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84136648 | Play | The Lowest Form of Music | 00:00 Tools | |
84136650 | Play | Ka-Bella-Cha-Cha | 00:00 Tools | |
84136649 | Play | Japanese Super Heroes | 00:00 Tools | |
84136651 | Play | Some Problem With The Cord Or Something | 00:00 Tools | |
84136653 | Play | Joe's Nose Solo | 00:00 Tools | |
84136652 | Play | Good Worker | 00:00 Tools | |
84136654 | Play | Bikini Tennis Shoes (One Pair) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136662 | Play | Meanwhile Back At The Tulip Boat, Stinky And Gus Make Warplanes/Your Living Constutuion (Dies) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136655 | Play | Bongo Madness | 00:00 Tools | |
84136658 | Play | Ka-Bella-Binsky Bungo (Excerpt) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136656 | Play | Crank Up The Kids | 00:00 Tools | |
84136659 | Play | It's Raining Bongos | 00:00 Tools | |
84136660 | Play | Steven, Steven | 00:00 Tools | |
84136661 | Play | Ka-Bella Reprise | 00:00 Tools | |
84136664 | Play | They Are Asleep | 00:00 Tools | |
84136657 | Play | Microzone | 00:00 Tools | |
84136663 | Play | Sonnet | 00:00 Tools | |
84136665 | Play | Telethon Returns | 00:00 Tools | |
84136666 | Play | Birth Of Largie Schrapnel | 00:00 Tools | |
84136669 | Play | What Do You Do, Radiator?/The Grocery Store Is My Heaven | 00:00 Tools | |
84136667 | Play | M-M-M | 00:00 Tools | |
84136668 | Play | The Very First Song I Ever Wrote | 00:00 Tools | |
84136670 | Play | Tree Shredding Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
84136671 | Play | From The 12 Pages | 00:00 Tools | |
84136673 | Play | Reel World | 00:00 Tools | |
84136672 | Play | Welcome To 35 South Raymond | 00:00 Tools | |
84136675 | Play | Diorama II | 00:00 Tools | |
84136684 | Play | I Can't Even Think/On The Dawning Of A Giant Face/Joe's Dead/Marriage/Twinkle | 00:00 Tools | |
84136674 | Play | To the Crow | 00:00 Tools | |
84136676 | Play | Darker Skratcher | 00:00 Tools | |
84136677 | Play | Good Friday Tape Dumb Session II | 00:00 Tools | |
84136679 | Play | Columbia-Princeton Low Priority Soybean Meal | 00:00 Tools | |
84136680 | Play | Simple Circus | 00:00 Tools | |
84136682 | Play | Diorama I | 00:00 Tools | |
84136683 | Play | Good Friday Tape Dumb Session No.1 | 00:00 Tools | |
84136678 | Play | Down The Congo In A Backwards Canoe | 00:00 Tools | |
84136687 | Play | Enough Fun/That Feedback Again | 00:00 Tools | |
84136681 | Play | Balanced Comfort | 00:00 Tools | |
84136685 | Play | Hhhmmm | 00:00 Tools | |
84136686 | Play | Telethon Returns Continues | 00:00 Tools | |
84136688 | Play | Speed Racer | 00:00 Tools | |
84136689 | Play | Man Has A Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
84136690 | Play | Amazing Three (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136692 | Play | Keep That Point Up / 4000 Holes In Glackburn, Lancashire | 00:00 Tools | |
84136691 | Play | Amazing Three (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136694 | Play | What Do You Do, Radiator? / The Grocery Store is My Heaven | 00:00 Tools | |
84136693 | Play | Shoe Spot/Meet The Detectives | 00:00 Tools | |
84136695 | Play | Enough Fun / That Feedback Again | 00:00 Tools | |
84136696 | Play | I Can't Even Think / On The Dawning Of A Giant Face / Joe's Dead / Marriage / Twinkle | 00:00 Tools | |
84136697 | Play | Japnese Super Heroes | 00:00 Tools | |
84136701 | Play | I Can't Even Think / On The Downing Of A Giant Face / Joe's Dead / Marriage / Twinkle | 00:00 Tools | |
84136698 | Play | "The Piper" by Billy Blake | 00:00 Tools | |
84136699 | Play | Shoe Spot / Meet The Detectives | 00:00 Tools | |
84136700 | Play | Aye Ma Ma (I'm Amok) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136706 | Play | Before Docking in Space | 00:00 Tools | |
84136707 | Play | Ballad De Forte Four | 00:00 Tools | |
84136711 | Play | The Pope Speaks | 00:00 Tools | |
84136702 | Play | Do The Crow | 00:00 Tools | |
84136715 | Play | Fade It Out | 00:00 Tools | |
84136710 | Play | Song of the Electric Drill | 00:00 Tools | |
84136704 | Play | The Very First Song I Ever Wro | 00:00 Tools | |
84136703 | Play | Japanese Super Hero's | 00:00 Tools | |
84136716 | Play | Painting the Roses Red | 00:00 Tools | |
84136705 | Play | Kabella Binsky Bingo (Excerpt) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136708 | Play | amazing three | 00:00 Tools | |
84136709 | Play | Bikini Tennis Shoes (One Pair) (Overture & Star Spangled Spring Rites) (Live 2-8-74) & Main Theme | 00:00 Tools | |
