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Bands on Deconomics
Good
Since Good's unassuming north Chicago "porch" formation in 2004, Goodmembers Paul and Mike have released three albums. This is despite their separation since 2004 by the Atlantic ocean (following Mike's move to Amsterdam). This less than miraculous but nonetheless sacred achievement was achieved by means of sending tracks back and forth over the internet. The first two albums, 2004's skeletal and precious A tender folk music impossible for a woman to like, and 2006's sprawling ode to governmentality, hegemony, and regimes of truth in Firaxis' Civilization III, Tear it Down II, were both released on now-defunct Isochromatic Records.
Following the breakup of the Isochromatic label, Deconomics Records was formed, releasing Good's 2008 self-titled EP.
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Busy Busy Busy
Busy Busy Busy is the eponymous songwriting vehicle of mutant offspring of Steven Covey and Elvis Costello's less focused cousin, Paul. Formed almost accidentally in January 2007 around 30th Street in Omaha, Nebraska, BBB is the ten-year musical reunion of Paul with longtime-friend and crackerjack bass player Lexington. With the addition of Lex's fiancee and classically-trained vocalist Yvette, the journey was finally ready to begin. Once a week. Between the hours of 9pm and 1am.
Armed with about $300 worth of recording equipment and "some time on Thursdays, maybe", Busy Busy Busy has been nothing if not productive in the studio, creating two full-length records worth of material in a little over a year, the most recent of which, God's Pale Nun, is out now on Deconomics.
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Corn Against Sorcery
Corn Against Sorcery is the degenerate false stepchild of too many orgies and cigarettes shared between Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, John Balance and sci-fi. While the musical zygote that became CAS was conceived as Mike and a Korg 01/w well over a decade ago in Omaha, Nebraska, CAS could not become to be until three insufferable Amsterdam winters had passed through Mike's body. Originally conceived as VALIS, after the schizophrenic classic of Philip K. Dick, Mike begrudgingly changed the name of the project to another, even more appropriate Dick novel after an extended deliberation lasting roughly 9 years. The years of agony, it seems, was whether or not to pander to the intertextual claims a same named Seattle grunge band had made over the VALIS title and all it signifies.
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