Having Fun With The Prince Of Darkness
Details
2004 June 7" CA Durtro Jnana DURTRO JNANA 1974
500 Clear red vinyl copies in wrap-around sleeve
2004 June 7" CA Durtro Jnana DURTRO JNANA 1974
25 Clear red vinyl copies in signed and numbered wrap-around sleeve containing unique artwork from Steven Stapleton
Available from Mark Logan
De Sade edition
2004 June 7" CA Durtro Jnana DURTRO JNANA 1974
40 Clear red vinyl copies in signed, stamped and numbered wrap-around sleeve containing unique artwork from Steven Stapleton
Available from Steven Stapleton
De Sade edition
2012 September 7" CA Durtro Jnana DURTRO JNANA 1974
5 Clear red vinyl copies in signed and numbered wrap-around sleeve containing unique artwork from Steven Stapleton
Track Listing
Side A
  1. PFL (Deambulation Mix) [nwwdl1] [wirecd006]
Side B
  1. A Perfectly Natural Expectation [uj2007]
Sleeve Notes
Thanks to: Petr Vastle, David Tibet and Mark Logan.

Cover by Luke, Geoff and Babs .
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Reviews
Though Steven Stapleton could not be bothered to play at the recent Toronto shows, he did come to the city to lurk about the concert hall, bringing along 500 copies of this 7" red vinyl single. As limited Nurse With Wound items go, this one is fairly inessential to all but the most rabid collectors. Side A is taken up with "Penis Fruit Loop (Deambulation Mix)," a radically reworked version of the track from 1999's An Akward Pause. This track already appeared on The Wire Tapper 6 compilation that was included with the 200th of The Wire magazine, along with exclusive tracks by Current 93 and Coil. A while after the magazine debuted, Stapleton posted an MP3 of the track to the web for free download, complaining that the song had been mastered incorrectly on the Wire Tapper CD. The version on this single does not sound significantly different from either of those previously available tracks, an oompah band playing "Johnny B. Goode" while being sucked down a vacuum hose. What I do find strange is the speed at which the track has been mastered. To hear it correctly, you must play Side A at 33 RPM, even though Side B seems to be mastered at 45 RPM, and the packaging gives no indication of this disparity. "A Perfectly Natural Expectation" is exclusive to this release, as far as I know, a flashback of sorts to the queasy soundscapes of Automating Vol. 1. After a little girl intones the title, we are ushered through bizarre corridors of echoplexed sound, before being dropped off a couple minutes later right where we began. It's inessential to be sure, but also pretty nifty. As of this writing, this release and the other Toronto items were still available through a link at the Durtro website, so there's still a chance for those not lucky enough to have attended the shows.

Jonathan Dean
Having Fun With The Prince Of Darkness
Details
2012 March 7" CA Durtro Jnana DURTRO JNANA 1974
6 Black vinyl copies in 8" sleeve
Signed by Steven Stapleton
Track Listing
Side A
  1. PFL (Deambulation Mix) [nwwdl1] [wirecd006]
Side B
  1. A Perfectly Natural Expectation [uj2007]
Other Images