Re: (idm) StockHausen & W

From Michal Kielak
Sent Fri, Apr 3rd 1998, 00:05

Byrne, Michael wrote:
> 
> I WANT THIS RECORD!
I guess it was available through:
http://www.staalplaat.com/
maybe also mego mail-order:
http://www.mdos.at/
(brand new domain!!)
I have here Hot Air phone no in the UK, with a rather familiar area
code: +44 161 8327991 (figure out which one is the area code..)
but I also remember reading somewhere that the label had something to do
with Iceland

> 
> It's a pink 7" called "Buy Me, Sue Me" which has 42 locked grooves on
> each side, all of which are loops of parts of other peoples records with
> the work 'me' in them, hence the title. Also hence why only a few
> hundred were made. Good for a laugh and an essential DJ tool and
> generally very strange. Why someone would make the effort to do this I
> have no idea.

Clive Bell:
'it's hilarious, it's irritating, it's a high concept limited edition
art object, it's a confident and original piece of music seamlessly
welded to comment on the medium itself'
...out of his article on SH&W in The Wire, September 1997
Highly recommended for anyone interested in those two geezers..
and I guess this quote is a great description of this 7" - incredible
example of arts self referential aesthetics

mk

np.
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