Artist : VA
Title : Raymond Scott Rewired
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2014
Date : 03/2014
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 19
Label : Basta Records
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 55:03 min
Size : 87,1 MB
Tracklist:
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01.the evolution control committee - a 01:39
bigger more important sound
02.the bran flakes - the toy penguin 03:12
03.go home productions - cindy byrdsong 04:09
04.the evolution control committee - 04:10
ripples on an evaporated lake
05.the bran flakes - sleigh ride to a 02:01
barn dance in sorrento
06.go home productions - the night and 02:51
day household greyhound
07.the evolution control committee - 02:25
love song to a dynamic ribbon cardioid
08.the bran flakes - 04:09
(serenade on) carribea corner
09.the evolution control committee - 03:35
in an 18th century discotheque
10.go home productions - the 02:11
sleepwalking tobacco auctioneer
11.the bran flakes - very very very 02:23
pretty petticoat
12.the evolution control committee - 02:28
hillbilly hostess in haunted harlem
13.go home productions - good duquesne 03:06
air
14.the bran flakes - hey ray 02:54
15.the evolution control committee - 03:36
siberian tiger on an ocean liner
16.go home productions - mountain high 02:36
valley higher
17.the bran flakes - shirleys temple 02:12
bells
18.go home productions - tick tock 01:57
cuckoo on the planet mars
19.the evolution control committee & the 03:29
bran flakes & go home productions - p
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55:03 min
Raymond Scott (1908-1994), as a
musician, composer, bandleader, and
inventor, was a perfectionist, but he
was not a stylistic purist. His late-
1930s six-man ôQuintetteö offered a
novel jazz hybrid that layered ethnic
flavors and pan-global riffs over a
propulsive beat. ScottÆs orchestral
works could bounce like the popular
Swing Era dance bands or veer into
idiosyncratic concert-jazz. His antic
melodies were adapted in Warner Bros.
cartoons, but nobody noticed because
Scott never talked about it. His
pioneering electronic music of the 1950s
and Æ60s also slipped past history
because Scott was secretive about his
research.
For these and other reasons, older music
history books tend to overlook his work.
Raymond had multiple musical
personalities, but the achievements of
each separate persona were seemingly too
marginal or unknown compared to
contemporaries who fit neatly in a
single category. Scott was a genre-
hopper, reflecting a musical
restlessness.
In the two decades-plus heÆs represented
the Scott estate, producer/archivist
Irwin Chusid has sought to reinvent and
rebrand Raymond for the 21st Century. On
Raymond Scott Rewired, he lets others
take the parts and reconstruct the
legacy.
Chusid commissioned three remix artists
to reconfigure Scott. The Bran Flakes
(Otis Fodder, Montreal), The Evolution
Control Committee (TradeMark Gunderson,
U.S.), and Go Home Productions (Mark
Vidler, U.K.) were given hundreds of
recordings owned by the Scott estate, in
all genres, including unreleased
material, spanning the 1930s to the
1980s. They were invited to have fun,
keep it rhythmic, and make it percolate.
Each chemist concocted six audio
montages with new titles, and they
collaborated on ScottÆs signature tune
ôPowerhouse.ö
Approximately 250 sample sources were
used in the construction of these 19
tracks. Those samples have been edited,
looped, flipped, and stretched; they
were tweaked with equalization, pitch-
shifted, compressed, and subjected to
all manner of digital cosmetology. Scott
fans will recognize some passages, but
in countless cases, the source
recordings have been rendered
unrecognizable.
The package, designed by Piet
Schreuders, features a cover
illustration adapted from a 1950s work
by legendary artist Jim Flora.
http://www.scottrewired.com/