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
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