Hello out there fellow denizens of the glowing screen,
anybody interested in a little one-for-one ambient/techno/rave/trance/jungle tape swap?
I realize I'm risking incurring the somewhat justified wrath of the anti-bootleg faction. I promise
I will under no circumstances make more than two copies of any piece. Perhaps if a person likes the
sound of a release that has been taped from vinyl they will be more likely to go out and pick-up the
cd, thereby helping the recording company and artist. Hope so. I think with this genre exposure in
any form is helpful.
Ahhhh...... few things are more enjoyable than popping a great tape in the old walkman, perhaps
firing up a doobie or a cigar, and walking alone in the desert in the middle of nowhere. Hot sun
on my back, cold, dark beer in my hand, Nikon around my neck, sounds in my head.....
For these hedonistic romps, and others, the same old listened-to-em-a-thousand-times tapes won't do,
one must constantly have new, startling, amazing, groovin', thought provoking sounds to let ones
mind wander around in -and versa visa. Otherwise we might as well just tune in to the local crap-
effusing top 40 radio station, right?
So here's the deal, should you choose to accept it.
I send you some of my stuff, you send me some of yours. We each get new stuff for the price of
blank tapes and postage. None of that nasty $$$ need change hands.
Be warned, though, my friend, I have not yet entered the CD age. Spent the money on travel,
education, canoe, and a big can of mixed nuts. I've got a great Bang and Olufsen turntable and a
dual Yamaha tape deck, however, and I'll buy high grade 90 minute tapes. So everything will be
taped off well-kept vinyl or other tapes. Sound quality is as good as I can make it, being undigital
and all.
So let's get right down to it. Here's some of what I've got to offer:
Brian Eno/Harold Budd - Ambient #2 - The Plateaux of Mirror.
(nice)
Brian Eno - Ambient #4 - On Land. (with Bill Laswell, Jon Hassell, Dan Lanois,
etc.)
Brian Eno / Daniel Lanois / Roger Eno - Apollo, Atmospheres and Soundtracks. (very
quiet; written for film of Apollo missions by Al Reinert.)
Jon Hassell / Brian Eno - Possible Musics - Fourth World Vol.1.
A Gnomean Haigonaimean - " A Compilation of Fantasies Intoxication Concepts."
(includes cuts by Cranioclast, Max Eastley + David Toop, Le Syndicat, P16.D4, Brume,
Contraste, etc.)
Terry Riley / Kronos Quartet - Cadenza on the Night Plain. (some
really nice stuff here)
Chris & Cosey - Trance.
Chris Swansen - Album II. (1975. Moogs and frequency generators.
early, rare)
PGR - Cyclone par l'immobile habit?.
Psychick TV - Dead Cat and Kondole.
Organum - Sphyx Aeroplane Ari4.
Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack DeJohnette - Untitled. (jazzy,
dark, brooding)
Philip Glass - 1000 Airplanes on the Roof. ("soundtrack" to an unmade Sci-Fi movie.
Recorded in an airplane hangar in Germany.)
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi - Life out of Balance.
Sleep Chamber - Submit to Desire.
Musci - Venosta - Water Messages on Desert Sand.
David Silvian and Holger Czukay - Plight and Premonition.
Tangerine Dream - Rubicon.
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear.
David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir - Harmonic Meetings. (Great. Gregorian-type chants, some
percussion and those Tibetan monks who can make three vocal tones simultaneously. Recorded in
the abbey of Le Thoronet, France.)
Throbbing Gristle - Greatest Hits - Entertainment Through Pain.
Martin Denny - Exotica. (OK OK, this isn't really ambient or anything,
it's tacky 1960's Hawaiian lounge jazz, complete with bongos and sound effects. It's
rare, but is it cool? Throbbing Gristle dedicated their first compilation album
to Martin Denny.... Pretty much gone full circle. )
I also have a large number of taped broadcasts of the great ambient/techno/trance/general wierdness
shows on WZBC at Boston College. Good stuff but some of my play lists for these are not complete or
inaccurate. They feature Aphex Twin, Orb, Galaxy 500, Nick Drake, Legendary Pink Dots, Cranes,
William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Ken Nordeem, etc., etc.
Just describe what you're interested in and I'll do what I can to whip something tasty up for you.
I, myself would like to get hold of stuff like: Aphex Twin, Autechre, The Cranes, Orbital, Vidma,
Ordum Equitum Solus, Coil, The Orb, Bill Laswell, Terry Riley, FSOL, any idm or the like.
We can work something out. Let's do it!
Chaco Scotopian roux@cbr.med.harvard.edu
The one who squats at the end of the sky
is known as Engulfer-of-corpses
a giant in eagle form;
they say from his wings
comes the wind
of this world.
- Snorri Sturluson, Uppsala Codex, about 1320
translated from Icelandic by Jean I. Young