"The Evolution Control Committee (The ECC) is an experimental music band based in San Francisco. The ECC was founded by Mark Gunderson (a.k.a. TradeMark G.) in Columbus, Ohio, in 1987. It typically uses uncleared and illegal samples from various sources as a form of protest against copyright law. The ECC also produces numerous audio experiments, such as the disfiguring of compact discs in live performance, known as "CDestruction", and has produced a few video works as well, ranging from re-edited 50's corporate shorts to a Teddy Ruxpin reciting the works of William S. Burroughs. Other activities include culture jamming.
They are one of the pioneers of the mash-up or bootleg, where two or more songs are mixed together into a new track. According to Neil Strauss in the New York Times, "...many musical observers trace the official beginnings of the British bootleg scene to The Evolution Control Committee, which in 1993 mixed a Public Enemy a cappella with music by Herb Alpert." These are the now-classic "Public Enemy/Whipped Cream Mixes", with Public Enemy's inflammatory raps, "By the Time I Get To Arizona" and "Rebel Without a Pause" overdubbed onto instrumentals by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
The ECC is probably best known for its song "Rocked by Rape", consisting of samples of Dan Rather's deadpan delivery describing various atrocities over looped riffs from AC/DC's "Back in Black". This work brought legal threats against The ECC by CBS, but by 2003, CBS appears to have let the issue go by. "Rocked by Rape" was nationally broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered in 2000[1]. It was even played at a roast for Rather, which was later broadcast on C-SPAN.
The ECC Logo.Since 2000, Gunderson has performed his works on stage through an electronic instrument of his own invention: "The Thimbletron." It is made of a pair of gloves with ten thimbles attached at the ends of the fingers, which are then wired to a laptop computer. As the thimbles are touched together, the laptop in turn plays a different sound sample. Gunderson claims that the device uses "thimbletronium energy" and warns that "thimbletronic radiation can leak unexpectedly due to a mishap during a live performance. The audience is advised to attend Thimbletron performances at their own risk." Gunderson has also modified a bread toaster in a similar fashion, with each depression of a lever playing a sample."
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Wonderful experimental cut-up music here!This is their first ever release,one side is their first ever live show and the other one early studio recordings. Don't miss it!
Great release from Konduktor records.This 40 minutes tape contains great minimal synth/experimental tracks,blended with a claustrophobic feeling .Reminds much Clock DVA early recordings, Voice of America era Cabaret Voiltaire,etc.Incredible!
Great improvisation folkish tape by this great Swedish band that exosts from 1971 .Connections with TRAD GRAS & STENAR.Anyone who can provide their first lp?
Here is the much desired by many friends of the blog collaboration of Arthur Brown and Craig Leon from 1984.Great minimal synth /psych blended with the crazed out Arthur Brown vocals.
"The Philadelphia-based noise rock collective Temple of Bon Matin sounds like early Hawkwind jamming with Glenn Branca's guitar orchestra, to the accompaniment of an extremely busy construction site. Their near-atonal freakouts are as challenging and uncompromising as rock music gets, but they have enough dynamics and compositional ideas to make their records more than simple exercises in repetition and annoyance.
"This is the first solo album from sometime Tony Wakeford collaborator Tor Lundvall. Ice is a direct progression from his earlier collaboration with the said Mr Wakeford Leaves Of Autumn. Frozen Moon, Ice, Star Cathedral, Despair & Precious Angel are some of the tracks that make up the 19 contained within this release. This release is a fine example of the dark twisted ambient sounds that Lundvall can call from the darkest recesses of his mind. Dark yet truly beautiful, I cannot recommend this release enough. "
Excellent experimental home recordings contributed by Adam (thanks!).Would really appeal to any fan of early Tuxedomoon,Renaldo and the loaf,Snakefinger, Residents! Too much underrated!
"The band was formed by vocalist David R. Edwards and instrumentalist T. Wyn Davies in 1982, with instrumentalist Patricia Morgan joining in 1985.[1] Edwards' lyrics were almost entirely in the Welsh language.[1] After four cassette-only releases on Casetiau Neon, the band had their first vinyl release in 1987 on Anhrefn Records, with the "Hugr-Grawth-Og" single, which was picked up by John Peel and led to a session being recorded for his BBC Radio 1 show (the first of five such sessions). The band's first album, Wyau (Eggs), was released in 1988, and was followed two years later with Pyst (Post) on the Ofn label. Davies left in 1990 and the group continued as a duo for a while, before being augmented by a series of musicians, notably drummer Al Edwards. Moving to Ankst Records, the Christmas-themed Blwch Tymer Tymor cassette was issued in 1991. Edwards collaborated with Ty Gwydr and Llwybr Llaethog on the 1992 album LL.LLV T.G. MC DRE, before releasing a final Datblygu album in 1993 with Libertino.[1] After a single, "Alcohol"/"Amnesia" in 1995, the band split up.
"The Evolution Control Committee (The ECC) is an experimental music band based in San Francisco. The ECC was founded by Mark Gunderson (a.k.a. TradeMark G.) in Columbus, Ohio, in 1987. It typically uses uncleared and illegal samples from various sources as a form of protest against copyright law. The ECC also produces numerous audio experiments, such as the disfiguring of compact discs in live performance, known as "CDestruction", and has produced a few video works as well, ranging from re-edited 50's corporate shorts to a Teddy Ruxpin reciting the works of William S. Burroughs. Other activities include culture jamming.
After my long absence ,which will sadly be continued till i move and get organised in Germany, here's a new bunch of posts.Ton Lebbnink was the drummer of the legendary Nederlandish band ,Mecano.This is his 2nd private lp (first one was posted a while ago in the excellent No Longer Forgotten Music blog). Post punk experimentalism all through, not far from the early Mecano sound yet more abstract sounding. 
