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b/art's Playlist for Friday, 14 Januari (23:00 - 00:02)
Miniature Mish Mash | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| You gotta _____ this mess | Black Sifichi circa 1991 |
| Stop The Music | Quentin Crisp [1] |
| The Whole World Is Watching | Chicago [2] |
| Ballet Mechanique | Manufacture |
| Indian | Waldo the Dog-Faced Boy |
| John Donne | Ralph Steadman [1a] |
| We Live in A Very Violent Age | Marshall McCluhan [3] |
| Arthur's Treat | Simon Jeffes [1b] |
| Intimines | We [4] |
| Evil Weather | Drew Dobbs[5] |
| Subterranean | Brian Eno vs David Bowie |
| There's Nothing Wrong With Your Radio | Vanilla Bean [6] |
| Subsonic | Phil Barry |
| Index of Ends | David Cunningham [1c] |
| Zo #1 [exc #1] | The Matthew Shipp Duo with William Parker [7] |
| Bum Love [60 seconds] | Ollie Halsall & John Halsey [1d] |
| Marilyn Monroe Wreck This Mess Jingle ID produced in 1992 | |
| Zo #1 [exc #2] | The Matthew Shipp Duo with William Parker [7] |
| Part One [section #1] | Bob Ostertag [8] |
| By Myself | Ursulla Dudziak [9] |
| Lomp | Köhn [10] |
| Part One [section #2] | Bob Ostertag [8] |
| Week-End | Joseph Racaille [1e] |
| With Wings Pressed Back | The Work [1f] |
| El Static Cycle remix | Edulah vs Cheesecake vs b/art [6] |
| Gondo | Paisley Babylon [11] |
| Part One [section #3] | Bob Ostertag [8] |
| History of Rock & Roll | Andy Partridge [1g] |
| North Atlantic City Spleen | Radio Emits Itself [6] |
| Breather | Phantom Captain [1h] |
[1]
"Miniatures" Various on Pipe Records, 1980. My original source
for this scurrilous lambasting of popular culture by Quentin Crisp.
See playlist for Dec. 20, 1999 for more details about Crisp. The
liner notes detail the evolution of the disc:
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| [2] "Chicago Transit Authority" was a more interesting record than the band of more recent vintage would lead you to believe. Set in the milieu of the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968 it uses the tumultuous protest spirit to send it headlong into the zeitgeist, knitting in protest samples and the feelings of that time into a complex jazz rock that was soon to go totally haywire into over-wrought muddle-headed crap by album "Chicago 4" - some wiill say that the putrefaction began even sooner. | |
| [1a] "Miniatures" Various on Pipe Records. Yes, the famous cartoonist of Hunter S. Thompson books and more makes his musical debut here. | |
| [3] "Living at the Speed of Light" on Time Again Productions in Toronto, 1993, is a representative sampled overlay, cut and remix version of some of McCluhan's finer and entertaining moments. | |
| [1b] "Miniatures" Various on Pipe Records. Jeffes of the startlingly inventive Penguin Café Orchestra whose first disc still sounds fresh. It is described here in the liner notes as "the quiet anarchy one finds in Lewis Carroll and Erik Satie." | |
| [4] ] "Square Root of Negative One" on Asphodel www.asphodel.com one of the best bands operating in NY area because they combine that seamless pursuit of new sounds with dance cravings. | |
| [5] "Sophisticated Savage" on Sound of Pig [#119], the legendary and prolific cassette label which helped revolutionize access and outlet to interesting music[s] that did not have the luxury of coporate financing behind its promotion or distribution. Dobbs offers some early inventive cute & paste sampling here even sampling the Robot from "Lost in Space," Japanese monster movies and heavily indebted to Perry & Kingsley. | |
| [6] The Bean was one of the more intrepid and risque djs that ever sucked up to a microphone at WFMU. Radio Emits Itself = Self-referential radio, psycho-radio-graphies, deep statical archives, radio hypnosis and unconscious radio dérives ...Radio refers to itself by emitting its own sounds in a collage format of overlapping radio references, voices and noises using one cassette, a cd player and an old radio that fedback and funneled its broad bandwidth - itself - back into the frequency 97.2. Listeners heard a river of non-linear sound produced by a strategy of controlled happenstance. The hope: to create a radio equivalent of Zen Satori or an instant of aural surprise that leads to a flash of illumination... Radio Emits Itself (REI) #1, broadcast in March of 1999 on Radio 100 in Amsterdam. It included radio sounds from various parts of the world as well as musicians such as John Cage, Holger Czukay, Francis Dhomont, and Ryuchi Sakamoto (and countless others) who use radio sounds within their own compositions. A second (3-hour) show was featured during the first day of the N5M3 (Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Conference) in Amsterdam in March 1999 and performed on Patapoe. This program featured not only hundreds of pre-recorded radio samples but the use of an old dial radio which was plugged into the soundboard and used in a freeform/chance manner, using random Amsterdam radio sounds as a musical instrument. Thereafter, the recorded-version was placed on auto-pilot (continuous auto reverse on overnights) at both Radio 100 & Radio Patapoe in the days/weeks following the conference. And it continues to be periodically rebroadcast to this day. | |
| [1c] "Miniatures" Various on Pipe Records. Cunningham while studying under Michael Nyman & David Toop at art school produced his famous version of "Summertime Blues" forever changing the meaning and intent of cover versions. This was followed by his great cover version of "Money". Cunningham perfected that post mod notion of DIY mastery where virtuosity is accessible to all but in deed is done by only the few. | |
| [7] "Zo" on Rise Records out of Austin Texas. Shipp is a mainstay of the downtown NYC jazz experimentation scene in and around the Knitting Factory which leaves me mostly cold, but Shipp doesn't. | |
| [1d] "Miniatures" Various on Pipe Records. Halsall was the experimental guitarist with Kevin Ayers and John Cale. And drummer Halsey here humorously kept to the 60-second time limit for the album concept with a narrated count down of the seconds. | |
| [8] "Sooner or Later" on RecRec Music of Zurich, Switzerland. Here a deeply affecting dismantling and amplification of the sampled emotions surrounding a young Salvadoran boy burying his father who's been killed by the US-trained El Salvador national guard - boy laments, buzzing fly, sound of shovel digging grave. | |
| [9] She sounds like a scat singer for a "Jetsons" movie never made. | |
| [10] an unreleased piece from Köhn on the Mind the Gap [#29] series of interesting cds that come with copies of Gonzo Circus, the informative music magazine out of Belgium. www.planetinternet.be/~gonzo.cicus | |
| [1e] "Miniatures" Various on Pipe Records. Racaille of the band ZNR who recreated the spirit of Satie at a Reims music festival. Shortest track on the "Miniatures" disc, about 12 seconds. | |
| [1f] "Miniatures" Various on Pipe Records. Ex-member of Henry Cow. Produced an interesting relationship between their mixers whereby one instrument modulated the sound of the others which creates an interesting chance / auto-pilot sound. | |
| [11] "The Alpha Wave Variations" on Zombie Project zom@txdirect.net www.txdirect.net/users/zom incorporates sounds culled from static in the heavens, from radio signals floating around in outer space. | |
| [1g] "Miniatures" Various on Pipe Records. Here Swindon's, ex-XTC, Partridge offers a 20-second lecture of the history of rock and roll. | |
| [1h] "Miniatures" Various on Pipe Records. These "psycho-necromantic environmentalists" are also a surreal theatre group and here supply the interlude between sides A & B. | |