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Artist:
GIRL TALK
Title:
Feed The Animals
Label:
ILLEGAL ART
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
IA 117CD
"Pittsburgh artist Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk) has scrupulously created music from samples for over eight years. His fourth album on the Illegal Art label,
Feed The Animals
, continues his sonic evolution towards his party-infested live show and steps even closer towards a creation that is centered on pop musicality rather than attention-deficit sample splicing."
Artist:
OKAPI
Title:
Love Him
Label:
ILLEGAL ART
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
IA 120CD
"On
Love Him
, Italian turntablist and sampling artist, Økapi (Filippo Paolini), masterfully conducts a plundered symphony of more than 100 elements to celebrate the notorious Kyrgyz composer Aldo Kapi (1896-1952). Somewhere in between record digging, electro-acoustic tomfoolery and slot machine soundcards lies the break-NOT-core, bubble-gum experimental turntablism of this new full-length from Italy's own 'Daft Giraffe.'"
Artist:
PEOPLE LIKE US & WOBBLY
Title:
Music For The Fire
Label:
ILLEGAL ART
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
IA 121CD
"A plunderphonic concept album depicting the lifespan of a relationship, as told through samples of hundreds of different songs & voices who had no idea they were all telling the same store until they were all spliced together. A bedtime store that is wildly inappropriate for children. No reliable narrators, just the familiar & absurd, which on different spins of the disc might strike you as either maudlin, poignant or almost painfully hilarious."
Artist:
JUNK CULTURE
Title:
Summer Friends
Label:
ILLEGAL ART
Format:
CD
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
IA 122CD
"Junk Culture developed the sound for his newest release,
Summer Friends
, from sounds captured on a handheld recorder. Drawing on the vibrant harmonies, psychedelic noises & dance rhythms that saturated his environment, he created alluring melodies using guitar, keyboard, & percussion & his own explosive vocals. The warm euphoric tunes he emerged with reflect a compelling range of influences that include everything from west-coast style pop to hip-hop mash-ups & raw punk-informed electronic dance tunes."
Artist:
PEOPLE LIKE US
Title:
Welcome Abroad
Label:
ILLEGAL ART
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
IA 124CD
"Vicki Bennett, under the People Like Us moniker, returns from several collaborations for her first solo album in several years. Stranded in the USA for an extended period after the Icelandic volcano eruption blocked her British homeland's airspace, Bennett derived thematic material of displacement, travel, and a longing for elsewhere, from the natural disaster that caused her own predicament. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life."
Artist:
TOUCH PEOPLE
Title:
Everyone Is Not Alive
Label:
ILLEGAL ART
Format:
LP
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
IA 125LP
"Reissued limited edition 2 color vinyl of Touch People's debut album from 2 years ago (originally on The Faint's blank.wav imprint). Darren Keen, aka Touch People, records guitars, drums, bass, and keyboards, and then assembles via experimental/modern production that is both visceral and cerebral. The resulting sound bears resemblance to Steve Reich, Battles, Dan Deacon, and Tortoise."
Artist:
TOUCH PEOPLE
Title:
Sound Expression
Label:
ILLEGAL ART
Format:
CD
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
IA 127CD
"Darren Keen, aka Touch People, records guitars, drums, bass and keyboards and then assembles his Touch People compositions bier experimental/modern production that is both visceral and cerebral. The resulting sound bears resemblance to artists such as Steve Reich, Battles, Dan Deacon & Tortoise."
Artist:
STEINSKI
Title:
What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective
Label:
ILLEGAL ART
Format:
2CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
IA 116CD
"Steinski (advertising writer, DJ, and record collector Steve Stein) produced his first record in 1983. In response to a nationwide remix contest by Tommy Boy Records, he and partner Double Dee (engineer and studio wizard Douglas DJ Franco) produced 'The Payoff Mix.' A panel of ten judges -- including Afrika Bambaataa, Shep Pettibone, Jellybean Benitez, and Arthur Baker -- unanimously chose the mix as the winner. Within two weeks 'The Payoff Mix' became a top 10 request on urban radio nationwide, but the release never saw official status and was subsequently bootlegged countless times. 'The Payoff Mix' became the first record in a series now known as
The Lessons
. Double Dee and Steinski followed up with cut-and-paste landmark
Lesson Two: The James Brown Mix
, which Fatboy Slim called 'the record that always gets the crowd going.' Then came
Lesson 3: The History of Hip Hop
. The series quickly became highly sought-after collectibles and led to homage records by DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, DJ Format, and others. Since
The Lessons
, Steinski has produced a variety of tracks, and this Illegal Art retrospective collects everything from his hip-hop narrative about the Kennedy assassination (originally a white-label promo, also issued as a flexi-disk for UK music magazine
NME
) to the 1998 remix of Afrika Bambaataa's 'Jazz' with Double Dee. Besides the completist archive, the release also includes the critically acclaimed 'Nothing To Fear: A Rough Mix,' an hour-long mash-up that was produced for Solid Steel/BBC London, described by
Salon
as, 'the closest thing to a masterpiece the genre has yet produced' and perhaps the most obvious precursor (along with
The Lessons
) to Girl Talk's
Night Ripper
."
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