From Solenoid Sent Sun, Jan 3rd 1999, 23:57
My favorites for '98, in no order, though I'm sure I'm forgetting something I'm sure: "electro" Pametex - "Car Demolition" 12"ep (title a jibe at Le Car perhaps?) Kit Builders - "Girls On Stage" 12"ep (Electrecord) (is it '98 or '97?) Bolz Bolz - ""? (World Recordings' label first ep) Underground Resistance - Interstellar 3lp (UR) (!!) Le Car - "Auto Motif" 12"ep (Monoplaza) Selway - "Zoids vol 2" 12"ep (Serotonin) Anthony Rother - "Little Computer People" 12"ep (Lancaster)? Random Factor - "Broken Mirror" (20:20 Vision) Various Artists - "Misc" (SCSI 01) Voice Stealer - "All Electric House" 2xlp (Subvert)* Voice Stealer - "Electromotive Force" 12"ep (Subvert) I-F - "Fucking Consumer" 2xlp Jackal & Hyde - "Get Down to My Technique" 12"ep " idm " & noise & experimental Stockhausen & Walkman - "My Bag" Bola - "Soup" (Skam uk) Autechre - s/t 2lp (Warp uk) Dred, Mike & P. Green - "Virtual Farmer" 2xlp (Rephlex uk) Like A Tim - "Yeah Right" 2xlp (Geist uk) Ultramarine - "User's Guide" 2xlp (New Electronica) Yoshihide, Otomo & Steve Beresford - "Museum 10" (Hot Air uk) Metic - "Sixation"? (Schematic) Push Button Objects - "(?)" (Schematic (latest)) Christoff Heeman - ""? 12" (?) *=this came out on CD officially in '98, so it counts... > now tell me what i'm missing. Circuit-Bending Furby: On the topic of EAR's circuit-bent speak-n-spells; I managed to circuit-bend a Furby before the end of the year; had him talking in garbled digital noise. Just short joints 8<->9 on the larger epoxy'd-chip pcb, on the left (furby's) row of solder joints (do it when he is talking). I installed a switch there so he'll talk trash anytime now. I should get two more and have all 3 on stage talking into a cheap overdriven delay pedal and book them as "Spacefurbys 3", or perhaps "E.A.F." ;-) Good for sampling and fun to do, but not something I'd want to tour the US-of-A with... Solenoid xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx <------+