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b/art's Playlist for Maandag 18 Oktober 1999 (17.30- 19.00)
no. 34: Savvy Sounds Savored | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| Wreck This Mess Story (vocals only) #v03.o1299 | |
| The Dead Travel Fast (Nadja) | Simon Fisher Turner |
| Suite in C Major Sarabande (Bach) | Michael Bach |
| Ich Lausche Dem Rauschen | C-Schulz |
| Radio Emits Itself (the Minor Modulations Sections) | Black Sifichi vs b/art [1] |
| Security In Hand / Priorities Right | Financial Alternatives Networking, Inc. |
| Piste Cinq | The Atlas Project [2] |
| Night Tide | Scanner vs Scorn [3] |
| Ratchety Junk Wreck #11w23t97m | |
| Harjoitus Kaksi | Klänge |
| Daisy | Downtime |
| Falling (Frag / Fractal Mix) | Autechre vs Scorn [3] |
| Halleluhwail | Orb vs Can [4] |
| No Massive / Harmon Looproot | Black Star Liner [5] |
| TV Spot | Bruce Gilbert vs Can [4] |
| Massmedium | Holger Czukay |
| Future Days | Carl Craig / E.M.L.A.S. vs Can [4] |
| Hot / Sexy / WTM #1124.697 [suck them harder / own me] | |
| Guns & Bombs & Knives | Sofa Surfers [6] |
| Pony Express | Daddylonglegs [7] |
| Kyn [Original Version] | The Grief [8] |
| Radio Emits Itself (the Radio Caves In Sections) | Black Sifichi vs b/art [1] |
| Pnoom | Eno vs Can [4] |
| Earth Beat & Earth Dub | Slits |
| Baby Song | Raincoats |
| The Dice | Judy Nylon [9] |
| Jim On The Move | Lizzy mercier Descloux [10] |
| [1] 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 Radio 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. In April of 1999 I took these tapes to Paris to be remixed and mastered by DJ/producer, Black Sifichi. Here further incursions of freeplay sampled sources, shortwave and Paris radio signals were mixed in. The resulting 3-cd set, REI #1-3, are remixes by Black Sifichi & b/art. In September 1999 Sifichi produced volume 4, a variation on a theme. | |
| [2] Wechma, the second Atlas Project CD on Prikosnovenie [prikos@worldnet.fr http://www.multimania.com/prikos] is a stunning record of what the French call "topographiques sonores", a subtle and sublime disc that pulsates between the hidden vibrations of many musics both found and manufactured. As if soundings were made in countries without names. Predecessors might include Terre Thaemlitz, Holger Czukay, Zoviet France. Again, stunning disc. | |
| [3] "Ellipsis: Scorn" on Scorn/Earache is a series of remixes by Meat Beat Manifesto, Coil, Bill Laswell, Scanner, Autechre, PCM ... this form continues to interest me the way spontaneous hybridization of all nature and culture does because of the form's ability to surprise and give you the feeling that music is indeed a dialectical communion which in this way continues to explore the edges of music and sound. Mixed results here. | |
| [4] "Can: Sacrilege" on Mute http:www.mutelibtech.come/mute/ is a "vs" project of a more reverential nature. Also with mixed results but it seems the stakes were higher as Brion Eno explains in the guest artist liner notes "I always found the original better than what I'd done...A word of advice: if you want to make records for people to remix, make less brilliant records in the first place." A very interesting double cd, again with mixed results but this time it is because the stakes were so high and kitsch and trashing were not the issue or easy way out. With Eno, Bruce Gilbert, U.N.K.L.E., A Guy Called Gerald, System 7, Sonic Youth, The Orb and others... | |
| [5] "Trust-Belief-Love-Respect" Various Artists vs Reverend E.C.H.O. at Mombak City on Echo Beach http://www.echobeach.de One of the more intrepid labels stretching the beats and the entire sonic boundaries of dub beyond what ears have grown used to. I like the entire phenom of guest remixes because it forces up the anty and creates a discourse between the notes and beats that has a way of filtering out attitudes so that we are left with fresh sounds that might be called OTHER World Music with roots in the cosmos. This is a collection of head to head remixes of Tackhead, Groove Corporation, Dreadzone, Ruts DC vs Zion Train, Djins... | |
| [6] "TX 99: Recycling Moments" TripleX www.triplex.nl Is a sampler which presents some of the work of musical ensembles that will be participating in the adventurous conceptual performance festival in Amsterdam's Westergasfabriek, a recuperated gas works. This sampler offers highlights of what will happen at this year's delayed festival which manages to annually assemble some of the world's most interesting contemporary acts including performance and music. Among others: Bask, Bitonic, Funckarama, London Electricity, Sofa Surfers, Si-{Cut}.DB and others. | |
| [7] Mind the Gap #28 http:www.planetinternet.be/~gonzo.circus Gonzo Circus, a music journal in Dutch continues to do its exhausting coverage of the newest and most provocative developments in music. It continues to offer a monthly sampler which is among the most prolific and interesting promotional showcases for new music. this issue includes: Curd Duca, Scanner, Doug Wimbish, FreQ Nasty, Cabbage Boy and many more. | |
| [8] "Retrospection" is a limited edition collection of some of the Grief's http://www.multimania.com/norscq/ most interesting pieces. This was truly a band that did not get its proper due at the time. It was an interesting blend of bravado and subtlety, of rock energy and intrepid sonic investigation. It was in the same realm as the Young Gods or early Meat Beat Manifesto and Einsturzende Neubauten back in the late 80s. Produced by Norsq who also produced the excellent TICK by Black Sifichi & Negative Stencil. | |
| [9] "Pal Judy" by Judy Nylon on ROIR www.roir-usa.com the label famous for unearthing neglected gems has a true gem here although still not released on CD. Judy Nylon arguably was one of the most no-nonsense poetic and upright punkettes of a former time [80s]. Her skill was to lend sensuality an edge of menace without groping for silly (Lydia Lunch) camp and she was always adamant about control over her own work. Co-produced by Adrian Sherwood and Judy Nylon. When will someone reissue this on CD!? As well as look back and unearth her other work into a proper retrospective! | |
| [10] "PRESS Color" by Lizzy Mercier Descloux on Ze Records released in 1979 was much more interesting than the punk funk of label mate James Chance & the Contortions because it was full of poetry and Dada scat and sultry connivance. It was perhaps the best instant of white punk funk because it was hot funk mitigated by the sultry Astrid Gilberto-esque delivery - steamy and icy. Truly one of my faves and one of the greatest mysteries as to why she never broke it bigger. She also deserves a full-blown 3-CD retrospective. | |