Various – I.D. Art #2 LP*

Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the mid-1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective and multimedia publishing vehicle. Founded by teenage Le Forte Four members Chip Chapman, Joe Potts and Rick Potts and soon joined by Tom Recchion of Doo-Dooettes, LAFMS incorporated free improvisation, modular synthesizers, tape music, sampling, musique concrète, homemade instruments, noise, mail art and avant-rock in permissive and anarchic sessions at the Raymond Building and Poo-Bah Record Shop in old Pasadena. Inspired by The Residents, LAFMS self-released records and periodicals, organized performances and connected with fellow outsiders via post in the years before punk. Their uninhibited, egalitarian ideal of music-making and DIY distribution would influence generations of underground musicians.

LAFMS primarily reached outside Los Angeles via word-of-mouth and the United States Postal Service, foreshadowing the self-publishing and cassette trading networks of post-punk and industrial subcultures. In 1976, Joe Potts solicited recordings from LAFMS affiliates and admirers to edit and compile I.D. Art #2, utilizing correspondence art's technique of "assemblings." (The first installment in this series was a magazine, and the third was a coloring book.) Potts received dozens of pieces by members of Le Forte Four, Doo-Dooettes, Smegma and Ace & Duce as well as painters, filmmakers and non-artists with few recording credits to their name, creating a delirious, winking sound-art collage of field recordings, voicemails and improvisations. Participants purchased time on the record and received one copy each of the finished LP, realizing the philosophy contained in LAFMS' motto: "The music is free, but you have to pay for the plastic, paper, ink, glue and stamps."

This first-time vinyl reissue is limited to 500 numbered copies. Comes with insert.

• Originally released in 1976 on LAFMS

• First-time vinyl reissue

• Limited edition of 500 numbered copies

Label: États-Unis – etat16

Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue

Country: US

Released: Dec 2022

Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Rock, Non-Music, Classical, Stage & Screen

Style: Soundtrack, Free Improvisation, Art Rock, Spoken Word, Experimental

Tracklist

A1 Mac McCloud– A, Mac McCloud; B, Mac McCloud 3:15

A2 Harold Schroeder– Silent Rituals 3:30

A3 Greg Neutra / J.D. Elliot– Grieg Fatigue 2:00

A4a Smegma– Rrose Selavy Will Wait For My Washing Machine, Even

A4b Smegma– The Andalusian Dog Often Digs Into The Furniture With Onyx Fingers 2:05

A5 Smegma– Potatoe War 0:59

A6a Fredrik Nilsen– You Can't Hide From Aldehyde 1:45

A6b Le Forte Four– Discarded Portion Of The Soundtrack For Rick's Film "Burger Madness"

A7 Miles Forst– Art, Art, Art 0:45

A8 Smegma– One Moment 1:30

A9 Smegma– Pigface Blues 0:23

A10 Doug Henry– View This Command As A Verbal Enactment Of A Command 0:15

A11 Josie Roth– Heal, And Another Little Time 0:30

A12 Joe Potts– I Don't Want To Go To The Farm 0:15

A13 Otto Fick– Untitled 1:00

A14 Smegma– Excerpt From: I'll Have Julie Nixon-Eisenhower For My Appetizer (Sour Lungs To My Surprise) 3:00

A15 Karen Kato– Xmas 1952 0:30

A16a J.J. Allen Vargas– Victim Of Racism 1:30

A16b Le Forte Four– From "The Origin Of Largie Schrapnel"

A17 Dennis Guy Mehaffey*– Busta Nosa 1:45

A18 M/R/Zuniga– Vulnerability: Rape, Male Vs. Female 1:30

A19a Mike Green (8)– Martin Heiddeger Revisited 0:15

A19b Le Forte Four– I Haven't Heard You For A Long Time…

A20a Mehaffey*– Introduction By Buckminster Fuller

A20b Mehaffey*– I Stumble/You Laugh

A20c Le Forte Four– Fat Ape 1:00

A21 Jules Lemelle– Untitled 1:00

B1 Maureen Abbott– Untitled 0:15

B2 Smegma– Take One 3:30

B3 Dan Weiss / P. Hamilton Ross– A Bicentennial Tribue To America's Freight Trains 1:00

B4 Mr. Foon– Timeless #1 3:00

B5 Bertil Petersson– Monologue To Henry VIII 2:00

B6 Amrein & Stoll– Untitled 0:30

B7 Ace & Duce– Dogs Are Barking 0:30

B8 Irene Dogmatic / Rose Tatoo– Untitled 0:30

B9 Gordon Shields– Cotton Duck, Up And Back 1:00

B10 Gary Beydler– Record Stick 0:15

B11 Tom Kemp (2)– Pasadena Subway Station Poetry Stills 3:30

B12 Donald Spaulding– I Don't Want This To Happen 0:30

B13 Janice Felger / Joan Hugo– One Minute Of Art News Update In 30 Seconds 0:30

B14 Sue Farthing*– Untitled 0:30

B15 Waynna Kato– White/Noise 0:30

B16 Jim Abuan / Peter Muzzey– Why Does Love Have To Be So Sad? 0:15

B17 Juan Gomez– This Is My Country 3:30

B18 P.J. Campbell– Untitled 1:00

B19 Kathe Schreyer– Don't Make Me Laugh 0:15

B20 Mary Dana Chodzko– Patty Smith By Mary Dana Chodzko 1:45

B21 Gary Laskin– Have Sex With Rex 3:30

B22 Jean Koller– Dream 3:30