I’ve only one song by Mount Vernon Arts Lab in the collection, and it comes courtesy of its inclusion on the compilation album Bentism that was released in 1999 by Creeping Bent Records.
Here’s some abridged stuff from wiki:-
Mount Vernon Arts Lab is a musical project of Drew Mulholland.
Taking inspiration from Joe Meek, and from Daniel Miller’s work as The Normal, Mulholland began creating avant-garde/post-rock recordings in 1996, and soon found the support of independent labels such as Via Satellite and Earworm, who between them issued a series of vinyl-only releases during 1997 and 1998. Mulholland used a range of electronic and acoustic instruments including Moog synthesizers, theremin, and a specially-built unit which he calls a “Turbine Generator” The debut mini-album, Gummy Twinkle, was issued in September 1998, featuring guest appearances from Pete Kember (a.k.a. Sonic Boom) and Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub.
He then signed a deal with Ochre Records, who issued his second mini-set, a collaboration with Adrian Utley of Portishead, featuring a single 23-minute track, “Warminster”. A second mini-set followed for Ochre, this time recorded 100 feet below ground in the abandoned nuclear bunker at Troywood. A final album as Mount Vernon Arts Lab was released in 2001 on Via Satellite; The Séance at Hobs Lane and featured guest appearances from Blake, Utley, Isobel Campbell, and Barry 7 (of Add N to (X).
mp3: Mount Vernon Arts Lab – Bad Vibrations
Not specified in the wiki entry was that in 1997, there had been a contribution to edition #5 of the Creeping Bent Singles Club, supplying one side of a 7″ single with the other being courtesy of Future Pilot A.K.A. vs. Alan Vega / Revolutionary Corps Of Teenage Jesus. It was the same track later included on the Bentism compilation.
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