"Sometime
around 2002, Don Goede started work on this ambitious compilation. Sometime
arond the summer of 2006, I finished it. The cd you now hold in your hand
is the debut release of SECOND-SHIMMY. I hope you like it.
Kramer,
2006
"Shimmy
Disc Records has set a standard for underground survival and idiosyncratic
musical vision in a pop age of cookie-cutter video stars, copycat heavy metal,
and billion-dollar record company mergers. Kramer is a force of nature and
one of the few icons of the American underground."
-David
Fricke, Rolling Stone
I Killed
the Monster marks the
triumphant return of Shimmy-Disc, reborn for the twenty-first century as Second-Shimmy.
After a five-year hiatus, Kramer returns with a brilliant twenty-one-song
compilation of tuns written by his good riend Daniel Johnston, whose classic
LPs 1990 and Artistic Vice Kramer produced in the late eighties.
Each track features standout performances by some of indie music's brightest
stars such as Sufjan Stevens and Mike Watt, and many feature Kramer's unmistakable
prowess as one of his generation's most celebrated producers/arrangers. Few
artists have been where Kramer has been, or worked with the variety of artists
he has, and this debut release on his new Second-Shimmy label marks the birth
of a new era of great music to come.
