The last garage band in the Galaxy and acoustic folk slaughter on one tape. 100 copies edition. Length: 40 min.

Vybro Elvis Band are the future King Kongs, once a famous St. Petersburg stadium band (played before Grazhdanskaya Oborona in 2005), the same people standing behind a zillion of lo-fi and hometaping projects. However, The King Kongs did not possess that unique mad sound represented on this tape.

Ankylym's side includes 10 acoustic live pieces, intercepted by television samples mainly on folk music themes, added by me using a double deck tape recorder. All the advantages of this technology compared to digital are definitely seen in this record: the transitions between samples and songs are smooth and unpredictable at the same time, making it impossible to separate them and resulting in some kind of a conceptual suite.

The split made a fantastic success, more than 100 copies having been sold out quite fast. It must be noted that only the blank tape itself with pad printing had been produced at the factory, while I recorded all the copies myself, for the reason that the master record was on tape itself, and it was assumed that the factory required a CD. The edition was accompanied by a lottery. As far as it is possible to recollect now (with the help of my own newsletter's archives), little pieces of paper with numbers were enclosed in the 100 tapes of the official print run. The prizes were tapes, compact discs and my private belongings. In 2 years the drawing took place, 13 happy numbers were announced, the prizes were dispatched, at least partially, to the few happy winners who had shewn up. Naturally, there were lots of fraud accusations against me. The truth is that the numbers had been most probably defined by the visitors of the Stauropygial Records site: a CGI script has been found, shewing a button to the visitor, who could generate a random number, recorded to a file, by pressing it.

Definitely one of the best releases on our label.

Side A (Vybro Elvis Band):

Side B (Ankylym):