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airport war (usa) #awr 006 lp

airport warin dreams begin responsibilities” one-sided long playing record

  • in dreams begin responsibilities (?)
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june 2008 release ; sixth art-record/object from james hoff’s airport war (missed here @ mms :: awr 5 “live at the new museum” and awr 6 “tour split with religious knives” - drat) - an lp-record with only a few stray grooves of audio on one side (patty hearst’s phonecall to her parents, with the phrase “i’m ok” ending in an endless lock-groove) and a screen-print covering the other. neat idea, works well as a “table music” variant either in or out of the gallery (i gave a copy a good two/three hours of repetition before i had to take it off) ...

ps. pls. specify your blowjob :: red over blue, or blue over red ...
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in dreams begin responsiblities
airport war

this latest lp from airport war is 12 inches of guilt-by-association (or rather the bastard child between delmore schwartz, pornography, the moor murders, raymond pettibon, sonic youth, and patty hearst). all represented in either, title, image, or sound, they demonstrate the collapse between audience and performer—with the record being the rate of exchange. version/inversion (a figure 8), this piece of plastic is the intersection that connects airport war to his audience and himself to his art—a meditation on medium.

in dreams begins responsibilities features a single loop of patty heart's long lost phone call from the closet to her parents—the first call after her kidnapping by the sla. the call was originally recorded on tape and then played over the phone and then transferred to tape for the world to hear—a performance distributed via news networks throughout the world to millions of people (had it been sold/it'd have gone gold in seconds).

specifically, the loop contains the first four words: mom, dad, i'm okay. the last two words "i'm okay" repeat into infinity or until the listener grows tired, the record wears out or the player breaks down.

the record comes in two version, with the sole difference being the inversion of the two color silkscreen process—one with red overlay and one with blue overlay. silkscreen ink was applied directly to the record.

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airport war (usa) #awr 003 ep

airport war / new humansthe wedding album” one-sided seven inch single record

  • airport war - untitled (left channel)
  • new humans - before style (right channel)
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april 2007 release on/by james hoff’s airport war label/project. in this case the object and its content are irrevocably linked; the record itself is painted/printed off-register one side, with the two pieces sharing the playable side, one in the left channel, the other in the right channel.

the music consists of a hailstorm of feedback (left, presumably airport war if my stereo is wired correctly) coupled with the panasonic-esque repeat-thump/gabber of new humans. separately, the two pieces of music are varied enough to hold one’s interest (to experience them individually, acquaint yourself with your pan-knob) - together it’s an almost wolf-eyes-ian mix of primal thump & cracked electronics; a successful synergistic mix w/out a hint of incongruity...

a nice record, but more importantly, a nice thing. highly recommended ...
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airport war / new humans: the wedding album

airport war contributes the left channel and the new humans contribute to the right channel to a one-sided record. the result is a five minute wedding of violent bliss. cover is an untitled wedding photo (1970) that is silkscreened in off-registered yellow, red, and blue. the wedding was short lived, the groom stabbing the bride several dozen times shortly after the honeymoon.

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airport war (usa) #awr 002 lp

war slutwall as mistress” double one-sided long playing record set

  • the buildings call me names (part ii)
  • don’t say please
  • fallen statues we salute you

  • hung by the floor
  • where’d the gun go?
  • lawn
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second release from airport war (the first being some sort of 4-part record-as-triptych...) - a double one-sided lp by war slut... and by double one-sided lp i mean specifically two copies of the same record; one with an image silkscreened over the grooves on the b-side, ditto the other over the a-side.

the music is noise-addled free-rock with a fair-share of drum-plod & vocal histrionics c/o mike skinner & elizabeth sporleder, respectively... never quite gets into harsh-noise territory; closer in spirit to early swans records.
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war slut: wall as mistress

airport war (guitar)
gary hustwit (electronics)
mike skinner (drums)
elizabeth sporleder (voice)

posthumous album by war slut. studio and live recordings taken from an ill-fated 2005 european tour that the saw band caught in the middle of a knife fight in prague and getting thrown out of their own headline by police at the famed kinsky club in berlin. cut short, the band returned stateside, rented an abandoned warehouse and recorded a few songs before throwing their instruments into a pile and lighting it on fire. war slut was dead--wall as mistress is their epitaph.

the record comes in three versions: porn star, pop star, and prince. images are silkscreened directly onto the record, which is still playable, providing a visual remix to each side. two records per set, one with side a defaced and one with side b defaced.

previous record label:
 aim 
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