The Cheese Mites - Table Manners

   The "Universal Snufmeg" era was, and continues to be, fraught with confusion. Although Williwill and Johnny explored musical paths on separate continents, collaboration took on different forms, depending on factors peculiar to each particular instance. As a result of the bi-continental paradigm, much work was completed often under a variety of names, some of which manifest themselves enough to warrant their own legacy. Some of those include the Raw Mommies, Bulb, the Little Engine, solo DJ Johnny B Dub & Williwill, Speed Blimp, DJ Big Pretzel, DJ Lunar Canine, Brian Fripe, the Master Cylinder, Top Ranking Officials, Jerry Vile, Top o' the Mornin', and the Vanilla Penis Explosion. Others, such as Alternateen, Scrounger, the Snufmeg Kru, and the Danicing Bears found their material cannibalized by the Cheese Mites. The reason for much of the absorbtion was the overwhelming quality of what it "meant" to be the Cheese Mites, especially in light of the fact that much of it was, ultimately Johnny & Williwill. Collaboration took on the form of material being solely created by one or the other, and in the more traditional fashion of live or long-distance technological enhancement by both parties.

   "Table Manners" reflects the multi-dimensional approach to collaboration. The collection opens with the misanthropic "Invaders Have Landed on Martian Soil," originally intended for Scrounger in the late 1990's, and then for Alternateen shortly thereafter but reworked for the Cheese Mites by 2010. "Rock DIcks Melody" was intended for the Rock Dicks, but repurposed for the Cheese Mites in 2012. "And I Think of You" was a 1984 "American Snufmeg" era production, revealing a

   "Table Manners" takes on the "establishment" pomposity of modern, academic electro-acoustic music, in a way hinted at by the early Cheese Mites audio terror experiments. Owing a great debt to mid-Twentieth Century electronic music, "Table Manners," like "Between Spaces," "Front and Back," "New Man," "Stellar," and "Teeth" express the true spirit of electro-acoustic music in a way that utterly devastates the effete pretentiousness of the dreadful and uninspired creations from the SEAMUS/ICMA affiliated "hallowed halls" of modern accredited experimental drivel. The Cheese Mites reclaim electronic music from the precipice of the affected insular intellectuals and make it a near-folk music for the ages of electricy.