With thanks to Decon here’s Savage Aural Hotbed. Starting out penniless, unable to buy instruments, four guys decided to scrounge junk heaps and alleyways for objects that would do the trick: saw blades, plastic barrels, a steel I-beam, trash cans and some kind of a metal frame laced with wires. Armed with fiberglass drumsticks (weighing about three times what normal drumsticks weigh) they took the name Savage Aural Hotbed and began pummeling and clanging out a surprisingly syncopated line. With the instruments they use now, the sound is so loud they don’t have to worry about amplification — at some shows people have complained that the music was too loud. For all that noise, Hotbed is not widely known. A year ago they released a self-titled, three-song EP on Useless Records, and one song, “Same Thing” got a bit of airplay on college and community radio stations. Excellent percussion / synth / wave. Savage Aural Hotbed was released on vinyl as a 12″ by Useless Records (UR103-89) in 1989.
Tracks:
- Same Thing
- In A Cage
- Saint Bill
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