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Library/production music is generally sought-after in the form of LPs from the mid-60s to early 80s. The tracks in this mix come from the relatively unloved CD releases of library music from the late 80s and early 90s. I found these CDs in French thrift shops and flea markets, mostly for about 50 cents a piece, never more than a euro. Instrumental neo-jazz, neo-rock, neo-synth, neo-classical, neo-funk, neo-fusion, neo-ambient, neo-industrial—an analytical rehashing of the preceding two decades of music, all filtered through the era’s landmark digital synthesizers and rapidly developing sequencing and sampling capabilities. Almost all sounds in this mix are synthesized, apart from some saxes, a few guitars, and perhaps a real Rhodes. More fun and less atmospheric than you might think. CDM is the main publisher celebrated here, with the compositions of Olivier Joos, Gilles Laurent, J-P Voindrot, and Eric Fauret, among others, with a few British productions mixed in as well. -NUMUW (aka Nate Davis / Unchained)

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Tracklist:
1 Gabriel Benhamou, “Micropercussions (Industrial Motion)” - Industry (HiB. 57)
2 Olivier Joos & Gilles Laurent, “Mabodossa”- Week-End (CDM 10)
3 Frédéric Talgorn, “Divertissement Electrique” - Ballets (CDM 4)
4 Eric Fauret & Gilles Laurent, “Overbeat” - Vibrations (CDM 25)
5 Gilles Laurent & Jean-Patrick Voindrot, “Guide Message” - Machinery (CDM 8)
6 Eric Fauret & Gilles Laurent, “Arlequin” - Vibrations (CDM 25)
7 Marc Longchampt, “Vogue” - Pulse (OM 47)
8 Graham Pleeth, “Global Communication (b)” - Media Technology (CHAP AV070)
9 Lyonel Bauchet, “Timepiece” - Minimalism (GAL 1)
10 Olivier Joos & Gilles Laurent, “Zaza” - Week-End (CDM 10)
11 Luc Ronaldi & Gary Sandeur, “Piano Force (Strong Industry)” - Industry (HiB. 57)
12 Gilles Laurent & Jean-Patrick Voindrot, “Countdown” - Machinery (CDM 8)
13 Gary Sandeur & Luc Ronaldi, “Synthe Sequencer (Strong Industry)” - Industry (HiB. 57)
14 Steve Martin, “Sophisticated Mood” - Fashion (MAT 104)
15 Olivier Joos & Thierry Janis, “Walloo” - Week-End (CDM 10)
16 Georges Lartigau & Marc Goldefer, “Moving Punctuations (Strong Industry)” - Industry (HiB. 57)
17 Christian Poulet, “Rhodes” - Wide Space (KOS 13)
18 Olivier Joos & Jean-Patrick Voindrot, “Peanut” - Week-End (CDM 10)
19 Frédéric Porte, “Voice Effect (Strong Industry)” - Industry (HiB. 57)
20 Eric Fauret & Gilles Laurent, “Vibrations” - Vibrations (CDM 25)
21 Olivier Joos & Thierry Janis, “Outside” - Week-End (CDM 10)
22 Gilles Laurent & Eric Fauret, “Feat Memory” - Documentary (CDM 21)
23 Peter De Angelo, “Adventure Land (U/Score)” - Rollin' Media (CDM 16)
24 Gilles Laurent & Jean-Patrick Voindrot, “Smooth Dream’ - Neutral Sky (CDM 11)
25 Olivier Joos, “Rooster Ballad” - Week-End (CDM 10)

NUMUW: French Library CD Mix (88-93)

VALISE - singe

performance @ Machines With Magnets Oct 9. 2013
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Humanbeast - MERCURY ORBIT

RELEASE DATE: Nov. 4th, 2022

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Prerequisite is the first collaboration between Network Glass and
Jason Crumer.

Developed from an adaptation of John Cage’s “Fontana Mix,” came a
long brewing but unlikely marriage of contrasting attitudes and
approaches to sound work. Through the vocabulary of modern noise into
the ether of the distorted and fucked, hours of source material were
shaped into a concentrated six piece album. Years of friendship,
foehood, shit talk and gushing led to this auditory thesis on the
state and history of noise.

