Original sealed copies of this fantastic loner synth and electronics album and Mutant Sounds fave, recorded by Slava Ranko aka Don Philippi in 1981. Philippi quotes John Cage, Brian Eno, minimalism and Indian music in the notes and the mission statement on the back is just perfect: “I do not want to play music which sounds as if it comes from familiar instruments, music which is based on chord patterns, or music which fits nicely within any particular stereotyped tradition... What I want is the terrifying, the menacing, the cruel, the chaotic, the darkly exciting, the ecstatic, the irrational – music that resounds between the cells and in the intergalactic worlds.” Some of the austerity of the early Asmus Tietchens or Conrad Schnitzler sides is certainly present but the vibe is less cold wave/minimal synth and more post-Industrial art/drone in the vein of Richard Youngs & Simon Wickham-Smith. Indeed, the ecstatic synth ascensions on side one’s “Golden Peaches” sounds almost exactly like the synth backing on Smith and Youngs’ classic “Song For The Spanish Anarchists”. But there’s a ton more confusion in here, odd loops and tape F/X that are right out of Eno-era Roxy, the dark ritual violence of the Nord albums, the obsession of Tom Fazzini, fucked up psychedelic/brutalist guitar, eerie night-time drones... a classic oddball/outsider LP. “My final word: without the irrational, everything is senseless...” Highly recommended.