Summary: "Love Bombing" is a noncomprehensive mix of religious, cult, and armed-revolutionary songs that artist James Hoff first began compiling in 2006. This collection includes recordings by David Koresh, L. Ron Hubbard, the Trees Community, Children of God, and Jim Jones's Peoples Temple Choir, among others, sourced by Hoff through trading communities, record fairs, and file-sharing networks. Hoff's inquiry stems from research he conducted while developing a 2009 <a href="http://soundcloud.com/pan_recs/james-hoff-how-wheeling-feels" target="_blank">sound installation</a> on the convergence of modern genre music and political action. In particular, "Love Bombing" was sparked by an interview with a surviving member of the Friedrichshof Commune, founded in 1972 by Viennese Actionist Otto Meuhl, who sought to create a new form of jazz music, which he piped throughout the Austrian compound during daily radio addresses; and by a young Japanese artist who described for Hoff the sound of Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, whose pop music was played on television news just following the group's Sarin gas attack on a Tokyo subway in 1995 (children reportedly sang Aum Shinrikyo's songs in school the next day, prompting a ban on their recordings).<br><br> James Hoff is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. He is also a founder and editor (along with Miriam Katzeff) of <a href="http://primaryinformation.org/" target="_blank">Primary Information</a>, a nonprofit arts organization devoted to publishing artists' books and publications by artists.<br><br><strong>Track Listing:</strong><br> The Up, "Free John Now" (Mix 1) <br> The Trees Community, "Kohoutek" (Bonus)<br> Lumpen, "Free Bobby Now"<br> Children of God, "Revolutionary COG"<br> Sheep, "Let All the Redeemed of the Lord Say So" Bobby Beausoleil, "The Orkustra - Flash Gordon"<br> Exuma, "The Vision"<br> Church Universal & Triumphant, Inc., "Preamble - Great Divine Rector's Call"<br> Apollo All-Stars, "The Power of Source"<br> Peoples Temple Choir, "Will You" <br> Shoko Asahara, "Lord Death's Counting Song"<br> David Koresh, "Book Of Daniel"<br> Father Yod and the Spirit of '76, "Side B"<br> G.I. Gurdjieff, "Harmonium and Accordion Improvisation"<br> Elaine Brown, "Seize The Time"<br> Anton LaVey, "Satan Takes a Holiday" (instrumental)<br> L. Ron Hubbard, "Song"
