Talk to the Blog: Five Questions for Mutant Sounds, Home of Doinky Synth-Pop, Beef-Heartian Art Damage, and Symphonic-Prog MP3s

By Jeremy Krinsley for the Village Voice Sounds of the City blog:

In any given week, Mutant Sounds will unceremoniously dump a pile of posts containing scanned or photographed album art, breezily-written descriptions, and full-album downloads into its expanding archive of musical rarities from the past four decades. One such occurrence in early June included a Swedish fusion LP from the 70s, "psych-as-psych-qua-psych" Japanese singles, and sub-underground post-industrial comps from mid-80s America. While the material might seem bound together only by its dusty obscurity, it's also united in its indebtedness to a handful of collectors who've united under the Mutant Sound banner.

Eric Lumbleau is perhaps the most systematic of this small group. As a member of the loose Texas-based music collective, Vas Deferens Organization, Lumbleau was already a legend in the Mutant Sounds realm, having been responsible for both a stream of mid-'90 to early-'00 releases (that's range was nearly as wide as what appears on Mutant Sounds), and a lavish stab at underground taste-making following in the tradition of experimental forefathers Nurse With Wounds, whose infamous "list" VDO one-upped (in quantity, at least), in 1996. With Lumbleau's assistance, the blog has become a go-to for outsider traditions in music. He recently answered five questions for us over e-mail.

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