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b/art's Playlist for Maandag, 31 Januari 1999 (17:30 - 19:16)
Adventures in UNsound: no. 47: demobience | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| The Wreck This Mess "as if I'd wreck the life of somebody" Mix 24w11t97m | |
| Raumis | Alchemy of the 20th Century [1] |
| #2 The Kirghitz Light | Rapoon [2] |
| The live adhoc recordings of the Kalenderpanden Demo [3] | |
| Separating Green | Anemone Tube [1] |
| Photosensitive | Puppy [4] |
| The Synaptic Gap | Marineville [5] |
| #3 The Kirghitz Light | Rapoon [2] |
| Revolution | Marineville [5] |
| Wanking Ass Licking Wreck This Mess | Nina A. |
| #1, 7'23" | Furt [6] |
| Boof Und Baff | Dub Syndicate [7] |
| Ne Cede Malis | Spectre [8] |
| Born Bad | Rootsman [9] |
| Pushpulser | Penumbra [10] |
| Legaliseer Alle Kraakpanden NU! [3] | |
| Ad Hoc Amsterdam Wreck This Mess Ids | |
| Balade Lui Costea | L'Orchestre de Gheorghe Zamfir [11] |
| Another Soft Helion | Zoviet France [12] |
| Random Attractor | Terre Thaemlitz [13] |
| Herhaal van de Demo [3] | |
| Im Harz | Stimmhorn [14] |
| Clara Nostra (exc.) | If, Bwana [15] |
| Two Thieves And A Liar | Gary Clail & the On-U Sound System [16] |
| Stepping Into Night (exc.) | Penumbra [10] |
| Privatise the Air Part 1 | Gary Clail [16] |
| Privatise the Air Part 2 | Gary Clail vs Andy Fairley [16] |
| Stepping Into Night (exc.) | Penumbra [10] |
| [1] "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, material that empties space: Infant Cycle, Vance Orchestra, Alfa Tau Bau, Smell & Quim, Vidna Obmana. | |
| [2] Rapoon or Robin Storey is an offshoot of Zoviet France which takes the notion of loop mantras and an astute knowledge of how sound can calm and penetrate seemingly impenetrable quandaries. I find Zoviet France and Rapoon incredible tools by which to write. It tunes out the outside world and allows a more satisfactory focus [without dogmatic insistence] - my mind goes peripatetic Š | |
| [3] This show was an awkward [the headphone plug busted so difficult to cue and mix] if intimate blend of ambiences from various new and old records mixed in with the sounds of the pro-squat demonstration that wound its merry loud and colorful way thru the heart of Amsterdam from Westerkerk, near the Anne Frank House, through downtown behind the Palace, past Vrankrijk squat, the Spui, past the Muntplein all the way to the Entrepotdok where there was a concert with 4 bands including the EX. The demonstration against the eviction of the Entrepotdok squat, the home of our radio station, was a huge success not only because nearly 2000 people showed, not only because it got a lot of coverage, not only because it brought together various groups and generations, not just because it was a fun time and a feeling of solidarity but also the idea that one has to help others get what they deserve. And if any group deserves to stay in their spot it is the Kalenderpanden group of squatters and culture makers. They have created a very unique spot here right across from the zoo. It is in the middle of a gentrifying area but they have managed to convert an old warehouse into an amazing complex of radio station, bar, cultural and political presentations, benefits, gay, lesbian, alien, outsider and genius events, space for refugees, underground poetry, alternative parties, bakfiets loans [the bakfiets is to the bike what the pick up truck is to the car], weekly Terror kitchen offering affordable vegetarian food, a cinema which shows films rarely seen in Amsterdam [ I saw SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE there], performances by unusual bands of noise jazz and ethnic music, plus theatre and an art gallery, plus a gym and a regular meeting place for information on various issues. As Amsterdam tries to present its most polite and public image it tends to do it at the expense of creativity and humaneness. In particular, Amsterdam seems to be very proud of its legalized squats that have become landmarks of culture and have made it an interesting place: among many examples are the Melkweg, Paradiso and Balie. But, meanwhile there is a tendency toward Disneyfication which leaves many creative people and alternative types as not fitting into the clean-shaven picture. The government has promised studios and workspaces as well as affordable living for all but this is not a reality as yuppies bend the ears and flatter the decisionmakers so that they get what they want... The Kalenderpanden at Entrepotdok must remain just such a counterfriction to homogeneity and gentrification - a diverse and lively contemporary alternative version of these kinds of places Š if the city wants to. entrpot@dds.nl http://squat.net/entrepotdok . | |
