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installation (3.46)
2. aimsong (1.20)
3. mooch (0.51)
4. setting traps (2.42)
5. yerah (1.05)
6. install (0.42)
7. - (2.38)
8. coda (0.12)
9. lp (1.36)
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This
is something of a departure from more recent stuff.
For a start, there's no guitars on it at all. And unlike
my other recent CDs it was done over a bunch of different
days and so it has kind of a mixed feel to it. Kinda
like a bag of Revels. So, some of this is good, and
some of it is, frankly, a waste of everybody's time.
The title track is something I really do like. It's
certainly my most successful non-guitar track, along
with maybe 'dice'. It actually went down quite well
amongst the select few who bother to listen to my shit,
and I'm quite proud of it. Tronica! 'mooch' is a demo
which I never bithered to finish, but it's quite nice
anyway. 'aimsong' is entirely bult on backwards sounds
taken from AOL's instant messenger service. You probably
only need to hear it once in your life. 'yerah' is
a dark piano thing with weird drums. It sounds kinda
crappy. But then, this CD is just a collection of oddities
rather than a coherent whole. 'coda' and 'install'
are just short, pointless but ultimately fine interludes.
It does have something of a political theme to it.
Over the month or so most of these tracks were accumulating,
good ol' Dubya was sending people off to war because
he's a dear old sweetie and the plight of the Iraqi
people was keeping him awake at night. 'Gosh', he would
say, 'those folks in Eye-rack could do with a good
old war! Sort 'em out real nice like. So, at the time
it was hard to get away from the war. Even more so
if, like me, you spend all your time reading books
by folk like John Pilger about why Americans are bad.
Haha. So, 'setting traps' takes some Bushisms to music.
For fun. Satire, y'see. Likewise, '-' is basically
a forum for Ramsey Clark's speech at the end of Gulf
War I, and goes into why the sanctions are really fucking
Iraq up, with the help of Hans Von Sponeck, a former
UN official who ran the implementation of the sanctions,
and resigned after seeing the damage it was doing,
as did Dennis Halliday. 'lp' features Native American
activist Leonard Peltier talking about his time in
prison. And a sad thing it is too.
To find out more about the whole Iraq issue, hear the
history and get some ace music into the bargain, visit
http://www.firethistime.org.
It's where I got the sound samples for '-' from. You
should also try and get hold of the CD, which has a
bunch of ace 'tronica artists like Aphex Twin, Black
Dog, Bola and so on soundtracking a istory of the Iraq
crisis. It's really truly a cool thing.
For more on Leonard Peltier, go to http://www.freepeltier.org
Viva la revolution, comrades!
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