Burning Love Jumpsuit were an Underground Irish band of movie obsessive shut ins who had access to a computer. They were active between 1991 – 2002.
A three-piece of proto-edgelords, (D.F. Dresden, Smiley, J. Bassetti) Burning Love Jumpsuit jammed and sampled their way to notoriety in the 1990s, making experimental music that was equal parts thought-provoking funk and stroke-inducing gunk. A penchant for sleazy Americana, obscure movies and exploitative daytime telly inspired a pool of samples to delight and disturb.
HELL BANK NOTE (1993 – 1995) is a compilation of tracks from BLJ’s early albums Radica Doodica, Nude Beach Rub-out, Free Steel Hand, Jet Black Barry and Vicious Tiger Dummy. Is it Plundephonics? Music Concrète? Alt-funk? Big-beat? VHS-punk?
For fans of The KLF, Jerry Springer, Trisha and Chris Morris’ Blue Jam.
They were:
“a group of three people who made bizarre soundtracks for the ‘B-existence’ that hack humanity has to offer, a group who created something new out of recycled audio sources. A refreshing alternative to what is generally offered as music entertainment. Whatever individual opinions are formulated on the incubator that is BLJ, the bottom line is to expect the unexpected” – Nosebleed, Issue 12, June 1995
