Sharebee bugs in new beta system preventing uploads tonight
Unfortunately, today's planned posts will now have to go up tomorrow, due to Sharebee's upload function crapping out tonight...
Unfortunately, today's planned posts will now have to go up tomorrow, due to Sharebee's upload function crapping out tonight...
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Due to computer meintenance there will be no more posts by mutantsounds today.More new posts tomorow.
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Following Eric's post of Narwal LP,here comes a tape by this alter ego of De Fabriek.Unfortunately no pic sleeve scans.
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Excellent industrial/electronics compiltation from the legendary Sound Of Pig Music tape label.
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Dear friends
both problems were identified and were fixed.A new rar file containing both ,track 7 from UPPSALA and the missing track 7 from MAMMUT posts ,will be uploaded to sharebee as soon as it's upload service is back(this means few more hours due to upgrade and maintenance,so i guess late at night or early morning CET). Sorry for the incovenience ,i know mistakes like these give to enemies of the blog to accuse us....but at last,who cares about them.Thank you all for your support .
Jim Mutantsounds
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Trying to explain why this record is such a cornerstone item for me is gonna be something of a feat, as Departmentstore Santas' M.O. is an entirely elusive one. There's a certain guilelessness to the way experimentation is undertaken by this L.A. outfit, a kind of naif art brut, albeit one without the cloyingly cutesy overlay of, for instance, Jad Fair's work. Incredible pop smarts are secreted away in offhand gestures and art damaged jams erupt in the least likely places in Departmentstore Santas' mercurial shoebox universe, giving them a certain frisson I thought was exclusive to L.A. equally hermetic (if more acknowledged) Decayes.
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This ecstatic funkified jazzy prog masterpiece is operating in such extraordinary aesthetic proximity to Canada's Contraction/Franck Dervieux/Ville Emard Blues Band axis, it's almost eerie. Of those, Toubabou's muse is closest to Contraction insofar as Lise Cousineau's gloriously moany vocal histrionics are the mirror image of Contraction's Christiane Robichaud's. No small thing that, as this very particular style of vocals is some of the most beautiful and emotionally charged of any I've ever heard. Just glorious. Musically, this is deeply nuanced and frequently wildly driving stuff, not least due to the massed percussion onslaught that underpins much of Attente. One of my favorites ever from one of the world's great unacknowledged musical undergrounds.
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Posted by vdoandsound at 6:46 PM 4 comments
This severely underrated Canadian post-industrial unit (soon to evolve into Empirical Sleeping Consort) mates an exceedingly Nurse With Wound-like approach to surrealism to a Leichenschrei-era SPK dead chill in a seriously accomplished fashion. This one's stood the test of time far better than most others from this era. Top notch weirdity!
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Super nutty plunderphonically oriented group improvs featuring dada audio collagist Rik Rue and winds player Jim Denley and stitched in crazy quilt stylee around the snarky ruminations of lead vocalist (though narrator comes closer) Sherre Delys. Highly entertaining work.
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Posted by vdoandsound at 6:42 PM 2 comments
This French outfit (who would later morph into madcap electronica mavens Dat Politics) were, circa 1997, trafficing in some very enticing chilly, austere experimentation that hovers on the edge of rock motion in a decidedly This Heat fashion, something which places them very close to both Jim O'Rourke's 90's unit Brise-Glace and Germany's Village Of Savoonga.
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Following my previous post of Marie And The Atom tape,here comes their 2 e.p.s released by Flying Nun records,and this completes their discography.Residentesque experimentation mixed with crazed out circus music,hints of jazzy impovisations pop-ish wave ballads in a dark ,stressed,sometimes epic mood....in parts the "Larks tongues in aspic" era King Crimson influence makes it's appearance. While 1985 e.p is mostly instrumental,the 1983 one is vocls oriented and generally speaking more musically approachable(well,in terms of how approchable an experimental recording can be....consider it something like Residents Not Avaliable era popish experimentation).
Sorry no pic sleeve scans.Help anyone?
