Futurismo present a new version of DEVO’s highly celebrated and sold-out box set release - ART DEVO 1973-1977. Now available as a 3xLP in a choice of limited colours.The release all hardcore Devo fans have been waiting for, ART DEVO is a vital collection housing unheard and obscure mind blowers sourced directly from the vaults of The De-Evolution Band. This anthology takes you from the band’s initial conception in Akron, Ohio to the moment before the world woke up, in a collection of sonic and visual art that captures Devo at the dawn of industrial death.In honour of their 50th Anniversary, ART DEVO showcases the mesmerizing evolution of a band on the brink of discovery, mining irony, wit and dark humour from the madness of a distorted modern world still coming to terms with aftermath of a collapsed economy and the Vietnam war. From 1973-1977 Devo would transform from an art project, pop art in the literal sense, into the group David Bowie would declare “the band of the future”. Here you will find the audio mutations of a band at the edge of greatness, initial concepts that gave birth to a new aesthetic that continually challenged preconceptions about music, art, performance, culture, composition and consumption...it was also the birth of Booji Boy. While the songs here may not be fully grown, raw even, these are the seeds of subversion that kickstarted Devo’s 50 year legacy.Spanning 3xLP’s almost completely unheard and unreleased material, this collection draws purely from that integral early history, garnered from unearthed basement recordings, original demo tapes, unfinished montages and rare live audio, all taken from the bands personal archive. This collection showcases why Devo was, and is still, one of the most important bands in American history. De-evolution is real. The art of DEVO is real. Here is the evidence.This 3xLP version is housed in a gloss laminated wide spined sleeve, it has a tracklist that has been curated by the band and contains a fold-out poster containing rare imagery and liner notes by Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald V Casale.Tracklist:Exhibit [A] 1973-1976Booji’s Industrial DeathTotal LoveAuto Modown (Early version)Space Girl Blues (Early version)Live ForeverAndrogyny (Live at Kent Kove 74)+Fraulein (Kent Kove 1974)Exhibit [B] 1973-1975Bicentennial BirthdayMan From The PastMidget/My Lai Mama (Kent Kove 74)Shimmy ShakeAll Of UsHubert HouseThe Tinkle TuneExhibit [C] 1973-1975Private Secretary (Kent Kove 74)+I Don’t Know WhyDixiePigs Waddle (Kent Kove 74)+Death Of Lt. Casanova (Kent Kove 74)Exhibit [D] 1975-1977U Got Me Bugged (Instrumental version)I Don’t Know What I Do DoHuboon StompCan U Take It (Early version)Uncontrollable Urge (Early version)Everything’s Gonna Be AlrightFalling In Love AgainExhibit [E] 1975-1977Devo Corporate Anthem (Early version)Shrivel Up (Early version)Smart Patrol (Early version)I’m Lost at HomeUntitledNever Go BackSecret Agent Man (Mark vocal)Exhibit [F] 1975-1977Social Fools (Early version)A Plan For U (Early version)Nutty Buddy (Live at JB’s 76)Dogs Of DemocracyRace Of Doom (Early version)Space Junk (Early version)Primal Satisfaction*End Message
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