Hunting Lodge - 1983 - Exhumed

HUNTING LODGE: 'Exhumed'

[Cassette - March 1983 - Datenverarbeitung]

    H  U  N  T  I  N  G    L  O  D  G  E

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A. Exhume

Simulation/Stimulation+

Shadow Out Of Time

By The Blood Of Others+

B. Will

EQTPM´

Post Conception Planning

Astral Bell

Recorded between October 23, 1982 - 

February 01, 1983 at S/M Operations Studios. 

Produced by Hunting Lodge.

+Previously released on 23 Minutes of Murder.

Photographs taken at the Harrington Ballroom,

September 04, 1982

Hunting Lodge wishes to thank:

Thomas A. Nordström - visuals,

Jonathan Hardman - photos,

Mark, Andreas Müller and RCS.

DATA 0023 

MARCH 83

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    E     X     H     U     M     E     D   

S/M OPERATIONS HISTORY

S/M Operations was formed in March of 1982, for the purpose of publishing a small magazine. 

The name comes from the two creators former projects: Lon C Diehl was putting out a small 

publication called Smarm (magazine), and Richard Skott was releasing cassettes under the name of 

Screw Machine (thus the name is read—Ess Emm Operations, no "and"). 

In May of that year the only issue of S/M Operations was released, and 

the two members collaborated together musically for the first time (the result of this can be 

found on the WILL lp as the song "S/M Operations"). 

Along with another member, Karl Nordstrom – Hunting Lodge played "live" for the first time 

in September of ’82, at a local Hotel hall – The Harrington Ballroom. 

This event was recorded on a portable cassette player, and became the first 

release on S/M Operations – released on cassette in an edition of 150 (later reissued by the West 

German Datenverarbeitung). 

The second S/M Operations product was a promotional cassette in an edition of 

under 20, entitled "23 Minutes of Murder" – 23 minutes of "studio" material. In January of 1983 

Karl Nordstrom left Hunting Lodge, and the remaining members began recording for their first album.

 In  March, Datenverarbeitung released a cassette, which featured "practice sessions" and all of "23 Minutes 

of Murder", which was entitled "Exhumed". 

The lp "WILL" was released in May of 1983, in an edition of 500. In September, S/M Operations staged an event with John Wright, Shame Exposure, and Hunting Lodge at the Harrington Ballroom. 

Parts of this concert were released on a "live" sampler cassette shortly thereafter, called "S/M Operations". 

In October S/M Operations started a mail order service, which distributed a cassette by Shame Exposure as well as other S/M Operations releases.

 In December of ’83, S/M Operations released the Hunting Lodge 45, "Night From Night", and in April of 1984, released a cassette by John Wright which is called "John Wright and the Young Losers Welcome 1984".

 In July Hunting Lodge played at Composite Lodge in Detroit, doing a set of songs from the upcoming "Nomad Souls" lp. 

Roselle Williams (who can be heard on two songs on Nomad Souls) performed along Lon C Diehl and Richard Skott. In September of 1984 the recording of "Nomad Souls" was completed. October 23rd became the first step on the Hunting Lodge tour, which started at the Danceteria in New York and ended November 18 at the Graffiti in San Francisco. 

At this time, Hunting Lodge and S/M Operations made its first major personnel change 

with the departure of Richard Skott, who now lives in San Francisco. In December of 1984 "Nomad Souls" was finally released, in an edition of 1000. 

The lp will also be released in England on the Side Effekts Rekords early in 1985. A twelve-inch EP will be released in February on S/M Operations, which will contain "Tribal Warning Shot" (the vocal version which Hunting Lodge performed on tour) as well as two new tracks. Those of you who have heard John Wright’s "Hoping For Hawaii" will be pleased to learn that Mr. Wright now resides in Honolulu.