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september mp3 compilation

01. Charles Ives: Barn Dance From 'Washington's Birthday', Sketched in 1909, Scored in 1913. Taken from the 'Holidays Symphony' conducted by Tilson-Thomas, a disc which is a good warmup for the Fourth.
02. Holger Czukay: Der Osten Ist Rot Czukay's setting of the Chinese National Anthem, from 1984. His albums 'Movies' and 'On The Way To The Peak Of Normal' are landmarks. 'Der Osten Ist Rot' and 'Rome Remains Rome' are their pop equals.
03. Holger Hiller: Fresh Young Girls In Commercials From my favorite album of his, 'Little Present', a collage sourced from Japanese television, radio and field recordings, created as a present to his young son. Also search his 'Demixed', 'A Bunch of Foulness in the Pit' and the 'Ohi Ho Bang Bang' ep.
04. Public Enemy: Pollywanacraka / Who Stole The Soul? The outro and intro to two songs, from 1990's 'Fear of a Black Planet'. This compares nicely with the next track.
05. John Oswald: Recycled Music (excerpt) From a cassette in RRR's 'Recycled Music' series labelled simply 'John Oswald', I had no idea what this was when I bought it (around 1991). It turned out to be the preliminary work tapes for 'Plexure', with occasional segments of 'Preplex'. This section was ultimately condensed into 'Rip', the second half of the first track from 'Plexure'. A likeably unfinished snapshot on the road to the masterpiece. And compares nicely with the previous track.
06. Autechre: Microphone Fiend (Blifil) From the widely mp3'd Live At Coachella, 1999, this track probably isn't seeing official release anytime soon. The transition into the vocals always leaves me blinking.
07. Stockhausen: Kurzwellen (excerpt) For six players: five instrumentalists modulated by individual shortwave radios, and one sound projectionist with filters. Unlike 'Telemusik', a piece for live performance. The Stockhausen CDs only seem expensive until you're listening to them.
08. Glenn Gould: Stokowski Radio Documentary part 9 First broadcast by the CBC, February 2, 1971. Gould sets portions of an interview taped in the master conductor's apartment to excerpts of his various recordings. The music is mixed at an equal volume to the speaker, who frequently becomes unintelligible, especially here. The central piece is Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony.
09. Porest: Fist Dumplings Mark Gergis records with the group Mono Pause, and this is his solo project. From the criminally unreleased album 'Prude Juice For The Heritage Swinger'.
10. Psychedelik Skratch Bastardz: Battle Breaks Break records are ostensibly dj-only tools: a non stop montage of two to four bars taken from each of the most popular drum breaks, lined up strict tempo, punctuated with instrumental blasts; lots of different sounds to scratch with while the 'hit' plays through on turntable one. I wish more music sounded like some of these 'dj-only' tools; music made of all the best parts. This is my favorite breaks record, originally released in the early 90's, on the solidly reliable Dirt Style label.
11. James Tenney: Collage No. 1 ("Blue Suede") Often mentioned, not heard anywhere often enough. Composed in 1961. Taken from the just re-released 'Selected Works 1961-1969' on New World Records. Also search 'Collage No. 2 ("Viet Flakes"), available on the CD that accompanies issue 56 of Musicworks magazine.
Super Bonus Track. Brotha P Touch and Southern Man: Number of the Beast
Final Bonus Track. Carl Stone: Flint's The only thing that seems to fit at the end of this mix is -- Flint's. Find it here.