Catalogue

TO:24 – The Hafler Trio “How to Reform Mankind”

1st April 1994 » Permalink: TO:24 – The Hafler Trio “How to Reform Mankind”

Track list:

1. The Brain Sneezing (3:02)
2. I Remain……. (5:41)
3. The Emasculation Of Contempt (29:22)
4. All Done With Mirrors (11:34)
5. Pregnant Film (8:20)
6. Alexis St. Martin (10:44)
7. Total Instant Relief (9:47)

Artwork by Jon Wozencroft
The third part of the trilogy which commenced with Kill The King and Mastery Of Money.
Comes in foldover card wallet, with 20 page booklet.

Sleeve notes: “I : for those waiting : II : for those with nothing else : III : for those not involved : IV : for those who stole : V : for the rides : VI : for my brother : VII : for everything : recorded in amsterdam, göteborg, reykjavík, and somewhere in england at the bottom of the sea : all material reworked on site : design by suitcase studios : type by fingers : the facts of the matter destilled from the dreams : no dust, no mirrors, no regrets : thanks are due to adi, m, alisa, leif, jochen, malin, assistant moth wrangler annika lundgren, HÖH, mike, jon, geert-jan, charles, gwen, jóhann, erla, berglind, tryggvi, kim, mark o, gummi, óli, annie, diana, willem : all published by touch music : je kunt geen veren plukken van een kale kikker : the messages confirm the postcards which have confirmed the surety of that which has been received by the esteemed hausswolff : this dialogue is now at an end : the correspondence is now closed.”

 

TO:23 – Sandoz “Intensely Radioactive”

1st April 1994 » Permalink: TO:23 – Sandoz “Intensely Radioactive”

Track list:

1. Beneath The City Streets (9:36)
2. Inner Rhythms (11:00)
3. Exoskeleton (8:44)
4. Intensely Radioactive (9:21)
5. Atro City Reaction (6:18)
6. Intelligence (8:25)
7. Revolution (8:27)
8. Luminous (9:52)

 

T33.13 – Sweet Exorcist – Spirit Guide to Low Tech

1st April 1994 » Permalink: T33.13 – Sweet Exorcist – Spirit Guide to Low Tech

Track list:

1. Part Of The Scene (4:32)
2. African (5:16)
3. Feel Your Hands (4:37)
4. Nice (7:37)
5. We Are About To Funk (7:31)
6. Acid (6:55)
7. Swing (7:28)
8. Jazz (6:10)
9. What It Is (8:34)
10. Scat (7:08)
11. Ghettos Of The Mind (3:46)

 

TO:22 – The Hafler Trio & The Sons of God “Resurrection – Live in Sweden”

1st April 1993 » Permalink: TO:22 – The Hafler Trio & The Sons of God “Resurrection – Live in Sweden”

Track list:

1a. The King’s Dream
1b. Terrifying
1c. Was Evil And

Artwork by Jon Wozencroft
[The Hafler Trio And The Sons Of God Represented On This Occasion By…] – A.M. McKenzie, CM von Hausswolff, Kent Tankred, Leif Elggren & Zbigniew Karkowski
Photography – Annika von Hausswolff

Recorded live direct to digital master at Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden on 24 September 1992 @ 23.00. … Resurrection is a piece for two actors, six cookers, crockery, six baths, live mixing via two PA systems (one stereo, one six-way surround), slides and audience. No overdubbing or remixing has been done subsequent to initial recording.

This release is officially sanctioned by the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, of which the performers are officially recognized citizens. …

“Det Finns En Kula För Varje Konung.”

