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Re: [idm] MR.MUTT // The Forbidden 80s // Compilation
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this marks the 7th time this message has shown up in my e-mail. peace, a On Apr 11, 2005, at 3:54 AM, TU M' wrote:
quoted 329 lines THE FORBIDDEN 80s> THE FORBIDDEN 80s > Compilation > > > > > > ARTIST VARIOUS ARTISTS > TITLE THE FORBIDDEN 80s > LABEL MR.MUTT > CAT.NO. MR001 > FORMAT CD > RELEASE APRIL 2005 > EDITION 1000 > DURATION 57'21'' > > > > With > > 01 JASON FORREST "Leg Warners" > 02 BETRIEB "Bubiacid" > 03 MINAMO "FM Tokyo" > 04 STENO "Talk" > 05 SERGEJ MOHNTAU "Life Ain't Always The Way" > 06 SCANNER "Glittery Plastic" > 07 GREG DAVIS "Sailing" > 08 TU M' "Polaroid 84" > 09 STEPHAN MATHIEU "Heller Raum" > 10 HDJ TOM "Play.Stop.Rew.FF." > 11 MAPSTATION "Digikal Masters" > 12 SOGAR "Nichts Zählt In Kleinen Mengen" > 13 NATHAN MICHEL "Suds" > > > > > > > INFO ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Over the past few years, mentioning music from the eighties, > and particularly electronic pop and its many derivations, > has been considered a sort of taboo, something you should > really be ashamed of. As a result, we have learnt to > secretly disguise the enjoyment of listening to certain > songs, sing along to the words under our breaths, lower our > voices even more when the wind of radical cutting-edge > criticism, which has conceitedly liquidated certain > intuitions of 80s pop, is perceived around us. However, if > we take a look at the music produced since the turn of the > century, it becomes evident that these intuitions have > revealed themselves very important if not fundamental in > contemporary music production. The 80s have influenced > electronic music more than what one can believe, through the > rediscovery of melody, the airiness of certain formal > solutions, the reintegration of rhythmic and enveloping > melodies... If you like it or not (and although many tend > not to recognise it) electronic music has absorbed the > influences of the 80s, that is to say that nuances of 80s > pop are recognisable within contemporary electronic music > and its mechanisms of composition, as if inherited. This is > undeniable and becomes even more evident if we merely > consider the number of composers who have reintroduced voice > into music, hidden between the abstract digital samplings > created on laptops. The musicians who have taken part in > this compilation have probably unconsciously tapped into the > memory of the forbidden 80s, making it re-emerge under the > tepid light of their computers, with an eye towards > contemporaneity yet conscious of their past. > > All tracks is Unreleased and Created > only for the concept of Compilation. > > > > > > > > ARTISTS INFO ---------------------------------------------- > > > > JASON FORREST > Jason Forrest makes music under the moniker Donna Summer. > He has released records in the US, the UK, EU, and Japan. > He has been featured in periodicals such as The Wire, XLR8R, > Crash, Muzik, The Village Voice, Go mag, Grooves, De:Bug, > and Vice. His music is a combination of stadium rock, 70's > disco, electro-acoustics and hair metal. His live shows are > intense participatory events of fast music, bad dancing, and > the occasional shattered laptop. His albums is released on > Sonig and Irritant. > www.cockrockdisco.com > > > > BETRIEB > Betrieb, wellknown for his work on KLANG ELEKTRONIK, as > Autopoieses on Mille Plateaux, his Ekkehard Ehlers Plays... > series on Staubgold and März on Karaoke Kalk. Betrieb signs > his digital sound-sketches sometimes very concrete and rock, > sometimes kind of abstract, in a classical music style, > sometimes more playful, simply following his very own > interpretation of DeepHouse. > www.autopoieses.de/betrieb > > > > MINAMO > In 1999, the electro-acoustic group Minamo was formed by > Keiichi Sugimoto and Tetsuro Yasunaga. In 2000, Minamo's > self-released CD-R "wakka" was reissued by the New York > label Quakebasket. This was selected Matmos' one of best > sounds in 2001 on Wire magazine. In 2001, made first > appearance in New York. Yuiichiro Iwashita (guitar) and > Namiko Sasamoto (sax, organ) has joined. In 2002, first CD > album ".kgs" has released by the Tokyo label 360 records. > Made first appearance in Chicago. "Superb Japanese > experimental group"(Chicago Readers). Forthcoming album: > SHINING (12K) out in march, 2005. > www.12k.com / www.mr-mutt.com > > > > STENO > STENO is a new Trio formed by Frank Metzger (Ex Oval) plus > Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli (TU M'). Their work > is focused on the world of CD-Skipping-Glitch-Pop-Music. The > STENO debut album will be released on the prestigious > Art-Vinyl Records EN/OF. > http://tu-m.com/STENO > > > > SERGEJ MOHNTAU > Sergej Mohntau was conceived in 1999 by Jürgen Berlakovich > and Thomas Pfeffer. Concerts and performances are based on a > combination of music, speech, gestures, and optical > impressions which result in a special form of music theatre. > Sergej Mohntau uses computer manipulations to transform > noises generated from objects not usually associated with > music into musical sounds--and thus transforms the objects > themselves into instruments. Figures such as the e-window > and the rubber glove bagpipes, the jack-of-all-trades double > bass, manipulated human voices, body parts, battery run toys > and selfmade computers all play both visual and acoustical > roles in our performances. The result is a common sound > generated from both analog and digital sources which is > encased in a dramaturgical concept based on the animality of > the body, mechanics, electricity, and