UU010: Before The Bust: Odds, Ends, & Lost Recordings (1985-1992)
***ONLY AVAILABLE VIA OUR BANDCAMP PAGE***
In his lifetime, Dan Del Santo wrote nearly 1,500 songs. Obviously a career so prolific (especially before the age of digital distribution and recording) is primed to have a LOT of loose ends and missing pieces that deserve to be heard. This compilation contains but nine of those 1,500 songs, but it's a great place to start!
"Before the Bust: Odds, Ends, & Lost Recordings (1985-1992)" is the first of several compilations we're releasing of songs, released and unreleased, that were never featured on an album. This first compilation chronicles the tail end of Dan's "world beat" era (and his brief experimentation with electronic based dance music!) and the final sounds made with the professors of pleasure before his arrest in 1992.
These tapes have been dusted off after nearly 35 years and have finally been brought to light — with executive production from Slim Heilpern, who not only produced the first five tracks on this record, but baked his original masters to give us the freshest and crispest sound possible.
After those tracks come the strange, lost, left-field collaboration between dan and fellow Austin legends Timbuk 3 (gifted to us by Pat Macdonald himself!) that bares more resemblance to Ween's "Pure Guava" than anything either of the two austin weirdos had ever concocted in their respective careers.
The rest of the songs come from a once-lost cassette tape of Dan's unreleased "Fire" album, which made the rounds when he sent them in the mail to KUT DJs asking them to play his music while still hiding out in Mexico, of course, with a letter asking them not to tell the feds.
***ONLY AVAILABLE VIA OUR BANDCAMP PAGE***
In his lifetime, Dan Del Santo wrote nearly 1,500 songs. Obviously a career so prolific (especially before the age of digital distribution and recording) is primed to have a LOT of loose ends and missing pieces that deserve to be heard. This compilation contains but nine of those 1,500 songs, but it's a great place to start!
"Before the Bust: Odds, Ends, & Lost Recordings (1985-1992)" is the first of several compilations we're releasing of songs, released and unreleased, that were never featured on an album. This first compilation chronicles the tail end of Dan's "world beat" era (and his brief experimentation with electronic based dance music!) and the final sounds made with the professors of pleasure before his arrest in 1992.
These tapes have been dusted off after nearly 35 years and have finally been brought to light — with executive production from Slim Heilpern, who not only produced the first five tracks on this record, but baked his original masters to give us the freshest and crispest sound possible.
After those tracks come the strange, lost, left-field collaboration between dan and fellow Austin legends Timbuk 3 (gifted to us by Pat Macdonald himself!) that bares more resemblance to Ween's "Pure Guava" than anything either of the two austin weirdos had ever concocted in their respective careers.
The rest of the songs come from a once-lost cassette tape of Dan's unreleased "Fire" album, which made the rounds when he sent them in the mail to KUT DJs asking them to play his music while still hiding out in Mexico, of course, with a letter asking them not to tell the feds.
***ONLY AVAILABLE VIA OUR BANDCAMP PAGE***
In his lifetime, Dan Del Santo wrote nearly 1,500 songs. Obviously a career so prolific (especially before the age of digital distribution and recording) is primed to have a LOT of loose ends and missing pieces that deserve to be heard. This compilation contains but nine of those 1,500 songs, but it's a great place to start!
"Before the Bust: Odds, Ends, & Lost Recordings (1985-1992)" is the first of several compilations we're releasing of songs, released and unreleased, that were never featured on an album. This first compilation chronicles the tail end of Dan's "world beat" era (and his brief experimentation with electronic based dance music!) and the final sounds made with the professors of pleasure before his arrest in 1992.
These tapes have been dusted off after nearly 35 years and have finally been brought to light — with executive production from Slim Heilpern, who not only produced the first five tracks on this record, but baked his original masters to give us the freshest and crispest sound possible.
After those tracks come the strange, lost, left-field collaboration between dan and fellow Austin legends Timbuk 3 (gifted to us by Pat Macdonald himself!) that bares more resemblance to Ween's "Pure Guava" than anything either of the two austin weirdos had ever concocted in their respective careers.
The rest of the songs come from a once-lost cassette tape of Dan's unreleased "Fire" album, which made the rounds when he sent them in the mail to KUT DJs asking them to play his music while still hiding out in Mexico, of course, with a letter asking them not to tell the feds.