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Mon, 16 May 2005 11:37:14 -0700 (PDT)
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Re: [idm] Internet Musicians Adopt 'Pet Sounds'
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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 > > > > > >(?.?'?(?.?'? `'?.?)`' ?.?) > >?.?? > >( `?.? > >`?.? ) > >?.?)? > >(.?? > >`*. > >*. > >shooting yourself in the balls is not the way to > have a happy life > > > >http://dolmensniper.motime.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > >----- 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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