It is generally accepted that Rock, in its broadest term, finally
died in 1984. The main culprits in this tragic demise have always been
accepted as Capitalism, consumer brainwashing, and freely available easy
to use technology. The almost criminal acceptance of MIDI
as the tool for musical communication killed almost all relevant and
exciting music stone dead overnight. Gone were the slightly mistimed
notes that made music human, made by humans for humans. In came music
made by machines for corporations’ banks, and therefore for the New
World Order. This reached its zenith with the advent of post-acid, house
music; which along with stuff like the neutron bomb, LSD as a mind
control tool, assassinating dissenting public figures,- had its origins
in a secret room in the Pentagon. Music, and I hesitate to call it
music(program, or Pogrom, is more descriptive), for the Illuminatti, MK Ultra
for the unwashed masses. This is the stuff that turned us all into the
consumer monkeys that we are today; and the worst thing is that its
STILL here, after 25 fucking years!
Lets go back to the BC (before good computers) of electronic music.
When the only way instruments could talk to each other was with a
rather unpredictable thing called “Controlled Voltage/gate” (CV/gate),
or, by that even more unpredictable device called playing an instrument
by hand!!!?? How primitive, or rather how good was that? We are now
becoming in reality, a fleshed out version of that brit-flick
non-classic “Morons From OuterSpace”.
Technology has become so miniaturised and complex that we only know how
to operate it, but are clueless as to how it works. There was never
this problem with the original synthesisers, if a component failed it
was merely a case of replacing a defective part, or more often a swift
bang with the hammer and it functioned once more. Like 21st century cars, you can’t fix 21stcentury synthesisers yourself, you gotta pay the man, or buy a new one. That, and built –in-obsolescence, ensures the consumer treadmill of global doom keeps turning until we all starve to death.
This compilation celebrates the electronic world before MIDI
removed mankind from the equation. When, shock-horror, musicians played
synths “Live”with ….erm….“Hands”? Probably slightly out of sync with a
human drummer, standing at two electronic drum pads. Yes, there were
sequencers, but they were just as unreliable and unpredictable as those
inefficient fools that made them, homo sapiens.
I suppose this is the start of the next generation of evolution,
when man merges with machine. Cometh the Cyborg! But maybe worse, we
could all just exist as computer programs, like modern music, and the
incredibly shit modern cinema, which is nothing more than watching a
computer game for two hours. CGI consumer monkeys being controlled by a
CG new world order, in a fake self replicating digital universe, that
will hopefully disappear up its own Computer generated black(arse) hole.
Track Listing:
Part One : “Arpeggiators agogo”
1 – “Voodoo” – Chris and Cosey
2 – “Happy Funeral” – Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons
3 – “Lost in Madagascar” – Anne Cessna and Essendon Airport
4 – “ Mechanical Breakdown” – Crash Course in Science
5 – “Sexuality” – We Be Echo
6 – “Ottos Pornos” – Gorilla Aktiv
7 – “R.A.M.” – The Klingons
8 – “High Pressure Days” – Units
9 – “So Obvious” – Absolute Body Control
10 – “One Little Soldier” – Patrik Fitzgerald
11 – “Robot” – The Plastics
12 – “Et Hop” – Phillipe Laurent
13 – “Contemplation” – Solid Space
14 – “Untitled” – Portion Control
15 – “Day Breaks, Night Heals” – Thomas Leer and Robert Rental
16 – “The Fashion Party” – The Neon Judgement
17 – “Fat Cow” – Nervous Gender
18 – “This Deception” – The Midnight Circus
19 – “Computer Bank” – Phillip Lawrence and Mark Phillips
20 – “It’ll Never Work” – The Sea of Wires
Part Two : “Bleeps,Burps and Buzzes”
1 – “Spiegelbild” – Gorilla Aktiv
2 – “Push me pull you” – Futurisk
3 – “Cardboard Lamb” – Crash Course in Science
4 – “Spinola(blotch)” – Portion Control
5 – “Its Very Simple” – Ampnoise
6 – “Fatima” – Inertia
7 – “The Goo” – Noyz toyz
8 – “Shrinkwrap” – Attrition
9 – “I Like Your Elbows” –Colin Potter
10 – “Touch” – 96 Eyes
11 – “Kortsluiting” – Störung
12 – “Herzlos” – Stratis
13 – “Saturday” – Schicksal
14 – “Before Breakfast” – Irsol
15 – “Information Therapy” – Richard H. Kirk
16 – “Under press of Sail” – Claire Thomas and Susan Vezey
17 – “Endorphin” – Third Door From The Left
18 – “Fascination” – PseudoCode
19 – “Forgotten Boys” – DZ Lectric and Anthon Shield
20 – “Outreach” – Chris Carter