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Contempt

by Pete Um

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    OK, here’s the new Um record I’ve been sitting on for so long. Got the process for CONTEMPT started in January 2014 and I think I’ve had the vinyl for about a year. At first I was holding off so as not to interfere with the Pete Um record on Exotic Pylon, and I wasn’t sure when the Gagarin Cambridge concept joint feat. Um/Doozer/Nochexxx/MFU was going to appear, and then I lost faith in those things ever becoming a reality and thought fuckit I’ll just spoot the fucker out grist-style but then Johnny from Soft Bodies offered to do it with promo and videos etc but February 2015 sounded too far away, but by the time I’d waited for the wine of the cousin to dry in Sas’s Mac etc it was like it seems like up to me. In March 2015.
    So this is another 100 copies FTW type deal, but I feel I need to flag up that I’m increasingly less committed to the original program of punishingly expensive self-released shit. It’s possible that I may have had too many children, especially recently, but even so selling stuff at gigs is noticeably dispiriting for even the hottest underground artiste, and it’s not like there isn’t some evil invisible contract between me and Discogs anyway (too many records). So, I don’t know if I’m can be arsed with using the excellent services of Carl Saff mastering and DMS anytime soon, especially concerning reissuing old stuff on vinyl. I think perhaps The Old Album deserves it eventually but fuck the Bumskippers.
    So yeah, just a little context. I have no problem with people downloading my music, possibly because nobody does, but if you do want an artifact for whatever reason then here it is. Bits of it are excellent, I would say.

    If anyone is running a café which is also a record shop or a clinic or whatever and you think you could sell some copies then get in touch as my terms are very relaxed.

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How It Goes 01:08
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Weird Fruit 01:31
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Zen In The Teapot Pretty simple realisation That the simple shit is simple But it takes an awareness of complexity To appreciate the simplicity It takes a little time out It's a bit of zen in the teapot It's a bit of soul for the soul rot It's a little thing for the have-nots But it's a hell of a fuck lot And it can't just be got If you're not down with the whatnots And ground out the dot dot dot
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Unseen 01:15
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Fool 02:28
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To Mu 00:56
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Scary People 02:18
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Ozoner 01:08
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Them Self 01:17
Them Self Soul jam Put it in your hand Don't need to tell no law We is a separate biz Don't need to make no call Cop's on the line He's doing fine Don't worry about his job Me and you We do what we do Don't be a moral slob We make our lives Wth forks and knives We eat reality raw Do it yourself Everybody needs themself Do it yourself Everybody needs themself.
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Endfriend 01:03
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Deganawida 02:01
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The Crown 01:15
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The Rebel 00:48

about

Research demonstrates how childhood abuse ties into maladaptive communication dynamics consisting of contempt-laden conflict and emotional withdrawal. There's a lot of it about. The atmosphere is sour. Someone must be to blame, and probably everyone. Look at that woman in her car at the lights with the pinched sneer in the shadowed shell of the interior. You can tell she’s pretty good at finding fault. It must be her. Drag her from her partly paid-for vehicle and march her to trial, or deport her. The trouble is, that off tang is the top note in the composition of social meaning, and state-sanctioned forms of fun are always wretchedly hysterical, like foam on effluent. Toby Anstis driveling crap like he couldn’t beat a chimp at a game of snap. You haven’t won! It must be someone else!

Lost Sas comments:

"Um eddies into and disturbs the flow of Euro electro pop dirges here, and their complex cultural and technological histories, without a programme as such; in order to undermine, and celebrate, in a trans-positive and decidedly sub-heroic, and thus 'hyper-heroic' manner, in which the 'sub' and the 'heroic' have been resolutely deconstructed, the irredeemable and yet ever-present partial losses and undermined gains of an auditory and lived praxis that reflects a subtle and challenging, but muted retort, to the auditory and intellectual perception of the contemporary worlds of pop, drone, and jingle. In its complex idiosyncrasy, which is always a 'take' on idiosyncrasy, Um challenges, in reflexive terms, normative histories of popular music and its repressions, in order to formulate an audible space in which the contradictions of the digitalisation of the auditory spheres of culture may be made apparent, and that in the interplay of their accessibility and their incommensurability may also be more apparent. In his recursions to present and past forms of analogue and digital music, Um asks us to consider the complexities of our present, and our future."

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credits

released March 16, 2015

Loukas Morley helped a lot with art on the physical. Thanks man.
Carl Saff did the mastering.
DMS pressed it.
Awesome Merchandise did the sticker.
Sas Mays did some preliminary notes.
Soft Bodies kindly offered to release it but I said I wanted to do it more quickly, but didn't.

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Pete Um Cambridge, UK

"A master of the miniature electro-acoustic song-poem, a form he has more or less invented and crystallised himself, his work displays a sardonic wit combined with a healthy misanthropy, in marvellous micro-collages of voice, instruments, samples, and electronics."

-Ergo Phizmiz
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