1-10 (With A Touch of 11)

1-10 (With A Touch of 11) is an instrumental demo tape recorded by Residents, Uninc. (possibly with their mentor The Mysterious N. Senada)"They just re-remembered the '1-10 (With A Touch Of 11)' thing too, which is really a complete album. I think it's The Residents jamming with N Senada or performing some of his work or something like that." - Richard Anderson, The Residents Facebook group, March 27th 2019 in Summer 1972, and compiled into a "first edit" on August 2nd of that year.Warning: Uninc. - Live and Experimental Recordings 1971-1972 liner notes, 2022 
The tape was forgotten by the group, and remained so until excerpts from the recording were rediscovered and included on the expanded pREServed edition of Meet The Residents in January 2018. The tape was apparently rediscovered in early 2021, and released as the second disc of the Record Store Day double LP compilation Warning: Uninc. - Live and Experimental Recordings 1971-1972 on April 23rd 2022. 
A representative of Cherry Red Records has indicated that the complete 1-10 (With A Touch of 11) will most likely not be released on CD, as it is "pretty specialist stuff"."...I doubt '1-10...' will come out in full on CD. Elements of it were on the 'Meet The Residents' pREServed CD, it's pretty specialist stuff. I didn't expect them to put it out in full, but apparently it reminded them of Sun Ra and bingo!" Richard Anderson, comment in The Residents unofficial Facebook group, April 5th 2022 Warning: Uninc. (including the album-length 1-10...) was released to streaming services in December 2022. 
== History ==
1-10 (With A Touch of 11) is a multi-part instrumental demo tape recorded by Residents, Uninc. (possibly with their mentor, Bavarian avant-garde composer and music theorist The Mysterious N. Senada) throughout the Summer of 1972 in the group's Sycamore Street basement studio. 
The tape was compiled into a "first edit" consisting of two vinyl album length sides on August 2nd, seemingly in preparation for an intended release, and indicating that a further edit of the material was intended (if not completed), possibly as another submission to Hal Halverstadt of Warner Bros. Records following his rejection of The W***** B*** Album and B.S. the previous year. 
However, apart from elements being included on a private cassette tape labelled "Residents 1972-1973", the group appear to have largely forgotten the existence of the recording, and it remained completely unknown to the public until six excerpts were included in the pREServed two-disc reissue of Meet The Residents in January 2019. 
== Release ==
===Meet The Residents pREServed (2018) === 
Edits of parts 1 and 4 through 8 of 1-10 (With A Touch of 11) were first released on the pREServed expanded edition of The Residents' debut album Meet The Residents in January 2018. 
These excerpts seemingly originated from the now water-damaged "Residents 1972-1973" demo cassette, and were almost dropped from the pREServed set altogether as the group considered the recordings to be "hard going" at that time.
===Warning: Uninc. (2022) ===
The complete tape was apparently rediscovered in the Cryptic Corporation archives in early 2021, and upon replaying it in its entirety, The Residents found themselves reminded of their hero Sun Ra (of whom members of the group owned a number of albums they also considered to be similarly "hard going").
Apparently amused by the notion that this was a direction they briefly considered pursuing following Warner Bros. Records' rejection of their earlier demo tapes, and feeling that "if (Sun Ra) can do it, then maybe we can too", the group earmarked the complete tape for release in the near future. 
For some time, the complete tape was expected to be part of a series of limited edition vinyl releases available only through mail order."I know there are plans afoot for some mail order only obscure vinyl too, but The Residents were slightly unsure what the demand would be, so this all bodes well. The complete '1-10 (With A Touch Of 11)' tape, the complete 'German Slide' tape, the complete 'Commercial Album' commercials tape (which I think is a mono mix of the album too) and so on. Maybe 'Leapmus' or some of the new previously unreleased stuff... Fingers crossed they/we can find room for it all." - Richard Anderson, The Residents Facebook group, March 19th 2019 In February 2022, a double LP compilation titled Warning: Uninc. - Live and Experimental Recordings 1971-1972 was announced, as part of the April and June Record Store Day "drops" for that year (with the first taking place on April 23rd). 
The album (limited to 2000 copies) contains the complete Boarding House and Chris' Party live recordings on the first disc, and 1-10 (With a Touch of 11) on the second. Curiously, the version of 1-10 (With a Touch of 11) featured on Warning: Uninc. appears to be a different edit and/or mix of the suite than the one excerpted on the Meet The Residents pREServed CD edition; only the end of "Pt. 4" appears (at the start of Side B), the ending of "Pt. 5" is slightly different, and Parts 6 and 7 do not appear at all (nor do the presumed - and still unreleased - Parts 9, 10 and 11). 
Shortly after the announcement of Warning: Uninc., Richard Anderson of Cherry Red Records indicated that the complete 1-10 (With A Touch of 11) was not likely for a CD release in the near future (if at all),"Fairly sure 1-10 won't come out on CD for a good while." - Richard Anderson, commenting in The Residents unofficial Facebook group, February 17th 2022 and that he was surprised The Residents wanted to release the tape in full in the first place, as "it's pretty specialist stuff". On December 16th, 2022, Warning: Uninc. was released on Spotify. 
== Contents ==
=== Warning: Uninc. version ===
==== Side A ====
* 1-10 (With a Touch of 11) Pt. 1 (0:00 - 9:29)
* 1-10 (With a Touch of 11) Pt. 2 (9-29 - 18:58)
* 1-10 (With a Touch of 11) Pt. 3 (18:58 - 21:37)
==== Side B ====
* 1-10 (With a Touch of 11) Pt. 4 (ending only)
* 1-10 (With a Touch of 11) Pt. 5 
* 1-10 (With a Touch of 11) Pt. 8
== Credits ==
* Composed, recorded, performed, arranged and mixed by Residents Uninc.
== See also ==
*Residents, Uninc.
* N. Senada
* Warning: Uninc.
* Tuesday tapes
* 7733 Variations
* "Residents 1972-1973"
* Meet The Residents
* pREServed
== Buy Or Die! ==
=== Listen online ===
* Warning: Uninc. - Live and Experimental Recordings 1971-1972 on Spotify
* Warning: Uninc. - Live and Experimental Recordings 1971-1972 on Apple Music
==External links and references==
*Meet The Residents pREServed edition at Discogs
*Warning: Uninc. - Live and Experimental Recordings 1971-1972 at Discogs
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