Name: Additional Kids
Brand: Wobbly

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CDHAUSMO132

Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-06-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

634457138001

Total Cap

Artist

Wobbly

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Hausu Mountain

With one tentacle threaded through the US noise underground and one ear fixed on a worldwide online network of freak-friendly minds, the Hausu Mountain label has pumped a diverse menu of experimental music from its volcanic peak at a steady clip since 2012. Founded in Chicago by musicians and roommates Doug Kaplan (who records as MrDougDoug) and Maxwell Allison (who records as Mukqs), the label originally served as a home for their own projects, including the trio Good Willsmith.

As Kaplan and Allison discover new projects from touring the DIY circuit and scraping through the strangest corners of the internet, *Hausu Mountain*’s wide catalog grows to encompass everything from otherworldly synthesizer composition to frantic beat production in the IDM tradition to strains of free jazz infused with electronics alongside horns or drums – onward through any number of genre-bending mutations you might find in the “???” or “Avant/Noise” bin in your local record store. As much as *Hausu Mountain*’s releases diverge in terms of style, the label’s aesthetic hinges on the conception of music as a force to both challenge listeners and entertain them in equal measure. Any given release resists stasis, skips at will through disparate musical vocabularies, and leads listeners through dense sonic narratives that defy expectations as each new idea or unpredictable juxtaposition pierces through the cosmic jelly.

Doug and Max run *Hausu Mountain*

Newest Listed Items

San Francisco-based multimedia artist, composer, and improviser Jon Leidecker makes music under the pseudonym Wobbly - He is an active member of both the seminal experimental group Negativland, and with the Thurston Moore Group. Additional Kids, Wobbly's third release on Hausu Mountain, is a song cycle that introduces a strain of Leidecker's music rarely heard in his wide-ranging solo catalog: mutated pop music with vocal performances from a diverse guest list of singers appearing on nearly every track. Far from conforming to any standard playbook, Wobbly's conception of pop can't help but get warped and refracted through his idiosyncratic tonal sensibilities and his irreverent sense of humor. In consort with the constantly surprising turns of each guest artist's vocal performance, Additional Kids carries on Leidecker's ever-bewildering high-definition synthesis practice and his confounding production decisions as he builds tracks from staccato bursts of synth, clanging percussion, and garbled swathes of glitched texture. Wobbly considers Additional Kids to be a "multi-generational album about generations" and explains that it was "originally recorded in the early 2000s from the perspective of a bunch of friends asking themselves the question of whether or not to have kids while in their early 30s, then finished 15 years later in their late 40s after some of them had, and some of them hadn't." Instead of wallowing in the trappings of pro- or anti-natalism, Wobbly and his collaborators cast themselves as jesters who can deflate these heavy existential considerations through parody and exaggeration, through abrasion and delight. Additional Kids features contributions from: 0th, Liz Albee, Kevin Blechdom, Blevin Blectum, Anne Bourne, DemonSleeper, Dina Emerson, Dominique Leone, Mai Lingani, Ana Machado, Anne McGuire, Marisa Elene Nadieja, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, John Oswald, Phipps Pt., Danishta Rivero, Sue-C, Shatter Pattern, and Pamela Z.

Additional Kids

Music GB