United Scum Soundclash (CD)
by U.S.S.

United Scum Soundclash is the first volume in an ongoing series of collaborations between musicians from the Soopa and Radon collectives. For this release, various hours of improvisations were recorded and then painstakingly edited and sculpted into 9 tracks by producer Jonathan Saldanha, in a process very similar to the sampling and sequencing strategies of hip-hop, albeit with samples provided by the very participants in the album. 

Featuring Jonathan Saldanha, Filipe Silva and Miguel Cardoso from Soopa, and Scott Nydegger, Steve Mackay (sax player for the legendary Stooges) and Kamil Kruta (collaborator of The Residents and Lydia Lunch) from Radon, U.S.S. brings together elements of improvisation, free-jazz, psychedelic rock, breakcore, noise, dub and concrète sound collage into a unified whole that very nearly maps the whole of Soopa's sonic universe.

The production duo of Saldanha and Nydegger continue to assemble subsequent volumes of U.S.S., involving an international network of contributing musicians.

Tracklisting:

• “And They Welcomed Thy Glory” (3:49)
• For Ladies And Gentlemen (5:51)
• Folk You (2:11)
• Mother Of Vibration (3:11)
• “And They Welcomed Thy Radiance” (4:30)
• Return Of The Flatliners (8:01)
• Subtle Rebuttle (4:44)
• Scum Release Orchestra (4:12)
• “And They Stood At The Heart Of Thy Network” (3:39)

Soopa Scum:

• Jonathan Saldanha aka Cactus Man - drums, extended trumpet, electronics, vynil, tabla, harmonica.
• Miguel Cardoso aka Autoblack - double bass, bass guitar, electronics.
• Filipe Silva aka The Banshee - prepared guitar, walkman, bow
• Addicional sound processing by Jonathan Saldanha and Eduardo Barbosa

Radon Scum:

• Scott Nydegger - drum pad, samples, head bashing
• Steve Mackay - saxophone on track 2
• Kamil Kruta - processed vocals on tracks 3 & 4 

Produced by Saldanha/Nydegger

• Mixed by Saldanha at Doom Dub Studio
• Mastered by Ivo Magalhães at Imstudio
• Design by Cardoso and Saldanha