Stars of the Lid - Gravitational Pull Vs. The Des - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Orig. Rlsed on Belgium's Sub Rosa tag in 2000. Adam Wiltzie & Brian MC Bride recorded the album via mail & by the time it was done Adam had moved from Austin to Brussels. This is the first time it will be avail.

Stars of the Lid - Per Aspera Ad Astra [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/18/1998

Stars of the Lid may have released two of the most important and influential ambient-drone albums of the 21st century, inspiring generations of musicians, authors, artists, and filmmakers, developing a cult following and near-mythic status, but back in 1995 they were nowhere. Well, not exactly nowhere, they were in Austin, Texas, to be precise, a city that Adam Wiltzie describes as a Inchrock and roll village, mostly... We were 100% in a vacuum and there was absolutely nobody that even remotely enjoyed what we were doing.InchThis is the environment into which Music for Nitrous Oxide was born, the first album from Wiltzie and his accomplice Brian McBride, made in glorious lo-fi in the semi-arid live music capital of the world. Wiltzie met McBride in 1990 at the University of Texas, where the latter used to present his esoteric student radio show InchBrian was playing tape collages and weird samples,Inch remembers Adam. InchI liked the show and I used to listen to it, and then we kinda got to be friends and we started hanging out. I bought a four-track cassette recorder and we just started experimenting. I was doing guitar drones and he was making weird noises with all these cassette tapes that he had.