 

TO:21 – Sandoz “Digital Lifeforms”

1st April 1993 » Permalink: TO:21 – Sandoz “Digital Lifeforms”

CD – 10 tracks

Track list:

1. Armed Response (7:43)
2. Chocolate Machine (7:34)
3. Digital Lifeforms (8:05)
4. Human Spirit (7:00)
5. Drum Meditation (7:01)
6. Limbo (7:01)
7. Zombie Astral (8:47)
8. Beam (8:27)
9. Steel Tabernacle (6:47)
10. White Darkness (7:52)

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TO:20 – John Duncan “Send”

1st April 1993 » Permalink: TO:20 – John Duncan “Send”

Track list:

1. Entry
2. Program
3. 363 Tokyo
4. Snake Ride
5. Priority
6. Sleepers
7. Shatter
8. Crucible
9. Trespass

Artwork by John Critchley
Recorded in Tokyo at Unomori, in Amsterdam at Studio Uithoorn 28:2 & Steim between 1985 & 1992.

Snake Ride is a soundtrack for début broadcast of Tokyo pirate radio & television station TVC 1, operated by Duncan between 1986-88.

Mastered at Flare & Ground control (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
Dedicated to Dr. Takuya Sakaguchi.

The CD came with a poster and a 24pp booklet “the stop exercise”, an interview conducted by John Duncan and Andrew McKenzie and edited by Jon Wozencroft.

The compact disc was packaged in a postal container in cardboard sealed by a printed sticker which could be customised and then posted on to yourself.

“Choose a good stamp. Mail your copy overseas to an unknown address, and then have it returned to sender, blacked by officialdom! The simple idea is to see what visual surprises might take place to complement the sonic.”

TO:18 – The Hafler Trio “Mastery of Money” [CD]

19th December 1992 » Permalink: TO:18 – The Hafler Trio “Mastery of Money” [CD]

Track listing:

1. Bull Baiting
2. Empty Rooms And Their Occupants
3. Splitting The Stick
4. The Vowel Flame
5. Callibre
6. Sec Check
(Composed with Zbigniew Karkowski)
7. Eloise C

Recorded in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Oslo, New York and Linz.
All material reworked at NYX Global and Anterior NL.

Thanks are due to Willem, Adi, Ulf, Erik, Johan & Annika.
Respect is due to M, Randi, Marion and our mother.

TO:4 – The Nocturnal Emissions “Drowning in a Sea of Bliss”

1st April 1992 » Permalink: TO:4 – The Nocturnal Emissions “Drowning in a Sea of Bliss”

Track list:

Anthems of the Meat Generation

Photography by Panni Charrington. Inlay card photo: Nigel Ayers
The cassette, which was packaged in a Magnam Products Microcase, contained a folded card [see above]

SPL:2 – Willem de Ridder & The Hafler Trio “Snuff”

1st April 1992 » Permalink: SPL:2 – Willem de Ridder & The Hafler Trio “Snuff”

Track list:

1. Snuff (71:48)

 

Tone 3 – The Hafler Trio “FUCK”

1st April 1992 » Permalink: Tone 3 – The Hafler Trio “FUCK”

Track list:

1. Untitled (14:49)
2. Untitled (14:59)

Artwork by Jon Wozencroft
Mixed by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
Photography [Back Cover] – Carl Abrahamsson
Photography [Front Cover] – Annika Söderholm
Photography [Other] – Qvé Thet

“This recording is based on the suggestions (direct or indirect) made personally by many people, of whom the most important are: Annie Spinkle/Anya, Willem De Ridder, Mr. Ronald, Michael von Hausswolff, Helena Åberg, Berglind Hafsteindóttir, Joseph Kramer, Beatrice Eggers, Marion Delforge, Jon Wozencroft, Ingrid Willemse, Leif Elggren, John Duncan, Mike Harding, Alisa/Gorta, Adi Newton, Teresa Castello, Steven Stapleton, Saskia Wolda, Genesis P-Orridge, and last but not least, an unknown woman in a VD clinic in Amsterdam. All other ideas fermented within the collective enchanted loom of the H3O. Back cover photograph of the neophyte his very self during the induction phase of this project by the man who failed to look like a lobster, Carl Abrahamsson. Front cover photo by the Goddess of the photographic arts (and who knows what else?) Annika Söderholm. Other photos by Qvé Thet (for it is he). Hafler Trio Logo by Mark O. Sleeve grounding: Suitcase Studios (falling roof devision). Design by Jon Wozencroft (art?work). Thanks are due to all those whose reality tunnels have meshed with ours, and below it all, 100% support in all things and all ways. To those who will never hear this — “my house has many rooms”.

