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Sub Rosa’s essential compilation series culminates with this cherry-picked, 38-track triple disc and 84-page booklet of critical and biographic notes.
For many sonic explorers this series has provided an invaluable gateway to the outer limits of recorded electronic music, delving deep into the wormholes of musique concrète, electro-acoustic, modern composition and computer music beyond common knowledge to document a worldwide rhizome of experimentation, research and mutation following the development from national radio facilities to home studios and the advent of laptop computers. On disc 1 of volume 7 we’re lead from Henry Jacob’s beguiling tape loops and narration on ‘Sonata for Loudspeakers’ (1953-4) to the very first piece of recorded sound ever made,…
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…Éduoard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s ‘Au clair de la lune’ (1860), taking in Bebe & Louis Barron’s ‘Bells Of Atlantis’, Bülent Arel’s incredible, alien space sounds ‘Electronic Music’ (1961), and the microscopic concrète of Slawek Kwi + Siobhan McDonald’s ‘Lava Samples’ (2012), among many others along the way. Disc 2 follows a noisier, atonal theme, taking in plunderphonic pioneer John Oswald’s ‘Vertical Time’ (1973), alongside the blistered drums of Isräel Quellet’ ‘Pour percussions et saturation’ (2007), Fausto Romitelli’s guitar feedback sculpture ‘Trash TV Trance’ and Experimental Audio Research’s psychedelic incursion, ‘Beyond the Pale’ (1992) plus the avant-garde seance of Henry Cow’s ‘From Triondheim’ (1976). Finally, disc 3 creates meta-physical ligaments between the ghostly ‘Collage’ (1965) of Polish composer Eugeniusz Rudnik to the decayed minimalism of Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘Chance versus Causality’ (1979) thru the vibrational presence of Mika Vainio’s ‘Transformer in 7′ (2011), the spectral drones of Klangkreig’s ‘Korpus I’ (1996) and The New Blockaders’ vicious blast from the abyss ‘Blockade Is Resistance’ (1983) to the transcendant acid techno malevolence of Agro / Brandon Spivey + Richie Anderson’s ‘Only Those Who Attempt The Impossible Will Achieve The Absurd’ (1995). — boomkat
Disc 1
1. Henry Jacobs – Sonata for Loudspeakers (9:22)
2. Dziga Vertov – Radio-Ear (Radio Pravda) (2:58)
3. Louis and Bebe Barron – Bells of Atlantis (9:02)
4. Luciano Berio – Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (6:14)
5. Bülent Arel – Electronic Music (8:39)
6. Don Preston – Analog Heaven #6 (3:06)
7. Slawek Kwi & Siobhàn Mcdonald – Lava Samples (2:04)
8. Benjamin Thigpen – Thread0 (5:26)
9. Helmut Schäfer – Infuse (7:38)
10. Novi_sad – The Insolence of a Poppy (13:24)
11. Saule – Paperfilm (11:23)
12. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville – Au Clair De La Lune (0:16) *earliest singing record, from 1860
Disc 2
1. John Oswald – Vertical Time (10:00)
2. Israël Quellet – Pour Percussion Et Saturation (2:23)
3. Dennis Wong & Sin;Net – Decomposition (5:04)
4. Alan Courtis – Mind Broncoespasmo (2:37)
5. Fausto Romitelli – Trash TV Trance (10:11)
6. Justin K. Broadrick – Guitar Three (10:23)
7. Storm Bugs – Cash Wash / Eat Good Beans (3:42)
8. E.A.R. – Beyond the Pale (14:51)
9. Henry Cow – From Trondheim (13:07)
10. Osso Exotico – Rota de Inverno (4:45)
Disc 3
1. Eugeniusz Rudnik – Collage (5:00)
2. Eduardo Polonio – Transparencias (7:09)
3. Cabaret Voltaire – Chance Versus Causuality (5:49)
4. Mika Vainio – Transformer In 7 (5:58)
5. Juan Jose Calarco & Alma Laprida – Contorso (2:38)
6. Klangkrieg – Korpus 1 (3:37)
7. Gintas Kraptavicius – 4M (7:21)
8. Warong Rachapreecha – Shambles (0:55)
9. The New Blockaders – Blockade Is Resistance (8:13)
10. GX Jupitter-Larsen & The Haters – Fuechen (5:22)
11. The Rita – Skate (5:01)
12. To Die – Terhempas Luka / Jurang Nestapa (1:05)
13. Agro – Only Those Who Attempt the Impossible Will Achieve the Absurd (4:10)
14. Jamka – Wild Rosa Tree (5:50)
15. Erin Sexton – Suspend / 2 Electromagnetic Amplifiers (4:53)
16. Gustavo Serpa – Astro Metal (6:06)
17. Anonymous – Untitled (0:23)