On “Prerequisite" the olde folk theory "Incapacitants are just
distorted fontana mix" gets tested and proven very right and very
wrong. Don't worry, noise can take it. A modern look at
America's great noise Prerequisite.

- Network Glass and Jason Crumer

Prerequisite

Network Glass and Jason Crumer "Prerequisite"

Poems of XiaoYouKeng: Tzu Ni invites rr  - 28/02/2023

NPVR is the avant garde duo made up of the late Peter Rehberg and Nik Void. Editions Mego is proud to present their second and final release. No this is not some kind of Beatles synthetic AI that raises the dead reconstructed recordings but rather a new album made by the humans and their machines. 

The initial meeting of Rehberg and Void was in London in 2016 and despite or due to their mutual awkwardness found solace and compatibility in the fact that they both had a similar electronic modular set up, along with matching cases to transport all. The idea to collaborate was an obvious and organic process as a means to connect their individual gear together and observe the outcome. The fruits of these initial experiments, recorded in London, resulted in the playful experimentation of their acclaimed 2017 release 33 33 (eMego 251).

Now in 2024 Editions Mego presents the logically titled follow up, 33 34. These sessions were recorded six months after the initial recordings at Peter’s home in Vienna. This was planned out as a mirror city release to the original London recordings. With Peter having access to his full studio set up this time around we encounter a rich audio landscape which organically folds together a variety of musical genres blurring any distinction between these forms so the resulting music hovers as a new cloud of sound. Any musical form, be it industrial, electro-acoustic, ambient, drone and techno all coexist and melt into the other as the ensuing result unveils a hypnotic swarm of divergent sounds (music). When active there were no lines or contexts with NPVR, either between sound or genre within these recordings or live where NPVR were at home playing at a techno club one night and an avant garde venue the next.

The initial session of these recordings was edited by Rehberg and sent to Void to further develop.
Over time the final versions were agreed on and then shelved as other outside projects took over. The awkwardness had been surmounted and the two had become close friends. NPVR performed at a range of venues such as Tresor, Sutton House, Corsica, Blitz, Paris GRM #Focus2, LEV Festival and Rigas Skanumezs Festival. Following Rehberg’s untimely passing Void had difficulty listening back to the sessions but eventually thought it fit to complete and release this album, of which even the artwork (like 33 33, an image from Zurich photographer, Georg Gatsas) had been decided upon prior to Rehberg parting ways. 

There is an unmistakable joy to these recordings. One encounters an enthralling exploration of their chosen machines which conveys the excitement of what can be randomly conjured when people speak through such devices. There is no grand statement or argument here, just the sheer thrill of creation and the recorded results of random encounters. The art of collaboration was always a mainstay of Rehberg’s practice from the advent of the MEGO adventure. Rehberg & Bauer was an initial collaboration with former business partner Ramon Bauer. Even at this stage one can hear a relaxed sense of delight in the sheer discovery of sound.

A mix made for the Wire magazine following the release of 33 33 hints at the freedom that comes with endless urge for exploration and discovery. Abstract tracks from Z'EV. Jérôme Noetinger and Jung An Tagen are included alongside British stalwarts The Fall and New Order. There were no lines between pop / academic / underground or mainstream in Rehberg’s world. All of it sat at the same table. It is just matter in the atmosphere, like the diverse exploration found in these recordings that comprise 33 34.

