It's hard to describe this pick. Let's do it this way. There are two kinds of people. People who think The Beatles song "Revolution 9" is brilliant and those that think it is the worst Beatles song ever. This pick is not for the latter, because all of the songs on this playlist are descended from Revolution 9. You will hate or love this playlist. There is no inbetween. I am in the love category which is why I made what was originally this cassette. But now redone in better quality. Not spoken word, but incorporating found cut ups like William S Burroughs did (I'll post a comp of his sometime), but also incorporating samples of sound and music in various ways. The Beatles didn't do it first, but they did get it into every household of America first.
Classifieds Pick
Side 1
01 Red Zone - News From The Red Zone
02 Negativland - Time Zones
03 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Time Zones
04 Hage Van Dijk - Sorry, But I'm Building A Flying Saucer
05 Jane Bond & the Undercover Men - Stuff We're Not Supposed To Know
06 Beatles - Revolution 9
07 Copernicus - They Own Everything
08 Étant Donnés - Le Coeur Sert Le Corps
09 Blah Blah Blah - Central Park
Side 2
10 Front 242 - Funkahdafi
11 Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit
12 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Southern
13 Voice Farm - Reconstruction
14 Frank Zappa - Porn Wars
15 Bill Nelson - Hard Facts From The Fiction Department
16 Cabaret Voltaire - Gut Level
17 Touch Ritual - Departing Platform 5
18 Bill Nelson - Exactly The Way You Want It
19 Bill Nelson's Orchestra Arcana - Why Be Lonely
Thanks for sharing these, every mix I've heard is amazing! Where can I find more of Red Zone? I cannot find anything about them online!
ReplyDeleteDon't know much about them. I first heard them in the late 80's. All the "lyrics" were done by an author John Strausbaugh from his book "Flying Fish" and the "music" including mixing and recording was done by McGregor Boyle who I kinda remember being a professor of music from some University (John Hopkins?). It was a live performance with dancers and stuff like that and as far as I know, they did not make another album.
DeleteBTW, not the only University type performance on this pick. Hage Van Dijk was from a performance at San Jose State University.
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