(idm) Re: metamkine

From Arthur B. Purvis
Sent Wed, Oct 27th 1999, 17:20

> I just picked up an excellent 3" CD on Metamkine records by Christine
> Groult. It's excellent academic Concrete style stuff, very drony and
> minimal. When i was aon holiday in Berlin i saw the whole label back
> catalogue in a shop (i can only recall Jim O'Rourke artist-wise
> though) and really regret not getting them then - so can anyone fill
> me in on what the other stuff on the label sounds like, or give me
> some background to it, or give me a clue where to actually get it?

the most interesting one is the Walter ruttman...  it was recorded in the
20s/30s I think, before there was even magnetic tape to record music, onto
film...  it's the sounds of berlin (i think) edited and cut apart.  very
interesting.

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