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Le Forte Four

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Le Forte Four were the earliest group in the collective of avant-garde music anarchists known as the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). With their music combining loose experimental improvisation on both conventional instruments and household items with stuff taped off television cartoons or taken from records as well as lo-fi electronics, Le Forte Four were pioneers of sampling, even as their D.I.Y. ethic paved the way for the punk movement a few years later.

Top songs

  1. Ka-Bella-Cha-Cha
  2. Some Problem With The Cord Or Something
  3. The Lowest Form of Music
  4. Good Worker
  5. Ka-Bella-Binsky Bungo (Excerpt)
  6. Bikini Tennis Shoes (One Pair)
  7. Joe's Nose Solo
  8. Japanese Super Heroes
  9. Crank Up The Kids
  10. Bongo Madness
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  1. It's Raining Bongos
  2. Steven, Steven
  3. They Are Asleep
  4. Sonnet
  5. Ka-Bella Reprise
  6. Meanwhile Back at the Tulip Boat, Stinky and Gus Make Warplanes / Your Living Constitution (Dies)
  7. Microzone
  8. Birth Of Largie Schrapnel
  9. Telethon Returns
  10. M-M-M
  11. What Do You Do, Radiator? / The Grocery Store is My Heaven
  12. Tree Shredding Blues
  13. Meanwhile Back At The Tulip Boat, Stinky And Gus Make Warplanes/Your Living Constitution (Dies)
  14. From The 12 Pages
  15. What Do You Do, Radiator?/The Grocery Store Is My Heaven
  16. Reel World
  17. The Very First Song I Ever Wrote
  18. To the Crow
  19. I Can't Even Think/On The Dawning Of A Giant Face/Joe's Dead/Marriage/Twinkle
  20. Simple Circus
  21. Hhhmmm
  22. Balanced Comfort
  23. Columbia-Princeton Low Priority Soybean Meal
  24. Darker Skratcher
  25. Diorama II
  26. Telethon Returns Continues
  27. Good Friday Tape Dumb Session II
  28. Diorama I
  29. Enough Fun/That Feedback Again
  30. Down The Congo In A Backwards Canoe
  31. Welcome To 35 South Raymond
  32. Enough Fun / That Feedback Again
  33. Man Has A Dream
  34. Speed Racer
  35. Amazing Three (Live)
  36. Amazing Three (Instrumental)
  37. I Can't Even Think / On The Downing Of A Giant Face / Joe's Dead / Marriage / Twinkle
  38. Good Friday Tape Dumb Session No.1
  39. Keep That Point Up/4000 Holes in Glackburn, Lancashire
  40. Shoe Spot/Meet The Detectives
  41. I Can't Even Think / On The Dawning Of A Giant Face / Joe's Dead / Marriage / Twinkle
  42. Teleton Returns
  43. Japnese Super Heroes
  44. Aye Ma Ma (I'm Amok)
  45. Before Docking in Space
  46. Song of the Electric Drill
  47. The Pope Speaks
  48. Fade It Out
  49. "The Piper" by Billy Blake
  50. Meanwhile Back At The Tulip Boat, Stinky And Gus Make Warplanes/Your Living Constutuion (Dies)
  51. Ballad De Forte Four
  52. Shoe Spot / Meet The Detectives
  53. Painting the Roses Red
  54. Keep That Point Up / 4000 Holes In Glackburn, Lancashire
  55. Music Hall Bootleg (excerpt)
  56. Candy Wrapper Blues / A Little Sloppy Still
  57. ka-bella-binski bungo (excerpt)
  58. Good Friday Tape Dumb Session No. 1
  59. Enough Fun / The Feedback Again
  60. Welcome To The 35 South Raymond
  61. Do The Crow
  62. The Very First Song I Wrote
  63. Internal C.B. Breakage
  64. Meanwhile Back at the Tulip Boat, Stinky and Gus Make Warplanes / Your Living Constutuion (Dies)
  65. Japanese Super Hero's
  66. Good Friday Tape Dumb Session
  67. What Do Yoy Do, Radiator? / The Grocery Store Is My Heaven
  68. Candy Wrapper Blues/A Little Sloppy Still
  69. Kabella Binsky Bingo (Excerpt)
  70. You Name It
  71. The Very First Song I Ever Wro
  72. Rock Saga
  73. keep that point up - 4000 holes in glackburn, lancashire
  74. Melt Through The Floor
  75. Ka-Bella-Binsky-Bungo (excerpt)
  76. Moo Cow Cowling
  77. amazing three
  78. Ka-Bella (reprise)
  79. Boris The Spider Part 1
  80. Boris the Spider (excerpt)
  81. Le Forte Four-Japanese Super Hero's
  82. Hallucinatory Huareches
  83. Enchanter Decanter
  84. Le Forte Four-Microzone
  85. Le Forte Four-Kabella Binsky Bingo (Excerpt)
  86. Bikini Tennis Shoes (One Pair) (Overture & Star Spangled Spring Rites) (Live 2-8-74) & Main Theme
  87. Shoe Spot - Meet The Detectives
  88. Ballad of Le Forte Four/Bongo Madness (excerpt)
  89. Le Forte Four-Ballad Of Le Forte Four/Bongo Madness (Excerpt)
  90. Meanwhile Back At The Tulip Boat, Stinky And Gus Make Warplanes / You Living Constitution (Dies)

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