Background Noise : 2006 in Review.

After the tremendous success and euphoria of the now now Festival we finally present our review of 2006 (congratulations to all the organisers and especially Clare Cooper and Clayton Thomas) in music and the arts and of course our obligatory list of obituaries, those we farewell but will never forget. Between the music tracks from CDs I have most enjoyed bringing you this year I will intersperse highlights in DVD and book releases, films, performances and exhibitions and our list of obituaries. I will play the CD’s approximately in the order in which I played them this year.

CD Title, Artist, Label, Track/Title

Flux Compendium, Robin Fox/, Editions Mego, 4/$2.50 Anthony Pateras

MIT#2,
Aube,Sordide sentimentale , 1/Raid In

Anthology Of Noise and Electronic Music, volume 4 John Waterman, Sub Rosa ,CD2/7/still warm Part One

Dataplex,Ryoji Ikeda,Raster Noton,20/data adaplex

Extermination,Objekt 4,2/No.1 Processing Tower

Life without Fear,Ekkhard Ehlers,Staubgold,7/Misorodzi Part Two

Avon Calling (CD2),Social Security,Cherry Red,choc ice

Music in the Margin –var/Konstantin Raudive, Sub
Rosa, 11/radio stimme – Microphone stimmeTouch 25,Chris Watson, Touch Music,7/conversations Part Three Liquid Architecture 7,The
Loop Orchestra,Circa compilation For,Alva-Noto,12K,6/jr

Aerial 3,Tod Dockstader,Sub Rosa,17/pressure

Dreams Interrupted,Glaxo babies, Cherry Red, 14/ maximum sexual joy

Part Four

The link is here.

Liberation Through Listening: 1st edition (rare!)

The first in a series of one of those ghastly radio programmes in which people thrust their downright unusual taste in music right down your ears. You know the sort of thing. It’s like when you pop around to a friend’s house for a nice cup of tea and some conversation but the bastard keeps saying “You must listen to this one!” and you don’t know many of the tunes at all, if there even is a tune, and you shudder and wonder whether you are going to get offered a Jammie Dodger or even a bloody Digestive. But no.

The first editon features Jet (not that one, the one before it), Sparks, Human League, Cousin Silas, Cabaret Voltaire, Faust, Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio, Annette Peacock, John Keating & his Orchestra, Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra, Mort Garson, Baby Buddha, Arahang, Christian Vander, Magma and R. Crumb.

Obtain liberation through listening to the audio stream. It’s in WMA format.