Few groups have done so much with so little as New York no-wave obscurities impLOG – their entire recorded output is four songs contained on one 12-inch single and one 7-inch single, and each of these songs imply entire genres. impLOG has their genesis in James Chance's Contortions – impLOG were largely the work of drummer Don Christensen with assistance from guitarist Jody Harris – Christensen was motivated to release his music due to the encouragement of another Contortions band mate, bassist George Scott (these three would also play together in no-wave surf band The Raybeats).
 “I was messing around on a four-track with a drum machine and guitar boxes, just doing crazy stuff for my own amusement. When I played it for George, he said, ‘You gotta make a record!’, so I did,” he told Vernon Graveley in an interview.
The A-side to their 1980 Lust/Unlust 12-inch, Holland Tunnel Dive (frequently mislabeled as Holland Tunnel Drive, and named for the tunnel that connects the island of Manhattan to New Jersey), is their stone cold all-time classic, a seven-and-a-half minute epic built on a throbbing bass undercurrent and primitive, insect-like
drum machine clatter.
“No emotion/ No devotion/ No trips to the ocean/ No time to play/ No lays/ No way/ No news/ No blues/ Nothing to lose,” Christensen intones, his lo-fi, reverb-drowned vocals worlds away from the show-offy performance art stylings of James Chance or Lydia Lunch or Arto Lindsay’s bug-eyed focus. His nihilistic mantras – like an evil Arthur

Russell – culminate in “Leaving for the other
side/ Going to take a Holland Tunnel dive,” and then the track starts to hiss and groan as an increasingly loud grinding drone melts faces – it honestly sounds like he stuck a microphone inside a jet engine. I remember playing this on the radio and had the next DJ ask me if it was contemporary Finnish noise/techno duo Pan Sonic. You’d think Christensen would be happy to rest on what he’d already accomplished during the track, but after it emerges from the noise section, you get... jaunty afro-beat saxophone swing! You need this song in your life.
B-side On Broadway is an equally long ‘cover’ of the The Drifters’ classic (“How you gonna make some time?/ When all you got is one thin dime?”), Christensen's desperate vocals joined by a ragged collection of friends chiming in on the chorus while the track clangs and clatters dementedly like a bummed-out Can.
Their self-released 7-inch is made up of the angular, rubbery She Creatures (a Cramps-y pulse, junkie guitar and eerie female backing vocals), and the incredibly entertaining Breakfast, mutant disco somewhere between The B-52s, Kid Creole, and The Muppet Show – a call and response litany of breakfast excellence (“I got/ ORANGES!/ from Florida, I got/ BUTTER! from Long Island,” etc).
This would be all the world heard from impLOG until Christensen resurrected the moniker 25 years later for his interpretation of ’Dance from Akhnaten’ on Philip Glass cover CD Glass Cuts.