987) (WITH BONUS TRACK: LIVE EXCERPT FROM CUBBY BEAR, 02-05-1984) (draft)
B1 Idealism After Six 0:53
B2 Diseased Mind 4:38
B3 Flesh Binge 3:39
B4 Get In That Room Eliam 2:47
B5 Technical 2:08
B6 The Headache 2:32
B7 Eyelids
BONUS: excerpt of Illusion of Safety Live at The Cubby Bear 2-5-1984 Chicago
Performance #2 of the Dot Dot Dot & Dan Burke Project, later known as Illusion of Safety
Jef Bek
Chris Block
Daniel Burke
Thymme Jones
Ross Feller
SOP 223A: REPAIRS (1988) (draft)
A1 Cockbeat
A2 In Nothing We Believed
A3 Discipline
A4 Extreme State Of Fear
A5 I Was The Killer
A6 Doesn't Your Work Interest You, Esther?
Dan Burke & Chris Block
Sampler [Mirage Sampling], Instruments,
Recorded By [4-Track And 8-Track Recordings]
with Jay Closser on Primordial & The Boat Piece
originally released by Sound of Pig 1988
reissued by Notice Recordings in an edition of 50 2010
SOP 223B: REPAIRS (1988) (draft)
B1 Repairs (Safety First - Quietly As You Can)
B2 Ord
B3 Tranethrash (John And Dagoth Meet - Jimmy's Clubbing)
B4 Primordial
B5 The Boat Piece
Dan Burke & Chris Block
Sampler [Mirage Sampling], Instruments,
Recorded By [4-Track And 8-Track Recordings]
with Jay Closser on Primordial & The Boat Piece
CPC-14A: IN 70 COUNTRIES (1989)
A1 Theme From Belfast Street Riot
A2 In 70 Countries
A3 7-26-88
A4 Devices To Be Used
All sounds and recordings IOS main core:
Mitch Enderle, Spark Lunch, Dan Burke, D. Klein.
With: Jef Bek (Theme), Thymme Jones (7-26-88), Sarah Closser (Stop It)
released by Complacency 1989
CPC-14B: IN 70 COUNTRIES (1989)
B1 Speed Brutality Honesty
B2 Prisoner 819 Did A Bad Thing
B3 Trumpet Field
B4 You Stop It. (voice – Sarah Closser)
All sounds and recordings IOS main core:
Mitch Enderle, Spark Lunch, Dan Burke, D. Klein.
With: Jef Bek (Theme), Thymme Jones (7-26-88), Sarah Closser (Stop It)
released by Complacency 1989
SJORG0A: FINANCE & IDEOLOGY (1989)
A1 Finance
Composed By [Conceived], Sampler [Sampled], Performer [Executed], Recorded By – Chris Block (kidding, he did not write this)*
Featuring [Minor Additional Input By] – D. Klein (2), Dan Burke (most input) , James Johnson, Jenny Rowe, Jim O'Rourke, Mark Sorensen, Mitch Enderle, Thymme Jones
Type/layout by Scott Marshall/Panic
*Chris Block does not appear on this release in any capacity. sorry for the confusion (intended)
Featuring the unauthorized presence of Frank Sinatra, Trondant Shamen, Led Zeppelin, Bob Filton, Aerosmith, Timothy Leary, Prince, Bernhard Herrmann, Madonna, Print Expo'85, The New Sensations, Laibach, Falco, King Crimson, Dagoth, Holly Rosati and Larry Shriner.
SJORG0B: FINANCE & IDEOLOGY (1989)
B Ideology
Composed By [Conceived], Sampler [Sampled], Performer [Executed], Recorded By – Chris Block (kidding, he did not write this)*
Featuring [Minor Additional Input By] – D. Klein (2), Dan Burke (most input) , James Johnson, Jenny Rowe, Jim O'Rourke, Mark Sorensen, Mitch Enderle, Thymme Jones
Type/layout by Scott Marshall/Panic
*Chris Block does not appear on this release in any capacity. sorry for the confusion (intended)
Featuring the unauthorized presence of Frank Sinatra, Trondant Shamen, Led Zeppelin, Bob Filton, Aerosmith, Timothy Leary, Prince, Bernhard Herrmann, Madonna, Print Expo'85, The New Sensations, Laibach, Falco, King Crimson, Dagoth, Holly Rosati and Larry Shriner.
