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Artist:	INSTRUMENTS OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Title:	Library Catalog Music Series Vol. 7:Music For Paradise Armor
Label:	ASTHMATIC KITTY
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	AKR 207CD

"Instruments of Science & Technology's Richard Swift (born Ricardo Sigilfredo Olivarez Swift-Ochoa, 1977) is an artist who lives in the Northwest region on the United States of America. He's made lots of different music. He normally sings, but doesn't at all on this recording. Music for Paradise Armor was made on varying recording mediums, such as a Tascam 4-track cassette player/recorder, an Otari 50/50 - 8-track half-inch recorder, a 16-track 2-inch machine constructed by Studer, and a computer made by Macintosh. There are a lot of what Swift calls 'modern clickity-clacks' and 'zzzoops s s s', as well as the occasional 'bleep bleep blaaaaap' found on this disc. These sounds apparently reflect our tech-centric lifestyle in the West. We have magnet trains, remote control car door locks, and affordable robotic limbs, yet we still flush our toilets with drinking water. Guard yourself."

Artist:	INSTRUMENTS OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Title:	Music From The Films of R/Swift
Label:	SECRETLY CANADIAN
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SC 148CD

"For the critical listener, Instruments of Science & Technology sounds like Brian Eno and Wendy Carlos had a love child in the '70s and subsequently marooned him/her/it on an Oort Cloud. If they had, this might have been the recording their love child beamed back to Earth. This largely instrumental electronic project may seem out of character for Richard Swift, who has raised eyebrows and turned heads over the past few years for his unmistakably beautiful singing voice, melancholic lyrics and sophisticated songwriting. Taking into account all three releases, it appears that Swift considers the last 80 years of recorded music as his own personal spice rack of musical texture from which to draw and concoct new musical recipes. With Instruments of Science & Technology, Swift has resurrected the earliest forms of electronic music, thrown in a few dashes of dub, hip-hop, kraut-rock, and Motown, and created a new hybrid dish. So fire up the hooka coals, turn on that full screen iTunes visualizer, and pump these jams as loud as your speakers/neighbors will allow."

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