Walterpurgisnacht II by Walter Campbell

Walterpurgisnacht II is the second compilation release celebrating “Walterpurgisnacht,” my personal take on Walpurgisnacht--German for (Saint) Walpurgis night--a holiday and festival held on April 30th and celebrated by christians, pagans, and satanists alike.

Walpurgisnacht is also recognized by the Church of Satan as the most important Satanic holiday next to one's birthday, a celebration I have chosen to honor as I honor, um, myself with some sort of music creation or retrospective.

The second in what I hope to be a long-standing annual tradition, 2023’s Walterpurgisnacht offering is a rich collection of alternate, unreleased, collaborative, early, and/or compilation tracks recorded and/or arranged 2021-23, with a few from 1996.

This release was originally private and made available as "yum" codes to a select number of folks who make a purchase between April - June 2023 on one of these Bandcamp pages:
https://waltercampbell.bandcamp.com/
https://dickiesnakedick.bandcamp.com/
https://bookonvhs.bandcamp.com/

I strongly encourage you to check out the compilations several of these songs are originally from.

Image taken from 1/31/23 live performance on Echoplex Media’s Local Love podcast. Watch the performance and stream the show at:
https://youtu.be/xi8g7KNu56k
https://twitch.tv/echoplexmedia

The first Walterpurgisnacht, released 4/30/22, is a “Greatest Dicks” compilation of experimental pop, ambient, and noise tracks released under my moniker, Dickie Snakedick:
https://dickiesnakedick.bandcamp.com/album/walterpurgisnacht

Thank you: Bill, Claire, Michael, Thomas, Leslie, & Hal @ Electronic Cottage; Nikki @ Third Eye Mutilation; Paracelsian Productions; Dave, Chip, & Ashley @ Echoplex Media; Micah, Dan, James, Michael, & Allan, + Brian, Adam, & Porksword for contributing to the teenage angst.

Updated 7/27/23

Tracklist

1.	Walter Campbell - Cheshire Cat Carpet Smiley Smile	0:09

2.	Walter Campbell - Thunder Perfect Thighs (Reprise)	2:58

3.	Walter Campbell - Wa(l)ter Sounds	3:17

4.	Walter Campbell & the Dee Deconstructionists - I Meant To Contribute to Your Electronic Cottage Compilation Earlier, But Then I Got COVID	1:59

5.	Walter Campbell - Theme from the Dawn of the Plastic Wrapped Department Store Mannequins	5:27

6.	Dick Mutilation - Womb of the Mutilated (Stillborn)	4:33

7.	Dick Mutilation - Three Snake Eyes (Blinking)	4:54

8.	Negative Star - Negative Star	4:48

9.	Negative Star - Rollercoaster	2:52

10.	Walter Campbell - Meet Me in the Restroom	2:57

11.	Walter Campbell v. Dickie Snakedick - Spitting Skin On My Percolating Grave	4:22

12.	Dickie Snakedick v. Walter Campbell - Saturn Devouring His Frozen Face in Hell	4:48

13.	Walter Campbell v. Dickie Snakedick's Phone - Deep Space Answering Machine (live)	8:58

14.	Walter Campbell & the Dee Dekonstrucktionists - Hard Hat Chaser	4:00

15.	Walter Campbell - Mouth Noise Wall	2:14

16.	Walter Campbell - Swallow & Regurgitate	2:21

Credits

released April 30, 2023

#1: my vocal and instrumental sound snippets created for ONECx15 Electronic Cottage online project by Michael Thomas Jackson: halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/onecx15

#2: from the album, Thunder Perfect Thighs:
waltercampbell.bandcamp.com/album/thunder-perfect-thighs

#3: from Claire Pannell aka Furchick's EC compilation project, Bombora. Song was in part composed using samples of field recordings by Claire Furchick Pannell:
dogparkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bombora

#4: from Bill Northcott's EC compilation project, PROCRASTINOISE:
aversiontoreality.bandcamp.com/album/procrastinoise-an-electronic-cottage-compilation

#5: from Thomas Jackson Park's EC compilation project, Horror in the Electronic Cottage:
archive.org/details/HorrorInTheElectronicCottage

#6-7: collaboration between Dickie Snakedick (Walter Campbell) and Third Eye Mutilation (Nikki) released as Dick Mutilation:
thirdeyemutilation.bandcamp.com/album/dick-mutilation

#8: practice recording of my first band, Negative Star, from summer 1996. Tracii Starr: drums, Elaine Arizona: bass, Jimmy Z.: keys, Szkrote: guitar, Nolan: guitar, Coitus the Christian Crypto-child: vocals

#9: from the Negative Star EP, Other People's Pleasures, recorded at Porksword Studios (San Jose, CA) in late 1996. Tracii Starr: drums, Elaine Arizona: bass, Jimmy Z.: keys, Szkrote: guitar, Coitus the Christian Crypto-child: vocals. Guests: Kelly Frost aka Brian Harrah (vocals) & Adam Brioza (guitar)

#10: from Leslie Singer's Electronic Cottage compilation project, Rocket in my Pocket: halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/rocket-in-my-pocket-compilation

#11: mashup of "percolating skin" and "cut off my nose and spit on my grave" from the Dickie Snakedick album, Dickie's Dead:
dickiesnakedick.bandcamp.com/album/dickies-dead

#12: mashup of "frozen hell" from Who Goes There? and "saturn devours his face" from the Dickie Snakedick EP, Profondo Cazzo:
waltercampbell.bandcamp.com/album/who-goes-there
dickiesnakedick.bandcamp.com/album/profondo-cazzo

#13: remix of the Dickie Snakedick song, "we never really did the work...", from the live release:
dickiesnakedick.bandcamp.com/album/live-from-my-phone-richmond-6-19-22

Song also appears on the Paracelsian Productions compilation, Space Exploration 2:
paracelsianproductions.bandcamp.com/album/space-exploration-2-compilation

#14: from my EC compilation project, KONSTRUCK:
waltercampbell.bandcamp.com/album/konstruck-an-electronic-cottage-construction

#15: from Hal Harmon's EC compilation project, Dost Thy Instrument Hold Currents? An Electronic Cottage Compilation of Luddite Techniques:
foreverescapingboredom.bandcamp.com/album/dost-thy-instrument-hold-currents-an-electronic-cottage-compilation-of-luddite-techniques?from=fanpub_fnb

#16: from Michael A. Cosma's Electronic Cottage compilation project, Weird Circus: aspect.bandcamp.com/album/weird-circus-an-electronic-cottage-compilation

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