electronics. > www.sergejmohntau.net > > > > SCANNER > Scanner - British sound artist, Robin Rimbaud - creates > absorbing, multi-layered soundscapes that twist technology > in unconventional ways. His controversial early work used > scanned mobile phone conversations which he wove into his > compositions, and more recently his focus has shifted to > trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the > symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed > contacts emerge. Winning admiration from Bjork and > Stockhausen, Scanner is committed to working with cutting > edge practitioners and has collaborated with musicians Bryan > Ferry and Laurie Anderson, Rambert Dance and Random Dance > Company, writers David Toop and Simon Armitage, the artist > Mike Kelley, among many others. As well as producing > compositions and audio CDs, his diverse body of work > includes soundtracks for films, performances, radio, and > site-specific intermedia installations. > www.scannerdot.com / www.mr-mutt.com > > > > GREG DAVIS > Greg Davis is a musician based in Chicago. As an > undergraduate at DePaul University in Chicago, Greg Davis > studied classical and jazz guitar alongside composition and > jazz studies. At the moment work for the integration of > laptop processing and acoustic instrumentation for label > like Carpark, Kranky... > www.autumnrecords.net > > > > TU M' > Italian duo TU M' - Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli, > whose moniker is taken from Marcel Duchamp's last painting > "Tu m'" - have deservedly risen to prominence recently with > celebrated works on Phthalo, Fallt, Cut, ERS/Staalplaat. > Frequent collaborators - they have released works with Steve > Roden and recently formed a new group titled 'Steno' with > Frank Metzger (ex Oval) - the duo also have numerous tracks > on compilations like Apestaartje, Bottrop Boy, > CubicFabric... In addition to their work as musicians, > Polidoro and Romanelli work as Video Artists and curate both > the web-based label Tu M'p3 and label Mr.Mutt Records. > www.tu-m.com / www.mr-mutt.com > > > > STEPHAN MATHIEU > Stephan Mathieu is an electronic musician from Saarbruecken, > Germany. Starting out as a drummer in various improvised > contexts he made the switch to working mainly with computers > in the late 90's. Since then he has released a string of > highly acclaimed recordings on labels like Ritornell, > Orthlorng Musork, Häpna and Headz. From his interest in > design and work with installations he has acquired a > fine-tuned sense of form. His music is based on recordings > of acoustic instruments and esotheric software processes. > www.bitsteam.de > > > > HDJ TOM > Tamas Szoke aka Hdj Tom was born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1968. > He made music by himself, with others, in different groups. > In 1995 he and his friend, Golden Sztaniol formed The Golden > Army band.Their first and second album came out in 2000 > (Egomachine) and 2001(Masters), released by UCMG/Ugar > records. Hdj Tom's first solo album, "Taste" was released in > 2003 at American records Inflatabl Labl. In 2005 Hdj Tom > founded "HDJCDR" mini label, which released his new album > "True of False". > www.hdjtom.hu > > > > MAPSTATION > Stefan Schneider lives and works in Duesseldorf. Member of > Düsseldorf/Berlin trio TO ROCOCO ROT.Recording as Mapstation > since 1999. Records on: Staubgold, Domino, Karaoke Kalk... > Mapstation's music is closer to minimalist techno, but > brings the euphoria of the genre together with charming > slow-downs of pace and bpm. > www.mapstation.de > > > > SOGAR > Jürgen Heckel, also known as Sogar, was born in Nuremberg in > 1970 and has been living in Paris for 10 years. Thus Jürgen > manipulates accidental sounds to create light and fragile > melodic textures. The sources of these arrangements are > guitars as well as sounds from mixing consoles, amplifiers, > cables or other aural finds. These sounds are then reworked > on a computer to become a music made of cracklings, > creakings and rich melodic oscillations exploring the > extremes of the sound spectrum by associating acoustic > technique and software. His work is released on 12k and > Mr.Mutt. > www.12k.com / www.mr-mutt.com > > > > NATHAN MICHEL > Nathan Michel makes music in both the classical and rock > traditions. His debut album of melodic, lo-fi electronic > music entitled abc def was released in 2002 on Tigerbeat6 > records, and he performs live with computer, keyboards, > voice, and other instruments. Currently a Ph.D. composition > fellow at Princeton University, Nathan has also studied with > Elliott Schwartz at Bowdoin College, with Louis Andriessen > in Amsterdam, and at Yale University with Ezra Laderman and > Martin Bresnick. Recognition for his work has come from > Yale, Bowdoin, ASCAP, and the American Academy of Arts and > Letters from whom he received a 2002 Charles Ives > Scholarship. His interests range from the concision and > rhythmic vitality of Stravinsky to the poetic ramblings of > Captain Beefheart, and some things in between. Dear Bicycle, > Nathan's second record for Tigerbeat6 was released in July > 2003, and a recording of his live performances entitled > Trebly will be out October 2003 on the Italian label Mr. > Mutt. A new album for 2005 coming out on Skipp/Sonig. > www.nathanmichel.com / www.mr-mutt.com > > > > > > ORDER ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > Buy your copy via PayPal from MR.MUTT MiniStore > http://www.tu-m.com/mrmutt/mini_store.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > > > MR.MUTT > www.mr-mutt.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >
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