It was never intended to get this far. Endless Boogie had been a band for
six years when they were invited by Slint to play the All Tomorrow's Parties
festival in the UK. Up to that point, they had been perfectly content existing only
at their weekly Lower East Side rehearsals (and the occasional New York City
show). At the time, Jesper Eklow and Mark Ohe worked at Matador Records, and
word had begun to spread about the Art Departments band. They figured if they
were leaving the country to play a show, they should have something to sell, so
they pulled some recordings from their rehearsal tape archive, ran two small
pressings, hand stamped some sleeves, and the Endless Boogie story officially
began.
The records (often referred to as "black" and "white") have long fetched high prices
on the secondary market. They're back in print here and packaged together as a
double CD / double LP set. Vinyl comes in an debossed gatefold jacket. CDs come
packaged in a gatefold wallet.