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Morphogenesis started recording in January 1985 and our first public performance was at the West Square Festival in London in July '85. The group was formed by a group of people interested in exploring the possibilities of live electronic music and collective improvisation. Its members have diverse musical backgrounds - Ron teaches music technology at Morley College, Adam runs a club for impovised music, Roger wrote books and articles on new music, and we have all played in a variety of other groups ranging from Roger's involvement in Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orchestra in the 60's, to Clive G's studio work with Nurse With Wound in the 80's and Mike's live and recorded work with Organum in the 90's. Additionally, Adam and Mike are both engaged in solo music production. Clive G. and Mike both have their own CD labels (Paradigm Discs and Mycophile respectively), and Clive G. also has a regular show on Resonance FM each week (playlists for Sound Poets Exposed).
The groups aim is to unify and integrate many diverse sound elements, (electronic, vocal, instrumental and environmental) within a context of continual formal evolution and group dialogue. We construct our own instruments in addition to using adapted or prepared conventional instruments - usually violin, piano and acoustic guitar. The range of timbres is further extended by means of filtering and other forms of signal processing. Contact microphones are used to amplify the sounds of bubbling water and other small sounds. All these accoustic sounds are enhanced by electronic filtering etc. One electronic instrument we use is a bioactivity translator which is used to measure the voltage potential of living organisms - including plants, fungi, and the human nervous system - and translate the biological rhythms into electronic sound. Other electronic instruments include a 4 speed portable reel to reel tape recorder and a multi speed CD player, both of which are used to explore short sounds. We do not use laptops or lengthy pre-recorded material.
Concert appearances include 2 concerts in Brussels, a WDR recording at the Stadtgarten in Cologne and numerous London concerts, including performances at the LMC festival, The Spitz, The Royal Festival Hall foyer, the Air Gallery and in July 2000 we supported Sonic Youth at the Shepherds Bush Empire. More recently, in 2003 we have played at the Podewil in Berlin and at Instants Chavirés in Paris. Interviews have appeared in EST, Resonance, Audion and Avant, while feature articles have appeared in The Wire and The London Magazine. An online article appeared in March 2005 at Perfect Sound Forever.
From:http://www.stalk.net/paradigm/morphogenesis.htm
in this recording Morphogenesis were:Adam Bohman, prepared violin, balalaika, objects; Ron Briefel, electronics, sound projection; Fred Sansom, prepared guitar, electronics; Clive Hall, percussion, piano; Michael Prime, water machine, radio, strings, electronics and sound projection; Roger Sutherland, percussion, piano, strings. Recorded in 1986 ,released in 1997 on CD by Mycophile records.
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Deeply tripped higher key sonic investigations from the Bourlier brothers, both known more from their work in the NWW-list and Futura label unit Horde Catalitique Pour Le Fin. All sounds included here are from self-made or modified instruments, the overall approach coming off like an acid informed Lasry/Baschet recording by way of Limbus 3/4.
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Quietly gorgeous French jazzy prog of a very airy, languid and spacious sort, often focused around the wistful cello work of Jean-Francois Capon, whose devastating outfit Baroque Jazz Trio recently had their one eponymous album reissued. One of France's great undiscovered treasures.
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Gripping cheap, raw and nasty Neue Deutsche Welle synth-punk-into-post-industrial fuckery from Tommi Eckardt of the stunning NDW unit Gorilla Aktiv. Spielt Auf!" was originally released as a tape in miniscule quantities and was finally made available again (for about 5 minutes) via this 100 copy LP reissue.
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The deft collaboration between Gunter Reznicek and Felix Kubin that comprises the A side of this split 10" takes the combined aesthetic templates of these two avant electronica avatars in a decidedly more austere and chilly direction than normally anticipated from either of these sonic pranksters (though still leaving room for the occasional ridiculous robot vocal) in a way thats tensely Tietchens-y. Mark Mancha's two remixes of Ipsomat Legrand that occupy side B winningly rejigger the source into something equally wonky yet remote.
