Saturation (Vas Deferens Organization album)

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Saturation
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Studio album by Vas Deferens Organization
Released 1996
Recorded 1996 at VDO Studios, Dallas, Texas
Genre Experimental rock
Length45:30
Label Aether
Producer Matt Castille, Eric Lumbleau
Vas Deferens Organization chronology
Transcontinental Conspiracy
(1996) Transcontinental Conspiracy1996		Saturation
(1996)		 Zyzzybalubah
(1997) Zyzzybalubah1997

Saturation is the debut album of Vas Deferens Organization, released in 1996 through Aether Records.

Vas Deferens Organization is an American experimental band and a production team founded in Dallas in 1994 by Matt Castille in association with Christopher Moock, Jason Cohen, Barbara Cohen, Craig Carlton, Breck Outland, and Reagen Boone. In 1995 Eric Lumbleau joined the group. From 1995 through 2007, VDO was a loose collective centered on Castille and Lumbleau and ever-changing collaborators. Christopher Moock reunited with Castille and Lumbleau in 2007.

Aether Records is an Indianapolis, Indiana-based record label that reissues rare rock records from the 1960s and 1970s as well as contemporary music in a neo psychedelic style.

Contents

Track listing

All music composed by Matt Castille and Eric Lumbleau.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."On the Threshold of Some Great Discovery"3:37
2."Lazy Eyed Locusts in Defocused Landscapes"7:19
3."Purple Aerosol"5:53
4."Amön Döö & Pöpöl Pöö"9:01
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Rickshaw Grande-Prix"5:45
2."Transmissions From the Pineal Bandwidth"5:02
3."Beacon From a Nostalgic Future Past"4:17
4."Headlong Plunge"4:35

Personnel

Adapted from the Saturation liner notes. [1]

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Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1996 Aether LP aelp-001

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References

  1. ↑ Saturation (booklet). Vas Deferens Organization. Indianapolis, Indiana: Aether. 1996.
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