Sure, you can have all your 90s turntablists – just give us Christian Marclay! Back in the 80s, he was the only one forwarding the art side of the turntable away from hip hop – and even today, his work on the wheels of steel is unlike anything else to emerge from the recent array of scratching and pickling. Freed from any constraints whatsoever, Marclay does for the turntable – in any form – what Sonic Youth did for the guitar during the same generation. And due to the extreme art-bound and provisional nature of Marclay's work, most of the older stuff has been unavailable for many years – until the long-overdue release of this great CD, which includes 15 gems from the core of the 80s. Proof that imagination was still alive in that dark decade! Tracks include "Smoker", "Jukebox Capriccio", "One Thousand Cycles", "His Master's Voice", "Neutral", "Second Coming", and "Brown Rain". CD
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Glenn Branca —
Ascension ... LP 99 Records/Superior Viaduct, Early 80s. New Copy (reissue)...
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A masterpiece of new music for guitar from the legendary Glenn Branca – a set that both draws on all the minimal experiments on the New York scene of the 70s, and the big wave of underground music at the end of the decade! Branca effortlessly fuses the rock and compositional communities here – working with Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, and artist Ned Sublette – in a fierce set of tunes that blend four guitars, electric bass, and drums – all with an instrumental frenzy that matches some of the best early jams from Sonic Youth. Branca's approach is less freeform, but has very much the same intensity – and titles include "Lesson No 2", "Structure", "The Ascension", and "Spectacular Commodity". LP, Vinyl record album
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