on 3/10/04 2:08 PM, chthonic at chthonic@chthonicstreams.com wrote:
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> From: "seeklektek" <eclectics@comcast.net>
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:54:28 -0800
>
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>> From: "chthonic"
>>> also, i think 'the sylvie and babs hi-fi companion' was a
> precursor
>>> to what people now call "plunderphonics".
>>
>>
>> Nah. John Oswald was doing the Mystery Tapes
>> way before any of that Stapleton stuff.
>
> hmm...it seems so, since a page i read dates his work from 1975
> (3 years prior to the first NWW and 10 years before "s&b").
>
> but were they actually released? anywhere stapleton could have
> heard them? the same page says "The first two plunderphonic
> releases, a 1988 EP and a 1989 full-length CD", which would
> place those releases after the NWW LP.
>
> it also says "Mystery Tapes, a series of compilation cassettes
> resembling aural magazines, offering a collage of music, voices,
> and sound...Sound sources were taken out of context, voices were
> removed from their associated faces, and songs were presented
> on their own merit."
>
goodly-nice props to Oswald....even so, Stapleton's own work is an homage to
Dada in as much as lp and songs titles reflect. Still nice to hear about
this other guy tho.
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