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The Residents

Diskomo / Goosebump (12"EP)

Label: Ralph Records

Format: 12"EP

Genre: Experimental

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Original 1980 EP on Ralph records with a wacky disco version of Eskimo backed with one of the band's greatest achievements, the toy-instrument extravaganza Goosebump featuring Snakefinger.

condition (record/cover): EX / EX- (minimal ring wear) The 1980 12" featuring The Residents' characteristically perverse forays into dance music territory. "Diskomo" is their systematic deconstruction of disco - mechanical rhythms and robotic vocals turning dance music's pleasures into something alien and deeply unsettling. "Goosebump" continues the experiment in making popular forms strange and uncomfortable. As always, The Residents take widely accessible popular forms and make them genuinely weird, revealing the mechanical underpinnings beneath the surface pleasures. Essential for understanding how experimental music engaged critically with mainstream genres rather than simply ignoring them.

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Cat. number: RZ-8006-D
Year: 1980