»Soileth« collects the complete recorded output of Holeist, a short-lived collaboration between Dan Burke, Jeph Jerman and Eric Lunde. It stands as the final document of a brief encounter between three major figures of the American experimental underground, recorded in 1989 – a time when cassette culture, primitive sampling technology and extreme sound experimentation were colliding into something entirely new.

The material for side one was recorded during a single-day session in Lunde's living room, using a sampler, drum machine and effects. Jerman recalls the recording session as a shift-based process, with the three musicians feeding material into the system and transforming what came before. The result is raw, abrasive and strangely physical. Thirty-seven years later, the machinery still sounds broken.

Dan Burke, the driving force behind Illusion of Safety, has been active since the mid-'80s. His work moves between dense noise, rhythmic structures and ambient soundscapes. Jeph Jerman explores the physical and psychological possibilities of sound, using crude recording equipment, tape loops, sampled material and unconventional sound sources. Eric Lunde, formerly of the influential Midwest group Boy Dirt Car, developed his own extreme recording practices throughout the same period. His work concerns erosion, degradation and the physical abuse of recorded sound. Together, they produced a monster that sits somewhere between noise, musique concrète, primitive electronics and damaged tape music.