Dedicated to Monique von Cleef and Ciro Imarco (who knows if they will ever know why). FUCK was mixed at Studio Syrland, Reykavik, STEIM and Suitcase Studios, Amsterdam, by A.M.McKenzie, Zbigniew Karkowski and Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson. This recording is designed to be played at maximum volume, believe it or not. It is important that your CD player is in strict accordance with left and right channel connections: otherwise we cannot be held responsible for the (inevitable) consequences!”

 

VAG 1 – Vagabond 1

1st April 1992 » Permalink: VAG 1 – Vagabond 1

About:

Front Cover
Inside Cover
CONTENTS
4. The Uncertainty Principle
5. SIMON FRITH Why Did the Weasel Go Pop?
6. cont.
7. JON SAVAGE Personal Freedom, Unlawful Wounding
8. cont.
9. cont.
10. Infomania
11. Mother Tongue
12. JON SAVAGE cont.
13. cont.
14. MICHAEL HARDING The Expansile
15. cont.
16. ROBERT DOISNEAU
17 TV SMITH Gather Your Things and Go
18. Family Portrait 1
19. Family Portrait 2
20 Pressures to Join
21. CLARE WILKINSON & JON WOZENCROFT Global Remix
22. cont.
23. cont.
24. cont.
25. PANNI CHARRINGTON The Exit
26. cont.
27. Marker
28. Playing Mickey Mouse
29. JON SAVAGE Overload and Heaven Sent
30. cont.
31
32
33
34
35
36 MARC ISSUE & CLIVE MEACHEN White Knuckle Pass
37
38 Feminine is Beautiful
39
40 Annie Spinkle’s Sex Guidelines for the 1990’s
41
42
43 The Land of Technology
44 Copying Guidelines
45
46 Finger
47
48
49
50
51 The Noise of the Birds
52 The Turing Machine
53
54 ADAIR BROUWER Plaster White Boys…
55
56
57
58 CAROLINE COON Now What?
59
60 English Dancer
61 HEINRICH VON KLEIST The Theatre of Marionettes
62
63
64 CATHERINE GAITTE Smooth and Moderate
65 Socrates
66 CORNEL WINDLIN Green Card
67
68 The Falling Leaf
69 JON WOZENCROFT Partialforce
70
71
72
73
74 JAMIE REID The Rise of the Phoenix
75 MARK SINKER Trafalgar
76
77
78 MATTHEW POND Squatting
79 Xerox to Infinity
80 Vagabond

IMAGES by Jon Wozencroft, Panni Charrington, Danielle Hayes, Robert Doisneau, Helga Paris, Malcolm MacLaren, Marc Issue, Neville Brody, Russell Haswell, Diana Mavroleon, John Critchley, Hannah Hoch, Z’EV, Jamie Reid.

First published in 1992
© Touch – Vagabond – Individual Contributors
Vagabond is published by Incunabula Ltd., London
All rights reserved.
ISBN 1 874104 00 X Vagabond 1. (Pbk.)

Editors: Jon Wozencroft and Jon Savage
Designed by Jon Wozencroft

Vagabond is set in Clarendon, Garamond, News Gothic, Akzidenz, Franklin Gothic, Bank Gothic, Times; + Meta – designed by Erik Speikermann and Blur designed by Neville Brody.

