some random lost mixtape i made in winter 2003/2004
lets just say it contains the disney black hole record and a bunch of records being played backwards and very slowly….
now heres some REALLY old press the button episode-the first time i got brian to call in at the same time as me-jamming a “virtual club”
this was actually a really cool episode-detailing the “history of avant garde music”…or something-lets dig up what they say at the PTB site:
Episode 327: Church Organs (9/29/2003) (every man & Glacial 23) A detailed cacophonic timeline documenting
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days psp when “noise” was first cultivated into “music.”
We consider whether or not “noise is the opposite of music”
or are they one in the same? If they are the same, then noise music
(at least for western culture) dates back to the church organ in the
14th century. Its ability to imitate other instruments and natural sounds
was the foundation of of something outside the typical, or should I
say, “conditioned” system of western music. One might consider
the church organ to be the first sampler! Romantic organ music took
advantage of the organ’s abilities to simulate natural sounds. The show
discusses modern noise music, Italian futurism, the writings of Luigi
Russolo, the environment of the modern city, and its traffic and factories
(i.e. the world transformed by the machine.) We discuss Edgar Varèse’
composition called “Ionization”, which used drum sets and sirens in
1927. We discussed Russian futurists and noise “orchestras.” We discuss
John Cage’s influence in the 1940’s, as well as Pierre Henri and Karl
Heinz Stockhausen extending the developments of the futurists. We make
sure to cover the dadaists, surrealists, and their contributions to
the electronic realm with the help of the tape recorder and vocoder,
machines originally built for military purposes. Much is said of Japanese
noise artists, such as Merzbow, as well as minimalist “noise”
artists from the 1960’s and 1970’s, such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass.
We conclude with examples of modern “sampling artists,” such
as the Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Moby, and KLF.
and whilst we are at it:
“club thursday”, hour three…the thursday club “tribute” episode from 2003. or was it just a “lazy” episode..haha. nonetheless, i think it was one of the first times we got some major airplay on the radio……
i officially called this recording “part 22: special edition” and released it back in 04 in a very limited number-i want to say 9 of them were made-but it might have been 12. i cut up all the different color packaging of the original part 22 release and taped it together and fit it nicely in a sandwich baggy-or something. someone out there has one. i dont. i thought about re-releasing it. but why not just get it up here…
so anyways, this is basically an episode of press the button where we called in and played stuff through the phone over our original recording. anyone say dorks??
heres the original description:
Episode 331: Club Thursday
(10/27/2003) (every man & Glacial 23 + Matt
of Infinite Numbers of Sound) Mostly a playback show of
collected works from Thursday
Club, one of Cleveland’s most innovative noise collectives. In
the first hour, we played a collage of live and preproduced works,
some of which we had dramatically altered just a couple hours before
the show. The second hour was mostly playback of a live Thursday
Club improv set. The final hour featured a full length CD they
gave us (marked “session
22″), mixed with unrelated vocal
commentary offered by special guest Matt Mansbach of the Infinite
Numbers of Sound. All phone
lines were active throughout the show, and
we suspect at least one call came from the actual Thursday
Club themselves, as their mix required a familiarity with the
on-air source material. The caller’s new sonic layers fit the existing
ones in an extraordinary way. As it continued, the mix sounded
less like a phone call, and more like an
in-studio musician.
my revised description says to look out for such instruments being played through the phone as: a dustbuster and chinese relaxation balls. also when brian and matt mansbach talk at the end and call eachother “brother”…pretty funny. there-of course are callers that are not us, also…