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| | LAFMS: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com |
 | | Inspired by Zappa, Captain Beefheart [+], John Cage [+], the Residents [+], and free jazz, the LAFMS was an underground avant-rock movement and a record label that presaged everything from punk to plunderphonics, while their utterly unconventional approach denied them any chance of mainstream success. |
 | | This led to several Blorp Essette compilations set up along similar lines in 1978 and 1980, further widening the LAFMS web and their attitude that anyone should have the right to be on record. |
 | | It can't be denied that their influence has carried forward through punk in the late '70s to the cassette-tape trader movement of the '80s, while much of their own music is still as unsettlingly weird as it was in the mid-'70s. |
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