01 August 2010

VELO-DELUXE Superelastic 1994


by request


Artist Biography by

After the 1994 split of Bloomington, Indiana's Antenna, former Blake Babies guitarist John Strohm formed Velo-Deluxe with Go Man Go bassist Kenny Childers and Marmalade drummer Mitch Harris, then only a 19-year-old freshman at Indiana University. Strohm already had an entire album's worth of songs ready, but wanted to work them into a full band setting. After months of practicing and recording a rough demo, the band entered Echo Park Studio in Bloomington in the late spring of 1994 to record Superelastic with producer/engineer Anjali Dutt (Swervedriver, Oasis, My Bloody Valentine).
The album was released on Mammoth Records in the fall of that year, and European tours with Dodgy, Drugstore, Del Amitri and Out Of My Hair followed. Two subsequent recording sessions failed to please executives at Mammoth, who declined to release another album. In the interim, Strohm and Harris joined El Nino's Glen Hicks, area pedal-steel player Dennis Scoville and guitarist Steve Woods to record Caledonia for Flat Earth Records, with the band billed as John P. Strohm and the Hello Strangers. With Childers already out of the band, Velo-Deluxe called it quits in the spring of 1996. Strohm then moved to Minneapolis, toured for over a year with the Lemonheads and eventually settled in Alabama, from where he continues to release his own solo material. Childers has since played in Bloomington bands Stranded At The Drive In and The Prom, while Harris moved to New York City to study film. 

Tracklist

1 Superelastic 2:59
2 Vello Deluxe 3:53
3 Simple 4:02
4 Dirtass 2:45
5 Alibi 4:56
6 Desiree 3:31
7 Angels 4:17
8 Skin & Bones 4:22
9 Saturday 2:57
10 Eleven 4:09
11 Said 2:37
12 Miracle 8:35


8 comments:

IHateThe90s said...

http://www.mediafire.com/?rqxqr87qa2w642a

Anonymous said...

How do you rip your CDs? I have always wondered that. For a 320 kbps rip the audio quality sounds oddly bad and you can hear "squeaks" over and over again. Listen to track n. 1 "Superelastic", minutes 1:03, 1:06, 1:17, but it's pretty much continuous. This is not the first time though: I deleted a few albums downloaded from this blog, because of that. These audio flaws have been going on since the beginning, I think. Not all albums probably, but I encountered the very same problem on several of them, although I can't remember which ones. I appreciate the efforts, but this is getting annoying. Am I the only one here?

IHateThe90s said...

The squeaks you hear are when I leach the music from particular sites. There isn't anything I can do about it unfortunately. Other CDs are ripped with Roxio at 320kbps. When I do requests, often the only way I can get the music is through leeching them from music sites.

Anonymous said...

What are those particular sites? Can we know? Blogs? Or maybe P2P clients, not sites? It's weird that all the albums you get from those "music sites" are flawed. Is it always the same uploader that provides those flawed rips? That would explain it. I'm sure something can be done about it. I'm trying to help.

IHateThe90s said...

Can you please re-post this? Please?? :( Thanks!

IHateThe90s said...

Please re-post / re-up this great album! :( thanks!

IHateThe90s said...

can you please re-post this great album? :( Thanks!

IHateThe90s said...

I'd love to but I no longer have this file. Sorry about that.