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2002 |
Perilous 622 There’s been some pretty amusing material floating around in the current rash of plunderphonics and pop bootlegging. Reissued by Spymania comes a highly illegal release from duo Cassette Boy called The Parker Tapes. Bulging at the limits of the cd format at 98 tracks, The Parker Tapes is seventy minutes of short cut ups of radio and tv spoken word and a few pop rearrangements. Jamie Oliver’s inane kitchen banter is reorganised to have him tell you “I’m a little tosser” and the like while a BBC period drama becomes a saucy tale of group sex with a few rearranged words. S Club 7 sing about “going down” on each other at the S Club Party with a few cuts and nimble splicing, and Tony Blair vows to “wage war on poor little 11 yr old Emma O’Brien” and that government is really just about “the drugs, the cars, and the money”. Apparently seven years in the making, The Parker Tapes is well worth tracking down for its sharp wit and cultural references – spot the little one bar excerpt of Tyree’s classic acid house track Acid Over. Clever. On the local front, Sydney resident Dsico has completed another batch of merciless pop fuckups. They can be downloaded from his website at www.4trak.net/dsico. Kylie, Christina Aguilera, Beyonce Knowles, and Nelly get the treatment. Most exctingly, Dsico has been busy building a more automated method of making these bootlegs. Using Cubase he drops in tempo markers at each bar of the original track then runs his custom built patches in Reaktor as a virtual instrument in Cubase to digitally mutate/mutilate as the original plays. This system is getting progressively more flexible and allows him to set different parameters of mutilation and then export those patterns to apply to other songs. He is working on making the process even more automatic leaving him time to create more weird and wonderful software-based digital effects. Dsico will be explaining how all this works and demonstrating it in action in Newcastle as part of Sound Summit over the long weekend where he takes part in a remixing workshop with Melbourne’s Ben Frost and touring Canadian producer Manitoba. As you will no doubt read over coming weeks, Sound Summit in Newcastle has a stack of exciting things going on. On the hip hop side of things Katalyst and Danielsan from Koolism will be running a hip hop production workshop deconstructing their productions and demonstrating techniques, whilst Anticon affiliate Sage Francis will be doing some MC workshops. Southern Outpost’s Sofie Loizou and Phil Chan will be doing a techno and electro production workshop with Tokyo-based Funkarmor, and NZ drum & bass producer Evan short from Concord Dawn, who has recently released for Renegade Hardware, will discuss mastering. Mark N and Dual Plover cover manufacturing options for vinyl and CD while AIR and the MMF will be advising on management, contract and royalty issues for independent labels and artists. Unlike other music development conferences, Sound Summit is cheap - $30 for 3 days or $15 a day. There’ll be a shop at which you can leave your own releases to sell and if you are a NSW-based independent electronic or hip hop artist or label then you can even apply for a travel subsidy by sending an artistic CV to info@soundsummit.org with a short note advising you want to apply for a travel subsidy. Preference will be given to labels/artists outside the central CBD of Sydney and to new and emerging labels/artists. And at Frigid over the next fortnight we launch the Hermitude album on Elefant Traks on the 22nd with special guests from Adelaide The New Pollutants who come on like a mix of Buck65 and DJ Shadow (and were last week’s 3D World album of the week). The 22nd is $5 on the door. On the 29th its San Francisco’s craziest girl electro cabaret courtesy of Kevin Belchdom of Blechdom from Blectum. Blechdom records for Kid606’s label Tigerbeat6 and promises a highly entertaining and amusing show certain to blow you away. She is joined by who else but Melbourne’s craziest hip hop crew Curse Ov Dialect. No advance sales on this one – just $10 at the door. Yellow Peril (www.snarl.org)  Goto
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