John Bender recorded voraciously between 1978 and 1980 at his home in Cincinnati Ohio. Not even song titles could slow down his creative pace as he named all the tracks after their position on the original tapes. “36A2” for example was cassette #36 side A piece #2. To close the DIY aesthetic circle Bender made sleeves by hand with no two covers alike and pressed the LPs in hyper-limited editions on his own Record Sluts imprint. I Don’t Remember Now / I Don’t Want To Talk About It Bender’s first album from 1980 is the holy grail of minimal lo-fi electronics. Layers of fractured melodies distorted synthesizers hollowed-out rhythms and claustrophobic vocals unfold over the 40 minutes of this lost masterpiece. “It’s A Rainy Day Sunshine Girl” one of Faust’s greatest songs is perfectly deconstructed by a distinct punk-meetsexperimentalist sensibility.

1. 36A2
2. 35B1
3. 27B4
4. 35A9
5. 36A3
6. 31A4
7. 33A1