GASP An Earwigs Guide To Traveling CD (Capibara) 11.98A long-awaited n' crucial collection of pretty much everything this cult California psych-violence/drone-grind released, aside from the Dome Triler Of
Puzzle Zoo People LP on Slap A Ham (which we also stock here at Crucial Blast). These guys were WAY ahead of their time: Between 1996 and 1999, GASP
emitted bizarre frenquencies of avant-powerviolence that was beyond anything else going on at the time (think mid/late 90's, at the fever pitch of the West
Coast extreme hardcore movement). Hallucinogenic, brain warping, brutally heavy. Listening to these tunes again after years of obscurity and out-of-print
vinyl brings it all back...swirling together fucked up caveman grind, floating psycehdelia, ambient tape loop dreaminess, and massive, cough syrup covered
sludge heaviness, GASP were like a bizarre, disorientating mix of post-MAN IS THE BASTARD power violence, TROUM's cloudy dream-drones,and NAUTICAL ALMANAC
style tape manipulation, with mutant,stuttering blastbeats collapsing into dense fogs of electronic droning and crushing extreme sludge dirge bulldozing
through abstract longform free psych-noise jams. This CD collects their freaking impossible-to-find vinyl splits with the likes of Noothgrush, Deerhoof,
Suffering Luna, Volume 11, etc., compilation jams, unreleased songs (including the infamous Lepidostomatid 7". GASP were one of the most innovative
bands to come out of this scene, and this is a killer document of their non-album stuff.