{"id":619058,"date":"2024-05-01T21:05:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T18:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stuck-on-ulterior-motives-listen-to-outer-limits-recordings-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T21:05:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T18:05:42","slug":"stuck-on-ulterior-motives-listen-to-outer-limits-recordings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stuck-on-ulterior-motives-listen-to-outer-limits-recordings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stuck on \u201cUlterior Motives\u201d? Listen to Outer Limits Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39e475edb9b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39e475edb9b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stuck-on-ulterior-motives-listen-to-outer-limits-recordings-2\/#The_solo_work_of_Sam_Mehran_is_another_lost_treasure_waiting_to_be_rediscovered\" >The solo work of Sam Mehran is another lost treasure waiting to be rediscovered.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_solo_work_of_Sam_Mehran_is_another_lost_treasure_waiting_to_be_rediscovered\"><\/span>The solo work of Sam Mehran is another lost treasure waiting to be rediscovered.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261444\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SAM_MEHRAN_-GRIFFITH_PARK3_sdylvp\/sam-mehran-photo-by-daniel-merlot.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SAM_MEHRAN_-GRIFFITH_PARK3_sdylvp\/sam-mehran-photo-by-daniel-merlot.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SAM_MEHRAN_-GRIFFITH_PARK3_sdylvp\/sam-mehran-photo-by-daniel-merlot.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SAM_MEHRAN_-GRIFFITH_PARK3_sdylvp\/sam-mehran-photo-by-daniel-merlot.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SAM_MEHRAN_-GRIFFITH_PARK3_sdylvp\/sam-mehran-photo-by-daniel-merlot.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SAM_MEHRAN_-GRIFFITH_PARK3_sdylvp\/sam-mehran-photo-by-daniel-merlot.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SAM_MEHRAN_-GRIFFITH_PARK3_sdylvp\/sam-mehran-photo-by-daniel-merlot.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SAM_MEHRAN_-GRIFFITH_PARK3_sdylvp\/sam-mehran-photo-by-daniel-merlot.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SAM_MEHRAN_-GRIFFITH_PARK3_sdylvp\/sam-mehran-photo-by-daniel-merlot.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SAM_MEHRAN_-GRIFFITH_PARK3_sdylvp\/sam-mehran-photo-by-daniel-merlot.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SAM_MEHRAN_-GRIFFITH_PARK3_sdylvp\/sam-mehran-photo-by-daniel-merlot.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Stuck on \u201cUlterior Motives\u201d? Listen to Outer Limits Recordings\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Sam Mehran. Photo by Daniel Merlot<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261462\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Way back in 2021, an account with the handle carl92<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.watzatsong.com\/en\/name-that-tune\/719553.html\"> posted a brief snippet on Whatzatsong<\/a>, a website that lets its users collaborate to track down obscure tunes. carl92\u2019s snippet was a lo-fi rip of an energetic \u201880s pop tune. With its blown-out quality and peppy vibe, the snippet \u2014 which was nicknamed \u201cEveryone Knows That\u201d \u2014 sounded like a Duran Duran hit that had been Mandela Effected out of our collective memories. Whatzatsong users were unable to identify the track, but many were hooked. The song became a minor TikTok hit, a sub<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reddit<\/a> called <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/everyoneknowsthat\/\">r\/everyoneknowsthat<\/a> sprung up, and an entire community was formed around figuring out where it came from. On Monday, user south_pole_ball announced that they had found it: The song\u2019s real title is \u201cUlterior Motives,\u201d and Christopher David Booth wrote it for a 1986 softcore porno called <i>Angels of Passion<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261463\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christopher David Booth \u2013 Ulterior Motives [Everyone Knows That Song]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5I9GZJNDVhE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('261463');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261464\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            When carl92 uploaded his snippet, \u201cEveryone Knows That\/Ulterior Motives\u201d became lostwave: music with little to no information surrounding its authorship or release, leaving it in a limbo that can be quite enticing in an era of limitless information. Part of its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal is in the treasure hunt, the satisfaction of putting clues together like pieces of bleached sea glass to form a full bottle. The revelation on Monday was the first time that I was introduced to \u201cUlterior Motives,\u201d so I had no context for its stature within the annals of lostwave, but I did immediately see its appeal \u2014 mainly because it reminded me of the late Sam Mehran, an artist who intentionally made a lot of music, including pop, for a different, kinder world.<\/p>\n<p>            Mehran began releasing music decades after Booth composed the soundtrack for <i>Angels of Passion<\/i> (Booth is now a producer for SyFy, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/2261440\/mysterious-viral-80s-song-everybody-knows-that-finally-identified-after-three-year-hunt\/news\/\">Stereogum<\/a>). In 2004, Mehran formed a band called Test Icicles with Rory Atwell and Devont\u00e9 Hynes (years later, Hynes would launch his popular art-pop project Blood Orange). They only released one album, 2005\u2019s <i>For Screening Purposes Only<\/i>, before splitting up, but the album remains a dizzy, silly artifact of the nu-rave era, part At the Drive-In, part New Order, and part <i>Jackass<\/i>, with Mehran\u2019s piercing wails and passionate shredding always the centerpiece of their best songs. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261465\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NBV837NdkN0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NBV837NdkN0%0A<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('261465');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261466\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Mehran never escaped the shadow of Test Icicles, even as his solo music surpassed his old band. I was reintroduced to  the American-Australian musician\u2019s work a decade ago by the YouTube algorithm: <i>90210<\/i>, a cassette tape Mehran recorded with NY experimenter James Ferraro, remains one of my favorite internet discoveries to this day. Blown-out butt-rock for an \u201880s lite beer ad is looped over and sent in weird and wonderful directions over the course of 30 minutes. Mehran recorded the project under the alias Sam Meringue; a quick Google search brought me back into Mehran\u2019s world, and into his primary outlet, Outer Limits Recordings.<\/p>\n<p>            Outer Limits Recordings is not a perfect 1:1 with \u201cUlterior Motives.\u201d While it mostly inhabits the lysergic pop world of R. Stevie Moore, it also veers into pure sound experiments. Newcomers should start with the 2013 collection <i>Singles, Demos, and Rarities (2007-2010)<\/i>; the project contains songs where Mehran puts his best pop foot forward (\u201c$20 Dollar Bill,\u201d \u201cLiberty,\u201d \u201cI Need My T.V.\u201d) and stranger moments too, like the Throbbing Gristle thump of \u201cMind Kontrol (Ultra).\u201d Listening to that compilation, it doesn\u2019t take long before \u201cUlterior Motives\u201d begins to sound like something Mehran could have written, or, at least, the <i>kind<\/i> of thing he loved to write.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Mehran committed suicide in 2018; 2021 saw the release of <i>Cold Brew<\/i>, his final album and the first to be released under his own name. There wasn\u2019t a massive resurgence of interest in Mehran\u2019s work, and the critical appraisals of his music were muted at best. It\u2019s a bitter pill, even if Mehran did work in the fringes, but it\u2019s sweetened somewhat by the kind of music he made as OLR: full-length songs you might have only heard a second of on a moldy VHS that\u2019s been taped over into oblivion. It\u2019s basically lostwave, for the here and now.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261467\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vzjaycuoIpU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vzjaycuoIpU<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('261467');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Jordan Darville<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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