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b/art's Playlist for Friday, 21 April (23:00 - 00:23)
Noise & Plunder | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| Narwal | John Hudak [1] |
| Welded to the Radio by Wreck This Hypnotic Mess 03w.02t.99m.exc1 | |
| + In A Constant State of Rebellion | HHH [2] |
| Monotonous rings The Little Bell | Ivan Petrov with the Ossipov Ensemble [3] |
| Monday Morning | Richard H. Kirk [4] |
| Ravage Announcement of Benefit [10] | |
| Tel Aviv Car Bomb | Muslimgauze [10] |
| Nook & Cranny | Biosphere [5] |
| Fir - tive | Gas [6] |
| Brooklyn Bridge | John Hudak |
| + In A Constant State of Rebellion | HHH [2] |
| Brothers of Darkness - Sons of Light | Popol Vuh [7] |
| + The Name of the Show is Wreck This Mess | Curd Duca |
| Endless | Pan sonic vs Alan Vega [8] |
| Fake Realism | Crawl unit [1] |
| Tangled Mass | Hazard [9] |
| + Down Deep Deep Deep - Subconscious Mind of Appetite | Hypnotic |
| Dietary Aid [HAD] | |
| Moistened & Dried | Biosphere [5] |
| Algae & Fughi Part 1 | Biosphere [5] |
| + Inval | Diane Ozon [10] |
| Tomato Sorcery | Spaceheads [10] |
| Algae & Fughi Part 2 | Biosphere [5] |
| Conduit > 23 [exclusive] > DJ Spooky [11] | |
| + Stuck ID Radio 100 Skipping | |
| Devil in Your Name | Richard H. Kirk [4] |
| Marquee Moon | Television [12] |
| Giant | The Ex [10] |
| Nameless Frag EGT | Electric Groove Temple [10] |
| Going Off Duty Outro WTM Reprogrammed | |
| [1] "Clear / No Name" on Effe effe@mpd.biglobe.ne.jp is a Japanese label of noises and soundings also includes Carl Stone, John Hudak, M5BR, Sukora, Toy Bizarre and others. No ABBA. The material refuses to venture into anything resembling pieces, music or composition. But, despite this insouciant avoidance of composition there is still a sense of framing. | |
| [2] "Antitrade: An Ash International Compilation" on Touch www.touch.demon.co.uk ashrip@touch.demon.co.uk is a compilation of obscure sounds that edge into music and investigation. The collection is like a catalog of specimens of audio oddities. From the label where many of these kinds of speculations, ruminations, rumblings first got noticed. | |
| [3] "Ah-Nastasja" on Melodia, Original Recording of the USSR Stereo. An album that seems to describe a kind of alternative universe. Nothing seems quite real. The nostalgic tic can't be scratched because it would romanticize a time that never really happened. | |
| [4] "LoopStatic [amine beta ring modulations]" on the venerable Touch label www.touch.demon.co.uk which will soon be celebrating its 20th anniversary of championing the unusual musics of the world. They began as a cassette label. This Richard H. Kirk's new soundings of the sinister heart of the political and social state. Former Cabaret Voltarian has taken the scannerisms further beyond mere titillating voyeurisms into speculations about political and spiritual malfeasance. | |
| [5] "Cirque" on Touch www.touch.demon.co.uk biosphere@tromso.online.no is a great disc from a great generator of beautiful sounds. It is pure northern sound which to me is the 'polar' opposite of say, Berber / Moroccan / Sahara music but in many ways the stark meditative waves and horizontals come back to the point where they are very similar. Apparently Biosphere = Geir Jenssen who rejected the acclaim he was receiving for previous discs and chose the hermetic over hype or 'mountain climbing over train spotting'. What is beyond ambient, well, speculative. Music that not only rides and caresses a surface but penetrates it until we get some sense of what its dimensions and intentions are. It is about exploration rather than mimicking. Anyway, it is inspired in part by the story of Chris McCandless who "in April 1992 hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness, only to be found dead 4 months later have ing made a tragic error with his food supply." | |
| [6] "Pop" by Gas or "Gas Pop" or is it all by Wolfgang Voigt ? Well, I finally went to the minimal MP site and discovered that it is Gas = artist, Pop = title. In any case it is on the excellent Mille Plateaux www.mille-plateaux.com and it is an incredibly beautiful cd with almost NO info on the cd itself but it does not matter. It is pure trance-mantra-like electronic waves and rhythms ala Rapoon. Mellifluous as if the machine is inducing spiritual states. Perfect veg-out. It calms without dulling. A current disc I keep returning to as I try to focus a hectic life on the words I am trying to put one next to the other and have them make sense. | |
