The man from Wichita remains a cutting-edge explorer who always manages to stick a salt finger in the wounds of truth. John Duncan - performance artist, sonic terrorist, shortwave radio alchemist - emerged from the Los Angeles underground in the late 1970s, studying under Allan Kaprow at CalArts before falling in with the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) and collaborating with Tom Recchion, Paul McCarthy, and Fredrik Nilsen. His early work drew from Viennese Aktionism, Jerzy Grotowski's "Poor Theatre," and the cathartic exposure of feminist performance art - confrontational events that left audiences shattered and transformed. This sprawling second VOD box (following the essential 3xLP VOD33 from 2006) mines Duncan's archives for material originally pressed in minuscule editions on cassette and vinyl. Organic (his 1979 debut LP split between AQM and LAFMS), collaborations with Chris & Cosey, shortwave cut-ups including the jarring Police Radio, the mind-bending extended noise abstractions of Riot and Brutal Birthday Soundtrack from 1984-85, plus the disturbing acousmatic erotica of Phantom and Purge. Before relocating to Tokyo in 1982 and later Bologna, Duncan created some of the most uncompromising sonic documents of the era - Wilhelm Reich-inspired hyperventilation exercises, pirate FM broadcasts, and radio interventions that put unsuspecting callers on air. Seekers of the outer limits should look no further. 600 numbered copies with certificate.

A Bonus 7“ will be provided with earliest collaboration-recordings from 1978 & 79 LAFMS performed as Doo-Doettes and CV Massage with artists like Michael Le Donne Bhennet, Dennis Duck, P. Mc Carthy, Fredrik Nilsen, Dennis Duck and Tom Recchion.