Description: SEALED ON POINT BLANK RECORDS 3 Teens Kill 4 was born in the summer of 1980 in the East Village of New York City. They took their name from a New York Post headline. The group consisted of Doug Bressler, Brian Butterick, Julie Hair, Jesse Hultberg, David Wojnarowicz. There was a conscious decision not to have a front person or lead singer. David made cassette tapes with voices and sounds that he held up close to a microphone, fast-forwarding and rewinding. Julie tried different rhythms on a Korg rhythm machine. Brian played a Casio drum machine and Jesse was on bass. Doug joined the group in time to make the debut album. He was a music lover who understood how to avoid covering over the band’s non-musicality.Their debut 7-song mini-album “No Motive” was recorded in Fall 1982 and self-released in 1983. Utilizing rhythm boxes, tapes of news reports, odd percussion tools, snatches of song, they chanted political narrative ideas about the modern mess at the time. The album is an amalgam of urban life, a twisted, anti-rhetorical approach to social issues. Songs weave together to create an intelligent, jarring sound. Razor sharp guitar licks and hauntingly ominous bass lines create a tense, oblique abstraction of pain and chaos. For this reissue we’ve added 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Doug says, “These songs are very deliberately an experiment in Postmodernism. Sound bytes were stolen from the airwaves and recorded onto bargain cassette tapes. We were stripping the structure of the popular song to the bone. A sort of sonic Duchamp. And throughout it all, runs a childlike sense of play: the judicious use of toys, the schoolyard chants. All of this was happening during the dark and soul-numbing Age of Reagan, with the AIDS crisis looming on the horizon.”
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Artist: 3 Teens Kill 4
Speed: 33 RPM
Record Label: Point Blank
Release Title: No Motive
Custom Bundle: No
Color: Black
Material: Vinyl
MPN: ID 3
Modified Item: No
Edition: First Pressing
Type: LP
Format: Record
Record Grading: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Language: English
Sleeve Grading: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Release Year: 1984
Era: 1990s
Record Size: 12"
Style: Alternative/Indie
Features: Original Cover
Genre: Indie Rock
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
Number of Audio Channels: Stereo