Cargo Records

Static Disposal

New version! A high quality, deluxe, tip-on style heavy jacket sleeve edition of this 1976 acid-punk classic from Oklahoma for 2008, with an additional two sided insert unique to this edition, pressed on black vinyl for the first time since the original pressing in 1976. LP reissue of this December 1975 recorded, Oklahoma outer limits psych-noise proto-punk extravaganza, which has gone on to inspire the likes of the Screamers and Nurse With Wound. This edition features the complete April, 1976 self-released LP, taken from the original master tapes, with original artwork, and a previously unreleased (and amazing!) November, 1975 practice take of the Stooges "Real Cool Time" (an earlier, radically different recording to the CD version).

"A repress of the wholly worthwhile, official, meticulous and only reissue of a now widely appreciated self-released experimental rock LPŠ Recording in 1975 in Oklahoma, Debris' may never have heard the Silver Apples' "You And I", nor the Fifty Foot Hose's "Red The Signpost", but what they learned from time in glam rock garage bands and art school led them to extend on those noisier late 1960s possibilities, and their record (originally intended to be "Prisoner Of Rock'n'Roll", but now known by the label name, Static Disposal) contributes to the category of punk avant la lettre that also locates such sci-fi blasts as Canada's Simply Saucer's, San Francisco's Chrome's, and Cleveland's Pere Ubu's. Guitarist Oliver Powers says he tried to play his guitar "like Š kneading bread dough", and riffs and melody are downplayed in favour of texture and drama, so that the Misfits' "Cough Cool" is as good a reference point as the rawest, heaviest moments of Roxy Music and King Crimson. Liner notes give extensive commentary from band members, and great live material fills up the playing time." - Jon Bywater The Wire