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Il Fondo Della Musica

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Fascinating collection of Catalan Electro-Acoustic works issued at the cusp of the 90s by Àudio-Visuals de Sarrià, as compiled by the CENTRE d'INITIATIVES i d'EXPERIMENTACIO per a JOVES (CIEJ, per breu) & issued as "Premi CIEJ De Noves Experiències Musicals Electròniques" (or, "CIEJAward for New Electronic Musical Experiences"). Given the era & geography, this stands well outside of the trad-standard Electro-Acoustic "Composition" fare; in fact, only two of the six included Composers went on to other released.

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Fascinating bit of writing from a few years back by Tori Kudo, touching on café minor, MSHB's "Return To Rock Mass", Michael (& Cornelius) Cardew, and so on.

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JE EST UN AUTRE - Open Space

In the late 1970s, the café minor in Kichijoji, Tokyo, was my Cabaret Voltaire. Cabaret Voltaire did not last half a year, but minor was ope

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Revisiting the 1980 "Bowling Balls From Hell" compilation on Clone Records (not the Dutch Electro powerhouse, but the Akron-based imprint stewarded by Nick Nicholis of the Bizarros) a clean half of which is a dovetailed-in sextet of wry synth-punk miniatures by producer Denis DeFrange, recalling John Bender (geographically apropos), the Jed The Fish single, Billy Synth's "Music is Forever", & the Phil Bedel / Brent Wilcox singles issued on the Urinals-adjacent Happy Squid label.

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"Šípková Růženka" ("Sleeping Beauty") is the debut album by beat combo Rebels, as issued on the Czech State-run label Supraphon in 1968. You've probably skipped past this one in the preternaturally voluminous Prague record bins numerous times, having missed the sole credit that evelates & makes it apropos to this whole enterprise: future SEM Ensemble leader Petr Kotik is credited on "Elektronika" and sure enough, brief interludes between tracks are quite woolly, with some "Rock Workshop" esque Concrète & synthesizer flourish peppering the proceedings throughout.