Playlist
MIXING IT
Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
Produced by James Parkin
Factsheet compiled by Sam Hickling
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Friday 13 October 2006, 10:15pm
Lazy B: Underwear Goes Inside the Pants (4.55)
Lazy B is Danish producer Søren Nystrøm Rasted, formerly of pop band Aqua. The featured stand-up comedian on this track is New Yorker Greg Giraldo. This record was a huge hit in the United States.
album: Lazy B TV
Universal 9857247
http://www.lazyboytv.com/
http://greggiraldo.com/
Kemper Norton 23: Average Domestic Usage (4.00)
This comes from a concept album project by the Cornish collective known as Kemper Norton. They have invited their musical associates to join them in producing pieces of music around the theme of south west water. This works on two levels, being a celebration of water in all its forms in south west England (from 'drizzle in Plymouth' to 'crowded beaches' to 'fizzy water in a Padstow restaurant') and also a protest against what they see as the 'corporate greed' of water companies in the region.
album: KN Sampler
Not commercially available yet
http://www.tagworld.com/kempernorton23
http://www.myspace.com/kempernorton
The Necks: Buoyant (5.10)
The Necks are the Australian trio of Chris Abrahams (piano/organ/keyboards), Tony Buck (drums/percussion/guitar) and Lloyd Swanton (bass).
album: Chemist
ReR Megacorp NECK57
http://www.thenecks.com/
http://www.rermegacorp.com/
Click here for a review of this album
ISWHAT?!: Kashmir (4.23)
In June this year Mixing It featured a track from a new Roy Nathanson album Sotto Voce (Aum Fidelity AUM037). The track featured vocalist and human beatboxer Napoleon Maddox, who subsequently contacted Mixing It about his own project ISWHAT?! This is their version of the old Led Zeppelin number.
Napoleon Maddox (vocals/human beatbox); Jack Walker (tenor sax); Matthew Anderson (acoustic bass); recorded at Artswatch in Louisville, Kentucky
album: The Life We Chose
Hyena Records HYN 9351
http://www.myspace.com/iswhatsince1997
http://www.hyenarecords.com/
Nurse With Wound: Rock 'n Roll Station (6.33)
This comes from the recently re-released Nurse With Wound album that originally appeared in 1994.
Steven Stapleton (things that make noise); Colin Potter (things that change noise) with Peat Bog (didgeridoo/rhythm guitar)
album: Rock 'n Roll Station
Beta-lactam Ring Records 75390-71414-29
http://brainwashed.com/nww/
http://www.blrrecords.com/
Girl Talk: Smash Your Head (3.04)
Girl Talk is the alias of Gregg Gillis, a master of the cut-up, as evidenced in this track which borrows from Quincy Jones and Elton John, amongst others. This is from Greg's third album as Girl Talk, which has been described by Negativland as 'a plunderphonics party record'.
album: Night Ripper
Illegal Art IA113
http://www.girl-talk.net/
http://www.myspace.com/girltalkmusic
http://www.illegalart.net/
Awol One: Underground Killz - feat. 2Mex & KRS-One (5.58)
This track by the Californian hip-hop producer and DJ features vocal contributions from 2Mex of the Visionaries and Songodsuns, and KRS-One of Boogie Down Productions.
album: The War of Art
Cornerstone RAS CRAS-CD-052
http://www.awolone.com/
http://www.theshapeshifters.net/
http://www.cornerstoneras.com/
Asmus Tietchens: Zu viele dicke Kinder (4.04)
This record originally came out 20 years ago, and was intended to reflect the sense of nuclear paranoia and fear that abounded in that era. And although Asmus Tietchens didn't consider himself to be part of the industrial music movement of the time, he did feel a thematic empathy for it.
album: Geboren, um zu Dienen
Die Stadt DS 92
http://www.diestadtmusik.de/
http://www.tietchens.de/
President of the Globe: Grashupfer (6.26)
Translation by Oskar Pastior
Elisa Roep (soprano voice); Alec Kopyt (voice); Tobias Klein (clarinets/alto sax/live electronics); Albert van Veenendaal (prepared piano/sampler); Meinrad Kneer (bass)
Velimir Chlebnikov was a Russian Futurist poet. The Russian Futurists flourished in St Petersburg around 1912, and invented their own language called 'Zaum'. They also founded the Society of 317 Wise Men, which was meant to rule the world. After the Russian Revolution, Chlebnikov joined the Red Army and went to Persia. He died of under-nourishment and exhaustion at the age of 36, and the words 'The First President of the Globe' were inscribed on his coffin.
album: Music around the poetry of Velimir Chlebnikov (1885-1922)
Trytone TT 559-032
http://www.presidentoftheglobe.nl/
http://www.trytone.org/
Jóhann Jóhannsson: The sun's gone dim and the sky's turned black (5.35)
This is from the new album by the Icelandic composer and member of Apparat Organ Quartet. It's based on music that was created by his father, using the first ever computer in Iceland, which was an IBM 1401 Data Processing System. With the help of the choreographer Erna Ómarsdottir, he has developed the album into a touring dance piece.
album: IBM 1401, A User's Manual
4AD CAD 2609 CD
http://www.johannjohannsson.com/
http://www.4ad.com/
http://www.id.is/
Laurie Anderson: The Fifth Plague (3.22)
Scott Walker: Darkness (3.43)
These two tracks come from an album put together at the suggestion of the British Arts Organisation known as Artangel, to accompany the event which took place in September called the Margate Exodus. There these songs were sung by local musicians, but here they are sung by internationally renowned artists including Rufus Wainwright, Robert Wyatt, Stephin Merritt and Brian Eno. The concept is based around the ten Biblical plagues from the book of Exodus. Here, Laurie Anderson takes on the Death of Livestock, and Scott Walker tackles Darkness.
album: Plague Songs
4AD CAD 2616 CD
http://www.margateexodus.org.uk/
http://www.4ad.com/
Akron/Family: Love and Space (3.34)
The Brooklyn four-piece have a new album out, which concludes with this favourite from their incendiary live shows.
album: Meek Warrior
Young God Records YG33
http://www.akronfamily.com/
http://www.younggodrecords.com/
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