(idm) Favorites for year '98

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
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