[peel] It's time to play Name That Tune

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The only names that spring to my mind are Matmos or Keiran Hebden
(Fridge/Four Tet)...

Original Message:
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From:  justine@...eserve.co.uk
Date: 06 Jan 2003 09:38:40 +0000
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [peel] It's time to play Name That Tune


Not Akufen was it? sounds like his kinda stuff... but I'm probably way off.

http://www.ableton.com/content/reloadFrameset.html?content-artist-Akufen.htm
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Justine


> ** Original Subject: RE: [peel] It's time to play Name That Tune
> ** Original Sender: Tom Roche <troche@...>
> ** Original Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 05:23:12 +0000

> ** Original Message follows... 

>
> I've been away from the computer for a time, just getting back from a lot
of travel.... have enjoyed all the F50 talk. I have tapes coming soon and
will hear it all eventually; I just flew back and have heard none of it so
far. Each year I note it is a different F50 listening experience on tape/CD
than live on the FM - you can stop and back up for the good stuff and burn
by the weak stuff. Sometimes I will stop and play a track over and over
(the quiet track  2 years back by Broadcast for example) so it can take me
weeks to get to the bitter end....
> 
> I spent the last 12 days in Northern Vermont and later Boston, with
family. Got a nor'easter (AKA a big snowstorm) as we arrived, and as we
left. Lovely though. Speaking of Boston... I heard a lot of excellent radio
there. One non-commercial station, WMUR, played short loud fast new indie
rock almost all day all the time - just an avalanche of great stuff. I'll
look into whether they webcast. Another station just played reggae.
> 
> Dialing around one night I heard an amazing electronica track... a series
of 3 or 4 tracks really. It was one of those rare instances where I
prepared a pen and paper to write down what it was - it was so much of a
"must have" track. It went on 20 minutes, no announcer. Then it ended. Then
dead air. Then a LOT of dead air, but the carrier was still there. I soon
realized I'd been listening to a pirate, a strong one at that. 90.25 FM.
Again I was on vacation in a cabin; no way to tape it.
> 
> So allow me to describe this unique thing, maybe you can identify it? The
3 or 4 tracks all had a basic simple catchy synth riff with a basic
not-too-complicated drum track driving it along. The melody however, was
made up entirely of tiny tiny seemingly random music samples, none longer
than a second and most closer to a half second in length. I mean really
short: a vocal fragment, a bass fragment, a horn, a fragment of a word, a
guitar chord, etc etc. These had all seemingly been sorted out by pitch and
then were all hard cut microscopically back to back, no looping, no fading,
to create an identifiable melody/riff. Once the 20 or 30 hard edits rolled
by, they got out of the way for the synth/drum backing track to drive
along, then the same 20 or 30 "notes/noises" so to speak would play again,
giving the piece some structure. It was so weird and so funny, brilliant.
Sorta like Cowcube but with 40 times the complexity.
> 
> My wife thought it to be more like annoying soulless computer music, but
it was cold and organic at the same time. Maybe it was a just a pirate
thing, non-released. But it clearly was a lot of work. All the samples -
which seeming spanned decades of music - were clearly stolen, but the
samples were so so tiny and short it would be impossible for someone to
raise a legal issue.
> 
> Ideas anyone? I know it's a long shot...Maybe someone on this list could
suggest a techno/electronica list I could post this query to?
> 
> That was a dangling participle, wasn't it. Sorry.
> 
> tom in atlanta
> 
> 
> 
> ps: in early December in was in Los Angeles on business...my brother and
I ventured out to see - and it takes a real man to admit this - Harvey Sid
Fisher. His performance was... well, we weren't laughing at him or with
him. Just near him. 
> 
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