MIXTAPE BY TESCO JANE
ORIGINALLY MADE FOR PSYCHIC MULE RECORDS
6/23/2012

“Inspirations/new excitements that have influenced you past, present, and future”

This was an easy assignment to get excited for. There is a lot more to a proper mixtape than shmushing together some mp3s on the computer, and I kept having to correct myself when referring to it as a “podcast,“ since it is far from it - 95% vinyl, 100% improvised live. This mixtape is inspired by an actual cassette made by an old friend from San Francisco, Rob Verani, in the early 90s. It was he who first introduced me to “real” industrial music. I’ll never forget the first time I heard Merzbow’s Music for Bondage Performance 2 - it was the first piece of experimental music that I really connected to on more than just an abstract or visceral level. The whole album has a sort of narrative quality, with highly anticipated twists and turns that remind me of listening to a beautiful piece of classical music. Then I started making connections between different sounds, styles, samples, etc. - the fantastic and devilishly obvious segue between the Merzbow and the Nurse With Wound for example is one of my favorites of all time. It was then that I was inspired become an experimental DJ, and since this was decidedly an anti-social pursuit, I would do mixtapes “that people could listen to on the internet.” Being that it was 1996 and we barely had a dialup connection, my friends were a bit skeptical. But I remained steadfast in my determination and the rest is history.

This mixtape features excerpts from the following albums:
MERZBOW - MUSIC FOR BONDAGE PERFORMANCE 2 - EXTREME - 1996
NURSE WITH WOUND - AUTOMATING VOL. 1 - UNITED DAIRIES - 1986
KONSTRUKTIVISTS - A DISSEMBLY - FLOWMOTION - 1983
GUM - VINYL - NOT ON LABEL - 1987
KAMA RUPA - UNTITLED - BLIND PROPHET - 2011
LAIBACH - BOJI/SILA/BRAT MOJ - L.A.Y.L.A.H. ANTIRECORDS - 1984
MUSLIMGAUZE - BUDDHIST ON FIRE - RECLOOSE ORGANISATION - 1984
PSYCHIC TV - FORCE THE HAND OF CHANCE - SOME BIZARRE - 1982
COIL - HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS - L.A.Y.L.A.H. ANTIRECORDS - 1984
SAT STOICIZMO - JAČATI TIJELO SPORTOM - KVADRATURA JUGA - 1995
ANENZEPHALIA - NEW WORLD DISORDER - TESCO - 1998
CUT HANDS - AFRO NOISE VOL. I - DIRTER PRODUCTIONS - 2011
OPERATION CLEANSWEEP - JERUSALEM - TESCO - 2001
DOGPOP - POPGOD - ZAETRAOM/UMB - 2003
STACCATO DU MAL - SIN DESTINO - WIERD - 2011
LAST FEW DAYS - TOO MUCH IS NOT ENOUGH - TOUCH - 1986
ANNIE ANXIETY - AS I LIE IN YOUR ARMS - ONE LITTLE INDIAN - 1987

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http://www.tesco-distro.com
http://noiseindex.podomatic.com
http://www.psychic-mule.com/

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