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Beserko Japanese avant prog bombast whose Bondage Fruit cum Happy Family approach is offset by a curious funkiness and, for better or worse (or both simultaneously) dominated by the screw-loose jibber-jabber verbal diarrhea fits of Emi Elionola, whose in-your-face approach is a decidedly acquired taste and which in the wrong context can be deadly (see how she tanked Ruins' Symphonica album with her schtick). To these set of ears, such is not the case with Demi Semi Quaver. If anything, all these years on from this scenes' heyday, Demi Semi Quaver's endearing looniness make them something of a high water mark for avant prog of that era. Note: this lengthy CD has been divided into two parts.
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Licht was born in New Jersey in 1968. His earliest musical influences, in the 1970s, were mainstream rock bands like the Bee Gees and Wings—he remarks in an interview with Paris Transatlantic magazine that 'What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.' Later, in school, he listened to punk and no wave bands like Mission of Burma, Hüsker Dü and Sonic Youth. However, his musical trajectory was set when his guitar teacher gave him a copy of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, which would lead to his discovery of other minimalist music. Licht majored in Film Studies at Vassar College in New York. Since the 1980s, he has worked and recorded with the bands Lovechild and then Run On, and with other avant-garde musicians including Jim O'Rourke, Rudolph Grey, Loren Mazzacane Connors, and La Monte Young. He has also recorded several solo albums.Licht's music draws on a wide range of different styles, from tape-loops, to noisy guitar (sometimes using a prepared instrument), to pure pop music.
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These records were published; In Celebration of the Centennial of the Chartering of Mills Collage 1885-1985. A selection of works featuring composers and performers from the Mills Collage Music Department and Center for Contemporary Music.
Includes compositions by: Elinor Armer, Robert Ashley, David Behrman, Luciano Berio, Anthony Braxton, Dave Brubeck, Howard Brubeck, Janice Giteck, Anthony Gnazzo, Lou Harrison, Katrina Krimsky, Darius Milhaund, Pandit Pran Nath, Paurine Oliveros, Maggi Payne, Larry Polansky, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, David Rosenboom, Ramon Sender, Morton Subotnik, "Blue" Gene Tyranny.
Cover: b/w with a print of The Critic Sees by Jasper Johns!
The Mills College Music Department and Center for Contemporary Music are proud to present this three-record set, released in celebration of the chartering of Mills College as a degree-granting institution in 1885. Since that time the Mills College Music Department has gained an international reputation for excellence in composition, performance and historical studies combined with innovation in contemporary musical media.
These records contain a mere sampling of the wealth of music that has emanated from Mills College during the last one hundred years. Most of the composers and performers represented are current or former faculty or students at Mills. The list of accomplished musicians responsible for the Mills reputation is very, very long. Regrettably, many of these world-class composers and performers are not included in this collection. This is due to limitations of space or circumstances of logistics and time and not to any evaluative, editorial judgements. We hope, however, that this collection will comprise an important historical and archival document and will help continue Mills' long-standing contribution to the evolution of American music.
The composers and performers represented on this album have donated their efforts and their music for this limited edition project. To them we express our deepest gratitude. Without their generosity and assistance this album would never have been possible. We also wish to acknowledge past Heads of the Mills Music Department whose tireless efforts and careful support were required to keep Mills in the forefront of contemporary music. In particular, many of the composers represented in this anthology came to Mills during the tenure of Margaret Lyon, who served as Head from 1955 to 1979. This tradition was continued by Susan Summerfield (1979-1984) and David Rosenboom (1984-present) and remains vital today.
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Following Jim's post of DG 307 material a little while back, here a sample of what these ferocious Czech dissident freaks were getting up to some years earlier. This is raw low-fi gutteral belching and growling avant rock of a variety so brutish, grimy and primitive, it makes The Plastic People sound like Abba. It frankly beggars disbelief that this was recorded during the years stated. Highly fascinating, warts and all.
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All previous Vas Deferens Organization and related project posts on Mutant Sounds can be found below with new links.