BUNDLE OF HISS - AUDIO DESIGN SESSIONS: 1987-1988 BUNDLE OF HISS
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Bundle Of Hiss were Tad Doyle (Tad) Kurt Danielson (Tad) and Dan Peters (Mudhoney). Between 1987 and 1988, when Seattle was still a circuit of small clubs, four-track tapes and bands sharing drummers, Jack Endino went in to record one of the most solid – and most unfairly invisible – outfits of that scene: BUNDLE OF HISS. Those sessions fell into limbo, stored in the basement of Dan Peters (who would soon go on to MUDHONEY) and for years they were a kind of pre-grunge legend: everyone knew they existed, but there was no record, until Loveless Records from NYC released it on CD. This Bang! Records LP is, finally, that record. It gathers the core of those 1987–1988 recordings done by Endino: the moment when the band is tighter, darker and closer to what the press would later call the “Seattle sound”: minor-key melodies, thick fuzz, vocals on the edge, and that mix of hard rock, punk and Sabbath-like heaviness we’d later hear in Mudhoney, TAD or early Soundgarden. And it’s not just us saying it. Kim Thayil (Soundgarden) said it when talking about the bands that never made it to the racks: “Among the bands that made up the Seattle grunge scene of the late ’80s, a few never released material at the time… Until now, one of the most prominent missing from the shelves was Bundle of Hiss. I’m waiting for my copy because my 12-year-old cassette is wearing thin.” And Jack Endino himself summed up these sessions: “Vintage Seattle grunge from one of the original practitioners… I always felt sad that this hard-working band never managed to get a record out and was almost lost to history. It was a pleasure —and a technical pain!— to resurrect all this.” The story is almost archaeological: the tapes surfaced years later in Peters’ basement, Endino rescued them, baked them so they could be played, remixed them and got them ready. He said it himself: “This record just didn’t exist before.” And he was right: this piece was missing for the grunge timeline to be complete. Why is this a key release? Because it’s first-generation material, recorded by the scene’s producer, at the exact moment Seattle was shifting from noisy punk to that heavy, shadowy rock that later blew up. Because Bundle of Hiss included musicians who would later be in MUDHONEY and TAD – so it’s not a “similar” band, it’s the same people before the world knew them (Dan Peters, Kurt Danielson, Tad Doyle…). Because almost none of those bands had the luxury of an LP at the time. Bang! fixes that now. Because it sounds raw, young and dangerous: this is not a polished compilation, it’s a snapshot of the scene. Bang! Records is releasing it on vinyl for the first time, just as it should have come out in the late ’80s: a basement document turned into a collectible artifact. For those who want real grunge, not the domesticated version. Here is Bundle of Hiss exactly as Jack Endino captured them in 1987–1988.
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