It was a unique time beginning to build in the city and the experimental music culture. The Seemen had just arrived fresh to San Francisco from Texas and Kal Spelletich and friends were attracting the fire department with their performances. Mike Shannon was releasing beautifully contemplative audio assemblages from his San Francisco Joy Street studio. The industrial dance music of the Wax Trax label was starting to infect our clubs and culture and SF's Battery came at this style with a unique approach of their own. Iaocore, post 455 Tenth Street, were still producing lots of material and culling films for the Iaocore Abject and Unusual Film Festivals. Mason Jones of Trance was getting his label in full swing and new unheard experimentalists like the Fresh Meat Cats were dropping their works at the front counter of Auricular.
Auricular Audio Magazine #3 captured tracks from each of these artists. The range on this release seems almost discordant in a way, however, it is such a direct reflection of what was happening in the industrial and experimental music scene at the time. Beats, drones and textures and noize.
