Have you had a chance to hear the Pet Sounds album?
It's far from a re edit or even an attempt. It's much
more tongue-in-cheek than all that and imo there's
only really 2 tracks off the whole thing that qualify
as a proper remix or even listenable (im pretty well
over the whole squelching noise experiments)
Shimone/Justes
http://www.staticbeats.com
Electronic Music > Digital Culture
http://www.jungle-life.com
San Francisco Society Arts Music Culture Events
--- will terry <autobahn_01@hotmail.com> wrote:
quoted 202 lines dunno if anyone has heard the prince album that was
>
> dunno if anyone has heard the prince album that was
> remixed or re made in a
> similar vein featuring artists like capitol K etc
> but Im really not sure
> that this sort of thing even needs to be done. What
> are we doing by
> attempting to re edit work of this calibre for a
> modern ear, music like this
> doesnt have to be re edited to be made to sound
> modern, it sounds it anyway,
> thats why it is still so revered.
> I dunno, a lot of the more hard edged IDM stuff can
> take tunes ironicly or
> however the artist wants to use them but its often
> done with severity that
> gives it a bit of honesty.
> I dunno im starting to waffle but you get the idea.
>
>
>
>
> >From
>
> : dolmensniper@free.fr
> >To: "idm@hyperreal.org" <idm@hyperreal.org>
> >Subject: [idm] Fwd: RHIZOME_RAW: Internet Musicians
> Adopt 'Pet Sounds'
> >Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 18:25:51 +0200
> >
> >
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> >shooting yourself in the balls is not the way to
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> >
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> >
> >
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> >
> >----- Forwarded message from Greg Smith
> <greg.smith@utoronto.ca> -----
> > Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 12:21:51 -0700
> > From: Greg Smith <greg.smith@utoronto.ca>
> >Reply-To: Greg Smith <greg.smith@utoronto.ca>
> > Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Internet Musicians Adopt
> 'Pet Sounds'
> > To: list@rhizome.org
> >
> >Internet Musicians Adopt 'Pet Sounds'.
> >
> >A group of internet-based electronic musicians are
> celebrating the
> >anniversary of the release of the classic Beach
> Boys album 'Pet
> >Sounds' by remixing it for the 21st Century. The
> album, titled
> >'Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds', comes from
> contributors to acclaimed net
> >label Hippocamp.net. Each track from the original
> album has been
> >reconstructed by a different artist, creating an
> album as diverse and
> >inventive as the original.
> >
> >In a project similar to DJ Dangermouse's
> controversial 'The Grey
> >Album' (which spliced rapper Jay-Z's vocals with
> the music of the
> >Beatles), 'Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds' takes the
> original Beach Boys
> >vocals for each track and creates new musical
> landscapes for them.
> >Comprising styles ranging from electro-pop via
> glitchcore and ambient
> >to all-out avant-garde, this release demonstrates
> that art cannot be
> >stifled in an era of closely guarded copyrights and
> litigious record
> >companies.
> >
> >"The idea came from Hippocamp contributor Blue
> T-Shirt", explains
> >fellow contributor Martin Bryant (AKA The Star
> Fighter Pilot). "We
> >wanted to do something interesting and new with an
> album that
> >regularly tops 'Best album ever' polls. We wanted
> people to get a new
> >perspective on a classic.
> >
> >"Pet Sounds was originally released on May 16th
> 1966 and next year is
> >the 40th anniversary of its release. It made sense
> to us to release an
> >unconventional album at an unconventional time -
> its 39th
> >anniversary".
> >
> >The album is spreading across the internet via P2P
> (peer-to-peer)
> >networks and more information can be found at the
> website
> >http://petsounds.a.la
> >
> >
> >Background:
> >PET SOUNDS
> >
> >Critics and fans of popular music have long
> identified the 1966 album
> >Pet Sounds as a milestone of musical achievement.
> The circumstances
> >that birthed this masterpiece are well documented -
> the turmoil of the
> >Wilsons, within and without (especially Brian,
> tormented genius and
> >Pet Sounds mastermind); the band's disinterest in
> spearheading a
> >sophisticated-feeling musical revolution; and
> perhaps most
> >significantly, the indelible ripples cast over the
> future of pop music
> >as we were to know it.
> >
> >The music-loving public's fascination with Pet
> Sounds has increased as
> >its fingerprints continue to be discovered
> throughout the outer
> >reaches of the pop universe. The shadow cast by
> this monolithic album
> >looms over the discographies of all but the most
> accomplished
> >musicians of history, with the obvious exception of
> the Fab Four.
> >Indeed, the Beatles played a pivotal role in the
> genesis of Pet
> >Sounds; Prior to the landmark 1965 Beatles LP
> Rubber Soul, an album
> >was generally constructed as a collection of songs,
> usually padded
> >with mediocre b-sides. Legend has it that Brian was
> caught off-guard
> >by the completeness and cohesiveness of Rubber Soul
> and vowed to best
> >this accomplishment. The next few years pitted
> Brian Wilson pitted
> >against the Beatles (each of which had stopped
> touring at this point)
> >in a brief exchange of attempts to one-up each
> another, culminating in
> >the insurmountable achievement that was the Summer
> of Love's Sgt.
> >Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and sending Brian
> into a downward
> >spiral of depression and self-abuse in his attempts
> to best the
> >Beatles' undeniable masterwork.
> >
> >The story doesn't end there. the condensed version
> outlines Brian's
> >triumphant return to the top of his game; his
> well-received
> >re-creations of Pet Sounds on tour; and the
> completion of SMiLE, his
> >"teenage symphony to God" intended to trump Sgt.
> Pepper's. The year is
> >now 2005; the Wilson saga continues to unfold.
> Strangely enough,
> >however, the latest chapter in this story was
> written not by the man
> >himself, but a rag-tag group of electronic bedroom
> musicians hell-bent
> >on blowing his undisputed classic apart. Out of
> respect, of course.
> >Not to mention that there's something particularly
> thrilling about
> >taking a sledgehammer to something untouchable.
> >
> >
> >HIPPOCAMP.NET
> >Net label Hippocamp.net has been releasing
> experimental, mainly
> >electronic music since 2000. Based in Manchester,
> England but
> >releasing music from all over the world, Hippocamp
> distributes all its
> >releases as MP3 downloads free of charge. It has
> become a respected
> >site for finding new and unusual music of the
> highest quality.
> >'Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds' is released in the
> month of the net
>
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