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
>
>
Andrew Jones
912 Euclid Ave.
Birmingham, AL, 35213 U.S.A.
cell: 407-927-7607 || skype: aljones15
blog: dignifieddevil.blogspot.com ---- aim: liminal18
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org