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| | | impulsy stetoskopu (poland) #impulsy 002 cd the xx committee “network” compact disc - network of noise (5:01)
- unwashed sundays (5:01)
- drone 1 (2:12)
- prayer wells (4:20)
- drone 2 (2:14)
- damarc (4:19)
- mass machina (4:12)
- drone 3 (2:03)
- national re-doubt (6:23)
- deep red (2:13)
| september 2008 release ; new polish “25th anniverary” edition of the 1983 thermidor-label album lp by chris scarpino and scott “swill radio / idea fire company” foust’s twenty committee ...
here’s what scott has to say (one of few people i know of to speak eloquently about their own music) ::
the twenty committee was my project with chris scarpino; it ran from 1981-1985. network was my first lp release and the first classic of my long career. it was the second xx committee release following a cassette, steel negro music, on arph records. network was originally supposed to appear on charles ball's lust/unlust label but it went bust (unbust). luckily, a couple of weeks after we heard the terrible, terrible news, thermidor records got in touch and ended up releasing the lp.
our idea was simple one. we wanted to strip industrial music, which we both enjoyed, of all of its rock moves and create a music that sounded like idealized heavy industrial machinery. we thought the repetition of our music, as well as the sound, was a radical critique of the exploitive nature of work under consumer-capitalism. we wanted to make machine-like anthems of negativity, but like the sound of heavy machinery, with a stark and powerful beauty. that's what we thought, anyway.
the record sank without a trace. chris got disillusioned over the actual opportunity to make good art and make a living and went into engineering. i've stayed the course. it seems like he may have been right. at any rate, this is a nicely done and fully authorized re-issue by the polish label impulsy stetoskopu. numbered edition of 250 copies, well mastered from the lp. nice digipak reproduction of the cover with photos on the inside. |
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