Various Artists – "D.I.Y. Electronics for the iPad Generation (40 Minimal Classics from before the age of MIDI)" – ( a Die or DIY? Mixtape # 4) 2013

It is generally accepted that Rock, in its broadest term, finally died in 1984. The main culprits in this tragic demise have always been accepted as Capitalism, consumer brainwashing, and freely available easy to use technology. The almost criminal acceptance of MIDI as the tool for musical communication killed almost all relevant and exciting music stone dead overnight. Gone were the slightly mistimed notes that made music human, made by humans for humans. In came music made by machines for corporations’ banks, and therefore for the New World Order. This reached its zenith with the advent of post-acid, house music; which along with stuff like the neutron bomb, LSD as a mind control tool, assassinating dissenting public figures,- had its origins in a secret room in the Pentagon. Music, and I hesitate to call it music(program, or Pogrom, is more descriptive), for the Illuminatti, MK Ultra for the unwashed masses. This is the stuff that turned us all into the consumer monkeys that we are today; and the worst thing is that its STILL here, after 25 fucking years!

Lets go back to the BC (before good computers) of electronic music. When the only way instruments could talk to each other was with a rather unpredictable thing called “Controlled Voltage/gate” (CV/gate), or, by that even more unpredictable device called playing an instrument by hand!!!?? How primitive, or rather how good was that? We are now becoming in reality, a fleshed out version of that brit-flick non-classic “Morons From OuterSpace”. Technology has become so miniaturised and complex that we only know how to operate it, but are clueless as to how it works. There was never this problem with the original synthesisers, if a component failed it was merely a case of replacing a defective part, or more often a swift bang with the hammer and it functioned once more. Like 21^st century cars, you can’t fix 21^stcentury synthesisers yourself, you gotta pay the man, or buy a new one. That, and built –in-obsolescence, ensures the consumer treadmill of global doom keeps turning until we all starve to death.

This compilation celebrates the electronic world before MIDI removed mankind from the equation. When, shock-horror, musicians played synths “Live”with ….erm….“Hands”? Probably slightly out of sync with a human drummer, standing at two electronic drum pads. Yes, there were sequencers, but they were just as unreliable and unpredictable as those inefficient fools that made them, homo sapiens.

I suppose this is the start of the next generation of evolution, when man merges with machine. Cometh the Cyborg! But maybe worse, we could all just exist as computer programs, like modern music, and the incredibly shit modern cinema, which is nothing more than watching a computer game for two hours. CGI consumer monkeys being controlled by a CG new world order, in a fake self replicating digital universe, that will hopefully disappear up its own Computer generated black(arse) hole.

Track Listing:

Part One : “Arpeggiators agogo”

1 – “Voodoo” – Chris and Cosey

2 – “Happy Funeral” – Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons

3 – “Lost in Madagascar” – Anne Cessna and Essendon Airport

4 – “ Mechanical Breakdown” – Crash Course in Science

5 – “Sexuality” – We Be Echo

6 – “Ottos Pornos” – Gorilla Aktiv

7 – “R.A.M.” – The Klingons

8 – “High Pressure Days” – Units

9 – “So Obvious” – Absolute Body Control

10 – “One Little Soldier” – Patrik Fitzgerald

11 – “Robot” – The Plastics

12 – “Et Hop” – Phillipe Laurent

13 – “Contemplation” – Solid Space

14 – “Untitled” – Portion Control

15 – “Day Breaks, Night Heals” – Thomas Leer and Robert Rental

16 – “The Fashion Party” – The Neon Judgement

17 – “Fat Cow” – Nervous Gender

18 – “This Deception” – The Midnight Circus

19 – “Computer Bank” – Phillip Lawrence and Mark Phillips

20 – “It’ll Never Work” – The Sea of Wires

DOWNLOAD PART ONE HERE!!!!!!!!

Part Two : “Bleeps,Burps and Buzzes”

1 – “Spiegelbild” – Gorilla Aktiv

2 – “Push me pull you” – Futurisk

3 – “Cardboard Lamb” – Crash Course in Science

4 – “Spinola(blotch)” – Portion Control

5 – “Its Very Simple” – Ampnoise

6 – “Fatima” – Inertia

7 – “The Goo” – Noyz toyz

8 – “Shrinkwrap” – Attrition

9 – “I Like Your Elbows” –Colin Potter

10 – “Touch” – 96 Eyes

11 – “Kortsluiting” – Störung

12 – “Herzlos” – Stratis

13 – “Saturday” – Schicksal

14 – “Before Breakfast” – Irsol

15 – “Information Therapy” – Richard H. Kirk

16 – “Under press of Sail” – Claire Thomas and Susan Vezey

17 – “Endorphin” – Third Door From The Left

18 – “Fascination” – PseudoCode

19 – “Forgotten Boys” – DZ Lectric and Anthon Shield

20 – “Outreach” – Chris Carter

DOWNLOAD PART TWO HERE!!!!!!!!!