Interference - Interference

In recent years there has been no shortage of people trying to shine a light on the Downtown NYC music scene of the early 1980s. A redrafting has occurred with each book or box set, with a cast list being based upon whatever hope it at least challenges the convention, adding Interference to that list and suggesting that revisionists might have left a few stones unturned. Forming out of the musical insurgence that was the NoiseFest at White Columns Gallery in 1981; Interference Anne DeMaranis,David Linton and Michael Brown. DeMaranis had just parted ways with an early incarnation of Sonic Youth and co-curated the NoiseFest with . Linton had headed to NYC a few years earlier with then school/band mate Lee Renaldo, eventually hooking up with Rhys Chatham for a three year stretch. Brown, then a twenty six year old PhD candidate at NYU, had recently broke rank with Rhys Chatham and drafted a wholly unconventional percussive approach to the fender bass. From their inception through their eventual fragmentation 30 months later, Interference charted their course across the stages available to them: CBGB’s, , etc., ultimately swelling to a quartet with the addition of fellow Rhys Chatham veteran Joe Dizney. In 1982 they recorded this LP at Radio City, engineered by and with guest appearances by Elliot Sharp and . Originally slated for release on Josh Baer and Glen Branca’s legendary Neutral records, the record has remained unreleased, aside from a scant number of self-released cassettes. After the bands demise, Linton remained entrenched in the New York underground art and music scene, through involvement with , , and Soundlab, which lead him to the early 21st century downtown electronic scene. It was from here that David recruited the remixers which make up the forward thinking companion LP of this release: David Last,Doily and Criterion (Brooklyn Beats), Binsang AKA Toshio Kajiwara (Phenomena), QPE (Agriculture) and the 8-bit Gameboy tag team of Bubblyfish & glomag. is pleased to present the music of Interference both the original unissued LP, painstakingly remastered from the original master tapes, and couples it with an additional remix LP.

Tracklisting:

1 excerpt #1, version 2 (4.32) 2 interlude 1 (2.17) 3 contempt (5.38) 4 she said destroy (4.22) 5 interlude 2 (2.25) 6 number four (3.30) 7 disambiguator (bubblyfish & glomag remix) (3.04) 8 interference vs the 13 devils of syncopation (david last remix) (6.03) 9 all or nothing (doily remix) (2.56) 10  qpe #5 dub remix (qpe remix) (4.13) 11  globalization report mixx (bingsang remix) (6.12) 12  interferix (criterion remix) (3.09)

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