CPC-25A: RVE (1991) (WITH BONUS TRACK: LIVE EXCERPT FROM MORE ALTITUDE THAN ATTITUDE TAPE ON WE NEVER SLEEP, 1988: A5 "ARCHITECTS OFFICE")
RVE -Robol Verification Exercise -CPC_25 1991 Side A
Complacency cassette release.
We loved The Hafler Trio and wanted to homage in obscurity. This tape is mostly Jim O'Rourke and I, with other unspecified involvement
Bonus track taken from More Altitude Than Attitude: IOS At 14,000 Feet released by We Never Sleep – WNS 007 1988
live selections from our main core Colorado tour
Performers – D. Klein (2), Dan Burke, Mitch Enderle, Spark Lunch
Live Sound Colorado:
+ 7-7-88, All Seasons Painting, Colorado Springs
+ 7-8-88, The Grove, Denver
+ 7-9-88, Penney Lane, Boulder
+ 7-10-88, KGNU, Boulder
CPC-25B: RVE (1991) (WITH BONUS TRACK: LIVE EXCERPT FROM MORE ALTITUDE THAN ATTITUDE TAPE ON WE NEVER SLEEP, 1988, B1: "UNTITLED")
RVE -Robol Verification Exercise -CPC_25 1991 Side B
Complacency cassette release.
We loved The Hafler Trio and wanted to homage in obscurity. This tape is mostly Jim O'Rourke and I, with other unspecified involvement
Bonus track taken from More Altitude Than Attitude: IOS At 14,000 Feet released by We Never Sleep – WNS 007 1988
live selections from our main core Colorado tour
Performers – D. Klein (2), Dan Burke, Mitch Enderle, Spark Lunch
Live Sound Colorado:
+ 7-7-88, All Seasons Painting, Colorado Springs
+ 7-8-88, The Grove, Denver
+ 7-9-88, Penney Lane, Boulder
+ 7-10-88, KGNU, Boulder
Thanks to Big Body Parts, We Never Sleep, and TG.
CPC-2023A -R.I.G (1990) (ILLUSION OF SAFETY WITH RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK) - FORCED COHESION (LIVE BONUS TRACK: "DARK CURRENT" FROM MORE ALTITUDE THAN ATTITUDE)
R.I.G.–Forced Cohesion CPC-23 1990
Musicians – IOS & Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock
R&G provided backing tape. IOS added samples and DX-7.
IOS were most likely Dan & Jim. no way to know for sure now.
Bonus track taken from More Altitude Than Attitude: IOS At 14,000 Feet released by We Never Sleep – WNS 007 1988
live selections from our main core Colorado tour
Performers – D. Klein (2), Dan Burke, Mitch Enderle, Spark Lunch
Live Sound Colorado:
+ 7-7-88, All Seasons Painting, Colorado Springs
+ 7-8-88, The Grove, Denver
+ 7-9-88, Penney Lane, Boulder
+ 7-10-88, KGNU, Boulder
CPC-2023B - FINITE MATERIAL CONTEXT TAPE 2 (EDIT) (1990)
Track 1: Implying the present denying the past by Dan Burke & Jim O”Rourke. Track 2: Impenetrable by Thymme Jones. track 3: Toneline (unknown)
Tracks taken from Finite Material Context a 1990 Complacency double cassette limited edition boxset. the other tracks (IOS solos) from Finite Material Context appear on the CD release Fifteen/Finite Material Context here:
illusionofsafety.bandcamp.com/album/fifteen-finite-material-context
