Various Artists Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell 8/18/23 La Tortura (Shaketon Remix)

La Tortura (Shaketon Remix)

Put em all together and you have our new Early Americans compilation a powerhouse

with Cole Alexander’s trademark snarl delivered over a sulphurous wall of distorted hedonism

so many endless piles of mundane tasks and minutiae

Won't Give Up Without A Fight 05

Various Artists Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell 8/18/23 La Tortura (Shaketon Remix)Master Mix' embodies the genre defying, experimental spirit that defined Russell's work. Living in the East Village from the '70s until his untimely death in 1992 at age 40 from AIDS related causes, Russell moved effortlessly between the city's various music scenes, recording disco beats alongside Nicky Siano one night, and the next, crafting slow, haunting tracks in his apartment with his cello and idiosyncratic warbling voice. The New Yorker called