Le Forte Four

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Le Forte Four were the earliest group in the collective of avant-garde music anarchists known as the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). With their music combining loose experimental improvisation on both conventional instruments and household items with stuff taped off television cartoons or taken from records as well as lo-fi electronics, Le Forte Four were pioneers of sampling, even as their D.I.Y. ethic paved the way for the punk movement a few years later. In the summer of 1973, Chip Chapman, along with two brothers, Rick and Joe Potts, formed the Patients and recorded some material in the Potts family living room, which mostly consisted of the group arguing as they rehearsed Zappa's "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama," and the Who's "Boris the Spider." A few months later, much to the chagrin of the other members, Chapman sent an excerpt of this to the Norway Electronic Music Festival under the name East Los Angeles Free Music Society. In 1974, the group adopted the name Los Angeles Free Music Society as they worked on their first album, but by 1975 they had become Le Forte Four with the addition of another Potts brother, Tom Potts, and LAFMS was used for the name of their label. That first LP, Bikini Tennis Shoes was released later that year. Through the record, Le Forte Four were discovered by another group of avant-garde noise-makers who hung out regularly at the Poo-Bah Record Shop in Pasadena, and soon the whole LAFMS scene took off as the various artists inspi

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Bikini Tennis Shoes

Darker Skratcher

LAFMS: The Lowest Form Of Music

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V.A.-Darker Skratcher

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The Lowest Form of Music

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The Lowest Form of Music [CD2]: Le Forte Four "Bikini Tennis Shoes," Airway "Live at Lace"

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Blorp Esette

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Los Angeles Post-Punk Vol. 5

L.A. Free Music Society Live at The Brand

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The Los Angeles Free Music Society: The Lowest Form of Music

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V.A.-Light Bulb Issue 3 Christmas Cassette 1977

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