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Various - The Answering Machine Solution

Label:
Catalog#:
STCD 100
Format:
CD, Compilation
Country:
Netherlands
Released:
1996
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Experimental

Tracklist

1 A Small Good Thing*  -  Spread The Word 0:30
2 A Small Good Thing*  -  Puppy 0:32
3 People Like Us  -  Excuse Me A Moment (It's Alright) 0:36
4 Gregory Whitehead  -  Hello, Hi, Honey 0:37
5 Kingdom Scum  -  The Subconscious Conversational 0:50
6 Kingdom Scum  -  Witnessing The End Of A Relationship 0:24
7 Kingdom Scum  -  The Ultimate Generic Answering Machine Message 0:38
8 Hungry Ghost  -  One Phone Call 0:33
9 Hungry Ghost  -  Who Shares 0:28
10 Brunnen  -  The Ansaphone Song 0:29
11 Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin  -  Untitled 0:32
12 Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin  -  Untitled 0:31
13 Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin  -  Untitled 0:26
14 Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin  -  Untitled 0:28
15 Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin  -  Untitled 0:26
16 Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin  -  Untitled 0:16
17 Zombies Under Stress  -  Let My Blood Be A Seed Of Freedom 0:21
18 Martusciello*  -  STCD 100 0:42
19 Leif Elggren  -  The Kingdom Of Elgaland - Vargaland Outgoing Message 0:27
20 Leif Elggren  -  Shareware For Answering Machine 0:27
21 Dominique Petitgand  -  Merci Chérie 0:46
22 Konstruktivits*  -  Untitled 0:24
23 Konstruktivits*  -  Untitled 0:38
24 Impulse/Jara Discs  -  Untitled 0:26
25 Richard Bone  -  Untitled 0:30
26 Brume  -  France Telecom 0:35
27 Karl Blake  -  Love, Happiness And Prosperity 0:17
28 Karl Blake  -  Hurl Insults 0:34
29 Karl Blake  -  Beauty Spots 0:35
30 Sons Of Silence*  -  Silansa 1 0:23
31 116 Crew  -  I Can't Hear You 0:36
32 Disembodied Art Gallery, The  -  Flatline 0:35
33 Bad Sector  -  Untitled 0:30
34 Ilios  -  L.Y.M. 10ST 0:33
35 Ene  -  Greeting W/Sound 0:35
36 Peter Becker  -  Above Vivien's 0:31
37 Crawl Unit  -  The Moment Of Your Birth 0:35
38 Disaster Area (2)  -  Prolog 0:32
39 Hypostatic Union  -  Call Me 0:37
40 Hypostatic Union  -  Dial Again 0:41
41 Steve Roden / In Be Tween Noise  -  No Sign Of Any Living Person 0:30
42 Automaticity  -  There's A Call For You 0:24
43 PaSc  -  Not In Gone Out 0:34
44 F. Kelly  -  Dialing From Nowhere 0:30
45 F. Kelly  -  Holethelynepleas 0:41
46 Désaccord Majeur  -  Borl 0:31
  And Just Sounds:
47 Burkhard/Beins*  -  Steps 0:36
48 Jürgen Morgenstern  -  Pigs 1:14
49 Syllyk  -  Que Cosa? 0:35
50 Dawny McCarthy  -  Ta Na Heiweacha Go Heir Marbh Anois 0:32
51 RL36  -  Untitled 0:44
52 Left Hand Right Hand  -  Untitled 0:42
53 Karl Blake  -  87 Storm 0:32
54 Karl Blake  -  R.R. Tune 3:40
55 Ultrasound (3)  -  The Eye... (In The World) 0:41
56 Brume  -  The Defective Analogical Answering Machine Of A Sixty-Year-Old-Person's Night Club 0:43
57 Dubwize  -  R-P.I.A. 0:34
58 Martusciello*  -  Demos 0:20
59 Roel Meelkop  -  Untitled 0:31
60 Circus Of Pain  -  Rotula 0:21
61 Ene  -  Steve 0:23
62 Zombies Under Stress  -  I've Got A Message For You 0:39
63 Symetrics  -  Untitled 0:31
64 Deutsch Nepal  -  Mixed Messages 0:42
65 PaSc  -  Telephone Pad Two 1:47
66 Unknown Artist  -  Shamanic Songs Of Yemani Upon Installation Of Telephone Equipment 0:39
    Recorded By [From An Original Field Recording Made By] - Nigel Ayers

Credits

Artwork By - Rob Meerman
Other [Liner Notes] - Karl Blake
Photography - K De Mendonca

Notes

This CD celebrates the 100th CD release of Staalplaat.
Front cover photo: "Babble": a disembodied art gallery installation.

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Rated 5/5
Review by Alastis Feb 05, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
By all means, this was supposed to be one-trick pony.
This is a collection of messages for answering machine by the likes of Bad Sector, Deutsch Nepal, Kingdom Scum, Brunnen, Left Hand Right Hand, Brume, Crawl Unit and many others.
But somehow creators of this compilation were able to destroy limitation of concept compilations dealing with extremely short tracks (you know - 60 seconds of this, 30 this secons of this - with rare exceptions its not extremely interesting).
A lot of those tracks are unbelievably funny and retain comic value for quite a long time. There's a variety of tracks ranging from insane preacher conversations with his dog and listeners (A Small Good Thing) to song by answering machine (Brunnen) to subconcious conversations (Kingdom Scum).
Certainly there are few tracks that don't fit into the subject or simply waste space on CD (in particular, Nigel Ayers track - the longest one on this comp). But overall this is very enjoyable one-of-a-kind release, which might not be suitable for constant listening, but might improve overall mood of the listener.