84136712 | Play | keep that point up - 4000 holes in glackburn, lancashire | 00:00 Tools | |
84136713 | Play | Keep That Point Up / 4000 Holes in Blackburn, Lancashire | 00:00 Tools | |
84136714 | Play | Boris The Spider Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
84136725 | Play | Meanwhile Back At The Tulip Boat, Stinky And Gus Make Warplanes / You Living Constitution (Dies) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136718 | Play | Le Forte Four-Japanese Super Hero's | 00:00 Tools | |
84136719 | Play | What Do You Think, Radiator? & The Grocery Store Is My Heaven | 00:00 Tools | |
84136720 | Play | Boris the Spider (excerpt) | 00:00 Tools | |
88616568 | Play | Candy Wrapper Blues / A Little Sloppy Still | 00:00 Tools | |
84136721 | Play | Ka-Bella Reprise (Swedish Version, Excerpt) (Return & Louie The Turkey & Ring Modulated Chants & The Farm & Sly Double Return) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136726 | Play | Internal C.B. Breakage | 00:00 Tools | |
84136722 | Play | Ka-Bella-Binsky-Bungo (excerpt - Prelude & Joe's First Bubble Sounds & Theme & Ka-Bella Melody) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136717 | Play | Le Forte Four-Kabella Binsky Bingo (Excerpt) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136727 | Play | Keep That Point Up/4000 Holes | 00:00 Tools | |
84136723 | Play | Ballad of Le Forte Four/Bongo Madness (excerpt) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136730 | Play | Rock Saga | 00:00 Tools | |
84136724 | Play | Le Forte Four-Microzone | 00:00 Tools | |
88616569 | Play | Music Hall Bootleg (excerpt) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136728 | Play | Le Forte Four-Ballad Of Le Forte Four/Bongo Madness (Excerpt) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136729 | Play | Le Forte Four-Boris The Spider (Excerpt) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136736 | Play | Boris The Spider Part 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
84136737 | Play | Boris The Spider Part 3 | 00:00 Tools | |
84136731 | Play | Diorama 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
90295691 | Play | Meanwhile Back at the Tulip Boat, Stinky and Gus Make Warplanes / Your Living Constutuion (Dies) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136732 | Play | Blanced Comfort | 00:00 Tools | |
84136733 | Play | Diorama 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
84136734 | Play | Shoe Spot - Meet The Detectives | 00:00 Tools | |
84136735 | Play | Candy Wrapper Blues/A Little Sloppy Still | 00:00 Tools | |
88616567 | Play | Ka-Bella-Binsky-Bungo (excerpt) | 00:00 Tools | |
84136738 | Play | Boris the Spider | 00:00 Tools | |
84136739 | Play | Keep That Point Up/4000 Holes In Blackburn, Lancashire | 00:00 Tools | |
84136740 | Play | Live at Century City Playhouse | 00:00 Tools | |
84136741 | Play | i can't even think - on the dawning of a giant face - joe's dead - marriage - twinkle | 00:00 Tools |
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. In the summer of 1973, Chip Chapman, along with two brothers, Rick and Joe Potts, formed the Patients and recorded some material in the Potts family living room, which mostly consisted of the group arguing as they rehearsed Zappa's "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama," and the Who's "Boris the Spider." A few months later, much to the chagrin of the other members, Chapman sent an excerpt of this to the Norway Electronic Music Festival under the name East Los Angeles Free Music Society. In 1974, the group adopted the name Los Angeles Free Music Society as they worked on their first album, but by 1975 they had become Le Forte Four with the addition of another Potts brother, Tom Potts, and LAFMS was used for the name of their label. That first LP, Bikini Tennis Shoes was released later that year. Through the record, Le Forte Four were discovered by another group of avant-garde noise-makers who hung out regularly at the Poo-Bah Record Shop in Pasadena, and soon the whole LAFMS scene took off as the various artists inspired each other. By early 1976, Le Forte Four gigged regularly with other LAFMS artists like the Doo-Dooettes and Ace & Duce. One of those concerts, from July of 1976 at the recital hall of the Brand Library, was released as the LP Live at the Brand later that year. A third record, Spin 'n' Grin, was released in 1981, offering a retrospective of earlier material. By that time Le Forte Four's members had moved on to related LAFMS projects and Le Forte Four were dissolved. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.