Master-Dik, by Sonic Youth

Master-Dik

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1.	Master=Dik 05:01	buy track
2.	Beat On The Brat 02:31	buy track
3.	Under The Influence Of The Jesus and Mary Chain (Live on Suisse Radio July '87) 00:43	buy track
4.	Ticket To Ride/Introducing The Stars (Live on Suisse Radio July '87) 03:14	buy track
5.	Ringo/He's On Fire/Florida Oil Drums/Westminster Chimes 01:40	buy track
6.	Chinese Jam 01:11	buy track
7.	Vibrato/Guitar Lick/Funky Fresh 02:24	buy track
8.	Our Backyard 02:17	buy track
9.	Traffik 00:05	buy track

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released November 4, 1987

SOME NOTES BY LEE:
A slight hiccup in our production? This is the infamous EP that Blast First label head Paul Smith begged us not to release. It has long been reviled or misunderstood by many! The song itself, Master-Dik - possibly a play on words related to Masterdisk, where we mastered our albums in those days - first saw light of day in a different version as a bonus track on the Sister CD when it came out. That was the 'non-beatbox version' (meaning Steve was playing the drums). The version on this EP has full beatbox in effect. J Mascis even puts in an appearance on lead guitar! In essence, although this track was recorded during and associated with the Sister era, it actual looked ahead to the making of the Ciccone Youth Whitey Album about 18 months later. It was the first appearance by the Royal Tuff Titty, who at one point even declares "We're Ciccone!"

Following Beat on the Brat, Side 2 journeys thru a sonic wonderland of 14 selections (or is it 15? 13?), beginning with an except from a live Radio Suisse broadcast as we goofed around with Beatles and George Benson covers (you kinda had to be there) and a bunch of other soundscapes, rehearsal takes and sound effects, including one of my favorite tracks from this period, 'Our Backyard' (not kidding). We were playing with 'scope, expanding and contracting in new and different ways. In any case, love it or hate it, we went ahead and released it over Paul's objections, and, defying predictions, it didn't derail our career. The Peter Anderson photos with the spray paint spiral behind became emblematic of this period and were widely seen at the time.
----Lee

Master=Dik recorded at Sear Sound, NYC, engineer: Bill Titus
additional recording and mixing done at Before Christ, Brooklyn,
engineer: Martin Bisi
Beat On The Brat recorded at Wharton's Palace of Confusion, NYC,
engineer: Wharton himself
guitar leads on Master=Dik courtesy of J Mascis
live mix on 3,4 by Terry Pearson
mastered by John Golden
produced and directed by sonicyouth

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