Dipping into the EA Bucket 3.
Grant Chu Covell
La Folia http://www.lafolia.com/archive/covell/covell200510eabucket3.html
Nineteen tracks - excerpts actually - swiped from Carr's live on-air radio mixes originally broadcast over KFAI (Minneapolis). Carr occupied the 1:00-6:00 a.m. slot, Sunday night into Monday morning, with license to do as he pleased. His dense collages combine music, sound effects, spoken word and other TV / radio broadcasts. Sometimes the materials are played backwards or their speeds are manipulated. You could amuse yourself with the needle-drop game: I picked out Switched-On Bach, The Magnificent Seven's main title, and some Reich.
Back in my college radio days, I infrequently tried my hand at this sort of thing. It's harder than it sounds - such collaging requires stamina and foresight - but provides a rush when it all aligns, even if it is ephemeral radio noise. Perhaps you know instinctively that Bach's violin partitas go well over a Nairobi beat, or that Bruckner and Les Baxter can jive. Effortless gear-shifting is a requirement and Carr is a pro.
Baby Sue http://www.lmnop.com/LMNOP-Reviews-July-05.html#anchor241273
Long before the idea of collage and cut-and-paste music caught on, KFAI (Minneapolis) radio disc jockey Greg Carr presented a late night show from 1:00 to 6:00 AM in the late eighties. During the live show which aired from 1985 to 1989, Carr mixed, mutated, blended, and combined sounds and snippets from a wide variety of sources to create his own unique sound collage. Technological Retreat - Mixes Vol. 1 is the first in a series of discs designed to document the show. This disc is a weird spin...sounding something like two or three radios and televisions being switched from channel to channel during the course of an hour. It is difficult indeed to attempt to rate something like this...so we won't. Instead, we prefer to leave it up to the listener(s) to decide what to make of this. This is a limited edition release...with only 500 signed copies being produced (!). (Not Rated)
Dr. Demento
I really enjoyed hearing this! It took me to some nice places. Being from Minneapolis myself I was happy to discover another fascinating facet of my hometown's culture!
