Label: Ubiquity
Released 11/29/19
BLACK FRIDAY RECORD STORE DAY RELEASE
1979, Downtown New York, Gray was making industrial music with sound. JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT played the guitar with a metal file, Michael Holman played masking tape and steel ball bearings, Justin Thyme abstracted the keys, as Nick Taylor played his guitar with historical restraint. Famed painter JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT was one of the co-founders of the band GRAY. This anthology features their previously limited self-release plus unreleased material, and remixes from TODD RUNDGREN, HANK SHOCKLEE, KING BRITT, SAL P (LIQUID LIQUID, DEANTONI PARKS, TEWZ, FREE THE ROBOTS, and The GASLAMP KILLER, along with features from AMIR YAGHMAI and KOOL KEITH.
Track Listing:
- Wig
- Pillar of Salt
- The Mysterious Ashley Bickerton
- The Man Who
- Gauntlet of Wriggly’s
- Eight Hour Religion
- Figure It Out For Yourself
- Dan Asher
- Cut It Up High Priest
- I Know
- Mockingbird
- Washington, D.C. 20013
- Bad Fool (Red Skelton)
- Life On The Streets
- Doktor Dhoom
- Drum Mode
- Sweetness Of The New
- Dan Asher (King Britt Mudd Club Mix)
- Sweetness of The New (Free The Robots Remix)
- I Know (Tewz Remix ft. Kool Keith and DJ Flesh One)
- Bad Fool (Hank Shocklee Remix)
- Wig (Sal P. & Sean Bee Wigout)
- Doktor Dhoom (Todd Rundgren Remix)
- Drum Mode (Deantoni Parks & We Are Dark Angels Remix)
- Life On The Streets (Todd Rundgren Remix)
- Bad Fool (The Gaslamp Killer Revision w/ Amir Yaghmai)