TO:19 – Strafe FR “Lufthunger”

1st April 1991 » Permalink: TO:19 – Strafe FR “Lufthunger”

Track list:

1. Cambrian: Upper And Middle – 530 to 495 Million Years Ago (4:49)
2. Ordovician: Upper – 430 To 420 Million Years Ago (7:18)
3. Devonian: Upper – 375 To 360 Million Years Ago (6:40)
4. Permian: Upper – 258 To 245 Million Years Ago (4:32)
5. Triassic: Upper – 229 To 205 Million Years Ago (5:10)
6. Jurassic: Lower And Upper – 205 To 130 Million Years Ago (6:22)
7. Cretaceous: Upper – 95 To 65 Million Years Ago (7:25)
8. Tertiary: Oligocene And Eocene – 58 To 23 Million Years Ago (6:08)
9. Quaternary: Pleistocene – 2.3 To 0.01 Million Years Ago (5:33)
10. Quaternary: Holocene – 0.01 Million Years Ago (7:22)

TO:13 – z’ev “One Foot in the Grave”

1st April 1991 » Permalink: TO:13 – z’ev “One Foot in the Grave”

Track list:

CDOne
1-01 Z’EV Forbuki
1-02 Stefan Weisser Book Of Love Being Written As They Touched, As Is As, Instill, 9 Feathers Floating, Oomoonoon #1, Spatial Poetics, Oomoonoon #2
1-03 Stefan Weisser The Mountain Looked At The Mountain… And Slipped Away To Sea
1-04 Stefan Weisser OK, Get Rid Of That
1-05 Z’EV So
1-06 Cellar-M Bleedfat
1-07 ‘TO’ Big Wave
1-08 Stefan Weisser Sound Of Wind And Limb
1-09 Yoel Live At The ‘Fab Mab’
1-10 Rax Werx In The Compound
1-11 Z’EV Radio Station KPFK
1-12 Z’EV Shake Rattle & Roll
1-13 Z’EV First 30 Minutes
1-14 Z’EV Metal Bizondere Plastik
1-15 Z’EV Hottest Night
1-16 uns BRC
1-17 Z’EV Lust/Unlust 1-4
1-18 uns Strange Girl
1-19 Z’EV Flew Ting

CDTwo
1-20 Z’EV Documenta
1-21 Z’EV Light Of Metal Sounding
1-22 Z’EV Gronigen Mix
1-23 Z’EV Under The Hammer #1
2-01 Z’EV Short Wave
2-02 Z’EV Pieces
2-03 Z’EV The Erl King
2-04 Z’EV Beautiful Music
2-05 Z’EV Lightning Music
2-06 Z’EV Following In The Footsteps
2-07 Z’EV Under The Hammer #2
2-08 Z’EV Bel’s
2-09 Mother Tongue Words
2-10 Mother Tongue Conches
2-11 Z’EV Tattoo
2-12 uns Aldo’s Bar
2-13 uns Says
2-14 Magneet Bond Magneet For Organ And Bond
2-15 uns Boxes
2-16 uns Past 2 Days
2-17 uns Save The What?

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Tone 2 – Etant Donnés “Royaume”

1st April 1991 » Permalink: Tone 2 – Etant Donnés “Royaume”

Track list:

1. Royaume (7:16)
2. Matin (3:46)
3. 4 (3:15)
4. Bleu (7:41)

 

Tone 1 – The Hafler Trio “Masturbatorium”

1st April 1991 » Permalink: Tone 1 – The Hafler Trio “Masturbatorium”

Track list:

1. Masturbatorium

Artwork – Jon Wozencroft
Featuring – Annie Sprinkle
Photography [Back Cover] – Les Barany

Notes: “This recording utilises elements from various pieces, most being initiated with this project in mind, amongst which are: Psychological Astronomy – Psychophysicist (Newton, McKenzie), The Threat That Cannot Be Obeyed – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie, Karkowski), SPIRICOM – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie, Karkowski), Tesselation – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie, Karkowski), A Luna Kanula – Asburd (McKenzie, Ponton), I Remain, Yours… – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie, Karkowski), Tantric Resonance – The Anti Group (Newton, Baker, Dennis), The Ames Room – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie), Imsak – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie). Every other sound was constructed especially for this Goddess Ritual accompaniment.

Back cover photograph of the Goddess herself during this ritual taken by the legend that walks like a man, Les Barany. Front cover photograph © Annie Sprinkle. H3O logo by Mark O. Design: Jon Wozencroft. Much more that thanks are due to Annie, Ellen and Anya for above all, faith. To all everywhere – “we’re all somebody’s baby”. Dedicated to Marthe (she’ll know why – eventually).”

