New Fantômas/Melt Banana Split
Unhip Records has released a 3″ CD and a 5″ vinyl split of a new Fantômas song and a new Melt Banana song.
The amazing split between FANTôMAS and MELT-BANANA is finally ready. Some copies have already ended up on e-bay (copies that were originally sold at the recent Fantômas european shows), but please don’t pay ridiculous prices for it and buy directly from us because there’s no need to worry that the record will sell-out anytime soon (also because it hasn’t been sent to distributors yet). And we haven’t started to sell it mailorder either, mainly because we’ve been (and will be) around the country for festivals so the mailorder will be resumed on Monday September 5th. Sincere apologies to all the people who have ordered the record, please have some more patience and you’ll get it!! Also to those who sent e-mails while I was on vacation, you’ll get your answer asap. We’ll be also accepting paypal payments from now on. The records are all hand-made (this is also why it took us a while to have them all packaged) and comes in 2 formats: the vinyl is a 5 inch while the cd is square-shaped and the diagonal of the square is three inches long.
Needless to say they’re incredibly neat to look at and to be held in your hands, which should be enough of a reason to go out and get it. The split single contains two brand new exclusive songs. Fantômas (who are Mike Patton, King Buzzo, Trevor Dunn and Dave Lombardo for those living under a rock) go crazy on their “Animali In Calore Surriscaldati Con Ipertermia Genitale” (animals in heat overheated with genital hyperthermia), while Japan’s noisecore legends Melt-Banana gave us the wonderful “Cat In Red”. The artwork was drawn by Igort, a friend of ours who also happens to be one of the most talented artists in the world of comics. Check out his website www.igort.com , he’s also responsible for the Unhip Records logo.
Source: theMELVINS.net / unhip records
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September 13th, 2005 at 8:34 AM
I’m speechless.
You know, I’ve decided that there really aren’t enough surprise, spontaneous, Fantomas/Melt Banana releases in the world.
This looks like gold on wax to me!
Pity that the unhiprecords.com website seems to be down, but I suppose we can’t have everything all at once.
Yes, there is a vinyl version currently on ebay, but I’m sure that the price will get ridiculous before it’s all over and besides, I’d rather buy it from the source on general principle.
September 13th, 2005 at 3:41 PM
Well actually that is me who has the bid on e-bay. I want to hear really badly. Hopefully it will get more attention on other websites so more people can hear it!
November 16th, 2005 at 7:22 AM
Audio Savant, http://www.audiosavant.com, just got a few copies of the vinyl and the CD version of this in. $10.00 each, postage paid.
These are amazing, the hand made packaging is awesome!
JWW
December 6th, 2005 at 9:03 PM
yeah, I got these from the Unhip Records site, and despite the fact that my turnable returns before I can play the vinyl (due to the small diameter), these are freakin’ worth every penny. Absolutely amazing. I just hope that both bands play these songs live every once in a while.
May 4th, 2006 at 7:16 AM
Sounds lovely, but just two songs? :/
Bash