| [4] "horizontal" by Puppy is grungy dark drum and bass that is both hyperventilatingly "snel" and then lethargic as a bottomfeeder in a warm lagoon. On Sprawl www.dfuse.com/sprawl/ | |
| [5] "Redpath House" on Universal Egg http://wobblyweb.com/ueindex is the kind of record that takes hold of me right away. An incredible controlled artificial ecstasy. The extrapolated connections between electronics and ecstasy, mixing and psychedelic experience - one approximates the other at the fertile doorway called the inner ear Š | |
| [6] "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. | |
| [7] "Strike the Balance" on On-U reminds me of how purely iconoclastic and classic the On-U records used to be. Striking that balance between earth-shattering and total listenability. Great Disc. | |
| [8] "The End" on Word Sound www.wordsound.com is yet another chapter in that deep dark and dreary dub that flirts with millennium-fever and the coming apocalypse. If you can just tune out some of the insipid doomsday blather you are in for some incredible sound. The sound is on the edge of meltdown like Laswell in a jacuzzi filled with pig blood. It is pure comic book end of the world scenarios however with some nasty insane fun cookie pus type rapping. It can't be that they really believe in this end o the woild stuff cuz this record is late 1999 and they put it out for the 21st century and here I am listening to it. Get the irony? But then again if you live in the ugly surroundings of daily grunge grime grease of Lower NY or Williamsburgh it is bound the discolor your world view - it is figgin glooooomy. Gimme the dub versions! Much brilliance mixed with immature prophecy whereby all the political malfeasance going on gets shoved into Scriptural cause. It is worth sorting out because this bunch out there at the edge of the world called brooklyn is one of THE most profoundly happening labels in NYC, let alone the USA. | |
| [9] "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. | |
| [10] "Anoraks" by Penumbra Universal Egg http://wobblyweb.com/ueindex psychick meets silver apple. Out there. Reel it in. | |
| [11] Great Rumanian folk music. L'Orchestre de Gheorghe Zamfir on Disques Desse. | |
| [12] "Digilogue" on Soleilmoon more of the great ZF. Here continuing that enchanting voyage that seems to pass through various hallowed grounds while it also seems strangely pagan and celestial. | |
| [13] "Ambient Systems II"on Instinct is a good primer of minimalist blipsters including Drum Komputer, SETI, TT, Sub Dub, Adham ShaikhŠ | |
| [14] "Schnee" by Stimmhorn on Röhr/RecRec vertrieb@recrec.ch is Christian Zehnder on voice and instruments, and Balthasar Streiff on alphorn, trumpet and other instruments. This is one of the weirdest records I have gotten in quite some while. I received this from fellow yodel scholar Christoph Wagner. It is a very eccentric dialog between voices and alphorn (it sounds like didgeridoo at times) which evolves into a weird operatic symphony of scat improv, yodels and operatic flourishes. | |
| [15] "Clara Nostra" on Pogus http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm is a reworking of a piece for 106,476 clarinets oringinally released on sound of Pig as "Horn & Hard Acts." The original recording of 4 separate clarinet tracks, as the liner notes note, was bounced back and forth between the 4 track, an 8 track and a 2 track, slowed up, speeded up and generally bounced and rebounced so that the end result technically was the 100,000 plus clarinets. It sounds like a traffic jam of tankers blowing their horns / noses in a foggy bay. Put this up against Urban Sax with its 40+ saxaphone orchestras floating down French rivers on a cloud of silver with men in disaster worker white jumpsuits and you'd have a real orchestra to flat down the River Styx. | |
| [16] "End of the Century Party" on On-U is one of the records I put on when I want Woody Guthrie as pressed through the On-U pressure cooker. I put this or Mark Stewart on when I need my moral outrage genes pumped up with decibels and menacing lyrics. This is truly a great record which deals with the seamy side of white collar malfeasance. Privatise the Air perfectly describes - a few years prior to the beginning of the total parcelling off of the airwaves to the highest jackanape bidders. | |