DECONOMICS RECORDS

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.

The orbits and rotations of CAS are nothing if not cosmically slow. The first CAS compositions remain largely unrecorded and stored on floppies in climate controlled storage in the suburbs of West Omaha. Along with them are stored the second CAS album whose data sits in stages of near completion on a crashed g4 drive. While the 01/w and g4 were out of necessity left behind upon Mike's transatlantic immigration in 2004, he managed a year later to bring back to Europe a laptop, Nord, and microphone. To continue with the cosmic metaphor, Wunjo, go slowly six of cups down round the outside is the first almost habitable body of music to accrete from the soupy rock and stardust of Mike and the Alphane universe.