Prude Juice For the Heritage Swinger

One of the occasional non-Negativland releases on the group's Seeland label, Porest's Prude Juice for the Heritage Swinger actually recalls Negativland's early, less conceptual albums, like their self-titled release and A Big 10-8 Place. Porest, also known as Bay Area documentary filmmaker Mark Gergis, who also works with the collective Mono Pause, combines simple, largely droning electronic music, Plunderphonics-style audio trickery (the alternately unsettling and fascinating "Skin Bitch" consists primarily of a doctored copy of Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown"), and found sound collected from all manner of unfathomable oddities into a surprisingly accessible and listenable form all his own. Like those early Negativland releases, the stark and atonal freakout bits are made all the more striking by the relative serenity of the soundscapes that surround them, making Prude Juice for the Heritage Swinger a lot more interesting than similar but more aggressively noisy experiments.