Heh, actually no I havent heard the Rex album.
Are really great IDM remix album was released on
Input/Output records (reviewed here:
http://www.staticbeats.com/reviews.php?id=45) but it
appears their link is dead.
Tracklisting:
==============
1. Duc: She's Lost Control by Joy Division
2. Sensor Array - Homeopathy by Rainer Maria
3. Franz K. - Girls Just Want to Have Fun by Cyndi
Lauper
4. Glitch and Openbless*a*me - The Custom Concern by
Modest Mouse
Shimone/Justes
http://www.staticbeats.com
Electronic Music > Digital Culture
http://www.jungle-life.com
San Francisco Society Arts Music Culture Events
--- will terry <autobahn_01@hotmail.com> wrote:
quoted 202 lines to be fair no i havent, I kind of thought that after
> to be fair no i havent, I kind of thought that after
> reading the email back
> that I had sent. Im off to find it now.
> Have you heard the the 'If I was Prince@ album on
> rex records i was
> referring too. Absolutely abysmal. Nice artwork,
> Shite album
>
> >From: StaticBeats <stupidnametaken@yahoo.com>
> >To: Intolerable Daily Madness <idm@hyperreal.org>
> >Subject: Re: [idm] Internet Musicians Adopt 'Pet
> Sounds'
> >Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:37:14 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Have you had a chance to hear the Pet Sounds album?
> >It's far from a re edit or even an attempt. It's
> much
> >more tongue-in-cheek than all that and imo there's
> >only really 2 tracks off the whole thing that
> qualify
> >as a proper remix or even listenable (im pretty
> well
> >over the whole squelching noise experiments)
> >
> >
> >Shimone/Justes
> >http://www.staticbeats.com
> >Electronic Music > Digital Culture
> >http://www.jungle-life.com
> >San Francisco Society Arts Music Culture Events
> >
> >--- will terry <autobahn_01@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > dunno if anyone has heard the prince album that
> was
> > > remixed or re made in a
> > > similar vein featuring artists like capitol K
> etc
> > > but Im really not sure
> > > that this sort of thing even needs to be done.
> What
> > > are we doing by
> > > attempting to re edit work of this calibre for a
> > > modern ear, music like this
> > > doesnt have to be re edited to be made to sound
> > > modern, it sounds it anyway,
> > > thats why it is still so revered.
> > > I dunno, a lot of the more hard edged IDM stuff
> can
> > > take tunes ironicly or
> > > however the artist wants to use them but its
> often
> > > done with severity that
> > > gives it a bit of honesty.
> > > I dunno im starting to waffle but you get the
> idea.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >From
> > >
> > > : dolmensniper@free.fr
> > > >To: "idm@hyperreal.org" <idm@hyperreal.org>
> > > >Subject: [idm] Fwd: RHIZOME_RAW: Internet
> Musicians
> > > Adopt 'Pet Sounds'
> > > >Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 18:25:51 +0200
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >(?.?'?(?.?'? `'?.?)`' ?.?)
> > > >?.??
> > > >( `?.?
> > > >`?.? )
> > > >?.?)?
> > > >(.??
> > > >`*.
> > > >*.
> > > >shooting yourself in the balls is not the way
> to
> > > have a happy life
> > > >
> > > >http://dolmensniper.motime.com/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >----- Forwarded message from Greg Smith
> > > <greg.smith@utoronto.ca> -----
> > > > Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 12:21:51 -0700
> > > > From: Greg Smith <greg.smith@utoronto.ca>
> > > >Reply-To: Greg Smith <greg.smith@utoronto.ca>
> > > > Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Internet Musicians
> Adopt
> > > 'Pet Sounds'
> > > > To: list@rhizome.org
> > > >
> > > >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
>
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