| [7] "Best of Popol Vuh:Werner Herzog" on Milan <> a group formed by Florian Fricke who took the name from the Mayan Book of Death is a natural point of departure for this kind of cosmic electronix which seems perfect to soundtrack the films of Herzog with its investigations into the strange twisted turns of the human soul. They were ahead of their time [69] in producing a kind of hypnotic loopy ambience that goes mantric and evokes the gut of the soul - or tries to. | |
| [8] "Endless" a great pairing here on this cd where the gloomy quirky minimalism of Pan Sonic's Vainio & Vaisanen plays perfectly with the gloomy post-angst lyrics and bellows of Alan Vega, poet with the soul of Rothko, the hypnotic sense of the Velvet Underground, the angry 'ole man' polemic of Leonard Cohen or Lou Reed ... | |
| [9] "North" by Hazard on Ash International 4.5 www.touch.demon.co.uk Exploring the north where things are cold and yet have suddenly come back to life as a metaphor for the things we carry around with us. The north is in. Forget Ibiza think polar or at least listen to the deserts of the north. | |
| [10] "Zootje Ongeregeled" is a Ravage Benefit CD, on the newly formed Strike Records here in Amsterdam. The compilation was compiled by the Leo of PANE who might best be described as Kurt Cobain meets Andreas Baader andacaci@dds.nl with a sprinkle of Yellow Biafra. Ravage www.antenna.nl/ravage is a radical monthly which reliably covers the other side of politics. Good analyses of official government policies. So good in fact, that the gov't is now taking action - harassment - in connection with the bombing of an office of the conglom BASF in Arnhem in 1996. Then came the confiscation of Ravage files in that same year. The case is coming to court now and in their place - how about backing off. How about abiding by the law...This cd includes Muslimgauze, Diana Ozon (great local radical poet) the Ex, Spaceheads, Nomeansno, Chumbawumba, Dept. of Experimental Health, Pane and others... | |
| [11] "Wreck This Mess: Remission 2: Ambient-Industrial vs Electronic-Dub vs Hypnotic-Grooves" on Noise Museum www.zone51.com/noisemuseum This is volume 2 of the WTM series. It includes Twilight Circus, Spectre, Systemwide, Dub Factory, Extremadura, Botom Botom, Holon, Silk Saw, DJ Spooky, Egon Zo vs Digidub, Audio Active, Starfish Pool, Andrew Lagowski. "Wreck This Mess: Remission 2: Ambient-Industrial vs Electronic-Dub vs Hypnotic-Grooves" on Noise Museum www.zone51.com/noisemuseum This is volume 2 of the WTM series. It includes Twilight Circus, Spectre, Systemwide, Dub Factory, Extremadura, Botom Botom, Holon, Silk Saw, DJ Spooky, Egon Zo vs Digidub, Audio Active, Starfish Pool, Andrew Lagowski. Here Laurent expands the empire of WTM, into new unforeseen markets. This is a painstakingly and precisely edited disc. He is very particular about what he likes and here it all fits into a meticulous polemic of sound and noise against hyper-mediated commerce. The Starfish Pool cut is pure beautiful insanity - a mechanical loop of menacing jangling machinery that ends up lilting along until you find yourself not scrunching your shoulders. . One of the choicest cuts. Systemwide fits in with new roots Muslimgauze and Rootsman. BSI www.bsi-records.com Holon sounds a lot like they have studied the likes of Depth Charge. Very explosive and ups the stakes of dub. It is is pure joyous freeform breakbeats havoc - result of a meeting between Starfish and Riou. One of the killer cuts is by Twilight Circus, ex-bassist of the Legendary Pink dots [a great band in their own right], Ryan Moore, based in Holland, is producing some of the heaviest and most breathtaking dub sounds. The cut by DJ spooky [the man so many critics love to diss] is back with more interesting work - this time making us very ill-at-ease with a cut that seems to sound like a cd skipping and repeating. A very cutting piece I think. Spectre, at their best, here -sans lyrics - pumping out the gruesome dingy beats to gloomy effect - that make you FEEL Greenpoint Brooklyn. | |
| [12] "Marquee Moon" on Elektra / asylum 1977. I sometimes just spin something old to see if it holds up and this does in its own way. Television were out of time in their time and this means that perhaps in time they will be appreciated. Obscurity as proof of their value? | |