Restoring Rick Potts and Joseph Hammer's 1983 Dinosaurs With Horns cassette for its first CD release, Krim Kram presents fourteen wonderfully dislocated home recordings where Optigan loops, reel-to-reel manipulation, Casios, toy electronics, musical saw and thrift-store sound fragments collide in a woozy LAFMS-bred mixture of musique concr�te, primitive sampling, mutant exotica and spontaneous lo-fi invention.
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Rick Potts-composer, performer
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Label: Krim Kram
Catalog ID: KK-28
Squidco Product Code: 37973
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2026
Country: Ireland
Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel
Recorded in 1983.
Originally released in 1983 as a C60 cassette tape on the The Solid Eye label with no catalog code.
"Rick Potts and Joseph Hammer met at a Halloween party in 1982. At the time, Joseph was making tape loops and recording with Points of Friction, while Rick already had many years of freakdom service under his belt with the LAFMS. They began collaborating on new recordings, with Joseph providing loops and Rick playing an Optigan borrowed from Joseph. The Optigan, made by a toy manufacturer for home use, is a primitive 1970s sampler that plays prerecorded discs ranging from exotica, pipe organ and circus band to country, folk and cheesy rock combo. The resulting prepackaged loops have a wholesome lo-fi easy listening vibe, but can be manipulated by misuse, transforming them into something far stranger.
Throughout most of 1983, the pair recorded regularly in Rick's cramped living room using a reel-to-reel four track tape deck. Joseph developed a stereo tape-delay ping-pong feedback effect he dubbed "Hammer-Imaging", while Rick played keyboard parts to the Optigan's vintage beats. Joseph also created some dreamy electronic solo pieces using Casios and toy synthesizers, and recorded tape loops on a custom inverted machine, over which Rick added musical saw and other instruments. Visiting friends sat in sometimes. Instead of song lyrics, they chose to use found sounds from thrift store cassettes and LPs that fit the music. The recordings were assembled on cassette in the winter of 1983, initially to give to friends over the holidays. Soon after, they received an official release via Fredrik Nilsen's newly founded The Solid Eye Records and Tapes label.
The music has a woozy magic that combines musical qualities with discombobulated weirdness. Spontaneous synchronicities emerge as plunderphonic vinyl meets loops and Optigan rhythms. Dinosaurs with Horns crawled out of this surreal swamp, galumphing into the hazy LA smog, and have been bombastically wandering since 1984."-Krim Kram
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Rick Potts Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist, composer and visual artist Rick Potts has been a central figure in the Los Angeles Free Music Society since its emergence in the 1970s, participating in the loose network of artists whose homemade recordings, improvisation, noise, collage and deliberately unconventional approaches helped define the LAFMS aesthetic. He was a member of Le Forte Four, performing on guitar, saxophone, xylophone, musical saw and other instruments, frequently adapting ordinary objects and inexpensive technology to experimental purposes. In 1982 Potts began collaborating with Joseph Hammer, whose interest in tape loops and manipulated recording technology complemented Potts' instrumental and collage-based approach. Their extensive home recordings from 1983 became the first Dinosaurs With Horns cassette, initiating a partnership that continued through subsequent projects including Steaming Coils and Solid Eye. Potts has remained active as an improviser, recording artist and visual artist, moving freely between instrumental playing, electronics, tape collage and assemblage. His work retains the characteristic LAFMS preference for discovery over virtuoso polish, using humor, accident, inexpensive technology and unusual instrumental combinations as tools for creating music outside conventional genre boundaries. ^ Hide Bio for Rick Potts • Show Bio for Joseph Hammer "After the Keith Fullerton Whitman album nabbed our album of the year spot just a couple of weeks back, here's another breathtaking and brain-baking album from the incredible PAN imprint. Featuring concrete/tape music psychedelia from LAMFS member, Joseph Hammer, the album is presented in stunning style by the label and once again has made us scratch our heads at the aesthetic and expansive vision of this exhilarating crew. Since 1980 Hammer has operated in a plethora of under-the-radar units such as Dinosaurs With Horns, Joe & Joe, and Points of Friction, but 'I Love You, Please Love Me Too' is about the best entry portal to his multi-dimensional world. With a plunderphonic, Cagean appreciation for the infinite textures of AM radio and "mid century sci fi" Joseph weaves arrestingly hypnotic and experimental 3D collages which have utterly commanded our attention. One precedent for this unorthodox LP immediately springs to mind in the arrhythmic exercises of Nicholas Collins' 'Devil's Music', but Hammer's heightened spatial awareness and almost arabesque feel for patterning makes this album less academic, placing it in an elusive realm of mind-altering abstraction. The systolic stream of looped samples bends time and space with a vividly visual and enveloping intimacy, wrapping listeners in an improvised vortex of acousmatic teases and reference points which seem to fold into an inert aural blind spot point just out of view behind the ears. At times this LP feels like an opiated Dilla jamming with James Ferraro at Pierre Henry's in-house installation, and at others it's like The Caretaker just discovered mescaline, but either way this is one incredible record. All copies come in pro-press jacket, itself housed in two-tone silk-screened PVC sleeve (just like everything else on this amazing label), in a limited run of 330 hand-numbered, 140gm vinyl copies, artwork designed by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas, and sounds mastered by D&M's Rashad Becker. WOW!!!" ^ Hide Bio for Joseph Hammer
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9/30/2026
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Track Listing:
1. Dinosaurs With Horns 01:15
2. Merge 11:52
3. Totally Gone 01:30
4. Sabertina's Country 03:42
5. Interesting Jewelry 02:55
6. Do It Now! 04:57
7. Ginky's Lament 04:57
8. Shillelagh 01:18
9. Absinthe 04:31
10. Magic Fingers 01:55
11. Deep 06:53
12. Walking Lady 06:53
13. Bats 07:59
14. Menehune 01:26
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