Yes, we did it, a daring program with mostly edgy disco beats: death disco, bizarre disco, paradisco, industrial disco, electroclash.., but also the infamous beats of Dat Politics and Kid606. What else does one want heading into a hot summer break? Karl Marx? Football? Politics? Till next Edge, somewhere end of August..
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or is it just freeform, radio programming without a theme or clue what to play next. Anyway, a great discovery this week: “Das Original Oberkreuzberger Nasenflötenorchester – der Grindchor” really wonderful stuff. Contemporary bagpipe music from David Watson (album “Skirl”), electronic music from Iran, Wim T. Schippers’ Billen Om Op Te Zitten, the always amazing Bill Hicks, Ernst Jandl, Jean-Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert doing some moogy acid house, quite a feat for an 80 year old! And some more random musics.
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Music that ticked us over from the mainstream. Nurse with Wound, Laibach, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frank Zappa, John Zorn & Naked City, David J., Mahavishnu Orchestra. Those were the days..
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This week we decided to go and see if we could find some gems from the Scandinavian experimental music subcultures. And yes did we find some great material, some familiar (M.A. Numminen, Rune Lindblad, Arne Nordheim, Maja Ratkje), some new (some Rune Grammofon artists and great folk music from Lapland, courtesy of the great Smithsonian Folkways series).
Additional info: the Finnish wodka drink resembling motor oil, contains blackening licorice.
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In the early 1980′s the infamous and critically acclaimed comic duo Van Kooten en De Bie introduced the TegenPartij (the ContraParty). It was meant to criticise the upcoming conservative rightwing political parties in The Netherlands, but instead gained followers of their own who really believed the TegenPartij was to take part in the upcoming elections. Now, 30 years later, their vision has almost become real. Isn’t it ironic…?
During election night Edge decided to broadcast their full 55 minutes “Op hun pik getrapt” album, a historic document.
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Leon Theremin, inventor of the mystical instrument the Theremin that could be played by just waving one’s hand in the air. A sensation when invented around 1930, where Theremin travelled the world and became a spy, relaying technological information from the US to the SU. Theremists: Lydia Kavina, Clara Rockmore, Lucie Rosen, Dr Samuel J. Hoffmann, The Lothars, Rob Schwimmer, the Beach Boys and all time Theremin enthousiast Robert Moog.
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Dutch elections: what do parties have in their digital agenda? Yello Biafra, Negativ land, Cage, John Foxx, Heathcote Williams, Touch33, Fischerspooner..
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Telephone, telephone, telephone. Plus obviously some music. For instance by Mike Frengel and The Muppets. And an interview by Wim T. Schippers.
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This week our focus has been on physical processes and no-input strategies to generate music. Brainwaves, noise, sinewaves, neural synthesis. Toshimaru Nakamura, Jason Kahn, David Tudor, David Rosenboom, Sachiko M., Otomo Yoshihide and others.
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