Monster Magnet are planning to release “Test Patterns: Vol. 1“ on November 18. The effort will include an updated version of “Tab,“ which was remixed by co-founder John McBrain in 2021, and the original 1988 demo version.
Co-founder Tim Cronin commented:
“When Magnet started, John and I worked in record stores in Red Bank and Dave worked in the comic bookstore and we made a lot of tapes for each other. A lot of ‘check this shit out’ kind of stuff…Hawkwind, early UFO, Amon Duul, Can, Skullflower, Morgen, Loop, Crystalized Movements, early Alice Cooper, Walking Seeds, Butthole Surfers, Spacemen 3.
When we recorded the first demo and got to ‘Tab‘, we just beat the shit out of it until it became heavy, noisy, weird, mean and either too long or not long enough, depending on your mood. Everything we wanted in a song (at least everything I wanted in a song), punishingly psychedelic. Jersey Shore krautrock.”
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