Joseph Nechvatal ‎– "Babbling Tongues Of Metamorphoses" ( Sound Of Pig ‎– SOP 75) 1987

So you thought that Negativland were a bunch of Smart-arses eh? Well here's a bona-fide smart arse, with qualifications-a-plenty in smart-arseism. This geezer can do Plunderphonia as well as being able to explain what he's doing,why he's doing it and probably write a thesis on said subject. 
If you had ever wondered who was responsible for those zany art theories of viractualism and Cybism, Dr Nechvatal ,yes he's a doctor(not the medical variety you philistine!),is yer man. And on his days off,not that Artists ever have a day off, he churns out the odd swirling sound collage constructed from found sounds and snot......quite like this fruity blast of mashed up ectoplasm ,baked and served as a rectangular plastic pie of intellectual offal.

Tracks:
Side A
Side B

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Various Artists ‎– "Power Electronics" (Tellus #13) 1986

From the same magazine as “All Guitars” we have the Tellus #13 compilation,and the theme is “Power Electronics”. An Industrial sub-genre that, unfortunately, Americans were spectacularly shit at. Most of this tape can just about fit in the Old School Industrial bracket,which by 1986 was pretty old hat. Either that or its just plain old experimental soundscape’s. Cassette culture never really established itself in the USA until '86,and highlights the difficulties of that country to advance artistically due to the isolation of the various inspired communities across that great vast landscape landscape that sadly suggests Country music rather than Power Electronics. Even though the prototype of Punk first started gestating in downtown New York, it needed to be imported into Washington DC,and Los Angeles from the UK,and the rest of America from MTV. The same happened with Industrial Music,although that was almost completely 100% British; the second Industrial Revolution if you will? This of course causes a time delay of around 6 or 7 years,and explains why Americans still prefer just to 'Rock Out',as they like to scream from time to time.

Merzbow is about the only genuine Power Electronic track on here, and he's Japanese. Controlled Bleeding is sort of battery Powered electronics Lite, Rhys Chatham isn't even in the Industrial camp at all,and Joseph Nechvatal, is intellectualised Plunderphonia!....check his other tapes here!

Tracklisting:

A1	–Maybe Mental	Look At The Clown	3:50
A2	–Merzbow	Gamma-Titan	6:05
A3	–Amor Fati	Will To Live	3:40
A4	–If, Bwana	Umm...	2:35
A5	–Rhys Chatham	Excerpt From XS	2:20
A6	–Psyclones	Excerpt From Between Space	5:00
A7	–Blackhouse	One Nation Under God	3:00
A8	–Joseph Nechvatal	How To Kill	0:50
A9	–Master/Slave Relationship	The Heaviest	3:30
B1	–Maybe Mental	Memories Of My Birth	4:37
B2	–Architects Office	AD 301.5	1:00
B3	–Controlled Bleeding	Clotage	5:15
B4	–Mojo (3)	The Fighters Distance (Excerpt)	2:40
B5	–Coup De Grace	Your Children	2:40
B6	–Le Syndicat	Putrefied Brain (Excerpt)	2:10
B7	–Mitch Corber	The Sirens	4:50
B8	–F/i	On Off	9:30

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Various Artists ‎– "All Guitars!" (Tellus #10) 1985

Glenn Branca makes another appearance on Tellus number 10 compilation tape called “All Guitars” from 1985. As you may guess, it features no end of Guitar abuse,displaying the endless versatility of this wonderful tool. Plenty of Sonic Youth members inhabit this area ,also occupied by No Wave legends Arto Lindsey with his stratchy, scrape-y guitar stylee,and Lydia Lunch trys her best to mimic a DNA solo, when she would have been better to stick to her unique slide approach.Nirvana producer ,Steve Albini, does a bit of pre-Rapeman shock rock,mentioning Niggers and Fags,while playing some funky noise rock.Joseph Nechvatal makes his obligatory appearance,amongst much,much, more guitar jiggery-pokery that would empty any matinee performance of Cats on Broadway in five seconds. Leaving several bouffanted out of towners trampled to death in the aisles in the blind panic to escape the danger of having to use their brains;long pickled by I Love Lucy Re-runs and endless tours of the mid-west by Paul Macartney's Wings. Not for fans of Eric Clapton.

Tracklist:
 

A1	–Lee Ranaldo	The Bridge	3:12
A2	–Arto Lindsay And Toni Nogueira	Buy One	1:03
A3	–Janice Sloane	Blow Sounds On The Nail	2:25
A4	–Butthole Surfers	U.S.S.A.	1:58
A5	–New Detroit Inc.	Brown Dub	2:34
A6	–Bob Mould	Soundcheck	3:06
A7	–Bond Bergland	Moonlight Ride	3:25
A8	–Joseph Nechvatal	Dalychtocracy	2:03
A9	–Elliott Sharp	Solitons	1:45
A10	–David Linton	Ringo	2:20
A11	–Jules Baptiste	Four To Deuce	2:05
A12	–Tim Schellenbaum	El Baile De La Penitencia Dolorosa	3:06
A13	–Bump	I Am A Rat	1:59
A14	–Rudolph Grey	1000 Luminous Flowers In The Red Pool	3:05

B1	–Hahn Rowe	Dust Bowl Dub	2:09
B2	–John Myers	Skatebike And Perdue	3:48
B3	–Lydia Lunch	Lucy's Lost Her Head Again	1:30
B4	–Sue Hanel	Dupe	1:10
B5	–Blixa Bargeld	Untitled	2:15
B6	–Andrew Nahem	Insult	1:16
B7	–Sandra Seymour	Rock That Baby!	1:35
B8	–Run Nigger Run	Pray I Don't Kill You Faggot	5:30
B9	–Thurston Moore	Skrewer Boy	3:10
B10	–Mark C. And Marnie Greenholz	Bad Hospital	2:28
B11	–Glenn Branca	Acoustic Phenomena	3:45
B12	–James Vidos	Rudy Has Religion	1:33
B13	–Angela Babin And Joe Dizney	Work Song	1:10
B14	–Frankenjerry	Funhouse	1:50