 

TO:17 – Andrew McKenzie & John Duncan “Contact”

1st April 1990 » Permalink: TO:17 – Andrew McKenzie & John Duncan “Contact”

Track list:

1. Set
2. Source
3. Direction
4. Act
5. Meld
6. Track
7. Target
8. Trajectory
9. Change

 

TO:16 – Etant Donnés “Aurore”

1st April 1990 » Permalink: TO:16 – Etant Donnés “Aurore”

Track list:

1. Untitled (1:52)
2. Untitled (3:16)
3. Untitled (9:17)
4. Untitled (4:22)
5. Untitled (4:08)
6. Untitled (1:44)
7. Untitled (8:26)
8. Untitled (4:27)
9. Untitled (1:01)
10. Untitled (2:30)
11. Untitled (3:58)

 

TO:14 – Soliman Gamil “Ankh”

1st April 1990 » Permalink: TO:14 – Soliman Gamil “Ankh”

Track list:

1. Dance Of Ka
2. Lamentation
3. Pharoah Funeral Process
4. Isis Looks For Osiris
5. Supplication
6. Echoes Of Memphis
7. Dance Of Gaiety
8. Shadows In The Desert
9. Alexandrian Dance
10. Cairo At Dawn
11. Dance Of The Campaign
12. Village And Town
13. Ghost Dance
14. Dervish Dance
15. Clown Dance

 

TOC:2 – The Hafler Trio “Kuklos”

1st April 1990 » Permalink: TOC:2 – The Hafler Trio “Kuklos”

Track list:

1. Kuklos
Intention, attention and duplication
Soundtrack to “The Graphic Language of Neville Brody”
Design: Jon Wozencroft

 

T33.9 – Bezhad “Myth”

1st April 1990 » Permalink: T33.9 – Bezhad “Myth”

Track list:

Side One
Myth (Mish)
Love (Mitre)
Spring (Bahaar)
Friend (Doust)
Free (Azad)
Moving Sky (Nielofar)

Side Two
Change Bringer (Kavian)
Sun (Korsheed)
The End (Payan)
Apocalypse (Rastaxis)
Against Gravity (Afarin)
Mish

All arrangements of original songs are based on pre-Islamic music from the Sassanian and Achamenian eras (100 BC to 500 AD). Instruments used on this recording are: TAMBOUR – the first documentary evidence referring to this 3-stringed acoustic long-necked lute occurs in Susa, an ancient city in South West Persia. In ancient myth, Soroush (or ‘The Muses’) played the tambour to awaken humans with the sound of love as they slept after the creation of the world. Originally the lutes were called ‘star’ or ‘setar’, meaning ‘sound producer’. The sound of the tambour represents the planet Mars, or ‘the Iron Planet’. In Sufi music (ie post-islam), a tambour is usually played with the DAF – this tambourine represents the Sun and means ‘beat’ or ‘tap’ (the same root as the word ‘tabla’), which is the sound of the heart. Together, the tambour and the daf represent the planets revolving around the sun, and the combination of the rhythms symbolises the secret of creation. The daf also represents femininity and the tambour masculinity (as Yin and Yan). TOMBAK (featured here on Spring) is the most common drum to be found in Persian music. In the Sassanian era (the last dynasty before Islam), ‘tombak’ meant poetical rhythm, or the skilful use of the fingers to produce a wide range of sounds. It has the same linguistic derivation as ‘tambour’, and is made from wood and goat or sheep hide.

Inspiration for the songs comes from a desire to preserve pre-Islamic melodies and rhythms. More dynamic, they combine the immediacy of popular folk songs with an ancient classical spirit – the Iran that does not appear on television. In spite of ‘World Music’, Iranian pop is destroying Persian culture by ignoring traditional values and beliefs. Why should this be “inevitable”? A healthy tree has healthy roots.

Audio notes:

Recorded and engineered by Behzad Blourfroushan and Olivier Abitbol, to whom grateful thanks are due. [Kensington, Summer 1989]