“Anton’s House”
How did a cocktail bar organ player become a hero to the disaffected and the alienated? After absorbing a hodge-podge of philosophies from Nietzsche, Mencken, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ayn Rand, in 1966 he shaved his head and declared the year “Anno Satanas”, the first year of the Church Of Satan.
Although it was pretty clear it was mostly a commercial enterprise, Anton LaVey used Satanism to show the hypocrisy of the mass media. “Satan” in this instance was actually a metaphor for a force for positive change, being opposed by entrenched power structures in church and state.
Although a flawed yet fascinating character, like Funboys (SXDNS227), he didn’t take himself terribly seriously, as demonstrated by the interview featured in the title track.
Funboys were hypnotized when they lay this piece of audio against a storm of clashing bass riffs emanating from the ancient synthesizers still pulsing in the dark corners of their studio. They think Anton, as a player of the mighty Wurlitzer organ himself, may well have approved!
That’s how Funboys’ forthcoming delivery on Bonkers Music got the first shots of inspiration. A delicious darkness-meets-groovy four-track journey with appealing remixes made with love by Ludviq & Nick Hanzo and Heidenreich.
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