Systems of Romance. The holiday season is soon upon us, and I’m going to put the wrap on another excellent year with a gift from my bandmate, Greg Fasolino, who some of you may also be familiar with from Bell Hollow and The Naked and the Dead. Anyone who knows Greg is aware of his vast archiving skills, complete with photos, setlists, friendships, and a collection that most of us would kill to own. That said, the stories about this particular band date back to his time in the Naked and the Dead, a female fronted deathrock band from NYC who released one acclaimed demo before splitting.
The band reformed in the early 2000s with a different singer and have released archival material as well as sprinkled reissues of the demo across several compilations. During his years as an underground musician, journalist, and all around music superfan, he befriended fellow musicians Joe Kasher (aka Joe Truck) and Andrew Cushen, who were both luminaries of the 1980s NYC underground as well. Which brings us to today. Crispy Nuggets. Nostalgie de la boue. 7'' from the underground. This is What I Call Minimal 80s! Vol. 05. MUTANT SOUNDS.
Darksynthesia - obscure sounds. The Short Wave Mystery - Pilots 12" Well, I figured that since a copy of this 12" recently fetched $910 on eBay, why not share the record so everyone could hear what the hype is all about? Some people are trying to sell bootleg copies of this for hundreds of dollars as well... I have managed to track down two of the original members of the group, including Greg, the songwriter/singer. Here is what he had to say about the group: "We never again pressed anything else under the moniker Short-Wave Mystery but there are more songs that I have on tape, from that era.
Most of the tracks on that record were written and recorded by myself when I was attending Santa Barbara City College down in Isla Vista, CA around the 1985-1986 time frame. They were recorded in a bedroom using a 4 track Tascam 38 and some small Electro-Harmonix 2 second samplers and a Memorymoog Plus running a sequencer driving a Moog Source. All of the memebers were essentially friends. PS. Short Wave Mystery - Pilots 12" EP 1985 Good Records Songs: 1. HAPPY NEW WAVE.