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...according to our Mike on Wed 27 Jul, 2011.
This is nuts. First of all the artwork of the copy I'm reviewing has a load of random crap thrown in - a circle of foil and one of coloured acetate...a computer printout with a single strand of tinsel sellotaped to it, that sort of thing. The sleeve itself is a total thing of beauty, too, screenprinted onto sparkly grey paper. As for the record, it's a joyously experimental and totally weird experience based around turntables being powered by exercise bicycles! It was recorded live in New York. It's quite disorientating really, just lots of wibbly slowed down vinyl noises and the like. Brian just noticed that one of the records they're sampling is 'Flowers of Romance' by PiL but I'd not have known if he didn't point it out. This is very much on the noise art/concréte side of things which isn't really my bag, but it seems pretty expertly done. There's always something going on and it's confusing me and making me feel slightly queasy.
“DJ mistakes are two exercise bicycle driven turntables fabricated and ridden by Casey Farnum and Elliot Hess. This project re-introduces spontaneity into the DJ experience and asks how production and industry have assembled to create a listening experience quite different from the hand-cranked turntables it was initially borne from. With a shrug to the practice of crystallizing performances and their reception through vinyl and the audiophile entertainment- center this project re-introduces human touch into the listening experience. It looks back nostalgically to a time when gears and bicycles were the stuff of aural and physical revolutions. Yet it also seeks a contemporary framework in the DJ era where cutting and mixing revolutionized production making it both unpredictable and live. Bikes, turntables, gongs, a mixer, records, and a microphone all mash in this recording live from the Chicken Hut and 1086 Broadway, Brooklyn NY 2006-7.” Phil Schapp, 2011
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