Operation Midnight Climax

***Making his Peak Oil debut with a full length inspired by the CIA’s acid-dosing mind control experiments of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Swiss analog synth mastermind FLORIN BUCHEL crafts a sprialling, immersive narrative of vital, psychedelic, acid-drenched, murky fugues recorded live to cassette. Whether the disoriented whirling dervish 303 echoes of “Behavioral Engineering” or the meditative dissolution of reality via cascading aural fragments in “Mind Control in Marin County”, Florin Büchel has scripted a conceptually layered, palpably thrilling love letter to all forms of transgressive psychedelia, musical or otherwise. Pressed in an edition of 300 copies with perforated blotter art covers, neon screen printed sleeves and redacted document inserts