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b/art's Playlist for Friday, 28 Januari (23:00 - 00:06)
circuit breaker "A creature with a window of perception adjusted to radio waves would have a very different impression of the night sky from the one our eyes give us." * Joyce Godwin, "Speculative Music" | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| The Wreck This Mess Story 04.12.99 | Black Sifichi |
| Thermodrive (Version) | Voltaic [1] |
| Beyond | Xingu Hill [2] |
| Something This Beautiful | Zoviet France [3] |
| Reine de Musette | Yvette Horner [4] |
| Reclusion #5 | Reclusion [5] |
| Three Strange Angels | Peter Garland |
| Borstal | Simon Napier Bell & Ray Singer [6] |
| Cut #7 | Furt [7] |
| Wreck This Mess 08w.t06.93m | |
| Noise Ramones | Boredoms |
| Beetles Crawl Across My Back | Nurse With Wound |
| Nice Bore Guy Boyoyo Guy | Boredoms |
| Tantrum | Sonoptic [8] |
| Where's The Money | Cop Shoot Cop |
| The Equator | Unrest |
| Good Pasta | Alice Donut |
| In spring, a tiny man drinks from a cool mountain spring | The Implicit Order [9] |
| Ballroom Control | Playgroup |
| Murder on the orient Express | Rootsman [10] |
| Wreck This Mess Sivichi/Schauffhauser Mix 04.03.99wtm | |
| [1] "Counterintelligence: Subproject 01" on Electro-Chemical Research www.noisemail.com The "recent" phenom of soundings, of allowing the surrounding air and elements to do the talking for awhile. Includes Aube, Dandy, Voltaic, converter, Mimetic Field, si-{cut}.db, Bit Tonic and others. | |
| [2] "Relay" on KK / Nova Zembla / Radical Ambient kknz@kkrecords.be is technological music for a movie stuck in a bad future. A strange tension between precise and frantic beats and lulling muzakical neuronscapes. jn@link.be | |
| [3] "Mouvements" I don't have the label for this 1990 compilation as I just have it on cassette. But it includes many interesting soundmanipulators such as Un Drame Musical Instantanée, Muslimgauze, De Fabriek and Dessacord Majeur. Everytime I (re)discover a piece by Zoviet France it stops me speechless as I realize how interesting they remain to ears shattereed and tattered by what seems all likely formations of sound that can be called music. | |
| [4] "Les Plus Grandes Valses Musettes" on EMI/Pathé, Holland. Great accordion sounds from a small woman playing a giant accordeon. Staye tuned for the all accordeon 2-part special with special guest, master Dutch post-punk squeezebox tickler, Toni Smith. | |
| [5] "Reclusion" on Prikosnovenie http:www//www.multimania.com/prikos/ is "dark triphop" at its most jarringly gloomy. It touches on the industrial , techno and various blanketyblank hops to offer a glimpse into the present state of affairs of the modern psyche. By a member of the Last of Seven and Supermarket Zomby. | |
| [6] Interviews with boys from English reformatories that make it all sound more like prison. | |
| [7] "Angel" on the intrepid young label jdkprod@xs4all.nl Furt is dark but flippant, abstract but coherent. Annoying if you expect the expected. Delightful if you like a challenge. Write jdk to be put on their list to be notified about "interesting events", events involving noisemakers, musicicians, sound sculptors and various bleating polemicists who fall off the usual pop tympanic maps at places like STEIM. | |
| [8] "Chore Overload" by Sonoptic on Warpodisc http://www.infosprout.com/warpodisc is Chuck Marcus & Alison Faith Levy's aural portion of an experimental music-film performance called Sonoptic Overload. It is a sensorium of triple projection experimental films and loops accompanied by hypnotic keyboard and guitar drones. Improvs here meander serendipitously and furtively around emotional triggers and contemplative cues. This one wraps chords and loops around itself. Contact Alison directly at grumbelina@aol.com. | |
| [9] "Ambient Intimacy Volume 3" various artists on EE Tapes, Sint Nikilaas, Belgium debrug.ocj@steunpunt.be. Very interesting collection of atmospheres, sonic hints, sumptuous loops: Infant Cycle, Vance Orchestra, Alfa Tau Bau, Smell & Quim, Vidna Obmana. IO is one of the better represented configurations Š | |
| [10] "Realms of the Unseen" on Thirdeye thirdeye.music@virgin.net is the excellent 1999 release on the Rootsman's own label. I think it takes the high road in the tactic of morphing one's influences. I hear elements of earlier ethno-dub like Zion Train, elements of Muslimgauze and On-U and indebtedness to King Tubby and Prince Far I. But it all sounds thoroughly organic and inspiring. A party disc that invites much meditative whirling dervish dancing. Its really hard for ears that are constantly and carniverously devouring new sounds for a "popular" sounding disc to still explore and fascinate. I felt this way about the Clash's "Sandinista" exactly 20 years ago. Densely engaging yet compellingly melodic? Highly recommended. | |