Tom Phillips – Irma LP hip hop while also pressing enough copies

while also pressing enough copies to actually meet the need and not creating an artificially inflated collector’s market

the flip side of this impossibly rare Mekon Records label single was featured in an obscure 1978 B-movie titled “The Alien Factor”

fusing it with the avant-garde free jazz (the one element of the record which garnered consistent praise) and adding the vocals of Rose Marie McCoy

fully licensed

All in all this was a satisfying record to make

Tom Phillips – Irma LP hip hop while also pressing enough copiesBetween 1975 and 1978, Brian Enos Obscure imprint produced ten LPs to document the work of virtually unknown composers at the time. These records continue to inspire both practitioners and fans of experimental, ambient and modern classical music. IrmaObscure No. 9, the labels penultimate releasemight be considered an outlier in its catalogue, given that the album is presented (nominally) as an opera, complete with libretto by art historian Fred Orton.