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Suburban Machines Vol. 1 - L&FLP​-​001

by Chip Curtis

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“How would I describe Chip Curtis? [laughter and pause] You know those news stories you hear every once in a while about a tractor-trailer overturning on the expressway and spilling millions of gallons of maple syrup or molasses onto the road, disrupting traffic and kind of fucking up the whole city for a few days? Well, that was Chip. I remember when he was living in New York City for a bit. He used to keep a bottle of liquid LSD in his pocket. We never new what reality he was operating on. [laughter] I think he had a gig in Brooklyn one spring where he took so much acid, he just left the party and wound up wandering through the streets of Ridgewood with no shoes on until the sun came up! That was the Chip I knew. He would simply slip in and out of the world; sometimes we would see each other almost every day for months and then he would disappear and I would have no contact with him for years. He apparently had a wife and kids somewhere, but I never met them. He was also obsessed with suburbia. He grew up outside of Chicago, I think in Wheaton or something. Did you know Wheaton has more churches per capita than any other place in the United States? I think that really fucked him up. I think he had a difficult childhood and his music was a way for him to come to grips with what happened when he was young.

All that said, he was a true animal in the studio. For instance, if memory serves me, he recorded “Suburban Machines Vol. 1” in 24 hours at his parent’s house in Wheaton, with three pieces of gear and a microphone… and probably a lot of beer… and acid. I’m pretty sure that every track on that album was done in one take, recorded directly to a stereo master [laughter]. I mean, in many ways, the record sounds terrible, but I don't even consider it recording of musical ideas; rather its almost a kind of picture of Chips consciousness and pain, painted with sound waves.

I have no idea what Chip is up to these days. I’m, honestly, not even sure if he is still “alive” in the earthly sense. He lives, as he always had, through his music. Those potential energies stored across various media, deployed at the right times under the skilled supervision of DJs. Every time we play his music, he returns to give us his message… whatever the hell it was.”

-J. Loveland, 2011

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released July 1, 2019

Written, Produced & Recorded by J. Loveland & C. Curtis, Carol Stream, 2018

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INFINITE REFRACTIONS: Jasen Loveland & Friends Berlin, Germany

Limited only by our imaginations, INFINITE REFRACTIONS seeks to move beyond the traditional models (record label, collective, etc.) and embrace the unfiltered totality of the artistic multiplicity represented by THE ARTISTS as they search for kaotic harmony.

Dedicated to the memory of Jasen Loveland, 1951-2018. RIP.
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