33 34

Raw to the Core

NPVR 'Raw to the Core' (EMEGO312)

Morbid Force - Papa Oleg [Demo]

Daily Life are a two piece from Providence, RI. After several tapes on Unskilled Labor, the band (CF- vox/synth, Sakiko Mori - synth) decided to enter the studio with Jeff Zeigler (Philly studio wizard) and emerged with a sugar glazed classic of monstrous icy proportions. "Necessary and Pathetic" sketches out a sputtering romantic vision replete with horny armies emerging from the darkness set to a lush trash strewn landscape equipped with sputtering drumbot rhythms. Croon power is set to 10 to ensure moist thongs. Vocals bring forth stories of aimless midnight wanderers, smarting from discipline, and lustful pilgrim rituals with the hard sting of the sunrise. This is not a lo-fidelity stab at synth-pop but a fully formed set of songs executed with maximum vision. After all the buildings fall and the survivors are wandering the wasteland scrounging for dogfood, there will be few truths, but do realize this: the few things of beauty and grandeur, such as Daily Life’s "Necessary Pathetic" LP/CD will exist to instruct the human dog pack to a greater destiny. Stock the shelter with at least one copy. 

Daily Life - Arousal and Dreams

Get 'Thru' on Bandcamp: https://fallowmedia.bandcamp.com/album/thru

'Thru' is a three-part album exploring Terren’s interest in digital music processes, specifically the tacit condition of the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) in contemporary music. DAWs are vital and necessary mediators of virtually all recorded music, yet their status as such is barely questioned. Thru was initially conceived as a conduit through which to interrogate what constitutes DAW practice, or what impact the DAW has had on music and its composition.

'Thru' is not, however, a dry experiment in digital methods – it seeks to probe the subtle auditory cues that emerge from creating and combining sounds ‘in the box’. The results are sharp, clear, and powerful. Split into the trilogy of ‘Thru’/‘FWD’/‘In2’ (commissioned by the Sydney-based radio show Ears Have Ears), the glossy diptych of ‘Vacillate’/‘Vessel’, and the stunning closer, ‘Siliceous’ (which Terren calls “a kind of speculation on the interior lives of rocks and mountains”), these six pieces take divergent paths through the open field of computer-based composition, sometimes restrained and subtle, sometimes brash or overwhelming, always intriguing.
 
At a time when the benefits of restrictive/authentic/immediate analogue tools are constantly extolled, 'Thru' asks us to consider the role of the DAW in music today – what avenues are still unexplored? What kind of communication is encouraged, or even possible, within this environment? What kinds of logic are preferred there? 'Thru' tests the limits of its origins in a way that feels both new and timely.

Thru

Siliceous

Michael Terren - Siliceous

Giles, Giles & Fripp Feat. Judy Dyble - I Talk To The Wind

Celebrating the Church of Catterday Saints with Kalen Rowe, made with The Illuminatus, a cassette tape of Mormons singing, and Kalen's guitar

The Phemale Phallus Phallacy (NOise Bath)

Muqata'a Invites: B3NJO

B3NJO, hailing from Khon Kaen, Thailand, digs up music from all corners of the world for the right pieces to transmit her ideas about life, humanity and her awareness of femininity. The selection includes quirky, original and unique artists crafting a heterogenous melange that conveys her soul to the audience. Underground electronica, experimental beats, dubstep, and more are the ingredients for her blend of harmony, rhythm and vitality taking the listener to a divine state of bliss and beauty.

Tracklist:

Sudan Archives - Water
Nah Eeto ft Sumgii - Wanawake
Muqata’a - Taqamus Muqawim
Azizi Gibson x Jeremiah Jae - RappingAintDeadNigga
Christoph El Truento - Fishnetv2
Tsuruda - Boo’s Castle
Kodama - Two Things (Phossa Remix)
Cimm - Grape Lime Ricky
Imajika - Unti Pundi
Zomby - Spliff Dub
EVA808 - Shakti
Glume & Phossa - Hatchet
Black Noi$e ft bbymutha - Mutha Magick
Iskeletor - Slinky
Sumgii - 303 O’Two
Kuhn - Slime Beach
Logan - Chat Bad
Glume & Phossa - SILKWORM
Samba - INLEEDS
Commodo - Crooked Law
ColtCuts - You Said
Kodama - Skulk
Amplituda - Waysta
Ago - I. Got.
Samiyam - bath water
Maya Huyana - Mayah’s Jam

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'Nightgown' from Humanbeast's "Venus Ejaculates into the Banquet" LP/CD out July 16, 2013 on Load Records.

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