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Black Lung - The Depopulation Bomb - 14-Mar-05 08:42 AM
The following quote appears inside the booklet for this album and is good to think about whilst listening:
"Within the next 5 to 10 years, it would probably be possible to make a new infective micro-organism which could differ in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease.
A research program to explore the feasability of this could be completed in approximately five years at a total cost of ten million dollars.
It is a highly controversial issue, and there are many who believe such research should not be undertaken least it lead to yet another method of mass killing of large populations. On the other hand, without the sure scientific knowledge that such a weapon is possible, and an understanding of the ways it could be done, there is little that can be done to devise defensive measures.
Should an enemy develop it there is little doubt that this is an important area of potential military technological inferiority in which there is no adequate research program."
Dr. Donald M. MacArthur
Deputy Director, Department Of Defence; Research and Technology Division.
9/6/1969.
Merzbow - Maschinenstil - 25-Jan-05 01:40 AM
Dual Plover proudly claim to be the only record label in the world to ever spell Masami Akita's name wrong in the credits (Thats not bad considering well over 200 releases on as many labels).
Merzbow - Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused And Recycled - 22-Oct-03 02:41 AM
i am still trying to get past how good the first four tracks are.... DJ Spooky is brilliant with his fucked up piece of tunage, Dj Rupture is good to but then Plug just blows me away with his Dnb bass mix, the best DnB track and the best Plug track i have heard in a long long time... then Alec Empire blasts some very nice noisy hardcore, much noisier then anything else i have heard from him of late... great album...
Maladroit - Death To False Metal - 22-Jun-03 04:33 PM
Some very nicely constructed hardcore, using an eclectic mix of pop tunes and some great voice samples Maladroit has created an album that is very easy to listen to, dance to and do all sorts of things to. My favoirite track on the album is number 8 DMT, i think its probably because of its dance-ability i seem to be jumping around everytime i hear it. I showed the track to a friend and they told me they couldnt listen to it because it used a B52s track that brought back bad memories for them, i love it. Track number 4 places some breakbeats over a really popular rock track that has been used in war movies and ads for various products, i am pretty sure that it is a Rolling Stones track but don't quote me on that one. Track 5 takes parts of 'we didnt start the fire' by Billy Joel and distorts them until they are barely recognisable and creates a track that you can definately tell is Billy Joel if you know the song, however its very hardcore, breaky and as catchy as the original (or more catchy perhaps as the original didnt catch me). Track 6 comes in rather dark sounding then leads into a vocal sample about meeting an angel which sets the mood for the rest of the track which becomes quite intense with beats and breaks and erratic sounds all over. Track 9 cleverly uses some hip hop vocal samples, particularly one of what sounds like a guy saying 'we got deathstar', and the star wars 'imperial march' to make a fairly easy listening hardcore track. While i have talked mainly of samples and distorting pop tracks there is much originality in the construction which is what makes it an outstanding album. Definately my favorite of the first 3 Power Violence releases.
Various - The Rebirth Of Fool Volume 2 - 28-May-03 08:32 PM
The Rebirth Of Fool Volume 2 has been compiled by DJ Smallcock of Sydney experimental label Dual Plover. It was released in 2001 and contains 25 tracks of mostly Australian experimental music artists. As with the current Dual Plover project, the Chad Morgan tribute album, submissions were asked for on the Dual Plover website and on various mailing lists etc. I have never heard of most of the artists on the album however I do recognise two overseas artists known in avant garde circles Melt Banana and Sweden who also have an album out on the label. Some of the interesting tracks are 04 which is a computer voice putting somebody down to some noise in the background 05 a country and western tune, 08 a very strange radio conversation on 2GB Sydney 12 a cut up mix of a John Farnham track 16 a groovy electro pop track 20 is a slow beaty electronic track and 26 which is uncredited sounds like an 80s horror movie synth soundtrack singing about 'nudist colonies of the dead'. Parodies of country & western, ballads and pop music is popular, something I have been noticing in many releases of late. The album is a good introduction to the different techniques local people are using to create different kinds of experimental music now days.
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