As the technology era progresses to the point where we all carry around our brains, now renamed as 'Smart hand Held devices' or 'Phones'. Tech took over pop Music's Brain, if it ever had one, years ago. Dancing to a machine was a rather intriguing Avant garde concept in the late seventies, but that is now music for the masses, thumping its hypnotic beat in every hideous meat market disco around our dying planet. Before MIDI,or Musical Instrument Digital Interface was standardised, so machines could talk to each other, we had the rather unstable Controlled Voltage and gate method of sequencing a synthesiser, or play it by hand. The result of which preserved the much missed human factor that is glaringly missing from today's disco tunes.Even the singer gets 'auto-tuned' on what seems like every record.
So, as you unwrap your new brain replacement device and government tracking and data collection system.....ie your new smart phone. Slip this years Xmas mixtape on your iPhone and marvel at the wobbly, unsyncopated beats and melodies of these 30 ditties from a time when not being a primordial cyborg was normal.
Tracklisting:
1.Ausgang Verboten - "Consumer"
2.Unovidual & Tara Cross - "Comme Je Suis"
3.Les Yeux Interdit - "Prison"
4.Ptose - "Boule(Viens Ici!)
5.Etat des Stocks - "She's Got Big Tits"
6.Dark Day - "Nudes In The Forest"
7.Danton's Voice - "Magic Mushroom"
8.Andi Arroganti - "Hom-O-Hetero"
9.Das Kabinette - "Fudge It"
10.Deux - "Ministry Of Love"
11.Duotronic Synterror - "Liebe Auf Den Ersten Blick"
12.MAP - "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"
13.Years On Earth - "And I Dream"
14.Sympathy Nervous - "Khaki Cloud"
15.Nine Circles - "The Rose"
16. Das Ding - "Reassurance Ritual"
17.John Bender - "57-1/Dance"
18.Robert Lawrence - "Japanese Brain warning"
19.Sentimentale Jugend - "Tote Kammer"
20.AD - "Conspiracy"
21.Synthefall - "Abzahlreim"
22.Zirkel Junger Musiker - "Hochwasser"
23.Treibeis - "Vinylbabies"
24.The Klingons - "Temptation"
25.Machines At Last - "The Colony"
26.High Bias - "The Killing Of The Cats"
27.Gen Ken Montgomery - "When I'm walking"
28.Another View - "Power Station"
29.Suisse - "Live At Longbourn"
30.Modern Art - "Hello-Goodbye"
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After the 10 hours of the MAP 7 series, let us turn the spotlight on a frequent guest on those recordings, the mysterious female called 'Suisse' (Which I have mentioned before ,is the French word for Switzerland,but is probably a quirky way of spelling Suzie,akin to the the more famous Siouxsie?)
This reminds me of my early attempts at making a record while having no instruments. The short-wave station used brings back eerie memories of that same morse code call sign that we now know is a clandestine signal for some agent of espionage on one side of the Iron Curtain. ( V,V,V,B,B,K,is my translation of these dots and dashes ;what that meant would only be known by the spy with the decryption device.......check out my post on 'numbers stations', a truly weird music indeed.).
Instead of dots and dashes,this tape now comes to you as ones and zero's, and the decryption device is your brain;ironically transmitted to your home by one of the most useful inventions by the espionage network,...the Internet.
Mixed in with the recordings of ,I assume it was Suisse herself, walking in the street, and collages of radio reports from the 1981 riots,we are treated to Suisse and friend,singing some bizarre urban bluegrass tunes that are very reminiscent of The Shaggs second album.Also we have a couple of fine minimal synth moments, and a fine whispered 'hit' tune in 'Artificial Heart'. A murky and claustrophobically intimate classic, which is best listened to while doing the washing up.....it says on the insert.
Track Listing:
01 Warning Systems
02 Sun Sacrifice
03 Salem
04 Knicker Two
05 Artificial Heart
06 The Apparition
07 I Went Walking
08 Pauline's Working at the Steam Press
09 Alien Pulse
10 News Flash on One
11 The Sweetest Gift
12 You Tell Me That I'm...
13 More Than Words Can Say
14 Live at Longbourn
15 Epilogue To Salem
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