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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 label's fifth anniversary.
Resources:
http://www.petsounds.a.la
http://www.hippocamp.net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Sounds