New York in the Sixties – A Hotbed for Experiments
- Tagged as: Angus MacLise, Gerard Malanga, Henry Flynt, Henry Flynt & The Insurrections, Ingrid Superstar, Jack Smith, John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Plastic Clock Radio, Richard Maxfield, Steve Weber, The East Village Other, The Velvet Underground, Tony Conrad, Tuli Kupferberg, William S. Burroughs
Tellus – New York City’s Art Scene on Tape (1983-90)
- Tagged as: Alexis Alrich, Blackhouse, Carol Parkinson, Claudia Gould, David Blair, George Brecht, George Elliot, George Maciunas, Glenn Branca, Gretchen Bender, James Tenney, Jamie Daglish, Jane Bauman, John Fekner, Jonathan Borofsky, Joseph Nechvatal, Kathryn High, Liquid Liquid, Live Skull, Marjorie van Halteren, Paul Bowles, Peter Chamberlain, Rais Mahamad Ben Mohammed and Ensemble, Steve Pollack, Wolfgang Staehle
Wearing eyeball helmets is the trademark of the Californian artist collective The Residents. Inspired by avantgarde and pop, the band anticipated the idea of audio piracy and developed groundbreaking multimedia projects. 42-minute mix with some of the group’s conceptional thematic compositions and deconstructions of Western popular music.
Equally at home in the art world and the artists’ pub, Ata Tak‘s proprietors managed their label from a nice office in Düsseldorf; in the adjoining music studio, they pursued the idea of a world rebellion with sound – as Der Plan. 32 minutes with Holger Hiller, Minus Delta T, Picky Picnic, Wirtschaftswunder and others.
The stoic, almost machine like drumming of many West-German tunes from the early Seventies became the hallmark of a new sound – different from British pop or American rock, and in no way related to the country's horrible Nazi past. 45 minutes with Cluster, Faust, Harmonia 76, Wolfgang Riechmann and others.
Yellow Magic Orchestra’s concept of connecting pop, dance music, and Far Eastern folklore quickly became synonymous with technopop in Japan. The band’s members also occured in each others solo recordings and cooperated with other musicians. 49 minutes with Apogee & Perigee, Friends Of Earth, Miharu Koshi, Ryuichi Sakamoto & The Kakutougi Session and others.
Fuelled by collaborations between producers, singers, and studio musicians in ever new constellations, the Seventies mark the transition from ska and rocksteady into a multitude of styles in Jamaica. 46 minutes with Keith Hudson, Norma White & Brentford Disco Set, Sound Dimension, Susan Cadogan and others.
Free of artificial ornamentation, well balanced, and designed with love for detail, some Eighties' Japanese ambient music resembles the concept of the countries' traditional gardens. 51 minutes of music striving to enhance environments – with works by Haruomi Hosono, Inoyama Land, Masahiro Sugaya, Yasuaki Shimizu and others.
Sekt oder Karies – West Germany in the 80s
- Tagged as: Alexander Hacke, Andreas Dorau, Claudia Skoda, Conrad Schnitzler, DAF, Der Plan, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Die Dominas, Die Tödliche Doris, Die Zimmermänner, Einstürzende Neubauten, Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle, Holger Hiller, Ingrid Wiener, Manuel Göttsching, Martin Kippenberger, Max Müller, Rosi Müller, Santrra, Säurekeller, Sentimentale Jugend, Sternhagel, Xao Seffcheque
Big Egos – Sound Works by Visual Artists (1981-2006)
- Tagged as: Carole Caroompas, Dan Lander, Dieter Roth, Fred Curchack, Gregory Whitehead, IXNA, Janice Felger, Jess Holzworth, Jill Kroesen, Joan Hugo, Jutta Koether, Kim Rosenfield, Lawrence Weiner, Magazzini Criminali, Marina La Palma, Peter Rose, Richard Prince, Rüdiger Carl, Shrigley Forced To Speak With Others, Willie Cole