The Italian side is called Un pomeriggio all'orto botanico, Monopolka's side — Extreme pant pissing playout & sinister horror. Mondo Cane is a noise band of Luca Massolin (8mm Records label, Ponzano Veneto, Italy — a town with 9000 inhabitants), which had been touring all over Europe in mid-2000-ies, although there's almost no mentions of it in the Internet (Mike Patton's project is different). A typical situation for the South European underground, later I have met lots of outstanding offline bands in Greece and Italy. Ventolin Orchestra is Bruno Dorella from OvO. The stuff is really great, actually as of now I find it much more interesting to listen to a noise band than to a solo performance with effect pedals. I have offered them a split tape with Monopolka, probably because they had already been acquainted with Phil, who had had released a CD of Allun from the Barlamuerte label run by aforementioned Bruno. Again I invented an example of an incomprehensible cover perversion. The tape was, as it had already used to happen before, glued into the cover, however this time the paper was thinner and the size of the cover larger than the tape itself. It resulted in an unstable construct, impossible to mail without damaging. So instead of artists' copies I had to send to Italy only the covers and a reference on glueing. However I doubt that my explanations were understood. At least since that I have never seen or heard of this release in Europe.

Collectors' interest might be sparked by the fact that the tape exists in two variants. Living partly in Pskov and partly in St. Petersburg I had to prepare master independently in both cities to make copies. The difference between St. Petersburg and Pskov editions seems to be in the length of the last Monopolka's track, cut differently out of the original live recording. The version is indicated on the cover (at least for the Pskov edition).