ANTIPOISON - Happy Monoculture LP 1987

Side A
00:00 Aquadome
03:33 The Grip
07:27 Poison Love
10:07 Antipoison
Side B
16:43 Senses Unlocked
19:17 Bad Karma
23:56 Breathing down my neck
27:58 Black Crow

Bad Karma and Antipoison, from the BDMN demos, got thrown together with this EP for the Happy Monoculture cassette release on Funnel Web records. The proof we were the heaviest band that never was is in Ben's Black Crow, reworked from Bob Dylan's Black Crow Blues, it's a good name for a band too. Might I say some nice guitar work there.

These Dreamtime mixes were soaked in reverb and the mastering on the test pressing was so bad we wanted to remaster it, but before we knew anything it was released as this cassette with Ben's Iron Man t-shirt artwork on the cover, looking like a bootleg. Label mates Stake Cave had the same cassette artwork format, black on burnt orange. Please comment on the comparison between the cassette version and the rough mixes.

Tony from Dreamtime who had a record shop on Barkly st St Kilda wanted to dress the vinyl record cover up with some gimmicky frills, which really didn't fit the tone of the band. His idea was more along the lines of 'The Grip', (Ben's ode to auto-erotic asphyxiwhatchamacallit) than 'Antipoison'

Vince Melzak: Guitar, Vocal
Ben Ling: Bass, Vocal
David Leslie: Drums, Backing Vocal
Artwork: Ben Ling
Photos: Lester Clarke
Title Artwork: Pete Bennett
Copyright: A V Melzak 1987, 2024
ISRC AU-A2F-24