 
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Various ‎Artists – "Tellus # 1" (Tellus Audio Magazine - Tellus #1) 1983

Yeah Yeah Yeah, we know Rhys Chatham beat Glenn Branca to the punch with the detuned guitar minimal rock fusion thing.And i'll admit “Guitar Trio (1977) is a great piece of work.....dare I say,whilst using music journo cliché speak.....”Seminal”!? Alas, Chatham ventured off into less successful minimalist areas, leaving Branca to take it further. What we have here, on volume one of New York-ish audio magazine, Tellus; is our minimalist hero's banging out a live version of this classic tune in 1979! This one chord one note classic,is churned out in a slowed down version of indeterminable length,as its faded out while still in progress.

But, there's more on this great compilation,featuring plenty from the burgeoning East coast experimental music scene of 1983. There's some live Sonic Youth, some conventional alt-rock from Live Skull,and a great tune from former Static member Barbara Ess. Also we have sound collage legends like, Tellus magazine co-founder, Joseph Nechvatal and his Minoy like “Ego Masher”.All mixed in with a tinge of the prevalent Mutant Disco that was around downtown New York at the time. I may be wrong but this organisation is still going today!?

Track Listing:

1. Jody Harris - Mr. Control (3:53)
2. Jerry Lindahl - The Indian Elephant (4:23)
3. Sonic Youth - Scream (Recorded Live, Rolle, Switzerland 6/83) (2:20)
4. Brenda Hutchinson - Wordplay (2:53)
5. Live Skull - Corpse (3:56)
6. Tom Lopez/ZBS Productions - 30 Second Telephone Terror Theatre (2:06)
7. Rat-at-Rat-R - Bloodshot (3:55)
8. Bradley Eros - The Atom & Eve of Destruction (0:38)
9. Bruce Tovsky - Re-Gender (Excerpt) (3:07)
10. Gretchen Langheld - 666 (4:23)
11. Mitch Corber - Reaganomics/Infinitessimus (1:57)
12. Barbara Ess (with Barbara Barg) - You Who Know No Pain (7:07)
13. Joseph Nechvatal - Ego Masher (7:05)
14. Verge Piersoi - Come Sit (3:47)
15. Tron Von Hollywood (with Raina Jane Sherry) - After Shakespeare (1:54)
16. David Linton - Shattering Glass (2:39)
17. Rhys Chatham (with Glenn Branca, Nina Canal, Wharton Tiers - Guitar Trio (1977) (Recorded Live, 5/79 NYC) (6:54)

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Joseph Nechvatal ‎– "Reckless" (Sound Of Pig ‎– SOP 217) 1984

Another amusing exercise in plunderphonia from Joseph Nechvatal.
The main target for his pop trash recycling technique is that 'Godfather of Funk' himself, Mr James Brown. His screeches are sampled in such a way as to resemble a screaming child,and his tunes are placed in such a splintered perspective; reduced to the basic absurdities that glue pop songs together.
The cover illustration is by Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956), a British self-taught artist who made automatic drawings and turned entire alphabets into diagrams called sigils, or “monograms of thought”, says Wikipedia

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Joseph Nechvatal - "True and False" - (XOX Tapes XOX001) 1985

Nechvatal goes for the reorganization angle again, sifting through the dirt of the old world and making a new one. Some crap inevitably gets through, but it becomes crap as seen with a new perspective. Not even his old work escapes the treatment, as it gets blended with New Order, Eno,Miles Davis,and Ghostbusters, to create a mass culture cocktail, guaranteed both to repulse and attract. A perfect example of having to destroy to create, like a city rising from the ashes of a damn good carpet bombing.......unless that city happens to be Coventry in the UK; which needed to be bombed again after it was rebuilt. But there's no end to the deconstruction and reconstruction process.Everything is a work in progress in life's unfinished symphony. Rip it up and start again, said some half famous scottish wit (or famous scottish half-wit?),some time ago; it's time we ripped it up, liquidised it, mashed it, flushed it, swallowed it,shat it out,spread it on toast,fed it to the dog, and started again!

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Joseph Nechvatal ‎– "Sleep" (Sound Of Pig – SOP 140) 1983

Joseph Nechvatal is nowadays regarded somewhat as an intellectual Übermensch in some parts of New York. As one of the grandaddies of Plunderphonics, he was responsible for some of the groundbreaking wilfull deconstruction of popular culture made more famous by the likes of Negativland and John Oswald. Nothing exposes the downright silliness of  Pop culture than if one chops it up into its constituent parts and mix it up. Throw in some Three Stooges, Mr Magoo, and a sonic trash can of audio detritus , then you get the terrible noise that an eavesdropping alien would be picking up in his satellite dish near Alpha Centuri. This alone would be enough to save us from invasion.
In 1983*, there was definitely a whiff of the need to recycle the old to make something new, like there was with literature in the 60's;Plunderphonics and Hip-Hop being prime examples of this trend.Nechvatal was definitely one of the leaders in rearranging the 20th century's garbage. There's a message in there somewhere for the 21st century,in these last few years of the polar ice caps.

*(Though I have serious doubts that this cassette was released in 1983 on Sound of Pig, 'cus the catalogue number seems to suggest around 1987! But I have no doubt it was at least recorded in 1983.)

Joseph was also kind enough to have created a Wiki page dedicated to the legend of tape noise that is Minóy!(check out some of his many recordings on this blog!)

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