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The premiere of Crank's "Wanton Phenomena" album (out on Germany's Mille Plateaux in mid to late March) is now online on Cognition Audioworks: http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition Crank is Danny Zelonky; he's worked with Juan Atkins on 2 tracks on the forthcoming Model 500 album (premiered in the same place), worked with Allen "Mannequin Lung" Avanessian as Trash Aesthetic, and also records as Low Res for Plug Research. Atkins and Zelonky CDs are currently up for grabs on Cognition Audioworks; deadline: next Wednesday Feb 24 8AM AST. Thanks. Andrew :) http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition

At 12:34 PM 2/19/99 -0400, you wrote:

quoted 14 lines The premiere of Crank's "Wanton Phenomena" album

> >The premiere of Crank's "Wanton Phenomena" album >(out on Germany's Mille Plateaux in mid to late March) >is now online on Cognition Audioworks: >http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition >Crank is Danny Zelonky; he's worked with >Juan Atkins on 2 tracks on the forthcoming >Model 500 album (premiered in the same place), >worked with Allen "Mannequin Lung" Avanessian >as Trash Aesthetic, and also records as Low Res >for Plug Research. Atkins and Zelonky CDs are currently >up for grabs on Cognition Audioworks; deadline: >next Wednesday Feb 24 8AM AST. >

I agree that the Crank album is great. I''ve been playing tracks from it on the inaudible show for several months so i guess you dont have the "World Premiere" on this one Andrew. : ) Here is the Recoreview I posted of it from back in November... . Crank: Wanton Phenomena cd (Mille Plateaux) Another new album from Danny Zelonky aka Low Res, this one being a reissue of sorts from his Phthalo label release of last year. This one has more of an organic & percussive sound to it than this recent Approximate Love Boat cd on Plug Research but don't let that frighten you at all. Wanton Phenomena contains twelve tracks of quality IDM that fits in nicely with recent releases from Solvent, Bola, Bannlust, Epy, and Lustmord vs Metalbeast. Expect haunting melodies over crunchy, often polyrhythmic percussion with just a touch of experimentalism. Another great release from Danny Z that should bring him the world recognition he deserves. 9/10 -->-Lance--- p.o. box 450715 westlake, ohio 44145 united states

Lance C McGannon wrote:

quoted 4 lines I agree that the Crank album is great. I''ve been

> I agree that the Crank album is great. I''ve been > playing tracks from it on the inaudible show > for several months so i guess you dont have the > "World Premiere" on this one Andrew. : )

Hi, Lance. After reading your response to my posting about the Crank premiere, I just wanted to clarify how these world premieres I'm doing work. (Like you, I too received a CDR of the Crank album (Mille Plateaux version of it, as opposed to the original version) and also have been playing it out since late '98, well before this forthcoming release date on Mille Plateaux in March.) The main thing about these Cognition Audioworks premieres is that they are done in such as way to benefit the artists, labels, and listeners, not so that I can say "hey, I'm playing it first" or anything like that. (Believe me, if I was into that, I would have played the Model 500 out in full and called it a world premiere the day I got it in the mail, instead I waited till everything was set up. anway...) These premieres are a lot of work, but because the artists, labels, and listeners appreciate them, I'm doing more. (In fact, some artists and labels are now asking me personally to do the world premieres because they appreciate the exposure.) The premieres are held approximately 3 weeks before commercial release and are online in RA in full for up to 7 days in order to give as many people as possible a chance to check out the release before it comes out. (I could have done this Crank premiere, for example, any time after I got the CDR, but because the premieres are done closer to release date in order to benefit the artists and the labels, the premiere was pushed back a couple of times; this tends to happen with most of the premieres, including the Stewart S. Walker that also went online today; Merrick told me he was pushing the release date back, so when he asked me to delay on doing the premiere by a week or two I pushed the premiere back in order to benefit his label and Stewart as well). They're not about a "I have a promo of this release, so if I play it all, that's a world premiere" either because I obtain permission from the labels to do these premieres and the artists (such as Danny Zelonky) and labels appreciate the exposure because they are promoted so that anyone who wants to can check them out, plus they're done close enough to release date that they're not forgotten about by the time the release is available, plus far enough in advance so they're more special than just playing the whole thing after it's out already. (I've been lucky enough to have a copy of the Super Collider album (from Vogel and Lidell) since September 98, for example, but have yet to get permission to do a world premiere, so I haven't done it and maybe won't be premiering it in full ever. I have been playing tracks from it here and there, (which would be previews, (or exclusive previews if no one else had played those yet)), but it won't be done as a world premiere (i.e played online in RA in full for a week) until permission is obtained (it's distributed by Sony in the end, so it's a lot of work ;) Wanted to premiere the Pole 2, for example, but Matador said they wouldn't be allowing anyone to do this kind of premiere, so not all companies are into it, but most are happy to have these world premieres done) Same thing for Daniel's Mad Monkey compilation; he's sent out the promos and myself and others with a copy will be playing selections before release; but Daniel has given me the goahead on doing the world premiere, so I'll be playing it online in full in RA for a week 3 weeks before release and calling it a world premiere even though selections have been played out elsewhere. Sometimes no one else has played anything anywhere from the releases I'm premiering, sometimes some of the tracks have been played. But it's sort of like setting a record and getting in Guiness; if you do a world record and there aren't any witnesses, it isn't considered a world record to Guiness. I do the same thing with the world premieres: I make the premiere as available as possible so that it really is, IMO and in the opinion of the artists and labels, a world premiere. Hope this makes sense. It's all about the music in the end, and I'm putting in the work with these premieres to best benefit that, not myself. Thanks. Andrew :) (PS I'm struggling over getting the Crank/Low Res feature written up for Magic Feet because the computer is fighting me every step of the way; I'm thus in a very foul mood and may have taken your post the wrong way. No offense is meant in this reply.)

At 01:46 PM 2/19/99 -0400, you wrote:

quoted 15 lines Lance C McGannon wrote:

>Lance C McGannon wrote: > >> I agree that the Crank album is great. I''ve been >> playing tracks from it on the inaudible show >> for several months so i guess you dont have the >> "World Premiere" on this one Andrew. : ) > >Hi, Lance. After reading your response to my posting >about the Crank premiere, I just wanted to clarify how these >world premieres I'm doing work. (Like you, I too received a >CDR of the Crank album (Mille Plateaux version of it, as >opposed to the original version) and also have been playing it >out since late '98, well before this forthcoming release date >on Mille Plateaux in March.) >

My comment was meant as a joke andrew not a criticism of what you do. -->-Lance--- p.o. box 450715 westlake, ohio 44145 united states